Readings Recommends: Crime Fiction
The Farmer's Daughter
$40.95 (Hardcover book / Grove Press )
In three novellas as dark as they are exuberant, Harrison delivers protagonists who are smart, lusty in that classic Harrison fashion and linked by The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me, a Patsy Cline song that appears through... More »
Green Metropolis What The City Can Teach The Country About True Sustainability
$44.95 (Hardcover book / Riverhead Books )
While the conventional wisdom condemns it as an environmental nightmare, Manhattan is by far the greenest place in America, argues this stimulating eco-urbanist manifesto. According to Owen ("Sheetrock and Shellac"), sta... More »
The Wrong Mother
$30.00 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Sally Thorning, part-time environment rescuer and full-time mother, struggles to maintain her sanity and juggle the overwhelming demands of work and home in this superior psychological mystery from British author Hannah ... More »
The Anniversary Man
$32.99 (Paperback book / Orion )
Twenty years ago John Costello's life, as he knew it, ended. He and his beautiful girlfriend, Nadia, became victims of the deranged 'Hammer of God' killer who terrorised New Jersey City throughout the summer of 1984. Thi... More »
Black Water Rising
$32.99 (Paperback book / Serpents Tail )
In the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke delivers an electrifying thriller that you won't soon forget!
Jay Porter is not the lawyer he set out to be, but he's long since made peace with the American ... More »
Hypothermia
$35.00 (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... More »
The Complaints
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Orion )
Nobody likes The Complaints - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He's just had a result and should be feeling good about himself. But he's middle-aged, sour and unwell. He ... More »
Alexandria
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Century )
For Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, Alexandria holds fascination and a hint of fear. Beautiful, historic and famously unruly, the great cosmopolitan city wears Roman rule lightly. While his wife, Hel... More »
The Coronation
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation, accompanied by three of his children and their governess, Mademoiselle Declique. During an afternoon stroll, daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandit... More »
Beautiful Death
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Fiona McIntosh lives in Adelaide with her husband and two sons. HarperCollins published her first crime novel, Bye Bye Baby, in 2007. A man walking his dog by the River Lea in London makes a grisly discovery and soon DCI... More »
Havana Fever
$24.99 (Paperback book / Bitter Lemon Press )
Havana, 2003, fourteen years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. He now makes a living trading in antique books bought from families selling off their libraries in order to survi... More »
Anarchy And Old Dogs
$24.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
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Loser's Town
$29.95 (Paperback book / Simon & Schuster )
Summoned to the trailer of a Hollywood star who's receiving death threats, former stuntman-turned-private investigator, David Spandau, assumes this will be another routine case. It turns out to be anything but. A-list ac... More »
Two Of The Deadliest
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
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Gone Tomorrow
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o'clock in the morning, Reacher k... 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... More »
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Deep Water
$22.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Stripped of his private detective licence and devastated by the murder of his partner Lily Truscott, Cliff Hardy travels to the US to help Lily's brother's tilt for a world boxing title. In San Diego he suffers a heart a... More »
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About Face
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Heinemann )
The wonderful new Commissario Brunetti novel, from Sunday Times Bestselling author Donna Leon.
