A superb novel from an author gifted with the keenest sense of wit. Reading William Bryan Smith's The Late, Great Thor McHugh is like falling down a hill – once you start, it's hard to stop. If this novel were a TV series, it would be called Seinfeld.Lucy Glass had often dreamed of the father she'd never known, imagining he was a world-famous surgeon or perhaps an airline pilot. What she didn't expect was that he was Thor McHugh, an aging, self-absorbed Bigfoot hunter. Living off t...

"Skipped Parts is somewhere between The Catcher in the Rye and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues."-Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe novel that inspired the movie starring Mischa Barton and Drew BarrymoreBanished to the hinterlands of Wyoming, rebellious Lydia Callahan and her thirteen-year-old son Sam have no choice but to cope. But while Lydia drinks and talks to the moose hea...

A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.When Dr Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress, a routine case swiftly turns sinister. But before Tempe can get to the one man with the information she needs, he turns up dead.In Montreal, three elderly women are ...

James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Two bodies arrived at the morgue. One was still breathing.A woman checks into a hotel room and entertains a man who is not her husband. A shooter blows away the lover and wounds the millionairess, leaving her for dead. Is it the perfect case for the Women's Murder Club – or just the most twisted?

The seventeenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from the No. 1 bestselling author - soon to be an original series on Prime Video'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesIt is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to pr...

Four electrifying suspense novels featuring brilliant criminalist and quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme: The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card, The Cold Moon and The Broken Window.

'With its trademark mix of brutality and poetry, Swan Peak is a brilliant piece of work from an American master.' ObserverAfter the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head for the mountains and trout streams of Montana for some much-needed healing.However, while Montana might seem an unspoilt paradise peopled by men and women from an earlier, more innocent time in Ame...

Joseph Wambaugh meets Michael Connelly in this nuanced police procedural series debut from a veteran of the Iraq War and Oakland Police DepartmentA veteran-turned-detective struggling with PTSD and alcoholism lands a case that will either make—or break—his flagging career in the Oakland Homicide SquadWhen a teenager from a wealthy suburb outside of Oakland, California is dumped at an inner-city bus stop, homicide detective Matt Sinclair cat...

In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy, tagging along with two older brothers and absorbing grace and grit from her remarkable parents, who taught her that she could do anything. She also learned fearlessness in the wake of a family ...

From Mark Frost, co-creator of the landmark series, The Secret History of Twin Peaks tells the story that millions of fans spent twenty-five years waiting for . . .The Secret History of Twin Peaks enlarges the world created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, placing the unexplained phenomena that unfolded there into a vastly layered, wide-ranging history.Beginning with the journals of Lewis and Clark, Frost takes readers through the surreal, f...

"If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure."—Chicago TribuneA fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a "friend of a friend." Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: it's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy yo...

Seymour Brathwaite, a young physicist, was found standing over the body of a murdered man.Charcoal Joe, one of the deadliest men in America, wants Brathwaite cleared.Easy Rawlins, a renowned Los Angeles PI, cannot refuse Charcoal Joe.But what links the king of the LA underworld to Seymour Brathwaite?And can Easy find the evidence before he gets embroiled in something much, much worse?