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The Snowman
Jo Nesbo

$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage

The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders, and Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge.

The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. H... Buy or find out more 


Cross Fire
James Patterson

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Century

Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most hated public figures: a corrupt congressman and an u... Buy or find out more 



Hell's Corner
David Baldacci

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan

Oliver Stone is standing in Lafayette Park with his friend and fellow Camel Club member Harry Finn when a bomb detonates and knocks him unconscious. When Stone awakens in the hospital he learns that the British Prime Min... Buy or find out more 


 

The Confession
John Grisham

$49.95$39.95 – Hardcover book / Century

When Travis Boyette, a convicted felon, walks into a church in small-town Missouri, he carries with him a terrible secret. Nearly a decade earlier Nicole Yarber, a high school senior with her whole life ahead of her, van... Buy or find out more 



The Emperor's Tomb
Steve Berry

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

A new Cotton Malone adventure that takes our hero from Europe to the Far East and a race to unlock the mystery of an ancient tomb.

Hearing that his old friend Cassiopeia Vitt is in trouble, Malone follows the few clues h... Buy or find out more 


Port Mortuary
Patricia Cornwell

$49.99 – Hardcover book / Little Brown

Port Mortuary is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her profes... Buy or find out more 



Red Wolf
Liza Marklund

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

The launch of the new bestseller by the Thriller Queen who gets all other crime writers excited

AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH?

Reporter Annika Bengtzon is working on the story of a devastating crime when she hears that a journalis... Buy or find out more 


Snow Angels
James Thompson

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

Kaamos: Just before Christmas, the bleakest time of the year in Lapland. The unrelenting darkness and extreme cold above the Arctic Circle drive everyone just a little insane . . . perhaps enough to kill.

A beautiful Som... Buy or find out more 



Murder In Mykonos
Jeffrey Siger

$19.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown

Mykonos has always had a romantic reputation, until the body of a blonde female tourist is discovered on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. When the island s new police chief - the young, politi... Buy or find out more 


Sharp Turn
Marianne Delacourt

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Arena

Tara Sharp is back in a new high octane mystery... This time she's helping out motor racing mogul Bolo Ignatius whose team is being sabotaged and she's also coaching the girls the local high class bordello on the finer p... Buy or find out more 



The Best American Noir Of The Century
James Ellroy (Ed)

$27.95 – Paperback book / Windmill

In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man a... Buy or find out more 


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Three Seconds
Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström

$32.95$19.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus

Three Seconds won the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award 2009 for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year.

Piet Hoffman is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even awa... Buy or find out more 



 

The Reversal
Michael Connelly

$32.95$10.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change sides and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder.

After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA... Buy or find out more 


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Moonlight Mile
Dennis Lehane

$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston suburb in 1997. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led savvy, tough-nosed investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risk... Buy or find out more 



Field Grey
Philip Kerr

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Quercus

It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence. He secretly buys a boat and sails to Florida, where he's arrested, sent back to Cuba and imprisoned in the ... Buy or find out more 


River Of Shadows
Valerio Varesi

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Maclehose Press

Rain falls relentlessly on the Po Valley in northern Italy and the river is swollen to its limits. A huge barge leaves its moorings, steering an erratic course downstream and away into the foggy night. When finally it ru... Buy or find out more 



The Track Of Sand
Andrea Camilleri

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Usa

"The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fill the air of Sicily." -Donna Leon

Inspector Salvatore Montalbano wakes from strange dreams to find a gr... Buy or find out more 


Between Summer's Longing And Winter's End
Leif Persson

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday

It begins with the apparent suicide of a young American student in Stockholm. What is at first an open and shut case of suicide quickly leads to a complex web of international espionage, treachery and ultimately the lege... Buy or find out more 



Operation Napoleon
Arnaldur Indridason

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

From the CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of the Reykjavík Murder Mystery series comes an international thriller sweeping from modern Iceland to America and Nazi Germany at the end of World War II.

1945: a German bomber f... Buy or find out more 


He Lover Of Death
Boris Akunin

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson

Akunin goes noir as Fandorin meets bandits!

Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he h... Buy or find out more 



Edge
Jeffery Deaver

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

Detective Kessler is a Washington, D.C. cop, sidelined to routine investigations. So it's a surprise when he's targeted by a 'lifter,' a person who 'lifts' information from people by whatever means necessary. And this li... Buy or find out more 


American Assassins
Vince Flynn

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster

Before he was considered a CIA-super agent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a star college athlete with... Buy or find out more 



The Small Hand
Susan Hill

$24.99 – Hardcover book / Profile

The chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible hand ... A ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black and The Man in the Picture, to be read by the fire on a cold winter's night.

The chilling tale of a ... Buy or find out more 


The Priest
Gerard O'Donovan

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

An exciting crime debut set in Dublin, introducing DI Mike Mulcahy.

HIS NAME IS THE PRIEST. HIS WEAPON IS A CRUCIFIX. HIS VICTIMS DON'T HAVE A PRAYER.

A killer is stalking the dark streets of Dublin. Before each attack, ... Buy or find out more 



Death Mask
Kathryn Fox

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan

In the US, a number of sexual assaults are reported against players in the Jersey Bombers football team. This is the last straw for the management, who decide to bring in an expert to investigate the claims and help reve... Buy or find out more 


Kiss Of Death
P.D. Martin

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan

"Soon I hear the footsteps again. Definitely more than one set. I push myself harder, run harder. I glance back, hoping they're further away than they sound. But they're closer. Suddenly I come to an abrupt stop, slammin... Buy or find out more 



Evil In Return
Elena Forbes

$10.00 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Bestselling novelist Joe Logan walks out into a hot summer’s evening in central London. The next day his body is found dumped in a disused Victorian crypt at the Brompton Cemetery.

Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia is... Buy or find out more 


Dead Man's Chest
Kerry Greenwood

$22.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

The unflappable Phryne is off on a quiet seaside holiday with Dot, Jane and Ruth - surely they won't be disturbed by a murder ...

Dot unfolded the note. 'He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fi... Buy or find out more 



Silence
Jan Costin Wagner

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

One ordinary summer's day a young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place that another girl was assaulted and murdered thirty-three years previously. Th... Buy or find out more 


Bunker
Andrea Maria Schenkel

$29.95 – Hardcover book / Quercus

It had been a normal day at work. Monika was locking up, ready to head home, when the man arrived. She didn’t even see his fist until it was far too late… Bundled into a car, tied up and taken in darkness to an old mill ... Buy or find out more 



Villain
Yoshida Shuichi

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

Villain, the first novel by Shuichi Yoshida to be translated into English, is the story of a murder: a tale of desperation set in desolate seaside towns, online chat rooms and love hotels. January 6, 2002. The body of Yo... Buy or find out more 


A Dead Hand
Paul Theroux

$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'The most gifted, the most prodigal writer of his generation' JONATHAN RABAN

Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. Lounging in Calcutta one day, he receives a mysterious letter. It comes from an American ... Buy or find out more 



Body Work
Sara Parestsky

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

The brilliant new V.I. Warshawski novel from a crime author who writes with unbeatable pace and a passion for justice.

V.I. Warshawski’s wayward niece Petra draws her to an edgy club and the Body Artist, who uses her own... Buy or find out more 


Frozen Moment
Camilla Ceder

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion

The new kid on the block in Scandinavian crime!

In a small town on the Swedish coast, the owner of a garage is found dead, his lower body crushed by a car driven over him repeatedly. The murder investigation is led by In... Buy or find out more 



The Death Instinct
Jed Rubenfeld

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline

The eagerly awaited follow up to the million-copy selling THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER.

Ten years on from THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER, Stratham Younger and James Littlemore embark on a thrilling new adventure in the aft... Buy or find out more 


 

Worth Dying For
Lee Child

$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

To follow the cliffhanger ending of 61 Hours, the second new thriller for 2010 by No.1 bestseller Lee Child.

Has Jack Reacher finally met his match?

61 Hours ended with Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which... Buy or find out more 



Harbour
John Ajvide Lindqvist

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten.

And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow.... Buy or find out more 


 

Our Kind Of Traitor
John le Carré

$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Viking

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 into a Russian millionaire c... Buy or find out more 



Blue Heaven
C.J. Box

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Corvus

A 12 year-old-girl and her brother run for their lives in the deep woods of Northern Idaho ...

