Fiction - Crime

In May 1997, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn't return ... Twenty years later, a reporter arrives in the small town of Griffiths to write an article about the unsolved murder of Laura McPherson. He is the most recent...

Junior Bender, the clown prince of crime fiction, returns in his most hardboiled adventure yet--a tale that will take Junior Bender deep into a murderous conspiracy in present day Los Angeles and uncover an increasingly confusing legacy of his burglar-mentor, Herbie Mott, who until...

Chicago, 1893: the World's Fair brought people from all over the world. Buffalo Bill's Wild West, denied a place at the fair, rented acreage outside the fairgrounds and played to record setting crowds-the likes of which they would never see again. When Annie Oakley,...

ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRY Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences--but coming after Quarry has consequences,...

Eli Singer, a rancher and poet in remote Eastern Montana, sees his life upended when a long-buried corpse--which turns out to be a murder victim from Eli's childhood--erodes out of a hillside on his property. This discovery forces Eli to turn inward to revisit...

L.A.'s oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe is back and more relentless than ever in the highly anticipated fourth Amos Parisman Mystery! Gripping, enchanting, and witty as ever, Die Laughing shows the comedy business can be as funny as it is deadly.Author: Andy WeinbergerISBN-10:...

THE EXCITING NEW FOLLOW-UP TO 2022'S BOOK OF THE YEAR. From ITW Thriller Award nominee and bestselling author Robert Gregory Browne, comes a gripping new Jefferson Shaw thriller, a follow-up to DOUBLE NEGATIVE, the 2022 Author's on the Air Book of the Year. A...

Hot off ending a deadly mob war and the lucrative theft of three million dollars in cash, Crime Boss Tom Hill desires a fun coastal escape with son, Eric, as fair reward. But trouble has a strange way of catching up to Hill, placing...

Author: Ethel Lina WhiteISBN-10: 1471917037ISBN-13: 9781471917035Publisher: Murder RoomLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2015Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.81d

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,...

The year is 2002, the place is South East England, normally a peaceful corner of the world. Normally. In between jobs and living alone in a quiet village on the Surrey/Sussex border, thirty-year-old Alba White is drifting through life. At the other end of...

Jim and Laura Verraten are a young married couple living on the Southside Flats of Pittsburgh. Jim is a cyber security expert who knows how to keep hackers out and let himself in. Laura works for a travel magazine writing articles of interest on...

When a desperate woman walks through the door of ACL Investigative Services, P.I. Allison Hart grows reluctant after hearing her claim. She's not alone in that hesitation when her partners, Charlie Wells, and Lucy Boyce stand in disbelief.The woman, Tabitha Barnes, recounts the surreal...

In the powder-keg of Oldtowne, enforcer Jon Hobbes must square off against a giant of the financial community whose ultimate goal is the downfall of the Oldtowne economic structure. An Assassin who sells his skills to the highest bidder and is as deadly with...

Mitchell Hosowich is pleased as a puppy with two tails that the great American rust-out has rendered parts of Detroit rural again, wild. For him, the "Green Ghetto," as the bureaucrats have come to call it, is a safe place to grow some fairly...

I was a cop. Right up until 11:59 and 59 seconds on January 16th, 1920 when the Volstead Act took effect, ushering in Prohibition. Now I'm a bartender. In literally one second, I flipped from one side of the law to the other. But...

Maurice Coons, writing under the pseudonym Armitage Trail, gathered the elements for 'Scarface' when living in Chicago, where he became acquainted with many local Sicilian gangs. He prowled the murky streets of Chicago's gangland with a friend every night for two years, returning home...

That was a tough year to be a New Yorker. The city was so broke there was a rumor going around that the mayor had been spotted on the Bowery, cleaning windshields at stoplights in the hope of scoring a nickel, or maybe a...

Jim Work, a twenty-five year old just out of Korea, arrives on the California coast to attend college on the G.I. Bill, but lands himself in a minor traffic accident that leads to major trouble. Of the two people in the other vehicle, he...

When the dust settles in this Texas town, who will be left standing? It's been six weeks since Jack McBride's life went to hell: the resolution of his first case as chief sparked a countywide drug war, his brother Eddie rode into town with...

In 2009, The Fall of South Bridge became a cult classic for organized crime enthusiasts, as well as citizens of upstate New York, who enjoyed reading about a city that sat very close to home. Five years later, Jimmy Badavino celebrates the anniversary of...

American financial and political powers collide and conspire in a breakneck thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey.Andrew Falcon Jr. is the youngest hedge-fund manager to make partner at a powerful investment bank on Wall Street. His career is soaring, and his...

In Brian Jackson's eyes, he was being cheated out of a proper life. His boss paid him a salary comparable to the people that he managed, while he lived in a crappy apartment, and his only connection with women was limited to his weekly...

They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it. He was a wanted man -- she was a woman who thought she's found her man. It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start...for crime always has a cost, and...

Detective Kate Hamblin is doing surveillance on the Somerset Levels, trying to catch a crazed arsonist. She leaves the van for a moment. Then it goes up in flames, killing her two colleagues. Kate is accused of abandoning them and is excluded from the...

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael ConnellyAn NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017An Amazon...

