Fiction - Crime

"Calling A State of Despair a page-turner would be an understatement."A simple drug bust. That is what the Critical Response Unit thinks they're dealing with.It goes horribly wrong when shots are fired, an explosion goes off, and a fire breaks out. Chaos erupts and...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has been accused of assaulting a young woman. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence....

HOOSIER NOIR is a collection of Indiana crime fiction. Issue ONE features genre heavyweights Les Edgerton, Don Stoll, Preston Lang, and many more. This first issue also offers Michael Mullen photography, an Author Spotlight on Alec Cizak, and an exclusive interview with Rex Weiner.Author:...

"Mr. Vonnegut dreams up diabolically elegant business crimes, then sends smart-talking characters to follow the money. He draws upon his own Wall Street experience (with Morgan Stanley, among other employers) to provide the sound of insider acumen.... There's enough novelty to this plot to...

Full text.William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) is best remembered today for his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, and its scheming central character Becky Sharp. His first full-length work of fiction also featured an anti-heroine: Catherine first appeared in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840,...

Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper. After interviewing everyone concerned, Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes...

Set against a high-profile hunt for the latest criminal gang to hit Paris, Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a quiet crook for whom he cannot help feeling affection and respect. This novel has been published in a previous translation as...

A retired manufacturer has been shot dead by his own pistol, last seen alive by his son-in-law. In this seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth.This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret...

Journalist Dan Starkey, hero of Divorcing Jack, is back, a few Guinnesses past sober, but quick as ever with the sarcastic rejoinder--and this time his knack for adventure, and misadventure, takes him to the unsuspecting streets of New YorkAuthor: Colin BatemanISBN-10: 1611458625ISBN-13: 9781611458626Publisher: Arcade...

This haunting journey into the mind of a psychopath will chill you to the core . . .Tough-as-nails Detective Ray Truman battles his demons as he tracks a family of prolific serial killers in this nail-biting psychological thriller.Headless corpses, their bodies ritualistically mutilated and...

At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white...

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short.Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting...

Join two boys, Wes and Vance, as they grow up in West Tennessee in the 1940's. Enjoy a colorful cast of characters and historical tidbits. Culminating in an edge-of-your-seat murder trial replete with twists and unexpected revelations. This is a powerful story that reveals...

In this adventure mystery novel, Arsene Lupin, the world's greatest thief, may have finally met his match in Deputy Daubrecq, a cunning detective who foils Lupin's most cunning roberies, thefts, and even a kidnapping. Lupin must thus save his men from theAuthor: Maurice LeBlancISBN-10:...

Hoosier Noir is back with Vol. 5! Bringing you Indiana-infused crime and horror from the minds of Shari Held, Veronica Leigh, Brian Beatty, Danny Sophabismay, and Matthew X. Gomez.Author: Shari Held, Veronica Leigh, Brian BeattyISBN-10: 8359300941ISBN-13: 9798359300940Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2022Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize:...

He's on the run - but does not know who he's running from. All he knows is that they want him dead. Paul's life is on a downward spiral. He's going nowhere very quickly. Dumped by his girlfriend, living away from his friends in...

March, 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with bombs raining down almost every night. Inspector Coburg and his trusted Sergeant Lampson are just recovering from the devastating bomb attack on the Café de...

A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar is a historical book written by Robert Sewell that focuses on the history of the Vijayanagara Empire in South India. The book covers the period from the foundation of the empire in 1336 to its decline and ultimate defeat by...

A Priest with a depraved appetite. A family battling tragedy. Can one down-and-out attorney force a change from cassock to cuffs?Zack Blake is teetering on the brink of alcohol-fueled disaster. Once heralded as The King of Justice, the now-floundering lawyer's arrogance got him kicked...

The compulsion to kill is one that is as old as mankind itself. What, though, is it that actually drives this compulsion? Is it lust? Rage? Are we just evil to the core... Or is it that murder is just another form of expression,...

DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge! When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic novelist, accepts an invitation to be the headline author at a prestigious book...

A bizarre discovery right under Mrs Pargeter's patio turns a quiet and sunny June morning into a thrilling hunt for answers in this new instalment of the light-hearted and entertaining Mrs Pargeter mystery series. When widow Mrs Pargeter decides to have her morning coffee...

September, 2001. As the world watches agape at the traumatic scenes coming out of the United States, it's no different for Verity Hunter and Keith Malcolm in the tranquil surroundings of their new life in Cornwall. A call from Max Zeall soon has them...

A Cop's Tale is a crime drama with international ramifications that takes place in 1960 in New York City, N.Y. During the height of the Cold War a young girl visiting the United States with her family from Venezuela is killed in the crossfire...

