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Dare Me Megan Abbott
May 2012 Book of the Month.
Following on from her Richard and Judy selected title, The End of Everything, is this dark dangerous coming of age story set among a fiercely competitive... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
15 Seconds Andrew Gross
May 2012 Book of the Month.
If you love fast-paced, topical thrillers that you simply can't put down, then Andrew Gross and especially 15 Seconds is a great place to go. Pulled over... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
Now You See Me S. J. Bolton
May 2012 Book of the Month.
S.J. Bolton, known to her friends as Sharon, has become established as one of England's foremost crime writers. She is right up there with Martina Cole... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
Dead Scared S. J. Bolton
May 2012 Book of the Month.
Good grief! – talk about tense (practically unbearable towards the end of this book). S.J. Bolton has again delivered a cracking, addictive thriller. This one is set... Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
Gideon's Sword: A Gideon Crew Novel Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
May 2012 Book of the Month.
From the best-selling U.S. writing partnership that bought us the enigmatically brilliant Agent Pendergast comes a new all together different character Gideon Crew. Driven by revenge,... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
The Impossible Dead Ian Rankin
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year Award 2011.
Rankin is synonymous with crime and Edinburgh and having decided to end it with his long-time protagonist – Rebus – he has successfully created a new one in the... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
Other Featured Books this Month
What Dies in Summer Tom Wright
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
An interesting, challenging and, at times, graphically violent debut exploring coming of age and the loss of innocence. If you have read and liked The Virgin... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
The Playdate Louise Millar
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
This gripping contemporary thriller will have you turning the pages, and re-evaluating people you call friends. How do you know whether it’s dangerous to leave your children... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012
The River Woman Sorrel Pitts
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
'A fascinating story told by a very promising writer.' Sir Michael Parkinson.A young woman is found half frozen to death on a remote farm and... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/09/2011
Closer Than Blood Gregg Olsen
May 2012 eBook of the Month.
Interestingly for a crime thriller the story only really gets going once the killer is revealed. Then you'll be hooked on the chase to catch them. The... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
Never Coming Home Evonne Wareham
March 2012 Book of the Month.
Winner of the 2012 Joan Hessayon New Writers' Scheme Award.
A debut from an exciting new talent. A well written contemporary romantic thriller, set in London, Italy and... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/03/2012
What You Don't Know David Belbin
Bone & Cane, MP and ex-con - and ex-lovers - make for an interesting crime fighting partnership, even better when it's brilliantly set in the late 1990s and the New Labour experiment. Second in the series sees Bone promoted to... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2012
The Hypnotist Lars Kepler
When a whole family is murdered in Stockholm, Inspector Joona Linna is brought in to investigate the murky case and soon uncovers an unsettling connection to disgraced hypnotist and medic Erik Maria Bark. With uber-villains in the Thomas Harris mould... Format: Paperback - Released: 12/04/2012
Vanishing Point Danielle Ramsay
The second novel from a rising star of the crime writing genre. Again based in the North East with D I Jack Brady as the central character who is investigating the horrific deaths of young women in Whitley Bay --... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
Icebreaker John Gardner
Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Israel's Mossad...
James Bond series:1. Licence Renewed2. For Special Services3. Icebreaker Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
For Special Services John Gardner
The second instalment of John Gardner's Bond series sees Bond join forces with CIA agent Cedar Leiter for some more thrilling adventure.
James Bond series:1. Licence Renewed2. For Special Services3. Icebreaker4. Role of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Licence Renewed John Gardner
The first of John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.
James Bond series:1. Licence Renewed2. For Special Services3. Icebreaker4. Role of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Nobody Lives For Ever John Gardner
In Nobody Lives Forever, the fifth in Gardner's bestselling series, Fleming's superspy is at the top of his game.
James Bond series:1. Licence Renewed2. For Special Services3. Icebreaker4. Role of Honour5. Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
Role of Honour John Gardner
Gardner's stunning reinvention of Bond secured critical acclaim and blockbusting sales around the world. Role of Honour, the fourth book in the series, kept 007 at No.1.
