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Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on seven anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week. The story begins when poet Gabriel Syme is recruited as a detective to a secret anarchist division of Scotland Yard by a shrouded, nameless person. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists who are intent on destroying the world and becomes known as 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council.

A former Medal of Valor winner, Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert is now under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. So when he's asked to look into the false identity of a car-accident victim named James Putnam, a man who in fact died 15 years earlier, Rupert sees a potentially big case and an opportunity to regain his respectability. But the investigation puts him in the path of "the Beast", the nom de guerre of Drago Basta, a cunning veteran of the Balkan wars.

From the creator of the hit HBO series True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark thriller rich with Southern atmosphere. Roy Cady is by his own admission 'a bad man'. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he's a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss' lover, he's sent on a routine assignment he knows is a death trap. Yet after a smoking spasm of violence, Roy's would-be killers are mostly dead and he is mostly alive.

When police constable Hamish Macbeth receives the news that there has been a murder at Arrat House, home of the relentless practical joker Arthur Trent, he doesn’t race to the scene of the crime. After all, last time he was called to investigate a death at the isolated Scottish manor, the "victim" turned out to be Trent’s manservant covered in fake blood. Thus prepared for another prank, Hamish arrives to find that Trent has been most decidedly murdered and for suspects there is a houseful of greedy relatives, all of whom are more than interested in the contents of the will than the crime at hand.

For the first time, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling suspense master J.A. Jance brings together her two most beloved creations: Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont. The dead woman on a cold slab in the Arizona morgue was a talented artist recently...

Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realises he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.

A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life....

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who...

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home, leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen table, everyone assumes that she's taken her own life...until her body is found in the Grábrók lava fields seven months later, clearly the victim of murder. Her neglected 15-year-old daughter, Hekla, has been placed in foster care, but is her perfect new life hiding something sinister?

When a body is discovered at a popular Highland landmark, it seems like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team. Except this body is missing a very vital component, and given its location - The Well of Seven Heads - it seems like someone is trying to send a message. But why? And to whom?

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Katharina Code by Jørn Lier Horst, read by Tim McInnerny. Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th...

After a romantic disappointment and an undeserved demotion, Scots village bobby Hamish Macbeth decides a week's holiday at the coastal village of Skag might be just the ticket. He's dead wrong, of course: the food is dire, and the man in the next room nags his wife so loudly and continuously that more than one person at the Friendly House bed-and-breakfast wishes him dead, though only Hamish is heard threatening him. When this chap's body is found floating in the river Skag, Hamish is the prime suspect.

Napoli, 1931. Annunciata dal vento dopo l'ultimo acquazzone invernale, la primavera arrivò in ritardo in città, invadendo le strade e le piazze. Ma non per tutti. Carmela Calise, del rione Sanità, i profumi della nuova stagione non li avrebbe mai conosciuti. Cartomante e usuraia, l'anziana donna giocava con le illusioni dei clienti e sbriciolava il loro futuro tra le dita. A indagare sul caso, il commissario Ricciardi della Squadra Mobile della Regia Questura di Napoli.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent...

The lethal stuff of legends For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England comes as a wonderful surprise, an opportunity to open doors to a family history that have always been closed to her. But her arrival is greeted by mysterious villains who pursue her...

Un salvaje crimen golpea Pasaia cuando solo han pasado dos años de la detención del Sacamantecas, el psicópata que sembró el terror en el pueblo marinero. La elección de la víctima y el lugar, el solitario faro de la Plata, no parecen fruto del azar. La inquietante firma que el asesino...

Napoli, agosto 1931. Un caldo soffocante, infernale, avvolge la città e si spande nelle stanze buie dei palazzi. La festa di Santa Maria Regina, con il suo tradizionale falò, è appena passata, quando il corpo senza vita della bellissima duchessa Adriana Musso di Camparino viene trovato dalla governante. Anche questa volta saranno le ultime parole della vittima, misteriosamente percepite dal commissario Ricciardi, a guidare l'indagine.

Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A city on fire as a killer strikes . . . A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and...

An ihrem 60. Geburtstag begeht eine Frau Selbstmord. Ihr Tod führt zur Wiederaufnahme eines ungeklärten Falls aus dem Jahr 1988, der Marcus Jacobsen einst mit seinem besten Ermittler Carl Mørck zusammengeführt hat. Bald ist klar: Seit drei Jahrzehnten fallen Menschen einem gerissenen Killer zum Opfer, der tötet, ohne dass ihm ein Mord nachgewiesen werden kann. Er wählt Opfer und Todeszeitpunkt mit Bedacht und Präzision. Bis jetzt konnte niemand ihn stoppen.

Sylt, im März: Während sich die Einheimischen schon mit Grauen auf das nächste Protestcamp und die Rückkehr der Punker vorbereiten, sterben zwei Überbleibsel der Szene, die auf der Insel überwintert haben. Ein Fall, der Hannah Lambert und ihr Team vor besondere Herausforderungen stellt, denn die Punker hinterlassen neben haufenweise ungelösten Rätseln auch eine sechsjährige Tochter. Als Hannah dann bei einem ihrer typischen Alleingänge zur Dienstwaffe greifen muss, ist das Chaos komplett.