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MURDER ABROAD
The Godmother
by Hannelore Cayre
£8.99 Paperback
2020 Winner of the European Crime Fiction Prize and the French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere as well as the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
French noir: Fiery, funny and startlingly original Meet Patience Portefeux. She is 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen and grey-suited civil servant and lives in the banlieues of Paris. When a chance to supplement her meagre earnings comes along, Patience doesn't hesitate. Meet The Godmother. 'Vivid, smoky dialogue and an ending that ticks all the boxes' (Le Figaro).
Japan
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
by Seishi Yokomizo
£8.99 Paperback
Winter, 1937. On the night of Kenzo's wedding, Kenzo and his new bride are brutally murdered in the village of Okamura. The murderer has vanished, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword thrust into the pristine snow outside the house. This seemingly impossible murder must be solved by amateur detective, Kosuke Kindaichi.
Yokomizo was one of Japan's most famous mystery writers. The Honjin Murders is the first Kosuke Kindaichi story, and is regarded as one of Japan's great mystery novels. Pushkin Vertigo also publish The Inugami Curse by the same author.
Heading up North
The Kingdom
by Jo Nesbo
£20.00 Hardback
We have some signed copies of Jo Nesbo's new standalone novel, a compelling dark new thriller set in a small town filled with secrets.
In the far north of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems.
Cracow, 1893
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
by Maryla Szymiczkowa
£12.99, Paperback
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing vividly recreates life in turn-of-the-century Poland, confronting a range of issues from class prejudice to women's rights.
Desperate to relieve her boredom and improve her social standing, Zofia Turbotynska decides to organise a charity raffle. In a bid to recruit the patronage of elderly aristocratic ladies, she visits Helcel House, a retirement home run by nuns.
But when two of the residents are found dead, Zofia discovers that her real talents lie in solving crimes is solving mysteries.
Bitter Lemon Press
A Quiet Place
by Seicho Matsumoto
£8.99, Paperback
Bitter Lemon Press specialises in high quality thrillers and other contemporary crime fiction books from abroad and books from their list are always worth reading. This is a recent translation of one of the late Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers, one of Japan's most successful crime writers.
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news of her death wasn't totally unexpected. But the circumstances of her demise left Tsuneo, a softly-spoken government bureaucrat, perplexed. How did it come about that his wife-who was shy and withdrawn, and only left their house twice a week to go to haiku meetings-ended up dead in a small shop in a shady Tokyo neighborhood?
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Simenon in London
The Man from London
by Georges Simenon
£8.99, Paperback
Some consider Simenon's non-Maigret novels his best. This new edition of this haunting, atmospheric novel soon became a classic and the inspiration for several film and TV adaptations. It was written in 1933, soon after the successful launch of the Inspector Maigret novels.
Murder at Home
Is this the best crime novel ever?
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
£8.99, Paperback
Family tensions on a staycation.
The Life of Poirot
Agatha Christie, Poirot
by Mark Aldridge
£25.00, Hardback
This is a new biography of the most famous detective in the world. Mark Aldridge charts the development of Christie's fastidious Belgian decade by decade, book by book, and onto stage and screen.
A locked room mystery
The Red House Mystery
Edited by A.A. Milne
This is A. A. Milne's only detective story. The Red House Mysteryis a lost gem from a time before Tigger and a perfectly crafted whodunnit with witty dialogue, deft plotting and a most curious cast of characters.
A locked island mystery
Murder on Mustique
by Anne Glenconner
£16.99, Hardback
The sensational Lady Anne Glenconner, fresh from her triumph on the bestseller lists last Christmas with her memoir, Lady in Waiting, has taken to crime with a detective mystery set on her beloved island of Mustique. A tropical storm is approaching. Most villa owners have fled the island, but a few socialites remain. When America heiress Amanda Fortini disappears in suspicious circumstances, her friend turns to her godmother, the glamorous Lady Veronica Blake who owns the island.
Literary Shenanigans
The Festival Murders
by Mark McCrum
£8.99, Paperback
Normally at this time of year we are frantically organising the Aldeburgh Literary Festival. This year we have time to put our feet up and read McCrum's debut novel. When Bryce Peabody, legendarily vicious literary critic, author of The Poisoned Pen, is murdered the night before his festival talk on 'Celebrity and Hypocrisy', there are many candidates present who might have wished him dead. McCrum's next book is set on a Creative Writing Workshop in Umbria: the haunts of writers providing a rich seam for murder.
Her Majesty The Queen Investigates
The Windsor Knot
by S.J. Bennett
£12.99, Hardback
On a perfect Spring morning at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth II will enjoy a cup of tea, carry out all her royal duties . . . and solve a murder.
The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to discover that one of her guests has been found murdered in his room, with a rope around his neck.
Miss Marple meets The Crown in The Windsor Knot, the first book in the 'Her Majesty The Queen Investigates' mystery series.