They were running away from home, now they're running for their lives ... If twelve-year-old Annie hadn't been angry with her... Buy or find out more 


The Half-Child
Angela Savage

$23.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

A new case for expat private investigator Jayne Keeney

Jayne Keeney is a fiesty thirty-something Aussie who has been living in Bangkok for many years. She has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Aust... Buy or find out more 



Dexter Is Delicious
Jeff Lindsay

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion

Everything's changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn't enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dex is now the proud father of a baby girl. But even if fatherhood is distracting ... Buy or find out more 


Trick Of The Dark
Val McDermid

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

Death is a hollow drum whose beat has measured out my adult life.' So writes Jay Macallan Stewart in her latest volume of memoirs. But nobody has ever asked whether that has been by accident or design. Nobody, that is, u... Buy or find out more 



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Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson

$32.95$29.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday

The fourth novel featuring Jackson Brodie from the bestselling author of When Will There Be Good News?

A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One mo... Buy or find out more 


Saints Of New York
R.J. Ellory

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion

The death of a young heroin dealer occasions no great concern for New York PD Detective Frank Parrish, but when the dealer's teenage sister winds up dead, questions are raised that have no clear answers. Parrish, already... Buy or find out more 



A Death In Calabria
Michele Giuttari

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

One of the wildest and most beautiful regions in Italy, known for its rugged coastline and mountains, Calabria is also home to the deadly 'Ndrangheta. An organised Mafia crime operation more feared in Italy than the Cosa... Buy or find out more 


Line Of Sight
Whish Wilson David

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking

When a brothel madam is shot on a Perth golf course in 1975 it should be a routine murder enquiry. But it isn't. In fact there's barely an investigation at all, and Superintendent Swann thinks he knows why. Heroin is the... Buy or find out more 



 

Wicked Appetite
Janet Evanovich

$32.99$27.95 – Trade paperback / Headline

Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich has created a brand-new heroine in Elizabeth Tucker: Marblehead resident, bakery worker, unlucky in love... and descendant of witches. Life has had a pleasant predictability ... Buy or find out more 


 

Mortal Remains
Kathy Reichs

$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann

The 13th Temperance Brennan thriller from international bestselling author, and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

When Tempe is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea of the tangl... Buy or find out more 



 

Star Island
Carl Hiaasen

$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Sphere

22-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', standing in for Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in... Buy or find out more 


The Long Glasgow Kiss
Craig Russell

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Arena

Lennox is a man balanced between the law and those who break it - a dangerous place where only the toughest and most ruthless survive. When Jimmy 'Small Change' MacFarlane is bludgeoned to death with a bronze statue of D... Buy or find out more 



Act Of Murder
Alan Wright

$29.95 – Paperback book / Polygon Press

Wigan, 1894. Richard Throstle and his wife Georgina are in town with their ghoulish magic lantern show, Phantasmagoria. When Richard is found murdered in his hotel room, police sergeant Slevin takes charge of the investi... Buy or find out more 


Inspector And Silence
Hakan Nesser

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Mantle

The return of Inspector Van Veeteren...

In the heart of summer, the country swelters in a fug of heat. In the beautiful forested lake-town of Sorbinowo, Sergeant Merwin Kluuge's tranquil existence is shattered when he re... Buy or find out more 



Ashes To Dust
Yrsa Sigurdardottir

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

Thora peered at the floor, but couldn't see anything that could have frightened Markus that much, only three mounds of dust. She moved the light of her torch over them. It took her some time to realize what she was seein... Buy or find out more 


Bad Intentions
Karin Fossum

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of them return, and t... Buy or find out more 



Heartstone
C.J. Sansom

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Mantle

Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises th... Buy or find out more 


Black Diamond
Martin Walker

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Quercus

At the heart of French gastronomy lies the famed black truffle of the Périgord. But France's truffles are being adulterated with cheaper ones from China, and it seems that Chinese organised crime is behind the fraud. At ... Buy or find out more 



 

Bad Boy
Peter Robinson

$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

When Juliet Doyle finds a gun in her daughter's bedroom, she turns to old friend DCI Alan Banks for advice. But Banks is on a much-needed holiday, and it's left to DI Annie Cabbot to deal with the removal of the firearm.... Buy or find out more 


 

The Glass Rainbow
James Lee Burke

$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Orion

When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved Dave's life by carrying him ... Buy or find out more 



 

Tigerlily's Orchids
Ruth Rendell

$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hutchinson

The new psychological thriller from the reigning Queen of British Crime

When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even... Buy or find out more 


The Woodcutter
Reginald Hill

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

Wolf Hadda′s life has been a fairytale. From humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter′s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams.

