Crime fiction but not in the way I expected. In many ways the crime element is secondary to the story of the main character, Ray, and his struggle between being an upstanding businessman or embracing the crook within. New York in the 1960s comes alive on the page. This is one of those books that is a joy to read and occasionally pulls you up with a phrase or image so wonderful you have to stop and read it again. Plus crime of course!
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents…
It's always fun reading a book set in a different country, but what really hooked me here was the protagonist, Antonia Scott. She's fragile, needs pills to quiet the screaming monkeys in her head, and happens to possess one of the most brillient crime-solving minds in the world. She's teamed with a minder, a disgraced cop, tasked with keeping her on the job and out of trouble. Add a serial killer, high stakes, and a devious plot, and you have a sensational thriller that rockets the reader along to the last page.
Now an Amazon Prime Original series, Red Queen is the first in Juan Gomez-Jurado's internationally bestselling thriller series, translated by Nick Caistor. Winner of the Cognac Prize 2022 with more than two million copies sold in Spain alone.
Sunday Times - Best Thriller Books of the Year
'A Spanish spin on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . . . A female Sherlock Holmes' - The Times
You've never met anyone like her . . .
Antonia Scott is special. Very special. She is not a policewoman or a lawyer. She has never wielded a weapon or carried a badge,…
Hard-boiled writing and a rich setting. Crime, corruption and long-game power struggles (within the family and between rival crime bosses) play out in what has been described as "India's answer to 'The Godfather'". It's literary, seasoned with a good dash of action and violence.
"A love letter to Hitchcock and Highsmith, fueled by women's rage. Once you start you won't be able to stop." — Hayley Scrivenor
"Grieving women sign up for Strangers on a Train–style revenge in this brisk spine-tingler from Kovacic" — Publishers Weekly
Mia's grief counselling practice, The Pleiades, is named for the seven sisters from Greek mythology who were the companions of the Goddess of the Hunt—and who, in some stories, die of grief or are killed to be saved from attackers.
Mia has been gathering broken women together for a radical form of group therapy. Amy. Gabrielle. Katy. Brooke. Olivia. Five women crippled with grief by the murders of their sisters—and seething with rage that the partners who killed them all walk free. She just needs one more.
When Mia meets Naomi, she knows she has found the perfect candidate, but Naomi is resistant. She only needs to meet the others before she realizes that they, too, are consumed with desire for hands-on revenge. Under Mia's guidance, the women devise a plan to heal themselves. They'll take back their lives from the men who took their sisters. The premise is satisfyingly simple: I'll kill yours if you kill mine...
