Fiction - Crime

From Put-in-Bay to Detroit to Grosse Ile to Cedar Key to Wooster to Northeast OhioAce Put-in-Bay-based investigative reporter EMERSON MOORE has the tables cruelly turned on him following the murder trial and conviction of Detroit mobster, JIMMY DIAMONDS. During a wildly daring prison van...

"Spine-tingling fun." --People"Lisa Unger, you've done it again." --Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emmy Award-winning actressA 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...

In a city of fast cars and movie stars, these folks are crazy about cacti. Until a killer joins the club . . . Joe Portugal likes people. But he likes plants better. That's why the former theater actor turned small-time L.A. commercial star...

The Dark City is a quarterly magazine featuring crime and mystery stories with an emphasis on stories that illuminate character and setting. We prize writing and appreciate humor in our fiction. Recent stories have featured madness, revenge, paranoia, murder-for-hire and telling tales out of...

One year ago, Vince Knight walked away from his role as crime lord of Port Knot. In his absence, the gangs he founded went to war, and frightening new factions have risen from the ashes to tear at the town's throat like hungry wolves.Now...

3150 is the USA air force classification for an atomic weapons technician. When David Freeman completed his tour in the air force he wandered around America and Canada, finally ending in Australia. He decided that Australia was a peaceful quiet place to retire so...

This is a novel with an international theme set in Australia circa 1996 which develops into a tale of intrigue and deception at the political level. It is the story of John Hennessey, a novelist and ex-army intelligence officer who has had a manuscript...

Edgar award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale beams a light on an East Texas town held in the grip of conspiracy.Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all...

James Hopper (1876-1956) was an American footballer, journalist, and author, penning some 450 short stories and six novels, one of which he co-authored with fellow journalist and author Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt (1874-1950). Inspired by true events, their unsentimental "fact-story" tells of John Collins, 9009,...

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller, for fans of Jo Nesb and Henning Mankell, now for the first time in English. Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her...

If everything was taken from you, how would you fight back? In this compelling story of love, betrayal, murder, and revenge, one woman must face this very question. "Sophisticated DIVA" is a captivating novel that takes readers on a journey into a world where...

Set in the early 1990's, "Pros" begins when Darren McKnight, who is out on parole tracks down his old partner in crime, Merv Bentley, to hold him accountable. While in prison, Darren wrote the interior novel, Exhaust, which he now wields as a weapon....

How far will a person persist in a lie? Is self-interest the only, over-riding issue in life? How pervasive are lies in our ordinary, daily lives? Achan's Disciple grapples with these questions and more as it follows the lives of two men bent on...

Torn between love and freedom to work alone and administer his brand of justice Walter reluctantly agrees to cohabit with Anna-what could go wrong, they are Palatini Knights fighting the same fight, in love, and lonely. A beautiful beginning soon revealed underlying problems, Walter's...

"Back to the World" is the long awaited sequel to "The Kansas NCO." Joe Campolo, Jr. allows the reader to experience the frustrations of returning Vietnam veterans in a fast-paced and exciting journey through the criminal under world of the Mob.Author: Joe Jr. CampoloISBN-10:...

When a body of a young girl is found floating in the local town pool in Connecticut, Detective Jeffery Westman of the Manchester Police Department is brought in to investigate. As more bodies begin to pile up and the case becomes a chase after...

The Cutter Cay series is: "Action-packed drama." Fresh Fiction"Sizzlingly sexy." Booklist"Enticing." Seattle Post-IntelligencerA Love For The Ages...Secrets & LiesTreasure hunter Persephone Case is very good at what she does. But she's even better at pirating, and the Cutter brothers are her only targets. For...

Travers looked down at the face. On the collar was a red patch and a long streak. Across the throat was a gash.Two rival London newspaper tycoons are at daggers drawn. But when Sir William Griffith's corpse turns up in a hamper, his throat...

"If you don't think I'm taking a liberty in saying so, my opinion is that he was knocked down first and hanged after "Ludovic Travers starts an investigation of unnatural death by means of an automobile mishap on a rural road. His associate Superintendent...

"The poor devil's mouth was filled with feathers. An unconscious man with his mouth full of feathers wouldn't have had much chance of surviving, and this one didn't." The press gleefully dubbed it the 'Banquet Murder'. The murdered man, Hugh Newton, had apparently been...

"It's murder all right; no one could bash his own head in the way this chap's was." The stranger's body was discovered by businesswoman Mrs Holcombe, the unofficial queen of Pending Dale. As if there wasn't enough gossip rife in the village, now the...

"As for books," Sir Oswald said, "I don't care for them. Unless I get hold of a good detective story. The tracing out of crime always has a curious fascination for me." Frank Carlyn quarrelled with his gamekeeper Jack Winter, and then appeared agitated....

"He had his tea as usual; when I knocked at the door with the tray (he always had afternoon tea), I found him--like this." Dr Roger Lavington is dreading his debut performance with the village amateur dramatic society. But real-world drama takes over when...