A knock on the door one ... Buy or find out more 



Nemesis
Lindsey Davis

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Century

In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals in his life, it is a relief for him to consider someone else's misfortunes. A ... Buy or find out more 


Faithful Place
Tana French

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. But he had his sights set on a lot more. He and his girl Rosie Daly ... Buy or find out more 



The Killing Place
Tess Gerritsen

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The heart-stopping new Rizzoli & Isles bestseller.

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and ab... Buy or find out more 


Live To Tell
Lisa Gardner

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion

Danielle often thinks about that night when her childhood her ended. The sound of her father shooting her mother and then hunting down her brother, as she cowered under her duvet, trying to drown out the sound. She can r... Buy or find out more 



Anatomy Of Murder
Imogen Robertson

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline

London, 1781. Harriet Westerman waits for news of her husband, gravely injured at sea. The city is seething with rumour and conspiracy, and as London's high society enjoys its privileges spies pass its secrets to the Fre... Buy or find out more 


The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
Tarquin Hall

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Hutchinson

Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali apppears, and strikes one of the... Buy or find out more 



The Whisperer
Donato Carrisi

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

Six buried arms. Six missing girls. A team led by Captain Roche and internationally renowned criminologist Goran Gavila are on the trail of a serial killer whose ferocity seems to have no limits. And he seems to be taunt... Buy or find out more 


Hangman
Faye Kellerman

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that his involvement will bring her sociopathic husband, Chris Donatti, back into his life. But then Terr... Buy or find out more 



Still Missing
Chevy Stevens

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

When a woman is kidnapped by a psychopath and eventually escapes, everyone thinks her nightmare must be over. So why is she still so terrified? Is she paranoid or is her life still in danger? Misery meets The Collector i... Buy or find out more 


Dead Like You
Peter James

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Mantle

After a heady New Years Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room in the Metropole Hotel, Brightom. A week later, another women is attacked. Both victim's shoes are taken by the offender. Detective S... Buy or find out more 



The Rembrandt Affair
Daniel Silva

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph

Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as 'the gold... Buy or find out more 


 

Death In The Latin Quarter
Raphael Cardetti

$32.95$5.00 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

Early one morning in Paris the magnificent tranquillity of the Sorbonne university is shattered by a death. But why would Albert Cadas, a crumpled professor of medieval literature, have any reason to kill himself? Meanwh... Buy or find out more 



The Old School
P.M. Newton

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking

'P.M. Newton's bitter-sweet thriller is an arresting debut: astonishingly accomplished and as authentic as a .38 bullet wound. File between D for Disher and T for Temple and sweat on the sequel.' - Andrew Rule

Sydney, 19... Buy or find out more 


Elegy For April
Benjamin Black

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Mantle

1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished.

When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh fr... Buy or find out more 



 

Blind Fury
Lynda La Plante

$32.99$27.95 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster

Close to a motorway service station, the body of a young woman is discovered. She appears to have no family, no friends, no one to identify her. DI Anna Travis is brought onto the team of investigators by DCS James Langt... Buy or find out more 


Sizzling Sixteen
Janet Evanovich

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline

It is summertime in Jersey and our favourite bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is up to her old antics, joined by her gang of memorable characters: Grandma, Lulu, Connie, Vinnie and Mooner. Someone wants to kill Vinnie, Lula'... Buy or find out more 



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I Kill
Giorgio Faletti

$32.95$10.00 – Trade paperback / Pier 9

The voice on the radio.

The writing, red as blood.

I kill . . .

A detective and an FBI agent embark upon the most harrowing case of their careers as they attempt to track down an enigmatic killer in this relentlessly sus... Buy or find out more 


Broken
Karin Slaughter

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Century

The compelling new thriller from the double #1 bestseller.

When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minut... Buy or find out more 



Carnal Sin
Allison Brennan

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

Two weeks ago demon-hunters Moira O’Donnell and Rafe Cooper conquered Evil. But now Lust has taken hold in the City of Angels...

The small Californian town of Santa Louisa is still reeling from the lethal rampage of th... Buy or find out more 


The Darkest Room
Johan Theorin

$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Swan

A number one bestseller in Sweden, and winner of the the prestigious Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel, 2008 - the chilling story of a couple of who live in a house with a secret, murderous past.

