Fiction - Crime

Tribal policeman Bill Maytubby and Deputy Hannah Bond partner again to solve a grisly murder that is more than it appears.In the shadow of a massive boulder on Oklahoma's Big Rock Prairie, a squirrel hunter discovers a charred skeleton in a homemade charcoal kiln....

When murder is your business, solving the case is personal ...The Homicide Hunter's riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth ...All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose...

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...

The Dark Waves of Winter is a follow up to the critically acclaimed anthology, The Silver Waves of Summer (Kelp Books, 2021). In this installment, the beach again takes center stage in stories from some of the biggest names in literary and noir fiction....

DS Aector McAvoy investigates his darkest, most brutal case yet The call comes in before DS Aector McAvoy has had time for breakfast. The news is bad: A body. Found in the woods out at Brantingham. The reality is even worse. The young man's...

China Doll, another comical and exciting adventure, ripped straight from the files of Honolulu's most incorrigible and languid, soft-boiled private eye, Richard Bishop. People come to Richard Bishop's shabby Hotel Street office for professional help when trouble raises its ugly head because trouble is...

Eleven-year-old Vasya Gergiev suffers at the hands of monsters both in the house where he is held prisoner and on the streets of Prague. Taken from a Polish orphanage by Tomek Markovic, a minor player in a major child prostitution operation across Europe, Vasya...

In this second collaboration between Fleming and Peters, Troubled Waters continues the story of veteran transit cop, Morris Fitzgerald, who is struggling to return to full-time work with Boston's Mass Bay Transit Authority. While working through his own mental and physical shortcomings, he goes...

From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, The Mantis is a propulsive thriller set in Tokyo's criminal underworld about the intrigue and tensions a family man faces as he tries to hide his secret life as a hitman. Kabuto...

Eug駭e Tarpon, the private-eye protagonist from Manchette's No Room at the Morgue, appears once more for a characteristically brisk and brutal story full of unexpected comedy and feeling. Private eye Eug駭e Tarpon is back to sleeping in his office, waiting for a paying job...

"Disturbing and tons of fun." --The Guardian"Just take all those accolades used for thrillers--unputdownable, twisty, dark, chilling, vivid, explosive, intense--and heap them on. Because this book is that good. That credible. And that terrifying..." --First Clue, Starred ReviewHow far would you go to protect...

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...

The Little Old Lady Strikes Back is a socially engaged, feelgood novel with a riotous plot from the author of The Little Old Lady Who Broke the RulesAuthor: Catharina Ingelman-SundbergISBN-10: 1035005565ISBN-13: 9781035005567Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2023Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.72h x 5.04w x 1.10d

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame. Can a white man receive justice...

Twenty years ago, three men associated with Marlowe Mansion, a large Victorian home surrounded by farmland just outside the small town of Stillwell, disappeared and have not been seen since. The missing men are Asa Marlowe, Jr., the wealthy owner of the mansion, his...

A Tale Of Scorpions is a fictionalised account of an actual murder and ensuing trial in the early 1970s. It concerns an attempt to convict, on entirely circumstantial evidence, a known criminal of a violent murder. When Tony Blake is ruthlessly shotgunned on Guy...

Author: Brian SheaISBN-10: 1648753825ISBN-13: 9781648753824Publisher: Severn River PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2022Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.79d

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...

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...

"A masterful look at control and manipulation" - Jess KitchingAfter receiving a substantial inheritance, thirty-seven-year-old aspiring writer, Theresa, moves to the High Country of Victoria, Australia, to finally write the novel she had always planned. Here, she meets and marries Rick Goodman, a former...

With his heart and mind shattered by a vicious attack Matt Ryan's quiet rural life spins out of control. His desperation to feel again sends him on a multi-nation quest. His journey leads him to some dark, dark corners of the world and his...

What's that lip-smacking smell coming from the smoker? Food blogger Murph Murphy may be sorry when he finds out. Why do so many of his restaurant reviews go sideways?The fate of the Rusty Pig is in Murph's hands. But will a stalker put an...

The year is 1973. A four-man crew of stick-up artists has been on a rampage in South Texas along the Rio Grande corridor from El Paso to Laredo. One day they stick up the bank and liquor store in Mosby in Quayle County, killing...

Readying her Norwegian sail-training ship, Sorlandet, for a fresh voyage through the Shetland Islands, Cass Lynch has the shock of her life when the new third officer is a ghost from her past - the man she thought she'd left to drown in the...

Math teacher Michael Carter is not a happy man. His daughter, Jessica, has gone missing. Then his wife dies from Hodgkin's Disease. Alone and depressed, he doesn't believe he can ever love another woman. Michael must overcome obstacles if he is ever to find...

If You're Looking for a Gripping Murder Mystery Series that You Can't Put Down, then Keep Reading David Randolf Erwin's morbid fascination for repugnant murderers will be his undoing.As an esteemed reporter, he blew the lid off William Stephen Martin's string of grisly murders...

Byron and Dianne's marriage, while never perfect, had had its good times. No question. But she'd been into more than he could stand to admit-addiction can cause a person to behave in ways they never would otherwise. A test of a husband's love, resolve...

