Fiction - Crime

Toronto, 1960. Mo Gold and Arthur "Birdie" Birdwell are like fish out of water. Mo is Jewish and sardonic; Birdie's black, thoughtful and gargantuan. They're private detectives.Henry Turner disappeared eight years ago without a trace, and his mother wants him back. Mo and Birdie...

After Fredrick Prato gets involved with a local drug gang and fights with his girlfriend about the custody of their young child, he gets on his motorcycle and rides into the night.Unknown to Frederick, the freeway offramp he takes is closed, and blocked by...

A double shooting of two ageing crooks leads Chief Inspector Pel following the trail all the way to Mexico. Pel and his detectives know how, when and by whom they were murdered; but they must discover why.Away from his beloved Burgundy, Pel is given...

Life is going well for the usually irascible Chief Inspector Pel: he is basking in the warm glow of married life, and his bullying housekeeper Madame Routy is no longer tormenting him with deafening television shows and terrible cooking.But police work never stops, and...

Chief Inspector Pel is taking a well-deserved break from detective work, and setting off for his honeymoon with his new wife, Geneviève. Surely there's nothing more relaxing than an island getaway, and a bout of ferocious seasickness on the ferry journey there is a...

Murders circle around Burgundy where Pel has just been promoted to Chief Inspector, starting with the case of a woman whose body is found on the beach one morning. A death that appeared to be suicide at first glance turns out to have plenty...

When five murders disturb his sleepy Burgundian city on Bastille night, Chief Inspector Evariste Clovis Désiré Pel has his work cut out for him. A terrorist group is at work and with the President due to make an official visit in a few weeks'...

Inspector Pel's home life is far from peaceful, thanks to his housekeeper's addiction to watching television at full volume in all her waking hours - and with the Tour de France about to begin, things are not set to improve any time soon. Pel's...

The irascible Inspector Pel has failed to give up smoking. A Gauloise magically calms his nerves, in spite of his efforts, and good nerves are just what he needs when a student's mysterious death and the discovery of a corpse in the boot of...

David Estes is a retired Seattle police officer. Prior to joining the police office, he served in Vietnam as an infantry squad leader. He is a native of La Grange, Georgia. At an early age, he moved to South Dakota where he met his...

"Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" contains a wonderful collection of short stories by Baroness Orczy that centre around Molly Robertson-Kirk, a quick-witted detective who relies on brains rather than brawn to get to the bottom of mysteries that completely elude her male counterparts. Highly...

A.J Raffles, a prominent member in London society and well-respected athlete, has a shocking secret identity; he is a notorious thief. Always chasing the thrill of a heist or pickpocketing, Raffles attends test cricket games under the slight guise of interest for the sport....

Odarko, Oklahoma, 1956. Scratch Williams is a Yardbird: someone employed to do menial jobs, legal or otherwise.After oil tycoon George Spiff hires him to break up the relationship between his daughter and her newest conquest, a fight breaks out. Later, Scratch wakes up in...

The next thrilling Ham-Hill Murder Mystery from bestselling cosy crime author Frances Evesham.A winning horse. A fierce rivalry. A sudden death.Belinda Sandford thrills to the cheers of the crowd as her beautiful grey racehorse, 'Butterfly Charm', thunders past the finishing post first at Wincanton...

For underworld enforcer Richard "Rico" Sanders, it seemed like an ordinary job: retrieve his gangster boss's stolen goods, and teach the person responsible a lesson.But the chase quickly goes sideways and takes Rico from the mean streets of Chicago to sunny Honolulu. There, the...

A normal mountain biker town under which lies a deadly conspiracy.Laurel Tower finds herself hanging upside down by her seatbelt with no memory of how she ended up in Avery Falls. The migraines, the fear, the confusion takes a backseat to her obsessive desire...

When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss.A lawyer and an enforcer forge an uneasy alliance to protect the girl from a hit man with an agenda of his own. Soon after, Paul Elliott...

When Sergeant George Watters is assigned to a scuttling case, he thinks he can solve it in a few days. Instead, he discovers a connection to a string of burglaries of high-value shops and hotels across Dundee.Things take a turn for the worse when...

When Sergeant George Watters is assigned to a scuttling case, he thinks he can solve it in a few days. Instead, he discovers a connection to a string of burglaries of high-value shops and hotels across Dundee.Things take a turn for the worse when...

From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves the murder of a guardsman and the vivacious wife of an Austrian diplomat.With...

From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves the murder of a guardsman and the vivacious wife of an Austrian diplomat.With...

Fifteen years ago, the innocence of the small town of Pleasure, Wisconsin was stolen by a young boy. Now, he is back, leaving a trail of bloody carnage in his wake. The media has dubbed him Strawberries, and the country is mesmerized.Detective Harry Bland...

The Secret of Sarek (1920) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Ars鈩e Lupin first appeared in print in 1905 as an answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and...

The Teeth of the Tiger (1921) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time--Ars鈩e Lupin, gentleman thief. Partly based on the life...

Eight different women. One thing in common: serious crime.A cabinetmaker, private investigator, journalist, mystery lady, homemaker, police officer, true-crime writer and flavourist. Between them they witness, investigate, perpetrate and are victims of serious crime. Murder in the midst of carjacking, fraud, statutory rape, theft,...

Eight different women. One thing in common: serious crime.A cabinetmaker, private investigator, journalist, mystery lady, homemaker, police officer, true-crime writer and flavourist. Between them they witness, investigate, perpetrate and are victims of serious crime. Murder in the midst of carjacking, fraud, statutory rape, theft,...

