 |
|
 |
 |
Mystery And Thriller Books
|
|
The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
With any novel set in Salem, Massachusetts, you sort of know it is going to be haunted with the legacy of witchcraft and this one uses that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2009
|
|
Skin and Bones
Tom Bale
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
With one of the best opening pages to a book you’ll ever read this electrifying debut thriller will leave you gasping for breath. Reminiscent to the writing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
|
|
The Missing
Jane Casey
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
A terrific novel taking place in two separate times, 16 years apart, but with both disappearances affecting one character. It is very well structured, a most impressive...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
|
|
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Death in the cucumber patch and a young girl turns detective in a spirited pastiche of the English village murder-mystery with a nod to Agatha Christie and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
|
|
The Last 10 Seconds
Simon Kernick
Simon Kernick is fast becoming one of the top crime writers in Britain today and at Lovereading we have been fans for a long time. Here we have another gritty, fast paced, suspense-filled triumph. This one is going to have...
Format: Hardback - Released: 21/01/2010
|
|
Loss
Tony Black
Tony Black's third novel LOSS is another bleak investigation for his poignant Edinburgh washed up journalist turned involuntary private investigator Gus Dury. Black writes about urban blight and the curse of alcohol like no other, but his down at heel...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/01/2010
|
|
The Given Day
Dennis Lehane
A big novel in every way, packed with action, in a time of huge social upheaval, for this is Boston 1918-1919. With strikes, poverty, racism, corruption, anarchist bombs, riots on the streets and the arrival of the world flu pandemic,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
|
|
Angel with Two Faces
Nicola Upson
Harking back to the detective crime novels of yesteryear this second book in the series follows Josephine Tey (a fictionalised version of the author) stumbling across murder and intrigue as she holidays in Cornwall. Lovely descriptions of the Cornish landscape...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
|
|
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
A dark, disturbing and intelligent thriller with elements of Heathers, Donna Tartt and The Bitch Goddess Notebook.
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/09/2007
|
|
Sanctuary
Ken Bruen
2010 is going be Bruen’s year, with three major movies based on his books being released, including the star-studded LONDON BOULEVARD. His Galway PI series featuring Jack Taylor takes a scalpel to the soul of Irish society and SANCTUARY, his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/2009
|
|
Blacklands
Belinda Bauer
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 24 January 2010.
There is an echo of the Moors Murders of the 1960’s in this story line...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2010
|
|
The City and the City
China Mieville
A strange and compelling murder mystery set in a place like no other. In a unique and seemingly impossible land, two separate cities share the same space at the same time, the inhabitants passing every day and deliberately not seeing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
|
|
The Atlantis Revelation
Thomas Greanias
With the new Dan Brown published a few weeks ago the publishing industry believes there will be renewed interest in the religious conspiracy thriller so they are flooding into the bookshops. This is one of the best. The research...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
|
|
Family Life: An Inspector Starrett Mystery
Paul Charles
Following the success of his urbane DI Christy Kennedy series set in London’s Camden Town and praised by Morse creator Colin Dexter, Charles has now begun a new series featuring Inspector Starrett of the County Donegal Serious Crime Unit. Traditional...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2009
|
|
Slammer
Allan Guthrie
If Guthrie had an American equivalent, it would be the incomparable James Ellroy. His world is dark, action-filled, rough and ready and his new novel SLAMMER is another walk on the wild side, as a young prison officer takes...
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2009
|
|
All the Dead Voices
Declan Hughes
Ed Loy is the Dublin investigator par excellence and the city dominates Hughes’ books like Los Angeles does in Raymond Chandler. From crooked race courses to dark streets and the drunks by the Liffey, Loy’s adventures are atmospheric, fast-paced and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/04/2009
|
|
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Lawrence Block
Tenth book in the Matt Scudder series and still Block gets better and better. A gripping read from start to finish.
February 2010 Guest Editor Simon Kernick on A Walk Among the Tombstones
An author who perhaps more than any...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/11/2004
|
|
The Golden Silence
Paul Johnston
His early Quintin Dalrymple thrillers were set in a near future Edinburgh, but his Alex Mavros trilogy, of which THE GOLDEN SILENCE is the 3rd, occurs in the Greek islands and Athens where the driven half Scots half Greek amateur...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/04/2009
|
|
The Rapture
Liz Jensen
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 21 February 2010.
