Fiction - Crime

Winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them. When his addict son...

"Help," a tiny voice cried out into the darkness. Little Betsy trembled, praying someone would hear her, save her. "Please," she whimpered. "I'm scared."On the hottest day of the year, as a heatwave takes hold of the Appalachian Mountains, a five-year-old girl goes missing....

Harper Rowe hires a private investigator, Jon Frederick, to help find her biological father, Billy Blaze. Harper had fantasized about the possibilities--but instead unearth that he was a dangerous psychopath who called St. Cloud his home for two decades, before he disappeared. Where is...

Young film student Joanne is walking through the streets of London, making a hand-held documentary film, when she accidentally catches two men forcing a third into a car on film.The third man - a prominent politician - has just been kidnapped, and the film...

In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter--here are five of their finest works This is the first of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the...

"Tense, twisty and full of toxic secrets - a chilly fight for survival guaranteed to give you shivers" - T.M. LOGAN, author of Lies and The VacationSeven friends. One killer. You can run, but you can't hide...The hike is meant to bring their nature...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"The combination of bracing Cornish cliffs and seascapes with cozy interiors and a cerebral mystery makes this one of the most deservedly resurrected titles in the British Library Crime Classics series." --Booklist STARRED review'Never, even...

Author: Connie BriscoeISBN-10: 8885788610ISBN-13: 9798885788618Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90dLarge Print

Young film student Joanne is walking through the streets of London, making a hand-held documentary film, when she accidentally catches two men forcing a third into a car on film.The third man - a prominent politician - has just been kidnapped, and the film...

After twenty years as a professional solider, Decimus Julius Virilis - distant kin to the Imperator himself - has been commissioned the third in command of the newly formed Legio XII Brundisium.It's his last assignment before retiring from Caesar Augustus' legions - and turns...

A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland in this pulse-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty."McKinty's writing is dark and witty with gritty realism, spot-on dialogue,...

As the world approaches the middle of the twenty-first century, octogenarians Donald Lasserman and Richard Adamo maintain unbridled hope and vision for a more promising future. They unite several retired world leaders, including a former nemesis, to brainstorm ideas for a better world. While...

The reapers of past and present are returning to put us in our graves. Only death could keep us apart, but death isn't the only thing that's fatal...CliffI've finally got Olivia, but she can't give me the two things I want most: three words...

A Honey Pop November TBR Pick!"The Girl in the Vault is Ledwidge's best."--James PattersonThey stole her dream.Now getting it back will take...The perfect crime.It's summer in New York City and Faye Walker has it all. She's not only scored one of the most highly...

Gropper and McGill continue to operate as unlicensed private investigators, working out of a diner in Charleston, South Carolina.While McGill handles the business end, rarely leaves the diner, and lives off a steady diet of pancakes, bacon, and coffee, Gropper must deal with a...

It's Jemima's first day back at work after maternity leave. It was always going to be heart-wrenching leaving baby Finlay, but this is about to be one of the longest days of her life. Cardiff, early morning.Two men are abducted - not even ten...

Linda O'Neill runs the wildest Game Night parties in Colorado. The problem is, her guests are beginning to die.But who is committing the Game Night murders? Is it the BFF with the nasty jealous streak, the squeaky-clean new boyfriend, or the peculiar person living...

Atmospheric and fast-paced, this novel of manners set in a provincial South Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hearing-impaired children and the city's foggy back streets and murky centers of power to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young's...

In the dog-eat-dog game of the streets, where survival of the fittest is the ultimate mindset of every player, DIAMOND is hell-bent on holding her own against other players who have come to see ANTONIO'S incarceration as an opportunity to gain hegemonic control in...

Four stories that explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.Author: Sarah Weinman, Vera Caspary, Helen EustisISBN-10: 1598534300ISBN-13: 9781598534306Publisher: Library of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2015Pages: 848Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 4.80w x 1.40d

Sheriff Bree Taggert and those she loves become the target of a family's deadly revenge in a chilling novel of suspense by #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.After Sheriff Bree Taggert's takedown of cold-blooded murderer Travis Ekin, his family...

This story follows the lives of six completely different people. It takes you by the hand and walks you throughout their insane, world-shattering journeys with alcohol and drugs to the moment they have an opportunity to overcome it.Leon Frank: A product of the ghetto...

"A tour-de-force! The pace is relentless, the plot smart, his new lead character, Nick Ryan, is a hero for the times...Reed is a brilliant storyteller." -- Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling authorWhen you're in trouble, you call 911.When cops are in trouble,...

In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter--here are four of their finest works This is the second of two volumes gathering the best American crime fiction of the...

In this follow-up to Kayode's "action-packed and spirited debut" Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide (Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer). A shadow has fallen...

In a small college town in northern Alberta, there can be burdens to bury. What are the chances: two missing persons in a single day. And evidence of foul play - at least in one case...Corporal Freta Osprey of the RCMP finds herself assigned...

There's something decidedly sinister about the winner of Bath's best window display . . . Is it the hangman's noose or the dead body? Honey Driver is reluctant about judging Bath's best window display. But even she can see that the exquisite highwayman scene...

How far would someone go to protect corporate profits?Just days before Morris Cutter, a retired powerful oil executive, is scheduled to give a pseudo-scientific report to Congress that will delay crucial action on climate change for decades, he and his wife are found shot...

Young film student Joanne is walking through the streets of London, making a hand-held documentary film, when she accidentally catches two men forcing a third into a car on film.The third man - a prominent politician - has just been kidnapped, and the film...

After twenty years as a professional solider, Decimus Julius Virilis - distant kin to the Imperator himself - has been commissioned the third in command of the newly formed Legio XII Brundisium.It's his last assignment before retiring from Caesar Augustus' legions - and turns...

Alterio Delgado, an unscrupulous man with mesmerizing charm, has been spending a lot of time on a beautiful, unspoiled island off Mexico's Caribbean Coast, dangling the notion that it should be developed into a new tourist destination-the next Cancun. The island residents who control...

Travelling home from London after dancing the Rite of Spring in Trafalgar Square with Sister Winifrede, Jack (nicknamed Jane) Austin and Mandy have a phone conversation with Jack's recently discovered son, Angie.Like his father before him, Angie is viewed as inept (D.C.I. Jack Austin...

Sometimes Inspector William Fox likes to go off script, like when chasing gangsters in his cigarette boat on the St. Lawrence River. For one case, the RCMP officer with a penchant for luxury fashion finds himself teamed up with FBI Special Agent Patrick Reilly,...

A New Gritty Mob Story With a Twist After twenty-five years in a state mental institution, can Mario adjust to life as part of an organized crime family? Born with a disfigured face, Mario also suffers from tremors and panic attacks. Fate has handed...

Linda O'Neill runs the wildest Game Night parties in Colorado. The problem is, her guests are beginning to die.But who is committing the Game Night murders? Is it the BFF with the nasty jealous streak, the squeaky-clean new boyfriend, or the peculiar person living...

Blue White & D Flawless is a mystery/crime thriller that focuses on the high-stakes world of the gem and jewelry trade and a deal gone bad. Part New York story, part heist, and part flawed hero arc, it's The Thomas Crown Affair set in...

"Drugs, Women, and Alcohol are the key to my success." The story is based on some "true events" that took place inside a few of the New York City and Florida nightclubs in the early 2000s. Some of the book characters are still in...

The Town is celebrating its first literary festival, and The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency has been hired to oversee security. On the arrival of the three Bront sisters and the famous aristocat, Sir Downton Tabby, Hettie Bagshot and her sidekick, Tilly, are plunged...

Two close calls with death and the lingering guilt he harbors over the injury to Detective David Sizemore compounds Joe Hampton's ongoing attempt to come to terms with the passing of his wife. Persuaded to assume the role of consultant to the homicide division...

The highly anticipated new thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage. Opulence. Sex. Betrayal ... Sometimes friendship can be deadly.Meet the women of Buckhead--a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships.Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she's...

Henry Sayer, a New York City investor with an uncanny knack for making people money, had made it to the top of the financial game, maintaining his reputation of honesty and integrity. He was enjoying that life of celebrity and penthouse high society until...

Ivory Tower is a campus thriller about Margolis Santos, a charismatic film professor in her prime, who risks her career and life to uncover sexual corruption inside her university's football program where rich boosters pay sorority girls to have sex with star recruits. When...

Britney Cage collects people.From her friends to her clients to the thousands of employees her temp agency places throughout Tampa, Britney obsessively sifts through humanity in search of the ones who might-in some way or other-prove useful to her.This compulsion has served her well....

After Ed Wilson hires private eye Grant Dawson to solve his daughter's murder, Grant finds himself in the small town of Crimson.The people of the town seem to have plenty of secrets, and they don't take kindly to newcomers snooping around. To solve the...

When Tod Peterson decided to go to a literary evening in the heart of Edinburgh, primarily for the free wine, he got more than he bargained for. It was there he met the Reverend Callum Mackie, retired Special Boat Service officer, MI5 operative and...

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...

A journalist's struggle to bring to justice to a boy who was unjustly killed after being tagged as a drug runner and his fight to defend the weak and the voiceless caught in the middle of the government's war against illegal drugs When an...

They say money is the root of all evil. Janet Shaw had no idea how deep those roots went when she met the love of her life, Willie Bell. She never planned on a broken heart, but relationships aren't perfect right? Her family's skeptical...

Linda O'Neill runs the wildest Game Night parties in Colorado. The problem is, her guests are beginning to die.But who is committing the Game Night murders? Is it the BFF with the nasty jealous streak, the squeaky-clean new boyfriend, or the peculiar person living...

She knows he's no saint, but she has no idea she's dancing with the devil.Cole Blackwell values control. He's the hottest sculptor in San Francisco--wealthy, successful, and respected. His only weakness is the dark impulse he carefully conceals. In truth, he's not just an...