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Rating coming soonThe Knights Templar once held untold wealth and power over kings and popes, until the Inquisition destroyed the order and its hidden riches were lost. Now two rival groups have learned that the treasure is not what they assumed it to be, and that its real nature could change the modern world. Cotton Malone is pulled back from his Copenhagen bookshop into that search.
Rating coming soonA vigilante serial killer is loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have gone unpunished, and the number of victims keeps growing while many of the city's residents quietly approve. When a woman of great wealth and even greater connections disappears, two detectives are put on the case. The task force they belong to exists to take the cases the rest of the department cannot.
Rating coming soonDetective Lindsay Boxer has a baby daughter and a devoted husband, and her life has never been better. The members of the Women's Murder Club are celebrating the birthday of the medical examiner Claire Washburn when Lindsay is called to a crime scene where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse has so few living relatives that she really hated to lose one. What she never guessed was that the relative would be her cousin Hadley, who had been a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans and was, technically speaking, already dead. As the unexpected heir, Sookie inherits whatever Hadley left behind, along with the people who want it kept quiet.
Rating coming soonWhen five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws the archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical. While she oversees the dig she must make sense of the cloud of death and misfortune hanging over the project, and cope with her ex-husband Jake.
Rating coming soonShortly after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones learns that she has inherited a large townhouse in Chelsea, London. Adopted as an infant, she knows very little about her biological family, and what she learns is that she was found alive in the house as a baby after the police uncovered the bodies of three adults. Libby's own birth name was Serenity Lamb.
Rating coming soonSomeone has put a price on Anita Blake's head, and dating both a vampire and a werewolf was not the hardest part of her life. Love cannot save her this time, so she turns to Edward, a hitman, for help in finding out who is behind the threat. The buyer is not somebody she knows, and the reason for the contract is not obvious.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works, and because Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured the suspicion falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects something else and works with Sam to find the culprit and the motive. The answer is not the one the neighbours assume it is.
Rating coming soonBefore Owen Michaels disappears during an embezzlement investigation, he smuggles a note to his wife of one year: protect her. Hannah Hall knows exactly who he means, and it is Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, who lost her mother as a child and wants nothing to do with her new stepmother.
Rating coming soonNew York City is under siege by a secret militia group, and two people are in a position to stop it: a federal agent and a woman lawyer. The group has threatened to destroy Wall Street with a series of explosions, and it makes no demands and will not negotiate. Those two are the only people who might be able to stop it in time.
Rating coming soonDerek Vandeveer is a pioneering expert in computer and network security with a traditional hacker personality, and his life changes irrevocably after the attacks of 11 September 2001. Within months his fortune is gone to a scandal of the kind that ruined Enron, and he is recruited into a new wing of the government.
Rating coming soonZoe Luce is an interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who specialises in helping divorced clients start again. She can sense the history hidden inside a house, and when she suspects one of her clients is keeping a dangerous secret she hires the private investigator Ethan Truax, whose work puts her carefully arranged new identity at risk.
Rating coming soonIn Los Angeles in 1960 the child of one of America's richest men is kidnapped, and the novel follows the private detective searching for the child, a hit man in the days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and a modern journalist setting out to debunk the conspiracy theories of the era, until all three stories start to converge.
Rating coming soonA heart transplant gives television presenter Cat Delaney a second chance, and she leaves Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a show for children with special needs and meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer. Then other recipients of donor hearts begin dying in accidents, and a stalker starts following her.
Rating coming soonThe killer takes two victims at a time, leaving the first body to be found with all the clues needed to locate the second, who is dying slowly while the police work. They have never been in time. Now a heat wave has settled over the country and two girls have disappeared, and a rookie FBI agent believes the deadline can still be met.
Rating coming soonErin Kelley and Darcy Scott are best friends who come to New York after college to start their careers, Erin as a jewellery designer and Darcy as a decorator. On a whim Darcy talks Erin into helping a television producer research the people who place personal advertisements, and the seemingly harmless exercise ends when Erin disappears.
Rating coming soonClare meets Andi near Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin and there is an instant attraction between them. When he invites her to stay in his apartment she thinks she may have found a home at last, but as the days pass and the walls close in she begins to wonder whether it is really love that Andi is looking for.
Rating coming soonDavid James Forrester, a solicitor, sits in his car and records a statement: that he killed his wife, Elle, that evening at ten past six. As he thinks back over their relationship, passionate and intense from the start, Elle looks back over the same years from her side, and her account shows how wrong she was about the man she loved.
