The first DI Frank Elder novel, from the master of British crime writing.Fifteen years ago, Susan Blacklock disappeared. Although Detective Inspector Frank Elder has taken early retirement, the case still plagues his mind.Prime suspects, Shane Donald and Alan McKeirnan, were convicted a year later of the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, and now that Shane has been granted parole, Elder feels compelled to revisit the past.Then Shane disappears...

Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out.When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are off an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong.But as their investigation widens, their attention focusses on the biography Bryan was writing about the life and death of...

When a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime team. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society, from the back streets and high rises of Tottenham to the multi-million pound hideaways of the new international entreprene...

A collection of short stories from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestseller.John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in A Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his very best writing.From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East Anglia, this is a world of broken families and ...

Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners.Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed whodunits by five acclaimed masters of mystery and suspense. Multiple award-winning, bestselling authors provide the literary thrills and chills in this masterful collection of five ingeniously puzzling mysteries that belong in the libr...

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger, 2014.Private investigator Jack Kiley is persuaded to look into an old relationship between a photographer and a model with disastrous results.Includes the opening chapter of John Harvey's new Resnick novel Darkness, Darkness – 'A brilliant, important and moving book about the legacy of 1984, and where and who we are now.' David Peace – out in paperback on...

A midnight fire in a Louisiana refinery seems like an unfortunate accident, until the fuel tanks of a dozen distant aircraft burst into flame at the same moment and expose a secret technology that blurs the lines between time, space, dreams, and memory.Sixteen-year-old Jack Scatter lives far from the chaos, on Cirrus, a colossal space station with endless skies, pristine waters, and artificial mountains. Haunted by a recurring dream of fire and shadowy voices, he stumbles upon a do...

Sloane walks free from prison after taking the rap for a high-profile art scam. A failed painter, he is now a failed forger. Awaiting him are two policemen anxious to remind him of his sins, and a letter from a woman with whom he had a passionate affair in his youth. Now dying, she summons him to tell him that he has a daughter, Connie.Sloane agrees to return to New York, a city of potent memories, to look for his daughter. But Connie is locked in a relationship with a man the poli...

'A war between the past and the present, in a place wracked by guilt and vengeance, a country torn into pieces. A brilliant, important and moving book about the legacy of 1984, and where and who we are now.' David Peace.The final DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Cold in Hand.Thirty years ago, the Miners’ Strike threatened to tear the country apart, turning neigh...

A private investigator stumbles upon the body of a female singer in this mystery from an author praised by Elmore Leonard for his "clean and simple" prose.When Scott Mitchell loved Candi Carter, her name was just plain Ann. Back then she was a hippie, playing tambourine in some no-name band. Now she's the most famous singer in Britain, and she has plans to conquer America next—but first she needs her old friend's help. And when the famed songbird asks Mitchell to co...

The second Detective Inspector Frank Elder novel, from the master of British crime writing.When the take-down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch. And her uneasiness is compounded by her belief that someone is following her home.Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's daughter, Katherine, is running wild. Elder's fears for his daughter are underscored by guilt - it was his involvement in a...

Two teenage girls are victims of a bloody Valentine's Day shooting; one survives, the other is less fortunate...It's one of a rising number of violent incidents in the city, and DI Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl's father seeks to lay the blame on DI Lynn Kellogg, Resnick's colleague and lover, the line between personal and professional becomes dangerously blurred.As...