Crime & mystery

A major new voice. A thriller everyone is raving about: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2 ***LOOKING ...

Review Colson Whitehead's dazzling new thriller...In Harlem Shuffle,Whitehead flexes his literary muscles further, extending the boundaries and ex...

Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara have lots in common - time in the same gaol, convictions for auto theft, and a grand plan. They're going to snatch the...

The riotous third novel in Charlie Owen's acclaimed seventies police series. Summer 1977: It's no holiday in the sun in Handstead New Town, a nort...

'I was seduced from John Grey's first scene' Ann Cleeves 1670. Eastwold, once one of the greatest ports in England, has been fighting a losing bat...

Product Description For fans of The Crown and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. On a perfect Spring morning at Windsor Castle, Queen Eliz...

Aberdeen, 1631. University librarian Robert Sim takes receipt of a gift of books recently arrived from overseas, mysterious works on alchemy and he...

New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are te...

'Sheridan's story builds to a chilling climax' Daily Mail on Indian Summer About to get married, Mirabelle and her fianc� retired Superintendent A...

Book Description The epic conclusion to the best-selling Roma series. Product Description 'A compelling storyteller, with a striking talent for ...

Review Sinister and shimmering, The Venetian Game is as haunting and darkly elegant as Venice itself -- L.S. Hilton, bestselling author of Ma...

When a blind, retired dentist is run down by a logging truck as he crosses the road to post a letter, Dr Siri Paiboun, official and only coroner of...

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES A Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider - middle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road...

Review A terrific thriller from one of our finest crime writers at the top of his game. ― Peter James a roaring, full-throated thriller -- Geoffr...

The second novel in Ann Granger's wonderfully atmospheric Victorian mystery series.Lizzie Martin, lady's companion, has been sent from London to th...

Product Description In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend Lucy head off for several days at stately home reputed to have t...

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail A Maharajah on the Moors When the India Office seek help in finding Mahar...

Agatha goes digging where she shouldn't...Agatha is taken aback when she finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor n...

Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to g...

Product Description Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to tree...

As a grey drizzle descends upon the damp errand boys and busy omnibuses of London, Daisy Dalrymple is feeling rather cheerful and excited to be sho...

Another runaway adventure with glamorous heroine Phryne Fisher! When Phryne Fisher arranges to go to Ballarat for a week, she eschews the excitemen...

A stunning and epic finale to the series, pitting Fandorin against both Ninjas and terrorists on the Trans-Siberian Express! The first of the inte...

Will Klein lost the love of his life and his brother in the same moment ...A superb thriller from the No.1 bestselling author. On October 17, elev...

A twenty-year-old murder A chain of unsolvable mysteries Can one detective solve this epic riddle? When a man is found murdered in an abandoned bu...

One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is...

'Poetic, human and gripping... reminded me of Bernard MacLaverty's early work. Yes, it's that good' Ian Rankin 'Moving and powerful, this is an im...

The eighth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. The award-winning, million-selling author of Black Widow brings a...

For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere reissued the books with beautiful new illustrated covers. ----------------...

'A truly fine police procedural' - IRISH INDEPENDENT 'Utterly compelling' - JANE CASEY 'A superbly paced, engaging read' - WOMAN'S WAY BRILLIANCE...

Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait stands a real woman. This is her story . . . Sco...

*SHORLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2017* Key West is a small place, but there are criminal secrets buried everywhere . . . ...

A nightmare discovery in the boot of a stolen BMW plunges car thief Danny Stapleton into the worst trouble of his life. What links his misfortune t...

She's made a deal with a devil... THE PACT ____________ Eve Weston, daughter of recently deceased con man Alexander Weston, knows a good deal when...

Early 1938. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because th...

The eighteenth book in the award-winning Peter Diamond series, from Peter Lovesey. As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-te...

One of the classic thrillers of the 20th century - 'Simply the best escape and pursuit story yet written' [THE TIMES] - with a brand new Introducti...

LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT AWARD 'Sharp, funny . . . the best sort of murder mystery' Tatler 'A perfect antidote to all the real-li...

A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang init...

Every prison inmate needs a Road Dog - someone to watch their back, someone they can trust on the inside and out. For wealthy Cuban criminal Cundo ...

Fast paced and full of grit, this is the first crime novel from the UK's most charismatic sporting genius. WHEN THE GAME IS MURDER, YOU CAN'T AFFO...

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Ch...

Allotment wars! Lord Bellington has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. S...

Gordianus is now twenty-two years old and living in Alexandria with Bethesda, scraping by in modest and haphazard fashion. But then Bethesda is kid...

The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple-Fletcher is on a convalescent trip in the countryside, visiting old school friends. The three of them, all unmarried,...

James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland with his gorgeous private nurse Gloria Dainty. When Hamish visits Mr....

Love, like hell, is a four-letter word for Agatha ...No happily ever after for her! Recently married to neighbour James Lacey, Agatha quickly finds...

'A remarkable debut novel' Sunday Times 'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn 'A thrilling, unnerving, clever and be...