Written in a A to Z format, this book is the guide to the third Dan Brown novel to feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. It takes you on a journey of discovery through the world of Dan Brown and Robert Langdon, opening up the real mysteries and historical facts that are the basis of The Lost Symbol .

The brilliant new novel by the master of murder and malevolence

At the scene of a fatal traffic accident, synaesthetic detective Lapslie's interest isn't in the recently deceased driver, rather the desiccated corpse found lying next to him. Something about the body stirs a fleeting recollection at the back of Lapslie's mind... he can't quite put his finger on it, but he can almost taste it...

For PC Hamish Macbeth there's no holiday from crime - he finds himself hunting for a missing cat belonging to a lonely spinster. Curt and unfriendly, the woman is convinced her pet has been stolen but once behind her heavily-bolted door, Hamish can spot her true problem - she lives in fear, though of who or what he cannot guess.

A paedophile is brutally murdered in his own home, and to protect other offenders the police must haul the families of their victims down to the station for questioning. It's just another day in the life of D I Will Wagstaffe; better known to friends and enemies alike as Staffe. In this case nothing is simple, least of all Staffe's personal life.

Another long-awaited Christmas novella from bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark

One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole and his team have little to work with: no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive.

June has come a long way from the rough East End background where she met, got pregnant by and eventually married Johnny Fuller. Now she lives in leafy Rainham, with her ultra-respectable second husband and a lovely social life. Then her world collapses when daughter Debbie announces that she is pregnant by her low-life, drug addict boyfriend.

Michael Jecks is one of the most popular and high profile medieval mystery authors

The body of a teenager dredged from the seabed off the coast of Sussex is found to be missing its vital organs. Soon two more young bodies are found.

Eugene Wren is fifty, with prematurely white hair. He is too secretive for his own good. But he has cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and has given up cigarettes. Which is just as well, considering he is going out with a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there is something he doesn't want her to know about.

Hodder's biggest fiction launch of 2009: Matt Hilton's debut introducing series character Joe Hunter, Britain's best vigilante -- fighting America's worst criminals

A sudden outbreak of maliciousness strikes the town of Lochdubh in the form of a rash of poison pen letters. Things turn deadly when the local postmistress is found hanged in her room ...with a vicious note beneath her dangling feet. Though his superiors call it suicide, PC Hamish Macbeth pronounces it murder.

The next caper in the Sister Pelagia mystery from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.

A perfectly paced, atmospheric mystery, Glasgow Kiss gets to the beating heart of this Scottish city and features the most dynamic Scottish detective since Rebus.

You have the right to remain silent

The fourth book in Scott Frost's acclaimed Alex Delillo series. Alex must face a serial killer with a fascination for re-enacting Goya's works of art. Can he be caught and are all his victims quite as innocent as they first seem?

Trouble is afoot in the remote Scottish fishing village of Stoyre. On a routine visit, Hamish Macbeth finds the pub empty, the church unexpectedly full, and the very air permeated with fear. Then an explosion levels a holiday cottage which the locals call 'an act of God'. Hamish has another theory, one that will make the national news.

Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot has been enjoying the quiet life in a peaceful Provencal village. A former rugby international, who once scored the winning try against England at Twickenham, Jacquot sports a trademark ponytail and loves food, wine - and one woman, artist Claudine.