11 Feb
Sylvia Plath died 1963. An American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Best known for her poetry, and her death which mirrored an attempted suicide in The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel. Read books by Sylvia Plath
Read the opening extract of the brand new Lauren DeStefano book before its publication on 16/02/2012
Siege Simon Kernick
February 2012 Book of the Month.
One of Britain’s top writers has in Siege created a real edge-of-your-seat race against time thriller. A top London hotel is being held hostage along with everyone... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/01/2012
Finders Keepers Belinda Bauer
February 2012 Book of the Month.
Psychological thrillers don’t get much better than this. Chillingly gripping, it’s the sort of plot line that surprises you at every turn and absolutely does not let... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
Tom-All-Alone's Lynn Shepherd
February 2012 Book of the Month.
Described by the author as an homage to Charles Dickens but also an incredibly well researched and re-imagined, gripping Victorian murder mystery based on his classic Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
Never Apologise, Never Explain James Craig
February 2012 Book of the Month.
We were big fans of London Calling, the first in this series of books featuring dogged, determined (coffee connoisseur ) Inspector John Carlyle. This latest Inspector... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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 handful of investigations so far and is becoming a worthy... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Other Featured Books this Month
Good People Ewart Hutton
February 2012 eBook of the Month.
Small town hypocrisy shamelessly satirised in a twisting murder plot in rural Wales. An entertaining, cleverly plotted debut. Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
Revenge of the Red Square Mark Penny, Jonathan Penny
A fast and furious comedy classic, Revenge of the Red Square is the hilarious sequel to The Golden Pig, and is a comic tour de force. Format: Paperback - Released: 12/01/2012
Death in a Cold Climate : A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction Barry Forshaw
Death in a Cold Climate is a celebration and analysis of Scandinavian crime fiction which has become, almost out of the blue, one of the hottest areas of writing today. With forensic dissection and analysis of books, films and TV... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/01/2012
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum
The latest instalment in the most famous thriller series of them all. Bourne is back, and this time the stakes are higher than ever... When Robert Ludlum died in 2001 we all feared the incredible character of Jason Bourne he... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Fighting Dirty June Hampson
The final, heart-pounding instalment in June Hampson's compelling gangland saga series. Our Editorial guru Sarah Broadhurst says of the series 'It’s evocative and gritty and it's got heart, violence, sex and an underground current which is very atmospheric.' See the... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
The End of the Wasp Season Denise Mina
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2011.
In this stunning new novel DS Alex Morrow discovers that nothing is sacred, even human life...The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and
multi-layered novel, which traces the damaging consequences of... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
Mice Gordon Reece
A Piece of Passion from the Publisher of Mice, Maria Rejt:"Mice is not a thriller that conforms particularly to what a bestselling thriller purports to be these days – there are no serial killers, no high-octane car chases, no... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
Tell No One Harlan Coben
A Special Edition of Tell No One by Harlan Coben to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
January 2011 Guest Editor Lisa Gardner on Harlan Coben...
His breakout thriller Tell No One remains one of my favourite novels, and I consider Harlan the... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
Labyrinth Kate Mosse
A Special Edition of Labyrinth by Kate Mosse to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Yearat the British Book Awards 2006.
I was privileged to visit Kate in her Carcassonne retreat and be... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
No Time for Goodbye Linwood Barclay
A Special Edition of No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of the Richard & Judy Summer Read 2008.
A fantastic opening plot that pulls you straight in to the story and makes you have to... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
The Black Ice Michael Connelly
A Special Edition of The Black Ice by Michael Connelly to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
The second Harry Bosch book has just as much momentum as the first. Harry gets involved in a case when a narcotics cop, Bosch has had... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
Death on the Nile Agatha Christie
One of Sister Wendy Beckett's favourite books.
The wonderful Hercule Poirot works his magic in this murder mystery set in the exotic location of Egypt.
July 2010 Guest Editor Louise Candlish on Agatha Christie...
I read this when I was about... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2001
Trust Nobody June Hampson
The publisher created a new category with the publication of this novel, that of ‘gangster saga’, and it’s not far off the mark. A gangland 60’s saga set in Gosport with a strong heroine and some memorable characters. It’s got... Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 01/02/2007
Don't Cry Beverly Barton
The crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. For grief counsellor Audrey Sherrod it's clear the murders are the work of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
The Lewis Man Peter May
A MAN WITH NO NAME. An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. A MAN WITH NO MEMORY. But this islander, Tormod Macdonald... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
Five Days to Die Katia Lief
Your time is up...Emily Parker is missing, kidnapped from a car park in broad daylight and the police are clueless as to her whereabouts. The only man her family can turn to for help is retired FBI profiler John Geary.... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Love You More Lisa Gardner
WHO DO YOU LOVE? A split-second decision and Brian Darby lies dead. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defence and for Boston detective D.D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Catch Me Lisa Gardner
IN FOUR DAYS, SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME...At 8pm on 21st January, twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston's top homicide detective, D.D. Warren, to handle her death investigation. Confronting D.D. at... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
Shut Your Eyes Tight John Verdon
Once a cop. Always a cop ...Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, for instance, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can't seem... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime Maxim Jakubowski
This great annual covers the full range of mystery fiction, from noir and hardboiled crime to ingenious puzzles and amateur sleuthing. This year's volume contains stories by: Peter James, Nick Quantrill, Reginald Hill, Jay Stringer, Liza Cody, L. C. Tyler,... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
66 North Michael Ridpath
Iceland 1934: Two boys playing in the lava fields that surround their isolated farmsteads see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them and their families for generations. Iceland 2009: the credit crunch bites. The currency has been devalued,... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
The Cleverness of Ladies (Quick Reads) Alexander McCall Smith
A World Book Day 2012 Quick Read.
