Boris Starling Books

Written by bestselling author Boris Starling, The British is one of the new titles for 2017 in the Haynes Explains series. A lighthearted and entertaining take on the classic workshop manual, it contains everything you’d expect to see, including exploded views, flow charts, fault diagnosis and the odd wiring diagram. It takes the reader through all areas of British life, giving the reader all the hints and tips needed to make life in Blighty run smoothly.

A stunning, shocking, wonderfully well written debut reminiscent of James Patterson and one that will catapault Boris Starling to the front rank of thriller writers. London is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy nights and a killer stalking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left behind, only corpses with silver spoons in place of their tongues... Set against this merciless butcher is DCI Red Metcalfe, an investigator with a celebrated ability to get under the skin and into the minds of the deranged killers he hunts. But as the city swelters and the body count rises, Red's own tortured past begins to turn against him - and the city is safe for no one. Sometimes, it is said, it takes a killer to catch a killer... The most compelling and suspenseful British thriller to come along in years, and Boris Starling is a startling and powerful talent to watch. Messiah is guaranteed to haunt your dreams...

A taut and shocking story of vengeance, bloodshed and love, set over 100 days of bitter Russian winter... from the bestselling author of Messiah.

Kate Beauchamp, police detective on leave, isn't planning anything more strenuous than a meal and a kip in the ferry lounge. Until it turns into everyone's worst nightmare: a ferry disaster that claims almost all lives on board.

Written by bestselling author Boris Starling, The Americans is a new titles in the Haynes Explains series. A light-hearted and entertaining take on the classic workshop manual, it takes the reader through all areas of American life, giving the reader all the hints and tips needed to make cross-Atlantic relationships run smoothly.

A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation.

In the aftermath of a suspicious drowning of a biochemist in 1950s London, new Scotland Yard detective and former MI5 agent Herbert Smith learns that the victim possessed knowledge with the potential to change the world, information that is desperately wanted by the CIA, the KGB, and Smith's former employers.

Detective Beauchamp gehört zu den wenigen Überlebenden eines tragischen Fährunglücks. Jetzt hat sie nur eines im Sinn: sich in die Arbeit stürzen, das Grauen vergessen. Tatsächlich erwartet sie ein spektakulärer Fall. Ein Frauenmörder treibt sein Unwesen; seine Visitenkarte: eine Giftschlange . . .

Alice Lidell reist 1991 geschäftlich nach Moskau, wo der Staat zerfällt und Anarchie herrscht. Als die Leiche eines Kindes entdeckt wird, bleibt dies zunächst unbeachtet. Doch bald häufen sich die Funde, und ein Massenmörder verbreitet Angst in der Stadt – Alice ist der Gefahr näher, als sie denkt.