A wonderful evocation of Leningrad in the 1930s, in which a series of murders and thefts of paintings from the Hermitage embroil Inspector Vasily Zaitsev with the Soviet secret police.
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
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 latest adventure for James Marwood and Cat Lovett, in Taylor's hugely successful series set in the reign of Charles II. Murder by witchcraft, a fancy new hen house for the king's mistres... read more
Mangan' s first thriller was 'Tangerine', a sinister tale set in Tangier. Her new book takes place in Venice, around the floods of 1966: a young English writer has sought refuge there, tryin... read more
The eponymous box is a secret spying agency, whose antics in 1989 following the Lockerbie bombing are discovered by MI5 in 2020. Some nasty Iranians are involved and Lachlan, the man in the ... read more