Set in Sweden's far north in 1852, where a milkmaid is the first to go missing in the forest. It's presumed that a bear is the nocturnal bumper, but the preacher Laestadius deduces different... read more
A hut in the middle of the woods doesn't sound promising for Valdemar Roos... In the hands of 'the godfather of Swedish crime', something's sure to go bump in the night.
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
A no-holds-barred revenge thriller set in Virginia. Two anti-hero fathers try and make up for their poor parenthood and prejudices by avenging the murders of their two sons. Hold on to your ... read more
An atmospheric, creepy thriller set in a remote valley in northern Italy, where a writer, investigating an apparent drowning many years before, is hampered by superstition.
Another in the 'No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series from the master of 'sofa suspense': you'll find yourself safe in the middle of your seat rather than anywhere uncomfortably near its edg... read more
The fifth and final book in the Barbarotti series sees the investigator take on a cold case, in which the chief witness/suspect of course turns out to be a particularly slippery and terrifyi... read more
A body is discovered in the grounds of Chernobyl, apparently murdered in the hours before the explosion... The radioactive exclusion zone is a suitably disturbing setting for the pursuit of ... read more
A chilly outing for disgraced Colonel Alexander Vasin (whom we've met in a variety of scrapes in Black Sun and Red Traitor), fleeing across the wintry Siberian tundra with a man and a secret... 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...
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 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.
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.