John D. MacDonald 
Cape Fear 

E. Phillips Oppenheim, a British author, published the mystery-thriller The Evil Shepherd in 1922. The plot begins with a businessman found with a knife in his heart, and Oliver Hilditch, a cold-eyed …

”Gripping from start to finish, it has a great line in snappy dialogue and a twist that puts Tucker in the finest Elmore Leonard tradition.” Daily Mail When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D. …

A sleepy Hampshire cathedral city, a remote cottage in central Wales and a small town in the forests of east Texas – these are not locations where one might expect to find social unrest, political in …

The death of Jessica Burke was easy to explain: a history of depression, a heroin habit, a girl alone in her bathtub. But when her psychoanalyst, Daniel Abend, receives an ominous, handwritten poem, …

‘Action-packed and razor sharp ‘  LEE CHILD This S UNDAY TIMES  CRIME CLUB STAR PICK is for fans of gritty, darkly funny thrillers like  Killing Eve and anyone who loves& …

DI David Vogel is first on the scene when Melanie Cooke’s bruised and strangled body is discovered in Bristol’s red-light district. The evidence points to Melanie’s father being the killer, but …