Bungling burglar John Dortmunder and his merry band of thieves are back in another classic, comic crime novel from the award-winning author of the new hardcover Baby, Would I Lie? Dortmunder and his gang plan to kidnap precocious kid Jimmy...
Bungling burglar John Dortmunder and his merry band of thieves are back in another classic, comic crime novel from the award-winning author of the new hardcover Baby, Would I Lie? Dortmunder and his gang plan to kidnap precocious kid Jimmy...
‘Neighbours… hah. People’d live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.’
Throughout history,...
An omnibus of novels
Blame It on Karma by Jacquie D'Alessandro
Coffee shop owner Lacey Perkins scoffs when a fortune-teller informs her she's destined to fall for her arrogant, but definitely hot, property manager Evan Sawyer. Lacey figures she'd...
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic.
Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight (Paris time).
It is a saga as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor...
An odd face appears on Dave Murphy’s computer screen, informing him he’s been chosen to rescue the world. Dave (aka Jo-el) believes his computer has been hacked and it’s just a demand for money, but slowly he’s drawn into the bizarre...
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.
Like the ringing of a dead man’s phone, or an unwelcome guest at a funeral . . . In Slough House memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying...