David Mitchell Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions...

Joseph Kanon Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier returns from war to the news that his filmmaker brother Daniel has died in mysterious circumstances -- the papers say it was an accident,...

Robert Goddard On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service,...

Judy BlumeAre You There God? It's Me, Margaret" No one ever told Margaret Simon that eleven-going-on- twelve would be such a hard age. When her family moves to New Jersey,...

Patrick Rothfuss “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”My name is Kvothe.I have...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Sampson’s car workshop. It there’s no ID in the pockets and Eli swears he’s never...

Peter Swanson George Foss never thought he'd see her again, but on a late-August night in Boston, there she is, in his local bar, Jack's Tavern.When George first met her,...

Bernard Cornwell At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot...

Bernard Cornwell When a serial lady-killer is found with shears sticking out of his chest and an ice pick in his hand, Kathy Mallory and her NYPD Special Crimes partner...

Orhan Pamuk At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the...

Lezanne Clannachan Tell me, where did Lily go? When Anna takes a job with a family whose niece is missing, she finds herself increasingly haunted by the mystery around her...

Frederick Forsyth In the spring of 1963, after the last conventional attempt to assassinate President de Gaulle had failed, Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the OAS, launched the plan...