Crime & mystery

Among the Ruins

Among the Ruins

Ausma Zehanat Khan

The murder of renowned political filmmaker, Zahra Sobhani, brings Esa Khattak’s cultural holiday in Iran to a sudden halt. Dissidents are being silenced and Khattak’s mere presence in Iran is a risk. Yet when asked to unofficially investigate the activist’s death, he cannot resist. Soon, he finds himself embroiled in Iran’s tumultuous…

The Dogs Of Winter

The Dogs Of Winter

Kem Nunn

Heart Attacks is California’s last secret spot – the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumor and legend. The rumors say you must cross Indian land to get there. They tell of hostile locals and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet break a mile from shore. For down-and-out photographer Jack Fletcher, the chance…

Plender

Plender

Ted Lewis

Two men share a common history. Growing up together in the small town of Barton-Upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, England, Peter Knott is everything that Brian Plender wishes he were. Knott is suave, good-looking, an exemplary student and popular. The friendship they maintain is as important to Plender as it is forgettable to Knott, and…

The Lonely Witness

The Lonely Witness

William Boyle

Amy was once a party girl, but now she lives a lonely life. Helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighbourhood of Brooklyn, she knows the community well. When a local woman goes missing, Amy senses something isn’t right. Tailing the woman’s suspicious son, she winds her way through Brooklyn’s streets. But before…

Robert B. Parker’s Old Black Magic

Robert B. Parker’s Old Black Magic

Ace Atkins

The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston’s premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable piece stolen, Gentlemen in Black…

Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet

Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet

Reed Farrel Coleman

A Jesse Stone Mystery Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancee by crazed assassin Mr Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protege, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to…

Tapping the Source

Tapping the Source

Kem Nunn

People came to Huntington Beach in search of the endless party, the ultimate high and the perfect wave. Ike Tucker came to look for his sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers and sun-bleached blondes, Ike looked into the shadows and found parties that drifted towards pointless violence,…

Death Rope

Death Rope

Leigh Russell

Detective Sergeant Geraldine Steel delves into the mysterious death of Mark Abbott, defying conventional wisdom as she uncovers dark secrets and faces a deadly adversary in a race against time.

Gangster Nation

Gangster Nation

Tod Goldberg

Gangster Nation is a page-turning examination of the seedy foundations of American life. With the wit and gritty glamour that defines his writing, Goldberg traces how the things we value most in life – home, health, even our sprituality – have been built on the enterprises of criminals.It’s been two years since legendary…

Robert B. Parker’s Little White Lies

Robert B. Parker’s Little White Lies

Ace Atkins

Boston PI Spenser, and right hand man Hawk, follow a con man’s trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest of the iconic crime series. Connie Kelly thought she’d found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the CIA. She fell so hard for M Brooks…

Ten Year Stretch

Ten Year Stretch

Adrian Muller

Twenty superb new crime stories have been commissioned specially to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Crimefest, described by The Guardian as ‘one of the fifty best festivals in the world’. A star-studded international group of authors has come together in crime writing harmony to provide a killer cocktail for…

Law and Order

Law and Order

G F Newman

A seminal series about the British criminal justice system, examining endemic corruption from the perspectives of the police, the criminal and the solicitor. The novels in this omnibus edition became the basis of the groundbreaking and controversial television series Law & Order. In the wake of a bungled armed…