by Richard Osman (2024)
The thrilling launch of Richard Osman's brand-new detective series. Steve Wheeler, a retired cop who loves his quiet life in a Hampshire village, is dragged across the globe by his daughter-in-law Amy, a private bodyguard protecting a mega-celebrity author targeted by a ruthless killer.
Richard Osman
In a peaceful luxury retirement village in Kent, four unlikely septuagenarian friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to investigate unsolved crimes. When a ruthless local real estate developer is found murdered with a mysterious photograph beside his body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
Richard Osman
The second installment in the Thursday Murder Club series. Elizabeth receives a letter from an old colleague—a man she once loved—who has made a grave mistake: stealing twenty million pounds worth of diamonds from the mafia. A bloodthirsty mobster and a shadowy assassin target the village, and the club must outsmart them all.
A.P. McCoy
Duncan Claymore could have it all. He's one of the country's up and coming young jockeys and this season his sights are set on getting right to the top. He has the talent and the tenacity, but he also has his demons, and it's these that threaten to overthrow his burning ambition. Duncan was taught everything he knows by his father, Charlie, a former trainer whose career and reputation were destroyed when a series of bitter rivalries got out of hand. It ruined him and Charlie hasn't been able to set foot on a racecourse since. Now, with his father's health rapidly declining, Duncan is desperate to beat the best and at the same time take down the men responsible for Charlie's ruin. But can he do both or must he choose between his family and his future? Dark, gripping and compulsive, 'Taking the Fall' is the first thriller from champion jockey, A.P. McCoy.
Linwood Barclay
A thrilling story in which two brothers suddenly find themselves pulled into a frightening vortex of power and murder…Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his computer screen.Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon—but has not—in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered.Thomas’s brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy.And now they are in the crosshairs… ([source][1]) [1]: