What is the secret formula for love?

Hector, our intrepid psychiatrist, sets off on a new globe-trotting mission – and this time he's looking for LOVE. 

These are difficult times for Nicolas Le Floch: Louis XV is dead and Nicolas's boss Sartine has been promoted to Minister of State for the Navy. Le Noir, Sartine's successor as Lieutenant General of Police, distrusts Le Floch. Monsieur de Saint-Florentin, the King's new minister, entrusts Commissioner Le Floch with the investigation into the murder of a chambermaid whose throat was cut in unusual circumstances at Saint-Florentin's home.

In the spring of 1932, with Londoners terrorised by a series of brutal murders, the private detective agency of Messrs. Singleton and Trelawney quietly opens its doors in Bloomsbury.

The first person to call on their services is a worried Lady Arthur Conan Doyle. She tells of mysterious events at 221 Baker Street - and a premonition that the London murders signal terrible danger for mankind.

The fifth Victor Legris Mystery.

In the turbulent Parisian summer of 1893,Victor Legris has vowed to give up the dangerous hobby of amateur sleuthing to concentrate on selling books.

A man's life is told through food in this exquisite tale from the author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Can we learn how to be happy?

Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they're just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for them, and it's beginning to depress him.

The fourth Nicolas Le Floch Investigation.

Paris, 1774. Commissioner Le Floch's stormy love affair with socialite Julie de Lastérieux has run its course. But before Nicolas can formally end the relationship, Julie is found murdered in her bed, a victim of poisoning.

'Their eyes met... and they soon knew that their hearts were made for each other.'

Triumphant on the field of battle, Clisson turns his back on worldly success. He falls in love and marries Eugénie, but how long will their love survive?

"The Tsar had long dreamt of taking Paris in revenge for Moscow..."

March 1814. With the allied armies of Russia, Austria and Prussia advancing, Paris is in real danger of falling to occupying forces for the first time in 400 years. But at a moment when all efforts should be directed towards the defence of the city, Joseph Bonaparte is concerned with the murder of a retired colonel, and orders Major Quentin Margont to conduct a secret investigation into his death.

France's greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual delights. But as Pierre Arthens lies on his death bed, he is tormented by an inability to recall the most delicious food to ever pass his lips, which he ate long before becoming a critic. Desperate to taste it one more time, he looks back over the years to see if he can pin down the elusive dish.

The fourth Nicolas Le Floch Investigation.

Paris, 1774. Commissioner Le Floch's stormy love affair with socialite Julie de Lastérieux has run its course. But before Nicolas can formally end the relationship, Julie is found murdered in her bed, a victim of poisoning.

The third instalment of The Agnes de Souarcy Chronicles. An Eternal Struggle. A Web of Secrets. A Destiny Foretold...

Normandy 1304. Agnes de Souarcy has survived the medieval Inquisition, but remains the focus of an ancient quest. Her protectors must do battle with the powerful enemies of the quest who will stop at nothing to see it fail.

Can you scan 800 barcodes an hour?
Can you smile and say 'thanks' 500 times a day?
Do you never need to go to the toilet?
Then working at a supermarket checkout could be just the job for you.

The third Nicolas Le Floch Investigation.

Paris is in mourning. At the firework display marking the Dauphin's marriage to Marie Antoinette, hundreds of people have been injured or crushed to death. Yet not all the victims died accidentally...

With over two and a half million copies sold worldwide we published the paper back edition of The Elegance of the Hedgehog in June 2009.

Alençon, September 1304. Widowed Agnes de Souarcy is a prisoner of the Inquisition. Though innocent of any crime, she faces interrogation and torture. And with friendsand allies powerless to help her, she only has her strength of character to draw on as she fights for her life.

Paris, February 1761. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains are found it becomes a murder investigation. As Paris descends into Carnival debauchery it is Le Floché's skill, courage and integrity that will help him unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land.

The fourth Victor Legris Mystery.

Parisian bookseller, Victor Legris, finds a new case to investigate very close to home, when his business partner's apartment is burgled.

Curiously the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people have been murdered who were connected to to the goblet, Victor becomes convinced of its secret significance. How quickly can he recover it and end the killing spree, in a city beset with terrorist activity?

The second Nicolas Le Floch Investigation.

An unusual death during an evening at the Opera reveals something sinister at the heart of the French court...

Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but totally uncultivated, in keeping, she feels, with society's expectations of what a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Renée passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives.

"The season of the beast was near..."

1304. The King of France and the Church are locked in a battle for power that will also decide the fate of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller.

Meanwhile in the Normandy countryside, young widow Agnes de Souarcy, the beautiful lady of the manor, is fighting to retain her independent way of life, aware that her spiteful half-brother will do anything to destroy her.

Imagine a shop that for generations has sold all the accoutrements for the perfect suicide. This family business prospers in all its bleak misery, until the day it encounters joie de vivre in the shape of younger son, Alan.

What will become of The Suicide Shop in the face of Alan's relentless good cheer, optimism and determination to make the customers smile?

Watch a trailer of the new animated film here: http://niark.com/thesuicideshop/teaser.html

The third Victor Legris Mystery.

Paris, November 1891 and the body of a young woman is discovered on Boulevard Montmartre. Barefoot and dressed in red she has been strangled and her face horribly disfigured. That same day a single red shoe is delivered to Victor Legris's Parisian bookshop.

Suspecting more than just coincidence the charming bookseller sleuth and his assistant Jojo are soon searching for the identity of both victim and murderer.

In 1809, the forces of Napoleon's Grande Armée are in Austria. For young Lieutenant Lukas Relmyer it is hard to return to the place where he and fellow orphan Franz were kidnapped four years earlier. Franz was brutally murdered and Lukas has vowed to avenge his death.

When the body of another orphan is found on the battlefield, Captain Quentin Margont and Lukas join forces to track down the wolf that is prowling once more the forests of Aspern...

The second Nicolas Le Floch Investigation.

An unusual death during an evening at the Opera reveals something sinister at the heart of the French court...

The first Nicholas Le Floch Investigation.

Paris, February 1761. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains are found it becomes a murder investigation. As Paris descends into Carnival debauchery it is Le Floch's skill, courage and integrity that will help him unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land.

Cardinal Mazarin is dying - who will now guide the young Louis XIV? Court intrigue, a timeless mystery and a love story come together in this dazzling depiction of France in 1661.

The first in a series of bestselling thrillers set in the Napoleonic Wars.

June 1812. Napoleon begins his invasion of Russia leading the largest army Europe has ever seen. But amongst the troops of the Grande Armee is a savage murderer whose bloodlust is not satisfied by battle. When an innocent woman is brutally stabbed Captain Quentin Margont of the 84th regiment is put in charge of a secret investigation to unmask the perpetrator. Armed with only the sole fact that the killer is an officer, Margont knows that he faces a near impossible task and the greatest challenge of his military career.

The second Victor Legris Mystery.

Paris 1890, and Lady's Maid Denise le Louarn fears the worst when her mistress, the beautiful Odette de Valois, vanishes from the P#egravere-Lachaise cemetery during a visit to her husband's grave.

The first Victor Legris Mystery.

The brand-new Eiffel Tower is the glory of the 1889 Universal Exposition. But one day a woman collapses and dies on its second floor. Can a bee-sting really be the cause of death? Enter young bookseller, Victor Legris, who is determined to find out what really happened.

The third Nicolas Le Floch Investigation

Paris is in mourning. At the firework display marking the Dauphin's marriage to Marie Antoinette, hundreds of people have been injured or crushed to death. Yet not all the victims died accidentally.