The Murder Book: The incredibly dramatic Sunday Times Tom Thorne bestseller

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She thinks the organized crime groups are making their way from Chicago to these smaller Midwest towns. Harry's job is to scout out the area. She needs more proof before the FBI spends federal funds for a full-scale investigation. For fans of Michael Connley's Bosch, a superb fast-paced crime thriller with plenty of action, suspense, mystery, well-developed characters, and a protagonist you will root for until the end. I listened to the audiobook in one sitting. Thomas Perry is becoming a favorite…and he has done it again, writing the kind of fast-paced thriller for which he is known as a master. Perry’s protagonists are complex characters who sometimes stumble into things but (no matter how they get there) they always seem to figure out how to prevail, regardless of the obstacles. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria.

With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don’t want to leave.”—Michael ConnellyI’ve actually not read the author before, though I think he’s written about a gazillion books. And now I need to go and read all those other books. This is the eighteenth book in a series that began in 2001 and has established Thorne as one of British crime fiction’s most iconic characters. Billingham is a masterful plotter, and here he supplies a few alarming teasers before delivering one of his most amazing endings ever.”— Booklist, starred review I loved this book. It's similar yet different than others I've read. I quite like Harry's seemingly gruff, no nonsense take towards the people around him and the suspects. He really does outwit each and every one of them like a boss. And the way he goes about it? Look, I laughed. He makes them look so dumb. If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer--and sharper--than she imagined.

We also meet an assassin and things become dangerous when people are kidnapped and he is in the middle.Gosford Park" meets "Groundhog Day" by way of Agatha Christie – the most inventive story you'll read this year.