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The wife of a prominent British politician returns to Ireland to find her missing half-brother—and plunges into a hotbed of political unrest and murder   The wife of an important British Cabinet minister, Claire Fraser lives the kind of life that fills the society pages. But when the disappearance...

A gripping, inventive thriller about justice and retribution set in Paris thirty years after World War II   Anna Martin is ready to put the past—and her unsuccessful marriage—behind her and start over with Nicholas Yurovsky. A titled aristocrat from a distinguished family that dates back to czarist...

A woman inherits a legacy of greed, guilt, and deadly danger when her father—a former SS Commander—bequeaths a priceless treasure   Twenty-five years after fleeing Germany, Paul Weiss lives a quiet life in Spain. Throughout his years of exile, he’s kept a single photograph of a three-year-old...

A female Intelligence agent is dispatched to spy on a group of retired spooks engaging in international terrorism in this post–Cold War thriller   After three decades serving king and country, fifty-one-year-old Harry Oakham is put out to pasture with a miserly pension. But the former civil servant...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize: From the creator of Luther comes a gripping tale of the deep bonds between father and son Always the Sun finds one man pushed past his limit, walking a wobbly line between safeguarding and carnage.  While mourning the death of his wife and chasing...

Two taut psychological thrillers and a gripping memoir from the creator of the hit BBC crime series Luther and a “master of suspense” (Daily Mirror).   The PEN/Ackerley Prize–shortlisted author and creator of Luther starring Idris Elba, British author Neil Cross is “an astonishing writer—tautly...

In this riveting thriller that recalls Alfred Hitchcock in his prime, an innocent European businessman is inadvertently caught up in a murderous web of international intrigue and forced to run, hide, or die in the English countryside A man of considerable ambition, French and British export...

Law firm deceit, disillusionment, death … characters explode off the page … dangerous lawyers cannibalize each other… Infighting, carnage, and sexual favors are the law at the Los Angeles law firm of Thorne and Chase. Partners and associates cannibalize each other in its cutthroat culture...

A ruthless killer preys on the young women of Montana in this tale of suspense from a pioneer of Western fiction Madame Simone runs a brothel on the outskirts of Overthrust, Montana, an oil town just down the road from the ranching community of Midbury. Her business is serene, discreet, and...

A murder case pits Miami attorney Gail Connor against her ex, Anthony Quintana, in this “fast-paced” thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In the fifth title in the Suspicion series, Suspicion of Malice, Gail and Anthony have recently broken up and...

Attorney Gail Connors must look to her past to discover who is threatening her family this “gripping . . . riveting thriller” (Publishers Weekly). Gail Connor thinks she has achieved all her life goals with a successful career, a perfect home, and an ideal man, until an anonymous and...

New York Times bestseller: Miami attorneys Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana are back in action in this “complex, involving tale” (Booklist). Now running her own private law practice, Gail has taken on the Miami Opera as her first client. The company’s newest young star—who is set to...

Ex-DEA Agent Jack Merchant is living out his precarious retirement on the docks of Charlestown, Mass., surrounded by the revenge-minded dealers and punks he used to put away. All he's got is his sloop, LILA, but soon enough he gets a visit from the repo man. Except the repo man's a woman, Sarah Ballard....

In Seymour Wishman’s riveting novel about law, murder, and twisted justice, a woman accused of an unthinkable crime must put her fate in the hands of an enemy When it comes to establishing reasonable doubt in the minds of a New York jury, defense attorney Michael Roehmer is the best in the...