Fiction - Crime

The city can be a strange place, full of odd sights. Sometimes chilling sights. But nothing could prepare the detectives of the 87th Precinct for the sight of a murdered young woman, a member of a local college track team, hanging from a lamppost....

The only person Detective Bert Kling cares about in this world is his fianc馥, Claire Townsend. And when her body is found slain at the infamous "bookstore massacre," Bert and every detective in the precinct is determined to get the man responsible. To do...

Emma Bowles, wife of successful businessman Martin Bowles, discovers that her life is in danger. To ease her mind, Martin hires Denker, an out-of-town bodyguard, to protect her from harm. Which is good--except she suffers two near-fatal accidents on Denker's watch. Unsure of anything...

"You'll have to speak a little louder," the voice said. "I'm a little hard of hearing."Between a highly successful cat burglar and a hippie crucifixion, the 87th Precinct definitely doesn't need the Deaf Man showing up again--especially since his two previous appearances resulted in...

The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action when a local tobacco factory burns down and fingers are pointed at one of her ex pupils..."Stellar . . . Harrison is writing at the top of her game" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review 1920s....

If you're astounded by claims of pedophiles running the government, the thought of micro-chips doing the backstroke in vaccines, and the belief that the earth is truly flat, wait till you meet Stan and Bud. The two detectives argue over everything crazy or sane,...

Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is...

DCI Kelso Strang is led to believe that something very odd is going on around the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton on Scotland's south-east coast. Firstly, a young Detective Inspector is traumatised after witnessing a doctor throwing herself off a cliff, and accusations of...

, Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little fishing boats bobbing on sparkling blue water under a warm sun. But not McIntyre. McIntyre's a fixer,...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read--but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream...

Fast forward to 1995. Rasheed. Waseema. Shaheeda. Latif. A different time. A different world. A different... Brooklyn. Rasheed is trying to make a life for himself. But, he still struggles from the demons that haunt his past. Not only his, but his family's as...

Everyone is dying to attend the Christmas gala-the event of the season-until one of the hosts turns up that way. Dead, that is.When a doctor is urgently summoned, Matthew rushes to help. But he's too late.Was the man murdered?Suspecting foul play, Matthew calls the...

Everyone is dying to attend the Christmas gala-the event of the season-until one of the hosts turns up that way. Dead, that is.When a doctor is urgently summoned, Matthew rushes to help. But he's too late.Was the man murdered?Suspecting foul play, Matthew calls the...

When three grisly murders mystify pathologists, Dr. Edward Kim of the United States Science Agency calls on Axel Tressler. By day, Tressler is an ordinary university biology teacher. But, endowed with special capabilities, he also carries out dangerous, top-secret government missions.Kim asks Tressler to...

A grisly murder, a missing girl, a cheating husband and...oh my God, hunky Nick Janzek!? The beautiful Savannah sisters in crime, Jackie and Ryder, open a branch in Charleston and suddenly have their hands full in a new city that's bewitching, mysterious and, yes,...

Dive into the million-selling mystery series readers are comparing to Connelly, Patterson, and Baldacci. How do you catch a killer who's already behind bars? Thomas Austin was once a star NYPD detective, known for locking up a psychopathic serial killer: The Holiday Baby Butcher....

I was sold to my enemies. You would think that being forced into a loveless marriage to ensure an alliance would be unheard of in this day and age. And in most cases, you would be correct in that assumption. But not for me....

Santa Monica, 1976. As a bouncer, Jack Spark won't let troublesome customers in the club and in his life, until he makes a pact with locksmith Monica Gucci.Monica installs the locks and gives him the spare key so he can break in later. Jack's...

Santa Monica, 1976. As a bouncer, Jack Spark won't let troublesome customers in the club and in his life, until he makes a pact with locksmith Monica Gucci.Monica installs the locks and gives him the spare key so he can break in later. Jack's...

Santa Monica, 1976. As a bouncer, Jack Spark won't let troublesome customers in the club and in his life, until he makes a pact with locksmith Monica Gucci.Monica installs the locks and gives him the spare key so he can break in later. Jack's...

Santa Monica, 1976. As a bouncer, Jack Spark won't let troublesome customers in the club and in his life, until he makes a pact with locksmith Monica Gucci.Monica installs the locks and gives him the spare key so he can break in later. Jack's...

Santa Monica, 1976. As a bouncer, Jack Spark won't let troublesome customers in the club and in his life, until he makes a pact with locksmith Monica Gucci.Monica installs the locks and gives him the spare key so he can break in later. Jack's...

