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The 22nd in Lee Child’s superlative Jack Reacher series finds him in top form and a first entry from H.B. Lyle promises to be a captivating new addition to the genre.
Read MoreLisbeth Salander, the charismatic bad girl with the dragon tattoo is back in The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye; plus a debut thriller, Good Me Bad Me, that is creepy, unsettling and impossible to put down.
Read MoreArmand Gamache returns in Louise Penny's latest thriller, and the legendary John le Carré revisits the events of his most famous novel in A Legacy of Spies.
Read MoreThis month sees Let the Dead Speak, a fine addition to Jane Casey’s compelling Detective Maeve Kerrigan series, and that special, oddball Monkeewrench crew returns for another delightful caper, Nothing Stays Buried.
Read MoreTwo new novels - one featuring a veteran chief of police and the other featuring Agatha Christie herself - combine thrills, intrigue, and a basset hound named Balzac.
Read MoreJune brings a deliciously devious, dark take on vintage English crime fiction, and the return of a charismatic antihero searching for redemption.
Read MoreA down-on-his-luck lawyer in New York and a hangdog investigator in Scandinavia are the heroes in two atmospheric, action-packed new murder mysteries.
Read MoreIn two new thrillers - one starring a bitter spy brought back into the fold and the other starring a group of misfit cops - complicated forces converge to bring terrorism to the streets of London.
Read MoreRennie Airth returns with the fifth novel featuring John Madden, who belongs in the pantheon of great, civilized English sleuths
Read MoreA splendid new Jack Reacher novel and a posthumous gem by P.D. James – what better way to usher in the New Year?
Read MoreAlan Parsons' single-minded, two-fisted policeman sleuth Max Wolfe returns in The Hanging Club.
Read MoreThe French countryside, the death-camp of Auschwitz, and a mansion in County Cork - a trio of new mystery-thrillers takes readers on exotic ventures in search of justice - or payback.
Read MoreOld loyalties lead to explosive new dangers in two new mystery-thrillers set in North Carolina and Northern Ireland.
Read MoreThe 11th novel in Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series and the 2nd novel in John Lawton's Joe Wilderness series share plenty of thrills and character insights in common.
Read MoreLocations don't get much different than the Venice of Donna Leon and the Duluth of Brian Freeman, but as two new mysteries show, they have one thing in common: murder!
Read MoreIn two new mysteries - one the start of a new series, one the start of a new career - intricate plots take readers from Upstate New York to the Northern Cascades.
Read MoreComplex plotting runs through a darkly humorous new caper from Thomas Perry and the third book in Mick Herron's series about the disgraced spies at MI5’s Slough House.
Read MoreA Banquet of Consequences is an elegant addition to Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley series. Bernard Minier’s mesmerizing The Circle more than fulfills the promise of last year’s auspicious debut The Frozen Dead. And Felix Francis just keeps getting better as he proves with Front Runner.
Read MoreThree nifty new thrillers star some reigning champs of the genre: Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher, and James Bond.
Read MoreA mystery trio: Louise Penny’s 11th Gamache novel is a stellar addition to the series; Elsa Hart’s debut is a fine historical murder mystery set in 18th-century China; Bernhard Aichner’s first appearance in English is spine-chilling.
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