Fiction - Crime

At its heart, Trounce is the pairing of two disparate people, two cultures and two ideologies - Emilio, a Salvadorian illegal, and the beautiful sophisticate Sara, whose dark secret will embroil them both in a sinister plot that the naive young Emilio could never...

The third Thomas Hill mystery features murder, deceit, and lies under a new monarch in 17th-century LondonSpring 1661. After years of civil war followed by Oliver Cromwell's joyless rule as Lord Protector, England awaits the coronation of King Charles II. The mood in London...

A straightforward homicide inquiry; just another day at the office for Detective Inspector Bailey Troy. But her investigation is destined to uncover a murderous conspiracy of unimaginable proportions.A beautiful young woman, heiress to her father's biotech fortune, lies dead -- killed by an assassin's...

Elisabet wakes with amnesia. The care offered to her by a husband she doesn't remember descends within weeks into aggression and violence. Lillian lies hogtied in an underground cell. Forget about escape; unless she can manage the necessities of life she'll be dead within...

Elizabeth Loupas returns with her most ambitious historical novel yet, a story of intrigue, passion, and murder in the Medici Court... April, 1574, Florence, Italy. Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici lies dying. The city is paralyzed with dread, for the next man to wear...

Internationally acclaimed author Margaret Mascarenhas makes her US debut with an exquisite novel set in Venezuela about the search for individual truth, love, and belonging, embodied in a fifteen-year-old girl. Irene dos Santos disappeared at age 15. Believed to have drowned while on holiday...

'Dark and terrifying, utterly compelling' SARAH PEARSE ******** A luxury resort. Three missing women. One body. When young London professional Alex Evans is informed that his sister's body has been pulled from an icy lake in Northern Lapland, he assumes his irresponsible sister accidentally...

Lady Cameron and Charles Hornett had been married some fifty years before, but Hornett has now forgotten all about it. Embarrassment is therefore evident when they find themselves as part of a party holidaying in Greece. Meanwhile, the Balmaynes realise they nothing about Roland...

The second of three high-energy thrillers arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation Duane Swierczynski. Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, things...

The Chivalry of Crime, is the story of one of America's most compelling figures, the outlaw gunslinger Jesse James. Bringing real and invented characters together in a dramatic and moving story, The Chivalry of Crime mingles the life of an imaginary boy with a...

Winner of The Glass Key Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel Winner of The Danish Academy of Crime Writers' Palle Rosenkrantz Prize Named Best Crime Novel of the Year by both the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers and the Finnish Academy of Crime Writers...

Beneath the historical monuments and high-priced politics of the Nation's Capital exists a shadowed society known as the Syndicate, a criminal organization that has completely reshaped the city's illegal narcotics trade. Reigning supreme over this juggernaut is the Harrell Family, a clan of criminal...

From Charlie Smith, critically acclaimed poet and author of Three Delays, comes a thrilling, moving, and sun-dappled noir Cotland Sims, a gangster from Miami, must come home to Key West because his mother's house has fallen off its stilts. For a long time, maybe...

"Pacy and atmospheric...wickedly good."--Marie Claire (UK)"Dawson's heroine is so fresh and spirited that she carries the day."--Sunday Times (London)Having already made waves in the United Kingdom, Lucky Bunny has come to America. Acclaimed poet and author Jill Dawson, whose previous novels have been shortlisted...

With T. S. Eliot's words as his guide, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey toward enlightenment in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late 1970s. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, Tallon searches for his"place of peace" -- a spiritual landscape...

Detective Jack Lefleur of the Camp Simmons Indiana P.D. has had a difficult year. After returning to the job from suspension, facing an impending divorce and financial ruin, he receives a phone call from an enigmatic recluse, who passes on a dire warning of...

⭐The new breathtaking suspense from the bestselling, Richard and Judy pick author⭐Praise for Debbie Howells: 'A terrific talent. She paints with words and takes a scalpel to emotions' Peter JamesNever rely on the kindness of strangers...You trust me with your home, yet we've never...

'Beautiful and brutal... a breathtaking debut' JOANNA CANNON'Dark, lyrical... impressive' DAILY MAIL'An atmospheric slow burn... with a sense of forboding that grows with each page' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Atmospheric and compelling' KATE SAWYERA beautifully written atmospheric story of trauma, grief and redemption, Still Water is a...

Covert operations. Predictive dreams. Tangled jungle paths. A passionate, whirlwind romance. Isabela is haunted by her dreams. When a series of synchronistic events merge her nighttime dreams with reality, Isabela follows her intuition to study with a master watercolor artist in Thailand. She descends...

Covert operations. Predictive dreams. Tangled jungle paths. A passionate, whirlwind romance. Isabela is haunted by her dreams. When a series of synchronistic events merge her nighttime dreams with reality, Isabela follows her intuition to study with a master watercolor artist in Thailand. She descends...

Her story isn't sad. It's raw and blunt.It's her life, and she's living it. Aged out of foster care, Tee Smith works hard to keep a steady job and a roof over her head. She wants to prove to herself that she is good...

I wanted her, yet she pushed me. Now she's at my Mercy.AngelSeeing my happiness surrounding me. I want something for myself. Only the one I want has all but disappeared. My brother told me she was leaving town. I figure she was running. Then...

Stoney I learned the hard way to never trust a woman. They don't do anything but cause headaches and heartbreak. I know this from firsthand experience. To top it all off, I see a pattern with these bitches lying too. Which is why I...

The final chapter of Les Voleurs begins now! Greed and selfishness have a strong foothold in Belgium; who will be left standing after the final battle of this war?Arlise MaquetLes Voleurs was my family, and I would do anything to protect and serve that...

