The host of a New Year's party near Abergavenny is found drowned the next day: DC Ffion Morgan, from the same small village, finds that more than one person in her tight-knit community may h... read more
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
Karl Braun is German, cultivated and self-effacing; he tunes pianos for a living. When he moves into a boarding house in Pimlico, everyone assumes that he has fled Nazi Germany, when in fact... 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
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...
Things start to go wrong in a Stockholm hospital and Dr Tekla Berg, a senior doctor, must save lives even faster than usual while solving the mystery of an untraceable and nameless young boy... read more
Pushkin Press have been having fun with these classic Japanese thrillers from the mid C20th - and so have we. A locked room mystery that deliciously echoes Christie's And Then There Were Non... read more
Nifty historical spy novel, in which an MI5 operative is sent to Paris to deal with a blackmail case with political repercussions. The PM is Ramsay Macdonald.
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.
Another outing for the spy hunter Jonas Merrick, which begins with a Russian agent defecting in Denmark. The retired MI5 agent, dragged away from his caravan and quiet life, is known by youn... read more