A hired killer on his final job; a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony; a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits.
Two female lawyers living the high life in the South of France explore the limits of their own corruption when they find themselves at the mercy of their dangerous clients who would prefer to kill them than be exposed.
'The best new private eye in fiction since Raymond Chandler' Dan WakefieldTV reporter Candy Sloan is in danger, after investigating labour racketeering in Hollywood's movie industry.
'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' The Times** The first instalment in the bestselling original Dutch thriller** Haunted by a past you can never escape .
When the brutally murdered body of a Manchester drug dealer is found dumped just inside the Lancashire border, it turns out that the dead man had been a CID informant working for a small nucleus of corrupt detectives.
When a Harvard-educated aspiring actor loses all of his cash during a bus-ride poker game, he finds himself stranded in Abilene, Texas, broke and desperate.
Vengeance is the fifth entry in the Quirke Mysteries, an enthralling literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity' - Richard III, Act 1, Scene 2An angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an ex-con's attempt to negotiate the "e;straight world"e; and his swan dive back into the paradoxical security of crime.
Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times bestselling series from author Ace Atkins.
Solo unos meses después del atentado yihadista de las Ramblas de Barcelona, y cuando faltan pocos días para la celebración de unas elecciones autonómicas donde está en juego la unidad del país, aparece, en el puerto, entre bloques de hormigón y un alborotado mar oscuro, el cuerpo sin vida del inspector de la Policía Nacional Santiago Ortuño.
A troubled teenager accused of a horrific crime draws Spenser into one of the most desperate cases of his careerLily Ellsworth - erect, firm, white-haired and stylish - is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse.
A cheating husband and a wayward wife provide Spenser with an unconventional and dangerous surveillance jobWhen Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband, Trent, is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: Not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife.
Holy Orders is the sixth entry in the Quirke Mysteries, an enthralling literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black.
If you like Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter and Patricia Cornwell, you'll love this edgy and engrossing forensic thriller by bestselling author John Macken.
