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.
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.
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
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
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
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.