Rating coming soonNora Davis was eleven and doing her homework in her bedroom when the police arrived at the family home: her father had been killing women in the basement. Decades later he is in prison, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet life and a secret she intends to keep, until one of her young patients is murdered in the same distinctive way.
Rating coming soonPip Fitz-Amobi is about to leave for college, and the investigations she carried out in her home town have left her with death threats and a true-crime podcast that made her famous. An anonymous questioner keeps asking her something she cannot answer, and the pursuit that follows is the last one she has to survive.
Rating coming soonClaire Laurent has built French Silk, a successful lingerie company, out of nothing in New Orleans. When a television evangelist denounces her sleepwear as sinful and is then murdered, Claire becomes the prime suspect, and every answer she gives about the night of the killing makes the district attorney more certain of her guilt.
Rating coming soonMichael Rogers is a young rolling stone who has never settled to anything, and when he sees the Gipsy's Acre estate he decides that he wants to live there in a house built by the architect Rudolf Santonix. He is poor, the land carries a bad reputation, and the novel is told in his own voice as he explains how he came to be there.
Rating coming soonOn a snowy winter evening in Dartmoor, Mrs Willett and her daughter hold a table-turning session for their guests, and the spirit that answers tells them Captain Trevelyan is dead. Major Burnaby walks through the snow to check on his friend, and Emily Trefusis, who is engaged to the captain's nephew, joins the police in working out what has happened.
Rating coming soonSlough House is the office where MI5 keeps the officers who have disgraced themselves: a lost file, a blown surveillance, a reputation for drink. River Cartwright, bitterest of them all, spends his days transcribing phone conversations until a British-Pakistani student is kidnapped and held hostage, and the slow horses find a way into a real case.
Rating coming soonCayce Pollard is a marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols, and her work takes her to London, Tokyo and Moscow to judge proposed logos. She is also addicted to fragments of film footage being posted anonymously on the internet, and she is hired to find whoever is making them.
Rating coming soonInspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad in Besźel investigates the murder of a foreign student found dead in the street with her face disfigured. His inquiries lead him towards Ul Qoma, the city that shares his city's ground, and towards the quarrel between two places whose citizens are forbidden to acknowledge each other.
Rating coming soonLeonora Shaw is a crime writer with a settled and solitary life in London who has not seen her old friend Clare for ten years. She accepts an invitation to Clare's hen party at a glass house in the English countryside, and wakes in hospital afterwards with a head injury and no memory of what happened.
Rating coming soonTen years ago Quincy Carpenter went on holiday with five friends and was the only one to come out of Pinewood Cottage alive. The press grouped her with two other survivors of massacres, Lisa and Sam, and called them the final girls. Now Lisa is dead and Sam has arrived at Quincy's home, determined to make her remember that night.
Rating coming soonBurton Corliss is a young man from a working-class town who came out of the war with a hunger for wealth and a willingness to do anything to get it. At college he meets Dorothy Kingship, the daughter of a copper tycoon, and sets out to marry into the family, until she becomes pregnant and his plans are threatened.
Rating coming soonLou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small Texas town, and the worst thing most people say about him is that he is a little slow and a little boring. He also carries a sickness that nearly had him locked up when he was younger, and it is about to surface again.
Rating coming soonNew York in 1999 holds thirty-five million people, who run their televisions off pedal power, riot for water and live in rooms shared with strangers. Detective Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the murder of a gangster during a heat wave, and he is also drawn to the dead man's girlfriend, which makes an already crowded life more difficult to manage.
Rating coming soonMolly Gray is twenty-five, works as a maid at the Regency Grand Hotel and takes real joy in returning a messy room to a state of perfection. She does not read social cues well, and since her grandmother died she has had to interpret the world on her own, which leaves her easy for other people to deceive.
Rating coming soonJack McEvoy is a crime reporter in Denver whose twin brother, a homicide detective, has died in what the authorities call a suicide. Unable to believe it, Jack re-examines the case his brother was working on and concludes that the death was staged, and his search leads him towards a killer who preys on detectives.
Rating coming soonA killer is stalking the streets of Boston, entering the apartments of women who live alone and torturing them before he kills, with a level of surgical skill that suggests a doctor. Detective Jane Rizzoli and her colleague Thomas Moore work the case, and their enquiries lead them to a surgeon who survived an attack of the same kind.
Rating coming soonA young college professor is found mutilated in a diner in a small Georgia town, and the autopsy by the paediatrician and part-time coroner Sara Linton shows how much the killer did before she died. Sara works the case with the police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, who is her ex-husband, and the detective Lena Adams, the dead woman's twin sister.
