Sleuthing heroine Vera Stanhope strikes a fine balance between detectives cozy and hard-boiled.

A husband's investigation into his murdered wife's past yields mysteries about them both.

Wartime sleuth Bernie Gunther returns in his greatest adventure yet.

Rival drug gangs trade fatalities and musings in Western Europe's multinational underworld.

Tight-knit cops and robbers collide on Glasgow's mean streets.

Violent reckoning strikes a secluded and secretive eighteenth-century village.

Pungent new stories of reprisal form a labyrinth of gruesome delights.

A detective with Asperger's syndrome grapples with a wave of uncanny violence.

A beloved Scottish sleuth steps out of retirement.

A Sinatra impersonator enmeshed in a Silicon Valley murder.

After infiltrating a ruthless criminal's gang, a cop is murdered, launching an urgent investigation.

Murder stalks the streets of fin de siècle Vienna.

A novel that unfolds with the inevitability of an ancient myth and the intensity of a psychological thriller.

Murder most foul in Nazi-occupied Poland.

A Scandinavian murder mystery of disturbing intimacy.

The secrets of a dead man's past lead a scholar on a Conradian journey into the shadows.

Pitted against a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, an investigator stumbles toward the truth.

A gangland murder has connections that reach deep into Glasgow's past.

When a detective-turned-bodyguard's young charge is kidnapped, he uncovers a world of corruption.

The villagers in a tiny Icelandic community hold a key to a mystery buried for a generation.

A mastermind of Seattle's boom era makes a sunset run for office -- and the secrets of past corruption come to light. 

The London suburbs vibrate with malevolence in the final work from the innovative novelist.

A detective with a sense of humor -- and justice -- walks the streets of Barcelona.

A young woman's murder opens the door to a police inspector's dark odyssey through exploitation and depravity.

A physicist's creation causes a worldwide financial meltdown.

A con artist's double deception.

The author's early experiments in gothic horror, Victorian melodrama, farce, fantasy, and interior monologue.

Globe-hopping in search of the best crime and mystery fiction of 2011.