John Connolly has been called the unrivalled master of Maine noir; his writing not so much hard boiled as noir boiled,.. and indeed The White Road is detective gothic from first to last.

Connolly has used his skill in the past to weave the black styles of the fairy tale and gothic chill into his writing, but it is his fascination with ghost stories that has increasingly influenced his books. In The White Road the reader is snagged into the shadowy world created by the southern States' memory of horrors that beggar belief, ancient wounds that gape open below the thinly closed surface - of old money and slave traditions. There is nothing so black and white as the pale moonlit KKK robe, or as dark as midnight coloured skin.

Charlie Parker, doggedly loyal to old friends, and stubbornly supportive of lost causes, agrees to help in a horrifying murder case in South Carolina. In doing so, his own ghosts are given free rein in a place where atmosphere alone would murder hope. His is not so much an investigation, more a decent into the abyss.
The chilling preacher Faulkner is again a dark presence in the background whilst Parker's friends, Angel and Louis, damaged and deadly, follow their own avenging trail. So brilliant at creating villains, Connolly has given us the strange and menacing Mr Kittim and the deformed killer Cyrus Naim, both of whom lead Parker down one shadowy road after another.

There is never a simple answer to Connolly's plots, but as the differently coloured strands of The White Road are pulled together, the dark and the pale flowing into one, it is again clear that the storytelling is superb. There are few authors who can make their words dance to such a dark rhythm as Connolly'...

Sometimes it's wise to scratch beneath the surface before you make your move.

When four old school friends decided to make some easy money, nothing could have prepared them for the catalogue of disasters that was soon to follow. Robbing a supermarket should have been an easy job; nothing could possibly go wrong - but it did. The store they robbed was simply a front for something far bigger than they ever imagined.

From the powerful force of the world's bestselling writer comes a riveting tale of an original '58 Buick. 'Come close, children, and see the living crocodile.'

There's a terrifying secret shrouded in Shed B at the back of the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks. For twenty years, the Buick has lured curious officers to watch its terrifying displays.
Now young Ned Wilcox, son of a recently deceased officer, has started hanging around the barracks, mowing the lawn, helping out. One day he peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the secret. And, like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir...

As the basis of a BBC 2 Landmark series of about six 50-minute documentaries, the Paedophilia Unit at Scotland Yard has agreed to make room for the BBC team in their offices and shadowing them in their work in the course of a year. This series will be primarily be educational in its purpose, drawing the public's attention to the extent and horror of sex abuse worldwide but also preventative in that it is hoped that the effectiveness of the unit will reveal that it is increasingly difficult to get away with this crime. Together, Bob Long, the series producer and DCI McLaughlin, head of the Unit, have teamed up to write a riveting account of the underground world of paedophilia, revealing the real extent of this horrific crime both as a fascinating story and as part of a public debate.

'Stunningly original, highly topical and extremely well written' Scotland on Sunday on The Firemaker

Peter May combines edge-of-the-seat suspense and a brilliantly evoked picture of modern China to create an unputdownable thriller.

Li Yan, now based at the Chinese embassy in Washington, is dispatched to find out how his fellow countrymen suffocated in a sealed refrigeration unit in southern Texas - only to find himself face to face with Margaret Campbell, the woman who walked out of China, and his life, to return to the U.S.
Tasked to work together again to find out who is behind thel 00-million-dollar trade in illegal Chinese immigrants which led to the tragedy in Texas, they discover that the immigrants were unwitting carriers of a deadly cargo. Still wrestling with the demons of their past, Li and Margaret find themselves racing against time to defuse a biological time-bomb that threatens to wipe out not only their future, but that of humankind.

Once again, Peter May cleverly balances the flavours of China and West to bring us a brilliantly suspenseful thriller that touches a chord in our troubled times.
His highly original and entertaining series of books, set in modern day China have been praised for their vivid portrayal of contemporary Chinese life and their attention to scientific and medical detail. To his potent mix of setting and plot he adds a rich variety of characters whose depth, spirit and humour have charmed readers from the outset.

Brad Meltzer's high concept new thriller. What would you steal if you couldn't get caught?

Three million dollars in an abandoned account that can't be traced. It's the perfect victimless crime. All Charlie and Oliver Caruso have to do is take it.
So they do. Before they can blink, a friend is dead - and the bank, the Secret Service, and a female private investigator are suddenly closing in. What did they take? And how are they going to stay alive?

Brad Meltzer's last novel, The First Counsel, was published to huge acclaim and spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

London fire-fighter Pat O'Keeffe brings to searing life the brutal world of firefighting and crime in East London in his first novel.

Stephen Jay is a fireman on the edge, with crippling debts coming between him and the job he loves. The recent return of his unfaithful partner Jenny has only made his problems worse, and has done nothing to quell the burning hate he feels for the man he blames for this chaos - Kris Mayle.
His troubles are only beginning. As Station Officer, he and his watch are tested to the limit when they have to deal with a horrific fire in a fashion store in East London. And then an old friend offers him serious money to investigate an old case from the past and one family's predilection for fires. How could he refuse?
That choice plunges Steve into a nightmare of arson and murder.

Marcus CoNinus investigates the murky world of Roman chariotracing with all its secrets, skulduggeries and scams.

When Pegasus, racing star and lead driver of the Whites faction, is found stabbed to death beside a wineshop, Marcus Corvinus is already on site. Tracking the murderer down with his wife Perilla takes Marcus deep into the murky world of Roman chariot-racing with all its secrets.