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South-African born, Australian-based Peter Temple (1946–2018) was the author of several thrillers, including the bestselling Jack Irish series. This collection includes his last, unfinished Jack Irish novel, the TV screenplay ‘Valentine’s Day’, six short stories, autobiographical fragments, and a selection of book reviews, including his thoughts on Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and John Le Carré. Slightly off-mint.

Macleod travels to a crime scene on Île de Groix off the Brittany coast and despite hostility from the island community, he tries to honour a promise he made to a dead man 20 years previously – to investigate his murder.

Peter May’s second China thriller finds the American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell once more helping Detective Li Yan, this time investigating a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing, with an American diplomat among the victims.

Having wagered that old murder cases could be solved using modern science, forensics expert Enzo Macleod must tackle the ‘cold’ case of Jacques Gaillard – but finds himself in danger when the investigation leads deep into the catacombs below Paris.

In southern France, the corpse of America’s most celebrated wine critic, Gil Petty, is found pickled in wine and strung up in a vineyard. For Macleod, the key to this terrible crime lies in decoding Petty’s enigmatic reviews.

In 1989, Lucie Martin was killed and her body dumped in a lake in western France. When her bones are exposed by drought 14 years later, forensics expert Enzo Macleod re-opens a stone-cold, seemingly unsolvable case.

Macleod’s fifth ‘cold’ case dates back seven years, when France’s top chef summoned the culinary press to his remote restaurant to make an announcement. The critics speculated that he was losing a Michelin star, instead they found him murdered.

The hunter becomes the hunted as perpetrators of an old murder set out to destroy Enzo Macleod and his family; but Macleod, diagnosed with leukaemia, is running out of time to solve the ‘cold’ case before the killers strike