Karin Fossum was first published in Norway in 1974 and has won considerable acclaim for her Inspector Sejer series.

Compared to the very best of Ruth Rendell, our English translations bring her chilling work to a wider audience. Her two latest Sejer mysteries are now available in paperback.

Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist in North Carolina and the province of Quebec and a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina. She is also the bestselling author of the Dr Tempe Brennan series of forensic crime novels.

Her new hardback, Cross Bones, went straight to number 1 in the bestseller charts.

With a new intensity and pervasive sense of intimacy, Karin Slaughter became a major force in crime writing with the publication of Blindsighted in 2002.

Her latest hardback and paperback increase the pace even further with meticulous characterisation and even greater atmospheric intensity and menace.

Susan Hill has won both the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards and has been shortlisted for the Booker. She has written in a number of genres and now brings her considerable skills to the field of crime writing.

Her first two Simon Serrailler crime novels are now available bringing a fresh new perspective to the genre.