‘For several h... Buy or find out more 



Broken
Karin Fossum

$0.00 – Paperback book / Vintage

‘There is no room for debate: the most important writer of foreign crime fiction at work today is Karin Fossum’ - Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

A writer wakes one night to find a strange man in her bedroom. He is a ch... Buy or find out more 


The Last 10 Seconds
Simon Kernick

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

The new race-against-time bestseller from the British Harlan Coben.

When ex-police officer John Cone is found lying wounded in a room full of dead bodies, he has a terrifying story to tell.

Three days earlier he was hire... Buy or find out more 



Love Songs From A Shallow Grave
Colin Cotterill

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus

The good doctor celebrates his 74th birthday... and possibly his last? As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case of the Three Epées: three w... Buy or find out more 


The Bone Thief
Jefferson Bass

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus

Bill Brockton is exhuming a body to obtain a bone sample for a paternity test. A simple enough job until he discovers that the body's limbs have all been removed. Digging deeper, he soon finds himself embroiled in the ma... Buy or find out more 



The Beast Of The Camargue
Xavier-Marie Bonnot

$24.95 – Paperback book / Quercus

For centuries the ceremonial order of the Knights of the Tarasque have met to bear the effigy of a mythical beast through the Provencal town of Taracson. But one summer's night the ceremony is broken by a gruesome discov... Buy or find out more 


The Burning Wire
Jeffery Deaver

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

When an attack is made on Manhattan's electricity grid, it seems that terrorists must be responsible. What better way to hold New York to ransom than to manipulate the city's power supply? While the FBI and CIA try to de... Buy or find out more 



Fatal Tango
Wolfram Fleischhauer

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan

The international bestseller now in English!

When Giulietta Battin, ballerina at the conservative Berlin opera, falls in love with the dashing Argentinean tango champion, Damian Alsina, she unwittingly embarks on an into... Buy or find out more 


The Wyatt Butterfly (Port Vila Blues / The Fallout)
Garry Disher

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Two classic Wyatt novels in one volume.

PORT VILA BLUES

Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, but can he make it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart?

Port Vila Blues is W... Buy or find out more 



A Question Of Belief
Donna Leon

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Heinemann

The new novel from Donna Leon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of About Face.

As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the moun... Buy or find out more 


The Whisperers
John Connolly

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people. Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved ... Buy or find out more 



Close-Up
Esther Verhoef

$29.95 – Paperback book / Quercus

When Margot meets Leon she is fascinated by the intense, seductive, darkly charismatic photographer. Leon's friends are exotic and creative, and with their help, Leon presents a whole new world of opportunities to Margot... Buy or find out more 


Naming The Bones
Louise Welsh

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here?

His quiet life researching the lives of writers in unive... Buy or find out more 



 

Let The Dead Lie
Malla Nunn

$32.99$27.95 – Trade paperback / Macmillan

From the award-winning author of A Beautiful Place to Die comes the next sensational instalment featuring charismatic detective Emmanuel Cooper

In Let the Dead Lie, Cooper is a changed man. Forced to resign from his posi... Buy or find out more 


9th Judgement
James Patterson

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Century

The ninth book in the number one bestselling Women's Murder Club detective series

A psychopathic killer targets San Francisco’s most innocent and vulnerable

A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned dow... Buy or find out more 



The Bad Book Affair
Ian Sansom

$20.99 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate

In THE BAD BOOK AFFAIR Israel finds himself on the verge of his thirtieth birthday and on the trail of a troubled missing teenager, the daughter of a local politician.

Why has the young woman disappeared? Does it have so... Buy or find out more 


Deception
Jonathan Kellerman

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline

Milo brings the DVD to Alex's house. A woman comes on screen and her narrative begins: "My name is Alice Freeman and I work as a substitute teacher at Oak Canyon Preparatory Academy." What follows is an account of sexual... Buy or find out more 



The Executor
Jesse Kellerman

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

Things aren't going well for Joseph Geist. He's broke. His graduate school advisor won't talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him homeless and alone. It's a tough spot for a philos... Buy or find out more 


Heresy
S.J. Parris

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

England, 1583

A country awash with paranoia and conspiracy - but a safe haven for a radical monk on the run. Giordano Bruno, with his theories of astronomy and extraterrestrial life, has fled the Inquisition for the cour... Buy or find out more 



Hell Gate
Linda Fairstein

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and shady deals. Assistant DA Alex Cooper and her NYPD colleagues find themselves investigating a shipwreck involving human cargo - illegally trafficked immigr... Buy or find out more 


Animal Kingdom (Film Tie-In)
Stephen Sewell

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press

Everything sits in the order somewhere.

