The Ninth Netsuke

The discovery of a small ivory figurine leads Inspector Otani of the Tokyo police into violent mystery that threatens his own life and his homeRead more
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The discovery of a small ivory figurine leads Inspector Otani of the Tokyo police into violent mystery that threatens his own life and his homeRead more

The canal town of Castlemere is the kind of hard-luck place that provides constant challenge to its crack team of detectives. But the skills of Superintendent Frank Shapiro, Inspector Liz Graham and the volatile Sergeant Cal Donovan are put to the test in very personal ways.
A...Read more

It should have been the start of the rest of their lives and indeed it was, but not in the way they had imagined. On the eve of their university careers, two friends from a small southern Irish town hope to celebrate their impending adulthood through another rite of passage. But their first...Read more

'It's not exactly how I imagined the week starting. An accessory to murder. On the run in the victim's vehicle . . .'
Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together forever....Read more

Before you discovered DCI Banks, Detective Arvo Hughes was on the case in this vintage standalone crime thriller from Peter Robinson.
In 1990s Los Angeles, the beautiful star of a hit TV cop show is being sent strange letters.
At first, Sarah Broughton dismisses the...Read more


When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters, it sends a shockwave through the city. Police investigator Billy T. takes on the case, but it seems nobody really knew the dead man.
While Billy T. struggles to break...Read more

A weekend break in the Kent countryside for Detective-Sergeant Jane Perry and her new boyfriend, Adrian, is disrupted when a nearby disused aircraft hangar goes up in flames. Once the inferno has died down, the charred remains of a well-known local vagrant, Old Mary, are revealed. The death...Read more

When a senior police officer is killed by a bomb on a lonely outback road in Australia, Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is called in to track down the culpritRead more

Stepan Volkov forfeited his future when he was paid to forget his past.
Forced to adapt, he ultimately became the world's most wanted killer... feared, vicious and brutal.
A tool of the Organizatsiya, a Russian crime syndicate that forged him into 'The Wolf', he's...Read more

Ruth Castle - alone, proud, defiant - is determined to rescue some personal happiness from the wreckage of her life. In Haverbury village, she makes friends with Marjorie and Robert Bretherton, and is soon involved in the affairs of other relatives who come to stay for Christmas.Family...Read more

In a freezing Glasgow tenement a Special Branch undercover operation has gone disastrously wrong. A nine-year-old boy and Orla McLeod, who was spearheading the case, are the only ones left alive. Orla's a damaged woman, she knows about violence, so she's not going to let anyone else take...Read more

Rena and Tom have been planning this trip for years: just the two of them, retired, setting out into remote bush country to enjoy nature's dramatic beauty--and each other's company. When Tom dies unexpectedly just before they are to depart, Rena almost cancels, but there's nothing left at...Read more

The 12th crime novel featuring the Kent policemen, Inspector Thanet and Sergeant Lineham. This time they are investigating the murder of a ruthless, promiscuous local vineyard owner. This novel won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award.Read more

'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.'
It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the...Read more

Boozer, brawler, ladies’ man – nineteen-year-old Harris Derwent is not a good guy. His one attempt to play the hero – helping out his old flame, Rachel Watts – has landed him in hospital. Now injured, broke, and unemployed, he’s stuck back in the country, at his father’s mercy. Harris needs...Read more

While Crown Court Judge Peter Ault is away on holiday with his wife, his teenage daughter Rachel throws a party. The invite goes out on Facebook and before she knows it over a hundred kids from all over Portsmouth have descended on the house in the leafy affluence of Craneswater. The...Read more

Special operative Russell Carter has turned his back on everything he ever believed in. A year ago he walked away from the order and its leader, Thomas Wing, a man he once regarded as a father. Since then he’s been living the good life, surfing at Lennox Head and trying to forget his past...Read more

In July, 1916, as British and French armies set out for the general slaughter of the late engagements of World War I, three soldiers, caught between the demands of life and loyalty, seek freedom in desertionRead more

Major Johnson's army career was undistinguished. He rose slowly through the ranks, conforming to the rules and on retirement settled in the quiet village of Wiveldown. But Wiveldown is to belie its placid image, for soon the paths of a disparate group of peoples are about to cross with...Read more

Inspectors Wexford and Burden discover a complex and sordid web of blackmail, scandal, and murder during their investigation into the death of one child and the disappearance of anotherRead more

Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the North-East. Out of favour Detective Constable Ian Bradshaw struggles to find any leads - and fears that the only thing this investigation will unravel is himself.
Journalist Tom Carney is suspended by his London tabloid and...Read more

'He said that they’d let me go on purpose. That they could easily find me if they wanted to. He said that they didn’t want me. That I was too much trouble. He said if I went to the cops, he’d know. If I told Sonya, he’d know. If I talked to friends or teachers, he’d know. He told me to...Read more

Simon Noone is a serial killer…but he doesn’t know it. Pulled from a river in Guatemala in 1982 with nothing—not even his memories—he returns to America five years later, looking for answers. He finds work at an NYC meatpacking plant and meets rebel ex-cop turned private investigator Nomi...Read more

Three weeks out of cancer surgery, crime reporter Syeeda McKay is in the pursuit of Los Angeles’s most active serial killer. Over the last twenty years, the Phantom Slayer has hunted African-American prostitutes working in one of the worst parts of South Los Angeles, killing eight victims...Read more

Attending your best friend’s wedding should be a piece of (wedding) cake, but not for bestselling mystery author Eleanor Dash. Because murder seems to follow her every time she goes on holiday – and is her uninvited plus-one to this special occasion . . ....Read more

They’re the perfect couple. They have the perfect plan. All they need is the perfect victim.
Julia and Christopher Hygate have the picture-perfect Gobs of money thanks to their lucrative shipping enterprise, an estate on a secluded island, and a baby on the way.
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Two young boys
Trapped underground in a bunker.
Unable to understand why they are there.
Desperate for someone to find them.
Slowly realising that no-one will...
Five years later, the boys' bodies are found and the most difficult case of DI...Read more

Dare to Enter a World of Secrets and Consequences in No Repeats.
Rebecca Cashmore is a brilliant lawyer and prominent TV host who harbours a secret life that sets her apart. Within her waterfront home is a hidden sanctuary that aligns...Read more

With winter closing in, Elly Cartwright dreams of escaping her inner-city existence for a more carefree life in the country. On a drizzly Monday morning, the view from her tram window is grim, and she isn't looking forward to yet another mundane working week. But Elly's week will be...Read more

An exploration of sex, power and personal responsibility, No Safe Place is a contemporary thriller with the unexpected at every turn.
Adele Lanois is Registrar of Walters University and chief investigator in a sexual misconduct case. A lone woman in a powerful institution,...Read more