This stunning collection of number one bestsellers features a mixture of Inspector Rebus, Jack Harvey and classic Ian Rankin novels, all from the pen of one of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers in the world. Fast-moving, powerful and compulsive, Rankin’s storytelling is unmatched and his popularity unrivalled.
Josh Harding, a battle-hardened SAS soldier, is working undercover on antiterrorist operations, tracking the leaders of al-Qaeda. He wakes up in a ditch in the wilderness of Arizona. His memory has gone and the police are hunting him for murder… Blackout is a terrifyingly realistic story of what happens when technology and terroism combine and is just one of three gripping novels in this introductory pack from ex-SAS officer, Chris Ryan.
When Kay Lansing marries widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter’s first wife, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares, so when the police arrive at the door with a warrant for Peter’s arrest in connection with another murder, Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer and resolves to find out the truth… Are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head? Recognised as the Queen of Suspense, I Heard That Song Before is just one of the thrilling murder mysteries featured in this introduction to Mary Higgins Clark.
When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters’ strangled body is fished out of the river, Hamish thinks he may well be in over his head for he knows that secrets are dangerous, knowledge is power, and killers when cornered usually do strike again… From the author of the incredibly popular Agatha Raisin novels, comes a deliciously brilliant, delightfully entertaining collection of ten Hamish Macbeth murder mysteries. For the fan of the fictional detective, this charming, practical and quietly heroic PC is sure to become a firm favourite. And to the fan of Scottish village life, these evocative, gentle and quaint stories are sure to find their mark too! Warm, witty, reassuring but unpredictable, these perfectly constructed mysteries are very hard to fault.
After a terrible experience working undercover, Detective Martin Murphy is in London and about to fail another psychological assessment. While his life spirals out of control, his boss sends him back undercover to expose a gang of diamond thieves, but as Murphy gets closer to the gang’s leader, Murphy realises their plans are more deadly than anyone expected. Three brilliant novels from the acclaimed screen-writer, journalist and novelist, Colin Bateman.
Colin Forbes’ Tweed novels - starring formidable former top Yard detective and his team, Paula Grey and Bob Newman - are perennial favourites amongst thriller readers worldwide. Each of these six adventures is told at the usual whip-cracking pace and each thrilling topical tale of murder and mayhem leads the reader on a journey of twists and turns that will keep you guessing throughout.
Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre. Translated into 35 languages and with sales over 10 million copies around the world, the Martin Beck series has been a phenomenon. Written by a husband and wife team from Sweden, the ten novels follow the fortunes of the detective Martin Beck, whose enigmatic, taciturn character has made him a lasting favourite amongst fans of crime fiction.
Joseph Vaughan’s life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of a series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer.
This best-selling author has himself had an adventurous life, a life which has seen him looking for forgotten gold mines and diving in isolated lakes for lost aircraft and for shipwrecks of historical significance. There is no doubt that some of this real-life adventure has shaped Clive Cussler’s storytelling. These thrilling tales of unsolved mysteries, bizarre conspiracies and violent endings are nail-biting in their pace and extremely clever in their resolution.
“Love and death,” said Chief Inspector Wexford. “Those were the only two sensational things that happened to Margaret Parsons, love and death. The thing is they both happened in my district.” The police knew all about Margaret Parsons’s lide and, by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a ‘good’ woman. Religious, old-fashioned and respectable, her life had been as spotless and ordinary as her home, as unexciting and dependable as her marriage. But it was not Margaret Parsons’s life that interested Wexford. It was her death. She had been a predictable, ordinary woman - but now she had met a death of passion and violence for which there seemed to be no motive or clue… Ruth Rendell is recognised as one of the most accomplished crime writers of today and this superb paperback collection features ten of her very best novels starring the inimitable Chief Inspector Wexford.