Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above h...
PARISA young woman is cornered on a deserted boulevard.Moments later she walks away, leaving her assailant for dead.ATHENSAn elderly man walks into the American embass...
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants...
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants...
Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Re...
A new paperback featuring agent Jack Ryan. When an old friend is poisoned by a radioactive agent, the trail leads to Russia. A Jack Ryan film, "Shadow Recruit", was released in January, s...
Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent ...
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a “brilliantly innovative thriller-writer,” Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. The f...
Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. When a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and fi...
It is a freezing December night and Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. Detective Ha...
Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when he moves into a new home with his girlfriend. Then he uncovers the skeleton of a young woman in his garden. As he attempts t...
From the bestselling author of The Snowman - an explosive new thriller.In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood. A third ...
FRIDAY ON MY MIND is a classic Nicci French psychological suspense thriller in which nothing is quite what it seems. When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at le...
Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world.A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of China's...
When journalist Mark Bretton is asked to write an article on Professor Abigail Marchant, who has been denounced by the American Psychology Association for her belief that rebirth is a genuine pheno...
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump int...
Not all angels are heaven sent. I am one such angel, and I have come to pass judgement on the living, and the dead...A report of a rare and unusual gun - a type favoured by assassins - ...
Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the tale of his inv...
Pathologist Quirke works in the city morgue, watching over Dublin's dead. The latest to join their ghostly ranks is a suicide. But something doesn't add up. The victim has a suspicious head wound, ...
When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a c...