Rating coming soonMariana Andros, a group therapist, is certain that Edward Fosca, a charismatic professor of Greek tragedy at Cambridge, is a murderer. Fosca is protected by his reputation and adored by the students, especially the members of a secret society of young women known as the Maidens, and Mariana becomes fixated on them when one of them is found dead.
Rating coming soonThe Godfather follows the Corleone family, a Mafia family in New York City and Long Island, from 1945 to 1955 under its head, Vito Corleone. It also carries the story of Vito's own childhood and rise, from his early years to adulthood, and it introduced English-speaking readers to the vocabulary of the American Mafia.
Rating coming soonIn 1996 Dirk Pitt is searching for a treasure on the Nile when he prevents an attempt on the life of a United Nations scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness and death. The suspected cause is a vast pollution that threatens to extinguish life in the world's seas.
Rating coming soonMatthew Sobol, a brilliant programmer and the chief technology officer of a games company, dies of brain cancer, and the publication of his obituary activates a daemon: a distributed program that begins to change the real world. Its first task is to kill two programmers who worked for his company and unknowingly helped to create it.
Rating coming soonSVR director Sergey Golovko survives an attempt on his life in Moscow, when a car identical to his own is destroyed with a rocket-propelled grenade. The investigation points towards Chinese intelligence, and President Jack Ryan finds himself dealing with a war between Russia and China as well as the politics of his own government.
Rating coming soonNancy Harmon fled her first marriage, the deaths of her two small children and the charges that followed, changed her name and moved across the country. She is married again with two more children and a happy life, until one morning she goes to find them and sees only a tattered red mitten.
Rating coming soonFrank Pollard wakes each night with no memory of where he has been or what he has done, and finds himself injured or carrying objects he does not recognise. Two private investigators, Bobby and Julie Dakota, are hired to find out what is happening to him, and their work leads into a web of experiments and family secrets.
Rating coming soonIn 1997 a woman is found murdered near an army base in Carter Crossing, Mississippi, and the evidence points to a soldier. Military police officer Jack Reacher is sent undercover to find out what happened and then to disappear, and his instructions are to keep the army out of a scandal rather than to solve the crime.
Rating coming soonPatrick Lanigan, a junior partner in a law firm in Biloxi, Mississippi, learns that his firm's client and its senior partners are defrauding the government over navy shipbuilding contracts. He fakes his own death, takes ninety million dollars of the firm's hidden money and disappears to South America, and four years later he is found.
Rating coming soonInspector Sartaj Singh, one of the few Sikh officers in the Mumbai police, is invited to pursue the city's most legendary crime boss, Ganesh Gaitonde. Gaitonde describes a long criminal career and drops hints about his collaborators before killing himself, and the novel runs on two tracks: his past and the hunt for what his last words meant.
Rating coming soonCilla McGowan was a child star and now restores old houses, and she comes to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia to save the farmhouse her grandmother, a legendary actress, left behind. The house brings back dreams of the grandmother, who died of a suspected overdose more than thirty years earlier.
Rating coming soonJack Reacher walks into Hope, a small town in Colorado, and discovers that twelve miles of empty road separate it from a second town called Despair. He asks for a cup of coffee and gets a reception he did not expect, from a place that not only wants him gone but would rather he did not leave alive.
Rating coming soonVirginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, prepares for the autopsy of the convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell before he has been executed, and watches the clock until he is pronounced dead in the electric chair. His death is not the end of her involvement with him, and the body in her morgue is only the first complication.
Mystery and thriller covers a wide set of shelves in one place here: golden-age puzzle plots and hard-boiled noir, police procedurals and amateur sleuths, historical mystery, crime fiction from many countries, and the contemporary psychological and domestic suspense novels where the question is who in the room is lying.
Espionage and legal thrillers sit here too, because the engine is the same one: something hidden, someone working out what it is, and a clock. A book qualifies when the plot turns on an investigation, a deception or a pursuit rather than on a speculative idea, which is why books with a science-fiction or fantasy premise live on those shelves instead.
Tags are cross-cutting markers, not genres. They have their own landing pages.
The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.
676 booksPrimary genreEpic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.
685 booksPrimary genreGeneration ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.
536 booksPrimary genreHaunted houses, old vampires, cosmic dread and the odd very bad week.
381 booksPrimary genreCathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.
580 booksPrimary genreNovels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.
575 booksPrimary genreShipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.
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