Fiction - Crime

New York Times BestsellerFollowing the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, "The Godfather for our generation" (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The...

Surrounded by wilderness is Possum Gap, the isolated town in Kentucky where dark secrets and violence runs rife among its people. In this forlorn place, no-nonsense, down-to-earth sheriff, Sadie Mills, does her best to bring order and justice to a community struggling with crime,...

Maggie Sawyer works the night shift at Country Mart in Federal, Idaho - where she was born and raised. Now living in a single-wide trailer after divorcing her cheating husband, she drives a beater with a heater and marches through life on her own....

Dave only ever wanted to make video games.He learned to code. He got the degree. He ended up programming webpages for local realtors and dentists.Then the Great Pandemic hit, and his lousy boss fired him.What's a guy to do? When a girl walks through...

The immortal shadow of Elvis Presley gyrates wildly through this satiric exploration of America's fascination with tabloid journalism. --Publishers Weekly Thoroughly entertaining . . . A quirky, hard-edged, slightly absurdist thriller from a writer who definitely bears watching. --Booklist "In his paean to the...

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle ﾉpoque France to 21st-century Quebec, with an extraordinary mystery at its heart ... FIRST in a bewitching new series**Shortlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger**...

Single-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A heartbreaking, nail-biting disaster-noir thriller from the bestselling author of The Cry and Worst Case Scenario. 'Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the...

A deliciously dark, unapologetically funny, and nail-bitingly tense psychological thriller by the international bestselling author of The Cry ***Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland AND The Week BOOK OF THE YEAR*** ***Sunday Times TOP 40 Crime Novels in the Last 5 Years*** ***Longlisted for Theakston's Old...

Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England . . . The year is 1600. With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos. And in London's dark...

Part psychological thriller, part coming-of-age novel from the author of People of Abandoned Character. A missing girl. Buried family secrets. An absent father. Is the truth worth searching for? Summer, 1993. In the aftermath of her mother's suicide attempt, 16-year-old Prue must spend the...

Detective Norman is out of retirement and back solving murders.He's asked to mentor a team of misfits in a sleepy Welsh seaside town. But training has barely begun when a woman's body washes up on the beach at Llangwelli.It turns out to be local...

A man is found dead inside a log cabin nestled in Luccombe Bay on the Isle of Wight. He has no ID on him and no one knows who he is. Except Detective Inspector Andy Horton . . . The dead man's fingerprints match...

Amateur sleuth Astrid Swift investigates a maritime mystery in this cosy crime adventure set on the Isle of Wight.The sailors are ashore, and murder is afoot. It's summer in the Isle of Wight, and the islanders have little more to do than munch crab...

My husband's dead. She's at my door. She owns my home... The doorbell rings, just days after my beloved husband's sudden death. I don't recognise the woman on our doorstep, with her buttery blonde highlights, a diamond bracelet identical to my own and a...

She was lying as if asleep on the wooden kitchen floor, beneath the fridge covered with a child's colourful crayon drawings. But her frozen expression showed she would never wake again... When Detective Jackie Cooke is called out to the scene, she's expecting a...

This is a fast-paced thriller which centres around a British cash-in-transit (armoured car) company whose Slough operation becomes the target of a group of skilled, violent and merciless criminals manipulated by an "invisible" psychopath, who pull off one of the most daring robberies of...

In thirty-six hours, thousands of innocent people will die. There's not a second to waste. And no time for sleep...Michael North has a bullet lodged in his brain which could kill him any second. That makes him the perfect MI5 asset: he's ruthless, loyal,...

THE SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES 'Merrily Watkins is the most singular of crime fiction protagonists... As ever [Rickman]'s supremely skillful at teasing out the menace that lies behind English folk customs and legends and weaving them into a compelling contemporary narrative.'...

​It's 1977 and Frank Ford is running from his life and for his life. Following the suspicious suicide of his brother Ray and Frank's own role in the death of twin sisters clearly culpable in Ray's demise, he hits the road for the promised...

Roland J. Beckerman has found himself deeply emersed in the day-to-day operations of Wentworth Law Firm. The story line in this book is not only intriguing but also an educational adventure as it is an eye-opening trip that travels through the intricate areas of...

Ever since they first became friends in elementary school, Trey and Marlo have been sticking together through all the ups and downs of life on the streets. When desperate times lead them down a dangerous path of crime, they somehow manage to elude the...

Ever since they first became friends in elementary school, Trey and Marlo have been sticking together through all the ups and downs of life on the streets. When desperate times lead them down a dangerous path of crime, they somehow manage to elude the...

The con is on. Prewitt Patry is an expert in European art and antiquities, and he used to be the best con artist in New York City. But fate has left him divorced and broke, with his glory days behind him. Then a golden...

"...grab yourself a drink, a stiff one, make it a double, settle into your easy chair, open The Boys, and begin. You're home for the evening. And I promise you this, Lucas and Lowell will haunt your dreams." --John Dufresne, author of I Don't...

