Amagansett
‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ meets ‘The Shipping News’ in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island.
Crime & mystery fiction
A Long December
Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman returns for the latest instalment in the fast-paced crime series, Harstad’s most compelling novel yet.
Mary Swann
‘One of the best novels I have read this year. It’s deft, funny, poignant, surprising and beautifully shaped.’ Margaret Atwood
The Edge of the Crowd
The Edge of the Crowd is the gripping story of early days of photography and the search for lost love in Victorian London . RUNNER UP OF THE 2002 ENCORE PRIZE.
Code Sixty-One
The fourth gripping novel in the original and authentic crime series featuring Carl Houseman and his team.
Code Sixty-One: Library edition
The fourth in the original and authentic crime series set in Nation County, Iowa, featuring Carl Houseman and his team, in which Carl finds himself tracking a killer who believes he is a vampire, with an equally unbalanced ‘vampire hunter’ hot on their heels.
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Murderer Who Eluded Hercule Poirot and Deceived Agatha Christie
An inspired blend of criticism, detection and good old-fashioned sleuthing.
The Fanatic
An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland.
Morocco
Set in the colourful, threatened world of occupied Warsaw just before the Holocaust, this third novel by a highly praised writer tells the story of Gloria, a young Freudian analyst whose sole client, a Jewish tycoon, fakes his own suicide and thereby drags Gloria into a web of intrigue, deception and betrayal.
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Murderer Who Eluded Hercule Poirot and Deceived Agatha Christie
At the end of Agatha Christie’s classic detective novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot declares with a customary late flourish the identity of the murderer. But who can we believe?
The Great Ideas
Shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award. An absorbing mystery story, a How-to book, a tour of the encyclopaedia, an etiquette guide and a history of philosophy – one of the most original and entertaining novels to have come out of America in many years.
Big City Eyes
Second novel by the author of ‘Hanging Up’ about a woman’s attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder and motherhood when she moves herself and her teenage son out of Manhattan to what she assumes will be a safer life on Long Island.
Cops and Other Robbers
A strong and gripping hard-boiled police procedural crime novel in the Lynda la Plante vein about the hunt for a paedophile and killer of young girls whose victims are seen getting into a car driven by a policeman.
Eleven Days
Eleven Days is a wry and gripping police thriller. Written by a former deputy sheriff on his vacation, the story covers the solving of a horrific satanic cult murder in farmland Iowa in just – eleven days.
Cops and Other Robbers
Very strong and gripping hard-boiled police procedural crime novel in the Lynda la Plante vein about the hunt for a paedophile and killer of young girls whose victims are seen getting into a car driven by a policeman.