At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Comissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian b... More »
Dark Places
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
The dark new thriller from the critically acclaimed Gillian Flynn. Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since ... More »
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If It Bleeds
$22.99 (Paperback book / Headline )
A brilliant novel about contemporary London gangland crime by the hugely well reviewed author of THE PARADISE TRAIL. Britain's best known gangster, Charlie Hook, wants to tell his life story and chooses crime reporter La... More »
Dead Men's Dust
$19.99 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
DEAD MEN’S DUST - the first in a series - introduces Joe Hunter, a British all-action hero with a strong moral code. Hunter is not afraid to use his weapons and his fists – but only to save his victims from the bad guys.... More »
The Murder Stone
$22.99 (Paperback book / Headline )
A brilliant, big, old-fashioned drawing-room mystery with a denouement worthy of Agatha Christie. Wealthy, cultured and respectable, the Finney family is the epitome of gentility. When Irene Finney and her four grown-up ... More »
The Conqueror
$24.99 (Paperback book / Arcadia )
Jonas Wergeland has been convicted of the murder of his wife Margrete. What brought Norway's darling to this end? A professor has been set the task of writing a biography of the once celebrated, now notorious, television... More »
The End Of The World In Breslau
$29.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
Breslau in the 1920s is the haunt of marquises and merchants, gamblers and gutter-rats. Eberhard Mock, the hardened Criminal Councillor, fits right in as he sways from the basements of grubby casinos to his beautiful you... More »
The Alchemy Of Murder
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
The city of Paris in 1889 is a dangerous place: an epidemic of Black Fever rages, anarchists plot to overthrow the government and a murderer preys on the prostitutes who haunt the streets of Montmartre. But it is also a ... More »
The Redeemer
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat, Nesbø’s latest thriller sees Detective Harry Hole tracking a professional hit man bent on destruction.
One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to... More »
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The Book Of The Dead
$19.99 (Paperback book / Orion )
The New York Museum of Natural History receives their stolen gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in DANCE OF DEATH, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and ... 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... More »
The Brutal Telling
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Headline )
An ingenious and riveting mystery of murder, revenge and a cold-blooded killer, this is the internationally bestselling author's finest yet. In the heart of the forest, two men sit at midnight, haunted by fear of discove... More »
Judgement and Wrath
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
'Some call me a vigilante. I think I've just got problems to fix.' Joe Hunter doesn't like bullies. He really doesn't like men who abuse women. So protecting Bradley Jorgenson from a professional hitman is not Joe's drea... More »
Walking In Pimlico
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
To 'walk in Pimlico' (colloq.): to be handsomely dressed. Murray's Dictionary of Slang, Cant and Flash Words and Phrases (1857, 3rd ed.).
Stumbling across Bessie Spooner's murdered body, comedian Corney Sage is caught in... More »
Hard Girls
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Headline )
HARD LIVES. HARD LESSONS. IT'S MURDER ON THE STREETS. Danielle Crosby had a body to die for. A body she sold to the highest bidder. But she ended up paying for it with her life. When a prostitute's body is found lifeless... More »
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul
$22.99 (Paperback book / Piatkus )
Inspector Singh is back, but this time on secondment to Bali. A bomb has exploded and Singh has been sent to help with anti-terrorism efforts. But there's a slight problem: he knows squat about hunting terrorists. He's m... More »
Ford County
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Century )
Seven novellas of the American Deep South set in fictional Ford County, Mississippi, the location for John’s seminal first novel A Time to Kill, his later bestselling The Last Juror as well as scenes from The Chamber a... More »
The Woman From Bratislava
$22.95 (Paperback book / Arcadia )
In Bratislava, Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged, Danish university lecturer, receives a visit from an Eastern European woman who turns out to be his half-sister. Father to both of them was a Danish SS officer who had offici... 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... More »
Nine Dragons
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in a robbery. Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime U... More »
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Quercus )
Lisbeth Salander is plotting her revenge - against the men who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking... More »
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Inherent Vice
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape )
The legendary author of V and Gravity's Rainbow is back with a taut, psychedelic yarn, about the sixties, featuring private eye Doc Sportello...
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon – private eye Doc Spor... More »
The Scarpetta Factor
$49.95$24.99 (Hardcover book / Little Brown )
The latest in the internationally acclaimed Dr Kay Scarpetta series. More »
The Monster In The Box
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hutchinson )
The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel from the reigning Queen of British Crime.
When Wexford starts out as a young police officer, he is involved with a murder case where the perpetrator is not brought to justice. All th... More »
Forbidden Fruit
$22.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Corinna Chapman returns in her fifth adventure, witty and wise as ever - running rings around the villains, courageous on behalf of the helpless, and committed to the pursuit of baking excellence.
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Prophets and Loss
$19.95 (Paperback book / Arkhouse Press )
Forgiveness is the most attractive of the virtues. Until you actually have someone to forgive.
