Fiction - Crime

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

It's an icy New Year's Eve. Snow blankets a windswept Irish island as the wild Atlantic Ocean rages. Six friends gather. It has been ten years since the tragedy that tore them apart. A lot can change in a decade... Childhood bonds are now...

Following the violent death of his father, Gershwin Burr descends into a seemingly inescapable depression until, not-so-accidentally, he discovers a remedy for his condition: he steals a book and finds his mood has lightened. Before long, he's stealing indiscriminately while refining his skills as...

After twenty years as a professional solider, Decimus Julius Virilis - distant kin to the Imperator himself - has been commissioned the third in command of the newly formed Legio XII Brundisium.It's his last assignment before retiring from Caesar Augustus' legions - and turns...

Gropper and McGill continue to operate as unlicensed private investigators, working out of a diner in Charleston, South Carolina.While McGill handles the business end, rarely leaves the diner, and lives off a steady diet of pancakes, bacon, and coffee, Gropper must deal with a...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

After twenty years as a professional solider, Decimus Julius Virilis - distant kin to the Imperator himself - has been commissioned the third in command of the newly formed Legio XII Brundisium.It's his last assignment before retiring from Caesar Augustus' legions - and turns...

Gropper and McGill continue to operate as unlicensed private investigators, working out of a diner in Charleston, South Carolina.While McGill handles the business end, rarely leaves the diner, and lives off a steady diet of pancakes, bacon, and coffee, Gropper must deal with a...

Following the violent death of his father, Gershwin Burr descends into a seemingly inescapable depression until, not-so-accidentally, he discovers a remedy for his condition: he steals a book and finds his mood has lightened. Before long, he's stealing indiscriminately while refining his skills as...

Following the violent death of his father, Gershwin Burr descends into a seemingly inescapable depression until, not-so-accidentally, he discovers a remedy for his condition: he steals a book and finds his mood has lightened. Before long, he's stealing indiscriminately while refining his skills as...

Gabriel Hawke Novel #7Missing or MurderedWhen the local authorities tell State Trooper Gabriel Hawke's mother to wait 72 hours before reporting a missing Umatilla woman, she calls her son and rallies members of the community to search. Hawke arrives at the Confederated Tribes of...

In, "An Ugly Girl's Diary 3", we delve back into the life of Courtney Martin, a bold podcast host who's suddenly caught up in a scary situation when she gets a creepy message live on air, saying that her end is near. Courtney's life...

The highest bidder chooses how they die.Their murders livestreamed.Cyrus Booth stalks and brutally murders young women.The women have nothing in common. Except they are all travel bloggers. Sharing their holiday plans online.Cyrus knows where to find them.Seven years ago Valencia's best friend was brutally...

In the mid-summer of the first year of the 20th century, a killer heatwave grips the city of Toronto. And it's not the only killer out there.A very public suicide and a gruesome murder trigger fear and panic that, after an 11-year hiatus, England's...

A right-wing radio program incites a range of tensions among the Rascal Harbor townsfolk as they navigate issues of love, health, religion, and patriotism. In this fourth book in the Rascal Harbor series, people and events swirl in ways that provoke as many problems...

A Scotland Yard inspector holds the key when a college professor is shot behind a series of locked gates in this classic British mystery series opener. The usually quiet campus of St. Anthony's College is abuzz with talk of murder. Someone shot Prof. Josiah...

The boss's nightmare is no longer a bad dream...It's a reality, and his name is Kenneth "Montega" Carter. Using a vigilante M.O., known as the Phantom, he is fueled with the desire to seek revenge on those who pose a threat to both family...

An atmospheric debut set in the smoky, rolling peaks of Southern Appalachia, about lifelong friendships, class differences, terrible mistakes, and the dazzling beauty of unspoiled nature. Nestled between the smoky, rolling peaks of Southern Appalachia lies the town of Brevard, North Carolina. When Chris...

A London detective investigates when a troubled Scottish laird takes a fall in this classic British mystery by the author of Hamlet, Revenge!. Strange things are happening around the remote Castle Erchany, located in the Scottish Highlands. The miserly and reclusive laird, Ranald Guthrie,...

'The best police procedural I've read in years' Jane Casey'Grabbed me from the first page' Ian RankinThis grave can never be opened.The head of Scotland's most powerful crime family is brutally murdered, his body dumped inside an ancient grave in a remote cemetery.This murder...

The story ends with a car crash. Two women, both maimed, their long blonde hair matted with blood. It begins with one woman waking up, in an unfamiliar hospital bed. Bright lights, nurses...and handcuffs. She is told her name is Reeta Doe, and that...

On another visit to her local yarn shop, Asante Jones seeks the comfort and solace of the familiar haven and the perfect yarn for her latest project. In addition to more yarn for her stash, a hidden treasure awaits her in the form of...

As the midnight train from Manchester to Liverpool approaches the city, it hits the body of a man. After the police look into the case, they learn that the man was a well-known movie director - of the adult variety.Soon, they find out that...

