Crime & mystery

Box Nine

Box Nine

Jack O'Connell

A stunningly original nightmare novel about the impact of a new synthetic drug – Lingo – on the depressed New England factory town of Quinsigamond, where it was secretly developed. Besides offering a potent high, Lingo also delivers a shot to the brain cells governing lingusitic comprehension and verbal skill. Until murderous rages and…

A Street that Rhymed at 3AM

A Street that Rhymed at 3AM

Mark Timlin

Sharman’s Christmas with his daughter Judith starts with the worst of gifts: news that his ex-wife, Laura, her new husband and their baby son have been killed in a bomb explosion on a plane……

Sharman and other Filth

Sharman and other Filth

Mark Timlin

They had so much on Sharman that he couldn’t move without their say-so. Stuff he’d done for himself, and things he’d done for them, too. His name was ruined on both sides of the fence. So they came up with one more job, the big one. When he found out they’d snared him in a honey trap, he was ready to kill……

Blind Arrows

Blind Arrows

Anthony J. Quinn

Dublin 1919. A city at war with itself, a cauldron of soldiers, spies, rebels and political intrigue. The mysterious and seductive Lily Merrin, secretary at Dublin Castle, is on a mission but whose side is she on and what is compelling her to consider the ultimate sacrifice?Charismatic Irish revolutionary leader, Michael Collins burns…

Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot

Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot

Reed Farrel Coleman

It’s been a long time since Jesse Stone left LA, and still longer since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a major league baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team at a hip New York city hotel, he is forced to grapple with his memories and regrets over what might have been….

The Pale House

The Pale House

Luke McCallin

German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has just been reassigned to the Feldjaegerkorps – a new branch of the military police with far-reaching powers. His position separates him from the friends and allies he has made in the last two years, including a circle of fellow dissenting Germans who formed a rough…

Blood Axe

Blood Axe

Leigh Russell

“Silently dipping his oars in the water he made his escape. It was a weary journey, with few spoils to show for it. Next time he would do better. He looked back over his shoulder. The bridge had disappeared,swallowed up by the darkness. From its walkway he too had become invisible. Only the bloody body of a woman showed he…

Find My Way Home

Find My Way Home

Mark Timlin

Harry Stonehouse had been a cop, a good one – and straight, unlike Nick Sharman. After taking early retirement he’d landed a job at a security firm. Now he’s dead, and his wife wants Nick to find out who killed him and why….

Paint it Black

Paint it Black

Mark Timlin

Nick Sharman – at last – is living a life of married bliss with his new partner (and ex-stripper) Dawn. The bad boy has settled down, and the booze and the drugs and the guns are but a happy memory – unlike his ex-wife Laura, now married to respectability. Laura’s quite capable of shattering the idyll, but this time it’s serious – their…

The House of Wolfe

The House of Wolfe

James Carlos Blake

On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom’s family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galan, who wants nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding party’s ransom at five…

Melancholy Baby

Melancholy Baby

Robert B Parker

When college student Sarah Markham comes asking for help in finding her birth parents, Boston P.I. Sunny Randall realizes she must take the case, if only to distract her from her personal life. But life and work have a curious – and dangerous – way of intersecting. Before the investigation has a chance to take off, two key players are…

Shrink Rap

Shrink Rap

Robert B Parker

Melanie Joan Hall is a best-selling author in a bind. Her publisher needs her to tour on behalf of her newest blockbuster, and Melanie Joan needs a bodyguard-cum-escort to protect her from an overbearing psychotherapist ex-husband whose presence unnerves her to the point of hysteria. Step in P. I. Sunny Randall….