It is 1899 and a hack English writer is off for a belated honeymoon with his American heiress... The great Banville follows du Maurier, Mann and Highsmith to Venice for the setting of his ee... read more
Detective Jimmy Perez is drawn deep into an insular and secretive community in Orkney after his childhood friend is murdered with a rune-inscribed Neolithic stone. (Somewhere, some nut must ... read more
Six members of the crime-writing community are gathered to play a mysterious game, in the inevitable country house - and are cut off by a blizzard. Good-oh!
The new case for Wyndham and Banerjee begins with a man discovered on the burning ghats of Calcutta with his throat cut. Entertaining crime in vividly imagined Imperial India.
Inspector Gamache, hoping to take time to recuperate after his acts of heroism in The Grey Wolf, returns to his peaceful home village - only to be dragged into a lethal game of cat and mouse... read more
Lisbeth Salander discovers that she and her activist niece are both on an underworld hit list. Tense and atmospheric, this is the latest in the Millennium series (for which Smirnoff was the ... read more
Tekla Berg - enigmatic, pill-popping doctor and amateur sleuth - is enlisted by an unsavoury detective to figure out a spate of shootings in Stockholm.
A man and a child take refuge in an abandoned mine, only to discover that they are not alone... Dystopian brilliance from the author of Dirt Music, Cloudstreet and others.
Alice B. Toklas's, to be precise. Picasso thought she had one, hidden under her hat... A contemporary young academic turned private detective is hired to find it. Comic, gripping, and ironic... read more
From the author of the jauntily entitled Death of a Bookseller comes a new mystery that seems destined to be accompanied by a perky Noel Coward earworm.