Who killed Dorothy Newton?It's been said that everyone has something to hide, and the residents of Meadowvale retirement home, on the outskirts of the village of Parva Crossing, are no exception, and neither, perhaps, are some of the relatives or staff...But could one of...

From the winner of the MWA Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Mystery, Alan Parks, comes a new, gripping installment in the gritty Glasgow-based Harry McCoy series.A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found...

Who is the face at Carmine's window, and why won't she let him sleep?You must read J. Herman Kleiger's psychologically textured mystery to find out. Tears Are Only Water entwines a complex and twisty plot with the raw journey of breakdown, healing, and transformation....

I have the life I've always dreamed of... but how long will it be until the past catches up with me?I can't believe how far my husband, Hayden, and I have come. I never expected that one day I'd be sipping a steaming coffee...

Taxi driver Trung Nguyen spots something strange happening opposite his brother's restaurant inChina town.He moves closer and sees something he shouldn't. Beaten up, he's left for dead.Later, Trung tells passenger Robin Edwards, a detective, about it. Soon Trung and Edwards are in overtheir heads...

The proud owners of the Triple Threat Investigation Agency - JJ, Rey, and Linda - have a new case. Who set ablaze two happening Chinatown art galleries, leaving charcoal-broiled corpses in the rubble?Any number of curious characters in the local art world could be...

Leia Richardson wakes up to discover that her husband didn't come home. She immediately begins to panic, and she has a good reason to panic. Her mind is racing is he in jail or worse did something bad happen to him. Leia husband Jason...

Caught up in the narcotics trade of rural Appalachia, nineteen-year-old Willa Taylor vanishes from her parents' home in Eastern Kentucky. The region has fallen on hard times. A once booming coal industry is in decline. In its wake the drug business has taken over....

As hard as Simon Donovan tries to reinvent himself as a charter schooner captain, he found that he can't run from the ghosts of his past. El Demonio has taken Itz l and threatens to kill her if he doesn't give him a shipment...

A quirky, light-hearted crime caper! Perfect for fans of M C Beaton and Alexander McCall Smith.Cats stuck up trees. Missing mothers. Run over hedgehogs. If you've got a story to tell, and no one to gripe to, then call on Tytti Vertainen, Tapiolinna's first...

This is modern Lusaka, Zambia, where the line between magic and religion is blurred, the arcane and the mundane muddle and nothing is what it seems. Luse is a sharp street child combing the gang-ridden city in a desperate search for Doctor Georgia Shapiro...

Sometimes the past throws up more than you can handle... When Aidan McRaney is sent into infiltrate the lair of a man obsessed with seeking revenge on the British for the murder of his IRA father, he is forced to confront a past he...

Max leads a quiet life in the Mississippi Delta. He works part time for his uncle's used car dealership and rides his Harley as often as he can. When the COPPERHEADS Motorcycle Club sets up in town, he is intrigued. Learning about the MC...

Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent--not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning...

IT'S 1999, Bobby Drakis is 26, and after 6 very long years inside state prison he's out on appeal and finally back home in Bayside, Queens, New York City-- where his best friend Victor Saravano has become a wealthy and dangerous drug dealing loan...

A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank,...

In late summer, the Dingle peninsula is thronged with tourists drawn to County Kerry's dark mountains and deep, lush valleys. For Irish vet Dimpna Wilde, who has returned to run her family's practice after years away, home is a beautiful but complicated place--especially when...

A TWISTED TALE OF VENGEANCE When a spate of sudden deaths occurs amongst the elderly in Ellie's home town, the South Australian ambulance officer grows concerned. After a man purporting to be the relative of one of the deceased who clearly is not moves...

He was trained to kill. In the process, he lost his sanity and his soul. Onyx doesn't see any of that when he looks at Seven. Seven is one of countless boys who trained through an underground program to follow the worst of orders....

Los Angeles, 1981, is a city about to tear itself apart. LAPD narcotics detective Bo Fochs has uncovered a drug ring that stretches from the neon nights of the Sunset Strip to the deadly streets of South Central. It's fueling both sides of L.A.'s...

From the author of After the Crash comes a gripping new thriller about one woman's descent into grief and madness after her ten-year-old son disappears without a trace.Maddi Lib駻i is a successful doctor living an idyllic life in the South of France. On the...

I watched her from afar ever since she was born. I knew from the moment my eyes spied her that she was the one: the one I needed, the one I had searched for so very long. My careful planning and sacrifices would all...

Murder on Demand, the new book in the delightful Morning Show Murders series from bestselling author and TV news icon Al Roker, finds Billy Blessing investigating a suspicious boating accident in Long Island.Ten years have passed since Billy Blessing's adventure in Chicago, and a...

Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career.Sometimes you have to become what...

Two mysteries: - Scott Joplin's first opera, "Guest of Honor," written in 1902, lost before even the first production and never heard;- the death 93 years later of a middle-aged woman who falls onto the street outside the Amelia Cafeteria. Private Investigator Sherman Sheridan...

"If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it." --A.S. ByattCelebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on...

"Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever." --Sara ParetskyWorld War II is limping to a close and private detective Albert Campion has just returned from years abroad...