A COMPELLING MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS Fifteen years ago, a teenage boy, Teddy Bartlett, went to a woods on the outskirts of London and was beaten to a pulp and left damaged for life. The police never found who did it or...

How far would you go to save your family? In the dead of night, new parents Alice and Harry French are plunged into their worst nightmare when they wake to find masked men in their bedroom. Men ruthless enough to threaten their baby daughter,...

Set in Cuba, The Executive Game follows the story of Irish smuggler O'Neill in what is a bloody and violent visit to Havana. Cruel and brutal, yet also intense and powerful, The Executive Game forces the reader to question and find the morality within...

A devastating flood reawakens a young woman's buried childhood memories ... with life-changing results. A dark, warmly funny and deeply moving novel from the bestselling author of How To Be Brave and The Lion Tamer Who Lost. ***LoveReading Book of the Year*** ***Longlisted for...

'I wanted to give him an uppercut for his arrogance and to get him to lift his head. He was still looking at his boots. He'd lit the cigarette and smoke was drifting past his face. It's hard to tell from the top of...

"I am insanely in love with George Cross, a perfect detective for our time and for all time." --STEPHEN FRY Introducing your new crime thriller fix: Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed. Bristol detective DS George...

Rebellion, alcohol, and crowded bars are seldom a good combination. Mix in four sinister bounty hunters motivated by greed and what started out as an innocent night of fun around town for three young friends turns into something else.That something else is personal for...

Kenny Lang loved his life, his privacy, and especially his young daughter Kenna who should never have been conceived. The only trial he suffered was his child's mother who wanted nothing more than to be married to Kenny. He hoped to put her off...

GRIPPING, SUSPENSEFUL & CHILLINGLY REALA Woman of Valor Novel Lieutenant Slade McKane, and the Richmond Police are puzzled by multiple murders where young victims are missing parts of their body. Things escalate when the medical examiner is attacked and a beautiful young mother turns...

February, 1932, British India. Chief Inspector Malcolm Priestly and his deputy, Dr. Prem Singh are invited by the Nizam of Wahidabad, the world's richest man, to the king's banquet in Mussoorie. That night, they are formally introduced to the Nizam's new Scottish wife. The...

Urban street culture has since changed with the passing of the times. There is no such thing as respect, honesty, trustworthiness, or loyalty anymore. Most of these young street guys who are now running around controlling the hustle game has all but lost their...

A suspenseful mystery novel involving seances, psychics, and a Black Mass. Elsie McKenzie is working on an investigative book that is critical of a local spiritual camp that conducts seances and psychic readings when she suspiciously dies. Her nephew, Robert, a retired detective, begins...

A breezy, charming, and perfectly escapist mystery set in the heart of sun- and wine-soaked Aix-en-Provence--where murder investigations are always put on hold for lunch and the only thing more sweeping than the story is the Mediterranean coastline. Proven軋l Mystery Series #9Watch the series!...

The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars' worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most...

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the...

Collects: CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40sThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThey Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoyThieves Like Us by Edward AndersonThe Big Clock by Kenneth FearingNightmare Alley by William Lindsay GreshamI Married a Dead Man...

A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre, A Dangerous Man centers on 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...

Gorgeous new TV tie-in edition of Maureen Jennings's immensely popular Inspector Murdoch series, basis for the long-running The Murdoch Mysteries, now on CBC. After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover photographs in...

Faith Newsome has it all: a loving husband, beautiful daughter, and a stable life as the owner of a thriving shoe boutique in Washington, DC. Yet a part of her feels as if she's not who she seems to be, as if she's living...

Venice, 1752. On a cold December night, a man is found strangled in a dark alley.High magistrate Marco Pisani is tasked with investigating the grisly murder. When two more bodies are discovered, it is clear there is a serial killer on the loose.Helped in...

A cold case heats up in this gritty, suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.FBI special agent Zoe Spencer uses skeletal remains to recreate the faces of murder victims through sculpture. Though highly scientific, the process is also sensitive and intimate;...

What do the new arrivals on Sandhamn Island have to fear? Their own secrets--in this gripping novel of suspense by the bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment.The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten...

Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in a stunning new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. "We're going to murder people who need to be murdered." So begins...

A Tokyo college student's discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens something dark inside him. On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment Nishikawa...

Nasty and Soulja, were ruthless kingpins on the streets of Baltimore. Now in prison, nothing has changed. They are still running things from behind the penitentiary walls. Even though they are still getting large amounts of money, it cannot solve all of their problems....

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become not only an unlikely millionaire, but an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends and people in need. When his stepdaughter Erica asks him for just such a favor, McKenzie doesn't...

Beloved heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are up against a powerful vigilante group with an eye on vengeance in the latest in the beloved series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. "We're going to murder people who need to be murdered."...