Fiction Genres

Temperance Tempe Brennan is back and better than ever in the seventeenth thriller in Kathy Reichs's series. The forensic investigator--still tough, still fascinating--will be up to her old tricks even as Reichs takes the series in a new direction that will delight her many fans. Among other surprises, fans will finally meet Tempe's much discussed (but never seen) mother and follow her quest to track down the one criminal who got away.

Atlanta, 1974: With a beloved cop gunned down, his brothers in blue out for blood, and the city on the edge of war, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. She's determined to defy her priviledged background, but life will be anything but easy in a macho world where even the female officers have little mercy for rookies. Kate isn't the only one feeling the heat

From the acclaimed author of  The Book of Night Women  comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. 

Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce, much to her dismay, has been forced to attend Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother once attended, across the sea in Canada. But all is not lost: On Flavia’s first day in captivity, a charred and mummified body tumbles out of a fireplace chimney in her bedroom. Now, while making friends (and enemies) and assessing the school’s stern headmistress, Flavia is on the hunt for the victim’s identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. When it comes to solving mysteries, Flavia is up to the task—but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.

Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared, but she remembers nothing.

Tommy and Tuppence, two young people flat broke and out of work, are restless for excitement. They embark on a daring business scheme- Young Adventurers Ltd- 'willing to do anything, go anywhere'. Their first assignment, for the sinister Mr Whittington, draws them into a diabolical political conspiracy, and they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever imagined...

A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. . . At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the `evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer. . . Author BiographyAgatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. - Hallowe'en Party By Agatha Christie (Paperback)

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge. After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law career. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy has healed from her gunshot wound and has published a book on the infamous serial killers she helped to bring down. Lindsay is just happy that the gang are all still in one piece.

Detective Lindsay Boxer chases an elusive suspect...her husband.

What was lost will be found... Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, he recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom.