Whether it's Scandi noir, police procedural, whodunnits, cosy crime or international thrillers, we've got you covered.
Crime & Thrillers Books
Faber & Faber The Bellini Card Yashim the Ottoman Detective
Book SynopsisCharged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - but when two bodies turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business, and it is up to Yashim to attempt to rescue his intrepid friend from forces bigger than they had ever imagined . . .
£9.49
Faber & Faber The Dream of the Celt
Book SynopsisAs The Dream of the Celt opens, it is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London''s Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. For the past year he has attempted to raise an Irish brigade from prisoners of war to fight alongside the Germans against the British Empire that awarded him a knighthood only a few years before. And now his petition for clemency is threatened by the leaking of his private diary and his secret life as a gay man...Mario Vargas Llosa, with his incomparable gift for powerful historical narrative, takes the reader on a journey back through a remarkable life dedicated to the exposure of barbaric treatment of indigenous peoples by European predators in the Congo and Amazonia. Casement was feted as one of the greatest humanitarians of the age. Now he is about to die ignominiously as a traitor.Trade ReviewMario Vargas Llosa's semi-fictionalised account of Casement's life portrays a heroic, if ultimately tragic champion of oppressed peoples ... Absorbing. Sunday Telegraph A novel by the Nobel prizewinner Mario Vargas Llosa might seem ripe for cult status, when it's subject is the life of Roger Casement. The Times Extraordinary historical novel ... Ingenious ... Vargas Llosa's literary realism seems so natural, with no lyrical outbursts, no pointless cleverness. His research is meticulous, whether through travel or through libraries. But it is always embodied in polt and character ... This stimulating biographical novel, written with fiction's best freedoms. Independent Gripping ... Vargas Llosa tells is with panache ... There is much to enjoy in this novel. FT
£10.44
Faber & Faber Blue is the Night The Blue Trilogy
Book Synopsis1949. Lance Curran is set to prosecute a young man for a brutal murder, in the ''Robert the Painter'' case, one which threatens to tear society apart. In the searing July heat, corruption and justice vie as Harry Ferguson, Judge Curran''s fixer, contemplates the souls of men adrift, and his own fall from grace with the beautiful and wilful Patricia. Within three years, Curran will be a judge, his nineteen year old daughter dead, at the hands of a still unknown murderer, and his wife Doris condemned to an asylum for the rest of her days. In Blue Is the Night, it is Doris who finally emerges from the fog of deceit and blame to cast new light into the murder of her daughter - as McNamee once again explores and dramatizes a notorious and nefarious case.
£9.25
Faber & Faber The Beast in the Red Forest Inspector Pekkala
Book SynopsisA soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala''s charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.On Stalin''s orders, Pekkala''s assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders.Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap.A new enemy has emerged from the fog of war, more deadly than any Kirov or Pekkala have ever faced before. Pursuing the legend of a half-human creature, said to roam the landscape of this war within a war, each step brings Kirov closer to the truth about Pekkala''s disappearance. Meanwhile, Pekkala''s nemesis is also closing in for the kill.
£9.49
Faber & Faber Berlin Red Inspector Pekkala
Book SynopsisApril, 1945.East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler''s Thousand Year Reich.To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket, which has already caused massive damage to the cities of London and Antwerp. This device, known only by the codename Diamondstream, will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with pin-point accuracy. So devastating is the potential of this newly-mastered technology that Hitler''s promise to the German people of a ''miracle weapon'' that will turn the tide of the war might actually come true.When a radio message sent to Hitler''s Headquarters, heralding the success of Diamondstream, is intercepted by an English listening station, British Intelligence orders one of its last agents operating in Berlin to acquire the plans for the device, Desperate to evacuate their agent from the doomed city before the
£9.49
Faber & Faber Her Every Fear
Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller As tantalizing as Rear Window, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and The Talented Mr Ripley ''I loved it! A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.'' CLARE MACKINTOSH, Sunday Times bestselling author of I See YouFollowing a brutal attack, Kate Priddy makes the uncharacteristically bold decision of moving from London to Boston in an apartment swap with her cousin, Corbin Dell.But soon after her arrival Kate makes a shocking discovery: Corbin's next-door neighbour, Audrey Marshall, may have been murdered.Far from home and emotionally unstable, her imagination playing out her every fear, who can Kate trust?