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing.Claire O'Connor is a young newspaper reporter, hungry to find...

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing.Claire O'Connor is a young newspaper reporter, hungry to find...

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing.Claire O'Connor is a young newspaper reporter, hungry to find...

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing.Claire O'Connor is a young newspaper reporter, hungry to find...

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing.Claire O'Connor is a young newspaper reporter, hungry to find...

1997 - Maria is twenty-two years old. She is leading the Bright Skies Agency, an anti-terrorist/mercenary group, which combats human trafficking around the world. Barry Thomas, a government intelligence agent, working with Maria and her father MoJo objects to her tactics of letting herself...

Who you are in the dark is who you really areA night you can't remember was either a really good night or a really bad one. When Erin O'Reilly wakes up in a notorious womanizer's apartment with a hangover, a new tattoo, and a...

Who you are in the dark is who you really areA night you can't remember was either a really good night or a really bad one. When Erin O'Reilly wakes up in a notorious womanizer's apartment with a hangover, a new tattoo, and a...

Be careful who you trust.The Mailer family are oblivious to the terrible danger that enters their lives when seven-year-old Anthony is referred to the child guidance service by the family GP following the breakdown of his parents' marriage.Fifty-eight year old Dr. David Galbraith, a...

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on,...

Paul Saxon, the level-headed commander of an elite serial killer detection squad and his loyal partner Detective Sergeant Guy "Nosey" Parker are sent to the village of Sewel Mill, near Brighton on the south coast of England to catch a devious killer who has...

"Common Criminals" is a captivating novel set in the San Francisco Bay area. Filled with adventure, excitement, and crime, this is a must-read for fans of literary fiction! Dive into this story and follow along as a group of friends, led by Zilm, look...

"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...

The mystery of private investigator Lew Griffin is revealed in the conclusion of this critically acclaimed, groundbreaking series. In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body....

Author: Ed LinISBN-10: 1641294809ISBN-13: 9781641294805Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2023Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2023 pg. 1

Weaving Griffin's search for identity-one of the recurring themes in this magnificent series of novels-with a sensuous portrait of the people and places the define New Orleans, James Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffin's past but to map his future . . ....

Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series), one of America's most essential crime writers, heads back to the dangerous woods of East Texas. In his first crime career-retrospective, including previously uncollected work, Lansdale shows exactly why critics...

Jack McKinney is a bright-eyed twenty-year-old in the business of buying a snapbean farm with forty grand in cash, and attorney Matthew Hope assists with the deal--until Jack's found dead in his condo, stabbed fourteen times.The backwoods seller wants his forty grand pronto, but...

Three different stories, one prolific author.She was young and wealthy...and now she's dead. With only a name and a pile of cancelled checks to go on, Detective Steve Carella has his work cut out for him in finding her killer. But he's in for...

Roger Broome is in the city to sell the woodenwares he and his brother handcrafted in their shop upstate--and he does so with stunning success. To celebrate, he goes out to enjoy the fruits of his labor and winds up in a bar, where...

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right-hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire. In the late 1970s, The Outfit has...

On the heels of the runaway #1 New York Times bestseller The 6:20 Man comes the next blockbuster thriller from the beloved author with 150 million copies sold worldwide.Author: David BaldacciISBN-10: 1549151983ISBN-13: 9781549151989Publisher: Grand Central PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2023Format: CD

In this action-packed thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Midwife Murders, a mother-to-be sees the women in her social circle start to disappear--and she could be next . . . Emily Atkinson leads a complicated life in New York City....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting new psychological thriller in which two women--one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist--go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse.Mickey Gibson, single mother and...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. The Four Just Men (1905) is a political thriller by Edgar Wallace. The book that launched Wallace's career as one of England's leading popular fiction writers, The Four Just Men was released in conjunction with a newspaper competition allowing readers to...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. The Hollow Needle (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Originally serialized in in Je sais tout, a popular French magazine, The Hollow Needle is a crime and adventure novel featuring the legendary Ars鈩e Lupin. Partly based on the life of...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Ars鈩e Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Forced to change the name of his antagonist following a legal challenge by Holmes' creator, Leblanc still manages to pull off one of the greatest fictional mashups of all...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Ars鈩e Lupin is the greatest thief in the world. With his abundant wit and brilliance, Lupin gleefully disrupts the lives of France's cultural elite with his daring escapades. In his debut collection, Lupin escapes prison, obtains a priceless royal necklace, and...