Crime & mystery

The Boy

The Boy

Mark Gyves

When his mother’s death shatters his world, a boy is drawn into Cork’s criminal underbelly — a lyrical, devastating story of family, violence and the inescapable legacy of grief, for fans of Colin Barrett, Donal Ryan and Stuart Neville.

Lethal Trap

Lethal Trap

Leigh Russell

LETHAL TRAP, the twenty-sixth novel in Leigh Russell’s bestselling Geraldine Steel series, turns the obvious suspect on his head. When a grieving husband becomes the prime target of a murder investigation, DI Geraldine Steel is the only one who doubts his guilt, and her instinct leads her straight into a killer’s trap. Readers of Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid and Peter James will love this series.

The Lost Children of Spindrift

The Lost Children of Spindrift

Zoe Manlow

An atmospheric, twisty novel of family secrets reaching back to the summer of 1976 on the Norfolk coast, by the author The Last Secret of Wickham Grange.

Backwater

Backwater

James Sallis

From the author of Drive, a spare, haunted crime novel set in the rural American South. John “Bishop” traded his detective’s badge for a jazz guitarist’s life in New York. But Anne’s Ferry, the town he fled, pulls him back, and what he finds there – blood, silence, and a history no one will name – won’t let him go.

Old Dogs

Old Dogs

Donna Moore

La Contessa Letitzia di Ponzo and her sister, ex-hookers turned con artists, plan to steal jewel-encrusted Tibetan shih tzu statuettes from a Glasgow museum. Dodgy thieves, an obsessed islander, and a vengeful hitman all stand in their way… but luxury could be theirs if they pull it off.

Bad Company

Bad Company

Sara Paretsky

After forty years in the CIA, Lily was forced into retirement – too outspoken, too stubborn, too good at her job. Now in her seventies, a magazine article about her first posting in the old Soviet republic of Hayalistan reignites questions she thought long buried.

Determined to uncover the truth, Lily starts digging, but the CIA wants her silenced. As the hunters become the hunted, she must rely on her wits and fading strength to survive one final mission.

Godfellas

Godfellas

Nicola Whyte

The Outlaws meets Chris Chibnall by way of Father Brown when a young curate finds a dead body his first night in his new job in a country church.

Robert B. Parker’s Framed

Robert B. Parker’s Framed

Mike Lupica

Robert B Parker

Spenser fights to prove the innocence of a friend in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series.

Bride in Funeral Clothing

Bride in Funeral Clothing

Samantha Lee Howe

Former army mechanic Mel Greenway investigates the abduction of bride-to-be Lorelie Courtney at crumbling Avonby estate in post-war Britain. As police investigator Derrin Bradley struggles for answers, Mel uncovers abuse, buried secrets, and links to their military past. Captured herself, Mel must use courage and ingenuity to survive and prevail.

Fresh Blood on the Avenue

Fresh Blood on the Avenue

Gay Marris

The residents of suburban Atbara Avenue enter the 1970s with more dark and twisted goings- on behind their closed doors in this dryly funny and clever follow up to A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder.

Under the Falls

Under the Falls

Richard Russo

A spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

American Fury

American Fury

Philip Elliott

Eric Blake runs from his past, reinventing himself as Ethan Arthur in Los Angeles. Twenty quiet years end when a corrupt cop dies and the FBI comes calling. Forced back into a white-supremacist network he once fled, Ethan must survive infiltration, betrayal, and a movement bent on remaking America itself.