Sean Barrett

Retired doctor Fredrik Welin lives alone on an island in the Swedish archipelago. But his quiet, solitary life is turned upside down when his house catches fire. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. When another house goes up in flames, the community realizes they have an arsonist in their midst...

On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. But the Ardennes was the battle which finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht.

A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.

Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.

In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.  Book 8 of series.

Barnaby Rudge, pathetic and half-witted son of a murderer, and his raven Grip play unwitting parts in the Gordon riots of 1780 and in the family feud of the Haredale and Chester families.

A religious cult in Guyana commits mass suicide but one man survives. Later in Ystad, police make an horrific discovery and Inspector Wallander fears that this is the work of a group of extremists. He is joined on the investigation by a new recruit, his daughter Linda, who has the same temper and maverick approach as her father.

Reaching Berlin in 1945, the Red Army wanted revenge, and the result was a terrible bloodbath, with hundreds of thousands of civilians dying. Using new documenets the author has reconstructed Berlin's downfall.

It is Holy Week in Seville, and Inspector Javier Falcón is trying to find a serial killer. With each new victim, the killer demonstrates an uncanny ability to delve into the darkest secrets of his prey - and into Falcón’s own family history, and the professional, dispassionate Falcón is forced to confront the unimaginable.

The first woman had her lungs ripped out. When the same gruesome ritualistic method was used again, it was clear that the same killer was responsible. But there is no precise evidence to link the two cases, except for a tantalising email. In his desperate attempt to solve the case before more victims are discovered, Jan Fabel of the Hamburg murder squad, gradually uncovers layer upon layer of intrigue.

Félix Ventura trades in an unusual commodity; he is a dealer in memories, clandestinely selling new pasts to people. If you don't like yours, he can come up with an entirely new one for you, full of better memories and with a complete lineage.

Former double agent, dr Rudi Rosenharte, is summoned to Trieste by a former lover - a woman he last saw dead in her bath. Rudi is reluctant to make contact, but is forced to by the Stasi who imprison his family.

When jeweller Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment in the Istanbul district of Vefa, it looks like suicide. Searching the jeweller's home, Inspector Mehmet Suleyman and his team come across a hoard of extraordinary artefacts including solid gold religious relics and a mummified human head. But are they real and, if so, who owns these priceless possessions? As his colleagues begin their investigation, Suleyman is distracted by troubles of his own. His wedding to Gonca Serekoglu is days away, but when Gonca receives her bridal bedcover from a Roma haberdasher and discovers that it is covered in blood, she sees this as a curse on their marriage. Suleyman asks his old friend Cetin Ikmen to help him uncover the truth, but the task is not that simple...Meanwhile, as the stories swirling around Muftugolu become increasingly sinister, the dead man's wife appears, laying claim to his valuables, and Suleyman is drawn into a dark and dangerous world of smuggling and savagery . . .

As Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, interprets twisted imagery at a crime scene, it becomes clear that a series of new crimes are a grisly reference to folk stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. The hunt is on for a serial killer who is exploring the darkest, most fundamental fears hidden in ancient fairy tales.

It is summer on the island of Mithros and the arrival of investigator Hermes Diaktoros coincides with a mysterious death, which has an echo of a brutal unsolved murder in the island's recent past. As Hermes sets about solving the complex puzzle it becomes clear that the bull of Mithros may be the least of the island's shadowy mysteries.

London in the early 1950s; John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby daughter. It proves to be a straightforward case for DI Ted Stratton of West End Central, and Davies is convicted and hanged. But after a series of gruesome discoveries, Stratton begins to suspect there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice...

After her husband's death, young widow and art collector Diana Porteous plans to rediscover her talents as a thief, as well as art expert, to recover stolen paintings. She begins with Steven, her neighbour's son, who is amassing works of art in London, including work stolen from his mother. But if Di is interested in his illicit treasures, he is equally fascinated by hers - and in the secrets still held in her house by the sea...

Pathologist Quirke returns to his office to find his brother-in-law, a paediatrician, making notes in a dead woman's chart. The woman died in childbirth but Quirke doubts the cause of death. His determination to discover what is going on leAd him to a Catholic orpahange and a remarkable conspiracy.

Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. Harry lays his hands on some CCTV footage that will help him unravel what happened that night, but the man who gave him the tape goes missing. Soon Harry realises that failing to solve a murder case is by no means the only danger in Bangkok.

The US President is having dinner with an old friend when a man in the opposite building tries to assassinate him. Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon, intelligence operatives, set out to trace the would be assassin, but soon realise that he is just the tip of a far bigger conspiracy.

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to finish their washed-up careers. Now they have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Jackson Lamb soon uncovers a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets. How many people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?  Book 2 of series

Investigator Lennox just can't stay out of trouble.

Lennox is looking for legitimate cases - anything's better than working for the Three Kings, the crime bosses who run Glasgow's underworld. So when a woman comes into his office and hires him to follow her husband, it seems the perfect case.

And, unusually for Lennox, it's legal.

But this isn't a simple case of marital infidelity. When the people he's following start to track him, once more Lennox must draw on the violent, war-damaged part of his personality as he follows this trail of dead men and broken hearts.

