Fiction - Crime

A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body...

Spring, 1941. The Second World War has entered a dangerous phase, with British ships being torpedoed in the Atlantic and nightly bombing raids on major ports. At Bletchley Park, top secret home of the nation's code-breakers, the race is on to crack the German...

1914. Sherlock Holmes has been murdered. Nobody knows who did it, but Wiggins, former Baker Street Irregular and Holmes' prot馮馥, suspects a German spy. However, Europe is descending into the chaos of the First World War. Captain Kell of Military Intelligence has limited resources,...

Two crime thrillers by Gwen Banta, now available in one volume!Inside Sam Lerner: After his wife's death, former Los Angeles homicide detective, Sam Lerner, is running from his life. Returning to his native New Orleans, he ends up at the Gentlemen's Club. There, he...

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.Jenny Starling is spending Christmas in a snowed-in Cotswolds country house cooking all the traditional food she loves. But the family she's working for are not full...

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.Jenny Starling has her dream job cooking for Lord and Lady Avonsleigh in a genuine castle.But the dream is about to curdle. One of the castle's treasures,...

The story revolves around Frank Gunther, a decorated combat veteran who grapples with PTSD. Frank is bothered even in his dreams of the ambush and the graphic details at war that never seem to fade. His only goal is to lead a semi-normal life,...

A cautionary tale for a world in which social media has shattered the boundaries of intimacy.The first time that Mélanie met Clara, she was stunned by Clara's sense of authority, and for her part, Clara was struck by Mélanie's pink, glittery nails, which shimmered...

A stolen priceless Stradivarius violin, a poisoned dart, a haunted music library, and a jilted lover present a captivating mystery for the Palms Symphony Orchestra. Who has the motive and opportunity?Join the Conductor to save the orchestra from thieves, ghosts, and recover the valuable...

In the grand finale of the High Society Gangster series, Geno Caprese finds himself facing a long prison sentence as a result of the efforts of federal prosecutor Gavin Mayhem and a confidential informant from within his organization. However, Geno is not the type...

To be a powerful and influential man is both a gift and a curse for Geno Caprese. As the head of the Caprese crime family and also as one of Baltimore s most respected attorneys, Geno uses finesse and a string of savvy business...

When a man is murdered in the woods and the main suspect appears to be a giant ape, Hannah steps in to solve the mystery. Does Bigfoot really exist? Hannah is delighted to reconnect with her former roommate, Susan Lockley, owner of Scarborough Fairs,...

Hannah Ives embarks on a trip to the Mile High City on a fact-finding mission. But is she about to get 'high' on murder? It's a well-known fact that some of the Reach for Recovery cancer support group survivors Hannah Ives works with take...

The complex and controversial life of Geno Caprese continues to unfold in this mind blowing second installment of the Caprese Crime Series. With his chief nemesis, Nesta Clarke, now out of the picture, Geno has further solidified his status as the most powerful underworld...

When Carter McCoy learns he hasn't got long to live, it's time to take care of something he has wanted to do for years--kill the man responsible for his daughter's death. But Carter has no experience killing and isn't even sure he can do...

In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum when Lord Edgware has a most unnatural death.When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him...

In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he's traveling on is quite unexpectedly--and unnaturally--deceased. Now with a beautiful...

They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions. My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night...

Lithium Fire is a debut fiction novel by Liam Taliesin. The main character is haunted by the death of his ex-wife in a fire he narrowly escaped. His guilt overwhelms his grief, but the fire also ignites a desire to return to his passion...

My name is Meredith Gray, but I go by "Merry", and usually I love the holidays...but not this year. With divorce papers to sign and bills to pay, I'll take whatever job I can get this close to Christmas - even if that means...

A Huey helicopter escorted by two assault Charlie-model gunship helicopters are flying somewhere over the South Vietnam jungles in search of a sniper and his spotter. Not able to locate or make contact with them and with enemy fire increasing, they have to cancel...

'Fans will hope this series goes on forever' Publishers Weekly. ... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed. It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has...

This is the end of the line for Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell. Newenham is the last police outpost in the United States before you hit Siberia, and it's Campbell's last shot at getting his life back on track. It's an ice-bound fishing town...

In this novel, retired Virginia General District Court Judge R. Morgan Armstrong tells about a murder of a rich Baltimore banker during the Depression. The murder occurs in the summer of 1932, Matthew Cubley, at age fourteen, goes to work for the hotel owner,...

Billionaire Elliott Kantor, who ruled over a mammoth real estate portfolio in Chicago, was a creature of habit. His trainer came to his house three mornings every week for a five-thirty workout. By six-thirty he was in the car and his driver drove him...

A body in a hospital isn't so unusual. Unless they've been murdered!1916, London: Keen to support the war effort, bookshop manager and sometime amateur sleuth Hannah Merrill has taken a volunteer role in the library of the nearby military hospital.But arriving at the hospital...

Javier Espinoza manages a young rock band short on money to record their debut album. When the slog of playing their hearts out for tiny crowds in Texas border towns gets to be too much, a dangerous idea takes hold of Javier: smuggling migrants...

