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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.
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.
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.
Wisecracking PI Helena Handbasket juggles a jewel theft, a freezer box full of hands, and a trail of handless corpses marked with scarlet fish. As she hunts a possible serial killer, she also battles life’s real mysteries: which shoes to wear, why her neighbour smells like cheese, which lover is ‘the one’, and whether there’s anything in the fridge.
A homecoming will shake this small town to its very foundations. A taut suspense novel about the desperate things people do when they’re on the edge, perfect for readers of Jane Harper.
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.
From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.this forceful sequel to Holy City …
Detective Sergeant Max Lomax is back in the new novel by critically acclaimed Nick Triplow.
In this gripping novel, master of impossible crime Paul Halter turns his lens on one of history’s most notorious killers: Jack the Ripper. Drawing on real events, Halter explores who the Ripper was, what drove him, and how he vanished amid the terror that gripped London in 1888.
But a year before the Ripper’s reign, an impossible murder in the quiet village of Blackfield shocked England. Could the two cases be connected?
CLOSE ENEMY – the twenty-fifth novel in Leigh Russell’s bestselling Geraldine Steel series – is a police procedural where the enemy is hiding in plain sight. A page-turning murder mystery set in York that combines careful detective work with a chilling portrait of obsession. Readers of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid will love this series.
When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a derelict London theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes consumed by the case. The corpse is anonymous, ritually mutilated, and disturbingly symbolic. As Rex investigates, the inquiry fractures, drawing him into memories he has long suppressed. The search for the victim’s identity becomes inseparable from a darker question: who is Rex King himself?
A collection of brand new crime stories based around Christmas, from authors published by Bedford Square.