Thrillers

Breathtakingly suspenseful and superbly constructed, Ambler's wartime chase yarn finds an English engineer desperately fleeing unknown assailants across Europe.1940. An unassuming English engineer has travelled to Turkey on business. And...

A seminal work of crime fiction from one of Japan's pioneers of the genre,Beast in the Shadowsspins a twist-laden tale of disturbing letters, damsels in distress and sinister writers in...

In this penetrating work of investigative and historical journalism, Eamon Javers explores the dangerous and combustible power spies hold over international business. Intelligence companies and the spies they employ are...

From the author ofThe Skelfssaga comes a breathtaking, Edinburgh-set slice of science fiction, revolving around three very different people bound together by the same mysterious and life-altering experience as a...

An unparalleled hardboiled noir novel,In a Lonely Placepaints a vivid picture of 1940s Los Angeles gripped by the fear of a serial killer as a former fighter pilot makes a...

This gorgeous 30th anniversary edition of Tartt’s classic – an impeccably crafted reverse-murder mystery steeped in evocative suspense and allusions to the ancient classics – is an essential addition to...

Transient Desires by Donna Leon In his many years as a Commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in...

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Summer, 1954. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule,...