£7.59
Faber & Faber The Paris Diversion
Book Synopsis''Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful.'' HARLAN COBEN''Sleek, cunning and breakneck.'' MEGAN ABBOTT''Thriller writing at its absolute best.'' JEFFREY DEAVER''Top-tier.'' New York TimesFrom the top ten bestselling author of The Expats: Kate Moore is back in a pulse-pounding thriller which takes place over the course of one nail-biting day.Kate Moore a mother with an interesting past is living the quiet life in another European city, or trying to. On her way to drop her children off at school in the city centre, the cafes and streets of Paris start to come alive around her. Kate's husband Dex, meanwhile, charged with finding a particular present for their son's birthday, is struggling to focus on the job in hand as a financial matter at work seems to be playing on his mind. As worrying reports begin to circulate from key locations around the city, and the sound of wailing sirens becomes increasingly hard t
£9.49
Faber & Faber Sorry for the Dead
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1915, the violent death of a young girl brings grief and notoriety to Charleston Farmhouse on the Sussex Downs.Years later, Josephine Tey returns to the same house - now much changed - and remembers the two women with whom she once lodged as a young teacher during the Great War.
£8.54
Faber & Faber The Girl She Was
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Ex, The Wife and The Better Sister'Burke's latest propulsive thrill-ride is a suspenseful, twisty mystery about memory, friendship and secrets. A page-turner of the highest order.' LAURA DAVE, author of The Last Thing He Told MeHOPE CAN BE A DANGEROUS THING...She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she really is.Fourteen years ago, she was found thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Hope started a new life, but never recovered her memory.Now she's missing. With nowhere else to turn, Hope's best friend, Lindsay Kelly, calls NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher.In pursuit of answers, three women search for the truth beneath long-buried secrets. And when their searches converge, what they find will upend everything they've ever known.'An exemplary thriller with a cohort of powerful characters and with pace to sp
£8.54
Faber & Faber Invisible City
Book SynopsisIf you enjoyed UNORTHODOX, you will be riveted by Rebekah Roberts . . .''An absolutely crackling, unputdownable mystery. I loved it.'' GILLIAN FLYNNFresh out of journalism school, Rebekah Roberts is working for the New York Tribune, trying to make a name for herself. Assigned a story about the murder of a woman in Brooklyn, Rebekah finds a case from inside a closed, secretive Hasidic Jewish community the same Brooklyn neighbourhood her estranged mother was brought up in.Shocked to discover that the victim is set to be buried without an autopsy, Rebekah knows there is a story to uncover, but getting to the truth won''t be easy in the cloistered world her mother rebelled against, it''s clear she''s not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep, most of all from an outsider.
£7.59
Faber & Faber Devotion
Book Synopsis''Sexy-but-literary'' Sunday Times''Complex and psychologically taut'' Observer ''Sensual and unsettling'' The Scotsman ''[A] literary psychological smoulderer'' Metro Desire. Deception. Destruction. Devotion.Ella is 26, lonely, hungry and far from home. Lonnie is also 26, but rich, talented and beautiful with a husband and son to match.Their fates intertwine the day Ella is hired as the family's nanny. She finds herself mesmerised by Lonnie's girlish affection and disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage, but soon resentment grows too.Crackling with sensuality and suspense, Madeline Stevens's debut novel is a dizzying thriller in which roles are confused and reversed and nothing is ever quite as it seems.
