We highly recommend this Nordic noir thriller with a puzzling storyline and creepy villains: 'More gripping than Jo Nesbo, blacker than Stieg Larsson and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell.' - Tony Parsons. On a hot summer's day, a car speeds through the streets of Helsingborg. When it reaches the harbour, the driver keeps going, straight into the cold, dark sea. But it is not a suicide. The autopsy reveals that this man has been dead for some time. He was murdered two months previously and his body deep frozen. As more bodies are discovered, Fabian Risk must hunt a killer with a mission - to preserve his victims, and create the perfect death. 520pp, paperback.

With Hitchcockian flair, Megan Miranda shrewdly examines what becomes of the people at the centre of those rare, sensational news stories that capture the nation's attention. In a hauntingly atmospheric and gorgeously written page turner, here is an unnerving and extremely classy thriller. When Arden Maynor was six years old, she was swept away in a terrifying storm and went missing for days. Against all odds she was found alive, clinging to a storm drain. Fame followed, and so did fans, creeps and stalkers and as soon as she was old enough, Arden changed her name and left Widow Hills behind. 20 years later Olivia as she is now known is plagued by night terrors. She often finds herself out of bed in the middle of the night, sometimes streets away from her home. Then one evening she jolts awake in her yard, with the corpse of a man at her feet. She is about to become the centre of the story, once again. Sleepwalking in her garden, it seems the trauma of her past has resurfaced and her new life might be about to unravel. Her fears are compounded when someone in her grocery store calls her by her old name. Soon she starts to doubt everyone around her. Why is her neighbour Rick so keen to tidy the crime scene and why have her belongings been moved? Why is the sleep specialist she has been seeing so keen for her to take part in a sleep trial and why is the son of the dead man trying too hard to say he believes her? 323pp, paperback.

By the international bestselling author of 'Get Carter', Ted Lewis was one of England's finest postwar writers and here is a new edition of this crime masterwork. Lewis returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant. London the late 1960s and it's Christmas. Jack Carter is the top man in a crime syndicate headed by two brothers, Gerald and Les Fletcher. He's also a worried man. The fact that he's sleeping with Gerald's wife Audrey, and that they plan on someday running away together with a lot of the brothers' money, doesn't have Jack concerned. Instead it's an informant, one of his own men, that has him losing sleep. The grass has enough knowledge about the firm not only to bring down Gerald and Les, but Jack as well, and Jack doesn't like his name in the mouth of that sort. Carter kills rival villains without compunction and manipulates one and all, male or female to his advantage. These are mean streets. 220pp, paperback.

An adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series which has readers hooked. Can he uncover their deadly plot before time runs out? When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives to find the recipient dead, brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic's secrets. But he's not the only one with an interest. The Guild of Night, a dangerous and vengeful cult, is determined to bring the Church to its knees, and the basin holds the power to do just that. In a frantic cat-and-mouse chase across the country, Mason battles to unravel the conspiracy before devastating power falls into the wrong hands. For the Guild of Night will protect itself at all costs, and its members have secrets they are willing to kill for. But in Mason have they met their match? 338pp, paperback.

The death of a 90 year old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka's account of Peggy Smith's death, but then Natalka reveals that Peggy lied about her heart condition and that she was sure someone had been following her, and that Peggy Smith had been a 'murder consultant' who plotted deaths for authors and knew more about murder than anyone has any right to. And when clearing out Peggy's flat ends in Natalka being held at gunpoint by a masked figure, well then DS Harbinder Kaur thinks that maybe there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all. Told with Elly Griffiths' characteristic charm, urbane and witty and hugely popular. 344pp, paperback.

A young woman emerges from a coma. Who is she, and why was she dumped unconscious in a hospital car park upon a dark night? She is unable to recall anything, even her name. Then Ada Shaftsbury, a boisterous shoplifter she meets in a homeless hostel, takes up her cause and names her Rose. Peter Diamond is already investigating a suspicious death - a woman has plunged from the roof of Bath's Royal Crescent during a party, and none of the guests seem to know who she is. Badgered by Ada and galvanised by another gruesome death, Diamond takes on the case and is soon forced to admit that Rose is the key. But she has disappeared, and Diamond's own dark night is just beginning. Lovesey amply demonstrates his gifts as the grand master of the contemporary whodunnit in this elaborate plot with architecture as perfect as the city he writes about. 344pp, paperback.

Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie. The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as horror-struck Julie watches, frozen by fear. It looks like Harry's many sins - corruption, greed and betrayal - have finally caught up with him. An hour later the intruder, J. P. Carney, hands himself in, confessing to the assault. The police have a victim, a suspect in custody and an eye-witness account, but Julie remains troubled. Has Carney's surrender really been driven by a guilty conscience, or is this confession the first calculated move in a deadly game? You will be addicted from the very first page in this brilliantly dark tale which is well plotted and beautifully written. 421pp, paperback.

Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When she answers the door to Danny's police colleagues one morning, it's the start of an ordinary day, but behind her, Danny walks to the window of their fourth floor apartment and jumps to his death. 18 months later, Erin is in court, charged with her husband's murder. Over that year and a half, she has learned things about Danny she could never have imagined. She thought he was perfect. She thought their life was perfect. But it was all built on the perfect lie. A fabulous page turner that will keep you guessing to the end and keep you up all night. 388pp, paperback.

June 1917 and while German bombers raid London from above, a man's body is fished from the Thames below. With no identifying items or labels about his person, Detective Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy waste precious time struggling to name the anonymous victim before they can properly begin their investigation. One by one family and business associates are traced, which only makes the list of suspects ever longer. Between the interminable presence of war and closer to home pitched battles in the East End between rival gangs, Marmion must carefully tread a dangerous path to lead him towards the killer. 'Marsten has tapped into a rich vein of inspiration.' - Daily Mail. 378pp, paperback.

The body of a woman is found on Bruno, Chief of Police's patch in St Denis. She was discovered with her neck broken beside the ruined Templar chateau of Commarque in the heart of the Dordogne. An accidental fall, or was she pushed? The 11th century chateau has never been associated with the fabled hidden treasure of the Templars, but a sensational story in the local press about the unknown woman's death throws light on the chateau and the cave beneath it. When a Templar scholar is found brutally tortured and left for dead, Bruno must race to find the perpetrator before they strike again, while the village of St Denis holds its breath, waiting to see if a centuries-old mystery might finally be solved and uncovered when a local journalist publishes the sensational story around the woman's death. The victim carries no identification and her fingerprints are not known to the French police or Interpol. The only clue is that her dentistry looks American, but Bruno's enquiries at local hotels and gites yield no trace of a missing foreign woman. 343pp, paperback.