When Melissa Stonelea’s born-again Christian husband Grant is found strangled in the bondage room of the city’s classiest bro... More »
King Of The Cross
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
"Violently funny, brutally incorrect, sly and subversive and addictive... A killer read from a writer who punches both hands and winks at the crowd while he's at it. His protagonist is part punk, part pug, part poet – an... More »
On The Run
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
Covert operative Cole Goodwin pulls off the biggest undercover sting in Australia. Now he's on the run in the biggest gig of his life-survival.
Cole Goodwin spent years undercover, infiltrating the Mafia and putting the ... More »
The Death Of A Mafia Don
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Abacus )
A bomb explodes in the centre of Florence, hitting the car of Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara of the elite Squadra Mobile. The attack rocks the ancient city to its foundations. Ferrara was clearly the target - and h... More »
Present Danger
$32.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. It s a promotion, and she ll be running agents her favourite activity but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old bo... More »
Silent Scream
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster )
Hot young British film star Amanda Delany had the world at her feet. Never one for the quiet life, she'd had a string of affairs with famous actors, making perfect fodder for the tabloids... Then came a commission to wri... More »
Death And The Devil
$32.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
It s the year 1260 and the great cathedral the most ambitious building in all of Christendom is rising above the streets of Cologne. Far below its soaring spires and flying buttresses, an assassin of unnatural talent sur... More »
The Better Angels
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
When Charles McCarry’s The Better Angels was first published in 1979, one reviewer lamented that the author’s premise — that terrorists would use passenger-filled airliners as tools of terror — was so incredible as to be... More »
The Water's Edge
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
Inspector Sejer must track down a sinister figure who fled from the scene of a terrible crime
Walking through the woods one warm September day, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris pass a man who is in a state of agitation. Unusua... More »
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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... More »
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The Lost Symbol
$49.95$39.95 (Hardcover book / Bantam Press )
New novel by the author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons will have a global English language first print run of 6.5 million copies: the largest first print in the history of Random House worldwide.
Of the new... More »
Fever Of The Bone
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things... More »
Blood Born
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
For pathologist and forensic physician Dr Anya Crichton, the death of a gang rape victim hours before she is due to give evidence at trial is more than only a tragedy. The psychotic Harbourn brothers, the girl's accused ... More »
An Empty Death
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )
Summer, 1944. After almost five years of conflict, London's exhausted inhabitants, pounded by the menace of Hitler's V1 bombs, are living in a world of dereliction. War-weary DI Ted Stratton is no exception, but he canno... More »
The Borgia Ring
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
The scintillating sequel to the international bestseller THE MEDICI SECRET.
When builders dig up an ancient skeleton in the City of London, they have no idea of the poisonous legacy they have just unleashed.
For on the s... More »
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The Salati Case
$29.99 (Trade paperback / Faber )
Set in the fog of a northern Italian winter, The Salati Case introduces Casta, a private detective with a hard-boiled exterior and a soft centre.
Castagnetti (informally known as 'Casta') is a private detective who doesn... More »
Where The Dead Lay
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
From one of Hollywood's top screenwriters comes the sensational sequel to City of the Sun
THE VICTIM was a fighter, but strength wasn't enough to save him from this gruesome end.
THE MISSING are two well-paid private inv... More »
The Dead Path
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hachette )
After his wife's sudden death, Nicholas leaves the life he had in London and returns home to Australia. He knows something is very wrong and feels he is teetering on the brink of madness. But the truth is much, much more... More »
To Dream Of The Dead
$24.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
It's December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two p... More »
Night And Day
$32.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
Jesse Stone is an ex LA cop who has taken the job of police chief in Paradise, Massachusetts... and things are getting strange in Paradise. Stone is called to the junior high school when reports of lewd conduct by the sc... More »
Master Of The Delta
$24.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
They call Eddie Miller 'The Coed Killer's Son', because when Eddie was five years old, his father killed a local college girl, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in the woods.Where Eddie's family name has brough... More »
The Fate Of Katherine Carr
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Quercus )
George Gates is a former travel writer. He used to specialise in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies. Now, since the murder of his eight-year-old son, Gates has... 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 -... More »
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Fifty Grand
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Serpents Tail )
Cuban heat meets immigrant politics in this thriller with a social conscience.
