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Antarctica is the coldest, most isolated place on earth. Luke Searle, maverick glaciologist, has made it his home. But soon his survival skills will be tested to the limit by...

On a balmy summer's day in Oxford an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a cryptic anonymous note containing only the address and...

'A novel of crime and darkness that eschews straightforward domestic noir' Guardian'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent'There is much beauty and sadness in this slim novel'...

The countdown has begun...True-crime podcaster Elle Castillo has been obsessed with The Countdown Killer for decades. Twenty years ago, he established a gruesome pattern of taking and murdering three girls...

The No.1 bestseller in France, NIGHT is the thrilling new novel from award-winner Bernard Minier. The Commandant Servaz series The Frozen Dead is available now on Netflix.A woman murdered in...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace unearths a powerful criminal network in the sinister crime novel Find Them Dead, by award winning author Peter James.Ending his secondment to London's Met Police, Roy...

In the latest book in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series, Sergeant Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a twenty-year-old victim long enough for her to see her twenty-first birthday._______________________________THE...

The 22nd novel in the bestselling Alex Cross seriesThe mind-blowing sequel to CROSS MY HEARTDetective Alex Cross has lost everything.Thierry Mulch, a lethal and obsessive enemy, is holding his family...

As Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil in the thirteenth thriller featuring the NYPD's finest detectiveWeeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett...

A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate, but two people confess to the murder.Ndekwe, an ambitious, newly promoted Detective Sergeant within a subtly racist police force,...

A charred corpse and a set of footprints in the snow lead Celcius Daly into the twilight world of people trafficking. Inspector Celcius Daly is hunting for a missing woman...

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly...

`Gripping' - IAN RANKIN; The RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK that sends pulses pounding, Marked for Death will grip fans of David Baldacci and Peter James until the very...

'This book reminds me of the things that crime fiction can do when it works well ... Miller isn't afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don't hold their...

Stalking, addiction and obsession - Detective Claire Boyle returns in this gripping new psychological thriller from Sinead Crowley, for fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons.Dear Elizabeth, I've been watching...

The gripping new DCI Serena Flanagan thriller from the bestselling author of Those We Left Behind'Stuart Neville is...a crime-writing star' Mark BillinghamDCI Serena Flanagan is asked to sign off the...

______________________________________________ A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKRead the novel that kept Tess Gerritsen transfixed and entertained until the very last pageYou've been held captive in...

The stunning prequel to Victim Without a Face. TWO COUNTRIES IN THE GRIP OF WINTER. On the coldest day of the year, Sweden's Minister for Justice steps into a blizzard...

Jig loves football and his dog, hates school, misses his granda and knows to lie low when his ma's blitzed on the vodka.He's just an ordinary boy on the brutal...

'Fantastically good fun - sharp, sexy and intelligent . . . Something of a masterpiece' Sunday Mirror'Like a ritzy 50 Shades meets The Da Vinci Code. It's got sex, shopping,...

A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of The Ice Beneath Her, perfect for fans of Will Dean's Dark Pines.A case as cold as the season. A profiler...

A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of The Ice Beneath Her, perfect for fans of Will Dean's Dark Pines.A case as cold as the season. A profiler...

Not all murder victims are mourned...For Robert Church, superintendent of the Parramatta Female Factory, the most enjoyable part of his job is access to young convict women. Inmate Grace O'Leary...

'You definitely need to pick this up' Bustle's 13 Best New Fiction Books for SeptemberA hostile wilderness is watching you. Spine-chilling thriller for fans of Jane Harper's FORCE OF NATURE...

The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.Many...

What happens when your best friend becomes your worst nightmare...Having reached a dead end in Boston, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs a change. When she runs into an old friend,...

______________________________Detective Harriet Blue is clear about two things. Regan Banks deserves to die. And she'll be the one to pull the trigger.But Regan - the vicious serial killer responsible for...

"Sir, the First Lady ... has gone rogue."President Tucker is caught up in a media firestorm. The scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election campaign, and threatens...

Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out.Following a freak nuclear power-plant explosion, the small southern town was evacuated. Now, after a year in isolation, some residents are finally...

Only two people know Lamont Cranston's secret identity as the Shadow, a vigilante of justice: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. Then Khan ambushes the...

Ever since the death of his wife, Lina, in a Kabul bombing, Aubrey Savage has been determined to fulfil his promise to her: to find out what happened to her...

New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling...

*** SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB STAR PICK ****** AN IRISH TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR ***'A fabulous closed-room mystery that will keep you guessing' - DENISE MINA'A terrific new...

From the bestselling author of Mummy's Favourite comes an exciting new D.C. Charlie Stafford thriller. She chose the wrong man. And now she will pay. He keeps each one of...

AN INTENSELY CREEPY SERIAL KILLER THRILLER DEBUT, FOR FANS OF CHRIS CARTER, M. W. CRAVEN AND THE WHISPER MAN. London's latest art installation is a real killer . . ....

The tenth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham.'Billingham's most desperately gripping read yet' Daily MirrorPolice officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagents on her...

Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2018 Two time winner of Norway's Best Crime Novel A FROZEN BODY A MURDERED BIKER A RADICAL LAWYER WITH A MURKY PAST A FROZEN...

Running from the enemy... Dr Maria Martinez has finally escaped The Project facility that has been controlling her since birth. But in going against The Project's rigid protocol, the powers...

Swedish public prosecutor Jana Berzelius is back in the twisted second instalment of Emelie Schepp's award-winning series, perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson. When a girl overdoses...

She's practically perfect in every way! After being nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert...

In this complex political thriller set in Galway in 1925, Detective Officer Michael Mackey of the newly-created Special Branch has been sent to the Garda Barracks in Ballinasloe on a...

The death of a woman whose body was found in an Oslo dumpster has eerie similarities to a cold case in northern Norway, prompting the Oslo Detectives to launch an...

The arrival of a meteorite in a small Finnish town causes chaos and crime in this poignant, chilling and hilarious new thriller from the King of Helsinki Noir***The Times BOOK...

A deliciously dark, unapologetically funny, and nail-bitingly tense psychological thriller by the international bestselling author of The CryNUMBER ONE BESTSELLER***Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland AND The Week BOOK OF THE YEAR******Sunday...

'G.D. Abson is an author at the absolute top of his game' - David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child and Stasi Wolf'A twisty, fast-paced thriller' - The Times and...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Clever and compelling. You'll love THE CHILD' Clare Mackintosh, author of LET ME LIE********When a paragraph in an evening newspaper...

Don't miss the captivating new page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis You think you know your neighbours. When Jeannie Symonds vanishes without a trace, her small town is...