The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days and there are several interested parties who would gladly see her resignation. The first in a new series by ... read more
Death, divination and a succession of murders, set in the crumbling grandeur of a once great house... Another treat for those who loved The Inugami Curse and others by this master of the gen... read more
Two translators - a Russian girl and an Englishman - train for the Moscow marathon together so that they can talk - and then save the world, or at least some of it.
A chilly outing for disgraced Colonel Alexander Vasin (whom we've met in a variety of scrapes in Black Sun and Red Traitor), fleeing across the wintry Siberian tundra with a man and a secret... read more
A hand emerging from the Venetian lagoon sets Brunetti off on a new investigation: the cast includes a palazzo, an academic, Buddhism and the Tamil Tigers...
A dark tale of obsession and hysteria, set in a small French town in the aftermath of WW2. McIntosh is a clever writer already well known for The Water Cure.
The discovery of a corpse sends Cat Hakesby and James Marwood on a dangerous path that seems to lead to Charles II's favourite courtier... The sixth in this excellent series of historical th... read more
Set in London in the 1930s, this is an ingenious debut murder mystery: a series of locked-room murders are brought to the attention of a retired stage magician-turned-sleuth.
Aaron Falk, federal investigator, begins picking over the loose ends in the case of a woman's disappearance and finds a growing chill in her small-town community in South Australia. By the a... read more
Powerful tale of espionage and love in the early years of the Syrian war. By a former CIA agent, this was published in 2021 in the US and only now in the UK, propelled by word of mouth.
What could Cambridge professor Tom Wilde, former spy and veteran of The Man in the Bunker and A Prince and a Spy, have in common with a kamikaze Japanese submarine and an outbreak of deadly ... read more
Spring comes to the village of Three Pines, and with it the children of a woman murdered there many years before and the unsealing of a bricked-up attic room... Chief Inspector Armand Gamach... read more
When a woman is killed by a bus, Jack Reacher pursues the man who pushed her and stole her bag - and finds himself in a huge and complex web of corruption and danger. Beware the grey hoodie,... read more
A new series from the author of the Ruth Galloway books: a murderer - when a school girl, thirty years before - is now a police officer, investigating the murder of another former pupil. How... read more
1930s' Shanghai is the scene for silliness of riotous proportions - war, romance, espionage, a beautiful assassin, shifting loyalties, shadowy politics.
An Alpine hotel with a room missing, a private bank in Switzerland, skullduggery over an inheritance, a ravishing young woman - just some of the layers in this fiendish onion of a novel.
A body is discovered in the grounds of Chernobyl, apparently murdered in the hours before the explosion... The radioactive exclusion zone is a suitably disturbing setting for the pursuit of ... read more
A piece of lively entertainment from the former MP, cabinet minister and memoirist. A foreign office chap disappears in Crete without trace - well, almost none - just enough in fact to feed ... read more
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act passed into law in 1660, the first year of the Restoration. In Harris's compelling new novel, two regicides flee to America but are tried and found guilty in ... read more
An Australian police sergeant returns to the land of his forebears, on the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia and is drawn into an investigation into a missing person. An exemplar... read more