Cuban cop Hernandez has a score to settle, on behalf of a deadbeat dad, a 'traitor' who skipped free from Castro's control to set up a new li... More »
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The Defector
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )
Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon is desperately trying to resume a quieter life in secluded Umbria with his new wife, Chiara, when shocking news reaches him. The Russian defector who recently saved his life in Mosco... More »
Still Bleeding
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )
Sarah Pepper is dead: killed by her boyfriend in a drunken rage. He's confessed, but can't remember exactly where he dumped her body. The police appeal to the public for help finding Sarah's remains. They're looking for ... More »
The Song Is You
$22.95 (Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster )
On October 7, 1949, dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter good-bye and left for a night shoot at a Hollywood studio. "Wish me luck," she said as she crossed her fingers, winked, and walked a... More »
Blood Line
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this c... More »
Death And The Running Patterer
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Michael Joseph )
Sydney, 1828. All is not well.
One of the convict colony's soldiers had been murdered and Governor Ralph Darling is not pleased.
Reluctantly, he turns to Nicodemus Dunne for help. Dunne, a fallen Bow Street Runner now tr... More »
A Breed Apart
$15.95 (Paperback book / Dell )
Lt. Elliot Elliot, aka E Squared. A botched drug raid yanks him off the street and into a cubicle at the Pearson Institute of Health Sciences, where he's reduced to hunting down stolen laptops. Then the ultimate insult: ... More »
The Neighbour
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )
It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy - a young mother, blonde and pretty, disappears without trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her han... More »
Nobody Move
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Picador )
Jimmy Luntz is one of the good guys; he's even in a barbershop chorus (like a quartet, only bigger). Trouble is, Juarez – the man Luntz owes money to – isn't so nice. And when Juarez gets bored of waiting, he sends someo... More »
The Lovers
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, an NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private i... More »
The Way Home
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )
When Thomas Flynn leaves his son, seventeen year old Chris, at Pine Ridge, a juvenile prison near Washington D.C, his heart is broken but his mind is made up: Chris will have to pay for the mistakes he's made. Inside, Ch... More »
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Die For You
$32.95$27.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
Isabel and Marcus Raines are the perfect couple. She is a well known novelist; he is a brilliant inventor of high-tech games and they have been happily married for five years. But one morning, Marcus says he loves her, l... More »
Midnight Fugue: A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel
$32.99$27.95 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Yorkshire′s criminals have long feared the Fat arm of the law‚ in the shape of Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel. Sadly for them‚ Dalziel′s proximity to a terrorist blast put‚ if anything‚ further fire in his belly.... More »
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Hunt At The Well Of Eternity
$13.95 (Paperback book / Hard Case Crime )
James Reasoner (the Civil War Battle series) is the first to take the shared Hunt pen name and launch an adventure series that raises the action bar to nosebleed heights. After a mysterious beauty delivers a bloodstained... 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... More »
The Dark Vineyard
$29.95$24.95 (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... More »
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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 ... More »
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Finger Lickin Fifteen
$32.99$27.95 (Trade paperback / Headline )
While recovering from an ill-timed makeup mishap, Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head - literally. Now Lula and Stephanie are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on ... More »
The Scarecrow
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Crime reporter Jack McEvoy, who made his career when he broke the story of The Poet, is onto another story that will bring him face to face with evil in this gripping new thriller from the international #1 bestselling Mi... More »
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Bloods A Rover
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it. The incendiary standalone sequel to American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand—a massive tale of corruption and retribution, conspiracy and cover-up.
It is summer, 1968... More »
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day Of The Locust
$20.95 (Paperback book / New Directions )
Probably West's most powerful work, Miss Lonelyhearts concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column - but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery of those who write in, begging ... More »
Library Of The Dead
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Arrow )
An erudite, high-concept, epic thriller that enthrals until the very last line.
