Crime & mystery

Pretend We’re Dead

Pretend We’re Dead

Mark Timlin

Sharman’s getting married, and down at the nick they’re taking bets on how long it’s going to last. He’s received a call from an American record company who have a letter from a rock star who’s been dead for 20 years – and wants his royalties……

Blue Screen

Blue Screen

Robert B Parker

Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, Sunny knows from the start that the prickly, spoiled beauty won’t make her job easy. And when Erin’s sister, Misty, is found dead in the lavish…

Ashes By Now

Ashes By Now

Mark Timlin

When a police officer’s daughter was found raped and murdered, Sailor Grant, the local nonce, was sent down. Sharman always had his doubts, but that part of his life is over. Now, Sailor is out of prison and keeps phoning Sharman to help him get justice, but Nick wants to be left alone. When Sailor is found dead and Sharman is half…

Robert B. Parker’s Cheap Shot

Robert B. Parker’s Cheap Shot

Ace Atkins

Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots’ marquee players-a hard-nosed linebacker who’s earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires Spenser to find the men who he says have been harassing his client….

Perish Twice

Perish Twice

Robert B Parker

Sunny Randall comes to the aid of three very different women, with deadly consequences. Hired by prominent feminist Mary Lou Goddard to protect her from threatening phone calls and shadowy pursuers, Sunny must contend with Goddard’s reluctance to reveal all she knows about the unwelcome attention bestowed upon her. When a member of…

Spare Change

Spare Change

Robert B Parker

When a serial murderer dubbed “The Spare Change Killer” by the Boston press surfaces after three decades in hiding, the police immediately seek out the cop, now retired, who headed the original task force: Phil Randall. As a sharp-eyed investigator and a doting parent (“You’re smart. You’re tough. You, too, are a paradigm of law…

Hush Money

Hush Money

Robert B Parker

Spenser has his hands full when he takes on two cases at once. In the first, a high-minded university might be hiding a killer within a swamp of political correctness. And in the other, Spenser comes to the aid of a stalking victim, only to find himself the unwilling object of the woman’s dangerous affection….

Country of the Bad Wolfes

Country of the Bad Wolfes

James Carlos Blake

A page-turning epic about the making of a borderland crime family, for aficionados of family sagas and fans of hard-knuckled crime novels by the likes of Donald Pollack, Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and James Ellroy….

Falls the Shadow

Falls the Shadow

Mark Timlin

Working in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he’s back in the private investigation game……

Hearts of Stone

Hearts of Stone

Mark Timlin

Life as a private detective has proved too much for Nick Sharman, and when a chance run-in with a couple of young thugs secures him a job as a part-time barman, it looks as if he’s found a promising new occupation. Unfortunately the drug squad has other plans…..

Back Story

Back Story

Robert B Parker

In 1974, a revolutionary group calling itself The Dread Scott Brigade held up the Old Shawmut Bank in Boston’s Audubon Circle. Money was stolen. And a woman named Emily Gordon, a visitor in town cashing traveler’s checks, was shot and killed. No one saw who shot her. Despite security-camera photos and a letter from the group claiming…

Killer Plan

Killer Plan

Leigh Russell

Caroline’s husband is killed, but she can’t turn to the police without implicating herself in his murder. When one of her 10-year-old twins is kidnapped, the desperate mother is forced to resort to drastic measures to get him back. As time runs out, Geraldine realises she has a secret that might just help solve the case, but the truth…