The Toy Taker – Luke Delaney
Detective Inspector Sean Corrigan returns for a third case in The Toy Taker by Luke Delaney, in which every family’s worst nightmare is exposed to devastating effect. A four-year-old boy has vanished in the dead of night. No sign of forced entry. No witnesses, just an empty bed and distraught parents. DI Corrigan needs to ...
Dead Gone – Luca Veste
Dead Gone, the debut novel by Luca Veste, is something of a rarity in that it’s set in Liverpool. I spent nine years there and firmly believe it’s one of the best cities in the world. It has a unique population and architecture, a proud heritage and stories all of its own. The city’s seen ...
After I’m Gone – Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman’s eagerly anticipated latest is After I’m Gone: a tale of murder, deception and family secrets which skips backwards and forwards through time to piece together a mystery hidden in a dark past. 1976: wealthy businessman Felix Brewer disappears in order to avoid a prison sentence, leaving his wife, three daughters and mistress to ...
From the Dead – Mark Billingham
From the Dead is the ninth novel in Mark Billingham’s series featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. Donna was charged with conspiracy to murder her husband after his body was found in his burned-out car. She’s about to be released from prison after serving a ten-year sentence, when she receives an anonymous letter – and in ...
The Deliverance of Evil – Roberto Constantini
The Deliverance of Evil is Roberto Constantini’s epic opening to a trilogy featuring Commissario Michele Balistreri. It’s been causing a stir in Italy since its publication (as Tu Sei il Male) in 2011, going into three reprints in its first week and winning the prestigious Scerbanenco Prize for the best Italian debut crime thriller. The Deliverance ...
The Second Deadly Sin – Åsa Larsson
We’re back in Sweden, where the nights are dark and the winters are long and cold. Perfect conditions for crime. In a forest in the North, the villagers band together to overcome a rampaging bear. Nothing prepares them for a grizly discovery in its stomach. In Kurravaara, a woman is murdered with frenzied and vicious ...
Harbour Street – Ann Cleeves
We Brits love Vera. Played on TV by the wonderful Brenda Blethyn, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope is a straight-talking investigator whose suppressed maternal instinct sometimes finds its way to the surface with a gruff, awkward charm. And ah, those big skies, desolate landscapes and that Tyneside accent…. The good news is that this novel, ...
Ripper – Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a giant of the literary fiction world. Her novels, in which poverty and cruelty are tempered by love and by magic, have sold over 57 million copies. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. Allende is the author of twenty books, including Eva Luna, Inès of ...