In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the body of a girl is discovered. Scantily dressed, she is lying by the edge of the woods. The local police investigate the case - but after a week, they still haven't even identified her, let alone got to the bottom of how she died.

Frustrated by the lack of progress, Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara, head of Florence's elite Squadra Mobile, decides to step in. Because toxins were discovered in the girl's body, many assumed that she died of a self-inflicted drugs overdose. But Ferrara quickly realises that the truth is darker than that: he believes that the girl was murdered.

And when he delves deeper, there are many aspects to the case that convince Ferrara that the girl's death is part of a sinister conspiracy - a conspiracy that has its roots in the very foundations of Tuscan society...

Originally published in Italian as La Loggia Degli Innocenti.

Human remains are dredged up from the Clyde. They've been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for eighteen years. Suddenly Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the remains are those of 'Gentleman Joe' Strachan, Glasgow's most ruthless armed robber.

When Strachan's daughters hire Lennox to find out who's been sending them cash every year on the anniversary of Strachan's biggest robbery, his instincts tell him the job spells trouble and will throw him back into world of the Three Kings - the crime bosses who run the city.

But he takes the job. And soon learns that ignoring his instincts may cost him his life.

As a deep fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin is unable to discover news of her friend, Quirke, fresh from drying out in an institution, responds to his daughter's request for help. But as Phoebe, Quirke and Inspector Hackett speak with those who knew April, they begin to realise that there may be more behind the young woman's secrecy than they could have imagined. Why was April estranged from her powerful family, the Latimers? And who is the shadowy figure who seems to be watching Phoebe's flat at night? When Quirke makes a disturbing discovery, he is finally able to begin unravelling the web of love, lies and dark secrets that April spun her life from...

Subtitled ‘How Britain Made the Modern World’, the book focuses on the reasons why the British Empire came into being and how it fell. The author emphasizes the pursuit of economic profit and military might.

After five years of conflict, London's exhausted inhabitants are living in a world of dereliction. War-weary DI Ted Stratton is no exception. But called on to investigate when a doctor is found dead in Fitzrovia's Middlesex Hospital, Stratton soon realizes that someone involved is not who they appear to be.

When Inspector Kurt Wallander discovers a shallow grave in the garden of his new house, he begins to investigate the truth about the residence and its previous owner. When another discovery is made in the garden, Wallander is forced to delve further back into the area's past.

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason.

Wallander's life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him. He works tirelessly, eats badly, and drinks his nights away in a lonely, neglected flat. But now Wallander must forget his troubles and throw himself into a battle against time.

In Africa, five women, four of them nuns, are killed in a savage attack. Some months later a series of gruesome murders are committed in Sweden. Gradually Inspector Wallander and his team discover the link between these killings and the deaths in Africa.

A man using a cash machine inexplicably drops to the ground dead. Then a taxi driver is savagely attacked by two girls who appal Inspector Wallander by showing no remorse. Finally there is a grisly discovery in the power station. Kurt Wallander is convinced these events are linked, but how?

In a huge old house, full of precious paintings, Thomas Porteous is dying. As his much younger wife Di mourns, she knows that soon, despite her being his sole inheritor, Thomas's relatives will descend on the collection. After all, she met Thomas when she came to his house to rob him. With the help of an unlikely collection of loners and eccentrics, she sets a trap to hoist the family members on their own greed.

East African Coast, 1670. The Golden Bough, captained by Henry 'Hal' Courtney, is running south from Ethiopia to Zanzibar, when he discovers his mortal enemy,the Buzzard, still lives and is hell-bent on revenge. He must pursue his nemesis through the seedy underbelly of Zanzibar's slave markets and shark-infested waters, imperilling his own life at every turn.

East African Coast, 1670. The Golden Bough, captained by Henry 'Hal' Courtney, is running south from Ethiopia to Zanzibar, when he discovers his mortal enemy,the Buzzard, still lives and is hell-bent on revenge. He must pursue his nemesis through the seedy underbelly of Zanzibar's slave markets and shark-infested waters, imperilling his own life at every turn.

Roger Brown has it all. He's the country's most successful headhunter. He has a beautiful wife and a magnificent house. And to maintain this lifestyle, he's also a highly accomplished art thief. But soon, he runs into trouble - and this time money is the least of his worries...

As Inspector Javier Falcón investigates the case of a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. Panic sweeps the city and the region goes on red alert. Falcón suspects that all is not what it appears to be and the race is on to prevent a catastrophe far beyond Spain’s borders.

A spectacular car crash in the sweltering city of Seville brings to light the prospect of a mafia presence on Inspector Javier Falcon’s beat. As the summer wears on Falcon finds himself personally targeted by the forces unleashed and he retaliates with a ruthlessness that surprises him as much as his enemies.

A Russian defector is found brutally murdered in a London hotel. Only four people knew he had turned - the four most important and powerful figures in Whitehall. There's only one conclusion - a mole has infiltrated the highest levels of the nation's security. Operating in secret from within Westminster's darkest corners, former spy, Solomon Vine, must uncover the traitor. Because Britain's future hangs in the balance. And with it the fate of the whole world . . .