Thriller / suspense

King Death

King Death

Nik Cohn

Eddie is a strange man with an extraordinary talent that makes him the ‘performer’ he is. Eddie administers Death. His subjects, he explains, are not afraid, but are thrilled and transported. To Eddie, Death is completion, and he finds fulfilment, satisfaction, and pride in each job he carries out. When Seaton Carew, America’s most…

Robert B. Parker’s The Devil Wins

Robert B. Parker’s The Devil Wins

Reed Farrel Coleman

In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man’s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth…

The Resurrectionist

The Resurrectionist

Jack O'Connell

Your only child is lost between this world and the next, and more than anything you want him back. A controversial doctor and a mysterious stranger claim they have the answer. Who do you trust? Are you willing to risk everything? Are you prepared to enter Limbo?…

Word Made Flesh

Word Made Flesh

Jack O'Connell

Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent cab driver? That’s the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have something to do with the ritual death-by-flencing of Leo Tani? Or does the answer involve Gilrein’s ex-lover, now working as a librarian for a…

The Skin Palace

The Skin Palace

Jack O'Connell

A harrowing and ecstatic descent into a breathtaking netherworld aswirl with the real, the imagined and the absolutely unforgettable. Amid the post industrial decay of Quinsigamond glitters a fabulous jewel – Herzog’s Erotic Palace – America’s most lavish porn theatre and a gangland laundry for semi-sour cash. But most of all, Herzog’s…

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……

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….

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…

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…

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….

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….