The Blinded Man (1)

Arne Dahl

Henning Mankell meets The Wire in the first book in a major new Scandinavian crime series following an elite team of detectives on the hunt for the killer of several high profile businessmen. Two of Sweden's most powerful businessmen have been murdered. In the face of mounting panic amongst the financi...

Trouble is My Business

Raymond Chandler

Trouble is My Business is a collection of four riveting novellas from Raymond Chandler. In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business, LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlo...

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (#7 Swallows and Amazons)

Arthur Ransome

'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?' The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast whilst they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour is bursting with bobbing yachts, barges and steamers, this year there's no chance of any sailing for the landlocked Swallows. That is...