Fiction - Crime

The upside of being a fugitive is the chance to reinvent oneself and start a new life. The downside is that, in such a world as ours, the road to that reparation is strewn with obstacles. Matt Pierson, dishonorably discharged Navy SEAL, seeks redemption...

Two worlds on a razor's edgeThe racially charged streets of 1990s Boston have hit a record-high murder rate. With dominating drug lord Whitey Bulger out of the picture, several rising-talent gang leaders vie for the throne, leaving in their war's wake more bodies than...

Mayhem in 1982 is rooted in the true story of Long Island's most infamous crime spree. On Friday night, Memorial Day weekend 1982, five Brooklyn thugs, called the Belmont Avenue Boys, went to "get paid" on Long Island or as they called it, Babylonia,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'Girl A' was convicted of murdering three people when she was a child. Now she's missing and a man is dead. The clock is ticking for Scottish detective DCI Christine Caplan to bring her to justice - but the truth may be darker than...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a riveting thriller in which a conflict of conscience for a former football star and an ambitious state prosecutor swiftly intensifies into a fight for their lives. Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't...

Edith was a gorgeous and keenly intelligent woman who lived on her boat in a peaceful port on the Marne just outside of Paris. When her body is found in the river beside her boat after a violent storm, the police suspect murder, and...

AN INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nominee is now a literary success with this unexpectedly dark and twisted thriller. It's 1994, and three stand-up comedians have embarked on a tour of smaller communities across a remote stretch of rural...

THE BIGGEST HEIST. THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY. FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE. OH, AND EXPLOSIONS. Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors...

Holmes and Watson return in this atmospheric crime novel, featuring the wild Devonshire moors, a phantom hound, and a centuries-old familial curse. Investigating the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must rely on their rationality to solve what appears...

Her eyes widen at her reflection in the steel blade as it comes closer, closer, closer... Detective Madison Knight thought a midnight drive through the countryside would help clear her mind, but she thought wrong. Her car runs out of gas, stranding her in...

She's on trial for murder... Now it's her turn to tell her story...The truth is that I loved James with my whole heart. We were soulmates: meant to be together forever. On the morning of our wedding, I had just found out I was...

LOOKING FOR AN ANYTHING-BUT-ORDINARY WHODUNIT? - Welcome to the West Heart Club. Where the drinks are neat but behind closed doors . . . things can get messy. Where upright citizens are deemed downright boring. Where the only missing piece of the puzzle is...

Enjoy Agatha Christie's beloved classic, Hallowe'en Party--the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh--with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot...

A serial killer chooses Easter week to leave dead pregnant teens in front of Catholic churches in New Orleans. Homicide detective Jo Crowder doggedly pursues a trail of evidence that leads to the arrest of Miguel Diaz, a twenty-year-old Latino nursing student. However, Crowder's...

There were five now. The mugger, the sex offender, the wife-beater, the drug-dealer. And of course, Peter. Jason hadn't needed a gun to kill Peter.Jason Ennis doesn't understand why the world is such a confusing place. Why it's so difficult to read between the...

Special Agent Luce Hansen's Thanksgiving vacation with her new lover, forensic pathologist Harper Bennett, is cut short when she's tasked with recapturing Deadeye, a vicious serial predator who has escaped custody. The timing couldn't be worse, especially when Bennett seems to be struggling with...

The gripping twenty-fifth Ikmen mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel will delight her many fans. Don't miss Ikmen and Suleyman in the sensational TV series The Turkish Detective When Ates Bocuk, son of a feared Istanbul gang leader, is arrested for the brutal...

Twenty-five year old Ambrose Romano happens across someone from his past, an individual who had once meant the world to him. When that person doesn't recognize him at all, Ambrose makes it his mission, against his better judgement, to help him remember.Twenty-four year old...

It was supposed to be quick, in and out. A put the tim down type of lick, that's all. But it all went so very wrong...fast. Jabari had this crazy passion for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and making a...

The day retired Detective Inspector Bob James walked into the office of JP Associates and demanded that his colleagues drop what they were doing to investigate the finding of a body in Leith Fort, a body that Police Scotland wanted nothing to do with,...

Set in Ireland's striking, rugged countryside, the USA Today bestselling author's unsettling, atmospheric new crime fiction novel combines the eerie mood of Tana French and Louise Penny with the compulsively taut plotting of Dervla McTiernan and Lucy Foley, as an Irish veterinarian grapples with...

