Against the backdrop of an East Coast winter, menace and suspense build towards a chilling conclusion, as the lives of four people, linked by an illict love, are manipulated wth intricate and terminal precision.

'It contains all the thrills and spine-tingling suspense you'd expect from a quality crime novel, but unlike many of the genre, it's superbly written. Not pleasant, but difficult to put down.' FHM
'And a pretty near perfect crime novel. Abrahams has constructed a small, beautifully written masterpiece.' The Daily Mail

From the Author
Afterthoughts on A Perfect Crime
A Perfect Crime scared me a little bit, too, especially on the days I was writing from Roger's point-of-view. Roger has an IQ of 181. (I worried that figure was too high to be believable, until I read of some Wall Streeter with a 200-and-something IQ - I believe he notes it on his business card.) Putting myself inside such a potent brain was an adventure - it seemed to have such a nasty angle on so many things. The extra IQ points vanished the moment I left my desk, of course. And the nastiness, too, I hope.

Adultery: I received some mail from American readers who simply could not like Francie because of the fact that she was having an affair. I'm very curious whether there will be any similar reaction from the U.K.

Where did the idea come from? Although the story has links to The Scarlet Letter, an important book in the American canon, it began in my mind with the image of that beautiful, piney cabin - where Francie and Ned would meet - isolated on an island in a frozen river. I had the feeling it was a perfect place for both very good and very terrible things to happen.

Porn freak and jetsetter, John Self, is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an invitation to futile self-gratification. Out in New York, mingling with the mighty, Self is embroiled in the corruption, the brutality and the obscenity of the money conspiracy.

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Fletcher Brandon is a professional magician who learns of the death of his girlfriend Rosa on a train between Oxford and London. He has no idea why she was there and pursues the puzzle himself. The trail leads to Amsterdam and the realization that her death was neither an accident nor suicide.

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Published in 1939, "The Big Sleep" was Raymond Chandler's first novel and features Philp Marlowe, the neat, cleanshaven and sober man who is everything the well-dressed detective should be.

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A race against time and his old injuries bring Martin Shane back to the dark northern city seven years after the war that almost destroyed him. A freak accident has allowed his lost memories to return, and Shane needs to know who betrayed him.

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Someone is killing off the members of a splinter group known as the Sons of Erin. Normally not a cause for much concern but this could lead to the fall of two governments and the derailing of the entire Irish peace process, so the assassin must be stopped.

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An anthology featuring original stories by leading American crime writers. The stories are centred around the social and medical sciences, including psychology, social work, forensics, nursing and similar fields. Biographies of the writers featured are also presented.

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A murder mystery, this novel is narrated by a 60-year old man who has just killed his wife. The plot then moves back in time to when the man was 22 and the story eventually reveals why he becomes a killer 40 years later.