Fiction - Crime

Murder is a Message MOE STONE The newspaper hack who lost his Fleet Street job after asking the wrong questions. Searching for a skeleton in a closet, he finds numerous bodies instead. Not one of them is the one he wants...LINDA TURNBULLOne time lead...

Painted Sidewalk: Meeting Mr. SosaBy: Tee RiosTee and his wife, Kim, are about to attend the meeting of a lifetime. Columbian drug lords offer a deal with both of them that they simply cannot pass up. Knowing the extreme risks involved, they agree to...

Kate McGraw, the lone female on the US Marshals' fugitive task force, is on the trail of homicidal bank robber when she is shot by a drugged-up ex-con. While she is in the hospital recuperating, a mysterious stranger leaves a bouquet of flowers in...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of thirty-nine on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m.ROOKIE COP Marvin Levey had his whole life-changing experience with only one day on the job as a New York City police officer. When crowds of...

Anticipating problems, a prestigious global restaurant convention hires Leo as Special Security Officer. His assignment: monitor the movements of two adversarial steakhouse competitors whose "beef" has previously made for some nasty confrontations and a food critic who's caught in between the warring factions. Leo...

Where's Nora Selleck? Nurse Florence Shaw investigates when a mysterious stranger walks into her patient's life - and then she disappears . . . Nurse Florence Shaw is worried about her patient and friend, elderly widow Nora Selleck. When she encounters Nora in the...

They train to be the toughest, the smartest, the most covert operators in the world--they are the Tier One Navy SEALs, led by Lieutenant Commander Keith Chunk Redman.When a former teammate of Chunk's is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that...

DCI Monika Paniatowski is forced to think the unthinkable: could a good friend and long-standing colleague be guilty of murder?"Spencer gives Monika Paniatowski the send-off she richly deserves" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review On the day of her official retirement from the Force, DCI...

In this breathtaking thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead, the murder of several politicians at sea shatters the world of a local lobsterman who must prove his innocence and save his own life.​ Israel Pike was...

When a young girl goes missing in the remote wilderness of the western Oregon Cascades, her disappearance sets off a chain of events that reveal a long history of violence, abuse of power, and environmental precarity. This is a story of how four women...

Echoing Dance, set in 2004, follows Stuart Pelican, an ex-football player turned chef; his girlfriend, Beatrice Shipley, owner of a car wash; and a 'Crew' of characters they encounter as they travel about Wisconsin, Canada, and New York City. Woven into their journey are...

"A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary, from beloved and acclaimed novelist Dan Chaon. Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the...

This third novel in the "thrilling, nerve-wracking" (Shelf Awareness) Korner and Werner series follows the two detectives as they search for a missing teenager and uncover the web of lies that has threatened his life--and may prevent him from ever being found. When fifteen-year-old...

Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy.How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn't exist?A glamorous...

Life is full of impossible questions. How did Sam Applewhite end up living in a tiny caravan with her dad?How does local company Synergenesis survive with no customers and a cast of clueless employees?And why is everyone desperate to get their hands on a...

Fast-paced mafia romance. Rosaline Romano's life has just been uprooted at the drop of a hat. Her plans for attending college in California like her older sisters have been ruined. And all thanks to the crime of the century. Now, she's living behind the...

Buck Calhoun P.I. licensed in California, an Emeritus Professor in Criminal Justice of a State University, was busy cleaning up his computer files and trying to re-establish some order to his office and equipment when his iPhone quacked for the sixth time. He had...

From the bestselling author of the Detective Louise Blackwell series comes a story of two murders, twenty years apart. There's only one suspect. But what if he's innocent?Twenty years ago, in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas, Annie Randall took her dog for a...

From the bestselling author of the Detective Louise Blackwell series comes a story of two murders, twenty years apart. There's only one suspect. But what if he's innocent?Twenty years ago, in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas, Annie Randall took her dog for a...

Detective Jake Gilford is skeptical when he hears Joss Wheeler say she believes her newly inherited house is haunted. He's a man of facts and hard evidence, and ghosts aren't on his radar screen. He's also a man, and Joss is a beautiful, if...

This is an easy-to-read retelling of the Elizabethan playwright George Peele's history play THE BATTLE OF ALCAZAR. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier. In this retelling, as in all my retellings, I have tried to make the work...

Novella based upon the author's time spent living in Bruce Grove, London.This book is Part 7 of The Great Escape series.Author: Jack FreestoneISBN-10: 8201284259ISBN-13: 9798201284251Publisher: Jack FreestoneLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2022Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

Compression is a high octane, true crime novel. A mixture of autobiography wish fulfilment and twisted fantasy. The story unfolds over the space of 24 hours and sums up the spirit of the punk movement in a fictional novel.Compression tells the story of Flanagan,...

"The result is a breathtakingly brutal piece of crime writing that is relentless in its pursuit of the truth" Declan Burke in the Irish Times "Among many other things, Murder Memoir Murder is a brilliant evocation of Ireland's border culture, its contentions and unwritten...

Albert Einstein noted that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another. Kat, a middle-aged marketing executive from Vancouver, ponders the truth behind Einstein's law as she tours the antiquities of Italy. In Pompeii, volcanic ash remains in the...

