Fiction - Crime

After the devastating blows that Nicole took in Volume I, she was forced to go into hiding with her best friend Jesse. After a long six months on the run, Nicole is forced to deal with some harsh realities and painful family secrets that...

"When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it." --Sam Spade A physically menacing character--"he looked rather pleasantly...

Elmore Leonard meets Robert Ludlum in a rollicking comedic thriller set in 1985 from acclaimed author Ace Atkins, in which a suburban teen suspects his mom's new boyfriend is the ultimate bad guy--a KGB agent.It's 1985, what will soon become known as "The Year...

Author: Felix Charin, Wiktor MiesokISBN-10: 8269413208ISBN-13: 9788269413205Publisher: White MatterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2025Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d

Author: Heather Meldrum KaminskiISBN-10: 1959623621ISBN-13: 9781959623625Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Rich HosekISBN-10: 1953566022ISBN-13: 9781953566027Publisher: Nifni Press, a Division of Paraphrase, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2021Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission.Author:...

Accident or suicide? That's the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction.Author: Barbara FradkinISBN-10: 1894917138ISBN-13: 9781894917131Publisher: Napoleon and CoLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Ottawa Homicide Inspector Michael Green is obsessed with his job, a condition which has almost ruined his marriage several times. A young student and scion of a rich family is found expertly stabbed in the stacks of a university library, and Green realizes that...

Doc Ford returns for a perilous journey into Mesoamerica after a world-shattering earthquake threatens his family's safety--and all of their lives In the wake of a killer hurricane, Doc Ford heads to Honduras, where his best friend, Tomlinson, crashed his beloved sailboat into a...

Brisbane, 1938. Douglas decided it was time he settled down and sired the next generation of Hendersons. That the young girl he had chosen was 24 years his junior did not seem an impediment to him. After all, he was Douglas Henderson and, as...

A feminist, redemptive crime novel about a woman, Elizabeth, who has never come to terms with the loss of her daughter, who went missing twenty-five years ago, and why she is compelled to go back to the house where her little girl, Nina, disappeared....

The knife slashed one way across her mouth, then the other, silencing both her words and her thoughts. Things like this weren't supposed to happen in little towns, not even in ones named Slaughterville. Yet, here she was, her life bleeding out onto her...

Rough Roads by Frank Whitman is a gripping tale of mystery and survival in the rugged Idaho wilderness. Sheriff Kennedy is faced with a puzzling case of a dead cow on a remote ranch, leading him to a reclusive young man named Danny. As...

After spending some time away, Jack returns home with a fresh outlook, ready to embrace a new future. But trouble lurks in his family, pulling him into a world he thought he'd left behind. On his uncle's advice, he joins the Bethel City Police,...

Quentin Tarantino meets Smokey & The Bandit in this noir, science-fiction thriller. Sometimes, people just need killing. When Sam West wanders into the Sunny-Side-Up Diner hoping for a last slice of Mort's world-class pie, and one last look at a waitress named Delilah, he...

Murder in Mount Vernon: Guns, Gangsters, and Glory is a gripping crime thriller that plunges readers into the dark underbelly of a corrupt city. When a seasoned private investigator takes on what seems like a routine workers' compensation case, he quickly realizes he's stepped...

A dark revenge romance with tattooed bikers, hilarious banter, high speeds, and high heat. Hold on tight for a hell of a ride! Regan FletcherI used to have big dreams: finish college, make beautiful art, all while taking over my dad's business. He wanted...

While tying up loose ends with the cartel that invaded Possum Gap, Sheriff Sadie Mills embarks on a dangerous excursion to Mexico with the town's coroner and her sometimes love interest, Raymond Russo. Things get complicated south of the border, when a request from...

Play Ball!Or, in this case, Balls. When we put the call out we didn't expect so many to step up to the plate. And while none (that we know of, that is) have previously appeared in any swimsuit edition of a particular Sports magazine,...

His name was Joshua Carter. Now it's whatever she wants it to be.She is a Deliverer.She lures young men and delivers them to be sold. She delivers the strikes that enforce their obedience. She delivers the training that determines their purchase price.As long as...

FBI Special Agents Butnari and Hill must preserve critical agency secrets from the past as they find a way to stop vicious criminals willing to stop at nothing to achieve an evil goal.An intruder caught trespassing on a Caribbean banana plantation leads to an...

Christopher Finch is a newly-arrived patient of Hanwell Asylum. A man of the Middle Class, he recently took over his father's successful butcher shop. He was secretly concerned about the duration of his "spells" and the violent scenes that plague his dreams; he checked...

While serving in Afghanistan, Army Ranger Zane Carr is injured in an IED attack. Suffering the effects of a traumatic brain injury, Carr receives an honorable discharge and returns home to Highlandville, Missouri. Six years later he is killed in an auto accident.High school...

This is a tale of intrigue that will arouse your curiosity about the deep and well-established characters. A fascinating mystery that captivates your imagination and draws the reader in. If you are passionate about learning about the past. Wonder about the differences between the...

