Fiction - Crime

She may be a hostage. But she's no damsel in distress...Becky Rant is off the grid and out for blood. Faking her own death so she can fulfill her promise, the mission leads her on the hunt for a mysterious man with a violent...

This is a collection in paperback of the first three stories written by the English author Dick Gillman. In these stories, he introduces the character of Julia Moriarty. Holmes and Watson become acutely aware of her existence in 1894 in the story aptly recorded...

It was in May, 1902 that the life of Julia Moriarty, the evil sister of Professor James Moriarty, was finally snuffed out. After the demise of her brother at the Reichenbach Falls, she had tirelessly sought revenge on Sherlock Holmes. Resurrecting her brother's criminal...

Dallas McCall, a former combat Marine of the war in Afghanistan, is a stranger in the small New Mexico town of Little Creek. He is on a mission to find the people responsible for murdering his Marine friend turned rancher, Carlos Garcia. Dallas meets...

Karen Wright is the epitome of self-control: always capable and in control to bear others' burdens, especially those of her husband Bill and siblings Travis and Melissa. However, inside, Karen suffers from high anxiety and a mild heart attack has led to regular consummation...

Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold case--a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades. Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieri--the local Florentine police--usually involves restoring stolen handbags to grateful...

Vengeful suspects, a complicated marriage, and one deadly diamond heist.In the wake of an intense and unexpected meeting with his wife's old mentor, famous cat burglar Marco Cruz, Special Agent Nashville Storm discovers that she's in town, and in trouble. While Blue swears she...

New Year's Eve, 2014. Buffalo, New York. Private Detective Lou Romoso is sitting at his desk reminiscing about how much he hates the stupid, made-up holiday when there's a knock at his door. Grumbling, he reluctantly lets the potential client come in. At first,...

'Highly recommended. Crime Writing at its very best' - Kate Rhodes on The Last Straw, book 1 in the DCI Warren Jones series How do you catch a man's killer when everyone wanted him dead? In Middlesbury, a rally is being held by the...

Judge Randall's friend from childhood, George Holland, unexpectedly reappears in his life after many years. George is the founder and owner of a successful contracting company, Holland Construction. Jim is delighted to see him again but wonders why George has reappeared now. It doesn't...

From USA Today Bestselling author Xavier Neal comes a dark, twisted, page-turning captive romance... -- I'm her newest captive. A caged prize fighter. A plaything in the middle of her search for her father's killer. But the longer I remain her prisoner, the more...

In Dhaka city, Enam and Rokeya strive to carve out a peaceful life for their family amidst the challenges that come with being a middle-class family. Seemingly unremarkable, their lives are punctuated by small problems that never quite seem to go away. But when...

Arthur Beauchamp takes a break from the courtroom to write a memoir so he can set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a young lawyer in 1966. The trial would either mark him as a pathetic loser or thrust...

"Meet Joe Brown, a young man who emerged from the unforgiving streets of West Kingston, where survival meant playing the hand he was dealt from birth. Faced with the harsh realities of a life of crime, Joe navigated a treacherous path, eliminating those who...

This book tells the compelling story of Tom and Henry, two teenagers who embark on a journey of self-discovery, friendship, and uncovering the hidden truth of their high school. The impact of their actions in unraveling dangerous secrets beneath the surface of their community...

Set against the backdrop of the political and cultural civil war roiling America, An Eye for a Tooth is a compelling criminal mystery told from a unique perspective.As FBI agent Jake Gromer watches his personal values come under withering assault and fights to keep...

As Michael Bolta and Jake Barton continue their work in civil litigation, they navigate perilous waters dealing with their clients' personal priorities, which occasionally place their own reputations in jeopardy.The transgressions of clients, friends and even family members continue to complicate their lives, but...

Dylan Davis is a funny guy, but his regular standup gig at the Carney Chop Shop doesn't pay for more than a crummy car and a crummier apartment, and the club owner Dimitri is always telling him he's not that good. So Dylan tends...

The criminal underworld clashes head on with the forces of law and order in this warts and all account of greed, vice, drugs and violence.in a police safe house in peaceful North Wales, Boris the Orange, informant and one-time translator for a criminal prostitution...

Britney Cage's personal life is finally falling into place... but her relentless inner demons threaten her newfound domestic bliss.Not a bad trade for Florida's deadliest serial killer, but it turns out even violent, bloodthirsty butchers long to strike that ever-evasive work-life balance.Still wired and...

In the second Big Lake Mystery, Emily Rhodes, retired preschool teacher and bartender turned amateur snoop, wonders if she is destined to discover dead bodies. This time she finds one of the contestants at the local barbecue cook-off dead and covered in barbecue sauce...

"An authentic thriller from a mob guy who's obviously been there." -- Nicholas Pileggi, Author of Wiseguy (Film name: Goodfellas) With razor-sharp honesty, Sonny Girard, an ex-mobster himself, tells the story of "Mickey Boy" Messina, just paroled from prison for a crime he didn't...

"A short fast trip down the road to hell with prose as hard as a hammer. If your reading diet requires something tough and bloody, here it is. Grab it."-Bill Crider, Award-winning author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series"I read as a writer and...

With the haunting, moody prose of Tana French and the compulsive storytelling of Dervla McTiernan or Ann Cleeves, bestselling author Carlene O'Connor lures readers to a remote village on Ireland's southwest coast, where winding windswept roads open to spectacular views of rugged cliffs against...

