Fiction - Crime

A flood of mystery, intrigue, romantic suspense. HIGH TIDE tickles your funny bone as it manhandles threats that harbor the truth. Renegade professor Rick Maddigan and upstart student sidekick JP are caught in a crime family web that entangles their campus lives, and the...

A riveting crime novel from the internationally bestselling authors of The Hanging and The Girl in the Ice--the fifth book in the Konrad Simonsen series. Sixteen children and four adults are killed in a devastating boat crash in Copenhagen. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen...

"This novel is hard to put down. Honest salesman coupled with corrupt dealers make The Sopranos look like child's play." -Heritage Florida Jewish NewsCan Eddy Ackerman, a thirty-five-year-old professed loser, liquidate his shortfalls while trying to find success helping failing business owners transition to...

The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill.A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and...

The highly anticipated seventh novel in the bestselling DI Nick Dixon Crime Series.A man has been mutilated and left to drown on the incoming tide, handcuffed in his van. With the murder bearing a striking resemblance to a string of sadistic killings carried out...

You can't stop what you can't seeDetective Erin O'Reilly is used to people trying to kill her. She's carefully established a false identity as a killer for the Mob, while secretly working to bring it down from within. She thinks she knows where the...

When Lyle Villines learns his daughter has leukemia, he searches for a way to pay the huge medical bills that come with the condition. In desperation, he takes a well-paying under-the-table job driving a delivery van. He doesn't know what the cargo is, but...

It was the end of a Chicago era.Antonio 'Tony Napoli' Sorrentino has finally closed his legendary restaurant in the heart of the West Loop. It has been a gathering place for prominent politicians, famous entertainers, renowned dignitaries, and of course...well-known mobsters.Often dubbed as the...

You can't stop what you can't seeDetective Erin O'Reilly is used to people trying to kill her. She's carefully established a false identity as a killer for the Mob, while secretly working to bring it down from within. She thinks she knows where the...

A woman is found in a local cemetery, crushed to death under a gravestone. A production company is there, filming the remake of a classic sci-fi TV show in the grounds, making the investigation more difficult for DCI Harry McNeil. It's his first day...

"A fast-shuffling page-turner." Nicholas ShakespeareEx-SAS officer Tom Knight is now a 73-year-old private detective in a seaside town, with a bad leg, a taste for good weed and a morbid fear of growing old. He's also fallen in love with Fran, a sprightly 52-year-old...

The Quiet Pool is about a group of teachers from Illinois who attend a conference in Disneyworld. They consist of middle school teachers, some family members, the principal, and board members. There are many issues going on behind the scenes. The ultimate outcome of...

When a prominent Toronto lawyer is murdered on a foggy night in Bannerman Park, the entire city of St. John's is shaken. The crime is quickly pinned on Tom Fitzgerald, a down and out drinker with a troubled past. To the envy of the...

"The Nappers is a saga about an East Harlem, New York, gangster who comes up with a lucrative, if dangerous idea of kidnapping his fellow gangsters. It is also the story about the collapse of the mob, which turns out to have been caused...

Marty Donovan is a cop who happens to be in love with Lenore, his partner's wife. When the two cops can't crack a tough case, Lenore suggests a stakeout that's not approved by the department. Her husband is killed, and Marty begins a complicated...

From legendary master Fredric Brown An ex-newspaperman finds crime going on, based on radio scripts he wrote.Author: Fredric BrownISBN-10: 1617209333ISBN-13: 9781617209338Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2013Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Organized crime still lives in Chicago. Did the love of one mob boss kill his whole family? How did the FBI get involved, who is killing them off, why did the two major families unite? Is it brother against brother? Did one murder lead...

He knew the way to a girl's heart-and body Alice was sweet, Marie was stacked, Lola was loaded... And Nicky...was willing First published in 1957.Author: Orrie HittISBN-10: 1515425444ISBN-13: 9781515425441Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 156Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Edgar Wallace was a British author who is best known for creating King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays....

Family ties so strong you can't escape...Mary Olivia Pentecost, known as Mop, was born into one of the wealthiest families in the country--and one of the most guarded. Now, two years after her mother's mysterious death, Mop is seeking closure on the disquieting tragedy...

Author: Joe McNeilISBN-10: 1493179500ISBN-13: 9781493179503Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2014Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Pub landlords are being murdered in Norfolk! Thelonious T. Bear, ursine photojournalist, leaves behind the big city life of London to take an assignment in the Norfolk countryside, where he hopes to find the real England. Instead he stumbles upon gastro-pubs, crazed Audi drivers...

District Attorney Kathryn Mackay races against time to break up a kidnapping ring in this gripping new thriller by real-life prosecutor and New York Times bestselling author Christine McGuire. Until the Day They Die When an infant gets snatched from her wealthy Santa Rita...

