The eighth and latest Even Tanner novel the first new Evan tanner novel for 26 years.

Evan Tanner, a globetrotting adventurer to put Indiana Jones in the shade, not only had his sleep centre destroyed in the Korean War but now he has been on extended vacation...in the deep freeze for over 25years!

Thawed but not shaken, Tanner has a lot of catching up to do. No sooner than he's reacquainted himself with Minna, his "adopted daughter" and now a beautiful and desirable women and mastered a crash course in Internet leaning than he is recruited for another covert assignment - to destablise the government of Burma (or should that be Myanmar?) and he finds himself in Rangoon (or is that Yangon?)
Mix in exotic surroundings an exiled Russian beauty, foreign intrigue, cross and double cross, a mysterious dead man and you have an edgy and entertaining puzzle that only Lawrence Block could create.

Praise for Burglar in the Library:
"Extremely funny and laid back" - Literary Review
"A genuine treat" - The List
"The pace is brisk, the dialogue snappy... and the hook of the Chandler first edition is lovely' - TLS
"..a homage to the golden age of murder mysteries" - Donna Leon, The Sunday Times

Bernie Rhodenbarr is busy running his bookshop, and breaking into houses only when he absolutely needs the money. But how can he resist coming to the aid of a favourite author? Especially when the author's agent is offering their very private correspondence for public sale? The reclusive Gulliver Fairborn may remind you of J D Salinger and Thomas Pynchon. The Paddington, where the action takes place, may put you in mind of New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, but the case itself and the way Bernie copes with it is pure Lawrence Block, and he's never been better.

Praise for The Burglar in the Library:
'Extremely funny and laid back' Literary Review
'The pace is brisk, the dialogue snappy... and the hook of the Chandler first edition is lovely' TLS
'A homage to the golden age of murder mysteries' Donna Leon

"A quite astonishing first novel which injects' the reader into the heart of the darkness which was Sarajevo at the height of the Yugoslav conflict. Reading this book is like being there. If Fesperman had taken me any closer to the action I'd be demanding a flak jacket, At the book's core is a police detective, a man who must deal with the conflict while never wholly understanding it, who must investigate one meaningful murder while those around him seem inured to daily slaughter. This is a humane and moving book, a great crime novel. A great novel, period." lan Rankin

Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo. Condoned killing has displaced the crime of passion; his services with the civil police as a homicide investigator have been less in demand. Unluckily one premeditated death does land on the detective's desk. It is no abused lover or a distant sniper's victim but a government official - the chief of the interior ministry's police - shot dead at close range.
In a thriller that recalls the first excitement of Martin Cruz Smith's Moscow and the Vienna of Graham Greene's The Third Man, author Dan Fesperman brilliantly renders the fragmented society and underworld of Sarajevo at war - the freelancing gangsters, guilty bystanders, drop-in correspondents, the bureaucrats frightened for their jobs and very lives - and he weaves through this torn cityscape one man's desperate, deadly pursuit of the wrong people in the worst places.

"A powerful, atmospheric novel. Part Third Man, part Le Carre, Lie in the Dark is a thriller to rival Gorky Park and a crime novel that echoes Miss Smilla." - Crime Time

Dan Fesperman is a journalist for the Baltimore Evening Sun and served in its Berlin bureau, moving through Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.

A novel of electrifying suspense that snakes towards a shocking conclusion. The Los Angeles Times Bestseller

First there was a phone call, then a chance encounter. He tells Ariel his name is Jack Spurling and he seems astounded she has forgotten him. But Ariel is a 33-yearold woman with only one year of memory, the rest erased by amnesia. She learns however that he was at the centre of one of the most notorious stories she ever covered as a TV newsmagazine producer - the story of a man who many believe got away with the murder of his wife. Ariel feels compelled to reconstruct the events leading up to the trial, which ended in a hung jury. The closer she gets to Spurling, the more she wants to believe his innocence for he is a man of confident, intimate charm who stirs long-dormant feelings in Ariel. But when Ariel digs into Spurling's past, she uncovers a sordid tale of a party years ago that degenerated into a whirlpool of adultery, jealousy and violence. And the events set in motion that evening on a yacht far out at sea are only now reaching a climax... giving Ariel just one chance to decide between what she feels in her heart and what she knows in her gut.

