Fiction - Crime

Prostitutes are disappearing. Their bodies are discovered cold, dead, and mutilated days later. It isn't until one of the girl's mothers fights for justice that the case falls on the desk of Detective Maverick Wolfe and his partner Detective Harris Bishop. They quickly discover...

The smallest flame can set off an explosionA routine drug bust in Little Italy goes horribly wrong when two squads of plainclothes cops start shooting at each other. When the dust clears, one of Detective Erin O'Reilly's friends in the Street Narcotics unit is...

Featuring: "Days Without Name" by Sylvia Maultash Warsh, nominated for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Best Short Story Award. Evil and illness are intertwined in this third Carrick crime anthology.Our 35 authors each take a stab at answering the question: What happens when...

The underbelly of Los Angeles, 2008; a place where hometown hard-lucks and wayward hustlers scrounge for hope in gutters. Top of the heap: Alvi Drake, an aged pro skateboarder whose lone thrill is a pill-fueled escape from the terror of past ghosts. Once news...

Following the violent death of his father, Gershwin Burr descends into a seemingly inescapable depression until, not-so-accidentally, he discovers a remedy for his condition: he steals a book and finds his mood has lightened. Before long, he's stealing indiscriminately while refining his skills as...

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...

Johnny Heretic is dead. An era-defining rock legend, turned international icon, the entire world apparently mourns his passing. Not least Belinda Cassidy, fading music journo and Johnny's former childhood friend. But as she delves into her memories and into the history of Johnny's chequered...

"I realized I didn't want any part of believing my parents were murdered. I'd grown comfortable with the old narrative, however false and however bad. I was the illegitimate child of a junky mother, orphaned by her addiction. Maybe Pops was right to let...

A farm girl out in the big city. The drug dealing black sheep of the family. And a hippie chick guiding them on a mushroom trip. What could go wrong?(A Psychedelic Sci-Fi Short Story) Bella Erdmann's time had come. She was made to leave...

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...

His Majesty's Prison BlackRock is where Evil is sent to die.None of the killers imprisoned on the island prison, 30 miles off the coast of Scotland, will ever leave.When Scottish billionaire, social philanthropist, and prison reformer, Ethan Mackay, is murdered during a VIP visit...

Book 10 in the Gabriel Hawke SeriesGreed, Misdirection, and MurderOregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke's sister, Marion, is on a corporate retreat in Montana when she becomes a murder suspect. Running for her life from the real killer, she contacts Hawke for help. Hawke heads...

Caleb has been single for some time now, and just like anyone, he longs for the cliché happy ever after. He stumbles on two beauties, Aaliyah and Kabria, yes love at first sight twice. In the pages of this book, we will see how...

From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty, this thrilling mystery featuring Detective Sean Duffy was a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.Belfast, 1988. A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his...

Detective Helen Carter is back in the thick of things. It's a race against time to catch a serial killer targeting young women.Twenty years ago, Helen's father, Detective Richard Carter, worked himself to the bone to put away a notorious serial killer. Mark Landis...

In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him.Your dad's...

After a home invasion landed Emma in a comatose state. Sam faces another shocking event as he finds himself fighting off an assassin in Emma's hospital room. Someone obviously wanted to keep Emma quiet forever. But the question is, why? Now, after weeks of...

In 2045, following the collapse of the Federal Government, the United States has fragmented into an uneasy alliance of sovereign city states, living side by side in nervous apprehension. As crime runs rampant in New Philadelphia, drastic measures are considered to ensure the survival...

"A deliciously tense ride." --Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of One By OneINSTANT BESTSELLERThree couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller.What could be more restful than a weekend getaway...

What happens when a gang of vicious drug dealers hit the sleepy Canadian town of Serendipity?After waking up to the sound of gunshots, Annie rushes over to Ben 'The Butcher' Rough's meat shop, only to find out the man has been shot and killed....

From Cold Spring Harbor in 1971 to River of Dreams in 1993, Billy Joel released a dozen studio albums that remade the face of American pop music, produced twenty-six Top 10 singles (on Billboard's Top 100 and Adult Contemporary charts), and earned the Piano...

The start of a brand-new crime thriller series from Wes Markin, bestselling author of the DCI Yorke series.Still grieving from the tragic death of her colleague, DCI Emma Gardner continues to blame herself and is struggling to focus. So, when she is seconded to...

When Tod Peterson and Bob James, proprietors of JP Associates, decide to take matters into their own hands and go south to find Rebecca's daughter Sophie, it certainly puts the cat amongst the pigeons in Leith. It doesn't fare too well for Tod either...

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...

Leader of the opposition, Sir Alex Bolton, is being blackmailed. After dancer Bella takes pictures of him with a spy camera, people in high places plan to make sure that nothing prevents Sir Alex from becoming Britain's next prime minister.While Bella is shacked up...

Leader of the opposition, Sir Alex Bolton, is being blackmailed. After dancer Bella takes pictures of him with a spy camera, people in high places plan to make sure that nothing prevents Sir Alex from becoming Britain's next prime minister.While Bella is shacked up...

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...

For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon's Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town....

Stray Bullets is a scattershot of short stories and flash fiction from 'The King Of Brit Grit' Paul D. Brazill.In this short, sharp collection, you will stumble into hit men, gangsters, corrupt cops, drunks, punks, petty thieves, and all manner of lowlife criminals. The...

A FAME-OBSESSED LOS ANGELES POPSTAR MUST CONFESS TO A DARK SECRET FROM HIS PAST-A SECRET SO TERRIBLE IT COULD DESTROY EVERYTHING HE'S WORKED FOR-IF HE IS TO SAVE THE LIVES OF HIS LOVED ONES. Chris Flowers, one of the most famous and beloved popstars...

Just because he couldn't kill her doesn't mean his enemy won't.Cole and Mara's relationship has grown to consume them both. Cole, sculptor and killer, finds himself adrift in a depth of feeling he's never known, while Mara, unafraid of his darkness, is blossoming into...

New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty won an Edgar Award for this "standout in a superior series" (Booklist)."Shot through with a smart, crackling humor that manages to be both dark and witty."--Boston GlobeIt's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy:...

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses.The book's title derives from Hebrews, Chapter...

Acclaimed author Brian Shea is back with SIGN OF THE MAKER, the fourth book in his heart-pounding Boston Crime Thriller Series."Brian Shea is the real deal," --Steve Konkoly, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Ryan Decker SeriesWhen a bomber targets the city he loves,...

Big-time businessman Sir Gerald Campion is losing money. The losses in his gambling division look like an inside job. He's angry, and betrayal like this can't go unpunished. He enlists the help of Shannon Investigations, a team of fraud detectives with a reputation for...

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...

I'm Lindsay, a teenage visionary with a few big problems: My mother is way overprotective. My best friend is an airhead. My boyfriend joined the Army. And I can see murders before they happen. In Book Five of the Paranormal Suspense series, SIGHTED, Lindsay...

I'm Lindsay, a teenage visionary with a few big problems: My mother is way overprotective. My best friend is an airhead. My boyfriend joined the Army. And I can see murders before they happen. In Book Four of the Paranormal Suspense series, SIGHTED, Lindsay...

She loved him, but did she know him?The night before they plan to move in together, Quille finds the man she loves dead in his apartment.Police point to his failed medical career and past alcoholism as evidence of suicide. His ex-wife agrees.But Marco's son...

Zen-Noir master Nakamura returns to the Tokyo of The Thief, where a young grifter named Yurika finds herself in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the shadowy crime lord Kizaki. Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully...

Wedding bells are about to ring for Seattle private investigators Danny Logan and Toni Blair. The date's four weeks out and this time there will be no more delays, no more postponements, no more excuses. Nothing will stop them. But then . . ....

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...

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...

POIROT INVESTIGATES: - is a collection of eleven short stories written by English author Agatha Christie -- the best-selling author of all time. This was first published in the UK in March 1924. In the motley collection of superb short stories, Hercule Poirot --...

The writer of several hundred stories and novels, English author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began his writing career in 1879. While he introduced the world to his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in the 1887 novel "A Study in Scarlet", it would not be...

Leader of the opposition, Sir Alex Bolton, is being blackmailed. After dancer Bella takes pictures of him with a spy camera, people in high places plan to make sure that nothing prevents Sir Alex from becoming Britain's next prime minister.While Bella is shacked up...

A private investigator searches for two killers in witness protection while evading the US Marshals sworn to protect them and a hitman hired to kill them.A vigilante justice P.I. series.Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don't want to be found. Willie Baker is...

The novel Atlantis Magister, the first volume of the London Oniric Exchange trilogy, can be considered both a dystopia and a novel of science fiction anticipation. The main character Scott Lloyd, is a former London stockbroker who accidentally, in the near future, becomes a...

Two curious questions: Whether? How? We don't know whether something will happen, but we can choose how we will respond. When they were young, I recall having struggled with the idea of whether it's healthier to shelter my own children, or to discuss some...