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The complete collection of landmark BBC Radio dramas of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe mysteries. Philip Marlowe is the archetypal noir detective: wisecracking and world weary, hard boiled yet honourable. This volume includes all eight dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's groundbreaking crime novels featuring his iconic hero.

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHESTNUT MAN IS BACK WITH A BLOCKBUSTER NEW THRILLER, SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX ADAPTATION Count to one, count to two… A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child’s counting rhyme. Count to four, count to...

She seems too good to be true… When Meg meets Tina, it’s like the most perfect meeting of minds. Their friendship feels naturally joyful – like they’ve had a space waiting in their lives for each other. And, with both being survivors of the same illness, there is an instant bond. But...

Après une collision qui a failli lui coûter la vie, l'autrice de romans noirs Cécile Varennes voit son monde se fracturer une nouvelle fois lorsque la voiture de son père est retrouvée calcinée au fond d'un bois, près de Nevers. L'enquête conclut à un accident. Cependant, une valise cachée dans la maison du défunt raconte une autre histoire. À l'intérieur, des coupures de presse faisant mention de disparitions et de meurtres survenus le long de la nationale 7. La même route où ont péri la mère et le petit frère de Cécile, trente ans plus tôt.

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career...

The brand new, utterly gripping gangland thriller from bestseller Heather Atkinson. You’ll never forget The Bloody MacGregors. The Bloody MacGregors are caught in the crossfire and the streets of Glasgow are about to burn. Virgil MacGregor and his fiercely loyal brothers thought working as...

Suite à la découverte du corps de Chrissie Lowe, étudiante, qui gît en boule, de longues coupures rouges le long de ses bras, l'inspecteur Jenna Alton est appelée pour enquêter. Des ecchymoses violacées sur les bras et les cuisses de Chrissie amènent Jenna à penser que la mort de Chrissie a eu lieu dans des circonstances plus troubles que ce que les autres imaginaient, et elle se retrouve bientôt à suivre les traces des derniers instants de l'étudiante, ce qui la conduit à la scène d'une fête qui s'est terminée quelques heures plus tôt.

Bloomsbury presents Suffer In Silence by Graham Masterton read by Lucianne McEvoy. YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN Revenge waits patiently for the wicked. In Cork, the young female employees of the glamorous cosmetics counter at Green Matthews are too scared to report what happens during...

“I’m not afraid of heights, deep water, or love. I’m afraid of falling, drowning, and a broken heart!” ~ UnknownWhen you finally uncover the truth, what do you do with it?Dahlia Frost has spent years digging into her past, peeling back layers of silence, fear, and betrayal. Now she knows...

Can US Marine Ty Johnson keep a young reporter alive long enough to uncover a gruesome secret hidden deep in the Florida Everglades?Nominated for the 2020 International Thriller Writers Award.Retired US Marine Ty Johnson is hired as the bodyguard for a young reporter investigating the brutal...

Brought to you by Penguin. A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman: tall, beautiful, and not afraid to speak her mind. In Tokyo bars, she seduces customers and commits petty crime...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Wych Elm by Tara Elm, read by Paul Nugent. For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything...

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic...

An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist—the chance to have a future where she grows old with the woman she loves. To succeed, she is given three days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago's most notorious serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await.

In the Los Angeles suburbs, the Crawfords seem like the average American family. Leo is a rising star in advertising. His wife, Rose, is brilliant, restless, and pregnant with their second child. Their teenage daughter, Melinda, is already leaning toward rebellion. Then Rose vanishes during a family vacation. When she comes back, she’s not the same.

The mage Frank "Half Dead" Johnson is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (a.k.a. the Devil) himself.   

Father. Husband. Hitman. He lost it all - he'll kill to get it back. Perfect read for fans of Breaking Bad and Stephen King. *GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER BOOKS OF 2022* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST NOVEL PRIZE AT THE 2023 EDGAR AWARDS* "Some of the finest, most terrifying and heartbreaking...

A story about privacy and its importance for happiness and personal fulfillment.

When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a felony, he's looking at three years in the pen - that is, unless he sells out one of his big-fish clients to the DA. But which of the many hoods, gunmen and executioners he calls his friends should he send up river? Set on the mean streets...