Fiction - Crime

The perfect revenge takes patience.__________________________ Melanie wakes up one morning next to a man she doesn't remember. When his wife walks in, Melanie realises to her horror that no one can see or hear her - because she is dead. But has she woken...

"Powered by adept characterization, darkly lyrical prose, and an unexpected but oh-so-perfect ending, this is the literary equivalent of a slot machine jackpot." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Forest of Fortune tells the story of three haunted souls--an alcoholic, an epileptic, and a gambling addict--who...

The deadliest criminals of Manchester's murky underworld are back in an explosive new book! GOOD GIRLS When Fauzia's brother turns up with a dead body, her perfect life is shattered. She'll defend him to the ends of the earth, but who is he running...

Sleepwalk is a high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big-hearted mercenary, from beloved and acclaimed award-winning novelist Dan Chaon. "[Chaon] does madcap well and likes his characters, even the killers--especially the killers."--The New York Times Book...

Raves for the hottest thriller of 2023! "This is wicked fun." --Publishers Weekly "Absolutely amazing. Readers are going to flip!" --Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of ONE STEP TOO FAR "Like a firecracker on a hot summer night . . . If...

Alex Greco hates her husband. To keep the peace between her crime lord father and the Greco mafia's boss, she's forced to marry his son, Roman. He's cold and has a reputation for hurting those close to him. There is no wedding night, and...

"Philip Marlowe meets Nordic Noir." --Iben Albinus, internationally bestselling and award-winning author of DamaskusMeet Gabriel Pr st, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark's Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present in a page-turning Nordic...

In 1946, as London struggles to rebuild after the devastation of the Blitz, Alice Diamond, leader of a gang of women jewel thieves, takes on a teenager named Nell and guides her in their underworld existence even as Nell plots to carve out her...

"A Pandora's box of demons. . . . High-stakes espionage, family drama, double crosses, noble gestures . . . it's all here." -- Kirkus Reviews"An ambitious thriller that. . . delivers a deeply satisfying conclusion. . . . Code 6 features some of Grippando's...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL - NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR"Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced,...

"From the acclaimed author of Lola on Fire comes a blistering novel of action, intrigue, and suspense about a down-and-out actor suspected of killing his wife, a wannabe starlet new to the L.A. scene, and the vengeful drug dealer they both dare to cross"--Author:...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"It's Slaughter's prodigious gifts of characterization that make her stand out among thriller writers." -- Washington PostFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshal Andrea Oliver as she investigates...

Author: Alafair BurkeISBN-10: 0062853392ISBN-13: 9780062853394Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.40w x 1.20d

New York Times Bestseller!From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic new trilogy."Superb. City on Fire is exhilarating." - Stephen King"Epic,...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Money - or lack of it - can be, to certain members of society, a powerful motive for murder. Two sisters and a brother...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Julia Elton, mistress of Chalfont, is the dutiful wife of a man she does not love. Frank Cox is the man she falls in...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Moneylender Albert Reeve has added blackmail to his activities. When his cottage burns down and he perishes within the flames, his death comes as...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.James Tarrant wants to make a lot of money. But as an assistant chemist in a sleepy village backwater his career seems to have...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.The new Sir Geoffrey Buller is earning his living in Chicago when he unexpectedly inherits his title, an English baronetcy, and Forde Manor in...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.When Morrison first heard of old Stott's idea to purchase an ocean liner and run her as a tourist ship in sheltered waters off...

A classic crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Becoming the social secretary for millionaire financier Andrew Harrison sounded like the dream job: just writing a few letters and making amiable conversation, with...

A glamorous ship. A missing woman. A holiday to DIE for... The gripping thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller! 'A brilliant new storyteller has arrived' ERIN KELLY 'Intense and claustrophobic' HEAT 'Agatha Christie with glamour' SUNDAY TIMES A glamorous ship During a New Year's...

In the early days of the pandemic, San Francisco realtor and part-time bookie, Eddie Bilker, has two problems: his wife has been kidnapped, and there's a dead body in his Porsche. In this twisty tale, Eddie if forced to navigate two separate worlds. He...

A riveting debut noir novel that takes us from Brazil to Barcelona, with a millennial, political edge. Lucas Brodowski, a rookie cop from Rio de Janeiro, is sent to Barcelona in search of his family's killer. But on arriving, he goes off the grid...

Three terrific mysteries. Three detectives. Scotch McBride, The Perilous Path It's a perilous path...but he must travel it to the end. If not, then his father's life is forfeit. Scotch McBride is a young detective seeking to right the wrongs of the world. Little...

Rochester goes to college-- but he's not digging up a degree! When his mentor, Joe Dagorian, director of admissions at prestigious Eastern College, is murdered during a fund-raising event, Steve Levitan feels obliged to investigate. He and his golden retriever, Rochester, go nose to...

The second Merlin Tyana book. I haven't decided whether or no to make it a series. It seems popular among thoase who like the older style of mystery.Merlin is back in the UK (if he is actually anywhere) and solving and preventing murders and...

