Slightly off-mint.

After a post-war career slump, Frank Sinatra established himself as an all-time great from the mid 1950s with a string of hit records and notable films. This second volume of James Kaplan’s biography picks up the story the day after Sinatra received an Oscar for his role in From Here to Eternity and describes the entertainer’s prime and later years, discussing his classic recordings and Rat Pack friendships. Off-mint.

As the cult of the 1920's rabble-rousing hedonists the Bright Young Things encroaches on the world of the Mitford sisters, their chaperone Louisa finds herself at the heart of a gripping murder mystery.

Donald Spoto’s much-acclaimed biography of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) was written some 15 years before the actress’s death and follows her career in film, from child star to international success and the first million dollar pay cheque for a female star, and her complicated and sometimes scandalous private life and relationships. Off-mint.

One winter evening in Stockholm a cyber-attack triggers a power blackout, including internet and phone services. Similar attacks follow across Europe. A journalist and her daughter struggle to reach her husband, a cyber-security expert who has disappeared but who may be searching for the truth.

As rioting erupts in Oxford on St Scholastica’s Day in 1355, scholars fearing for their lives flee to Cambridge, only to die there. Investigating the deaths, Matthew Bartholomew finds evidence that the ‘riot’ was carefully premeditated murder rather than random violence.

In this 13th case for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Quebec police department, a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines village, causing unease among the inhabitants. When the figure disappears, Gamache’s worst fears are realized: a dead body is discovered.

When Hannah was diagnosed with a serious heart condition as a child, her father’s drama group staged a faerie cavalcade for her birthday. It became a yearly ritual, but now the theatre is under threat. Keith Stuart’s books have been compared to Jojo Moyes’.

Early one Sunday morning in Three Pines, Quebec, an unknown man is found lying dead in the bistro. Investigating the murder, Chief Inspector Gamache uncovers the shameful history of the village as he comes closer to identifying the victim and the terrifying killer.

Jacob Ross’s award-winning novel is set on a small Caribbean island. Michael ‘Digger’ Digson, a young man with a natural talent for forensics, is recruited into DS Chilman’s rogue police department, but has his own cold case to pursue: the unsolved murder of his mother.

Lily was a housemaid at St Clere’s Hall in Essex; Charlotte was the pampered daughter of the Hall; but when war broke out in 1914, both went to work in the munitions factory. However different their backgrounds, now they must work together to improve their lives.

Investigating two different murders with one thing in common – the same rough tattoo on both victims’ legs – DI Lottie Parker’s leads converge on a former children’s home and unsolved murders from decades ago. This is the first of the bestselling Lottie Parker series.

Recently separated, Alison Taylor meets a man in a local bar in this thriller and wakes up the next morning with a bump on her head and unable to recognize her own face in the mirror.

During a narcotics investigation, Detective Erika Foster has the sludge of a disused quarry searched. A cache of drugs is recovered, along with the skeleton of a young child who went missing 26 years ago – a cold case that becomes an urgent murder investigation.

A real-life tragedy on stage ended the run of When the Curtain Falls at the Southern Cross Theatre. Sixty-six years later, a new production of the play is to open, but the ghosts of that earlier night still haunt the Southern Cross.

Lured to a remote farmhouse in rural Québec, Armand Gamache finds himself the beneficiary of an unknown woman’s will. When a body is discovered, he must confront events that led to his suspension from the police force, and the dark secrets in his past.

In a chilling, twisting psychological thriller, Anna starts to question the circumstances of her parents’ deaths – two shocking suicides, just months apart – but sometimes it’s best to let things lie. By digging up the past, Anna endangers her future.

Psychological profiling suggests that serial killers sometimes begin by killing animals, so it makes sense that Tom Thorne, although a homicide detective, is tasked with catching a particularly brutal cat-killer before he or she starts murdering people.