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title...

Two strangers who have lost loved ones meet in an airport cocktail lounge on a foggy afternoon while waiting out their weather-delayed flights. Seated together on their rescheduled flight to Atlanta, the new friends choose to have dinner together before flying their separate ways...

Leading the comfortable life of the semi-retired in Savannah, the duo of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, the city's (and, really, the world's) most noted Black detectives, are awakened from their professional slumber by a series of most unusual murders all tied by the...

Two boys are missing. No one is talking.Detective Inspector Tom Brand has moved from London to his childhood home in the sleepy village of Relby to look after his elderly father and take a job as lead detective in the village's new police station.Before...

In this sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, an unruly detective and an ambitious TV show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon--while trying to resist the attraction between...

From the author of The Swift and the Harrier comes The Players, a gripping historical tale of espionage, treason, and surprising alliances set against the backdrop of the Bloody Assizes--the trials that would determine the fate of over one-thousand treasonous rebels.England, 1685. Decades after...

The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls--a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.Until the night of the...

Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Spain with "Learn Spanish with Crime Stories," a reader designed for those at the B1 Spanish level. This collection pulls you into the underbelly of Spanish cities through thrilling crime stories that not only captivate your imagination...

Everything was a fairy tale until the night everything went wrong. Ariel and Adriana Stuart are the only survivors of the hit on their family. Now they must find their way where even friends can be the enemy.Author: Amy McCorkle, Melissa GoodmanISBN-13: 9798223053712Publisher: Amy...

A masterful, enthralling new novel from the Booker Prize winner Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me . . . 1899. As the new century approaches, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman--a hack, by his own description--marries Laura Rensselaer,...

New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson bring readers another heart-stopping thriller in Sons of Valor IV: False Flag.A murder in the Royal House of Saud, a secret alliance between two powerful rivals, and a race to upend the balance of power in...

He thought he'd hit rock bottom-until he found a body.Desperate for a job, drowning in debt, and heartbroken, newly graduated Ethan Poser takes a custodial position at the Carnegie Library. But when he chances upon the body of his predecessor in a nearby city...

On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle between their well-intentioned neighbor and their...

A serial killer is stalking Tyneside. But there is a pattern to his killings, his choice of victims, his method of slaughter. David Carlisle, a criminal profiler, is brought in to assist DCI Jack Mason with his task of identifying the killer and stopping...

Homicide becomes more than an academic study for Toronto criminologist Ted Boudreau when his own suburban home is burglarized, with deadly results. Was his computer targetted because of his interest in a secretive biker gang? Teds attempts to deal with the aftermath bring him...

Vikkan Lantry, a pianist with more talent than ambition, is content with his job at an upscale cocktail lounge until a request from reclusive soprano, Ulrike Vogel, draws him grudgingly back into the world of classical music. Ulrike's mysterious past, and her friendship with...

Eve West, a police officer with a hidden past, is drawn into a dark and complex case when she's asked to investigate a miscarriage of justice. A highly effective police officer, albeit one who keeps her past carefully hidden, Eve West is suspended from...

On a busy train station platform, a man pulls a knife and viciously attacks another passenger before fleeing - apparently unaware of what he has just done. To the police, it looks like a terrorist attack. But Forensic Psychologist Dr Jo McCready has seen...

Jacob Malecki killed fifteen people over a thirteen-year period. At the height of the murders, Dr. Jo McCready was at university and, as an exercise, compiled a profile of Malecki, which broke open the case and helped send him down for life. Twenty-five years...

The first book in BRAND NEW gripping gangland thriller series by bestselling author Evie Hunter! High stakes, killer secrets... Frenchurch Falls is a playground of indulgence for the rich and famous. But behind its gleaming facade, lie dark and dangerous secrets. And some of...

The next instalment in Stephanie Harte's gripping gangland series, perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kerry Kaya! Sibling rivalry has never been deadlier... When Daisy Kennedy risked everything to rescue her twin sister, Lily, from the clutches of a ruthless gang, she thought...

Passions flare when amateur sleuthing meets modern policing in this cute Scottish murder mystery!When sassy Edinburgh journalist Amy Thornton infiltrates an environmental activist group, little does she know how quickly she'll scoop a story worthy of the front page.A member of the group, who...

A woman's fatal fall at a local beauty spot raises the suspicions of Edinburgh policeSarah Cartwright is on her daily jog when she falls from the iconic rocks of Salisbury Crags.When DI Russell McCord arrives at the scene, the victim's distraught husband says he...

When an ex-con meets an untimely death, the investigation has a slippery startFound bound and beaten in a warehouse, a convicted criminal leaves a cryptic message before he croaks on the way to hospital.What did he know that was worth killing for? DI McCord...

A suspicious death ignites a blame game within a family full of secrets...When an Edinburgh villa goes up in flames, grumpy DI Russell McCord is called in to investigate. Someone died in the fire, and it looks like murder.His spirits are lifted, however, when...