Fiction - Crime

Give her five minutes more, I thought . . .More than an hour had passed since Jean Putnam's voice had promised on the phone that she would be there. As I started back to my office I gave a final look down the corridor,...

A ruthless killer. An ancient curse. A secret past.When Libby Forest finds a body early one morning in mist surrounding Glastonbury Tor, she will need all her ingenuity to unscramble the threads of past myths and present secrets to discover the truth.Meanwhile, with the...

What if you really, really wanted to die... but couldn't?Welcome to the life of Owen, a suicidal man who can't seem to die, no matter how many times he's tried.Owen's monotonous, bleak life is interrupted by a chance encounter with Dinah Borst, an ambitious...

Harley Street doctor Howard Latimer meets an actress from London Airport as a favour for his friend Charles Kaufmann. This leads to him being framed for murder and in seeking to clear himself he becomes increasinly ensnared in a complex web.Author: Melvyn Barnes, Francis...

Is it revenge or is it justice?DI Gravel is supposed to be on mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary beach his holiday is cut short. Back on the job, he's shocked when the case leads him to the...

'Is it wise to evoke these memories-to raise these ghosts-after all these years?'After attending a burial in an old country churchyard, Superintendent Mallett and his friends are struck by the sight of two elderly ladies, regally dressed in black and accompanied by their uniformed...

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...

Somewhere in the lush green grounds of a peaceful retirement home hides a serial killer.Famous ex-ballet dancer and local celebrity Andr馥 Clark is found strangled in her bed at the genteel Rosemount Retirement Home. On the bedside table stands her favourite ballerina doll, its...

The sun comes out on a Saturday afternoon in Manchester. Proud young mum Claire is watching her three-year-old son Sammy in the local playground. A little girl falls. Claire bends down to help. When she turns round Sammy is gone.As each day passes, the...

"A cleverly plotted and thoroughly enjoyable book about dark deeds in beautiful places."--Elly GriffithsWelcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes...Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright's remote...

One murder. Two suspects. Bad things happen when you mess around with a mother's grief. Clara Fitzgerald is struggling to make her name as a private detective in 1920s Brighton, when most people think women cannot solve crimes. Undaunted by the prejudice she faces,...

A brand new gangland series by bestselling author Kerry Kaya!Meet the Tempest family - and get ready for the storm.Tracey Tempest adores her husband, Terry. But when on his 50th birthday, tragedy strikes, Tracey must face the terrifying prospect of a future without him....

When Maverick decided to bring vengeance upon his mother's murderers, he must learn that revenge is not the right way, but can God get through to him in time? Red is flustered when his sister suddenly disappears without a trace, but when he finds...

He'll protect her...whether she likes it or not.Riona Griffin is gorgeous, intelligent, and iron-willed, determined to carve her name in the family ledger without a man at her side. But when she barely survives an unexpected attack on her life, her family hires Raylan...

How far would you go to make amends? When Emma returns home after a battle with addiction, she will have to figure that out. When Emma left her home at Foxglove Farm, she'd let down and hurt those who cared for her most. Now,...

All NEW from bestselling psychological thriller writer Keri BeevisWhen you're a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you believe they can only come after you when it's dark.You don't expect...

From "quite possibly the best historical novelist we have" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, DC, to a KGB prison near Moscow's KremlinIn Moscow Exile, John Lawton departs from his usual stomping grounds of England and Germany...

Brandon Penny is a law abiding member of society. Not at all what his mother envisioned. As a child, Brandon's con-artist mother raised him to be a criminal prodigy. But when he was twelve a robbery went bad, a gun went off, and Brandon's...

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...

In the year 1931 during The Great Depression, Jack Vogel and his 14-year-old daughter Juanita travel in an open boxcar from Cat Creek, Montana to Seattle. Jack hopes to reunite with his brother Frank and find work in one of Seattle's lumber mills or...

Author: Catharina Ingelman-SundbergISBN-10: 1447274903ISBN-13: 9781447274902Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2015Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.97d

To The Strongest the Spoils. Scratch Garner thinks the world of himself - but his only talent is making enemies. It is England, 1965, and London is swinging like a hanged man. American Wilson 'Scratch' Garner is witness to a murder and inherits a...

In this small-town mystery, a retired teacher moves to the Ozark mountains, where her eager manner ruffles some feathers--and unearths dark secrets. Retired schoolteacher Caroline Hudson has moved to Hickory Bend, Missouri, to embrace small-town life. But her eagerness to join the community only...

There's a killer on the streets, and no one is safe...First there was the drowned man, but maybe his death was an accident?Then there were the decapitated bodies, the burnt girl, the women pursued in the dark. Finally the police have to admit there's...

A play in two acts, ten scenes. A gruesome murder on the campus of a small Southern college in the 1950s, when language wore a set of tasteful pearls and the truth was demurely dressed in public.Author: Kevin Lane DearingerISBN-10: 1387423509ISBN-13: 9781387423507Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

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...

