Best Crime Fiction of 2009
The Preacher
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
In the fishing community of Fjallbacka‚ life is remote‚ peaceful − and for some‚ tragically short.
Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now ... Buy or find out more →
Lennox
$10.00 – Trade paperback / Arena
Sensational writing, deft use of humour and page-turning action combine to make this a must-read novel. In a world full of books with bland narrative voices and lazy plotting Lennox fairly sizzles. An unforgettable read.... Buy or find out more →
The Chalk Circle Man
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently... Buy or find out more →
Bruno, Chief Of Police
$24.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
Captain Bruno Courreges goes by the grand title of Chief of Police, though in truth he’s the only municipal policeman on staff in the small town of St Denis in the beautiful Perigord region of south west France. He has a... Buy or find out more →
The Dark Vineyard
$29.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
Just before dawn one late-summer morning, Bruno is pulled from sleep by the wail of the town siren atop the Mairie, summoning the volunteer firemen of St Denis. A large barn and the fields surrounding it are ablaze. When... Buy or find out more →
Ice Cold
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Murdoch Books
A phenomenal success in Germany, Ice Cold is another chilling novel from the award-winning author of The Murder Farm.
It's Munich in the 1930s. Young women are being raped and brutally murdered. They are disappearing on ... Buy or find out more →
The Unscratchables
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Crusher Mc Nash is the police force's most fearless detective, a barrel-chested bull terrier with a biscuit-thin temper and a barbed-wire tongue.
Cassius Lap is the finest agent in the Feline Bureau of Investigation, an ... Buy or find out more →
Rain Gods
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion
Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland is a former ACLU attorney and Korean War prisoner and the cousin of none other than beloved Burke character Billy Bob Holland. Running from a traumatic and chequered past to become sheriff... Buy or find out more →
Hypothermia
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
The latest thrilling instalment in Indridason's CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series.
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At fir... Buy or find out more →
The Ignorance Of Blood
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
A spectacular car crash in the sweltering Seville summer accidentally brings to a life a suitcase filled with millions in cash - and the prospect of a serious mafia presence on Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón′s beat.
As ... Buy or find out more →
The Iron Heart
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann
Franz Schmidt arrives in Berlin in January 1939 to take up the position of Chief Auditor at the Reichsbank, the financial heart of the Third Reich. He has been positioned there by the enigmatic von Streck, a high-ranking... Buy or find out more →
The Price Of Love
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ag... Buy or find out more →
The Shanghai Murders: A Mystery of Love and Ivory
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In a busy Shanghai alley, the body of an American police officer is found, dismembered and arranged in bizarre fashion. The murder appears to be the work of a trained assassin with a deadly message to send. And before lo... Buy or find out more →
The Golden Mountain Murders
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
As Shanghai surpasses Hong Kong as Asia's most important city, Zhong Fong's Office of Special Investigations faces an increasingly sophisticated, and increasingly global, breed of criminal.
When Zong follows a disturbing... Buy or find out more →
Hua Shan Hospital Murders
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Detective Zhong Fong has regained his position as head of Special Investigations in the Shanghai district. He is back in the city that he loves with his new wife and baby girl, Xiao Ming.
All seems to be going smoothly -... Buy or find out more →
The Lake Ching Murders
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Detective Zhong Fong, former head of special investigations with the Shanghai police, has been branded a traitor and exiled to a sleepy village in northwestern China. But his isolation comes to an abrupt end when two Par... Buy or find out more →
The Hamlet Murders
$22.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
It's summer in Shanghai. The city's 18 million residents continue their hurtling progress toward modernisation. Three men carrying blueprints appear outside homicide detective Zhong Fong's apartment: his building is bein... Buy or find out more →