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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
Black Heart Blue Louisa Reid
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching. This debut tackles the horrors of domestic violence head on with beautiful writing and two amazing voices. Twin girls, one beautiful,... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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
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
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
Explosive Eighteen Janet Evanovich
After a hellish holiday in Hawaii, Stephanie boards the plane to Newark hoping to put it all behind her. But when her seatmate mysteriously disappears during the stopover in LA, things are only going to get worse. He was carrying... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2012
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
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
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death James Runcie
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 May 2012.
From the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, this is the first of The Grantchester Mysteries, six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history - from the... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
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There’s such a great culture of detective stories in Britain, it’s a wonder anyone enters a life of crime! All the best loved detectives are here: Dalziel and Pascoe (Reginald Hill) Rebus (Ian Rankin), Dalgliesh (PD James), Marple & Poirot ( Agatha Christie) and Morse (Colin Dexter) to name but a few. But why not try something new, like Christopher Fowler’s wonderfully cantankerous Bryant & May?
On the left you’ll find our great picks of the month and the opening extracts to help you discover some great new writing.
Of course, if American and international crime-fighters are your thing, you won’t be disappointed either!
All the great Private Eyes are featured in this section and you’ll discover new ones too, with our unique “Author, Like-for-Like” service. Simply click on one of the book covers and scroll down to the “Author Like for Like link” and we will show you which authors are a suggested match for your tastes!
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 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...
Time & Tide : A Hew Cullan Mystery Shirley Mckay
The adventures of Hew Cullan, the young 16th century lawyer continue in this 3rd instalment. A shipwreck in St Andrews leads Hew to Ghent where the discovery of a strange...
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...
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...
Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter Simon Brett
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
Not strictly speaking an invincible male sleuth, Blotto -a nickname for the Right Hon. Devereux Lyminster- is a bit of a nincompoop,...
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 Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Alexander McCall Smith
While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles...
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...
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...
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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