Brought to you by Penguin. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of Londo...

In the seaside town of Temple Regis, seagulls are wheeling overhead and the holidays are getting close. And then the body of political candidate Odile Clifford is discovered on the balcony of the lighthouse. Fearless Riviera Express reporter Judy Dimont goes in search of the killer - but who is it? And where will they strike next? What's more, Judy...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Dead Ex by Jane Corry. THE THIRD TWIST-FILLED THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY HUSBAND'S WIFE AND BLOOD SISTERS 'I wish he'd just DIE.' He said in sickness and in health. But after Vicki was attacked at work and left suffering with epilepsy, her husband Da...

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top security fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk. The second Aurelio Zen novel.

When Miranda Cotton gets home from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she breaks off the relationship and throws him out of the flat. But getting Brendan out of her life is not that easy. Two weeks later her sister Kerry phones in ecstasy. She's in love with her new boyfriend. His name is Brendan...

When Freddie Jackson gets out of prison, he thinks he owns the underworld. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie just wants her husband home, but she's forgotten the rows, the violence and the girls Freddie can't leave alone. Increasingly unstable, Jackie watches her life crumble while her li...

The fourth book in the detective series featuring Precious Ramotswe of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Precious is continuing to run her detective agency from the garage of her fiance, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. Plans for their wedding need to be made - but when, if ever, will they wed? In the meantime Mma Ramotswe juggles new clients with her usual fo...

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. She edits the 'Review of Applied Ethics' and hosts 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades, its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the...

Billy finds a sinister note on his windscreen and takes it to an acquaintance, Lanny Olsen, a policeman, who thinks the note is a prank. But when a school teacher is murdered, as the mystery note-writer threatened she would be, Billy is drawn deeper into an accelerating nightmare as more notes arrive threatening further murders.

Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation's foremost criminalist, able to construct a perfect killer profile from a crime scene frozen in time. Now, Lincoln himself is frozen by an accident at work that has left him able to move just one finger. When New York is thrown into chaos by the assaults of a serial killer who gives the polic...

In the waning days of the Second World War, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it's threatening to resurface, with explosive contents: the details of a meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt whose aims were to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. The American representati...

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while he was recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, is charged with his murder. Douglas Konig is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the...

Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom?

The fifth book in the detective series featuring Precious Ramotswe of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma Ramotswe is still engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening re...

It is Edinburgh, 1297. Margaret Kerr, fiercely loyal to the deposed king John Balliol, has come in search of her absent husband Roger - a man in the service of Balliol's enemy Robert the Bruce - but terrifying raids and a brutal murder bring the wrath of the English to Margaret's door. Roger's sudden disappearance enables Margaret to escape from th...

When an attempt on the President's life is thwarted, White House operative Blake Johnson and his British counterpart, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the attempt. But this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror.

When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what...

Now married and living on an Italian estate, the art connoisseur, harpsichord aficionado, master of souffles and genius of improvisational murder, finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a local party. While others might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, the game Ripley has in mind is far subtler and infinitely more sin...

Bill Corde looked down at the face of the murdered girl and saw beauty and youth and the horror of sudden death. He could not know, as he stood there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the college girl's corpse, that his own life was about to slip into terror. Before Bill knows it, the girl's killer is trailing him and his unsuspecting family. CON...

At the request of London police, psychologist Kit Quinn agrees to evaluate Michael Doll, a sexual predator who slashes her face. As she recovers, Kit has horrible dreams of a red room. Months later, Doll is arrested for murder. As Doll's obsession with Kit escalates, Kit is gripped with a paralyzing fear that the killer isn't Doll but someone close...

When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly March morning, D.I. Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's mark...