James Bond series:1. Licence Renewed2. For Special Services3. Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
The Waste Land Simon Acland
Shortlisted for the People's Book Prize for Fiction 2012.
Set during the extraordinary historical events of the First Crusade this is an original and compelling debut full of mystery, betrayal, secrecy, romance, humour and suspense. Like Dan Brown’s adventures... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
The Hollow Man Oliver Harris
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
Not just another London cop with a troubled morality, Belsey whose patch is the unlikely one of affluent Hampstead, is a man very much on the skids: dishonest as they come, crooked to... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
Dead Water Simon Ings
May 25, 1928: Over the frozen seas of the Arctic, an airship falls out of the sky. Among the survivors is a young scientist on the verge of a discovery that will redefine physics.
October 3, 1996: Through the dusty industrial... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2012
Robopocalypse Daniel H. Wilson
Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online...and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
The Rage Gene Kerrigan
Vincent Naylor is a professional thief, as confident as he is reckless. Just ten days out of jail, and he's preparing his next robbery. But his plan is already unravelling. While investigating the murder of a crooked banker, Detective Sergeant... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
Little Girl Lost Brian Mcgilloway
The breathtaking new crime thriller from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Devlin series.
Midwinter. A child is found wandering in an ancient woodland, her hands covered in blood. But it is not her own. Unwilling or unable to speak, the... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
An Agent of Deceit Chris Morgan Jones
Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy ...Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, Webster's interest is piqued when a client... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
The Good Wife's Castle Roland Vernon
The unexpected suicide of an apparently happy family man; a woman held captive for three years in a forgotten underground bunker; a middle aged clergyman at a crisis point in his life, drawn into an uncomfortable relationship with a teenaged... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Island of Bones Imogen Robertson
April 2012 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award 2011.
This is the third in the series of historical...
The Chill of Night James Hayman
April 2012 Book of the Month.
Hayman's first novel, 'The Cutting', introduced us to detective Michael McCabe, recently moved to Portland, Maine,...
Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood Christopher Fowler
When Robert Kramer's new young wife goes to check on their baby boy, she finds the nursery door locked from the inside. Breaking in, the Kramers are faced with an...
The Cove Ron Rash
This simple and sad story is told with such exquisite language and believable characters you will be transported to the Appalachian mountains of Carolina during the First World War. Prejudice,...
Micro Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton's greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills, cutting-edge technology, and...
A Foreign Country Charles Cumming
April 2012 Book of the Month.
This is another first-rate crime novel, perfect for fans of John le Carre, from an author...
Chasing Fire Nora Roberts
April 2012 Book of the Month.
Romance and passion, literally, heat up in this compelling new standalone novel from the internationally bestselling author...
The Long Good-bye Raymond Chandler
April 2012 Guest Editor Paul Torday on The Long Good-bye...
There are other contenders for the invention of the wisecracking, tough but romantic private eye, but if Raymond Chandler wasn’t...
Agatha Raisin: As The Pig Turns M. C. Beaton
This series just gets better and better. Each one is a stand-alone novel featuring the one and only crime sleuth Agatha Raisin. If you like Agatha Christie then you'll...
Those in Peril Wilbur Smith
If you like to lose yourself in a strapping yarn that is well told then
this book - another outstanding adventure from one of the world's best
loved storytellers -...
Fatherland Robert Harris
April 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a river on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible...
The Border Run Simon Lewis
Need experience on your Gap Year? Try murder. Bored of the 'mango smoothie' trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and perhaps also their sex lives, Jake and...
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag Alan Bradley
The second outing for the wonderful Flavia de Luce. Flavia investigates another murder in Bishops Lacey and tries to track down the ingenious killer using her powers of deduction and...
Dark Blood Stuart MacBride
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
With the retirement of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus, MacBride's grittier than granite Aberdeen cop has quickly taken over the...
Where the Shadows Lie Michael Ridpath
Amid Iceland's wild, volcanic landscape, rumours swirl of an eight-hundred-year-old manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a...
Sorry Zoran Drvenkar
March 2012 Book of the Month.
