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All Was Lost by Stephen Maxwell
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
FOR YOUR FAMILY, HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO?
And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
Caleb Zelic can't hear you. But he can see everything.The pulsating follow-up thriller to the acclaimed Resurrection Bay. Caleb Zelic used to meet life head-on. Now he's struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is avoiding him, and nightmares haunt his waking hour ...Show more
Bird In A Cage by Frederic Dard
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
She seems alone and defenceless when he speaks to her in the busy brasserie, all decked out for Christmas Eve. When she invites him back to her apartment, he can't believe his luck. Later, when her husband's body lies dead at the foot of the Christmas tree he realises his nightmare is only beginning...T ...Show more
Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada; Reid Sterling (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
By the author of the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders - a fiendish locked room mystery from the Japanese master of the genre.The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house, but eve ...Show more
Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
WINNER OF THE McILVANNEY PRIZE for SCOTTISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR A raw, fast-paced, and darkly comic thriller and "an amazingly accomplished debut," perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid - The Times Crime Book of the Month "An absolute knockout! Pitch-dark and yet dripping with warm ...Show more
Tench by Inge Schilperoord
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
Jonathan has returned from prison to his largely deserted, run-down neighborhood. He has returned to his mother, to his dog, to filling the hot days with walks on the dunes and caring for the fish he keeps in an aquarium in his bedroom - struggling, like him, to survive the oppressive summer heat. But t ...Show more
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
A hugely enjoyable, page-turning murder mystery with one of the best and most-satisfying conclusions you'll ever read: clever enough that you're unlikely to guess it, but simple enough that you'll kick yourself when it's revealed. That's what has made it a classic in Japan, and what readers of this firs ...Show more
The Disappearance of Signora Giulia by Piero Chiara
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
Every Thursday for three years, Signora Giulia takes the train to Milan to visit her daughter. But one Thursday she simply disappears. And the case is left in your hands. You're a born detective, but you have so many unanswered questions - how can a young, beautiful high society woman just vanish into t ...Show more
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo; Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the a ...Show more
The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabucon; Louise Lalaurie Rogers (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
Fans of Abir Mukherjee and Sarah Waters will love this gloriously macabre romp racing through the glitzy Versailles Palace by way of the shady criminal underworld of Paris on the brink of the revolution.
The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers, featuring the country's best-loved detective. In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of b ...Show more
The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pushkin Vertigo Ser.
The Lady Killer leads a double life in the shadow world of Tokyo's singles bars and nightclubs. By day a devoted husband and hard worker, by night he cruises nightclubs cafes and cinemas in search of lonely single women to seduce.But now the hunter is being hunted, and in his wake lies a trail of grueso ...Show more