Form/Genre: Crime & mystery fiction

Newly arrived from the UK, Claire starts the book club at the suggestion of her grandmother and invites her cousin Vedran - still reeling from the disappearance of his girlfriend - her employee Luna, and other local ex-pats, like Karmela, a professor originally from Sarajevo, to join her in broad...

Alison was expecting a lot of things about pregnancy - the morning sickness, the bloating, the total lack of any clothes that fit. But what she didn't expect was the loneliness. Having recently moved to the suburbs, with a husband who is working all hours to make ends meet, she finds herself incr...

A car speeds down a road between miles of marshes and estuary flats, its passenger a young woman named Agnes - hands bloodied, numbed with fear, her world turned upside down. Meanwhile, the news of a girl found dead on the marsh is spreading round the local area. A masterpiece of suspense, Mary K...

20 years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair. The Whiteleys are wealthy, and live with their 16-year-old daughter Amer in the magnificent Dungeon House, overlooking Cumbria's remote western coast. But Malcolm is under financial and emotional pressure, a...

Jonas Merrick - a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 - has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days before inevitable retirement. In a Russian gulag, an MI6 agent has developed an unlikely passion for a prisoner and has come up with an i...

Jonas Merrick - a legendary intelligence analyst for MI5 - has been banished to the Post Room of Thames House. There, he is expected to pass his remaining days before inevitable retirement. In a Russian gulag, an MI6 agent has developed an unlikely passion for a prisoner and has come up with an i...

When Detective Nikki Parekh receives a set of threatening postcards, she knows it can only mean one thing. The man who escaped arrest after murdering her mother two years ago is back. Each postcard has a similar message: You're next Parekh. As the post marks on the cards gradually get closer to B...

Bombay, 1950. For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a 600-year-old copy of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy', has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands...

The woman's body is discovered at the foot of the stairs. It looks like a tragic accident - but DCI Slider, of the Shepherd's Bush murder squad, is convinced that's exactly what someone wants him to think. However, with no motive, no murder weapon and no idea who the victim is, can Slider find th...

The woman's body is discovered at the foot of the stairs. It looks like a tragic accident - but DCI Slider, of the Shepherd's Bush murder squad, is convinced that's exactly what someone wants him to think. However, with no motive, no murder weapon and no idea who the victim is, can Slider find th...

It's been 25 years since Tom Thorne last went to work wearing the 'Queen's cloth' but now, having stepped out of line once too often, he's back in uniform. He's no longer a detective, and he hates it. Still struggling to adjust, Thorne becomes convinced that a spate of suicides among the elderly ...

Newly promoted DCI Nick Dixon is stuck behind a desk when the peace of the Somerset countryside is shattered by a spate of sheep killings. Dixon recognises a sinister pattern: the animals have all been slaughtered with a crossbow, the power increasing with each kill. It seems whoever is responsib...

The residents of Orkney can't sleep. Through 18-hour summer days, the islands are drenched in unrelenting sunshine. But a killer with a shadowy past is living undetected on the archipelago. As the heat rises, reporter Freya will not rest until she's brought the truth to light. Can she stop the mu...

When Detective Inspector Joe Lazarus storms a Lincolnshire farmhouse, he expects to bring down a notorious drug gang; instead, he discovers his own body and a spirit guide called Daisy-May. She's there to enlist him to The Dying Squad, a spectral police force who solve crimes their flesh and bloo...

When teenager Sadie Winter jumps from the roof of her school, her death is ruled as suicide - a final devastating act from a troubled girl. But then the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school and it's clear to Detective Kim Stone that these deaths are not tragic accidents. As...

Most homicides are young male on young male, and that's bad enough. But as a father of two daughters, DCI Bill Slider can't help but take it harder when the victim is a young woman. Rhianne Morgan, just eighteen, waiting for her A-level results, lies dead in her comfortable middle-class home in a...

The streets of East London teem with different languages, cultures and religions. Private investigators Lee Arnold and Mumtaz Hakim are well-versed in the community's tensions, the sad day-to-day reality that includes the desecration of graves at Plashet Jewish cemetery in East Ham. However, the ...

Keeping watch over the Easter Sepulchre, where the Host and crucifix are stored between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is considered a privilege. So, it is shocking when it is discovered that Odo, the priest's clerk, has abandoned his post. But as the hours pass and Odo is not found, Hugh de Sing...

Former Detective Superintendent, Bob Hoon, has had one hell of a year. After being repeatedly beaten, shot at, blown-up, and tortured, Hoon is looking forward to spending a quiet Christmas drinking heavily in front of the TV, while pointedly ignoring the older sister who has invaded his home. The...

Called in to carry out forensic investigations into the brutal murder of a prostitute in Glasgow, Rhona MacLeod realizes that she is dealing with a serial killer - and that he will kill again. Anderson's other novels include 'Driftnet' and 'Dark Flight'.