From the two-time winner of the ATKV Prize for Best Suspense Fiction comes Red Tide...Deep in the South African Karoo, a small desert town runs red with old grudges and deadly secrets.Three years after his niece is found dead the week of her wedding, Jaap Reyneke, a retired detective, is still doggedly looking for answers. Why was her body displayed so carefully, like a macabre art installation? Who erased all correspondence from her devices? But t...

In Irma Venter’s follow-up to the electric Hard Rain, Ranna Abramson returns home to the lion’s den to resurrect a long-dead past and save the man she loves.Ranna Abramson wants to disappear.But she knows she can’t keep running when a former enemy tracks her down in Mumbai with dire news: her onetime lover, journalist Alex Derksen, has disappeared back home in South Africa.Torn between her desire for him and fear of a homecoming, Ranna know...

Chaos, murder, and a hint of sizzling romance descend on East Africa in this electrifying page-turner of a mystery.Journalist Alex Derksen’s new assignment in Tanzania should be easy, but he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the news. It starts when he meets Ranna, a beautiful photographer with something to hide. Alex stopped believing in love a long time ago, yet here in the middle of East Africa, it’s found him again.Alex knows a thing or two about ...

A heart-in-mouth thriller from the multi-million-copy bestselling author. Don't miss Michael Robotham's new thriller When She Was Good, out now.Imagine finding out that your unborn child was a lie...Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school frien...

When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return to the small family farm. He resigns himself to taking over his brother's role and spending the rest of his days 'with his head under a cow'.After his old, worn-out father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the rest of the house according to his own minimal preferences. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door, with a sly look. Then Riet appears, the woman once eng...

IS IT EVER TOO LATE TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART?'One of the best uplifting books of the year' INDEPENDENT'Wonderful . . . An utter treat' KATE MOSSE'I cannot recommend this book highly enough' LORRAINE KELLY'Matt Cain writes gay love stories that are universally uplifting, inspiring and utterly riveting' LISA JEWELL_______***'Alber...

Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2018Two time winner of Norway's Best Crime NovelA FROZEN BODYA MURDERED BIKERA RADICAL LAWYER WITH A MURKY PASTA FROZEN BODY... A MURDERED BIKER... A RADICAL LAWYER WITH A MURKY PASTIn the depths of the Norwegian winter, the corpse of a woman is discovered in the garden of a notorious left-wing lawyer, Vilhelm Thygesen. She has been st...

WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEARFantastical, m...

Tea-drinking is a ritual that binds people together. Alan Whelan was on a unique quest: to find the people at the hidden heart of Africa... and sit down for a nice cup of tea with them. On the 14,000-mile solo motorcycle journey through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and all the way to Cape Town across deserts and the toughest roads imaginable, he met sporting legends and ministers, peacekeepers and outlaws, and countless people who shared their last morsel of food with him.Armed with l...

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley has been side-lined to prevent her from causing trouble, but her new job turns out to be far from dull when she finds herself involved in taking down an Albanian mafia kingpin. First in an addictive, wildly original series from the Queen of Krimi…'Stripped back in style and deadpan in voice, Blue Night is a scintillating romp around the German criminal underworld and back' Doug Johnstone, Big Issue

Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Jennifer Egan and Heather O'Neill, a rich and inventive collection of exquisite short stories by a major newcomer to Canadian literature.In this deeply felt, compulsive and edgy work, Sarah Meehan Sirk shines a distinctive light on love and death in their many incarnations, pushing against the limits of the absurd while exposing piercing emotional truths about what it means to be gloriously, maddeningly alive.In "The D...

A broken heart and a moment of drunken bravado inspires middle-aged, and typically rather cautious, journalist Mike Carter to take off on a life-changing six month motorcycle trip around Europe. Never mind that he hadn't been on two wheels since an inglorious three-month teenage chapter involving a Lambretta, four crashes and an 18-month ban for drink-driving, a plan had begun to loosely form...And so, having completed a six day residential motorcycle course and hastily re-mortgage...