Irene
£7.99The first Camille Verhoeven investigation – a prequel to the acclaimed and bestselling Alex . Commandant Verhoeven is on the trail of a murderer with literary aspirations.
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Research
£18.99Houston is the richest writer in the world, a book factory publishing many bestsellers a year – so many that he can’t possibly write them himself. He has a team that feeds off his talent; ghost writers, agents, publishers. So when he decides to take a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes and critical acclaim, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife’s murder, has disappeared. He owns a boat and has a pilot’s licence – he could be anywhere and there are many who’d like to find him. First there’s the police. If he’s innocent, why did he flee? Then again, maybe he was set up by one of his enemies. The scenario reads like the plot of one of Houston’s million-copy-selling thrillers.
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Naked Singularity
£9.99‘A Naked Singularity’ tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender – one who, tellingly has never lost a trial.
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Enzo Files Bk 2 The Critic
£7.99Three years ago the body of France’s foremost wine critic was found strung up like a scarecrow in a Gaillac vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine. For ex-pat Scot and forensic forager Enzo Macleod, the answer to this unsolved murder lies in cracking the critic’s secretly coded reviews – which on publication could make or break a vineyard’s reputation. He finds that under the sweet idyll of a southern French winery lurks a bitter back-stabbing community – including several suspects for the critic’s death.
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Art Of Killing Well
£12.99The 19th century is drawing to a close. Pellegrino Artusi, Italy’s first celebrity chef, has travelled the length and breadth of the country compiling his masterpiece, ‘The Science of Cooking and The Art of Eating Well’. When Baron Romualdo Bonaiuti invites him to his Tuscan home to compare notes with his kitchen staff, he’s quite looking forward to a break. On arrival he finds everything one might expect: a dramatic Tuscan castle, eccentric aristocrats, spinster aunts and a mysterious guest. Not to mention a murdered butler. Faced with a menagerie of suspects, the local constabularly are baffled. But when the Baron himself is the target of a second murder attempt, Pellegrino realises he may need to put his celebrated culinary skills to use to find the killer.
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Enzo Files Bk 1 Extraordinary People
£7.99What has happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. The mystery inspires Enzo Macleod, who reckons he can solve the puzzle by applying new science to an old case.
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The Second Deadly Sin
£18.99At the end of a deadly bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the successful hunters are shaken by a horrifying discovery. Across in Kurravaara, a woman is murdered with horrific brutality: crude abuse scrawled above her bloodied bed, her young grandson nowhere to be found. Only Rebecka Martinsson sees a connection. Dropped from the case thanks to a jealous rival, she now stands alone against a killer who brings death to young and old, spawned by a horrifying crime that festers after one hundred years on ice.
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Man Without Breath
£7.99Winter, 1943. Bernie Gunther has left the Criminal Police and is working for the German War Crimes Bureau based in Berlin. Reports have been circulating of a mass grave hidden in a wood near Smolensk. The grave’s whereabouts are uncertain until, deep in the Katyn Forest, a wolf digs up some human remains. Rumour has it that the grave is full of Polish officers murdered by the Russians – a war crime that is perfect propaganda for Germany. But it needs a detective of subtle skill to investigate this horrific discovery. Cue Bernie Gunther.
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Madrid 1936
£16.99Anthony, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value a collection. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before he can leave the duque’s daughter Paquita reveals a secret held for years in the cellars. But Anthony is not the only one interested in the treasure, or the daughter for that matter.
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Dark Valley
£7.99It is autumn in Parma. Commissario Soneri decides to escape the greyness of the city to return to his home village in the Appenines for a much-needed holiday. However, he arrives only to find a town consumed by corruption and suicide that is not all it seems.
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Lewis Trilogy Book 3 The Chessmen
£14.99The concluding part of the Lewis Trilogy. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island….