Crime & mystery

The Ashes of Berlin

The Ashes of Berlin

Luke McCallin

World War II is over, and former German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has returned to Berlin. He’s about to find that the bloodshed has not ended – and that for some, death is better than defeat. A year after Germany’s defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin’s civilian police force. The city is divided among…

The Good Assassin

The Good Assassin

Paul Vidich

Former CIA Agent George Mueller is sent to 1958 Havana to look into a CIA officer suspected of sympathising with rebels fighting the Batista regime. Mueller is to vet rumours that CIA weapons are reaching Castro’s forces. Public exposure threatens to embarrass the agency and Mueller must find the truth, uncovering a world of deceit in the process.

The Unquiet Dead

The Unquiet Dead

Ausma Zehanat Khan

One man is dead. But thousands were his victims. Can a single murder avenge that of many? Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto: the body of Christopher Drayton is found at the foot of the cliffs. Muslim Detective Esa Khattak, head of the Community Policing Unit, and his partner Rachel Getty are…

Calling Down the Storm

Calling Down the Storm

Peter Murphy

April 1971. When DI Webb and DS Raymond respond to a 999 call at Harpur Mews in Bloomsbury, a horrific scene awaits them. Susan Lang is lying on the ground, bleeding to death. Her husband Henry is sitting nearby, holding a large, blood-stained knife. In shock, Henry claims to have no memory of the events that led to his…

Deadly Alibi

Deadly Alibi

Leigh Russell

A hand gripped her upper arm so suddenly it made her yelp. Biting her lower lip, she spun round, lashing out in terror. As she yanked her arm out of his grasp, her elbow hit the side of his chest. Struggling to cling on to her, he lost his footing. She staggered back and reached out, leaning one hand on the cold wall of the tunnel….

Night Market

Night Market

Daniel Pembrey

When Henk van der Pol is asked by the Justice Minister to infiltrate a team investigating an online child exploitation network, he can hardly say no – he’s at the mercy of prominent government figures in The Hague. But he soon realises the case is far more complex than he was led to believe…Picking up from where The Harbour…

Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn

Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn

Ace Atkins

The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston’s South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honour their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Most at the department believe it was just a simple…

Headbanger/Sad Bastard

Headbanger/Sad Bastard

Hugo Hamilton

Headbanger – Garda Pat Coyne is a Dublin policeman who is passionately devoted to sorting out the world and its problems. For Coyne, such things as cars, crime, pollution and golf are all ominous signs of a disintegrating society. When a murder investigation leaves detectives clueless, he enters into a…

An Honorable Man

An Honorable Man

Paul Vidich

Washington, DC, 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation’s capital, and Joseph Stalin’s death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the Soviet Union. The CIA, meanwhile, is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets,…

King Death/ I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo

King Death/ I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo

Nik Cohn

I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo – Despite persistent rumours of his death fifteen years ago, Johnny Angelo’s legend continues. Johnny Angelo is a rock singer, and this is his story from the beginning. As a child he is a dreamer and a solitary, a thief, a killer of birds and cats. As a man he is a god…

Dodgers

Dodgers

Bill Beverly

When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip – straight down the middle of white, rural America – to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys – including his trigger-happy…

I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo

I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo

Nik Cohn

I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo is Nik Cohn’s hymn to rock as myth, in all its crazed, absurd and glorious excess. Partly based on the legendary rocker, P J Proby, Johnny Angelo is the pop star to end all pop stars – narcissistic, mock-heroic and massively destructive. The novel follows his progress from warped…