‘The latest gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author‘– The Secret Room [ About The Secret Room ] A closed door. An impossible murder. 2:32 p.m. Wealthy, privileged Ilaria Cavendish checks into a luxury London hotel and orders a bottle of champagne. Within the hour,…
‘Clutching her tea towel, Winnie hurried outside and down the garden path. There was a body—a person…a woman…lying on her back on the concrete of the parking area, hair splayed out’– A Death In The Afternoon [ About A Death in the Afternoon ] Summer 1948London swelters amid post-war reconstruction, while continued rationing and the…
‘The world’s most beloved literary characters. The gilded opulence of the Roaring Twenties. A murder that scandalises high society. And a clever young woman of unusual persistence… Be ready to re-think the world of Gatsby.‘– The Gatsby Gambit [ About The Gatsby Gambit ] 1922: You are cordially invited to summer at the Gatsby Mansion in…
‘Some stories seem to tell themselves and other stories wish to remain untold. It is uncertain which this is.’– The Bureau [ About The Bureau ] Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the…
‘The Truth Never Stays Buried’– The Seventh Body [ About The Seventh Body ] When six human bodies are discovered, building work on a derelict site in Cork grinds to a halt. And then a seventh is discovered. Although the first six are men who died centuries ago, the seventh body is different – female,…
A gripping new World War 2 thriller from the bestselling authorA Death in Berlin [ About A Death in Berlin ] BERLIN. MAY 1940. AS HITLER PREPARES TO INVADE WESTERN EUROPE, THERE IS BLOODSHED CLOSER TO HOME CI Horst Schenke is an investigator with the Kripo unit. Powerless against the consequences of the war, he…
*A SUNDAY TIMES best crime fiction of the year selection*– The Stolen Child [ About The Stolen Child ] It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. But there’s no waking up from this . . . On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight.…
Nothing is quite as it seems in Victorian high society– The Queen of Fives [ About The Queen of Fives ] They whisper her name in every corner of town.The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.Five moves, five days – for such are the rules of her game. 1898. Quinn Le Blanc, London’s…
‘When instinct tells you no one can be trusted, who should you fear the most?‘– The Killing Sense [ About The Killing Sense ] Danger is closer than you think… Single Mum Kate Wilde has escaped an abusive marriage and hasn’t had a holiday in years, so when she wins a five-day trip to Paris…
‘The page-turning new mystery from Chris Hammer, the international bestselling author of Scrublands, The Times Crime Book of the Year 2023 Dead Man’s Creek and Crime Book of the Month (January 2024) Cover the Bones.‘– The Broken River [ About The Broken River ] A murder on the river bank.A secret worth its weight in gold. A body has been discovered on…