Nevada Barr quickly attracted the attention of mystery fans when her first Anna Pigeon mystery, Track of the Cat, appeared. Now she immerses the intrepid park ranger in a perilous search that will take her far below the waters of Lake Superior. As Anna spends her days patrolling its shores, the surface of Lake Superior fills with tourists. In the d...

Brought to you by PenguinOur world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll see a swirl, a spiral of two fluids, before the two liquids mix completely. The same pattern is found elsewhere too. Look down on the Earth from space, and you'll find similar swirls in the clouds, made where warm air and cold air waltz...

The gripping second instalment of Andrew Raymond's bestselling DCI Lomond Crime series.

Secret agent Mr. Adolph Verloc operates from a seedy Soho shop, where he deals in pornography and espionage. Idle, treacherous, and self-righteous, he makes the life of his wife, Winnie, one of silent misery. When Verloc is assigned to plant a bomb at Greenwich Observatory, his plans go terribly awry, and his family has to deal with the tragic repe...

Brought to you by Penguin.My mind is full of scorpions. A cerebral itch, impossible to scratch. I know these creatures well, but they know me better. They answer to another name, this nest of scorpions, the writhing black mass that lives inside my head...For as long as Tuppence Middleton can remember, she has struggled with obsessive thoughts and c...

Brought to you by Penguin.I was the guy who always found a way.I was the guy that couldn't be stopped.From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for the first time in one edition, complete with an introduction from the author.A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a stranger. An overlooked...

New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts serves up a sizzling novel of explosive suspense and sensual romance as the search for a murderer ignites passion between a beautiful psychiatrist and the sexy, brooding detective determined to crack the case. In the unbearable heat of another sultry Washington, D.C., summer, a serial killer is on...

The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman's bestselling The Book of Dust sequence . . .'Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?''Defend it,' Lyra said. 'Die defending it.'When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserte...

The Ripper players, free from any moral and legal restraints, are free to pursue any line of enquiry to solve the cases that the police cannot. It is just a game. As their unique power leads them ever closer to the truth of their latest case, one of the players, Amanda's, mother suddenly vanishes. Could her disappearance be linked to the serial kil...

After fourteen years, New York Times bestselling fantasy master Terry Brooks has returned to the magic kingdom of Landover. The remarkable realm of dragons, demons, wizards, and wonders that wove an irresistible spell in five classic novels throws open its gates at long last for a brand-new adventure featuring a dazzling cast of characters and crea...

Bestselling author Gregory Maguire's remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of "the magical land of Oz." Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum's world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest—placing Glinda the good witch u...

You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do? If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter...

Bloomsbury presents One Christmas Wish by Katherine Rundell, read by Jamie Parker.Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ..._______________NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP GREENAWAY MEDAL From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award_______________It's Christmas Eve and Theo – left at home with a babysitt...

Brought to you by Penguin.'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at th...

Revenge can take a lifetime...When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner, Garda Andrews, are called to a suspicious death they are shocked to find the small body of a child abandoned in a suitcase.Who is she? No child has been reported missing.Their search reaches outside Ireland but without success and soon another dead body takes the...

These cases might prove to be West's toughest yet...Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West could do with a break. He's had his fill of complicated cases and wants nothing more than to settle down with his fiancée. But life has a habit of getting in the way...Two new cases come in: A hit and run where the family of the victim act suspiciously and...

Forgiveness isn't an option...Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner answer an emergency call from St Monica's church and discover a dead body suspended from the beams in front of the altar.The victim's fingerprints show that the man is Ian Moore, recently released from prison after serving time for rape. Revenge seems like the obvious...

A mysterious woman's murder leads Sebastian and Gemma to risk everything to find a remorseless killer. Inspector Sebastian Bell arrives at Paddington station through thick Victorian mist, hoping to reconcile with his estranged brother. Instead, he discovers a young woman's body in an abandoned trunk, stabbed with a peculiar bone-handled knife. But...

Rupert is consumed by one obsession: that his horse is proclaimed champion. To defeat his rival he must abandon his empire at Penscombe, his wife Taggie, and chase winners worldwide. When Gala moves to Penscombe as carer for Rupert's father, Rupert himself is attracted to her. When Gala begins working in the yard, her carer's job is taken by a deva...

Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.When the school's (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy's talent for finding absolutel...

Brought to you by Penguin.The electrifying sequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed, page-turning thriller, The Upper World, soon to be a major movie starring Academy Award Winner Daniel Kaluuya.With her mentor, Dr Esso, by her side, Peckham born and bred Rhia is beginning her first week at the University of Oxford. She's determined to have...