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With The Necropolis Railway - his third novel - Martin has changed tack considerably by writing a murder mystery potboiler set in and around Edwardian London's steamy, sooty, grimy Waterloo station.

Dibdin has gathered a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction for this collection to shed real insight into the laws, whys and wherefores of crime.

If Larsson keeps up the narrative pace of The Savage Altar in the other five Rebecka Martinsson mysteries still to be published in the UK, you – and Rebecka – will be shattered by the end of the final volume.

Sam Leith’s debut novel is an entertaining romp through a paranoid America, a paranoid tech-savvy packet of ideas, much like if Douglas Adams wrote The X Files.

For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined.

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress.

Bullets are flying. A speeding car is swerving in and out of the fast lane and the man in the passenger seat has something to be sorry for

The Elephant Keepers' Children is just silly enough to be clever and just mad enough to make perfect sense.

Dance and Dream now takes us even deeper into the dark world of Jacques Deza as his relationship with his shadowy boss, Bertram Tupra, becomes increasingly disconcerting.

This collection opens with a story about a man who has been repeatedly struck by lightning and is waiting for a final blast to finish him off for good.

From classic crime to magical anti-realism, hot sex to cold calculation, these stories cover all the bases.

All Men are Liars is both a suspenseful murder mystery and a witty observation on the unreliability of memory from one of Argentina's most celebrated contemporary authors.

Fever and Spear is the first volume in a series of 'novel in parts', set in the murky world of surveillance and espionage.

Night and day, dark and light, the rise and set of the sun, all within twenty four hours. What if this began to change?

In this, the seventh Sejer mystery to be translated into English, the detective is called upon to investigate a dead body floating in a lake by a remote cabin. The verdict is one of suicide, but Sejer is convinced there is more to the death than initially thought.

The ghastly history of the Thug stranglers is well told in Mike Dash's thoroughly researched and entertaining (if that's the word) new book.

The Never List starts out as an intriguing psychological thriller.

Although possibly the most mind-bending novel I have picked up in a long while, this is also one of the most readable and thought provoking.

In Seldom Seen, Sarah Ridgard has written a claustrophobic, compelling coming-of-age tale that will reward a patient reader.

The Water's Edge is a gripping psychological novel from a highly skilled crime writer, with an outstanding translation by Charlotte Barslund.

There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon.

Manil Suri's new novel, The City of Devi, is a weird postmodern dystopia, a thriller and a love story.

The Guard is a superbly written novel, and a great read; part horror, part science fiction, but always original.

This intriguing debut novel leaps between Adèle's viewpoint in the 1920s and a present day journalist, who is investigating the removal of a key scene from the original film negatives of Petite Mort - who would do this and what have they got to hide? Petite Mort will keep you guessing right up until the last page.

LA Confidential is set in 1950s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze.

Contemporary Louisiana can't escape its slave trade past in Orange Prize-shortlisted author Attica Locke's second novel.

The death of ninety-two year old Gerda Persson is hardly a cause for surprise. But the contents of her freezer - a cache of neatly stacked novels all signed and dedicated to her by a Nobel-prize-winning writer - raises some interesting questions about her life.

Dan Rhodes' latest is a bizarre feast of macabre language and the blackest of laughs.

The stories in this anthology are linked by a charm bracelet that brings bad luck to its finder.

Teresa Solana's third instalment of the twin detective series introduces us to a recession hit Barcelona where the rich throw their money around and everyone else struggles to make it to payday

Fifty years since it was first published in Dutch, Hermans' tale of espionage in Holland during the Second World War has finally been translated into English. It has been worth the wait.

The new graphic novelist from Hannah Berry (trivia: she is Booktrust's writer in residence) takes her love of dark humour, les bandes dessinées and noir and twists them into a boiler room of a novel

The novel is based upon the true story of the nineteenth century Dante Club, an illustrious gathering of the some of the finest American minds of the day. The Club, comprising the poets and Harvard Professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and their publisher J.T. Fields, dedicated themselves to the task of producing the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which was finally published in 1867.

No one could accuse John Irving of writing the same book twice. A Son of the Circus takes us out of the safety of his New England safe haven and relocates to India for a bizarre murder mystery involving twins separated at birth,.

Ellen Bryson brilliantly handles the mystery, melancholia and atmosphere of a strange and difficult world. Her characters shine through pitch-perfect prose, at the centre of which is Fortuno - a character worthy of comparison to the eponymous hero of Glen David Gold's Carter Beats the Devil.

Tower has an uncanny and slightly alarming gift for bringing society's downbeats to our appalled attention. Also like Pollock, he roots these unfortunates in the small, tortured worlds of their relationships, from which, it seems, there is little chance of escape.

Against the beleaguered backdrop of Argentina's social and political unrest and the downward economic spiral that paralysed the country in 2001, Martelli gets dragged back violently into his past. He is soon retracing his steps as a policeman on his quest to find out the killer of his good friend Edmundo Cárcano.

10 new novellas by some of the best names in contemporary American fiction.

This work of contemporary noir is dark as they come and brilliantly executed within its non-linear skewed dissection of America.

City of Bohane is the powerful debut novel from acclaimed short story writer, Kevin Barry, and features a visceral gang war between the Harnett Fancy gang and their leader’s nemesis, new in town. Brutal, compelling and completely powerful stuff from a master of the written word.

Bunker 13 is a visceral explosion of sex, drugs and war- unlike anything any Indian author has ever written, unlike any book that has ever been written.

This intelligent, fast-paced thriller takes us into the mind of a killer on a gripping road trip across Brazil.

Written with a fantastic combination of humour and tension it is a fantastic read.

More murder and mayhem for Easy Rawlins as he wanders from schoolhouse to whorehouse haunted by the memory of his apparently dead sidekick, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander.

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's.

Gwenni Morgan is not like the other children in her small Welsh village. A bookish yet spirited young girl, she is suddenly forced into an unusual situation when a neighbour disappears and no one seems to be asking the right questions.

It’s perfect tabloid fodder right from the start in this wickedly funny and scathingly brilliant Catalonian crime novel.

Piranha to Scurfy is a intriguing mix of psychological crime, vengeance, mystery and horror.

This sensational thriller, shockingly violent in parts, is absurdly compelling; it also paints a grim picture of the grinding daily lives of many Japanese citizens.