Stuart MacBride It was supposed to be an easy job.All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere...

Elana K Arnold A dark, engrossing, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power—and one girl’s journey to regain it. Five starred reviews greeted this powerful story from  Elana...

Judy Budnitz This tale begins in the deep, and deeply magical, European forest, in the world depicted in Chagall's paintings and Grimms' "Fairy Tales", and proceeds to tell the story...

Ann Packer 'Songs Without Words' explores the inequities between close friends, the unspoken roles, hidden expectations and deep resentments that can be violently exposed by a true crisis, and the...

Elizabeth Ferrars Stephen Gazeley was a perfectly nice and charming man - on the surface. But those slightly closer to him, such as his sister Hilda, knew a darker side;...

Charles Baxter As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's...

Stuart Woods Stone Barrington is back and better than ever in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.Stone Barrington’s newest client seems to be a magnet for...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and...

Sergio Chejfec A 2013 Best Translated Book Award Finalist When he reads about a mysterious explosion in the distant countryside, the narrator's thoughts turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M,...

Joseph Kanon Spring 1945.  As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in...

Gene Stone and Jon Doyle On a day like any other, all mammals suddenly gain human-level consciousness and begin a systematic attack on humankind. Among the ranks of these animals...

Sam Cohen "Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom...