English literature

Mending the Moon

by Susan Palwick

Melinda Soto, aged sixty-four, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist.

Back in her hometown of Reno, Nevada, she leaves behind her adopted son, Jeremy, whom she rescued from war-torn...

Lucky Bastard

Lucky O'Toole #4

by Deborah Coonts

Lucky O’Toole, the newly promoted vice president of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas's primo Strip property, has never met a problem she couldn't handle. But when a young woman is found dead,...

Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night

by James Runcie

The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950's Cambridge. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in tandem with...

Sign of the Cross

Spike Sanguinetti #2

by Thomas Mogford

Just as a degree of calm returns to Spike Sanguinetti's life in Gibraltar, he receives the shocking news that his Maltese uncle and aunt are dead after a domestic dispute escalated into a blood-soaked murder-suicide....

The Golden Notebook

by Doris Lessing

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political...

Hello America: A Novel

by J. G. Ballard

"This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century."...

The Unlimited Dream Company: A Novel

by J. G. Ballard

"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." -New York Times Book ReviewWhen a light aircraft crashes into the Thames...

The Lark's Lament

Fools' Guild #6

by Alan Gordon

In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is in hiding, under attack from the forces of Pope Innocent III. Theophilos and Claudia, jesters with the Guild, are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member - the minstrel...

Cries from the Earth

The Plainsmen #14

by Terry C. Johnston

Cries from the EarthTerry C. Johnston By mid-1877, trouble in the Northwest is brewing like a foul broth. Ill will is growing between white settlers and the Non-Treaty bands of the Nez Perce. The American government...

The Stone Canal

The Fall Revolution #2

by Ken MacLeod

Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience.  The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object. Then a stranger arrives on New Mars,...

The Star Fraction

The Fall Revolution #1

by Ken MacLeod

Britain in the 21st century is a Balkanized mess. Moh Kohn is a security mercenary unaware that he holds the key to information which could change the world. Janis Taine is a scientist who needs Mohs help. And...

The Industry of Souls

by Martin Booth

The Industry of Souls is the story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen who was wrongfully arrested for espionage by the KGB in the 1950s and sentenced to twenty-five years of hard labor in the work camps...

Ashes of Heaven

The Plainsmen #13

by Terry C. Johnston

Ashes of HeavenTerry C. Johnston The U.S. Army’s goal: to wipe out the remnants of scattered, starving people on the frontier’s Northern Plain. But before Colonel Nelson A. Miles, the Bear Coat, launched...

The Icarus Girl

by Helen Oyeyemi

Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half...

Little Cat

by Tamara Faith Berger

The first two novels by Tamara Faith Berger, acclaimed author of Maidenhead — they're every shade of dirty.

Dead Ever After

Sookie Stackhouse #13

by Charlaine Harris

THE FINAL SOOKIE STACKHOUSE NOVEL

There are secrets in the town of Bon Temps, ones that threaten those closest to Sookie—and could destroy her heart....

Sookie Stackhouse  finds it easy to turn down the...

Silken Prey

Lucas Davenport #24

by John Sandford

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner.

"If you haven't read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists...

The Innocence Game

by Michael Harvey

From Michael Harvey, Chicago’s best-known crime writer and author of the popular Michael Kelly series, comes something different: a leap forward into a dark world where the lines between innocence and guilt...

The 1st Victim

by Tami Hoag

Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska return to investigate the death of a Jane Doe in New York Times bestseller Tami Hoag's short story The 1st Victim.

New Year's Day is a time for new beginnings, but Minneapolis homicide...

Poppet

by Mo Hayder

Mo Hayder has for years been a master of chilling, seamlessly-plotted thrillers that keep the reader glued to the page long after lights out, and fresh off of winning the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Gone,...