As amateur sleuth Juno Browne's Sunday dawns chilly and bright in the delightful Devon town of Ashburton, a murder is brewing. Juno is in the wrong place at the wrong time when she discovers the body of Bob the Blacksmith, his dead hands clutching...

To save her husband, can she do the unthinkable? One evening, Kenna and her husband are attacked on the street and her driver's license is stolen. The next night, when the same thugs break into their house, they realize it wasn't just a random...

When a young Englishman on work experience in Australia is found dead at the lovely Pool of Siloam in the Blue Mountains during a school tour, there are too many suspects to count. Detective Sergeant Provis calls in her old colleague, Inspector Esson, and...

"Original, fascinating, with more unexpected plot twists and turns than an Oklahoma tornado..." James A. Cox, Editor-In-Chief, Midwest Book Review Love of Art & Murder - From Mystic to the City of SteeplesInspired by a True Art CrimeThe prominent artist Marilyn Maroney's life-sized sculpture...

"The story's two main characters, Beth and Charles, live completely separate lives and yet the parallels in their experiences tie into the knots of childhood. Eventually they cross paths, not knowing they share a struggle to untangle their troubles. It is a cautionary tale...

"Holy City is an amazing piece of work. A Southern novel that examines the pathos and ethos of small-town life and the weight of both grief and hatred. Love it."--S.A. Cosby No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.Holy City is the captivating debut...

Things are not going well for Drake Ramsey. Sales of his latest sci-fi adventure novel have been abysmal. His woman is being head-hunted for a prestigious academic position in Seattle, of all places. And it is becoming increasingly evident that his six-year-old daughter is...

Struggling to provide for his ailing daughter following his wife's tragic demise, Daniel finds himself trapped in a relentless financial quagmire. With his credit in shambles and loans to support an unattainable luxury, his daughter's life-saving surgery hangs precariously in the balance. It's in...

Retired police officer Marjorie Pierce is on her way to Lanzarote to track down her old informer, Billy McKenzie. Billy ended Marjorie's career, and she needs an explanation; an apology.Present and past soon collide when gangsters Eric and Mick Maloney turn up on the...

When five college friends head to Daytona Beach for Spring Break, it's everything they think it will be. Sunshine, parties, and beaches. But when one of them doesn't make it back home, their lives are flipped upside down. The mother of the 20-year-old student...

A murder of an Icelandic man during a Full Cold Moon reminds Lauren Riley of a previous case she failed to solve. She is determined not to let it happen again. Since her partner on the Cold Case team has been out of action...

Dead bodies in the wilderness.A child gone missing.Book 2 in the Gabriel Hawke series.Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke's job is to find a missing family in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. After finding the parents murdered, can he track a little girl on...

Old Cleave should have known better than to use a whip. But no man ever knew what Beth would do. Her father suspected that she enjoyed killing. Her husband learned the truth too late. And I saw it happen. Saw her and wanted her,...

Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new stories of mystery, murder, and suspense presented by Mary Higgins Clark--with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more. From the streets of Harlem to the winding paths of Central Park to the...

Based on the experience of the author, a federal judge who in 2000 presided over the first capital case in Massachusetts in more than fifty years, this extraordinary debut thriller offers an unprecedented inside view of a federal death penalty trialWhen a drive-by shooting...

A disturbing package leads Detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott to investigate four dangerous murder suspects in this "magnetic" British mystery (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike. When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery,...

A body in a hospital isn't so unusual. Unless they've been murdered!1916, London: Keen to support the war effort, bookshop manager and sometime amateur sleuth Hannah Merrill has taken a volunteer role in the library of the nearby military hospital.But arriving at the hospital...

Arnold Palmer has just died and The King of Video Poker is about to lose everything he loves.In Paolo Iacovelli's debut novel, we follow a nameless narrator. He is a normative, upper-middle-class American who commutes to Las Vegas to play high-stakes video poker. He...

The clock is ticking as a forensic handwriting expert and a LAPD detective race to uncover the truth behind a mysterious suicide note. With powerful enemies and a brutal attempt on her life, Claudia Rose must confront a desperate foe in order to survive....

When a deadly enemy reappears with a lethal new plan, it's up to FBI Special Agent Ericka Blackwood to stop him - but not before she overcomes the failures of her past. Following her harrowing encounter with predatory cybercriminal Dantalion, and her decision to...

After the horrors of war against the forces of Napoleon and the hardships of guarding convicts in Australia, ex-soldier Gregory Hardiman is enjoying the quiet life of an ostler at a Cambridge coaching inn, with only the occasional nightmare to disturb his sleep, and...

Miami, 1979. Rig Lopez-Campbell is a middle-schooler navigating the streets of Liberty City following his father's imprisonment. Tommy Munoz is a Pedro Pan survivor and former accountant dragged into the violent world of cocaine trafficking. Tina Pacheco is a Puerto-Rican freelance photographer-turned-journalist after capturing...

From the internationally bestselling author of I Am Not Who You Think I Am--a New York Times Thriller of the Year--comes Lilith, an incendiary powerhouse of a novel that strikes straight at the wounded heart of America.Mother. Hero. Villain. Killer. After her son, Lydan,...