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Quercus is a London-based independent publisher, founded in May 2004. The current UK Publisher of the Year, they specialise in crime and thrillers, literary fiction, children's books and select non-fiction, mainly history, science, current affairs and sport. With their imprints, MacLehose Press and Jo Fletcher Books, they published (among others) Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves and Mark Logue and Peter Conradi's The King's Speech. Several of their books have been made into feature films, and over three hundred are available as ebooks.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattooby Larsson, Stieg

QuercusJuly 24 2008;

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced more...

King's Speechby Logue, Mark

QuercusDecember 20 2010;

How an unknown Australian speech therapist saved the British royal family by helping the Duke of York overcome a serious speech impediment.more...

Dead Lineby Rimington, Stella

QuercusOctober 11 2010;

MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting with her boss Charles Wetherby, head of the Service’s Counter-Espionage Branch. His counterpart over at MI6 has received alarming intelligence from a high-placed Syrian source. A Middle East peace conference is planned to take more...

The Devil’s Bonesby Bass, Jefferson

QuercusOctober 11 2010;

A woman's charred body has been found inside a burned car atop a hill in Knoxville. Was this an accidental death, or murder? Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton is on the case, torching bodies to research how fire consumes flesh and bone. Days later, he receives a mysterious package – a more...

The Girl Who Played with Fireby Larsson, Stieg

QuercusOctober 11 2010;

The second instalment in the Millennium Trilogy sees Lisbeth Salander wanted for murder while Blomkvist tries desperately to clear her name. Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander’s prints more...

The Mayan Prophecyby Alten, Steve

QuercusMarch 3 2011;

For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that predicts the Apocalypse. His research led him to believe that ancient constructions like the Great Pyramid, Stonehenge, Angkor Wat, and Chichen Itza, were all built as part of a primeval more...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nestby Larsson, Stieg

QuercusOctober 11 2010;

Salander is plotting her revenge – against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, more...

Present Dangerby Rimington, Stella

QuercusOctober 11 2010;

MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is posted to Northern Ireland. From the moment she lands in Belfast, danger follows. She soon discovers that the peace process in the province is precarious. Then a source reports strange goings-on at a house on the Irish Sea owned by the Fraternity, an organisation Liz suspects more...

To Dream of the Deadby Rickman, Phil

QuercusJune 4 2011;

December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. ThereÆs no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively-atheist author has more...

Prague Fataleby Kerr, Philip

QuercusOctober 27 2011;

September 1941. Bernie Gunther returns from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find his home city of Berlin changed, and changed for the worse. Now back at his old desk on Homicide in Kripo HQ, Alexanderplatz, Bernie starts to investigate the death of a Dutch railway worker, while starting something more...

The Devil's Lightby Patterson, Richard North

QuercusJuly 7 2011;

August 2011. An Al Qaeda operative masterminds the theft of a Pakistani military weapon: a two-hundred-pound nuclear warhead, capable of causing destruction on an unprecedented scale. A chilling transmission is then broadcast to the world, promising a major attack on a US city to mark the tenth anniversary more...

The Discipleby Coonts, Stephen

QuercusJanuary 1 1900;

Iran is on the move, instigating provocative military manoeuvres on land, air and sea. The CIA is urging caution, but Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton have information that Iran’s covert nuclear programme is nearing completion. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning to hit US and Israeli targets within more...

The House at Sea's Endby Griffiths, Elly

QuercusJanuary 6 2011;

Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of the cliff, she is immediately put on the case. DCI Nelson is investigating, but more...