 | Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Buy used from: £0.01 Dennis Lehane moves from the mystery author's genre to one of today's best fiction writers with this extraordinary novel. You don't get much better than this!
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 | The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
Buy used from: £1.26 Absolute Best espionage thriller! Political intrigue from the Nazi era to the Vietnam War.
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 | The Company: A Novel of the CIA by Robert Littell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Extremely well-written, well-researched fictional account of the history of the Cold War & the CIA!
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 | Fall from Grace by Larry Collins
Buy used from: £0.75 Exceptional! WWII thriller & fictional account of Churchill's "Plan Fortitude," which was designed to influence the decision making of the German High Command by supplying them with disinformation.
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 | El Ocho / The Eight by Katherine Neville
Buy used from: £9.83 A fabulous mystery, this is Katherine Neville's debut novel - with an intellectual bent! Set in 1972 and...1790, this one is filled with historical puzzles and makes a brilliant read!
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 | The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.67 Gripping WWII novel of espionage, including Churchill, Eisenhower, etc., in the cast of characters. There's also a lovely, & deadly, "sleeper" agent whose mission is to prevent the Normandy invasion.
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 | The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 In post WWII Spain, a boy is initiated into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. He selects one for himself & unknowingly opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets.
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 | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating concept! A murder is committed in the Louvre. This is a gripping, complex & well-researched story - involving an age-old secret society and the mysteries of Western civilization.
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 | Deception Point by Dan Brown
Buy used from: £0.01 Another Dan Brown winner. A meteor is discovered buried deep beneath Arctic ice, proving that life does exist on other planets. A well-written, political intrigue, & white-knuckle thriller of a book!
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 | Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Arkady Renko is finally reunited with his lovely Irina, from "Gorky Park," in this compelling tale of crime, corruption and desperation in contemporary Russia.
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 | Chiefs by Stuart Woods
Buy used from: £0.04 Murders most foul in 1920s Georgia take three police chiefs and four decades to solve. Extraordinary historical novel about the burden behind the badge. Edgar Award Winner!
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 | The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett
Buy used from: £1.99 In W.W. II Cairo, a down-on-his-luck English officer and a beautiful Jewish girl try to stop a Nazi agent from passing secrets to Rommel that can win the war for Germany. One of Follett's best!
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 | Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Meet Stephanie Plum and read about her unique, laugh-out-loud, very well-written adventures. You should begin with book #1, but this is one of the series' best. Hilarious, well-plotted mystery!
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 | Up Country by Nelson DeMille
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 DeMille takes us on a suspenseful tour of Vietnam, now & then, with this fascinating, unusual mystery. A vet returns to Vietnam to investigate a crime committed 35 years earlier.
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 | The Bottoms by Joe R Lansdale
Buy used from: £2.87 This extraordinary novel won an Edgar Award! Set in Texas during the Depression, a boy & his sister find the dead & mutilated body of a black woman. Chilling!
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| The Amateur by Robert Littell
Buy used from: £0.01 Crack CIA cryptographer becomes a rogue - an amateur field agent - in his obsession to right a terrible wrong! Unputdownable!!
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 | Flood by Andrew H. Vachss
Buy used from: £1.51 Andrew Vachss' first novel featuring Burke, the hard-boiled, in-your-face, ex-con detective. Superb characters, excellent writing, tension-filled plot!
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 | Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Buy used from: £0.01 This 2nd Kenzie/Gennaro heavyweight thriller will keep you on edge as the protagonists go through one harrowing, experience after another. Twists & turns from beginning to end!
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 | A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
Buy used from: £0.01 This book won the Golden Dagger Award in the UK, but is a sleeper in the US. Well-written and complex, the story goes back & forth between 1941 & 1999 to solve a decades old murder.
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 | The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos
Buy used from: £2.27 Pelecanos is at his best with this charged page-turner, set in DC post- WWII. A gangster epic of friendship, betrayal and flawed redemption
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 | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 The ingeniously plotted, fantastically imagined, downright creepy tale of a serial killer, with debut appearance of Hannibal Lecter.
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 | The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 FBI's Clarice Starling, Hannibal ("The Cannibal") Lecter, a series of gruesome murders, equals a perfect recipe for nightmares. The book is much better than the excellent movie of the same title.
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 | Dangerous Women
Buy used from: £0.14 Seventeen outstanding mystery writers give us their take on dangerous women in this wicked collection of 17 short stories. Check-out the authors! Fabulous fiction!
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 | Sandstorm by James Rollins
Buy used from: £6.41 An Indiana Jones type guy takes-on "the perfect (sand) storm" in the great central Arabian desert. A deadly search for a fabled lost city, buried treasure, lots of historic detail - a riveting read!
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 | The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
Buy used from: £0.01 Peter S., a 36 yr. old out of work actor, is on his second martini at "The Losers' Place," when a woman, covered in mink, wearing dark glasses, hands him $50. and asks him, "Your place?" Thrilling!
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