A scrapbook becomes a twisty Ariadne's thread, leading its compiler into a world of art, vast wealth and murder. Sharp, with more than a touch of black humour.
A brilliant graphic reimagining of a C19th Russian crime novel with a woman journalist-thief-liar-magician as its sleuth. The author is an accomplished academic and illustrator.
A Chicago detective thinks he's found a piece of paradise in the west of Ireland... but all that glisters is not gold. Some of it is coldly gleaming revenge.
Tokyo, an astonishly good cook and multiple murders. This is not a who-dunnit but a why-dunnit - and there is much to savour, both malicious and delicious.
A woman goes missing; decades later, her children still have no answers - but the East Anglian village where they grew up begins to offer up its secrets.
Hayes' first novel since the huge bestseller I Am Pilgrim is about a CIA man in the badlands - the worstlands - of the North West Frontier region, where he encounters a vicious adversary.
The third in the series that began with Box 88, named after a covert intelligence network: here Lachlan Kite, an off-record asset, takes on criminal networks, international terror and reverb... read more
A student vanishes from her Edinburgh doorstep - exactly as described in an unfinished manuscript by a writer who, on closer inspection, turns out to be dead.
An old spy is chased, a damning file appears from nowhere, a civil service enquiry is obstructed... Herron works his compusive magic again in this new stand-alone thriller.
The elderly gang of four who make up the Thursday Murder Club have another death on their hands: an antique dealer, whose business is entangled with the drug trade. Their fourth literary out... read more
The author of H is for Hawk has written - with a co-writer - a sci-fi thriller in which an all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field...
A perfect wife tests her perfect husband for the perfection of his love... A French bestseller of unnerving and claustrophobic domestic unease in the manner of Highsmith.