Thriller / suspense

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.

Hold the Dark

Hold the Dark

William Giraldi

Wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children have been taken from this isolated Alaskan village, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core arrives in Keelut to investigate the killings and learns of the horrifying darkness at the heart of Medora. When her husband returns from a…

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…

The Last Weynfeldt

The Last Weynfeldt

Martin Suter

A well-to-do bachelor, who sees no more promise in love. A beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. A picture and its price. An auction, which causes an uproar in the art community – and a few who come up short in their desire for the big money.Adrian Weynfeldt, mid-fifties, bachelor, upper-middle class, art expert, lives in an…

Class Murder

Class Murder

Leigh Russell

The tenth Geraldine Steel mysteryWith so many potential victims to choose from, there would be many deaths. He was spoiled for choice, really, but he was determined to take his time and select his targets carefully. Only by controlling his feelings could he maintain his success. He smiled to himself. If he was…

The Last Summer

The Last Summer

Andrée A Michaud

It’s the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary lake, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ and ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills…

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…

Chance

Chance

Kem Nunn

The ‘disturbing and provocative’ (Los Angeles Times) novel about a forensic neuropsychiatrist at the end of his rope-now a major TV series starring Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Moi-from award-winning author Kem Nunn.Chance is a dark story about psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly…

The Ways of Wolfe

The Ways of Wolfe

James Carlos Blake

A master of historical and crime fiction, James Carlos Blake delves back into the dark realms of the Wolfe family, a clan whose roots run deep on both sides of the United States-Mexico border, and whose prevailing interests straddle both sides of the law.Twenty years ago, college student Axel Prince Wolfe-heir apparent to his Texas…

The Frozen Woman

The Frozen Woman

Jon Michelet

In the depths of the Norwegian winter, the corpse of a woman is discovered in the garden of a notorious left-wing lawyer, Vilhelm Thygesen. A young biker dies in suspicious circumstances. As Thygesen receives anonymous threats, detectives Stribolt and Vaage uncover an international web of crime and violence. Does the frozen woman hold the key?

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…