Sara Paretsky In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America's bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles,...

Stephen Fry "Appallingly funny." — Daily TelegraphA hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis,...

Leslie Forbes La Muta, "the mute woman." Amidst a country rocked by scandal and corruption, inhabitants of the idyllic city of Urbino, Italy, birthplace of Raphael, are more concerned with...

Tarquin Hall Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of...

John Burdett Sonchai Jitpleecheep—John Burdett’s inimitable Royal Thai Police detective with the hard-bitten demeanor and the Buddhist soul—is summoned to the most shocking and intriguing crime scene of his career....

Carl Hiaasen Carl Hiaasen takes us deep in the Everglades with an eccentric eco-avenger, a ticked-off panther, and two kids on a mission to find their missing teacher. Florida—where the animals are...

Bonnie Macbird A heatwave melts London as Holmes and Watson are called to action in this new Sherlock Holmes adventure by Bonnie MacBird, author of “ one of the best...

Sarah Vaughan An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain’s privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake.Sophie’s husband James is a loving father, a...

Ajay Chowdhury 'A hugely entertaining first novel for lovers of traditional crime fiction, taking us from Kolkata to Brick Lane' Ann CleevesFull of wit and wisdom, The Waiter is sure to set...

Adam Thorpe An idyllic, old farmhouse in France is the background to a gripping story suffused with tension.Two Oxford historians, Johnny and Sarah Thomson, take a sabbatical with their three...

David Wishart This book is a complex and intriguing mystery set in Roman times. Banished by the Emperor Augustus, the great poet Ovid was to die in exile. Years after Ovid’s...

Alexander McCall Smith In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario—a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much...