An estranged family preparing for the annual Wisconsin gun deer hunt carries on completely unaware of how their lives were about to change forever. Motivated by greed and jealousy, eldest brother Mason Owens hatches a nefarious plan. He nearly thought of everything except the...

An estranged family preparing for the annual Wisconsin gun deer hunt carries on completely unaware of how their lives were about to change forever. Motivated by greed and jealousy, eldest brother Mason Owens hatches a nefarious plan. He nearly thought of everything except the...

Years ago, lead investigator Sean Fenton made a mistake. One that cost him his position and almost his career. Law enforcement had been what he had lived his whole life for and after being demoted back down to a regular detective he was in...

On the run. Wanted for murder. Indentured to an unknown master. When Ray Cobb fled to the mountains east of Los Angeles to escape the bounty on his head, he didn't know what was waiting for him. After his tattoo piques the interest of...

Some things stay frozen in time. Memories. Histories. Even murder. Newly-promoted Florida state police investigator, Veronica Fox, enjoys the challenge of her new job investigating her department's ages-old, unsolved "cold cases," many of which go decades back, with little to no evidence, but a...

In the early 1990s, four young men took the law into their own hands in the small town of Graniteton, Georgia. Little would they know the impact those decisions would have on their lives, their families, and themselves. Now, a quarter of a century...

It's 1665 and the Black Death has London in its hideous grip. Bad news for everyone...almost. Where better, after all, to hide a dead body than among a whole city full of dead bodies? And who gets the delightful task of pawing through the...

It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the planet are under water, or uninhabitably hot. A quarter of the world's population has been displaced by hunger and flooding, and immigration wars are breaking out around...

Clement Montgomery has just been found dead in his Oakville, Ontario, apartment. Everything about his murder seems odd to Detective Jenna Lawson, from the genital mutilation inflicted on him to the fact that Golden Boy, one of the Thoroughbreds he trained, died at Woodbine...

Clement Montgomery has just been found dead in his Oakville, Ontario, apartment. Everything about his murder seems odd to Detective Jenna Lawson, from the genital mutilation inflicted on him to the fact that Golden Boy, one of the Thoroughbreds he trained, died at Woodbine...

There are many uncommon things about Olav Williams: his upbringing in the tiny town of Twin Rivers on the coast of Labrador; his photographic memory that allows him to recall everything he has ever seen and heard in perfect detail; and the fact that...

There are many uncommon things about Olav Williams: his upbringing in the tiny town of Twin Rivers on the coast of Labrador; his photographic memory that allows him to recall everything he has ever seen and heard in perfect detail; and the fact that...

Family, Violence, RevengeNew York City, 1930The crime families that run New York are at war. Power struggles and ancient vendettas threaten to destroy the lives of anyone involved in the Big Apple's underworld. And the Consentino family is caught right in the middle. Sonny...

For years Normandy Falls has been haunted by its strange history and aggrieved spirits said to roam its graveyards. Despite warnings, Edmund Campion is determined to move there to pursue a graduate degree. One night Edmund stumbles upon the body of Emily Ryan drowned...

Shortlisted for The Diverse Book Awards 2021'Bold and brave, shocking and heartfelt . . . A very special book from a very special author' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month We Begin at the End'Abdullah's legal thrillers make John Grisham...

This special expanded edition of Freeman Wills Crofts' classic crime novel includes a unique commentary by Superintendent Walter Hambrook of Scotland Yard, never before published in book form.The Carrington family, victims of a strange poisoning, take an Olympic cruise from Glasgow to help them...

BRUTALLY GRIPPING. GLEEFULLY MACABRE. DS Hutton is back, and there's blood flowing. Faces bitten off, slashed throats, frenzied stabbing and severed heads. There's a killer abroad in Glasgow, and all Hell is let loose. A low-level gangland villain gets out of prison, and goes...

Chances Are It's FateA third in a series by author Ricky Earls, 'Chances Are It's Fate' gives you a realistic encounter of the day to day activities of a private detective agency and the everyday mistakes and triumphs they encounter while they work a...

What would you do if enough money to solve all your problems fell in your lap?Shane and Jewel have been hanging onto the edges of life by their fingernails for so long, they can't remember any other way of living. When enough money to...

A remote lake house, a threatening phone call, and a terrifying mystery that could be her last. Desperate to protect her best friend Julie after a strange threatening phone call, Bethany Lights flees Alaska to a small town nestled in the North Carolina mountains....

As the third book in the series begins, Grant's Crossing is preparing for the annual Fall Fair and Halloween. They weren't prepared for another murder and the mystery around it. As Alysha Grant continues building her career, and overseeing Leven Lodge, she also needs...

Lights Feeling her stardom fading, struggling soap-actress Adele Rafferty is ready to give up on her dreams when she gets a last-minute offer to play the lead in upcoming horror film Final Draft. Could this be her big break? Will she have redemption for...

Random One adjective for such a word would be, to describe events that do not seem to follow a definite plan or pattern. But here in Randomville, there are whole neighborhoods where you could easily get lost, in such a definition. Neighborhoods where you...

Her father executed. A gun to Charlie's head. One week. Tick Tock. After witnessing her father's execution, Isa finds herself stripped of her tools, her allies, and alone in a foreign country's custody. When an orchestrated escape opportunity presents itself, she leaps without looking....