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'Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingThe stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense and spy fiction at its very finest.Meet Pearl Tao:...

Introducing Max Ward, a modern spy in a dangerous world. Know your enemy... Spared certain expulsion by a faceless puppet-master, MI6 spook Max Ward is happy riding an analyst's desk...

When a violent and incoherent naked Jane Doe is found cowering in the street near the scene of a brutal murder, a pair of bloody scissors in hand, Detective Frank...

Just when Inspector Daniel Jouma believes calm has returned to Mombasa, all hell has broken loose. Bodies are piling up in the morgue, Jouma's new boss wants answers - and...

'Bruce is doing for Cambridge what Colin Dexter did for Oxford with Inspector Morse' Daily MailJoey McCarthy is stabbed to death in a pub car park in a random act...

Late one night, two brothers learn that their sister has died in the worst imaginable way. She's found, strangled, in a desolate place hundreds of miles from their East London...

She can't reach him ... but he can get to her ... A chilling twisty tale of cat and mouse - perfect for fans of Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben....

On the night a book group meets to swap novels, the husband of one of its members borrows a flat in which to have an illicit affair. It isn't the...

After the untimely death of his father, twenty-three-year-old Frank abandons his comfortable middle-class background, and chooses to live a kind of fringe existence, working as a paramedic on the violent...

From before the time of Christ, there have been rumors of a secret society called The Illuminati...a vicious tribe of Druids with mystical, supernatural powers. Many saw them as demons...

From a master of maritime adventure and suspense comes an engrossing and alarming tale of disaster on a North Sea ferry. The passengers boarding the Orion Venturer have no idea...

There were two splashes in London that night: the first was a body dropping into the Thames with a bullet hole in its head; and the second was tabloid crime...

Crime scene investigation-or CSI-has captured the modern imagination. On television screens and in newspapers, we follow the exploits of forensic officers wearing protective suits and working behind police tape to...

There is nothing as powerful as a mother's love. But will Ellen's put her whole family in danger?'I didn't read The Heights, I inhaled it' LISA JEWELL Ellen Saint is...

In the compelling sequel to Blackbird, Anna Carey delivers a gritty and adrenaline-filled story of a girl desperate to escape her mysterious and terrifying assailants. Told in second person, this...

It took one moment to change his life: It begins with a call in the middle of the night from a woman at the mercy of her abusive husband. It...

ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015Barney Campbell's Rain is a searingly powerful debut that reads like a British Matterhorn********'A wonderfully achieved, enthralling and moving novel of...

Sultan Gadaffi has escaped from Libya with a fistful of dangerous secrets. The British Government want ex-Special Forces operative Steve Range, the go-to man for any Black-Ops missions, to lead...

She wants to learn everything - about you.Mel has practised law for twenty years. She is well-regarded by her peers. Her clients are happy. But behind the scenes her life...

When The Emperor of Ocean Park was published, the Observer declared- The book is superb, both as a thriller and as a novel of social observation. Now, with that same...

An American love story cast in deepest noir. It?s the story of a black woman named Nettie who comes to New York to be a model but grows too big...

From her patrician childhood on New York?s Upper East Side, to her chemical addictions downtown, and her unlikely, tenuous yet rewarding alliances on 12-step rehab programs in the Midwest, Glory...

Sam Coyle's father lived in the shadows - an undercover agent among the spies and radicals of Cold War London. That world claimed his life, and Sam is haunted by...

Shaun McCreadie was a young detective with a bright future until he crossed the line and suddenly found himself behind prison bars for his role in a brutal home invasion...

When a mint copy of the final album by Valerian England's great lost rock band of the 1960s surfaces in a charity shop, all hell breaks loose. Finding this record...

Nicole has experienced enough danger and excitement to last her several lifetimes. But a six-year spell in Marseilles' toughest prison has cured her adrenaline habit. Now peace and quiet are...

For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of...