مؤلف: Si n. Reynolds

It’s as if he’s being mocked from beyond the grave. When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is immediately caught up in the detritus of Alan Musgrave’s life, the side of P …

This enchanting study on the art of living with books considers how our personal libraries reveal our true nature: far more than just places, they are living labyrinths of our innermost feelings. The …

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senio …

‘Beautiful and deep … a sumptuous treat for any book lover’ The Independent’Food for short story lovers everywhere’ Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of t …

On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered s …

Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in pris …

Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and Estalere …

People will die, says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target t …

Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not …

The opera singer Sophia Sim onidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosle …

Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER WITHOUT A BODY?Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician’s nephew, ex-special investigator Lou …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Cl ment Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartme …

*Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade*THE NEW INSPECTOR ADAMSBERG NOVELShortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017A woman is found dead in her bath. The murder has been disg …

** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France’s multi-million-copy bestselling crime fiction star**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**’Adams …

‘The father of contemporary European detective fiction’ Ann Cleeves ‘Just take a look, ‘ Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in i …

The city of Simenon’s youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Li ge, book ten in the new Penguin Maigret series.In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cath …

‘Powerful . . . unputdownably gripping’ Guardian’The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son’s bed, the deafening sound of cicadas’During his first …

‘The most addictive of writers’ Observer ‘High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where ros wine was being served … Yet a hundred metres …

Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar?Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. A diamond merchant was found dea …

‘A unique teller of tales … What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate’ Observer’She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely …

‘You’ll get used to things, you’ll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.’Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Bl …

‘The father of contemporary European detective fiction’ Ann Cleeves’Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one cou …

‘The father of contemporary European detective fiction’ Ann Cleeves’He hadn’t seen her arrive. She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Poli …

‘Sensuously detailed . . . edgy . . . riveting’ Financial Times Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late husband le …

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon’s best loved masterpieces.’A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion … disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blin …