"This stand-alone is easy to read and difficult to put down." - Bookzilla"Fun, fast, fresh!" - BookJunkieImagine your favorite teachers from high school are dying, being mysteriously murdered one by one soon after the arrival of the new English instructor...Mackenzie August is starting a new life. After a successful but destructive career as a high-profile California homicide detective, and then a less successful and even more destructive stint working for a church,...

*****SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MOLLY BELLE WRIGHT, MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, Barry Award for Best First Novel, Agatha Award for Best First Novel, Dilys Winn Award, Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, Spotted Owl Award for Best Novel, and CWA Debut Dagger Award**Meet eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist w...

The twentieth installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks seriesDCI Alan Banks is back—and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. A respected officer convalescing at the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, is killed by a crossbow while on the facility's tranquil grounds, and the initial investigation uncovers compromising photos in his room. Soon after, a Professional Standards Inspector arrives in Eastvale and insists on wor...

The twenty-first book in the much-loved, internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series.A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Banks, much to the ch...

"Brilliantly plotted, beautifully paced, it gathers speed and dread until I could barely stand it. Peter Robinson writes with compassion, with depth, with the assurance of a writer at the top of his game and rewards us with a truly heart-pounding finale." —Louise PennyThe twenty-second installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks seriesThe story begins with a series of criminal incidents: a stolen tractor; an apparent crim...

The thrilling twenty-fifth installment in Peter Robinson's #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series, in which Banks and his team find themselves investigating two suspicious deaths.A young, local student has apparently died by suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. Didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why?Meanwhile, a man in his sixties is found dead in a gully u...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film—“one of the most fun people in show business” (Time magazine)—Alan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unp...

The twenty-third installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks seriesWhen the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused, and thrown from a moving van—before being beaten to death.While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted DSI Alan Banks must do the same—but the crime Banks is investigating i...

*****SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Flavia is incisive, cutting and hilarious . . . one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.” —USA Today**Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder—but, then again, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die. When Porson’s van breaks down in Bishop’s Lacey, he becomes the victim of an electrocution too perfectly planned to b...

***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES*****NATIONAL BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, Best Crime Novel**It’s Christmastime, and Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry—is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces...

***SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MOLLY BELLE WRIGHT, MARTIN FREEMAN, JONATHAN PRYCE, AND TOBY JONES***INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBanished! is how eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when she discovers that her father and Aunt Felicity have had her shipped off to Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flav...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERPeter Robinson a "master of the police procedural" (Mail on Sunday) returns with the twenty-sixth installment of the #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series.A skinny young boy is found dead—his body carelessly stuffed into a wheelie bin. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was his body discarded, or left as a warning to someone? He ...