The witness to her friend's murder begins to question what she saw, or what it meant... and realises that if she helped put an innocent stranger behind bars, then the killer is one of her fr... read more
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.
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.
The French master of noir... Business is thin for raddled old Tarpon, Parisian private eye, when a beautiful women bursts into his office, her hands covered in blood. How could he - or we - ... read more
Global interests circle around the discoveries of an Iranian nuclear scientist at Oxford. A charming, divorced ex-journo is the man who unravels the mystery.
A stylish and murderous mystery in which G, a mathematics student, is drawn into the investigation of events and crimes in the shadow of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood and Oxonian sensibiliti... read more
High jinks have a darker side in the summer of 1933: Diana Mitford is having an affair with Oswald Mosley, a high-society cruise is interrupted by a dead body, and Louisa Cannon, the Mitford... read more
An historical thriller set in the Paris Commune of 1871. Two Communards search in the midst of the violence and chaos for a young nurse who has disappeared - the latest in a series of women... read more
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!
This entertaining debut from the former Home Secretary has an everyday London commute morph into a drama of conspiracy crowded with the Russian mafiosi and the FSB.
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.
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
A troubled policeman is sent to investigate a double murder in rural Catalonia. Cercas, renowned as a novelist, turns his hand to crime - this won Spain's foremost literary prize
A midnight phone call precipitates an aging, embittered agent into a dash to Iran to find his son and do battle with competing international interests.
A chess tournament in the Cold War is the starting point for this classy and compelling spy thriller; soon we are whisked to Cambridge, Lithuania, Vienna, the GDR, the Kremlin...
An Australian police sergeant returns to the land of his forebears, on the border of Greece, Albania and North Macedonia and is drawn into an investigation into a missing person. An exemplar... read more
An English art historian is found dead in a Venetian bookshop after a bad flood. It's in the via dei Assassini, and her death and its consequences are anything but peaceful. Jolly dark stuff... 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
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