Another award-winning bestseller, here is an instalment from the iconic series featuring psychological profiler Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan. In the north of England, a wedding crasher is luring single women away from weddings, only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. With no personal clues or forensic traces left behind, it may be the toughest case Tony and Carol have ever had to face, and it's the first official case for Carol's elite Regional Major Incident Team. As the tension swells on all sides, it "comes together in an ending that hits like a bomb blast" Globe and Mail raved, but other critics have been disappointed. For Val's fans, at this price, see for yourself. 435pp, paperback.

A richly drawn picture of tsarist Russia, populated with intriguing characters whose descriptions of appearance and temperament are suited to the period. Akunin has been propelled into the ranks of Russia's most widely read contemporary novelists. The first new Fandorin novel to be available to an English speaking audience in a decade, the novel tests the handsome diplomat-detective's guile and integrity like no mystery before. Russia 1891. The new governor-general of Siberia has been secreted away on a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. A blizzard rages outside as a moustachioed official climbs aboard just outside the city. With his trademark stutter, he introduces himself as State Counsellor Erast Fandorin. He then thrusts a dagger inscribed with the initials CG into the governor-general's heart and, tearing off his moustache, escapes out the carriage window. The head of the Department of Security soon shows up at the real Fandorin's door and arrests him for murder. The only way to save his reputation is to find the leader of the dangerous group that goes by those initials, and the government mole who is feeding CG information. Enlisting the help of an earnest young lieutenant and his own nimble Japanese valet, Fandorin's first stop is the dark apartment of a perpetually veiled female informant who is on the payroll of both of Moscow's competing police departments. Can Fandorin survive corruption among his fellow officials, the fearlessness of an unknown enemy, and the advances of a sultry young nihilist with his morals intact? A sly historical romp. 300 pages.

A novel that takes us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder. A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Just returned from a tough job in Mexico, Stahl is reluctant to accept the offer, but his sense of duty to the technicians he trained is too strong to turn it down. On his first day back at the head of the squad, his three-person team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb. It quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with an unusual mastermind, one whose intended target seems to be the Bomb Squad itself. As the shadowy organization sponsoring this campaign of violence puts increasing pressure on the bomb maker, and Stahl becomes dangerously entangled with a member of his own team, the fuse on this high-stakes plot only burns faster. 'You'll keep flipping the pages, ever fearful of what bloody horror will strike unlucky LA next.' - Washington Post. 372pp, paperback.

From the addictive series which finds ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor on the hunt for a psychotic assassin who's been killing Galway police officers, one by one. Jack Taylor has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, he's busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The assassination plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team - a trio of young killers with very different styles, united by a common desire to take down Jack Taylor. Their ringleader is Jericho, a psychotic girl from Galway who is grieving the loss of her lover and who will force Jack to confront some personal trauma from his past. Lyrical, brutal, and ceaselessly suspenseful, this is a starkly bleak and violent novel from the popular writer. 354pp.

From Lawson's acclaimed series we meet political fixer Joe DeMarco in New York for behind-the-scenes work on a high stakes murder case as five witnesses, one by one, start to drop out. The likeable protagonist is on the trail of a different kind of fixer, one whose job it is to influence and sometimes disappear witnesses in seemingly airtight criminal cases. Minority Leader of the House and DeMarco's long-time employer John Mahoney has kept more than one secret from his wife over the years, but none so explosive as this - he has a son, and that son has been shot dead in a Manhattan bar. Mahoney immediately dispatches DeMarco to New York to assist prosecutor Justine Porter, but with five bystanders willing to testify against the killer, rich-boy Toby Rosenthal, the case seems like a slam-dunk, that is until Porter begins to suspect that someone is interfering with those witnesses and may be connected to a pattern of cases across the country. With the help of Porter's young and brainy intern, and travelling from New York to Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Phoenix and beyond, DeMarco becomes determined to follow the question through to its violent resolution. 353pp.