First published in 1926, 'Clouds of Witness' is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, an English crime writer, poet, and student of classical and modern languages, best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and...

When game warden Luke Dutton hears a gunshot while he's out repairing fencing on his ranch in Alberta's foothills, he has no idea that single shot is going to set into motion events that will turn his world upside down. The more he discovers,...

A psycho-pathic sexulal serial killer is on a rampage. He is also involved with his own personal lovers. Homicide detectives Gary Blake and Julie Nicks must stop him before he kills again. But they also must deal with the fact that they are falling...

Life for a damask weaver in nineteenth century Scotland was never an easy one and never predictable if one happened to live and work on Fordom Estate. But Robert Peterson and his wife did just that. The consequences of working for the Havington family...

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...

The luxurious lifestyle of a Los Angeles lawyer and his family is about to be turned upside down by one of the most powerful mafia families in New York City.Warrent, a corrupt, philandering New York senator, is playing dirty games with Hollywood lawyer, Breska....

First published in a limited run in 1934, this exceedingly rare and fast-paced bibliomystery set against the landscapes of Yorkshire is long overdue its return to print.The note read: "Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan's Life and Death of...

One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legendary "Nero Wolfe" creator Rex Stout--unpublished for more than 90 years--presents a gripping psychological puzzle and a heroine you'll never forget. WHO WAS THE FIFTH MAN? The lawyer,...

Alan Brodie, a highly decorated former Special Forces operative in the British army, is a trained killer with extensive experience in undercover black ops in the deadly battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other deniable war zones. Retired from the military and now working in...

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...

A mysterious suicide and double murder are at the heart of this powerful thriller set in Northern Ireland amidst the Troubles, from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty"McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a...

It was supposed to be a milk run - your routine teenaged runaway case. But when the trail led Detective Emmaline Sullivan to the steps of Fernsby Manor, she found herself buried in the hidden secrets and dark lies of Ashwood's oldest, richest family....

A shovel hitting dirt-an unmistakable sound that broke the tranquility of the woods bordering her Montana home. When Sandra Lewis went to investigate, she saw them-three young men burying a body in a shallow grave. She knew she had to tell someone. She was...

"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER First time in print: the novella "Bones on Ice" No one speaks the language of suspense more brilliantly than Kathy Reichs, author of the acclaimed Temperance Brennan series. In "Speaking in Bones, " the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAgents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter's #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.When she was twelve...

Empire City has been under the control of two crime lords for far too long. The once thriving metropolis has been reduced to a cesspool by drugs, sex, and violence. Someone has plans to put an end to that. A mysterious vigilante known as...

Semi-retired detective Amos Parisman confronts inequity in his L.A. community when he sets out to hunt a serial killer preying on the homeless. Author: Andy WeinbergerISBN-10: 1684428165ISBN-13: 9781684428168Publisher: Prospect Park BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2022Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly...

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive...

The lives of three friends are forever changed when they decide to abandon their dreams of starting a legitimate business and become involved with the criminal underworld. Impaired by overindulgences in sex, drugs and alcohol, they pursue a dangerous existence in furtherance of their...

William Breen, hard-hearted banker of Keedora, Iowa, is shot by an unknown assailant whose identity remains a mystery until the very end. This is a perfect murder because there is no corpus delicti and no real clue--only a deserted Buick with blood on the...

It's a week before Christmas and Hettie and Tilly set out on a very dangerous case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. Lady Eloise Crabstock-Singe has summoned them to Crabstock Manor in the village of Porthladle on the Cornish Coast to solve the...

The first in a new series from bestselling author, Ross Greenwood!A brutal double murder on a Norfolk beach horrifies the town of Cromer. The way the victims died is chilling and so Norfolk's Major Investigation Team task DS Ashley Knight to manage the case.It...

When House of Hernandez hits the shelves, readers are unaware that Jorge Hernandez's memoir is little more than a fictional fairy tale. Then again, when you are a former cartel boss with a murderous streak and a criminal history, it's best to keep some...

Did she jump--or was she pushed? The Retired Detectives have a theory. Now they just need the evidence...The brand-new Shimmering Sands retirement community is a beachfront paradise--until realtor Jessie Beckton plunges to her death from the penthouse suite she's selling. When the cops rule...

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...