A psychological eco-thriller is probably the best way to describe this book. The two main characters, psychologist Gabrielle Fox and the psychiatric patient she is treating,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
|
|
The Night Sessions
Ken Macleod
A Scottish writer who often uses SF as a means for sharp social comment
but never allows his powerful messages to detract from the sheer pace
and adventure of his stories. THE NIGHT SESSIONS...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/04/2009
|
|
Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane
Lehane creates believable and vulnerable characters, even the good guys have their faults. A child has gone missing without a trace, drug money has gone missing too. Are the two connected? And then another child goes missing. This is one...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/05/2008
|
|
Blind Eye
Stuart Macbride
BLIND EYE is the 5th and latest volume in the increasingly popular series of Aberdeen thrillers with DS Logan McRae at the helm. In turns grim, gritty and gruesome, but also with mordant humour and sparkling dialogue between his warring...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
|
|
Fifty Grand
Adrian McKinty
The stylish Irish author who now lives in Australia but was for many years in America has followed his DEAD trilogy with FIFTY GRAND, a powerful revenge novel set in Cuba and Colorado, with a female Havana cop on the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/07/2009
|
|
The Way Home
George P Pelecanos
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 7 March 2010.
A crime novel that focuses largely on the relationship between a father and son. The crime element feels almost secondary to the intricate and tricky relationship...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
|
|
Washington Shadow
Aly Monroe
Her debut novel THE MAZE OF CADIZ was showered with praise by reviewers, plunging the reader into the murky world of espionage in the immediate aftermath of WW2 with British spy Peter Cotton. His new case in WASHINGTON SHADOW...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
|
|
Get Carter
Ted Lewis
Gritty look at the criminal underworld in a northern town, revolving around Jack Carter returning home to look in to the suspicious circumstances surrounding his brothers death. Bleak and cool, grim and dangerous this is a true classic.
February 2010 Guest...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2000
|
|
The Twelve
Stuart Neville
THE TWELVE, Neville’s first novel (titled THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST in the USA) is an outstanding debut about a haunted ex-IRA killer and British undercover agent striving to survive his guilt and a veritable posse of implacable enemies. Harrowing, realistic...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
|
|
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
The ultimate gangster book and yet this is not just a story of the mafia in the 1940’s but also a story about family. Don Corleone, The Godfather, is a powerful, dangerous and devoted man. He is likeable despite the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2009
|
|
|
|
 |
What is life without a bit of mystery and a few thrills? A crime, pure and simple! But we’re big on crime prevention, so let us do the detective work and keep you up to date with our regular emails. They give you direct access to free opening extracts and the ability to read online book reviews for all the newest and best Crime and Mystery books. Cops from Rebus (Ian Rankin) to Rhyme (Jeffery Deaver)... Killers from Midsomer (Caroline Graham) to Miami (Carl Hiaasen)... Amateur sleuths from Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters) to Stephanie Plum (Janet Evanovich)... Thinking detectives from Alex Delaware (Jonathan Kellerman) to Alex Cross (James Patterson)... Forensic females from Kay Scarpetta (Patricia Cornwell) to Sara Linton (Karin Slaughter).
We’ll guide you to the quintessentially English (Reginald Hill, P.D.James), and pure Americana (Robert Crais, Tony Hillerman), the cool (James Ellroy), the quirky (Elmore Leonard), the frankly disturbing (John Connolly), the massively popular (Harlan Coben) and the up-and-coming (Jilliane Hoffman).
So sign up for our regular emails to make sure you always choose the most arresting reading! You can order all our crime, mystery and thriller novels online at discounted prices.
Member of a Reading Group? - Buy 5 or more copies of any single title and get an extra 5% discount!
A selection of authors who will feature in this Lovereading category include: |
 |
|
| |
|
|
Dead Spy Running
Jon Stock
January 2010 Book of the Month.
