Fiction - Crime

Personal loss and alcohol have led attorney Billy Cole to the edge of ruin. Then, events take over on Lisbon Street, the main drag in a decaying downtown in Maine where Billy's office is located. A client is charged with murder. A beautiful woman...

The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loves and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way...

In 1984, the students at Tear Falls High School in Northern Ontario were terrorized by a group of four bullies who used any means possible to exert control over their peers. Their favorite targets were four best friends-Kevin, Doug, Art, and Nelson-and the abuse...

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend and first...

In Lydia Cooper's wry and absorbing debut novel, we are introduced to Mickey Brandis, a brilliant twenty-eight-year-old doctoral candidate in medieval literature who is part Lisbeth Salander and part Dexter. She lives in her parents' garage and swears too often, but she never complains...

In this thrilling installment of the Clayton White series, the former Secret Service agent must sift through layers of deception to uncover the truth behind the FBI director's assassination and avert a global catastrophe.Fighting the fentanyl epidemic in the United States is a top...

"Atmospheric, suspenseful... A series to be devoured!"--Lucy ClarkeAs The Shell House Detectives try to solve a family mystery, their investigation runs dangerously close to a murder case. Are the two linked?It's December in Cornwall, and Mousehole harbour is illuminated with its famous Christmas lights....

Greed Part 1 is about a wealthy couple who are leaders of a dangerous cult and they force their children into it.I am 28 years old, and writing is my passion and not only that I strongly feel it's my purpose. I want to...

What better way to catch the world's attention than to create a distraction in an internationally televised sporting event? The Safari Rally, hosted by Kenya in East Africa, is one such event-and a Middle Eastern country wonders if it could snatch that honor away...

From "quite possibly the best historical novelist we have" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, D.C. to a KGB prison near Moscow's KremlinIn Moscow Exile, John Lawton departs from his usual stomping grounds of England and Germany...

In 1984, the students at Tear Falls High School in Northern Ontario were terrorized by a group of four bullies who used any means possible to exert control over their peers. Their favorite targets were four best friends-Kevin, Doug, Art, and Nelson-and the abuse...

Are you missing Happy Valley? The next gripping instalment in the Yorkshire Murder Series by bestselling British crime author Wes Markin!A murdered child. A case from the past. A detective inspector with nothing to lose...DI Paul Riddick is a man tormented by his own...

It's two a.m. on a quiet night at the Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Del Rio, Texas. But when the front doors whoosh open, the nurse in charge looks up and her blood runs cold. A young, pregnant woman in a bloody and torn...

Frank has a low-level administrative job in an import-export company based in Toronto. Unexpectedly, the company promotes him to be their agent in Europe. His job involves clearing shipping containers through customs in Amsterdam. The containers are filled with merchandise for sale in Europe...

In 1912, a young girl is found dead. In present day, young Jeremy's parents are involved in a murder-suicide. Soon after, he is committed to an insane asylum.Years later, Jeremy turns eighteen and is released. After he returns home to live with his uncle,...

FROM THE MODERN MASTER OF THE ACTION-ADVENTURE M.I.A. HUNTER SERIES COMES HOMICIDE: SAIGON!SAIGON, 1970.Meet Cord McGavin, lone wolf investigator assigned to a special operations unit of the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division. McGavin's beat: the mean streets of this sprawling, violent metropolis ravaged by...

At some point, every lawyer will encounter a client from hell.Kelly Adair finds herself in this exact situation, defending a lawyer accused of killing another. A power struggle within the Dallas law firm Christopher Clark & Oliver has left partner Ken Hargrove dead and...

Featuring Contributions by: Tracy J. Revels, John Davis, John Lawrence, Stephen Herczeg, Tim Gambrell, Craig Stephen Copland, Jeremy Branton Holstein, Thomas A. Turley, Arthur Hall, David Marcum, S.C. Toft, Leslie Charteris and Denis Green, Roger Riccard, Will Murray, John Lawrence, and Marcia Wilson, and...

Knight's surveillance work has dried up and he's reduced to accepting a gig as a life model for a reclusive painter. When she's found dead in the same location as a suspicious death 30 years earlier, instinctively he knows they're connected - but cannot...

Sharon Simpson spent 15 of her younger years in Morgan City, Louisiana, a small, blue collar town along the Atchafalaya River Delta. Morgan City was living large during the big oil days in the 1970s, yet no one expected what was about to happen...

In this second novel in the G&B Detective Agency series, Detectives Max and Skip find themselves talked into taking two seemingly mundane cases at the same time. When Travis Bentley, Psychologist and former co-worker of Skip's wife Marjorie, finds that his wife has been...

You see him every day. But you don't know who he is...on the inside. "Dark suspense at its best " ★★★★★ "Suspenseful page-turner that you won't be able to put down."★★★★★ Among palm trees and swimming pools of California, a new killer hunts. Pursued...

"I'm coming for you. You will never escape me."She's the most dangerous inmate in the hospital for the criminally insane...and she just broke out. Get the series: Red Angel(#2) and Night Cage (#3). When Trey Campbell takes his family to Catalina Island, his escaped...

Bucolic Emerald Valley, with its lovely remote West Virginia setting, seemed like the ideal place for young Evan Roberts to start his first "real job" as local sheriff. He even met his one true love on his first day at work.Of course, life has...

After Monica receives a late-night phone call from an old friend asking for help, she enlists Max and Skip to find the missing Angie. The two detectives partner up with Monica in the search that goes in a circle that begins and ends in...

She's working undercover-and she's in way over her head. Scrappy Traffic Enforcement agent Maisie McGrane has finally landed her dream job as a Chicago police officer. There's just one catch. She must remain undercover as a meter maid to gather evidence against Stannislav Renko,...

Judd Truesdell closed his eyes and clenched his jaw as he reminded himself that he was a killer. Worse, he was a black U.S. senator who -- like some of the thugs he'd put behind bars during his earlier career -- had hired a...

Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie.Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient...

Author: Jerry RannowISBN-10: 1499075138ISBN-13: 9781499075137Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2014Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is a classic locked room mystery featuring police detective Fredric Larsen and a young reporter Joseph Roulteabille. Roulteabille is an extraordinary man, strongly observant and gifted with a powerful logical, deductive talent he sets about resolving the mystery....

"Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories...The least that I can do is write you one." So wrote A. A. Milne to his father, to whom he dedicated this delectable mystery. Mark Ablett's stately mansion, the Red House, is...

In this thrilling installment of the #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in Old Town Alexandria with the threat of violent protests. Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta...

A riveting tale of revenge, survival and redemption, wrapped around an unlikely love story and set against an urban backdrop corrupted by violence against women and racism. Following a racially motivated rape by three Ku Klux Klansmen, 12-year-old Cassandra Monroe vows revenge. After eight...

Rita, a small, tough Scottish make-up artist is on Madeira trying to find out who killed Kim-Jim, an American make-up supremo. Also anchored off the island is Dolly, the yacht of Johnson Johnson with whom Rita teams up to get to the bottom of...

"Breakage is one of the year's best crime thrillers." - BestThrillers.com (2023 Best Thrillers Book Awards Finalist)"Forget trips to Vegas! Breakage takes you on a gambling adventure with horse racing, spine-chilling crime, and an intriguingly gifted and dysfunctional family. Readers who love crime, mystery,...

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...

A paranormal crime novel set in an alternate regency London where vampires and werewolves are known and have their own courts and politics. Entering this world is Flora Peake, a girl on the cusp of her presentation, who is caught between two worlds, one...

A new Nordic Noir crime drama with detective Martin Bay as the main character.In Copenhagen, a man is found draped over a balcony, his head and hands missing. In Brazil, a woman on a posting for a Danish renewables company goes missing. Her pregnant...

The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found? "[Slider is] one of Britain's most engaging coppers" Booklist Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London...

GHOST. HEIST. HURRICANE. Neon Gray tells a story of all three happening simultaneously. This is the first book in its series, "The Phenomenal Walter Bright Saga."While Walter, a special young boy from Baltimore, Maryland, and his sister, Caroline stay in their family's beach house,...

She's on trial for murder... Now it's her turn to tell her story...The truth is that I loved James with my whole heart. We were soulmates: meant to be together forever. On the morning of our wedding, I had just found out I was...

A small group of pioneers from Alabama looked forward to California to fulfill their hopes of a good life and prosperity in California. Against her better judgment, Alice Snider agreed to take the family on the long, dangerous trip. All was well until they...

After more than a decade working for the FBI, Agent Andrea Jones liked to say she had seen everything and was good at separating her work from her personal life. Until now.For Agent Jones it was a case like any other until a 4...

THRILLS. SPILLS. ROMANCE ON THE RAILS! IN THIS EPISODE OF THE NEW PULP THRILLER SERIES: Sam Savage has been busted by his superiors over his Mile High Club romantic airborne escapades. Now, he's being forced to work the Amtrak rail line for an indefinite...

From USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Michelle Heard, comes a new STANDALONE, full-length BRATVA/BODYGUARD ROMANCE novel. My hobbies consist of shopping, eating, and sleeping. Yeah, I know, it doesn't sound like I have much going for me, but what is a...

Dutch Verlander's life was winding down and drastically changing. Retirement was only a step away, and old age had snuck up on him and was smiling at him with the grin of a child molester. Like a man falling from a great height and...

NEW FOR 2023 - STAND-ALONE, #21 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY."SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL ... A reality documentary crew is on the hunt for a victim. An unsolved murder from...

Departures by JG WallaceThe first book in the Hard Turn SeriesCaptain Dan Hatfield is an airline pilot and war hero; someone who likes to feel in control of his aircraft and his life. The direction of his life takes a Hard Turn, instantly, when...

This book is fictional, and it is based on a special area of Haiti called St Louis du Nord before the new age of development. The town is way different than the period that this book is about. The book is a prelude to...

A powerful NY Don of the Valoppi Crime Family who had beaten the Federal Government three times in court, suddenly finds himself running for US President as a joke. But the citizens of the US are disgruntled with professional politicians and the stalemate within...