£8.54
Faber & Faber Seasonal Work
Book Synopsis''[Lippman] only seems to be getting better.'' Entertainment WeeklyA first-rate collection.' BooklistFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SUNBURN AND DREAM GIRLThe award-winning master of psychological suspense is in top form in this collection of diverse and diabolically clever stories.A married couple longing for that old romantic spark creates a playful diversion that comes with unexpected consequences. A husband's secret cell phone proves to be a dicey temptation for a suspicious wife. Lippman's beloved Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan keeps a watchful eye on a criminally resourceful single father.In eleven brilliantly crafted stories of deception, murder, dangerous games, and love gone wrong, Laura Lippman's sharp and acerbic stories explore the contemporary world and the female experience through the prism of classic crime, where the stakes are always deadly.Readers love Seasonal Wo
£13.49
Faber & Faber The Death of Lucy Kyte
Book SynopsisThe fifth novel in the enthralling series starring Golden Age crime writer Josephine TeyA house that can''t restA crime that won''t fade...When Josephine inherited a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother''s life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a century before. Yet this old crime - dubbed the Red barn murder - still seems to haunt the tight-knit village and its remote inhabitants.As Josephine settles into the house, she knows that something dark has a tight hold on the heart of this small community. Is it just the ghosts of the Red Barn murder, or is there something very much alive that she needs to fear?Trapped in this isolated community and surrounded by shadows of obsession, abuse and deceit, can Josephine untangle history from present danger and prevent a deadly cycle beginning once again?
£8.54
Faber & Faber Deep Harbour
Book SynopsisDeath and detection . . . the perfect mix.' The TimesAn excellent page turner . . . the best so far.' 5* reader reviewNordic noir at its best.' PeopleAs the spring warmth melts the ice, divers search the wreckage at the bottom of the Ångermanland River but the murdered man they recover was put there much more recently than the historic artefacts they were seeking. Local Detective Eira Sjödin, newly pregnant and not talking about it, is proud to be put in charge of the investigation until she discovers the man's identity, and the evidence begins to point towards her own family. As Eira works to piece together the truth from the long-buried evidence and her mother's fragmented memories, she isn't sure she is prepared for the revelations this truth might unleash.Readers love Tove Alsterdal:A brilliant story with a very likeable police detective as the focus of all the twists and turns.' 5* reader review<
£9.49
Faber & Faber A Talent for Murder
Book Synopsis''A killer read with twist after twist.''JANICE HALLETTSo many great twists and a truly chilling villain Swanson's best one yet.' MARK EDWARDS''A clever, ingenious, edge-of-your-seat thriller.'' LIV CONSTANTINE ''The stakes are high, the body count is higher, and yet I would still follow Lily anywhere.'' STACY WILLINGHAMFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE KIND WORTH KILLINGTwo years ago, Martha didn't know that Alan existed. Now, they're married it was easy to say yes to someone so sweet.But when Martha thinks she sees Alan's mask slip, she starts to fear that the conferences he travels the country to attend might be a cover for something far more sinister.As her research unearths a string of dead women, she enlists the help of Lily Kintner, an old friend from grad school. What Martha doesn't know is that Lily has a dark side of her own . . .<
£17.09
Faber & Faber Shot with Crimson
Book SynopsisAlways a delight.' Sunday TimesI will never understand why murder is considered such a lowbrow speciality in HollywoodSeptember, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of the Atlantic, and Josephine and DCI Archie Penrose find themselves on a trail leading back to the house that inspired a young Daphne du Maurier - a trail that echoes Rebecca''s timeless themes of obsession, jealousy and murder.''An astonishingly complex mystery.'' The Times''Classy, clever, endlessly entertaining . . . one of this talented author''s most impressive outings yet.'' Lancashire Evening PostReaders love Nicola UpsonOh my, what a delight to read this was. An author abso
£16.99
Faber & Faber Lady in the Lake
Book Synopsis**SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN**A real triumph of storytelling and suspense.' Daily Mail''A very special kind of twisted genius.'' SARAH HILARY''Complex, hard-hitting and unflinching'' Irish TimesAching, thoughtful, and compulsively readable.' Vanity FairA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Apart from her parents and her two young sons, no one seems to have noticed. Until Maddie Schwartz, working her first job at the Baltimore Sun, hears of a body that has been pulled from the fountain in a city park. Thinking it's a lead that could make her name, she soon finds that, in 1966, this is a story no-one wants her to tell. . . What readers are saying:***** A twisty, thrilling, mesmerising ride. I couldn't put it down!'***** It was a delight reading this book. I enjoyed the insight
