Picador is quickly establishing itself as a publisher of top-shelf literary crime. This collection features many outstanding mysteries and crime novels, showcasing award-winners, critical favorites and bestsellers.
Among these titles are Benjamin Black’s (pseudonym for John Banville) critically acclaimed mysteries set in Ireland; Jason Goodwin’s Edgar Award-winning Inspector Yashim adventures in Istanbul (Janissary Tree); Arnaldur Indridason’s Gold Dagger-winning Inspector Erlendur series from Iceland; and the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear, winner of the Edgar, Agatha and Macavity awards.
Bringing fresh life to favorites from the backlist, Picador has recently reissued works from Colin Harrison (The Finder) Minette Walters, and Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell titles.
Edgar® Award Winner for Best Novel and Winner of the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year
"As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have been written by...
"...Edgar® AwardWinner for Best Novel and Winner of the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year "As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have been written by....
Edgar® AwardWinner for Best Novel and Winner of the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year "As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have..."
The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been...
"...The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been....
Inspector Erlendur Returns In this Award-winning International Bestseller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been stabbed..."
Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman...
"...Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman....
Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end..."
Peter Scattergood is a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney, a relentless and clever prosecutor who has just landed the biggest case of his career--a...
"...thriller about the thresholds we must cross in order to get at the truth..
"Suspenseful and unpredictable..."
Alexei Volkovoy--known to the underworld as Volk--is a hardened veteran of the conflict in Chechnya, a gun-for-hire now living in a lawless Russia, serving two...
"...a mystery man known only as "The General." When Volk and his lover, a wild-eyed, white-haired young..."
A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan
John Glass's life in New York should be...
"...A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York should be....
A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York..."
Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award
A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year
Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective Joe...
"...Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie DaggerAward A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective Joe....
Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie DaggerAward A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective..."
Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's...
"...Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel. A noirish tale about family, fraternity, conscience, and....
Set against the Taiwanese criminal..."
The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue...
"...thriller..
"A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly..."
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair"...
"...Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair"....
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated..."
Sue Feder/Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery Award Nominee
London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated...
"...Sue Feder/MacavityAward for Best Historical MysteryAward Nominee London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated....
Sue Feder/MacavityAward for Best Historical..."
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home,...
"...Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder..."
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in...
"...Times Book Review "Montero exploits true crime, romance, family drama, cabaret, and even danzón..."
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series.
It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the...
"...The third book in the MaryRussell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. MaryRussell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the....
The third book in the MaryRussell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. MaryRussell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes..."
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of...
"...Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of....
In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, MaryRussell, from her studies at Oxford..."
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award
It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is...
"...Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is 1921 and MaryRussell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is....
Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is 1921 and MaryRussell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree..."
Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee
Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent
Mystery Booksellers Association
From New...
"...An AgathaAward Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From New....
An AgathaAward Best Novel Nominee Named One..."
Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award
It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech...
"...Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood DaggerAward It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech....
Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood DaggerAward It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor..."
Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel
In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of...
"...Winner of the EdgarAward and the MacavityAward for Best Novel In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of....
Winner of the EdgarAward and the MacavityAward for Best Novel In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman..."
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award
Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the...
"...Winner of the CWA GoldDaggerAward Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the....
Winner of the CWA GoldDaggerAward Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies..."
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award
Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a...
"...Winner of the CWA GoldDaggerAwardInspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a....
Winner of the CWA GoldDaggerAwardInspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavík, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime..."
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel
It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces...
"...Winner of the EdgarAward for Best Novel It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces....
Winner of the EdgarAward for Best Novel..."
Charlie Ravich is an international corporate tycoon, a husband and father on the hard side of fifty, and a restless soul in search of immortality. When...
"...thriller that extends far beyond the typecast confines of the genre."--GQ "Afterburn [is] not just..."
Bill Wyeth is a rising real estate attorney living the lofty heights of success. Then a tragic accident claims everything he has: his family, his fortune, his...
"..., deception, and murder--and to a secret place at the back of her restaurant, the Havana Room, where a man might find both evil and redemption. The Havana Room is a great New York thriller from a modern..."