Books published by Quercus Publishing

In The Great British Bobby, Clive Emsley traces the development of Britain's forces of law and order from the earliest watchmen and constables of the pre-modern period to the police service of today.

As Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie is caught between violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in 1950s' Cuba. The sixth in the internationally bestselling series

The story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.

Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused psychic, and disheartened communist returns for a second case, employing his forensic skills and spiritual acumen to solve a series of bizarre killings.

Few, if any, characters in modern crime fiction can match the benign humour, the gentle wisdom or the sheer bloody-mindedness of Dr Siri Paiboun, septuagenarian chief coroner to the newly independent communist state of Laos.

The first biography of England's finest and most controversial fast bowler.

A compendium of fascinating information about the great waters that cover two-thirds of our Earth and the men and women that sailed them.

The sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller The Broken Shore, and winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Award.

A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation.

Classic Boston noir thriller from global bestseller Robert B Parker - one of contemporary crime fiction's most popular and acclaimed authors.

The Daemon is seemingly unstoppable, and murder is the least of its capabilities. It falls to the unlikely partnership of Sebeck, a computer-illiterate cop, and Ross, an enigmatic hacker, to realise the scale of the imminent danger.

A day-to-day chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe.

A G.I. seeks vengeance on the six Nazis who tortured him and left him for dead in this taut thriller from the author of The Godfather.

Dr Siri comes face to face with a serial killer who is as seductive as he is psychopathic.

A novel based on fact, about a brilliant detective in war-time Berlin who becomes a mass murderer.

J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up (1838) was his masterpiece. Sam Willis tells the real-life story behind this remarkable painting.

A short, gripping suspense novel in which an elderly aristocrat becomes obsessed with a young girl.

Second historical thriller in the Alexander Seaton series sweeps the hero back to his roots in Ulster, and a family living under a curse and riven with long-held secrets

Classic Boston noir thriller from global bestseller Robert B Parker - one of contemporary crime fiction's most popular and acclaimed authors.

A moving and powerful study of love, rivalry and friendship in a remote radio station in the furthest reaches of the Canadian North.

The thrilling true story of a forgotten British hero of World War II.

Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Dr Siri Paiboun has been despatched to the country's mountainous north where the sudden appearance of a mummified arm protruding from a concrete path laid in front of the President's new mansion has caused an understandable degree of embarrassment

Romanno Bridge is a wintry thriller, an entertainment, a quest and an exploration of contemporary themes of fakes, frauds, copies, and a struggle to find the crowning stone of the Dalriadic kings, the Stone of Scone.

Joyful, quirky and heartwarming, this is the story of a girl who becomes a world-famous chef, told by those who love her, envy her and never forget her.