Fiction - Crime

Become a part of a riveting mystery adventure with Agatha Christie's fearless heroine"The Man in the Brown Suit."Introducing "The Man in the Brown Suit" by Agatha Christie, a thrilling mystery adventure with a fearless heroine. The story of Anne Beddingfield, whose journey to uncover...

Juno Browne is overworked and underpaid, staff absences are making running her shop difficult, and her elderly client, Maisie, is demanding more of her time. However, she is not the only one with problems. Her friend Elizabeth is being blackmailed, and dear Ricky's errant...

Margarita: The Case of the Numbers Kidnapper...Someone has been kidnapping outstanding female athletes in the Southern States. Will Penny be next?Penny Margarita wants to follow her dream of becoming a high school football player like her brother David. Coached by her father and Louis,...

Margarita: The Case of the Numbers Kidnapper...Someone has been kidnapping outstanding female athletes in the Southern States. Will Penny be next?Penny Margarita wants to follow her dream of becoming a high school football player like her brother David. Coached by her father and Louis,...

Tense, twisty and shocking, Boys Who Hurt is the fifth addictive installment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series, as dark events from the past endanger everything... Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma finds herself confronted with a complex case, when a man is found...

A young crew growing up in Brooklyn, are faced with the trials n tribulations dat jealousy, money and envy brings! But will the real be able to survive life or will Phoney Homies Die Lonely!Author: SquingeISBN-13: 9798218363888Publisher: U.N.T. LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2024Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize:...

Detective Sergeant J. J. "Cowboy" Manford, a fifteen-year veteran of the Caine City Police Department, is the one called out to investigate unusual deaths. His current case initially looks like a suicide, a jumper. However, the facts surrounding the case just aren't adding up...

Michael's looking forward to a quiet night after he finishes work... and then he's asked to bury a body.Devil of a Favor forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.Author: Rachel AmphlettISBN-10: 1917166001ISBN-13: 9781917166003Publisher:...

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three...

A series of short noir fictions with all the lines taken from 1940's and 50's noir films.Author: Chuck Rosenthal, Gail WronskyISBN-10: 0996227628ISBN-13: 9780996227629Publisher: What Books PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2015Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation,...

Could one man's obsession with the truth be a fatal mistake?When Detective Sergeant Blake Harknell is seconded to an active investigation in the hinterland of south east Queensland, he discovers the police station understaffed and the local population wary of his presence in Hangman's...

Bob Chinn is the creator and porn auteur of the nine-part Johnny Wadd adult film series that, in 1970, launched the career of legendary porn icon, John Curtis Holmes. After graduating from UCLA film school, Chinn had aspirations of becoming a mainstream Hollywood director...

Crime-fiction librarian Ray Ambler gets more than he bargained for when he acquires the archives of a controversial hardboiled crime author in this contemporary twisty mystery set in New York City. Hardboiled crime writer Will Ford might be critically acclaimed, but he's every bit...

Author: Christie WatsonISBN-10: 0063378590ISBN-13: 9780063378599Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 272Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/29/2024Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 19

Salvatore Marchetti has spent thirty-two years working at the same small bank in Queens and his heart is failing, so when amateur bank robbers overlook a small fortune during a heist, Sal seizes the chance of a lifetime-he pockets the cash for his struggling...

In The Mind of Dan MacAvoy, Dallas Clark's third Woody White legal thriller, Dan MacAvoy is a former Marine who returns from a tour in Vietnam, scarred by a horrific combat experience, only to have his tenuous psyche further damaged by his abusive, neglectful...

When an Assistant Sheriff's niece is found dead after she attends a popular nightclub, Lou Ann Jasinski, Homicide and Death Investigator is assigned the case at the behest of the Assistant Sheriff, her boss. A fatal drug overdose is suspected to be the cause...

A smart-talking supernatural noir, full of twists and turns, delivered at a whipalong pace about a dead investigative-journalist-turned-soul-collector on the trail of his nemesis - and murderer. Perfect for fans of Ben Aaranovitch and Richard Kadrey. "Secret Dead Men is the most inventive, uplifting,...

Salvatore Marchetti has spent thirty-two years working at the same small bank in Queens and his heart is failing, so when amateur bank robbers overlook a small fortune during a heist, Sal seizes the chance of a lifetime-he pockets the cash for his struggling...

When Maddox Kane is released from prison, he has no idea what the world has become. His ex-wife's hooked up with a heroin addict, his daughter's busy burying dead bodies behind drugstores, and his brother's being held prisoner by an abusive prostitute. Plus, apparently,...

MEET DETECTIVE HEDLEY SHARPE IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS.A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish.Day 1. Chloe Todd believes her baby daughter is sleeping peacefully in...

Curtis Herden has seen plenty of traumatic events in his first seven years of life. His father died in a drill rig accident, his mother, Bonnie, was briefly jailed for the murder of his stepfather and he watched a man who was harassing his...

The chief character, Lord Peter Wimsey, goes to the Bellona Club to have a meal with an old friend of his, ninety-year old General Fentiman. In great surprise, he finds the aged man fully dressed by the fire in full rigor mortis. A question...

On a balmy afternoon in May 2002, wealthy stockbroker Peter Nicholson was turkey hunting with three friends in Prentice Cooper State Forest when he tripped, fell on his shotgun, and accidentally shot himself ... dead, but did he? Fifteen years later, as a last...

