Moving between a missing sister and the daughter growing up under her father’s control, the novel traces the chain of coercion and violence hidden inside a family. It is both a search for the truth and a quiet account of damaged relationships trying to reconnect.

The absence of a lost sister slowly reshapes the time left to the family behind.

As present-day crimes collide with Savannah’s long family histories, society matriarch Morgana Musgrove pushes toward the truth. Using the city itself as a clue, the novel traces family fractures and the lingering memory of violence in a Southern Gothic mystery.

Beneath the city's polished surface, Savannah’s hidden history comes into view.

Set in 1967 Los Angeles, the novel braids together a nurse searching for her missing brother, a retired private investigator on a murder case, and a mob fixer trying to finish one last job. As jazz, gangsters, police, and politics collide, it delivers an expansive final movement for the quartet.

Disaster and music keep sounding in the same breath of the city.

New York Times bestseller.

New York Times bestseller.

善悪の境界を揺さぶる心理サスペンス。容疑者／被害者といった立場の曖昧さを通じて人間の嘘や記憶、倫理が浮かび上がり、読者に道徳的な問いを投げかける緊張感ある物語。

善悪の境界を揺さぶる心理サスペンス。

A dark crime novel about a gruesome serial-killer case. The bizarre method of staging victims like puppets and the investigators’ psychological strain gradually reveal the crime’s depths.

Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn is pulled back into both the criminal underworld and the courtroom after a kidnapping case. The truths told by his client, witnesses, and the unseen manipulator keep shifting as rescue mission and legal strategy converge.

A sharp legal thriller about who believes the lie and who is controlling it.

深刻な干ばつに苦しむオーストラリアの小さな町を舞台に、主人公が幼馴染の死の真相を追う本格ミステリ。町に横たわる過去の秘密や人間関係の歪みが徐々に明らかになり、緊迫した真相解明が展開される。

深刻な干ばつに苦しむオーストラリアの小さな町を舞台に、主人公が幼馴染の死の真相を追う本格ミステリ。

A crime novel with road-novel energy that follows a group of young men moving through a world of violence and crime.

The journey into unfamiliar territory tests the boys’ sense of morality.

A suspense novel built around the hunt for an escaped prisoner, exploring violence, redemption, and family responsibility.

It is not the story of a man running away, but of a man trying to save something.

A Mississippi crime novel in which a past disappearance and a new one expose buried friendship, guilt, and racial tension in a small town.

A crime novel about friendship, guilt, and race in small-town Mississippi.

Father Anselm is drawn into a wartime secret that reaches back to Passchendaele and tests loyalty, memory, and moral judgment. The novel blends the atmosphere of a thriller with questions of guilt, faith, and responsibility.

A thriller about wartime secrets, guilt, and moral judgment.

A psychological suspense novel built around old secrets and tangled relationships. As the investigation follows conflicting memories and surviving testimony, the characters’ ethical dilemmas and darker impulses gradually come to light.

Conflicting testimony and memory make the story steadily more unsettling.

Set around a murder in an Australian coastal town, the novel follows a returning detective as he uncovers local power structures and past violence. Dense character work and a sharp look at social darkness blend hard-boiled crime with social criticism.

A returning detective traces the violence buried beneath a small town.

Set in a small Shetland town, the novel centers on the disappearance and murder of a young woman. As prejudice and rumor in the closed island community complicate the case, the detective confronts the past and moves toward the truth.

An enclosed island setting that tightens both the mystery and the relationships.

A set of human bones found in reclaimed land sends Reykjavík detective Erlendur back to an unsolved case from decades earlier. Family history, communal memory, and social prejudice intertwine in a cold northern landscape that reveals human frailty and guilt.

A buried crime and buried memory resurfacing in the cold.

In this V. I. Warshawski novel, the private investigator confronts the dark side of corporate power. Past crimes and present conspiracies intertwine in a hard-boiled story about social justice, professional ethics, and corruption.

A V.I. Warshawski novel where power and ethics collide.

The Athenian Murders is a 2002 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Sidetracked is a 2001 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Motherless Brooklyn is a 2000 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A Small Death in Lisbon is a 1999 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A hard-edged crime novel that pushes Dave Robicheaux into a tense struggle over violence, corruption, and conscience.

A hard-edged crime novel that pushes Dave Robicheaux into a tense struggle over violence, corruption, and conscience.

Black and Blue is a 1997 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A crime novel built around serial murder and criminal profiling, with gender and violence under constant pressure.

The dark outline of the case emerges through investigation and psychological profiling.

The Scold's Bridle is a 1994 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Cruel and Unusual is a 1993 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

The Way Through the Woods is a 1992 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

King Solomon's Carpet is a 1991 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Winner of the 1990 CWA Gold Dagger Award. Yorkshire police superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a man pointing a gun at a woman through his kitchen window, but when he arrives on the scene, the woman is dead and both male suspects insist she was trying to shoot herself. Meanwhile, Pascoe receives anonymous letters from a woman predicting her own suicide, and Dalziel is persuaded to play God in a large outdoor production of the medieval York Mystery plays. The three story threads intertwine in the eleventh Dalziel and Pascoe novel.

Dalziel plays God while a silent woman foretells her own death — British crime fiction at its finest

The Wench Is Dead is a 1989 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Ratking is a 1988 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Live Flesh is a 1986 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A courtroom thriller built around the uncertainty of a jury and the psychological tension surrounding the accused. As the case unfolds, the line between fact, perception, and personal motive becomes increasingly unstable.

Before truth can settle, assumptions begin to drive the courtroom.

A psychological crime novel in which a small lie draws in an investigation and unravels the protagonist's life, foregrounding self-deception more than the crime itself.

The case looks accidental, but the real breakage is psychological.

The False Inspector Dew is a 1982 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Gorky Park is a 1981 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

The Murder of the Maharajah is a 1980 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Whip Hand is a 1979 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

The Chelsea Murders is a 1978 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

The Honourable Schoolboy is a 1977 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A Demon in My View is a 1976 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A Sherlock Holmes pastiche in which Freud helps Holmes confront addiction and a kidnapping plot.

Holmes and Freud meet in a mystery of addiction and kidnapping.

A spy thriller in which the memory of World War I collides with a contemporary investigation.

The past of the trenches slowly invades a present-day mystery.

The Defection of A.J. Lewinter is a 1973 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

The Levanter is a 1972 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

The Steam Pig is a 1971 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

Young Man, I Think You're Dying is a 1970 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A Pride of Heroes is a 1969 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

The clearer the outline of the case becomes, the more complicated the characters' relationships grow.

A corporate mystery in which a lawyer-detective investigates a killing tied to the grain trade and economic pressure.

A corporate mystery in which a lawyer-detective investigates a killing tied to the grain trade and economic pressure.

Set in Istanbul, this mystery turns a chance sighting and a simple handoff into a much larger incident. Centered on Nuri Bey, it builds a chain of unpredictable clues while drawing strength from its sense of place and cultural texture.

An ordinary errand pulls the whole city atmosphere into the mystery.

Set in a Staffordshire pottery factory, the novel sends private investigator Hedley Nicholson into an industrial espionage case that widens into murder and workplace intrigue.

The factory floor becomes the scene of the mystery.

Young Nicholas Whistler is sent from London to Prague on what seems like a routine errand, only to be drawn into Cold War espionage. The debut novel uses a lightly ironic voice to build suspicion and tension step by step.

A reluctant young man is pulled, almost against his will, into the world of spies.