Mystery

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide....

Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted road in Arizona, where a car has crashed into the only tree for miles around....

Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of....

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia....

Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions - and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them....

Reacher’s one-day stopover turns into an open-ended stay....

It is meant to be a celebration, but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed....

When the chief suspect in the notorious "peekaboo cop killer" case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI  Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over....

As a heat wave grips the country, DS Jenna Morgan is called to a domestic incident at the home of a young family in Ironbridge. Pregnant Imelda Cheetham-Epstein has been found unconscious by her husband, Zak with serious head injuries....

Ben Hope lives on the edge. A former élite member of the SAS, Ben is tortured by a tragedy from his past and now devotes his life to finding kidnapped children....

Starling House is home to some of the nation’s deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison....  

To some he was Orphan X. Others knew him as the Nowhere Man. But to veteran spymaster Jack Johns, he was a boy named Evan Smoak....

Ex-SAS operative Ben Hope decided to give up rescuing kidnap victims in favour of the theology studies he abandoned years before....

The runaway international number one best seller that launched Tom Clancy's spectacular career and introduced his acclaimed hero, Jack Ryan....

From the number-one best-selling author. Former SAS operative Ben Hope is running for his life....

DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets....

One shot. One kill. A deadly sniper targets the only man to escape him—Jack Widow. A sniper is out there, murdering the best shooters in the world until he’s all that’s left. Widow is the only man to survive an encounter with the suspect....

Finlay Donovan, single mum and floundering crime writer, is having a hard time. Her ex-husband went behind her back to fire the nanny, and this morning she sent her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an unfortunate incident with scissors....

When disgraced spy Solomon Vine's friend and rival Gabriel Wilde vanishes without trace, it's only Vine who might be able to discover what has happened to him. A missing file holds the key....

The number one best-selling detective series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride continues in this second crime thriller....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor....

The second book in Charles Cumming’s gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 - a covert intelligence organisation that operates below the radar....

Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed....

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad, he has lied, cheated and conned in order to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice....

The newest electrifying thriller in the best-selling Jack Ryan series....

In Vodka over London Ice, the London mob clashes with the Russian mafia. The death and violence escalate, putting Danny’s family in danger. Danny Pearson has to end the war before more of his family dies. Yuri Volkov must fly to London and avenge his brother’s death and family's honor. His only aim is to destroy Danny’s uncle Harry and make him suffer in the process. In Execution of Faith, terrorists and mercenary killers plot to change the balance of world power. Can Danny Pearson stop them, or will this be his downfall? 

Dive into this great-value boxset, including Sport of Kings and Blood Runs Deep. In Sport of Kings, when Danny’s old SAS buddy goes missing, Danny’s unit reunites to find him. When they follow Smudge's trail, they find themselves on the wrong side of an international drug smuggling operation and an exclusive hunt of a deadly nature. Five years ago, as depicted in Vodka over London Ice, the London mob clashed with the Russian Mafia. Death and violence escalated, putting Danny’s family in danger. Danny Pearson ended the war, or so he thought….

A woman’s plea to find her missing husband sends Special Agent Kurt Hunter down a road he doesn’t want to go. For all its pristine beauty, Biscayne National Park can be deadly for those lost and unprepared. Open water and inhospitable islands are the most obvious obstacles in a life or death battle, but there is something even more dangerous than nature—man. The search leads to the mangrove-lined shores of the barrier islands, where smugglers and pirates have lurked for centuries. With the clock ticking, Kurt and his team take to the backwaters of Biscayne Bay to find him.

It is the summer of 1853 and Commander James Rutherford leaves Calcutta once more to renew his campaign against organised Oriental piracy. The principal pirate leader Liang Ziu is dead, but Rutherford obtains intelligence that his criminal organisation continues to operate from a heavily fortified base, secure from conventional attack. 

One shot. One kill. A deadly sniper targets the only man to escape him—Jack Widow. A sniper is out there, murdering the best shooters in the world until he’s all that’s left. Widow is the only man to survive an encounter with the suspect. This sniper is a whisper, a phantom, a ghost, known as the Rainmaker. His shooting falls somewhere between the best there ever was and godlike. As the Rainmaker murders the world’s top shooters in cold blood, one by one, only Widow can track and stop him. 

