Karl Braun is German, cultivated and self-effacing; he tunes pianos for a living. When he moves into a boarding house in Pimlico, everyone assumes that he has fled Nazi Germany, when in fact... read more
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
The author of H is for Hawk has written - with a co-writer - a sci-fi thriller in which an all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field...
A perfect wife tests her perfect husband for the perfection of his love... A French bestseller of unnerving and claustrophobic domestic unease in the manner of Highsmith.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.