Bingham shared the feeling of exhaustion he saw in the youth's face as he relived the day his mum ran away, and that was what Bingham wanted. Soon, he hoped, memories would be stirred, old loyalties and disloyalties restored: the passing of time and...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! "If you're into mystery thrillers, then you're into Karin Slaughter." --THESKIMMHe watches. He waits. He takes. Who will be next . . .THE SILENT WIFEInvestigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator...

★★★★★ "The story was brilliantly plotted out and wonderfully written, you could barely wait to turn the pages to see where the tale would take you next."A timid traveler. A New Orleans adventure. A Mardi Gras murder...Roxy believed that life never gives you more...

"With its exploration of racism, American jingoism, dysfunctional families, and lost love, this work is moving, suspenseful, funny, thoughtful, and sad. It will appeal to a wide range of readers . . ." --Library Journal"Intriguing and absorbing. Shiflett has a powerful eye for characters...

What would you do if you knew who murdered your daughter but the police didn't believe you?Sofia Kennedy has spent the last twenty-four years keeping her past a dark secret. To the rest of the world, she's a gifted graphic designer, marvelous cook, and...

Sometimes the dead do not just whisper...and sometimes it rains blood. "Your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams." (Acts 2:17) Mikhael "Mick" Priest is a private detective with an unearthly gift. It sets him apart from those around him...

Make noise for a new Prey package and new author introduction! Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best--murdering one helpless victim after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the...

Ars鈩e Lupin is an audacious crook who, using his powers of deduction, commits untraceable crimes. Witty, cunning and endlessly charming, follow Lupin's colourful adventures as he rights the rich's wrongs and gives back to the poor. In a charming combination of Sherlock Holmes and...

A comedic take on betrayals, bad ideas, and lost love in the tropics.When a catalog model turned college student and a sun-soaked visionary join forces, a small beach town is turned on its head.Following her critically ill father down to Florida, Rita Polli drops...

Everything changes when you find out who you really are. Over the past few months, I've lost a bit of weight without trying and suffered a few dizzy spells, both symptoms I put down to delayed shock and lingering grief. Losing your little sister...

Mary Griffin witnesses a crime syndicate assassination, and in her haste to escape, Mary accidentally gains possession of a little black book which contains numbered bank accounts, passwords, and notes on criminal activities of the syndicate.Unable to find Mary, or the black book; the...

Bestselling phenomenon Simon McCleave is back with a gripping, atmospheric new crime thriller series set on the Isle of Anglesey.'Knocked my socks off. McCleave knows how to leave you gasping for air. Absolutely thrilling!' International million-copy bestseller, Helen FieldsThe beautiful Isle of Anglesey has...

What is the point of nightmares, when your reality is just that, a horror flick directed by those you were taught to trust and born to love. In the town of Portland, Maine a child by the name of Sarah Lee lived with secrets...

Detective Ethan Moore prowls the deck of the mega cruise ship, his mind wracked with unanswered questions. His daughter, Chloe, is missing and this was the last place she was seen alive. They say she committed suicide. But his princess would never do that...

Growing up in southwest Virginia, Harold Beaman was fascinated by the United States Penitentiary at Walker Mountain. The iconic structure was carved from a ridgeline following the Great Depression, and seen from the valley floor, it resembles a land-bound lighthouse. Tales of mayhem and...

'One of the most distinctive voices in European literature' (Daily Telegraph) How does the legacy of a family past shape who we are? Ferdinand von Schirach is one of Germany's most eminent criminal defence lawyers and an internationally bestselling crime writer. He is also...

They say marriages are made in heaven . . . but the devil appears to have hit the local wedding store. It's a sleepy Sunday morning in the quaint English town of Bromgrove. The body of Gino Everard, the flamboyant owner of popular bridal...

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...

The latest installment of the gripping Raven and Fisher mystery seriesPRAISE FOR THE RAVEN AND FISHER MYSTERY SERIES'Brilliantly conceived, fiendishly plotted' Mick Herron'The immersive world of Ambrose Parry just gets better and better' Jess Kidd Edinburgh, 1854, and a killer stalks the streets. Body...

In this third installment of the series, veteran transit cop Morris Fitzgerald must sort through the politics and prejudices of the city to unravel the mysterious disappearnance of antique books and artificats from the city's libraries. Like its predecessors, Troubled Waters and Code Black,...

DeScriPtionDetective Arjun Arora feels his life is crumbling around him. His father haspassed away, and he cannot forgive the corrupt police officer who sent Arjuninto a coma a year back. And then, a young widow visits him and presses himto take on a new...

The Civilian JTF is a heart-rending story, told with relics of an extraordinary passion for portraying a painful, dehumanising experience of a young girl with a passionate zeal for quality education, a life free of male molestation, and social profiling. Her resistance against early...

The Deadly Steps, is a Police Procedural thriller, set in Cork City, Ireland. Detective Inspector John Cahill is originally from Cork City but circumstances brought him to Northern Ireland in the mid 1990's. D.I. Cahill joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary and progressed through the...