When a woman is killed by a bus, Jack Reacher pursues the man who pushed her and stole her bag - and finds himself in a huge and complex web of corruption and danger. Beware the grey hoodie,... 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
What could Cambridge professor Tom Wilde, former spy and veteran of The Man in the Bunker and A Prince and a Spy, have in common with a kamikaze Japanese submarine and an outbreak of deadly ... read more
Powerful tale of espionage and love in the early years of the Syrian war. By a former CIA agent, this was published in 2021 in the US and only now in the UK, propelled by word of mouth.
Aaron Falk, federal investigator, begins picking over the loose ends in the case of a woman's disappearance and finds a growing chill in her small-town community in South Australia. By the a... 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.
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
A dark tale of obsession and hysteria, set in a small French town in the aftermath of WW2. McIntosh is a clever writer already well known for The Water Cure.
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
A hand emerging from the Venetian lagoon sets Brunetti off on a new investigation: the cast includes a palazzo, an academic, Buddhism and the Tamil Tigers...
Two translators - a Russian girl and an Englishman - train for the Moscow marathon together so that they can talk - and then save the world, or at least some of it.