When policeman Melchor Marin's daughter disappears, he goes to look for her in Port de Pollença in Mallorca, where she's fallen into the orbit of a Swedish-American billionaire.
A nifty mystery in which the reluctant editor of a crime novel finds that the solution to a murder apparently lies inside that book, and comes to realise that she is now a target herself.
Narrated by Mozart in three periods of his life: as a child in London, as an angst-ridden youth in Paris, and as a man in sight of his own death in Leipzig. Charlatans and aristocrats abound... read more
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. A bookseller in a pool of blood outside his shop in Bristol. Sullivan has been bumping off different professions in his previous books so we suppose it was only a ma... read more
A flock set about investigating the murder of their shepherd... A re-issue of this funny, unusual mystery that finds much of its humour in the foibles of its humans.
A compulsive political thriller that takes us deep into the Kremlin and the psychology of authoritarianism: at its heart is Putin's chief spin-doctor, the still centre of a delirious propaga... read more
Two translators - a Russian girl and an Englishman - train for the Moscow marathon together so that they can talk - and then save the world, or at least some of it.
An artwork is found to contain human bone; a woman lives alone in a house that is cut off at high tide: this is a slow-burn, psychological thriller, told from multiple points of view, with a... read more
The daughter of the Dean of Westminster investigates the murder of an antiquarian, a theft and ghostly visions. There's an amiable parrot too, called Cuthbert.
The author picks locks for fun apparently - and it shows in this tight, playful mystery in which a dinner party game turns deadly - secrets are spilled and surely blood will follow?
A semi-rogue MI5 agent (female), a money launderer codenamed 'Hagfish', and a news website run by descendants of Bletchley codebreakers who have been hacking high-security government databas... read more
1938: a famous novelist dies, leaving his manuscript to his young typist with a cryptic dedication. Atmospheric spy story set between London and Vienna.