CD Grimes, Nick Storie, and Clint Faraday were in two books together. In the first they solved a murder in Bocas del Toro. In the last they move to an island on the comarca.Author: C. D. MoultonISBN-10: 8201114515ISBN-13: 9798201114510Publisher: C. D. MoultonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2022Pages:...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of William Shakespeare's history play "Richard III." People who read this retelling first will find the original play much easier to read and understand. In this play, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, murders his way to the throne of England....

MP Kollman's The Accident begins the third of the linked trilogies that make up The Brothers series and takes place six years after Brothers, the first book in the first trilogy of the series. The Accident deals with the repercussions of a car accident...

When Tim Frazer pursues his ex-partner Harry Denston, who has left him with a bankrupt business, the trail takes him to the fishing village of Henton and leads to his recruitment as an undercover agent. To solve a case of murder and espionage, he...

Glamorous widow Isabella Portland is in desperate need of Arnold Landon's help. She suspects that at least some of the priceless antiques her late husband left behind were stolen.And Arnold has heard the rumours. The mysterious circumstances surrounding Isabella's husband's death . . .But,...

Meet Janine Lewis. A single mum of three and Manchester's newest detective chief inspector. Her cheating husband walked out the day she got promoted. Now she's six months pregnant with his baby and in charge of her first murder case.The body of a deputy...

One dead heiress.A fortune hanging in the balance.A cunning guest who'll do anything to claim the money for herself.CAN YOU UNLOCK THE SECRET OF BAGNETT HALL?Janet Baxter is a con woman on the run from her obsessive ex. One dark and stormy night, she...

Please note this was previously published as Death Surge.Detective Inspector Andy Horton is on a sailing trip to France when he gets the news: Sergeant Cantelli's nephew, Johnnie Oslow, is missing.Johnnie was due to take part in the Cowes Week yacht races on the...

Bang. Bang. Bang. I jump as the knocks on the window crash above the roaring wind outside. Who could it be, at this late hour? I open the curtains and peer outside. 'Hello?' But the dark, the rain and the empty lane are all...

The love of your life... or a deadly mistake?It's hard, meeting your ex after so much time apart. You remember the tears and accusations, the desperate look on his face as he punched the wall, but you try not to show it. You smile...

The brand new action-packed gangland thriller from Gillian Godden!Flawed, tough, unbreakable....In the aftermath of her husband's shocking murder, Patsy Diamond wants answers. Who was Nick really? Where is all his money? And who killed the man she once loved? Patsy knows exactly who to...

WOULD YOU SAVE THE MAN WHO DESTROYED YOUR LIFE? When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scene of an attempted murder, all she can do is try to save the victim. But as the man is lifted onto a stretcher, she realises she...

When the CEO of a British supermarket chain notices a sudden and unexplained drop in net income, Ottawa corporate fraud investigator Hamilton St. James is called in to investigate. But what should have been a typical case of corporate malfeasance is derailed when St....

Who killed Abraham and Esther Downing in the 1970s?What is the significance of the seven tiny skeletons unearthed in the garden of Downing's cottage?And why does no-one care?As DCI Kath Fortune and her cold case team deep dive into their second investigation, they come...

When country music singers Wilder & Grace, a side act stuck on a bare-bones tour with a has-been southern rock band, stop at a lonely Arizona diner at two in the morning and find an abandoned backpack full of banded $100 bills, Grace impulsively...

In the village of Fairhaven--nestled between Washington state's Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains, home to writers' retreat Pines & Quill--friends and family have gathered for the union of Sean McPherson and Emma Benton. Sean has been working with the FBI and local police...

Mims Walsh's fledgling journalism career is on the ropes. Hustling as a writer for free weeklies and covering past-their-prime celebrities was not in her plan. With a shrinking bank account and an inability to keep up with her successful friends, there's nowhere Mims won't...

Evil Lurks In The DarknessEven When Strong Men Stand WatchThe year is 1972. Quayle County, located in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas, has seen an uptick of illegal alien smuggling from across the Rio Grande. The alien smugglers are determined and violent. The Border...

Jim West joins fifteen other retired USAF officers in what is supposed to be a fun week of golf in Myrtle Beach, SC. However, someone murders one of the group after the first round of gold, and what is supposed to be a fun...

FEATURING BRAND-NEW STORIES FROM: Paula McLain, Jill Bialosky, Thrity Umrigar, Michael Ruhlman, Daniel Stashower, D.M. Pulley, J.D. Belcher, Alex DiFrancesco, Miesha Wilson Headen, Abby L. Vandiver, Sam Conrad, Angela Crook, Susan Petrone, Dana McSwain, and Mary Grimm.FROM THE EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: "Cleveland is a working-class...

The sixth thriller in the Makana series called excellent by Marilyn Stasio in the New York Times Book Review. When an Englishman, Marcus Winslow, appears at Private Investigator Makana's door one April morning, Makana does not realize that he will soon risk losing everything...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book awardee, The Butcher's Sons is a gritty, intimate portrait of three young Irish-American brothers whose lives irrevocably change during a heat wave in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, circa 1930. Bound by blood but separated by forbidden secrets, brothers-Dickie,...

In award-winning author Susan Hill's electrifying A Change of Circumstance, Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drug network sets its sights on Lafferton. Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler has long regarded drug ops in Lafferton as a waste of...