Seventeen-year-old Kaylee Jasinski is bright, and college bound. She has everything to look forward to. Joanna Stemple is a seventeen-year-old runaway struggling to survive. The only thing they have in common is that they are dead ringers for one another. After a car accident...

Reeling from the late-night knock on her own steel-reinforced door after her husband is murdered in Manhattan, homicide prosecutor Barbara Warren follows her grief-compromised intuition to Massachusetts. In the Commonwealth's "County of Vice Presidents," a sociopathic chameleon has launched her latest scheme, enlisting the...

Junie Carpenter is a divorced single mother of two who tries to live a God-fearing life. Her shallow finances have her in a compromising position and Junie agrees to help her boyfriend traffic drugs for extra cash. After losing one temp' job after another,...

THE NEW SLIM HARDY MYSTERY - RELEASED JULY 5th 2022 Traumatised by a recent case, private investigator John "Slim" Hardy tries to create a new life for himself on the remote Cornish coast. However, when he is recognised by a local woman, he is...

One of the biggest unsolved crimes of the 20th century, one that has baffled the FBI for decades, has now landed in the hands of Wyatt Earp. In present-day Boston, the renowned lawman of the Old West and his posse of masterminds must solve...

Ingrid Symes, destitute and low on cash, is forced to live with her only living relative, the corrupt and miserly Arthur Symes in a small provincial Australian town.When her uncle refuses to bequeath his wealth, she sets about robbing him of the $500,000 in...

Alicia Dupuis could not comprehend why she had become a target for assassination and, more puzzling, who had ordered the hit. She was acutely aware that in the duplicitous currency of security and intelligence, nothing exists without context. More importantly, intelligence and context were...

Ousted by a rival cartel, a brutal drug lord flees Mexico to the distant East. An unwanted child commits a terrible deed and is locked away for years. A Japanese heart surgeon is shunned by the medical community and turns to working as an...

It began with a simple coin toss, which led to a mystery, which led to the unthinkable.The simple toss of a coin presents journalist Tony Harrington with a fascinating puzzle. And puzzles, he knows, can lead to good stories. As he searches for the...

"Gone were the days of neighborhood rallies and volunteer-packed halls, only to be replaced by high-end fundraisers and professional phone banks. It was the cold, unattached politics of the present Henry didn't like." Seven points down with two weeks to close the gap on...

For fans of Eileen and The Only Good Indians Compelling literary crime that follows the son of a serial murderer who changes his identity in a bid to escape his past. Sixteen-year-old Lyle Edison recognizes the face of a murder victim on the nightly...

How can a crooked man ever go straight? Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen settles down in Florida surrounded by his wife and family. But his past life in the criminal underworld stalks his every move and when a bullet whizzes past his ear, he must...

What drives a woman to murder?Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Galbraith is serving a life sentence for murder, and struggling with the traumatic past that put her behind bars.When the prison counsellor suggests Cynthia write a personal journal exploring the events that drove her to murder, she...

Mickey is aware from an early age that the world is against him. This is a fact.Armed with this information, nothing can defeat his devil-may-care attitude, nor stop him getting exactly what he needs. Except perhaps for the fact that he can do nothing...

"[John Dickson Carr] is the supreme conjuror; the king of the art of misdirection...once you begin a book of his, you simply cannot put it down."--Agatha ChristieFirst published in 1942, this reissue is one of Carr's most tense and enjoyable game of cat and...

With cutting-edge forensic technology, a stunning setting, and a deepening relationship between Alexa and D.I. Bruce Horn, The Bone Riddle will delight science geeks, armchair travelers, and procedural buffs who like a little romance with their body count.Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand: On a cliff...

A bitter journalist and troubled art expert risk their lives to find the connection between a legendary painting and a series of rash murders in this "riveting, brutal journey into the high-stakes world of legacy art and inherited wealth" (Denise Mina, author of Conviction)....

Junior Bender, Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, is reminded that rock and roll will never die (no matter how fervently he wishes some of it would) when Hollywood's most dangerous geriatric mobster, Irwin Dressler, retains Junior's investigative services to solve...

Introducing hardboiled PI Henry Gore, in this pitch-black noir novel set in 1950s revolutionary Cuba."Darkly atmospheric writing, an action-packed plot, plenty of suspense, and a sometimes-hapless hero caught between saving his own life and doing the right thing drive this outstanding, packs-a-punch thriller"- Booklist...

The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found? "[Slider is] one of Britain's most engaging coppers" Booklist Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London...

A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-turning thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, The Woman Inside. Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a...

The first of Maurice Leblanc's collections about his devilish, debonair rogue, Ars ne Lupin, Gentleman Burglar presents eight dazzling short stories that display some of Lupin's greatest thefts and escapes. Lupin robs from within prison, leaves its walls with ease, steals priceless diamonds from...

The Postmaster's Daughter by Sharon Mabry is a 1930s murder mystery set in Appalachia. When a marriage proposal brings together two families in East Tennessee, the wealthy and powerful Cantrells and the hardworking and respected Putnams, everyone is shocked by a sudden murder that...

Meera, a veteran small town police inspector, has to deal with two strange true-crime cases at the same time, a serial killer on a large-scale rampage and a family meeting gone very wrong.'It Was Bound To Crash' is a neo-noir dark comedy and a...

This is a crime novel set in South Wales and featuring Detective Inspector Ben Field. He has taken the job because he wanted promotion although he expects the location to be something of a quiet backwater. Instead, he finds himself faced with a cold...

Are you a crime show junkie? A law and order fanatic? A real-life who done did it grand master who uncovers the clues and solves the case before any of your family or friends? Then take the challenge and solve each of the thirteen...