Things survive because they're strong and everything reaches an understanding.

But not everything survives because it's strong.

Some creatures are weak.

Armed robber Pope Cody is o... Buy or find out more 



A Dark Matter
Peter Straub

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion

The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, demanding both devotion and sexual favours of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local... Buy or find out more 


Gone
Mo Hayder

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

The terrifying new bestseller featuring DI Jack Caffery and Police Diver Flea Marley.

Description of book

November in the West Country, and evening is closing in as murder detective Jack Caffery arrives to interview the ... Buy or find out more 



Torn Apart
Peter Corris

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

Semi-retired. De-licensed. But Cliff Hardy is once again fighting for justice and tracking down evil when his cousin is brutally murdered - did the shotgun blast find its target, or was it meant for Hardy?

Hardy has neve... Buy or find out more 


Wyatt
Garry Disher

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Wyatt's been away. Now he's back.

Garry Disher’s cool, enigmatic anti-hero has been, uncharacteristically, out of action for a while. Now there’s a new Wyatt—and his legion of fans will not be disappointed.

The job... Buy or find out more 



Blood Moon
Garry Disher

$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction 2009.

When hordes of eighteen-year-olds descend on the Peninsula to celebrate the end of exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo know what to expect. Party drugs, publi... Buy or find out more 


 

Blood's A Rover
James Ellroy

$32.95$12.95 – Trade paperback / Century

The new cult masterpiece from America's greatest crime novelist

It’s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America’s soul, drawing into their... Buy or find out more 



Thrill City
Leigh Redhead

$22.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

Smart, sexy and strong-minded Simone Kirsch, ex-stripper and PI, returns in her fourth adventure - up to her neck in lethal fun and games on the writers' festival circuit.

Simone Kirsch, ex-stripper, sleuth and bad girl,... Buy or find out more 


The Wings Of The Sphinx
Andrea Camilleri

$20.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Food, love and murder – Sicilian style – in the gripping eleventh instalment of the New York Times bestselling Montalbano mystery series.

Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His relationship wit... Buy or find out more 



A Few Right Thinking Men
Sulari Gentill

$29.99 – Trade paperback / Pantera

In Australia’s 1930s, the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet the youngest son Rowland - an artist - has a talent for scandal.

Even with the unemployed lining the streets, Rowland lives in a sheltered wor... Buy or find out more 


Thereby Hangs A Tail
Spencer Quinn

$23.99 – Paperback book / Arena

In the much awaited sequel to the fantastic, funny, New York Times bestselling Dog On It, Chet and Bernie are plunged into the dog-eat-dog world of purebred dog shows when pampered pooch, Princess, and her owner, are abd... Buy or find out more 



Inspector Singh Investigates: The Singapore School Of Villainy
Shamini Flint

$22.99 – Paperback book / Little Brown

Inspector Singh is home - and how he wishes he wasn't. His wife nags him at breakfast and his superiors are whiling away their time by giving him his usual 'you're a disgrace to the force' lecture. Fortunately for Singh,... Buy or find out more 


Avalanche Pass
John A. Flanagan

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

Like ‘Die Hard’in the snow!

When guests at a ski lodge in Utah are taken hostage by a group of mercenaries, Jesse Parker, who has left Steamboat Springs to try to salvage his career after a horrific skiing accident, ... Buy or find out more 



Dark Blood
Stuart MacBride

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn′t he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, in the past he was a violent rapist, but he′s seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcas... Buy or find out more 


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The Man From Beijing
Henning Mankell

$34.95$15.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

A brutal revenge story that is both a gripping police procedural and a chilling political thriller

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagel... Buy or find out more 



Shadow Sister
Simone van der Vlugt

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

Lydia and Elisa, twin sisters, identical in appearance, different in every other way.

When Lydia is threatened by one of her students, her sister is the first person she turns to. But Elisa is powerless to stop what foll... Buy or find out more 


61 Hours
Lee Child

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

The heartstopping new thriller starring today's most admired action hero, the gallant and enigmatic loner Jack Reacher, by No.1 bestselling author Lee Child.

