There’s a thought that keeps me awake at night: I have to be lucky every time, they only have to get lucky once.’ David Blake is a worried man. He should be enjoying the high life now he’s Newcastle’s...

In the most inhospitable environment – cut off from the rest of the world – there’s a killer on the loose. A&E doctor Kate North has been knocked out of her orbit by a personal tragedy. So when she’s...

On the one hand, there’s Lola. A grumpy retired policewoman who cannot get by without her two best friends: red wine and jigsaw puzzles. On the other, there’s Ingrid, an American in love with Paris. By day she gives...

The Dark Road is an angrier, more openly confrontational novel than its predecessors (Red Dust and Beijing Coma). Set in the river towns and vast waste sites that line the banks of the Yangtze in Guangdong province, it tackles...

The tense and darkly atmospheric new psychological thriller from the author of Richard & Judy Bookclub pick Tideline A middle class woman at her wits’ end. A struggling migrant worker with few options for survival. When tensions boil over,...

Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope’s only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead...

The second in the Trilogy, this book is a very atmospheric murder mystery with slight supernatural overtones, which never swamp the sense of real-life menace. Married couple,Katrine and Joakim, and their children move from Stockholm to a manor house...

I lean in and whisper the question I have never let myself utter in twenty-three years – ‘Dad…did you murder Mum?’ Hannah Davidson has a dementia-stricken father, an estranged TV star brother, and a mother whose death opened up hidden...

‘A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.’ Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son – or worse, bears daughters. They let her...

This is the story of Yedigei, a worker at a remote railway junction in the middle of the Kazakh steppes.The trains to East and West cross just here. Yedigei is taking the body of a friend to be buried in...