Guilty was the cry of the gavel in the courtroom that April day of 1995. A  slender  redheaded girl  hung  her head  and was  escorted  out of  the courtroom in    handcuffs.Still, it was hard to see from my side, as an investigative  reporter, how a judge could give a juvenile seventy-three and a half years in prison. In the next few months, I really wanted to dig further in what happened in  this case. Author: Rita MarcoliISBN-10: 1958518816ISBN-13: 9781958518816Publisher: Rita Marcoli PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2022Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d

Inspired by Private Eye stories from the Hammett and Chandler era, and influenced by "Peter Gunn", "Mannix", and "The Rockford Files", these detective stories leads you from the pool room to the other side of town, to assassins, crime bosses, pretty women, clones, Moscow...

Library of America presents a deluxe edition of unforgettable crime thrillers of the 1960s Here in two volumes are 9 timeless novels, including 4 lost classics now restored to print In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers,...

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...

Pickpocket Erin, who was abandoned as a child, is the leader of a small criminal underworld, but when she infiltrates a deadly plot, unidentified forces want to silence her. To live in this new world of violence, magic, and companionship, Erin will need all...

Guilty was the cry of the gavel in the courtroom that April day of 1995. A  slender  redheaded girl  hung  her head  and was  escorted  out of  the courtroom in    handcuffs.Still, it was hard to see from my side, as an investigative  reporter, how a judge could give a juvenile seventy-three and a half years in prison. In the next few months, I really wanted to dig further in what happened in  this case. Author: Rita MarcoliISBN-10: 1959173804ISBN-13: 9781959173809Publisher: Rita Marcoli PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2022Pages: 56Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

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...

Altercations and confrontations are Fitzy's style. Disgraced Queensland Detective Rodney FitzMichael is forced to work in a new section under his previous subordinate, Lerlene Diplock, who is assigned to establish a database to track paedophiles. They must put aside their differences as they investigate...

Fighting for justice in Chicago is a deadly game... On Chicago's South Side, the death of a five-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting captures the city's attention. At the request of a desperate mother, defense attorney Tex Hunter agrees to defend the accused against...

An exciting standalone Cthulhu Casebooks narrative, a thrilling tale of mystery and dread, from the New York Times bestselling author. It's 1929 and an ageing Dr John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true...

When a horror-loving radio show becomes the stage of a gruesome murder, its host Tinsel Monroe is put next on the killer's list... A fast paced, thrilling murder mystery novel, paying homage to slasher films of the 90's, The Graveyard Shift is the perfect...

All NEW from bestselling psychological thriller writer Keri BeevisWhen you're a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you believe they can only come after you when it's dark.You don't expect...

In this latest novel by author Gary Smith, Warren Steelgrave has been pulled away from the quiet, contemplative evenings on the veranda and writing to honor the request of a friend. Brigadier Mattia's son Carlo has gone missing. Carlo was a member of an...

They say a mind is a terrible thing to waste, so the heartless street soldier name XO-Vegas refuses to let his mind go to waste. After being fed up with having to split his pack down three or four ways and re-up with his...

Mark Gold, believing life will now be quiet finds out there is no such thing.Author: Edward AdamsISBN-10: 837593299XISBN-13: 9798375932996Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2023Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

The parents are dead. The girls are hiding. The killer is still inside the house. Can Detective Alyssa Wyatt get there in time? Gabriel Kensington and his wife Lydia have been brutally slain in their luxurious home in New Mexico. A frantic, whispered phone...

"My favorite millennial provocateur." --Bret Easton Ellis "There's no way a robot wrote this book. A no-holds-barred tour of the Millennial mindset's spiritual DNA. Anything goes." --Douglas Coupland NYLON Magazine Must-Reads September 2023 One of W Magazine's 25 Most Anticipated Books Fall 2023 One...

Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving. She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real. There's something strange about the scene . . . Famous artist Jean appears...

Beyond the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas Strip, someone is about to die. Alison Carter's world is upended when her boss is murdered in front of her eyes. What she doesn't know is things are about to get much, much worse.Detective Brad...

'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime.' Bestselling author Kerry Kaya.Tony Lambrianu might look like he's sitting pretty, but when you're the kingpin of a gangland empire you have to keep your guard up at all times. Deceit and...

Donald Goines, "the godfather of black pulp fiction" (Salon.com) and "one of hip hop's greatest inspirations" (The Source Magazine), is among the most influential and revered urban authors of all time. Now the third book in his groundbreaking Kenyatta series is reissued and repackaged...

Private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction -- in this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, New York Times Book Review) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike. When novelist Owen Quine...

Hacker and thief Zoe Zimmerman and her team have been responsible for some of the most inexplicable and ingenious heists of the last few of years but what does a professional thief do for Christmas? Zoe uses her ill-gotten gains to take her decidedly...

A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, "this fiercely intelligent and utterly original debut" (Anna North, New York Times bestselling author) imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and...