Young archaeologist Hannah Kovak is invited to a wealthy man's mansion on a mountain in Sweden with a group of nine strangers. Stranded from the rest of the world, they are drawn into a deadly game and must work together before the killer in...

A riveting, blistering hot novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins. Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he's nobody's fool....

Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again - and runs straight into trouble.Ben encounters a dead man on a London bridge and is promptly rescued from the same fate by a posh lady in a limousine....

SAVING PORTERVILLE is a sequel to DECENT DECEIT-Destiny of Deception-Story of how Drake Dawson, a young man in search of himself befriended a soldier with PTSD and both lives were changed as well as were others. The physically and emotionally flawed strangers caught up...

A stunning Cornish house, a shocking death--can The Shell House Detectives catch a killer hiding in plain sight?"Sensationally good... I absolutely loved it."--Rosie Walsh"No one does coastal crime like Emylia Hall." --Lucy ClarkeMusic legend Baz Carson is ready to welcome his closest friends and...

DEALING... PRODUCING... ALL IN A DAY'S WORK FOR A DRUGLORD. OR IN HOLLYWOOD. Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top....

Detective Dean Matheson has his first case now he's back in Maple Valley.And then his second.And his third.A nameless girl's body found in front of the town's new church.A horrifying murder scene in the apartment over the diner.A child missing without a trace.Maple Valley...

In this must-read, Lorenzo and Travis are neck deep with the issue they faced in Pretty Boy Hustlerz. They are dead set on keeping the Pretty Boy Hustlerz clique tight and running without any pause. Readers are served unpredictable plot twists as beef is...

A Jane Doe hanging in Maple Valley's woods.Officer Dean Matheson stands shivering against the cold night, trying not to look too closely at the gruesome scene before him.The medical examiner says it's a case of suicide. But the fact that the victim isn't wearing...

At the age of 13, Sandy Kennet meets Clair on the set of a film, where they are paired to work together. During a lunch break, Sandy surprises her with a trifle, a thoughtful gesture her boyfriend neglected to make. This small act of...

At the age of 13, Sandy Kennet meets Clair on the set of a film, where they are paired to work together. During a lunch break, Sandy surprises her with a trifle, a thoughtful gesture her boyfriend neglected to make. This small act of...

In the pulsating heart of historical Philadelphia lies a tale of valor, mystery, and intergenerational quests for justice. The Riders Of Fishtown introduces readers to the formidable Delano lineage. Eddie Delano Sr., an esteemed figure in the elite motorcycle unit, "The Spurs," witnesses his...

A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity. In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Pe, is assigned...

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming.A mysterious kidnappingOn a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers...

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 fiancee of Joe's daughter. At...

Cambodia, 2001 - a country re-emerging from a half-century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse.German Detective Maier travels to Phnom Penh, the Asian kingdom's ramshackle capital, to find the heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. As soon as the private eye and former...

But can time become a clue? Ariadne Foster, a forensic analyst, is in quarantine at home along with her boyfriend, Mark. As they adjust to this new order of reality, a case of two unsolved murders comes back to the spotlight after eighteen years....

A gripping crime novel inspired by the "Jack the Stripper" killings in 1960s London.Bad Penny Blues is the latest gripping crime fiction from Cathi Unsworth, London's undisputed queen of noir. Set in late 1950s and early 1960s London, it is loosely based on the...

Daggers in the Desert is a novel of adventure in the life of a simple Mexican cardboard-box collector (cartonero) and a US Border Patrol agent on the Rio Grande border of South Texas and Northern Mexico. Far from the life he had known in...

As a young man's long-distance love affair fails, bodies surface on his parents' rural farm. He starts anew with - he believes - the girl of his dreams, whom, it turns out, is associated with one of said bodies.In a setting of bars and...

A small town where no one asks too many questions-John Dormeier liked the town of Dansing, South Dakota after one hunting trip there. It has everything he needs: lots of land for sale, people ready to trust his casino project because of his celebrity...

Three bodies. No clues. No heads. It takes more than a near-death experience to keep Detective Lou Donovan off the job. Three decapitated bodies are discovered in the empty house of a high-profile Colombian coffee mogul putting a drug cartel at the top of...

Don't you just hate it when someone tries to kill you and you don't know why? Single father Murray Whelan thinks the life of a parent and political operative is complicated enough. His ex is staking out the moral high ground for a custody...

The granddaughter of a prominent politician is missing. Silva and his team find her in Manaus, a jungle hellhole on the Amazon where an evil female doctor is making gory snuff films. Silva must overcome his own department's indifference and the corrupt local cops...

Fifth book in the critically-acclaimed Jon Spicer series, also includes the opening of the sixth novel in the series, Cut Adrift. Reviews 'I'll be downloading more of Chris Simms' books ASAP. I feel like I've found a hidden gem.' (Amazon Reader Review - Pecking...