A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he’s claimed six victims in just two weeks, and t... More »
The Discoverer
$32.99 (Paperback book / Arcadia )
The third volume of Jan Kjaerstad's award-winning trilogy finds Jonas aboard the Voyager, a small boat exploring the reaches of the great Sognefjord in Western Norway. Also on board, four young people engaged in a multi-... More »
A Deadly Trade
$32.99 (Paperback book / Headline )
Goodluck Tinubu, an ex-Zimbabwean who has taught in Botswana for many years, is viciously murdered in his tent at the Jackalberry bush camp, situated on an isolated peninsula in northern Botswana. Peter Sithole, allegedl... More »
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Girl Missing
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Bantam Press )
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Cat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers... More »
The Likeness
$19.99 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
The haunting follow up to the Edgar Awardawinning debut "In the Woods" Tana French astonished critics and readers alike with her mesmerizing debut novel, "In the Woods." Now both French and Detective Cassie Maddox return... More »
The Case Of The Missing Servant
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Hutchinson )
Meet Vish Puri, India's most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India's swindlers, cheats and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call cente... More »
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder
$22.99 (Paperback book / Piatkus )
Inspector Singh is in a bad mood. He’s been sent from his home in Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to solve a murder that has him stumped. Chelsea Liew - the famous Singaporean model - is on death row for the murder of her ex-h... More »
The Long Fall
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson )
We follow former rule-breaker Leonard McGill as he's buffeted between the overlords of New York's underbelly, desperate to turn straight, but unable to say no to a nicely paid job. When we're introduced, he's calling in ... More »
Woman With Birthmark
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Macmillan )
"Having come thus far in his deliberations, Van Veeteren gave in to temptation and lit a cigarette. It was time to address the big question, and that would no doubt need a bit of extra effort. Why? Why in hell's name sho... More »
The Labyrinth Of Drowning
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Two years have passed since top cop Paul Harrigan walked away from the New South Wales Police Force to be his own man. Since then his life has been a gift and his home with his partner Agent Grace Riordan and their daugh... More »
Roadside Crosses
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
An innocent posting in a blog about a tragic car crash prompts cyberbullies to mount a vicious attack against a troubled teenager. Pushed over the brink, he seeks revenge against fellow classmates and local citizens, pla... More »
The Beast Of The Camargue
$32.95$27.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
Commissaire Michel de Palma is confronted by a series of unexplained deaths, all bearing the grisly hallmarks of an ancient myth. But one summer’s night the ceremony is broken by a gruesome discovery: a mutilated body fo... More »
Oscar Wilde And The Dead Man's Smile
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
The latest in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed series of Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. Paris, 1883. Oscar Wilde, aged twenty-seven, has come to the city of decadence to discover its ... More »
The Devil's Bones
$29.95 (Paperback book / Quercus )
A woman's charred body has been found inside a burned car. Days later, forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton receives a mysterious package - a set of cremated remains that seems entirely unreal. As Brockton investigates,... More »
Corduroy Mansions
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Polygon Press )
Corduroy Mansions – described in a guide to the architecture of the area as "a building of no interest whatsoever" - is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block - no... More »
Shelley's Heart
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Published for the first time in Australia, this is arguably the best novel ever written about Washington, D.C.
The first presidential election of the twenty-first century has been stolen, after a bitter contest between t... More »
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Bay Of Naples
$29.95 (Paperback book / Birlinn Ltd )
Like many Italians in the early 1930s, Frank Giaconelli comes to Scotland looking for work and better prospects. He and his wife Gina run a bustling café in Paisley, The Bay of Naples and take pity on a down-and-out dri... More »
Fear The Worst
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Orion )
The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job - even if he wasn't entirely sure what her job at... More »
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The Memory Collector
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett′s speciality is the psychological autopsy - an investigation into a person′s life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psyc... More »
Dark Mirror
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
When the red-haired, beautiful and mysterious, Marion Summers dies in horrendous circumstances in the London Library, Brock and Kolla are brought in to investigate, in the new mystery from Australia's master of crime.
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