'Thriller of the Year, this is a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller by the TV frontman of SAS: Who Dares Wins and who has achieved the Holy Trinity of the UK's Elite Forces. Ant Middleton writes thrillers 'that can come only from boots-in-the-mud experience.' Mallory - he was the best of the best, a Special Forces leader and a hero, but then he made a fatal decision, gambling with the lives of his men with terrible consequences. Two dead and his young friend Donno left in a coma. Back on the streets with nothing to lose, Mallory has a darkness growing inside him, and a dangerous need to seek out trouble. Then Donno's mother asks him for help - her other son Scott has gone missing in South Africa and she wants Mallory to find him. Perhaps it's redemption, perhaps he's looking for revenge on the world, but suddenly Mallory has a purpose and nothing and no one is going to stand in his way. Large sized softback, 434pp with fairly large print.

From his office on the Street of the Assassins, Nathan Sutherland enjoys a steady but unexciting life translating Italian DIY manuals. This all changes dramatically when he is offered a large sum of money to look after a small package containing an extremely valuable antique prayer book illustrated by a Venetian master. Is it a stolen masterpiece or a brilliant fake? Unknown to Nathan, from a vast mansion on the Grand Canal twin brothers Domenico and Arcangelo Moro, motivated by nothing more than mutual hatred, have been playing out a complex game of art theft for 20 years. Now Nathan finds himself unwittingly drawn into their deadly business in a game of cross and double-cross in one of the most beautiful cities on earth. Book your Ryanair flight now! 309pp, paperback.

One of the best spy series continues with ex-spook Elliot Kane reluctantly investigating the suspicious death of a former colleague on Ascension Island. The former spy is trying to leave the world of espionage behind. Kathryn Taylor, a stalled career in MI6, is running the South Atlantic desk. Rory Bannatyne is a covert technical specialist, dead, apparently of suicide. Three friends from a mission many years ago reconnect when one of them dies. Rory had been tasked with tapping a new transatlantic data cable, but a day before he was due to return home he is found hanged. When Kathryn begs Kane to go over and investigate he can't say no, but it's an uneasy reintroduction to the intelligence game. Ascension is a curious legacy of England's imperial past. Only employees and their families are allowed to live there and it's home to several highly-classified government projects, a British and American military base, and 40 dead volcanic cones. Entirely isolated from the world, the disappearance of a young girl at the same time as Rory's death means local tensions are high. The island contains more secrets than the government knows... 327pp in large softback.

A gripping Irish police procedural. How can a dead woman avenge herself on her killer 12 years after her murder? This is the puzzle facing Ben Devlin in his latest case when he is called to the scene of a murder. A man has been stabbed to death in his rented room and when his identity is discovered, Devlin feels a ghost walk over his grave as he knows the name Brooklyn Harris well. As a teenager, Harris beat his then-girlfriend to death and then spent 12 years in prison for the murder. It becomes apparent Harris has been grooming teenage girls online and then arranging to meet them but his activities have been discovered by others, notably a vigilante who goes straight to the top of Devlin's list of suspects, until he uncovers that Harris was killed on the anniversary of Hannah's death. So Hannah's family join the ever growing list of suspects being interviewed by his team. Then forensics contact Devlin with the astounding news that blood found on Harris's body is a perfect match to that of Hannah Row's. How can this be? Skilfully plotted and utterly absorbing, the novel is set during the beginning of the Covid pandemic in early 2020. 340pp, large softback with fairly large print.

New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick transports readers to 1930s California and the Golden Age of Hollywood, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins. Welcome to Burning Cove where Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer. Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include headshots for aspiring celebrities or nightly calls to take snaps of grisly murders. She is called to take photos of a famous actress, the latest victim of the Dagger Killer. Vivian notices eerie similarities to previous crime scenes, details that only a photographer would have noticed and that puts Vivian right at the top of the killer's target list. Nick Sundridge has always been able to 'see' things that other people don't and his talent, along with his dark past, makes him a recluse, but a brilliant investigator. When he is sent to protect Vivian, they together discover that the Dagger Killer has ties to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood royalty and high society. They must uncover the killer who will stop at nothing to add them to their gallery of murders. 293pp, paperback.