Why am I passionate about this?

I have written medical textbooks and research papers, but have a passion of writing thrillersā€”as Hugh Greene I have written the bestselling Dr Power mystery series which follows the forensic psychiatrist Dr Power and Superintendent Lynch as they solve murders and explore the minds that executed these crimes.


I wrote

Son of Darkness

By Hugh Greene,

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What is my book about?

Son of Darkness opens in the aftermath of a plane crash when the lair of a serial killer is disturbedā€¦

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The books I picked & why

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Hugh Greene Why did I love this book?

Philip Kerrā€™s series of books about Berlin detective Bernie Gunther is a stunning achievement. The series weaves together the often disturbing history of the Third Reich, real-life characters such as Goebbels and Goering, and a sharp-minded and blunt-speaking detective everyman who is trying to survive the maelstrom around him with morals and life intact. Prague Fatale sets Gunther unto solve murders at a house party of high-ranking Nazis at Heydrichā€™s rural retreat. Itā€™s a grim twist on cosy, country house murders.

By Philip Kerr,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Prague Fatale as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD

Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse.

He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS and SD.

The weekend quickly turns sour when a body is found in a room locked fromā€¦


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Hugh Greene Why did I love this book?

Shirley Jacksonā€™s gothic American novels imbued with an eerie sense of the uncanny. Hangsaman is a campus novel about the mysterious disappearance of a freshman studentā€”from the pen of a woman who herself was an academicā€™s wife at a liberal artā€™s college at Bennington, where Paula Welden was an American college student who ostensibly disappeared in December 1946 Vermont's Long Trail hiking route. The book is a misty, creepy read and if you research Jacksonā€™s real life, you begin to wonder what is she really telling us?

By Shirley Jackson,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Hangsaman as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student.

'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch

Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. In the midst of adolescence she senses a creeping darkness in her life, which will spread among nightmarish parties, poisonous college cliques and the manipulations of the intellectual men who surround her, as her identity gradually crumbles.

This Penguin edition includesā€¦


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Rescue Mountain by Rebecka Vigus,

Rusty Allen is an Iraqi War veteran with PTSD. He moves to his grandfather's cabin in the mountains to find some peace and go back to wilderness training.

He gets wrapped up in a kidnapping first, as a suspect and then as a guide. He tolerates the sheriff's deputy withā€¦

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Hugh Greene Why did I love this book?

Thereā€™s a kind of charm and naĆÆvetĆ© about the detective in this book, he is a relatively strait-laced character and his shock and moral outrage at the sexual and material excesses of some of the corrupt children of high-ranking CCP officials betokens a wholly different society and upbringing, conditioned by Party propaganda. Inspector Chen revels in poetry and ā€˜good' food, although descriptions of banquets of turtles and bearā€™s paws again speak of different cultural tastes. The story is delivered slowlyā€”this is set in a Shanghai before computers and mobile phones and the hero must wend his way around town to speak to witnesses by bus and train. Itā€™s a satisfying read and an evocative journey to a faraway time and place.

By Qiu Xiaolong,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Death of a Red Heroine as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police.

A young ā€œnational model worker,ā€ renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his careerā€”perhaps even his lifeā€”to see justice done.


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Hugh Greene Why did I love this book?

Expendable and incompetent Secret Service agents eventually wash up at Slough House, where they toil on pointless administrative tasks for a foul-mouthed, grubby boss called Jackson Lamb. Lamb is deliciously politically incorrect, offensive, and drinks and smokes to excess in his pit of an office. However he has a keen mind, is an experienced spy, and not afraid to act decisively to protect his employees and society. In this episode he unravels a nest of sleeper agents after an old Cold-War era colleague is found murdered on a coach. The book is well written and neatly plotted.

By Mick Herron,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Dead Lions as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. 

The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, farā€¦


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The Edge of Too Late by Jan Sikes,

What's the point of having it all when you have no one to share it with? Brandon Miller has everythingā€”except a commitment from the woman he loves. Angela Cooper has deep scars from a previous marriage. She's not interested in a do-over with Brandon or anyone.

Yet, he arranges aā€¦

Book cover of The Light of Day

Hugh Greene Why did I love this book?

Ok, itā€™s an old thriller set in the pre-Internet, pre-mobile phone, pre-EU world of the 1960s. Itā€™s a piece of twentieth-century clockwork, but it delivers suspense! The amoral protagonist canā€™t summon help by phone or Google his adversaries to gain an advantage. He must work to gain leniency from the Turkish authorities by acting as a double agent, delivering weapons to a gang of potential terrorists so that he might spy on them. The writing has a sharp precision and crisp wit.

By Eric Ambler,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Light of Day as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his unhappy childhood in England and eking out a living in Athens. When he spots a newly arrived tourist at the airport, he offers his services as a private driver and sees an easy chance to make some money by illicit means. But the out-matched Simpson soon finds himself embroiled in blackmail and driving a highly suspicious car to Istanbul. When he is stopped by the Turkish police, it seems his luck can't get any worse - but this is just the beginning . .ā€¦


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Son of Darkness

By Hugh Greene,

Book cover of Son of Darkness

What is my book about?

Son of Darkness opens in the aftermath of a plane crash when the lair of a serial killer is disturbed and he flees before the emergency services discover him. Forensic psychiatrist Dr Power and detective Lynch are commissioned as advisers to track down one of the most prolific killers they have yet encountered. Shocking and provocative, this Dr Power mystery delivers thrilling twists and turns in a novel you just canā€™t put down.

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