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A captivating historical crime thriller from the true master of the genre and perfect for fans of Ellis Peters, this is one of the popular Brother Athelstan mysteries. The only way to win this murderer's deadly game is to play along. It is 1380. Brutal and sudden death is not uncommon in the foul alleys of London. First the corpse of a clerk is pulled from the Thames. Then a money-lender is found dead in his strongroom, a crossbow bolt firmly embedded in his chest - a real mystery because the windowless chamber was locked and barred from the inside. Sir John Cranston comes to survey the scene. When other clerks are murdered, each with a riddle pinned on the corpse, he enlists the help of Brother Athelstan and together they must pit their wits against a deadly adversary hell-bent on murder and mayhem. 288pp, paperback.

With titles like The Chocolate War, The Birthday Lunch, Oystercatcher, A Market Tale and Fifty Million Bubbles, you may be sure that champagne and gastronomy will feature as well as cosy crime in Dangerous Vacation. A bumper collection of delightful stories featuring Bruno, Chief of Police, France's favourite cop, all the stories are set in the beautiful Dordogne valley and the ravishing Périgord region of southwest France with its lush hillsides and spreading vineyards, delicious local wines and world-renowned cuisine. Bruno strides through the tales staying calm, settling local disputes, and keeping safe his beloved town of St Denis. On only one occasion does he panic when his friend Ivan, proprietor and chef of the town's popular eatery, suddenly collapses on the eve of a large anniversary dinner and asks Bruno to take over the restaurant. Can he save the day? 272pp in large format softback with fairly large print.

A Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month which has been highly rated by Elly Griffiths. London 1855 and in the grey mist of the early dawn, a body is dumped on the Thames shore by a boatman in a metal canoe. Talk soon spreads of the killer and his striking accomplice, a young widow in mourning dress. Birdie Quinn's sleeplessness led her to the river that morning. She has always been wilful, haughty, different, but is she a murderess? To clear her name she must retrace the dead man's footsteps to Orkney and the far north, a dangerous journey for a woman alone, but one she must make to save her life. This gripping, richly layered thriller has a mesmerising setting and fantastic characters and gives superb insight into a ruthless trade. The story is full of gaslit menace. 398pp, paperback.

We highly recommend this Nordic noir thriller with a puzzling storyline and creepy villains: 'More gripping than Jo Nesbo, blacker than Stieg Larsson and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell.' - Tony Parsons. On a hot summer's day, a car speeds through the streets of Helsingborg. When it reaches the harbour, the driver keeps going, straight into the cold, dark sea. But it is not a suicide. The autopsy reveals that this man has been dead for some time. He was murdered two months previously and his body deep frozen. As more bodies are discovered, Fabian Risk must hunt a killer with a mission - to preserve his victims, and create the perfect death. 520pp, paperback.

With Hitchcockian flair, Megan Miranda shrewdly examines what becomes of the people at the centre of those rare, sensational news stories that capture the nation's attention. In a hauntingly atmospheric and gorgeously written page turner, here is an unnerving and extremely classy thriller. When Arden Maynor was six years old, she was swept away in a terrifying storm and went missing for days. Against all odds she was found alive, clinging to a storm drain. Fame followed, and so did fans, creeps and stalkers and as soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and left Widow Hills behind. 20 years later Olivia as she is now known is plagued by night terrors. She often finds herself out of bed in the middle of the night, sometimes streets away from her home. Then one evening she jolts awake in her yard, with the corpse of a man at her feet. She is about to become the centre of the story, once again. Sleepwalking in her garden, it seems the trauma of her past has resurfaced and her new life might be about to unravel. Her fears are compounded when someone in her grocery store calls her by her old name. Soon she starts to doubt everyone around her. Why is her neighbour Rick so keen to tidy the crime scene and why have her belongings been moved? Why is the sleep specialist she has been seeing so keen for her to take part in a sleep trial and why is the son of the dead man trying too hard to say he believes her? 323pp, paperback.

By the international bestselling author of 'Get Carter', Ted Lewis was one of England's finest postwar writers and here is a new edition of this crime masterwork. Lewis returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant. London the late 1960s and it's Christmas. Jack Carter is the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and Les Fletcher. He's also a worried man. The fact that he's sleeping with Gerald's wife Audrey, and that they plan on someday running away together with a lot of the brothers' money, doesn't have Jack concerned. Instead it's an informant, one of his own men, that has him losing sleep. The grass has enough knowledge about the firm not only to bring down Gerald and Les, but Jack as well, and Jack doesn't like his name in the mouth of that sort. Carter kills rival villains without compunction and manipulates one and all, male or female to his advantage. These are mean streets. 220pp, paperback.

An adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series which has readers hooked. Can he uncover their deadly plot before time runs out? When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives to find the recipient dead, brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic's secrets. But he's not the only one with an interest. The Guild of Night, a dangerous and vengeful cult, is determined to bring the Church to its knees, and the basin holds the power to do just that. In a frantic cat-and-mouse chase across the country, Mason battles to unravel the conspiracy before devastating power falls into the wrong hands. For the Guild of Night will protect itself at all costs, and its members have secrets they are willing to kill for. But in Mason have they met their match? 338pp, paperback.

The death of a 90 year old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka's account of Peggy Smith's death, but then Natalka reveals that Peggy lied about her heart condition and that she was sure someone had been following her, and that Peggy Smith had been a 'murder consultant' who plotted deaths for authors and knew more about murder than anyone has any right to. And when clearing out Peggy's flat ends in Natalka being held at gunpoint by a masked figure, well then DS Harbinder Kaur thinks that maybe there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all. Told with Elly Griffiths' characteristic charm, urbane and witty and hugely popular. 344pp, paperback.

A young woman emerges from a coma. Who is she, and why was she dumped unconscious in a hospital car park upon a dark night? She is unable to recall anything, even her name. Then Ada Shaftsbury, a boisterous shoplifter she meets in a homeless hostel, takes up her cause and names her Rose. Peter Diamond is already investigating a suspicious death - a woman has plunged from the roof of Bath's Royal Crescent during a party, and none of the guests seem to know who she is. Badgered by Ada and galvanised by another gruesome death, Diamond takes on the case and is soon forced to admit that Rose is the key. But she has disappeared, and Diamond's own dark night is just beginning. Lovesey amply demonstrates his gifts as the grand master of the contemporary whodunnit in this elaborate plot with architecture as perfect as the city he writes about. 344pp, paperback.