Another Time, Another Life
Leif G W Persson
Black Swan, PB, 9780552774697
Stockholm 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage, demanding that the Baader-Meinhof members being held as prisoners in West Germany be released immediately. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others, including the captors. 1989: When a Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives ... More/Buy
Autumn Killing
Mons Kallentoft
H & S Fiction, PB, 9781444721614
The rain is pouring down over Skogsa Castle, outside of Linkoping. Sheets of rain are crashing down on both the landscape and the body floating in the moat. Lawyer Jerry Petersson, Skogsa Castle s new owner, notorious for his ruthlessness, will not be doing any more business. But how did he end up in the moat? Superintendent Malin Fors soon becomes ... More/Buy
Citadel
Kate Mosse
Orion, PB, 9781409101284
Set during World War II in the far south of France, Citadel is a powerful, action-packed mystery that reveals the secrets of the resistance under Nazi occupation. While war blazed in the trenches at the front, back at home a different battle is waged, full of clandestine bravery, treachery and secrets. And as a cell of Maquis resistance fighters, codenamed Citadel, ... More/Buy
Dark Heart
Tony Park
Macmillan, PB, 9781742611136
Lawyer Mike Ioannou is dead after a hit and run in Thailand. A home invasion threatens the life of medico Richard Dunlop. In Johannesburg, a car jacker nearly kills photo journalist Liesl Nel. Unrelated incidents in a dangerous world, or something else entirely? Australian war crimes prosecutor Carmel Shang joins the dots. All three victims are linked by a photograph that ... More/Buy
The Diamond Chariot: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
Boris Akunin
Phoenix, PB, 9780753828199
The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his ... More/Buy
Did You Miss Me?
Karen Rose
Headline, PB, 9780755373994
The last thing Ford Elkhart remembers is walking his girlfriend back to her university dormitory. Now he's lying tied and gagged on a cold, dark floor, with only one chance to escape before he ends up like the bones surrounding him... Assistant State's Attorney Daphne Montgomery is devastated by her son's disappearance, and is immediately convinced that his kidnapping is connected ... More/Buy
Eloise
Judy Finnigan
Sphere, PB, 9781847445520
After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise's death was not all it seems. With a history of depression, Cathy is only just recovering from a nervous breakdown and her husband Chris, a psychiatrist, is acutely aware of his wife's mental frailty. When Cathy tells Chris ... More/Buy
The Fatal Debt
John Gapper
Bloomsbury, PB, 9780715644065
When Ben, a talented British psychiatrist working in New York, first meets Harry, the former chief executive of a failed Wall Street bank, he diagnoses him as suicidally depressed and admits him to hospital. But when pressure is brought by his superiors to discharge Harry, Ben must keep him under observation, and is slowly drawn into the financier's gilded world, where ... More/Buy
The Forgotten
David Baldacci
Macmillan, PB, 9780230762923
Murder in Paradise. What, or who, is silencing the residents? Military criminal investigator John Puller is drawn closer to home when his aunt is found dead in her house in Paradise, Florida. The local police have ruled the death as an accident, but Puller finds evidence to suggest that she may well have been murdered. On the surface the town lives ... More/Buy
I Remember You
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
H & S Fiction, PB, 9781444738490
The crunching noise had resumed, now accompanied by a disgusting, indefinable smell. It could best be described as a blend of kelp and rotten meat. The voice spoke again, now slightly louder and clearer: "Don't go. Don't go yet. I'm not finished." In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a derelict house. But soon ... More/Buy
The Killing House
Chris Mooney
Michael Joseph, PB, 9780141049519
Rule # 1: Don't Scream. Four years ago, Theresa Herrera's ten-year-old son Rico was abducted. The police found little evidence and the case went cold. Theresa's husband has told her to move on, but she can't give up hope. Rule #2: Don't Call the Police. Today, a mysterious woman invaded Theresa's home and told her the Rico is alive. Theresa talks ... More/Buy
The Kings of Cool
Don Winslow
Arrow, PB, 9780099576549
NOW B FORMAT. In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers in recent memory, Savages was a Top 10 Book of 2010 selection in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and in publications around the world. Now, in his high-octane prequel, ... More/Buy
The Laughterhouse
Paul Cleave
Penguin, PB, 9780143568292
Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene - ten-year-old Jessica found dead in the 'Laughterhouse', an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the 'S' spray-painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years later, there's a new killer on the loose and he has a list of people who were involved in Jessica's murder case, ... More/Buy
Notorious Nineteen
Janet Evanovich
Headline, PB, 9780755385010
After a slow summer of chasing low level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her bank balance back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it's on Stephanie to track down ... More/Buy
Prague Fatale
Philip Kerr
Quercus, PB, 9781849164177
Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when ... More/Buy
A Question of Identity
Susan Hill
Chatto & Windus, PB, 9780701186579
Lafferton is struggling through a bitter winter, with heavy snowfalls paralysing the town, though at least the police can be sure the ram raiders who have been targeting antique and jewellers' shops will be lying low. The biggest worry the elderly have is how to keep warm, until 82-year-old Doris Upcott is found strangled in her home, followed by the deaths ... More/Buy
The Racketeer
John Grisham
H & S Fiction, HB, 9781444729740
Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built ... More/Buy
Standing in Another Man's Grave: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
Ian Rankin
Orion, PB, 9781409144724
Not only is Rebus as stubborn and anarchic as ever, but he finds himself in trouble with Rankin's latest creation, Malcolm Fox of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit. Added to which, Rebus may be about to derail the career of his ex-colleague Siobhan Clarke, while himself being permanently derailed by mob boss and old adversary Big Ger Cafferty. But all Rebus wants ... More/Buy
Tomorrow, the Killing
Daniel Polansky
H & S Fiction, PB, 9781444721355
Once he was a hero of the Great War, and then a member of the dreaded Black House. Now he is the criminal linchpin of Low Town. His name is Warden. He thought he had left the war behind him, but a summons from up above brings the past sharply, uncomfortably, back into focus. General Montgomery's daughter is missing somewhere in ... More/Buy