Posts Tagged ‘british’
Blue Lightning Shetland 4
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD 2017Blue Lightning is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez.NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMAWith the autumn storms raging, Fair Isle feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped, tension is high and tempers become frayed. Enough to drive someone…
Read MoreDead Man’s Trousers
Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He’s then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he’d been hiding for years after a terrible…
Read MoreThe Secret Sister
The true story of a woman who uncovered the dramatic stories of her mother and sisters with the help of the award-winning television programme, Long Lost Family.
Read MoreDeath on the Nile
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put…
Read MoreCross and Burn
#1 bestselling author and queen of psychological suspense Val McDermid takes readers on an exhilarating, terrifying journey into the world of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan in her most accomplished thriller to date. Cross and Burn picks up where Val McDermid’s #1 bestseller The Retribution left off: following the best crime-fighting team in the U.K.-clinical…
Read MoreCareer of Evil PB
The #1 internationally bestselling series is soon to be a major TV series on HBO. “The third–and best–novel in the engaging Cormoran Strike private detective series… [Galbraith has] invented a serial killer for the ages, one who chills us from the book’s grim but riveting opening… This perfectly paced mystery is packed with surprises.” –…
Read MoreThe Last Hours
For most, the Black Death is the end. For a brave few, it heralds a new beginning. Widowed by her husband’s death from the pestilence, Lady Anne assumes control of his people’s future—200 bonded serfs without rights of ownership to land. Strong, compassionate and resourceful—qualities she kept hidden from the husband she loathed and despised—Lady…
Read MoreA Very English Scandal
Now in paperback, a behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets While Jeremy Thorpe served as a Member of Parliament and Leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, his bad behavior went under the radar…
Read MoreCoffin Road
Cuckoo’s Calling TP
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend…
Read More