In 1950, a missing persons report turned into one of the most suspenseful stories of a double homicide ever recorded. It was the perfect crime: no motive, no clues, and no bodies.Against all odds, investigative reporter Gene McLain put his career on the line...

Annie Hansen, a schizophrenic private eye, is tasked with solving the murders of the town mayor and a local doctor in the small town of Serendipity, Canada.Together with handsome detective Mark Snow, they set to bring the killer to justice. But Annie is haunted...

The World Out There is set in Gainesville, FL during the early nineteen-nineties and its North-Central Florida setting is important as both physical and psychological space. In addition to Spanish moss, heat-radiating highways, and palmettos, the novel explores the violence beneath the glittering surface...

WOW! 5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a roller coaster ride! Talk about action-packed! It was tough to put down. Tired of slow, want action reading? Then give this book and the series a read! Ride along with the New Orleans Police Department in their journey to uncover...

1916, the Western Front.There are some crimes that transcend the horrors of war, and the rumour of a soldier being found in no man's land crucified to a church door threatens to cause a mutiny in the trenches. To placate the troops, allied HQ...

The Evocatus Series begins as retired CIA Officer Woody Travis is living the idyllic life on his fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico. His CIA mentor recruits him to lead a team of former CIA asassins to plan and execute the most lethal...

A bag is found hanging on a lonely tree in an Inverness park. Inside, a morbid collection of fists tell a tale of murder and intrigue. Can Macleod find the killer and stop a second show of hands?Battle-weary Macleod must seek to understand a...

Passion causes people to do strange things.Sometimes criminal things.Come dip into crimes, great and small, and feel the passion these writers all give to these moments in a person's life.Or the last moments of another's.Passionate Crimes--So Criminal, It's Good.And be sure to pick up...

In a sleepy, historical Iowa town, tourist season is in full swing, and the strangest serial killer the world has ever known is roaming at will.It begins with a house explosion, a severely burned man, and an unidentified female body. More victims follow, each...

When a female executive is harassed and assaulted by the company's CEO - and subsequently fired - a tenacious attorney is determined to seek justice. Profoundly affected and facing the psychological impact of a violent sexual attack on a business trip, executive Sarah turns...

By all appearances Oak Grove, California, should be a laid-back university town. For Sheriff's Detective Alan Bluestein and his significant other, anthropology professor Laura Mancini, the reality is far different. For starters, the professors at Oak Grove State where Laura works are on strike...

Samantha Striker is a law-abiding accountant, a people pleaser, but when her long-time boyfriend breaks up with her for an illogical reason, she realises that she can wait no more for her life to start. Grabbing her calculator and her Barbara Streisand CD collection,...

The Sign of Silence (1915) is a mystery novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, The Sign of Silence is a story of stolen identity, mystery, and international crime....

Every city has its secrets, Victoria British Columbia is no different. Behind the veil lurks a killer that preys on the vulnerable who have been made invisible by their own city's greed. What is the true price of a city's indifference? And what monsters...

Agnes Lockwood returns to Tyneside, only to stumble across another dead body.On her first visit, she helped the police solve a murder and gained quite the reputation as an amateur sleuth. Now, she is simply looking forward to meeting again with Alan Johnson, a...

Agnes Lockwood returns to Tyneside, only to stumble across another dead body.On her first visit, she helped the police solve a murder and gained quite the reputation as an amateur sleuth. Now, she is simply looking forward to meeting again with Alan Johnson, a...

Penny Wells is visiting her life-long friend, Trudy King, at her home, Hilltop, in Laguna Beach, California. When the doorbell rings, a life-altering letter addressed to Lynn, the young violinist virtuoso who lives with her, is delivered. Trudy gasps when she hears Lynn has...

Just as Othello 'Black' Orphicio is blessed with his freedom from I.D.O.C. and attempting to exit the street life- A MEXICAN CARTEL WAGES WAR ON ALL CHICAGO GANGBANGERS! Atrocious murders, horrific mutilations, narco style messages are sent to street thugs. Othello, having a criminal...

MI5 has a task for psychic investigator Jake Conley: Operation Black Panther, a mission to obtain DNA from a beast in Exmoor.Meanwhile, wealthy arms manufacturer, Dr. Aubrey Drake, and the unhinged Major Lorimer infiltrate a top-secret military research station, dreaming of creating the ultimate...

Human Trafficking has affected countries across the world for centuries, and continues to do so today. There are countless victims. Trafficking Chen is the heartfelt story of one victim, Chen, a young Chinese girl taken from her family home in settlement of her father's...

Dr. Jason White and Ricky Gold, a former professor and defense attorney in New York City, find themselves blacklisted from their professions after Jason is denied tenure and Ricky is disbarred from the legal profession.Desperation leads the two to start working as consultants for...

For Ryan Chaise, a return to the UK is a return to his old ways. Desperate to find his girlfriend, he's looking to heal old wounds and make it right.Unfortunately, the British Security Service has something else in mind. The thought of a rogue...

Years ago, he chose a victim.Now the wait is over.Julianna Baptiste, a feisty bodyguard, finds her new job tedious, until her boss, the evasive Jackson Haynes, spikes her curiosity. Who is behind the vicious threats to his beautiful wife and why is he interested...

Stefan Nowak witnessed a crime over twenty years ago in the last years of Russian occupation of Poland. He and his son are placed in witness protection when the criminals are released against the advice of the police. As Stefan says, "The lying begins...