The most chilling novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, an international bestseller at the height of her powers.
‘Mummy dead.’ The child’s pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last thing...
Why crime? Why exists this fascination with crime and why, above all, exists this fascination with crime on the part of female writers? Bestselling novelist Elizabeth George poses this question in her Introduction, answers it with her customary...
Mark and Benjamin Keen haven't seen their father, Christopher, for more than twenty years.
He has only just begun to shed light on his life as a master spy when he is murdered in cold blood by an unidentified assassin.
Was his death connected to his...
It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn’t thrown a punch. He hasn’t held, much less fired, a gun. He hasn’t threatened or been threatened. He hasn’t called his friend Win,...
Crime reporter and mystery novelist Paige Turner is looking into the murder of a young secretary whose naked body was found in Central Park -with the understanding between herself and the police that Paige keeps her exclusive investigation off...
It all begins when Ellery Queen receives a manuscript that appears to be a genuine Sherlock Holmes novel written by John H. Watson, M.D. Where did it come from? The manuscript itself tells the long-concealed story of how Holmes stalked Jack the...
Another magnificent tale of treachery at sea from a storytelling genius. Suddenly, just before dawn, the lights went out aboard the San Andreas. For the British hospital ship sailing the deadly, U-boat patrolled Norwegian waters, a nightmare of...
Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening had been wearing some sort of disguise — a change of dress, a change of make-up, a change of partner, a change of attitude, a change of life almost;...
The year is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. When the sheriff of Shropshire is taken prisoner, arrangements are made to exchange him for Elis, a young Welshman. But when the sheriff is brought to the abbey, he is murdered. Suspicion falls on...