Praise for Judy Mercer:
'I rate this novel very highly. I well remember the sensation of reading it, the urgent compulsion, the heart thumping excitement' Sarah Broadhurst. The Bookseller
'Reminiscent of Jonathan Kellerman at his best' Booklist

Jenner has been 'minding' boorish Hollywood actor and author. Charlie Wallace, on a recent PR trip to London. Now Jenner is in Paris trying to find Wallace's daughter. Eleanor - pretty, rich, blonde, eighteen and missing. Routine this is not, as Eleanor isn't all that she seems and Jenner gets involved in the fallout from her drug smuggling by way of a terrorist murder, the dirty power games of crooked gendarmes and big time gangsters. When his own name gets added to the hit lists he decides it is high time to act before the killers have a chance to get to him first.

Praise for John Milne:
'The real thing. Unreservedly excellent' Literary Review
'John Milne is one of the truest crime writers we have. Raymond Chandler would have applauded his voice: bruised, tender, sharp, blunt and oh so sad. This novel is his best yet. Ex-detective Jenner is his own man but in that bloody mindedness the spirit of Philip Marlowe is alive and kicking' Nicholas Shakespeare
'Milne has created an English shamus who can hold his head up among American counterparts' Evening Standard

'Monk is quite a discovery; a 90's successor to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins - Daily Telegraph

Summer in LA and the heat is building in the Rancho Tajuata Housing Projects. Racial tension and gang violence spiral out of control when three members of a Mexican family, including a little girl, are killed by a firebombing. The pressure is on to solve the case quickly and Ivan Monk is called in to track down the killer, but in doing so he delves back into the tangled history of the Watts riots, revealing layers of corruption and racism. Monk finds himself at odds with the police, disillusioned with his mentor and under indictment for murder after a fierce struggle with some gang members. Now Monk must race to clear his name before time runs out and a bad night falls on the projects ...this time for good.

'In the tradition of Hammett's Continental Op, Ivan Monk takes on a corrupt world. He's ready to go down fighting and he makes us feel that the war he's waging is for our own salvation' Walter Mosley
'Cary Phillips is my kind of crime writer and Ivan Monk my kind of detective ... an unbeatable combination' Sara Paretsky
'Monk is quite a discovery; a 90's successor to Waiter Mosley's Easy Rawlins' - Daily Telegraph

'Right up there with Patricia Cornwell, Minette Walters and Kathy Reichs' - Crime Time

Brooklyn lawyer Cass Jameson faces the most difficult case of her career when she is called upon to defend her brother, Ron. a quadriplegic Vietnam vet, against the 15year-old murder of a federal agent. Cass is convinced Ron is innocent, but there is a hitch and it's a big one. The case has resurfaced because the other defendant - Ron's fugitive girlfriend, Jan - has decided to come up from the underground and turn herself in. As a result Cass is forced to revisit the idealistic summer of '69, when she spent time with Ron, Jan and other students trying to help migrant farm workers. Reminiscing isn't much of a sentimental journey, though; instead it brings one unwelcome surprise after another. Troubled Waters is fast paced and exciting with sharply drawn characters, great dialogue and a biting sense of humour.

'A bitter story of youthful commitment, folly and corruption' New York Times Book Review
'A witty, gritty heroine' New York Post
'Dazzlingly plotted' Kirkus

It's 1975. Don Vittorio Tucci, head of the Detroit mob, lies on his deathbed as his family and associates secretly jockey for power. Meanwhile, his grandson Bobby Tucci - just a ordinary college student and rock musician, who has, until now, steered clear of the family business - is drawn into the middle of a power play among the don's hotheaded first lieutenant, his consigliere, and Bobby's own mother - who has designs on being the first woman to lead a major crime family.
It seems simple. His grandfather promises him a $40 million payday if he'll just stay around for a while, lending some stability as the next rightful heir to the Family. But there's a little complication. He's going to have to "make his bones" - prove himself to the Family. His assignment? Kill Jimmy Hoffa.

"Whacking Jimmy is a seventies flashback, Mafia style - a classic caper built around one of the greatest unsolved crimes in history. It is a hip, hilarious thriller for readers of Carl Hiaasen, James W Hall and Elmore Leonard.'' CrimeTime
"Original and hilarious" Publishers Weekly