Daniel, the son of a disgraced MI5 chief and himself an MI5 operative, is about to fall...
|
|
|
Plum Spooky
Janet Evanovich
Evanovich fans will know what I mean when I say this is an ‘in between numbers’ book but still a Stephanie Plum. Those not familiar with this crazy character are...
|
|
|
Long Lost
Harlan Coben
Another great read from the master recently voted favourite crime genre author by viewers for ITV3’s Bestseller Dagger. It is a Myron Bolitar mystery, a character who has definitely improved...
|
|
|
Awakening
S J Bolton
English rural gothic at its best, creepy, truly frightening and definitely not for those with an aversion to snakes. At the centre is a reclusive vet, an intriguing new heroine...
|
|
|
The Bay at Midnight
Diane Chamberlain
Julie was twelve years old when her 17-year old sister was murdered and although a boy was tried and convicted for the crime, Julie blames herself for the catastrophe. Years...
|
|
|
Fatal Cut
June Hampson
Daisy Lane, a gangster’s moll with a difference, her man is in prison and she must watch over his interests, but she has a policeman sweetheart, two sons and a...
|
|
|
Truth
Peter Temple
Peter Temple seems to get darker and darker in his storylines. In Truth not only is there brutal murder and torture but a bleak look at the way society is...
|
|
|
No Lovelier Death
Graham Hurley
January 2010 Book of the Month.
The latest instalment from Graham Hurley sees Faraday and Winter pitted
against each other in another fantastic police...
|
|
|
The Month Before's Featured Books
|
The Death Maze
Ariana Franklin
Ariana Franklin was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
A very special historical murder mystery and a wonderful...
|
|
|
A Snowball in Hell
Christopher Brookmyre
Starring a feisty, mixed-race Glaswegian female police officer and her illusionist-cum-bank robber lover, whom we met in The Sacred Art of Stealing, this is one heck of a tale....
|
|
|
Anarchy and Old Dogs
Colin Cotterill
Another wonderful, whimsical, humorous and magical tale featuring an ancient chief coroner of Laos in the 1970s and his bunch of eccentric colleagues, here with a plot to overthrow the...
|
|
|
Revelation
C J Sansom
The killer takes his methods of killing from the Book of Revelation in a period beset with religious violence, for this is the wane of the reign of Henry VIII....
|
|
|
Hard Girls
Martina Cole
This year's Martina Cole offering follows DCI Annie Carr and retired Kate Burrows on the case of a serial killer who is brutally murdering prostitutes. A gritty thriller from this...
|
|
|
Found Wanting
Robert Goddard
This is Goddard back in the area I prefer him in, the contemporary thriller with strong historical undertones. Here the mystery revolves around the authenticity of Anastasia and her possible...
|
|
|
Black Friday
Alex Kava
Alex Kava brings all the punch and thrills of her early novels to Black Friday. A chilling plot that see’s well meaning protestors become victims of a terrorist campaign they...
|
|
|
Born Evil
Kimberley Chambers
Definitely in the mould of Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers’ second novel is as equally gripping as her first, Billie Jo. Trying to escape a past of criminals and...
|
|
|
True Detectives
Jonathan Kellerman
Two half brothers have competed against each other all their lives, now one is a private detective, the other a LAPD police officer, interestingly one is black and one white....
|
|
|
Skin
Mo Hayder
DI JACK CAFFERY - a London cop in self-exile in Bristol who is running
from his past, now working in tandem with a local female police diver.
Not for the faint-hearted, a...
|
|
|
The Hidden Oasis
Paul Sussman
Fast paced action adventure with a plane-load of enriched uranium disappearing in the Sahara and twenty years later being discovered in a sacred place. Its cargo must now be ‘hushed...
|
|
|
City of Thieves
David Benioff
A tale of an unlikely friendship bent on a seemingly impossible task performed to gain their freedom. We are in the Siege of Leningrad, the city is starving and our...
|
|
|
Curse of the Pogo Stick
Colin Cotterill
Colin Cotterill was the winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
Dr Siri is back this time finding himself...
|
|
|
Suffer the Children
Adam Creed
December 2009 Book of the Month.
A gritty crime novel, sometimes making for uncomfortable reading, Adam Creed has DI Staffe, covering a case...
|
|
|
Girl Missing
Tess Gerritsen
December 2009 Book of the Month.
Interestingly this is the first thriller that she wrote back in 1994 for she started her writing...
|
|
|
Sworn to Silence
Linda Castillo
December 2009 Book of the Month.
A well devised plot with Amish and ‘English’ communities facing the prospect that a serial killer from...
|
|
|
|
Share or Bookmark this page
Add this page to a social bookmarking site.
Tell a friend about this page on Lovereading.co.uk.
We respect your privacy. The names and e-mail addresses you enter are used only for sending this message. Please read our Privacy Policy.
|
|
|
|
Categories
Last Month's Featured Books 
Share this page