Be sure your sins will find you out.Ambition...envy...lust. But murder is the deadliest sin of all.Isabella Farquar was found murdered outside the Manhattan theatre where she was to star as Titania in an experimental production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. But which sin caused...

Longlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, bestselling author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series."John Marrs's creative, high-concept thrillers never fail to keep me furiously turning the pages."--Sarah Pearse"John Marrs...

A thrilling chase as Sherlock Holmes is set a fiendish puzzle by Irene Adler over a snowy London Christmas, in this stunningly packaged mystery. Sherlock Holmes's discovery of a mysterious musical score initiates a devious Christmas challenge set by Irene Adler, with clues that...

Samael Apollos had an eventful birth in August of 1977. He would not know officially until 2021 why. Samael was not aware of his father until a surprise utterance on his sixth birthday. What happened to Samael's bio dad? The mystery carved a path...

Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание Prestuplenie i nakazanie) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments. It was later published in a single volume. It is the...

Ex-cons Steve Wilson and Eddie Jones are struggling to make it in Los Angeles, two-strike losers dodging a third and life in the slammer . . . until the phone call that changes everything for them. Eddie's brother back in Jersey has brain cancer,...

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...

From TikTok sensation Lloyd Devereux Richards, author of Stone Maidens, comes the next pulse-pounding thriller in which FBI agent Christine Prusik races to track down a serial killer who leaves a peculiar mark on his victimsForensic anthropologist Christine Prusik has a knack for solving...

The sixth novel in the Casey and Carval series.Actions have consequences - and revenge digs two graves.A vicious drive-by shooting kills two men and an unborn baby. Will it incite a violent gang war? Casey and her misfit team, working with the Feds, must...

This FICTIONAL novel based on actual events is the story of Charles Manson--a petty criminal who became a hippie cult leader. He orchestrated the 1969 murders of movie actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles to ignite a race war he called...

GRAVEWORM By night he creeps through cemeteries. By night he violates graves. By night he sleeps with the dead. And by night he stalks new victims. His new victim is Lisa Coombes. GRAVEWORM His message to Tara Coombes is simple: He has buried Lisa...

A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the...

YOU'LL BE HOOKED BY THE FIRST PAGE, AND SHOCKED BY THE LAST . . . THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRIEND REQUESTThey thought the killer had no motive. But these murders are not what they seem . . ....

Powerful D.C. politicians are being removed from office by something other than elections - execution-style killings for which FBI Special Agent Nick Nettles is under pressure to find answers and suspects. That's when a weapons smuggling investigation drops Nick in the middle of an...

There's a killer loose in Cherry Hills, and it's up to Kat Harper to bring the guilty party to justice. Furry Friends Foster Families is in the business of saving lives, not solving murders. Yet that's exactly what treasurer Kat Harper finds herself doing...

Instant New York Times Bestseller!"The final shattering installment in a gangland trilogy to equal The Godfather. If you like Scarface and Goodfellas, this is where it's at." -- Stephen King"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow...

If you love Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers, Casey Kelleher and Jessie Keane, you'll love Boss Girl. You'll do anything to save your family, even kill for them... Anna Davis is under pressure. With her West End nightclub packed full every night and the opening...

Murder threatens to disturb the creativeness of Sherebury's art collegeOne late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant,...

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it"...

Jake Kendrickson, a ruthless criminal sentenced to a Canadian prison, enlists a group of inmates, who are violent and take no prisoners, to become his outside gang. When they parole, Kendrickson sends them on a crime mission when the spoils will pay for some...

The Naked Assassin will keep you on the edge of your seat as TigerLee, an avenger and assassin faces her toughest challenge yet... delivering payback on child traffickers.Stranded in Hong Kong and chased by the Seven Dragons, this dazzling beauty with deadly intentions must...

Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over one hundred paintings by the late and brilliant Randolph McInnis. Louise, known better as "That Wykoff Woman," was just a young apprentice when her intimate representation and...

Shelley Conway is a medical student with a keen social conscience. However, in 1970s Australia, her medical school has no social conscience at all. The coursework is inhumane, and students have to toughen up and shut up.Shelley is shocked to realise that not only...

London, 1594. The opening night of 'Romeo and Juliet'. But it is not just the young lovers in the play who are star-crossed. Mercutio is found murdered in the middle of the play - but it is real, not stage, blood that flows from...

A murdered nun, a home invasion, mysterious new residents in Twin Rivers, and a growing drug problem coincide. Are they related, cause and effect, or just coincidence? Deputy Duane Lee must find the answers before someone else dies.Author: Estella BogerISBN-10: 8841614560ISBN-13: 9798841614562Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage:...

There's a fine art to murder...Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he's determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on...

In the shadows under the bridge, with the Weymouth to Waterloo express just minutes away, the father and son lower a trainee reporter's unconscious body across the tracks. All Jude Devlin ever wanted was to be a good journalist; to write stories and see...