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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 Language of Secrets

The Language of Secrets

Ausma Zehanat Khan

A terrorist cell is planning an attack on New Year’s Day. For months, Mohsin Dar has been undercover, feeding information back to his national security team. Now he’s dead. Detective Esa Khattak, compromised by his friendship with the murdered agent, sends his partner Rachel Getty into the unsuspecting cell. As Rachel…

Robert B. Parker’s Debt to Pay

Robert B. Parker’s Debt to Pay

Reed Farrel Coleman

All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn’t too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But…

Gravesend

Gravesend

William Boyle

Ray Boy Calabrese is back in Gravesend: some people worship him, some want him dead . . . but none more so than the ex-con himself. Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim’s brother, Conway D’Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite…

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?

The Hero’s Body

The Hero’s Body

William Giraldi

The Hero’s Body is a memoir of what it means to be a modern man At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident. Writing here with searing honesty about grief, obsession, shame and identity, he looks back on three generations of men from the blue-collar town…

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…

Larry and the Dog People

Larry and the Dog People

J P Henderson

Larry MacCabe is a retired academic, a widower, and until a chance meeting with the administrator of a care home, also friendless. At her suggestion, he adopts a Basset Hound and joins her one Saturday at the local park. He becomes a regular visitor, and for the first time in his life the member of a gang. While his new companions…

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.

Leigh Russell Collection – Books 1-3 in the bestselling DI Geraldine Steel series

Leigh Russell Collection – Books 1-3 in the bestselling DI Geraldine Steel series

Leigh Russell

The first three detective thrillers featuring DI Geraldine Steel brought together in one digital edition!…

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…

Montecristo

Montecristo

Martin Suter

Video journalist Jonas Brand is on a rail journey from Zurich to Basel when stock trader Paolo Contini appears to throw himself from the train to his death. Brand sets his footage of the aftermath of the incident aside to investigate a strange coincidence: two 100-Swiss-franc banknotes bearing the same serial number have come into his…

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…

Hunting the Hangman

Hunting the Hangman

Howard Linskey

Based on true events, this gripping historical thriller is the culmination of Howard Linskey’s fifteen-year fascination with the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust. With a plot that echoes The Day of the Jackal and The Eagle Has Landed, Hunting the Hangman is…

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….