How did she get here?And why does she hurt so bad?When Amber-May regains consciousness in the woods, she doesn't remember what happened to her. Once she discovers the truth, she makes a firm decision......she wants those who hurt her to pay for their crimes.But...

For former political fixer Henry Mercucio, business has always been personal. Now at the helm of his father-in-law's legal empire, Henry is playing by a new set of rules--his own. With his candidate installed as mayor of Providence, he manages to gain an appointment...

Dr Jack Fallon is good at his job. He just wants to be left alone to do it. But that's not going to happen, not with people like Tristan Richards calling the shots. Now, Jack is in a race to uncover a global conspiracy,...

February, 1918. In the small hours of a cold morning, a burglary in Limehouse has escalated into a sinister siege between a band of thieves and the authorities, and a police constable lies dead. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Detective Sergeant Joe Keedy hasten...

From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark RideSometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare...

It seemed like a routine surveillance gig for private investigator Charlaine Pennington. Except that she didn't know who the client was or why she was following a chief financial officer with nothing but sterling achievements on her resume. In the course of 48 hours,...

"Step into the world of Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective of 221B Baker Street. In 'A Study in Scarlet, ' the first novel featuring Holmes and his trusted friend Dr. John Watson, you'll be captivated by the masterful storytelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

The Chemist blends chameleon-like into everyday life. He is charming, intelligent, and a sociopath. His liquid sedative allows him to kidnap any victim he chooses, day or night, leaving no trace or clues behind. Lt. Cale Van Waring heads the Special Crimes Unit for...

When I first saw Aria at the auction, it was like some twist of cruel fate bringing us together. There's just something about her that I could not resist. I had to make her mine. But now that she's under my power, I quickly...

SURVIVAL TIPS FOR SONS OF SERIAL KILLERS1. Change your last name. Be forgettable.2. Take comfort. Serial killing is not hereditary. Not usually, anyhow.3. Never contact your parents, whether on Death Row or elsewhere. You are messed up enough.4. Choose a dull career. Run an...

Three murders were too many for Ed Hunter. Not even a dazzling redhead from the carnival's girl show could keep Ed altogether happy--not with a murderer running loose. Then Ed found it was up to him and his Uncle Am to find the killer...

In the captivating realm of "Maya's Murders: The Luke and Sarah Chronicles," where illusions beguile and danger lurks in every nook, a gripping tale unfolds. Prepare to be transported to the aftermath of a jaw-dropping murder that sends shockwaves through the city's core, unfolding...

From JAFE DANBURY, author of the critically acclaimed thriller Leaving Phoenix, comes the riveting follow-up to Phoenix's story. With the happily-ever-after they thought they had, Phoenix and Curt are settled into family life with young daughter Rose when the unthinkable occurs. It's every parent's...

"Bellomo's enigmatic mobster, Louie Morelli, goes to war with the Russian mafia in the fourth book of her "Louie Morelli" series, The Prince of Mafia Princes." Life is good for Louie Morelli. He's rich, happily married, and having a fling with the blonde in...

Caspian is a 19th century detective. His was a brand new profession - in the 1850s Sir Robert Peel's Police had been in existence for a mere 20 years. Caspian is a modern man who well understands the scientific advances of the times. He...

Four friends, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise works like a charm--until they kidnap the wrong man.Now two groups are after them--the law, in...

Southern California. Home to sandy beaches, waving palm trees, balmy weather. Also home to the rich and famous, those barely hanging on, and everyone else. Add in murder, embezzlement, stalking, burglary, and every crime under the sun. In Crime Under the Sun, the second...

"A ferocious comedy of middle-class dysfunction . . . published to controversy in 1973 . . . A masterpiece." --Claire Allfree, The Telegraph When Dinah Brooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as "squalid and startling,"...

Watch Will Trent on ABC!Will Trent and Sara Linton are back! This is the eleventh electrifying thriller featuring GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton from New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter.After that night, nothing was ever the same again.Fifteen years...

A GRIPPING NEW CRIME THRILLER FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME & THRILLER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE JOY ELLIS.From three-million-selling author Joy Ellis comes one of the most highly anticipated mysteries this year.A series of gruesome murders on the Lincolnshire fens. An...

About the Author: This is Darrel Knobloch's second book, which was written during the 2020 pandemic mainly to keep his mind engaged and to tell a story about the culture he lived in while he studied at Southern Illinois University in the early 1960s....

Detective Norman is out of retirement and back on the beat in a rainy Welsh seaside town. Llangwelli might be short on sunshine, but it's certainly not short on murders . . . Norman may seem a bit old-fashioned, but he's always willing to...

DISCOVER A SERIES OF CAPTIVATING HISTORICAL MYSTERIES FILLED WITH TWISTS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAULINE ROWSON. Meet Inspector Alun Ryga of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad. Having survived WW2 in a prisoner of war camp, he's vowed to get justice for those who need it. 1951,...

It is Spring, 1874, and twenty-year-old Sherlock Holmes is a lonely, mopey, friendless Oxford student. He attends classes and spends countless solitary hours conducting chemical experiments, reading, and playing his violin. Suddenly, his life changes because of a serendipitous moment on campus. While walking...