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
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 melancholic pathologist Quirke and the Dublin detective St. John Stafford find themselves at work in a sun-dappled San Sebastián. Previously Banville published the Quirke crime series p... read more
The follow-up to Box 88, CC's new thriller focuses on the same titular secret intelligence group. A man who acted as an agent for Box 88 while a language student in Russia in the 1990s now f... read more
Set in post-war Japan, this is a Chandleresque tale of murder, political corruption and black marketeering, with a heavy-drinking investigator out on a limb. Familiar tropes perhaps, but in... read more
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.
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!