Charlie Ebersole is good at his job as a securities analyst for International Industries in Los Angeles in the year 1962, but he is also somewhat bored at being tied to a desk most of the time. He jumps at the chance to join the fraud section of II, and is immediately put on a case that will take him and another employee, Elizabeth Reid, to Buffalo, Fort Lauderdale, and possibly to Fidel Castro’s Cuba, although the Bay of Pigs fiasco is a recent memory, and relations between Cuba and the United States are not good. 

Buck Reilly’s vacation in the Virgin Islands goes downhill fast when he witnesses a helicopter crash over the Sir Francis Drake Channel. Buck races to the rescue, but the lone survivor—a beautiful woman—has amnesia. When Buck learns the woman is Giselle Huibert, the first lady of France, who fled her husband while at the G8 Summit on St. Thomas for reasons she cannot remember, Buck has no choice but to try and help her. However, Giselle refuses to let him call the police—even when it becomes clear that men intending to kill them are hot on their trail.

Amid a revolution, archaeologist Christopher Jordan and ancient manuscript expert Kathryn Ferguson travel to Syria in search of the original scroll of Marks' Gospel. Paralleling their quest is the story of the evangelist's escape with the scroll from the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., his struggles to complete the manuscript, and his journeys and efforts with the daughter of Peter the Apostle to protect and save it for the ages. For both couples, time is running out and enemies are closing in.

Crime doesn't take a holiday, even during the worst of storms. As a favor to Captain Barnes, Tedrick "Stumpy" Gritswell takes on a case regarding a barren stretch of land. Sounds simple enough and the clams are decent. What could possibly go wrong? Well, apart from a senseless murder, there's that. And vicious barracudas. And crazy dames, psychopathic upstarts, corrupt police, vengeful Old Salts, and a dangerous algae that could spell the end of civilization. All things considered, it's just another tide on Borobo Reef.

As a baby, Tara Wolfe was kidnapped by Hong Kong triads. After a bungled ransom demand, she was taken secretly to the mainland. Now known as Wei Mei, she has known no other life but the rural village where "Mummy Rita" raised her. When men with guns arrive in the village looking for her, she runs away to the Chinese megacity of Shenzhen, and a life on the streets. Witnessed by a talent scout defending herself from an assault by three rich kids, Mei is recruited for a Communist Party school for assassins. 

PC Gareth Bell watches the psychopath who stabbed Bell’s partner stroll out of court a free man. Somebody on the inside tampered with the evidence, and now one of Brighton’s most dangerous criminals is back on the streets again. Bell’s personal mission for revenge takes him onto the other side of the law and into the dark, violent underworld of the glamourous seaside city. Soon he faces a horrifying choice: risk everything he holds dear, or let the man who tried to kill his partner walk free.

Dan Coast and Red Baxter are back for the 15th volume of From the Tales of Dan Coast. When Lindsey Malvo, a heart transplant recipient with not long to live, finds a love note written to his long-deceased wife, he hires Dan Coast to find the man who wrote it. With Skip Stoner nowhere to be found, Dan and Red have to go at it alone in this action-packed installment. Can Dan and Red solve the mystery before their client’s time runs out? All this while Dan struggles with reminders and the anniversary of when he lost his own wife.

Whatever became of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti? She was the wife of Akhenaten and disappeared completely from all historical records. Her grave has never been found, although her eternal fame was assured by the discovery of a portrait bust in 1912 depicting who has been called “the most beautiful woman of the ancient world”. More puzzles involve the relationship between Moses and Aaron. In the Bible, they are said to be brothers, but is it possible different ties bound them? 

Emma Parker and Morgan Price are Glock-toting, high-kicking divorce lawyers. In the course of investigating a child custody case, Parker and Price step on the toes of more than one crime syndicate, uncover a murder plot, and lock horns with the FBI. The duo meets the challenge with humor, wit, aplomb, and more than a little strip-mall karate-studio-acquired kickboxing. 

Siberia 1931: Captain Steven Hawklin is known worldwide as an adventurer, explorer, and hero. Mantles put to the test when he is faced with humiliation after the destruction of the Osiris Project. Unable to face failure, Steven takes a dark path, turning his back on his dreams, his career, and his friends. When he is approached by Alla Sokol, a Russian scientist on the run from her government after the failure of a secret Soviet project, Steven finds a path to his own redemption in the frozen wastelands of Siberia.