Crime and Thriller

Florence, New Year's Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart.

Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting

Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists, with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre about how this explosive novel laid bare America's racial fault lines.

A Christmas murder mystery. Includes a Cluefinder where you can check the clues you spotted - and missed - as well as puzzles to solve alongside the characters. Perfect for fans of Janice Hallett, Alexandra Benedict and Alex Pavesi.

*Featuring a first print run exclusive with a foiled board design and beautifully designed endpapers. Pre-order your copy. Available while stocks last.*

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Will she be damned by flame... or cursed by magic?

'An outrageously funny, festive romp which is as utterly wonderful as it is (Christmas) crackers!' MIKE GAYLE on Happy Bloody Christmas

With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle? The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke's most troubling case yet.

In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last... But as they do so, one of their number falls to the ground - a man, stabbed in the back with a stiletto while people jostled for position in the throng. There is nothing in the man's clothes or wallet to identify him, and nothing in his pockets but a revolver... Who is he and w

Carl Hiaasen's latest brilliant take on the world.

'I seen a kid killed . . . He strangled it, up by the horse.' When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and

How far will a woman go to get a little more help from her husband?

From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, soon to be a major Netflix series

From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, now a major Netflix series... Reputation: it takes a lifetime to build and just one moment to destroy. 'Sarah Vaughan has done it again.

From real-life flight attendant T. J. Newman, who wrote her first book, FALLING, at 35,000 feet while crisscrossing the country on redeye flights when her passengers were asleep.

The new keep-you-up-all-night suspense thriller from one of the UK's best crime writers.

In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice in crime and thriller fiction, asking us what we think it means to be human.

The gripping and controversial novel that is guaranteed to get readers talking!

It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake... ...and it is yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder

It takes an organised mind to solve a well-planned crime ...

The perfect new cosy crime novel for fans of Agatha Christie, Nita Prose and Ian Moore!

From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War, published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time

Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British maste

The new Hercule Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah, follow-up to the bestselling Hercule Poirot's Silent Night.