Item category 1: Crime Hardback

Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction: 'Actually, I'm a murderer.' Set in the north-east of England in the seventies, the lives of four people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with round glasses, on the night train back to Newcastle. By...

A high-profile criminal prosecution collapses and the body of a woman is discovered on the Mongolian steppes. Inspector Nergui is assigned to conduct an internal enquiry into the failed prosecution, while Doripalam has to deal with both the murder investigation and suspected corruption.

When fifteen-year-old Skye's mother finally does something so shocking that it can't be hushed up, the police turn her over to the social workers - and that's when the nightmare begins. No one will let her talk to her father; the woman who is supposed to be helping her dumps her in a terrifying '...

Violently abducted while searching for a missing woman, D.S. Abigail Boone suffered retrograde amnesia - remembering nothing of her previous life. Defying the law to hunt those responsible, she now languishes behind bars. In desperation, police turn to Boone - who fears a connection to the disapp...

It ends with a car crash. Two women, both maimed, their long blonde hair matted with blood. It begins with waking up, in an unfamiliar hospital bed. Bright lights, nurses - and handcuffs. She is told her name is Reeta Doe, and that she's been in an accident. That she's in Florida. That the FBI ha...

When Felix Brewer meets 19-year-old Bernadette 'Bambi' Gottschalk at a Valentine's Dance, he charms her with wild promises. Thanks to his lucrative if not always legal businesses, she and their 3 girls live in luxury. But on the 4th of July, 1976, Bambi's world implodes when Felix, facing prison,...

Psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schn̈ and her partner, investigator Peter Lindgren are invited to the small, sleepy industrial town of Ormberg to investigate a cold case: ten years earlier a five-year-old girl's remains were found in a cairn near the town. But when a recurring memory probl...

After a fire devastates the top floor of a tower block on the Maudling Estate, Maeve Kerrigan and her colleagues are called in. Their presence is needed because it's a sensitive investigation - not because the blaze was caused by arson, or because several residents died, but because a body was fo...

Fredrik Welin is a 70-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire.Fredrik escapes ...