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired drive... Buy or find out more 



The Black Russian
Lenny Bartulin

$0.00 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications

After yet another slow week at the cash register, that fine purveyor of second-hand literature, Susko Books, is facing financial ruin. Jack Susko sets off to a gallery in Woollahra to scrape up some coin with the sale of... Buy or find out more 


Watch The World Burn
Leah Giarratano

$24.95 – Paperback book / Bantam Press

A chilling, white knuckle ride

Miriam Caine, aged seventy, is dining with her son when she bursts into flames in the restaurant of a five-star hotel. The restaurant’s manager, Troy Berrigan, is first to her aid, but the ... Buy or find out more 



Blood Men
Paul Cleave

$29.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press

New from the best selling author Paul Cleave.

Edward Hunter is a family man with a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future, and a very dark past. Edward's father is a man of blood. He's been in jail for... Buy or find out more 


Captured
Neil Cross

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster

Even though he is still young, Kenny has just weeks to live. Before he dies, he wants to find his childhood best friend Callie Barton and thank her for the kindness she showed him when they were at school together. But w... Buy or find out more 



The First Rule
Robert Crais

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Orion

The team thought that Frank Meyer had got out of the 'life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf and settled down with his wife and children. It had been a hard decision but, encouraged... Buy or find out more 


Play To Kill
P.J. Tracy

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph

A serial killer is terrifying enough, but when the murder videos begin showing up online – well, then it becomes an issue for computer analyst Grace MacBride and her eccentric crew of geniuses and mavericks. Recruited by... Buy or find out more 



Pretty Little Things
Jilliane Hoffman

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins

Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he′ll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again.

The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take ... Buy or find out more 


Death By Design
Barbara Nadel

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Headline

Barbara Nadel's new Turkish crime novel sees Inspector Ikmen tackling a complex case of organised crime in London. When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi, a young ... Buy or find out more 



The Snowman
Jo Nesbo

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders, and Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge.

The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. H... Buy or find out more 


The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11
Alexander McCall Smith

$35.00 – Hardcover book / Little Brown

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her home... Buy or find out more 



The Tulip Virus
Danielle Hermans

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin

The murder of a wealthy financier in modern-day London sets Alec, the man's nephew, on a desperate race for the truth that leads back to the death of a respected tulip trader in 17th Century Holland. A major new literary... Buy or find out more 


Gunshot Road
Adrian Hyland

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing

From the author of the critically acclaimed Diamond Dove.

Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan’s tooth and is the woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. But her old mate Superintendent ... Buy or find out more 



This Body Of Death
Elizabeth George

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline

While DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought into the Met as his temporary replacement. The discovery of a body in a Stoke Newington cemetery offers Isab... Buy or find out more 


Dark Matter
Julie Zeh

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill

Description: Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But their lives took divergent paths, as did their scientific v... Buy or find out more 



Split Image
Robert B. Parker

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus

Two 'retired' mobsters, two nymphomaniac identical twins, one religious commune - more trouble in Paradise, Massachusetts for Police Chief Jesse Stone.

A body has been found in the trunk of a Cadillac. Jesse's investigat... Buy or find out more 


Rough Weather
Robert B. Parker

$24.95 – Paperback book / Quercus

A wealthy woman has just recruited Spenser to accompany her to her private island to attend her daughter's wedding as a sort of stand-in husband. Spenser consents, but only after she agrees his beloved Susan Silverman wi... Buy or find out more 



Deliver Us From Evil
David Baldacci

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan

In South America a wealthy ninety-six year old man reads a book late into the night. Within an hour, he is dead, leaving a trail of secrets behind him. Six months later, in Provence, Shaw from The Whole Truth witnesses t... Buy or find out more 


The Killer's Art
Mari Jungstedt

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Doubleday

It is a cold wintry morning in the picturesque port town of Visby when art dealer Egon Wallin’s battered and naked body is found hanging from a gate in the town’s old city walls. His was a very public death, but who kill... Buy or find out more 



 

Caught
Harlan Coben

$32.99$10.00 – Trade paperback / Orion

Harlan Coben returns with CAUGHT, a new pulse-pounding thriller that promises to keep his many fans compulsively turning the pages late into the night. Expect action, shocks, twists and turns like never before. This is H... Buy or find out more 


The Janus Stone
Elly Griffiths

$32.95 – Trade paperback / Quercus

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway - minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or j... Buy or find out more 



Bleed For Me
Michael Robotham

$32.99 – Trade paperback / Little Brown

When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried... Buy or find out more 


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