The Pools

You wake up. Your house is empty. Your family has disappeared...

Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war - and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way. As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control?

When her elderly neighbour Gus has an accident, Kinsey Millhone is relieved when his niece organises a nurse for him. Verifying a background check on Solana Rojas doesn't turn up anything suspicious. But Kinsey's not convinced - especially when Gus seems to be getting worse under his nurse's tender care.

On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them.

An absorbing novel of power, politics, terror and lies from the co-host of Newsnight

A compelling courtroom drama that proves no one does it better than Connelly

The first three chilling Dexter novels, together in one great edition

The brilliant new Rebus novel from the master of British crime.

A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed ...When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the young woman? And how did she die?

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life.