With his trademark gift for storytelling, international bestselling
author Alexander McCall Smith brings us five tales of love, heartbreak,
hope and the cleverness of ladies. Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Prince Rory Clements
Spring 1593. England is a powder keg of rumour and fear. Plague rages, famine is rife, the ageing Queen's couriers scheme: Elizabeth's Golden Age is truly tarnished. Meanwhile Spain watches and waits - and plots. Into this turmoil a small... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
Black and Blue Ian Rankin
A Special Edition of Black and Blue by Ian Rankin to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Rebus has everything against him: an internal investigation, a possible miscarriage of justice and a pretty tough Glasgow gangster. Enough to try the patience of any... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
Welcome to a meeting of the greatest criminal minds in the world. The world of Fiction, that is, because this is where you will find all the information, reviews and the opening extracts for our featured novels in the Crime & ‘Whodunnit’ category. Whether you’re looking for more books by a favourite author or broadening your experience of this thrilling genre, you’ll find what you’re looking for here.
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Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal expert on crime fiction, looks to explain the appeal of Scandinavian Crime Fiction in his new book, Death in a Cold Climate. Click here to find out more.
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All of our featured books are hand-picked and reviewed by our in-house editorial experts. This is unique to Lovereading and means that you can be sure of considered guidance by industry professionals. That’s how much we want you to Lovereading!
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!
Just One Look Harlan Coben
Living a lie for 21 years - and now the past has caught up with him... A first-rate thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Caught.
The Innocent Harlan Coben
Coben’s literally unput-downable thrillers really must be tried. He writes these dark, emotional tales alongside a crime series featuring a security agent, Myron Bolitar. They are good but these stand-alone,...
The Woods Harlan Coben
A great stand alone thriller from Harlan Coben with two plot lines to follow. One is the case that lawyer, Paul Copeland, is prosecuting now and the other the murder...
Hold Tight Harlan Coben
Winner of the Specsavers ITV3 Crime Thriller Bestseller Dagger 2009.
If you are a Coben fan then this stand-alone thriller is just what you’ve been waiting for, it is certainly...
Tell No One Harlan Coben
January 2011 Guest Editor Lisa Gardner on Harlan Coben...
His breakout thriller Tell No One remains one of my favourite novels, and I consider Harlan the master of the so-called...
Promise Me Harlan Coben
Coben writes stunning, stand-alone, psychological thrillers and a series of novels featuring Myron Bolitar and his violent friend Win. Until now I have found the Bolitar novels inferior to his...
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...
Play Dead Harlan Coben
June 2010 Book of the Month.
This is actually an old novel published years ago that subsequently went out of print. What a...
Rupture Simon Lelic
Shortlisted for the Galaxy New Writer of the Year 2010.
September 2010 Debut of the Month.
CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Finalist 2010.
It...
Caught Harlan Coben
From the acknowledged crime master Harlan Coben is a thrillingly tense yet emotional tale concerning a missing seventeen year old girl. CAUGHT tells the story of her, the community stunned...
The Woodcutter Reginald Hill
A fast-moving, stunning new stand alone psychological thriller from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. Brilliant writing, superb characterisation and all in all one of his absolute...
Miracle Cure Harlan Coben
Following the success of his debut PLAY DEAD, another classic Coben is re-released for his huge army of fans. First published about 20 years ago, it doesn't quite have...
Rivers of London Ben Aaronovitch
A Maxim Jakubowski Best Science Fiction selection.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy UK New Writer of the Year Award 2011.
A new series by a Doctor Who writer (the second volume
One for the Money Janet Evanovich
One of Peter Snow's favourite books.
Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She's lost her job, her car's on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming...
Live Wire Harlan Coben
January 2012 Book of the Month.
Sports agent and part time detective Myron Bolitar and his aristocratic and sociopathic side kick Windsor Horne...
Back of Beyond C. J. Box
Another cracking stand-alone crime novel from the award-winning U.S. crime writer. A washed up but brilliant cop finds the mentor he has relied on to keep him ‘on the wagon’...
The Devotion of Suspect X Keigo Higashino
Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day,...
The Opposite of Mercy Tom Winship
A compulsive, contemporary UK based thriller that along with a complex plot that builds chapter by chapter has a real emotional edge to it as well. Interestingly this is the...