This highly original, dark (v v dark) and sinister thriller breaks all the rules; such as switching...
The Hollow Man Oliver Harris
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
Not just another London cop with a troubled morality, Belsey whose patch is the unlikely one of affluent Hampstead, is a man very...
The Devil's Edge Stephen Booth
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
The fact that that they have operated for ten books so far in the supposedly quiet locale of the Peak District does...
The Calling of the Grave Simon Beckett
February 2012 Book of the Month.
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
Forensics expert Dr David Hunter has featured in a...
The Night Season Chelsea Cain
A city on flood alert, a killer on the rampage Heavy rains have burst the banks of the WillametteRiver; several people have died in the furiously rising waters but the...
Nowhere to Run C. J. Box
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
Game Warden Joe Pickett is a major star in the USA, having already headlined over a dozen cases. His adventures are finally...
Revenge of the Red Square Mark Penny, Jonathan Penny
We featured the first in this funny, sharp, action packed and quirky series when we discovered it in 2009. Called 'The Golden Pig ' it followed the adventures of...
The Drowning Camilla Lackberg
Camilla Lackberg continues to write top notch, chilling crime fiction and she is especially good at capturing the effects of violent crime on small communities where on the surface everyone...
The Stranger Camilla Lackberg
March 2012 Book of the Month.
It’s ironic that Sweden always comes near the top of the best places to live yet also...
The Sentry Robert Crais
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
For almost a dozen novels so far, Pike has acted as a sidekick for rock n'roll sleuth Elvis Cole in Crais' super-slick California...
Murder on Page One Ian Simpson
This well-crafted, pacey, humorous whodunit from ex-judge Ian Simpson is an highly enjoyable read. A previous book of his was shortlisted for the Debut Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association...
A Red Herring Without Mustard Alan Bradley
The 3rd in the award-winning, charming and wonderful Flavia de Luce detective series. Once again Flavia is tracking down the ne’er-do-wells of Bishop's Lacey after a gypsy fortune teller reveals...
Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke Peter Benson
When young Elliot gets a labourer's job at Mr Evans's after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks he'll have even more opportunities...
The Death of Bees Lisa O'Donnell
I'm Marnie. Too young to smoke, too young to drink, too young to fuck, but who would have stopped me?Hazlehurst housing estate, Glasgow, Christmas Eve 2010. Fifteen-year-old Marnie...
The Calling A John Luther Novel Neil Cross
Meet DCI John Luther. He's brilliant. He's intense. He's obsessional. HE'S DANGEROUS. DCI John Luther has an extraordinary clearance rate. He commands outstanding loyalty from friends and colleagues. Nobody who...
The Fear Index Robert Harris
Dr Alex Hoffman is a legend. An American physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, he now uses a revolutionary...
Victims Jonathan Kellerman
Not since Jack the Ripper terrorised London has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts acid-tongued Vita Berlin had not a friend in the world, but who...
Phantom Jo Nesbo
The murder has been solved. But has justice been done? Beneath the city's eerie tranquillity, Harry Hole discovers a trail of violence and mysterious disappearances seemingly unnoticed by the police....
Guilt by Association Marcia Clark
One of our Debuts of the Year 2011.
This is one hell of a debut novel. It’s a super sharp, superbly constructed page-turning legal thriller introducing us to a new protagonist,...
Still Life Louise Penny
March 2012 Guest Editor Alan Bradley on Louise Penny...
Still Life was the first of fellow Canadian Louise Penny’s “Three Pines” novels featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté...
The Bloody Meadow William Ryan
Captain Alexei Korolev returns ...but lives in an uneasy peace his new-found knowledge is dangerous, and if it is discovered what his real actions were during the case, he will...
I am Half-Sick of Shadows Alan Bradley
The fourth novel in Alan Bradley's addictive Flavia de Luce mystery series.
Flavia de Luce series:1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie2. The Weed That...
Headhunters Jo Nesbo
Roger Brown has it all: Norway's most successful headhunter, he is married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he's also a highly accomplished art thief....
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