FANTASTIC FICTION – Escapes to other places and other times

Clive Cussler (http://clive-cussler-books.com/clive-cusslers-biography/) is well loved by his legion of devoted readers. His detective Isaac Bell is back for the ninth time in this new adventure blockbuster. The summary is as follows. It is 1906 and in New York City the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a menacing spree: kidnapping, extortion,

New Jersey based Harlan Coben (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_coben, http://www.harlancoben.com/) has a dedicated following for his taut, fast-paced mystery and thriller novels. He won the 1996  Anthony Award in the “Best Paperback original” category for his début novel Deal Breaker, which also received an Edgar award nomination in the same category. His addictive fiction has been flowing ever since. Why not

Anthony Quinn (http://unitedagents.co.uk/anthony-quinn) was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2014 he was the film critic of the Independent. He is the author of four very successful novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, Half of the Human Race, The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013

Many authors have had interesting and varied careers before being able to write full time. Stephen Leather (http://www.stephenleather.com/) is one of them. He has been employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, been a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, a journalist, and worked for the Inland Revenue. Leather has published an

Andrew Grant (http://www.andrewgrantbooks.com/) , the younger brother of bestselling thriller writer Lee Child, has scorched onto the crime fiction scene with 4 novels since 2009. In False Positive, Alabama detective Cooper Devereaux makes no apologies for his luxury lifestyle or the way he does his job. Most cops haven’t lived the kind of life he has

Helen Dunmore (http://www.helendunmore.com/) is a prolific and well loved writer across a range of categories – novels, young adult fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, short stories and essays. Her latest novel, Exposure (2016), is ideal as a winter read. With the world closed down outside, let Dunmore and your imagination transport you fully to a different world. That

Robert Crais (http://www.robertcrais.com/) is an American author of detective fiction who has been influenced by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. For those of a certain age who remember and loved Hill Street Blues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues), Crais was the scriptwriter for that TV series. Now a highly successful writer of crime and thriller fiction, his latest publication is The Promise