The Shepherd Ethan Cross
Meet Francis Ackerman, America's most terrifying serial killer. What excites him most is the game of chance. He likes to play with ordinary people. Innocent people. Someone just like you....
Bone and Cane David Belbin
A very promising start to a rather unusual crime partnership; a female Labour MP and an ex con. Set in the late 1990s it’s well researched, packed full of intrigue,...
Sleep Like the Dead Alex Gray
No one rests in peace. The pacey, thrilling new case for DCI Lorimer and psychologist Solly Brightman - taking the reader from the streets of Glasgow to the Balearics and...
Blue Monday Nicci French
Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed
across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate.
Can anyone help find their little boy before it...
The Lord's Day Michael Dobbs
The State Opening of Parliament. The most magnificent royal occasion of the year. The Queen, her Cabinet and all the most powerful people in the land are gathering in one...
The Pleasures of Men Kate Williams
It's Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own...
The Facility Simon Lelic
The startling second novel from the critically lauded author of Rupture.
The Child Who Simon Lelic
January 2012 Book of the Month.
An author who is unafraid to tackle contentious subjects has a 12 year old killer as the...
Shift Tim Kring, Dale Peck
It's 1963 and America as a country is at a crossroads: Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the Cuban missile crisis, the sexual revolution, FBI, CIA, LSD - and a promise...
Shatter the Bones Stuart MacBride
January 2012 Book of the Month.
The 7th Logan McRae thriller set in gritty Aberdeen, from the bestselling author of Cold Granite...
No One Left to Tell Karen Rose
January 2012 eBook of the Month.
The addictive Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose serves up her most relentless thriller yet. It's her thirteenth...
Birthdays for the Dead Stuart MacBride
Grim, gritty and totally compelling, Stuart MacBride draws you in then you are up all night! In this stand alone novel dark secrets compromise the central detective in a savage...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carre
The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.
Plugged Eoin Colfer
One of our Debuts of the Year 2011.
May 2011 Debut of the Month.
From the bestselling and exceptionally gifted writer of the
The Reversal Michael Connelly
July 2011 eBook of the Month.
A new Harry Bosch is always a treat and thoroughly addictive. Harry is brought in to help...
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke
July 2011 eBook of the Month.
Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John le Carre
The Circus has already suffered a bad defeat, and the result was two bullets in a man's back. But a bigger threat still exists. And the legendary George Smiley is...
The Stranger You Seek Amanda Kyle Williams
August 2011 eBook of the Month.
In Atlanta, Georgia, a vicious serial killer is at loose, luring victims
with ease, killing them with...
The Blackhouse Peter May
This is a crime novel of rare power and vision. When a brutal murder on the Isle of Lewis bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective...
The Litigators John Grisham
The Partners at Finley & Figg - all two of them - often refer to themselves as a boutique law firm. Boutique, as in chic, selective and prosperous. They are,...
The Lion Nelson Demille
Asad Khalil - aka 'The Lion' - is the most dangerous man alive. A ruthless Libyan terrorist with an agenda of death and destruction, he has come to the US...
The Impossible Dead Ian Rankin
December 2011 MEGA Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year Award 2011.
Rankin is synonymous with crime...
The Little Girl of the Favela M. K. Bates
Part crime, part love story, set against a vividly painted and exciting backdrop of Brazil, Germany
and England. It's a debut novel worth a second look.
Lucifer's Tears James Thompson
December 2011 Book of the Month.
Second in this exciting Scandinavian crime series with Inspector Kari Vaara, loved by readers and other authors...
Cuckoo Julia Crouch
December 2011 Debut of the Month.
What a debut! This is an utterly gripping psychological drama about a friend who has it all...
The Sixth Man David Baldacci
After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a mental facility private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer - an...
The Redeemed M. R. Hall
The third stunning Jenny Cooper novel from the author of The Coroner and The Disappeared. Jenny’s lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of...
Breaking Silence Linda Castillo
Solly and Rachel Slabaugh, and his brother Abel, have drowned in the hog pit leaving the four children as orphans. As the investigation progresses, it seems that the Slabaugh deaths...
Zero Day David Baldacci
John Puller is a loner with few possessions by preference, but he has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable determination for finding the truth. His father was the most decorated...
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 Fifth Witness Michael Connelly
November 2011 Book of the Month.
A blistering courtroom drama featuring The Lincoln Lawyer's Mickey Haller from the master of the genre. For...
Borrowed Light Graham Hurley
December 2011 Book of the Month.
Set in Portsmouth this series, with D I Joe Faraday and ex cop Paul Winter, gets better...
Secrets to the Grave Tami Hoag
December 2011 Book of the Month.
Following on from the excellent Deeper than the Dead, Secrets to the Grave is another tautly...
In the Name of Honour Richard North Patterson
The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two families with deep ties to the military, have been close for decades. Now, Lt. Brian McCarran returns from a harrowing tour in Iraq. Traumatized...
The Payback Simon Kernick
Dennis Milne is a former cop and part-time assassin. He kills the bad guys - people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. Now he's in Manila, waiting for his...
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