Carr considered this novel one of his best works, and it is easy to see why when experiencing its ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and masterfully drawn characters including none other than the great detective Dr. Gideon Fell."It almost seemed that the...

"Twenty-five years ago, a body was discovered in the Turney family barn--and the locals are all too ready to believe that killing blood ran through their veins. Every Turney came under suspicion, their reputations crumbled to pieces, and with no convictions, no one has...

When murder is your business, solving the case is personal ...The Homicide Hunter's riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth ...All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose...

No cold case is more important than the one that destroyed her own family Every small town has one unsolved case that haunts its memory, festering for generations below the surface with the truth of humanity's darkness. Star Cavanaugh is obsessed with the one...

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's...

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother and uncovers shocking secrets in this immersive and atmospheric saga perfect for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Perry. Cornwall, 1730: A young girl known only as Red travels with...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fianc馥 of Joe's daughter....

'A dark tale that gets under your skin. I couldn't tear my eyes away from the page' Gemma Rogers, author of The FeudDark, disturbing and gripping. This is not for the faint of heart.Nurse. Protégé. Murderer.Marcus Gove has been all these things. He's reached...

Sometimes you have to have the rug pulled out from beneath your feet to test your spine. The award nominated family suspense, Lake Laps is the broken fairytale of the family next door in a quiet little lakeside town. How far are you willing...

Detective Jack is called out to a body on the South Bank. The victim's hands and feet are bound, her skin badly bruised, her lips crudely sewn shut.Inside the dead woman's mouth is the severed head of a rat.This is the second body in...

'PAGE-TURNING GRIT LIT' LIZ NUGENT 'BRILLIANT ... I WAS RIVETED FROM FIRST PAGE TO LAST' ADRIAN MCKINTY 'A CRACKING CRIME THRILLER . . . A PAGE-TURNING TREAT' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The dream of a perfect life is shattered ... When Jody Kavanagh is discovered close...

A prominent district attorney pledges to end human trafficking as he searches for his daughter, who was kidnapped and forced into prostitution. However, the D.A. is actually using his pledge to further his political career, and he is no better than the traffickers themselves...

Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has converted to veganism and is in the middle of trying to rehome his menagerie of...

When a woman returns to the scene of the horrific mass murder that shattered her life, the nightmare begins again in a chilling novel of psychological suspense.Five years ago, Tessa Chamberlain was the lone survivor of a beach house massacre that left three of...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC!"Expect from a Karin Slaughter crime thriller . . . just the right amount of twists, turns, shocks, surprises and domestic thrill and shrill." -- ParadeThe next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, New York...

Molly Mae Murphy, a Helena Montana Real Estate Broker, accidentally stumbles into being the prime witness to a serial killer who kills one of her clients. Her observations prove her to be as good at detective work as brokering for her clients. The story...

Discover the most gripping thriller of 2024.EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER.Mary's in the shower after a long day's work when the lights go out. Her phone screen flashes in the dark. The text is from an unknown number: 'You're not alone in...

Dublin, 1939. As the Second World War looms ever closer, blind war veteran Frederick Rowlands travels to the neutral territory of Ireland at the behest of Celia Swift, whose husband, Lord Castleford, has been receiving mysterious death threats. When a body is discovered, Castleford...

"Dimmie, my boy, it looks like you're going on a luxury cruise."With those words, the hot-headed Irish mobster sends his best hitman to take out his old rival. He'll never control the mob so long as Kerrick is alive.Dimmie (short for Dim Wit) O'Malley,...

To all appearances, Allen Barrow was an ordinary guy with an ordinary job. No one knew he was also partnered with a pair of sexual predators who liked to play games...like kidnapping and assaulting young men.Eric Larson was a waiter en route home from...

New Year's Eve, London, 1979...The sour taste in my mouth is all that is left of 1979. I had seen out the night, the year and the decade in a blaze of luminous cocktails that were still throbbing somewhere at the back of my...

Three years after the death of his best friend Wren, Sawyer receives a package with her name on the return label.Inside are bundles of letters in her handwriting, dated back to the weeks before her disappearance. Within those letters is the story not only...

Dr. Jason White and Ricky Gold, a former professor and defense attorney in New York City, find themselves blacklisted from their professions after Jason is denied tenure and Ricky is disbarred from the legal profession.Desperation leads the two to start working as consultants for...

A HENIOUS CRIME.A SHOCKING SECRET.A TERRIFYING DISCOVERY There are things that Julianna Casey has seen that will forever fuel her nightmares. Things she cannot unsee. "High Octane...intelligent, complex, suspenseful."-Publishers Weekly NCIS Agents Lawson Pacheco and Mia Patel arrive first at the scene of a...

Successful criminal lawyer, Rick Peterson, puts his newfound ability of lucid dreaming to work to create a nostalgic dream destination, Wellstone; a perfect country town where it's always 1959, until a grisly murder shakes his lucid world.To save his sanity, he must find out...

The Dale Hunter Crime Thriller Novels are an explosive mix of crime, cash and computers in the 1980s. Entrepreneurs face challenges every day. It's hard to be a hero. MERGER MANIAC is the third novel in the Dale Hunter Series. It is a dramatic...