You are in the capable hands of four authors who know exactly what location and landscape deliver. Rankin puts a body in the stone cellars beneath Edinburgh's Old Town, where the city has been storing its secrets for centuries. Peter James brings a film production into Brighton and lets the glamour mask the obvious threat. Elly Griffiths sets Ruth Galloway among bones that predate the case she's investigating. And in a quiet French village, Peter May finds two murders separated by 70 years with a shared secret. The ground here is older than it looks!

Ian Rankin, Mortal Causes - A body in Edinburgh's stone cellars pulls Rebus into the corruption that the Old Town has been keeping a long time.

Peter James, Not Dead Yet - A global superstar arrives in Brighton with a stalker in pursuit, and Roy Grace can see exactly where this is heading.

Peter May, The Night Gate - In a French village, a murdered art critic and a wartime skeleton share a secret that reaches back to the Mona Lisa.

FREE BOOK Elly Griffiths, A Room Full of Bones - Ruth Galloway opens a medieval coffin and finds a very recent murder waiting beside it.

The best crime fiction rarely shows its hand in the first chapter. The truth arrives slowly and hurts all the more as a result. A rewired brain and two murders reopened by a school massacre. An ex-con returning to Vegas on a job set up more carefully than she knows. A missing teenager who pulls a sports agent through country clubs, cheaters' hotels and a twenty-three-year-old humiliation. A Bromley detective who expected quiet and found a community with more to hide than it appeared. Four writers with one shared instinct.

Michael Connelly, Void Moon - Cassie Black has served her time, but the outlaw life has its pull, and in Vegas, nobody forgets.

Harlan Coben, Back Spin - Myron Bolitar follows a kidnapped teenager from the US Open's fairways into the worst secret one family has ever kept.

Lynda La Plante, Taste of Blood - Tennison transferred to suburbia for a quieter life, and found a community sitting on a decade of damage.

FREE BOOK David Baldacci, Memory Man - Amos Decker has perfect recall, a rewired brain and a case that reopens the worst night of his life.