£9.49
Penguin Putnam Inc Worse Angels
Book Synopsis
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc A Deadly Inside Scoop
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Penguin Putnam Inc An Impossible Imposter
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Penguin Putnam Inc Honey Roasted
Book Synopsis
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc A Fatal Illusion
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Penguin Putnam Inc Whiskers and Lies
Book Synopsis
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc Twisted Tea Christmas
Book Synopsis
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc Arsenic and Adobo
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Penguin Putnam Inc Murder She Wrote Death on the Emerald Isle
Book Synopsis
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc City Under One Roof
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Penguin Putnam Inc A Deadly Bone to Pick
Book Synopsis
£14.39
Penguin Publishing Group Girls and Their Horses
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Penguin Putnam Inc Black Dog
Book Synopsis
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc A Sinister Revenge
Book Synopsis
£21.24
Penguin Publishing Group Stone Cold Fox
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Penguin Putnam Inc Murder in Postscript
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Penguin Putnam Inc Murder in Masquerade
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Random House USA Inc The Senators Wife
Book Synopsis
£13.49
Penguin Publishing Group An Enchanting Case of Spirits
Book Synopsis
£15.29
Penguin Random House Group We Three Queens
Book Synopsis
£21.25
Penguin Random House Group No Roast for the Weary
Book Synopsis
£21.75
Random House USA Inc The Best of Lupin
Book Synopsis
£13.49
Penguin Putnam Inc Death at a Firefly Tea
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£22.94
Penguin Putnam Inc The Worlds Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay
Book Synopsis
£22.94
Penguin Random House Group Ted Bells Monarch
Book Synopsis
£22.50
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Suitor Armor Volume 2
Book SynopsisPalace life becomes increasingly dangerous for lady-in-waiting Lucia as she learns more about the magical world around her in the second volume of the Webtoon romantasy graphic novel Suitor Armor, featuring exclusive bonus storyline and behind-the-scenes content.Lucia has just begun her exciting mage apprenticeship with Norrix, finally tapping into her innate capabilities as a magical being, and she sets off to find her fellow fairy Quinn who is captured within the kingdom''s dungeons. While trying to free her, she discovers a shocking secret about the fairy-human war that spirals into a series of mistrustful encounters with the people around her. Building off of Modeus''s newfound ability to speak, Lucia continues to teach him about the world and help develop his sentience. However, as their relationship deepens, the two must grapple with the true violent purpose for his existence...In this second volume, Norrix''s complicated past is revealed, the connection between Lady Kirsi and King Reimund blossoms, and the darker side of Lucia''s journey to magical discovery rears its head. Complete with original behind-the-scenes content and a bonus storyline exclusive to the book, this second volume includes episodes 18-38 of the greatly successful Webtoon webcomic.
£13.49
British Library Publishing Castle Skull
Book SynopsisEntreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the Inspector Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schadel, in which a killer lurks amongst a small group of suspects.
£8.54
British Library Publishing The Man Who Didnt Fly
Book SynopsisFour men were due to fly to Dublin. When disaster struck and the plane went down over the Irish sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of the flyers scattered to the winds, the police turn to the patchy account of the Wade family, whose memory of their past few days must hold the key to this elusive and tense mystery.
£8.54
British Library Publishing The Corpse in the Waxworks
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmospheric dives into the murky underground of Parisian society presents an intelligent puzzle delivered at a stunning pace. This new edition also includes 'The Murder in Number Four', a rare Inspector Bencolin short story.
£8.54
British Library Publishing Murders a Swine
Book SynopsisA witty and lighthearted mystery full of intriguing period detail, this rare gem of Golden Age crime returns to print for the first time since its publication in 1943.
£8.54
British Library Publishing Death on the Down Beat
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1941, this new edition returns Farr’s only crime novel to print to receive its long-deserved encore.
£9.49