Billy has finally found real love, but now... he has to fight for his life.Despite Billy Chase's traumatic past with his family, he's determined to achieve his dream and make a name for himself in the gay erotic industry on the West Coast. He's...

Inspired by one of America's most notorious couples, Bonnie and Clyde, Jennifer L. Wright delivers a riveting tale set during the public enemy era of the Great Depression. Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on...

Inspired by one of America's most notorious couples, Bonnie and Clyde, Jennifer L. Wright delivers a riveting tale set during the public enemy era of the Great Depression. Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she's aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she's intent on...

A manor house and money beyond her wildest dreams. It could all be hers, if she catches a killer . . . Sarah doesn't know much about her estranged aunt, Evelyn. So when Evie dies, Sarah is shocked to hear her final wishes. Evie...

Risk everything, trust no one. Jen is climbing in the mountains near Alajar, Spain. And it's nothing to do with the fact that an old acquaintance, Nick Crawford, may have suggested that she meet him there... But when things don't go as planned with...

A sparkling new historical novel set in the 1920s, inspired by the notorious all-female crime syndicate known as the Forty Thieves who operated out of the slums of south LondonRuby Mills is ruthlessly ambitious, strikingly beautiful - and one of the Forty Thieves' most...

DNA doesn't lie. But what if the truth is dangerous? Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris. Her life is thrown into chaos once again when a teenage...

It's a tale as old as time: doomed romance, bloody revenge, fast food, and the voice of God. Welcome to Tyler Parker's Oklahoma, and one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year from one of our best, funniest new writers. Check out...

'Charged with darkness and plotted with watchmaker precision.' A. J. Finn'Such an achievement' Susan Lewis'Compulsively readable' Greg Buchanan'Sinister, a just-one-more-page thriller' Chris Whitaker'Compelling' Cara HunterThere's something in my neighbour's attic.Something steeped in shadows. A secret to everyone. Seen by no one...He stands sometimes at...

LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch's white whale--a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.A year has passed since LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER Notable Book of 2016 --Washington Post10 Favorite Books of 2016 -- Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times10 Best Mysteries of 2016 -- Adam Woog, Seattle TimesDetective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed...

A fierce survivor and a fearless FBI agent battle a copycat serial killer in a gripping thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert.Twelve years ago, Lei Zhang and her friend Emma Nilsson miraculously lived through the notorious Sorority Row...

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in this thriller from Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered....

Best of the West 2019 - 2nd Place in 20th- to 21st-Century Western Mystery Fiction by TrueWest Magazine"Wortham's writing style is easygoing, relying on natural-sounding dialogue and vivid descriptions to give us the feeling that this story could well have taken place." --BooklistAs the...

Freeman's Bourne novels might get more publicity, but his Stride novels are where his skills as a storyteller are really showcased. First-rate. -- BooklistA woman has been kidnapped.Now Jonathan Stride must decide if her husband wants her back ... dead or alive.After nearly dying...

She'd cycled this way hundreds of times before, every twist and turn familiar. She didn't know this would be the last. When the body of architect James McCallum is found hanging in the grounds of his former school one cold night, DI Danny Stowe...

Nothing's ever gone right for Dennis Malloy. Why would this time be any different?Dennis is smart enough to know right from wrong, although his actions rarely show it. Now, after spending the past six years in prison, he wants to do the right thing....

The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It introduces the...

The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It introduces the...

A Gangsta Love Story is an example Rocky, Boo and other characters in this tale showed on how it's never too late to question one's ability to determine their future as they struggled with old patterns and beliefs about power, value, life and definitely...

25 years on, Florida's first serial killer GJ Schaefer returns with a new expanded volume of illustrated killer fiction, featuring the stories used to convict him of double murder in 1973. The ex-cop and serial killer was doing two life sentences for the murder...

Stories Untold is a riveting story of love, intrigue, and triumph over insurmountable odds.1809 West Africa: Crown prince Macati son of King Zaki of Kapora falls in love with princess Awat of Wagombe. As the young couple plan the most spectacular wedding ceremony ever,...

A man sent to a retirement community to pull them out of debt, instead uses the power of a magical flute smuggled from the Amazon Rain Forest, to hypnotize and enslave the local population. When by chance he is found out, a group of...

Erin Cahill lives in a small central Texas town, life there is quiet and routine. Until the phone call that upended her life. It was a family friend telling her that her mother was in the hospital. Erin immediatly packs a bag and drives...

Three hundred thirty-three fatalities and no survivors.So begins Pulitzer Prize finalist Jean Heller's chilling hard-boiled saga, as a flight crashes on takeoff when one of its engines explodes in midair. After that, it's a toss-up--you may or may not be able to catch your...

An electrifying historical adventure about a ring of bold and resourceful women thieves in post-World War II London.Gangland was a man's world. Or so they thought. The women knew different.London, 1946. The city struggles to rebuild itself after the devastation of the Blitz. Food...