1930s' Shanghai is the scene for silliness of riotous proportions - war, romance, espionage, a beautiful assassin, shifting loyalties, shadowy politics.
The third outing for Persis Wadia in the 'Malabar House' series, in post-independence Bombay: an unknown European has been found frozen in Dehra Dun, and there are new murders on his doorste... read more
Spring comes to the village of Three Pines, and with it the children of a woman murdered there many years before and the unsealing of a bricked-up attic room... Chief Inspector Armand Gamach... read more
Another romp from the author of Lady in Waiting and Murder On Mustique. Presumably autobiographical, since it features the 11-year-old Lady Anne Coke returning home from Scotland in 1943 to ... read more
Another outing for Inspector Gamache, the Quebecois investigator - crowd control, social manipulation and a charismatic academic touting dangerous ideas lead inevitably to murder most foul.
Satisfyingly creepy crime novel from the acclaimed Icelandic author: a doll caught in a fishing net, dead bodies, cold cases... an atmospheric and well-plotted chiller to read in sunlight!
Hart began a new life in a white-washed cottage in Wigtown - her Innisfree - while recovering from cancer. There she finds that swimming in a cold sea, nattering with lobster pot men, beekee... read more
This fine debut turns about Margot, the natural child of a prominent French politician: adolescence, with all its tender spots and short focus, resentful, impressionable, knowing-it-all but ... read more
A very clever debut from a distinguished hand in the art world: a Cambridge don rather stuck in his ways is repelled by an outbreak of modern art in his quad. Wafted on a cloud of academic d... read more