Fiction - Crime

Who is the sinner and who is the saint?Jamie Brooke is working as a private investigator in the London Borough of Southwark when the body of a priest is found in the ruins of Winchester Palace, his tattooed arms flayed, his mouth stuffed with...

"Those who the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad."Devastated by grief after the death of her daughter, Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke returns to investigate the murder of a prominent psychiatrist in the old hospital of Bedlam in London.As she delves into the...

Love is hard. It's painful and it's about not giving up. Preacher has come this far, he's not going to let her go now, not without a fight.Married. With a baby girl. And someone else's woman.Preacher doesn't blame Robin for trying to make a...

A missing man. No body. No clues. And a daughter determined to find the truth.Jack Bannerman is missing after failing to meet his son-in-law to go sailing. There's no evidence of foul play and no sign of a body.Ellie thought her father trusted her...

The Rhythm of Evil is a fast-paced, can't put the book down, suspense thriller featuring Dennis Koller's new hero, Reg Decker, Homicide Inspector. Decker was trained by the best in the business, retired Detective Tom McGuire, hero of Koller's earlier books. Now Tom's retired,...

Why don't I let these good people tell you about DEAD GIRL BLUES?"Dark and cold as the far side of the moon, but with prose as lean as a starving model, DEAD GIRL BLUES is like the dead body you can't help but look...

A gorgeous reality show star is missing. Her rough-hewn husband is her suspected killer. Are the police rousting an innocent man, or is Boomer Purdy not what he appears to be? When another crew member is found dead, the entire production is thrown into...

A vacation in Europe is the start of a dangerous adventure... When Megan Hofflin steps aboard the night ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki, she has no idea that the course of her life is about to change. Enter Allegra, a beautiful woman who collapses...

Book 2 and the exciting conclusion of the Tsezar Bratva duetHe gave me a chance at happily ever after. And then he snatched it all away.COURTNEYDid the man of my dreams sell me to the monster of my nightmares?I don't want to believe it.But...

A dark mafia single dad romance.I just discovered the don's darkest secret. Wait 'til he finds out mine...The Bratva don and I made a deal: Spare my father. Take me instead.But Dmitry Tsezar wasn't satisfied with my body.He wanted everything else, too.My obedience. My...

They told Amie it was a simple look, listen and report back mission, but from the beginning everything went wrong. She is stalked across borders, the aid workers act suspiciously, she's attacked, and abandoned in a rural African hut miles from anywhere. What has...

Do you want to read Crime and Punishment? If so then keep reading...One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon experiences from...

Veteran NYPD Detective Tommy Keane has arrived at his new command in Manhattan, after receiving an unwanted and punitive transfer from the Bronx, where he had spent the last nineteen years as a police officer, and detective, chasing criminals responsible for every sort of...

She has secrets, and he has the training to uncover them. Rachel Ford-Talbot has nothing to do with her family or their pharmaceutical business. And she likes it that way. As one of four partners who own an internationally renowned security business, Rachel prefers...

Valerie Williamson is known as the Anti-social Social Worker by her colleagues at Lawrenceville Regional Hospital. After a traumatic event, she closed off her world sixteen years ago to everyone, except her cat, Gabriel. She is more comfortable with the dead than the living...

Millie Henshawe-intrepid, smart-talking, gay ex-GI-is the field agent (hired gun) for Continental Removals, LLC, in Boston, a niche firm catering to very special clients. Millie's well-honed skills are tested when the unexpected happens and the hired gun becomes the target "Written in the style...

Wang Foo lived at 5-5-5 Red Cloud Alley, in Hong Kong, but traveled where he was needed to solve mysterious crimes or help untangle cultural misunderstandings that threatened peace between East and West. A Confucian scholar, he strived to bring justice to all, using...

Three Little Girls (Murder in Rochester, New York) is based on a true story that has been written about as The Alphabet Murders (also known as the Double Initial Murders). It is the story of Carmen Col n, Wanda Walkowicz and Michelle Maenza. The...

Retired chief of police Marty Sacco is now the head of the Dead Files Department. His first case involves the twenty year-old murder of Susan Hall. He is then approached by Frank Gibran, a notorious crime boss. There have been five murders at a...

"A gripping thriller with nonstop action throughout. If you love crime dramas, mysteries, and a tough female cop, this series is not to be missed." -The Reading Café, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She put a hand over her stomach. She had wanted to start over and make...

Prime Suspects is the second in the Adam Stone action-packed murder/mystery series. The dead body of the Joe Wallace, one of Charleston's premier defense attorneys, has just washed up on the shores of the Ashley River. Wallace possessed a dubious reputation as a heavy...

Art critic for a metropolitan daily, Bill Kouros is looking forward to reviewing the hot new exhibit, "Pop Goes the Easel", but is assigned instead to cover a murder - his hard-boiled city editor convincing him that he could provide a novel approach to...

Angie Bain can't believe she's pregnant. She's a lesbian and has never had sex with a man, so she concludes she must be a victim of a drugged rape. Kim Jamieson, Angie's lover, can't believe it either. Really can't believe it, let alone come...

The death sentence has returned to the UK. The cost of housing killers during their life time has become far too costly for the government. Only one place was willing to house the final prison the murderers will ever attend. Callington Island is what...

"This book adeptly shows just how easily the government can create financial crimes, and how brutal and life-changing the resulting prosecutions are, which take an otherwise law-abiding citizen and portray them as 'Public Enemy #1.' Michael Quiel is to be commended for telling it...

Olivia Twist a modern take on Olivier Twist but reset between 1972 and 1991 Birmingham and a suburb of Wolverhampton with Oliver now being a girl, Olivia Twist, and Jack Dodger Dawkins being her boyfriend and an adopted name for Smike from Nicholas Nickleby.The...

Finnegan O'SheaMy uncle had never deserved to be the boss of the Sons of Munster, and for the longest time I thought that pompous jackass was my worst nightmare. Then Gio Avellino sent a crew to Philly to take down the syndicate I'd just...

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story...

64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories - XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60...

Homicide detective, Bruno Norcross, is called to investigate the brutal murder of a college call girl. This isn't just any other crime scene. Bruno has seen this scene before, only the last time, the killer got away leaving Bruno feeling as though his career...

Betrayed and broken, can Kailani trust Traeger to heal her, or will she forever be damaged from her past? When life comes crashing down around you, the only thing left to do is pick up the pieces... Kailani... She's tough, she's broken, and the...

Letting Miranda into his house is a big mistake. But ageing comedian Dave also has some secrets. Maybe she should never have come looking for answers. As this story about murder, betrayal and dark desires unfolds, things take an unsuspected turn. Things from the...

Never the Twain is a gothic crime novel set in Victorian Whitby and Glasgow. When Elizabeth Buchanan an actress, gives birth to identical twin girls, she does not intend to be burdened with them and leaves them in Whitby in the care of her...

1883 - 1885 Austin was the site of America's first serial killings. Christmas Eve, 1885, the seventeen-year-oldwife of Jimmie Phillips was slain with an axe. Jimmie was convicted but almost immediately the verdict wasoverturned. This is a short novel that sticks closely to the...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #14 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."'A KILLER IN OUR MIDST?' cried a newspaper headline to commemorate the disappearance of Mary Wilson. It is two decades since Britain's first mass...

Author: Ethel Lina WhiteISBN-10: 1654573043ISBN-13: 9781654573041Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2020Pages: 650Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.44d

""Gentlemen, we have no time. For each one, kindly attach your military badges to your right shoulder. From now onwards no one speaks but me; Phezulu and April, both on the South African and the Botswana sides of the border. As I hinted, this...

Something funny is going on here Late one autumn evening, Mike Woodsen, the public relations director for a major Pacific Northwest university, is called by the campus police. A body has been found in central campus. It is Jeremy Ronson, a university vice president...

In the days of prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance, Owney Madden, gangster and Cotton Club owner, has a plan to defeat the tyranny of Tammany Hall. He'll whack mob kingpin Arnold Rothstein. At 75,000 words, Harlem Rhapsody follows this turbulent era (1927-1937), from Duke...

Celine Bower is a hometown girl living the quiet life and a successful veterinarian. She is twenty-six year sold. Then, she is drugged, kidnapped and gang-raped. The local police seem to be unable to find out who did it. Celine and her best friend...

Grab a badge and a gun and strap in for an absolutely gripping ride that's "full of suspense from the beginning to the end..." (Readers Abode) She could feel him watching her... Though every time she turned to look, there was no one there....

Melanie, Ben's lovable rescue dog, creates a world of trouble when she steals a bag of drugs and money from the beach condo of a drug kingpin. Chased through the shores of Delaware and back to his home in Montvale, New Jersey by the...

1990; Oxford, England, and the respectable facade of the City of Dreaming Spires is being shattered by a series of brutal murders.Police chief Neil Lowe needs a quick result, especially if it allows him more time in the cafe. Rookie constable May Pearce is...

Jack is an aging bank robber who lives a double life. Straddling morality and the law, Jack knows he can't keep his life of crime for much longer. But when a daring heist yields unexpected results, Jack's life is upended as he discovers he's...

In the borough of Jamaica Queens, five street hustlers, led by Doe the mastermind, formed one of the most dangerous robbing crews in the history of New York's crime families. This crew knows how to make money...and when to take money. Make Money, Take...

Welcome to the world of Cockney rhyming slang, where what is said means something completely different than how it sounds. Originally, it was a coded language created by criminals for deceiving undercover police officers during Victorian times. Common phrases like septic tank, holy water,...

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed DCI Lambert series comes The Controller, a gripping serial killer thriller introducing Sam Lynch and Special Agent Sandra Rose. It is six years since special agent Samuel Lynch left the FBI following the disappearance of his son,...

Her only goal was to become an FBI Profiler. Born with an extremely high intelligence, coupled with an uncanny ability to "read" people, it was a perfect fit. Right from the beginning, fate pushed her professional life into links with her personal one. Her...

When Inspector Holt is called in to investigate the mysterious death of Gordon Stuart he discovers that there have been a series of deaths involving wealthy men in London recently. With little to go Holt attempts to make a connection between these deaths. Little...

Nina O'Brien's life changes forever when a stranger appears at the door to her father's truck stop, bloodied and incoherent.As night falls and a ferocious storm descends on the tiny Californian community, the small group of people sheltering with Nina steel themselves to face...