Twenty years after he cracked a murder case, Detective Rosenburg is approached by Stephanie Mailer, a journalist who is convinced of his mistakes in the original investigation. But before sh... read more
The 30th outing for the tireless Brunetti: joy-riders in the Venetian lagoon are linked to more sinister doings... as usual, the glittering surface masks murky depths
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.
MC returns with another gritty LA-set policier. Detective Renée Ballard is called to a shooting on New Year's Eve, before connecting it to one of her colleague Bosch's unsolved murder cases... read more
HRC's first foray into fiction has - surprise, surprise - a US Secretary of State as its protagonist, who has joined an administration desperately trying to undo a period of American isolati... read more
The owner of a small, seaside bookshop is disturbed by the enquiries of a Polish émigré living nearby. He knows an unnerving amount about his family and is still curious to know more... Du... read more
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
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
Once again the author stars in his own work - this time one of his knives is found adorning the dead body of a critic who had just savaged his new play. And now the poor love finds himself ... read more
An Alpine hotel with a room missing, a private bank in Switzerland, skullduggery over an inheritance, a ravishing young woman - just some of the layers in this fiendish onion of a novel.
A piece of lively entertainment from the former MP, cabinet minister and memoirist. A foreign office chap disappears in Crete without trace - well, almost none - just enough in fact to feed ... read more
The discovery of a corpse sends Cat Hakesby and James Marwood on a dangerous path that seems to lead to Charles II's favourite courtier... The sixth in this excellent series of historical th... read more
Set in London in the 1930s, this is an ingenious debut murder mystery: a series of locked-room murders are brought to the attention of a retired stage magician-turned-sleuth.