Otto Pohl is 16 going on 17 and knows that he is na?e. A paper boy for the Chicago Daily Tribune, he aspires to become a Tribune sportswriter like his idol, Ring Lardner. The July 6th shooting of Billy Jurges, Chicago Cubs' shortstop, by...

Uncover the chilling secrets of a serial killer's son in this gripping thriller. Hiding in the shadows of Portland, Oregon, Peter Wilson has finally built the life he's always wanted. Living under an assumed identity, he is free from the stalkers, writers, and reporters...

From international bestselling author A.K. Alexander comes a heart-pounding thriller that takes readers on a rollercoaster of a ride as Detective Holly Jennings hunts a violent set of killers, while she herself is being hunted by her own personal demons. Detective Holly Jennings is...

Howard Watson is an FBI agent who deals with problems that hit America's shores: illicit diamonds, illegal logging, tobacco smuggling, human trafficking, and illegal drugs. These are problems that most Americans are not concerned with until or unless it impacts their lives.Author: Joann FastoffISBN-10:...

Maddie Arnette traded in her hard-news crime reporting for softer, feel-good features after her husband's death. But her lifelong addiction to the dark side of journalism, bolstered by years of sources in dark alleys and grisly crime scenes, still clamors for Maddie's attention.When Suzanne...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - A novel about grifters with issues, by the acclaimed cult author of Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex Roy and Frankie are matchstick men--con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have...

Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for--with new tales by the best writers of today The fourth issue features the following lineup:...

D. B. Cooper Is Dead: A Solomon Starr Adventure follows the adventures of Solomon Starr, Private Investigator, as he tries to protect a young movie star and solve the murder of her sister. In the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Robert Parker, Sol Starr...

Grace Hampton is comfortably settled into her job as a bioenergetic practitioner when the government outlaws her profession and the products she uses to improve her clients' health. Committed to helping people conquer illness, Grace is forced to join up with a former flame,...

Death was falling, swiftly, ruthlessly. It made you very conscious of living.After eight years abroad, Michael Stephen is back in Second World War London--the fortunate survivor of a shipwreck. Avoiding the incessant bombing of the Blitz, he instead gets swept up into something even...

Based around a series of true events. The BBC's current affairs programme 'Panorama' undertook a sixty minute documentary / expos surrounding an elite government task force that went undercover in Sheffield over a period of twelve months. Their remit was to use the Proceeds...

Perhaps the victim had not been unconscious but had known her fate, had sent upwards from the black pit a cry that none but murderers had heard. Bobby takes the rare opportunity for a holiday - albeit a working one. Prompted by his fianc...

Mark Richmond is up in Scotland getting to know the Crawford family, but the health of his father-in-law, Peter Kingsley, is deteriorating in England. As Peter continues to struggle, it seems the Richmonds and the Kingsleys are inextricably entwined by the sins of their...

Father Brown returns Chesterton's fourth volume of great mystery fiction Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy....

Arrun Durai had it all - a good job as a software engineer, a loving girlfriend, and a comfortable life in Toronto. But when his relationship with Hasini Ravichandran suddenly falls apart, he spirals into a world of drugs and alcohol. One night, he...

She had the face of a madonna and a heart made of dollar bills. She was sitting on the floor, naked, in a skitter of green bills. Beyond her was the custodian, still simpering in death. She was scooping up handfuls of the green...

Philadelphia. City of Brotherly Love. Unless you have the Philly mob trying to kill you and the FBI wanting to sit you down for an interview about your connections to organized crime. Not to mention being wanted for your own illegal business ventures. Did...

Journalist Jake Thomas and two friends find a lost lottery ticket the Las Vegas mob is after and will kill to get.Author: Paul G. LindseyISBN-10: 1518788025ISBN-13: 9781518788024Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2015Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.17d

It is a story of a family of serial killers linked by their genetics and their lust to kill. Read how the son gets pulled in by the story his father tells him. Follow with horror the terrible crimes they commit. Sympathize with the...

Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for -- with new tales by the best writers of today The second issue features contributions...

'The Secret of Chimneys, ' an unforgettable classic from legendary British author, Agatha Christie. Marking the first appearance of Agatha Christie's character Inspector Battle, it was first published in 1925 and went on to be a hit among readers. This mystery novel follows Anthony...

JAILBREAK! - Get this: Samuzzo D'Amato just busted out of Sing Sing. You know Sing Sing, right? That big famous prison? Real maximum security type deal. Anyway, forget about Sing Sing already, on accounta D'Amato's outta there.Only don't forget about it so fast. See,...

TWO BODIES One suicide. One cold-blooded murder. Are they connected? And who's really pulling the strings in the small Swedish town of Gavrik? TWO COINS Black Grimberg liquorice coins cover the murdered man's eyes. The hashtag #Ferryman starts to trend as local people stock...

Brian Reynolds and Janet Codington walked down the hallway to their rooms at Edgewood Gardens Senior Living Center. They lived in the same wing, four doors away from each other. Before Brian went into his room, they agreed to meet with friends for dinner....

In a city full of crime, the people of Bison knew no rest. All they saw when they closed their eyes was "blood". Those who stayed behind looked for ways to stay afloat and out of danger amid the constant drama and murder reports....