Fiction - Crime

Detective Inspector Andy Horton is called out to Oyster Quays Marina to examine a gruesome catch by two fishermen: a blackened human hand. The rest of the body is nowhere to be found.Meanwhile, a violent criminal is missing. Alfie Wright attacked David Jewson, a...

Formidable criminal hunter Carmela Cacciatore needs Arnold Landon's help on an urgent mission and Arnold cannot resist the call for adventure.Carmela, Arnold and the team set off on the trail of a priceless antique statue of Artemis the Huntress, part of a hoard looted...

Glowing candles, serene music, a relaxing mud treatment . . . and a dead body. Honey is on the case!Honey Driver is asked to go undercover by her police inspector boyfriend Steve to help solve the recent and grisly drowning of a woman at...

A killer with a dangerous obsession. Three young women shot to death. Each victim with one shoe missing.It's the middle of the night when Detective Chris Bailey is called to the side of a rural Tennessee highway. A young woman's body is found sprawled...

Detective Inspector Andy Horton is assigned the case of a missing person: Jasper Kenton, a private investigator. Kenton was on the trail of a man whose wife thought he was having an affair. Then Kenton's naked body is discovered on a stretch of private...

"Mommy, wake-up," he cries, pulling at her beautiful blonde hair. She's silent, and her skin is deathly white. Tears roll down his cheeks as he realizes something is very wrong... As snow falls on the small town of Lost Creek, Colorado, a three-year-old boy...

TERROR CARDSGriselda Lopez a seemingly nondescript psychic and tarot card reader by trade is a suspect in a brutal murder of a local internet millionaire in the West Texas city of El Paso. Unbeknownst to veteran homicide detective Phil Ramirez, eighteen years earlier she...

The Painter is a novella that spans a quarter century in just over a hundred pages. Based on his experiences as a federal probation officer and Christian, with an evangelical calling, Lopez creates characters and tells stories rooted in the harsh realities of crime...

James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as "rhapsodic" and "haunting," delivers his most powerful work to date--a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana.Beasts of the Earth...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice New York Times Notable author Mar僘 Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger In the Buenos Aires art...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde might represent one of the first literary 'memes, ' dropping into the western canon like a bombshell. It rooted itself deep into our cultural soil, and remains established there today, 150 years after it was first published. Ironically, however,...

Graham Stone is a young detective with the Memphis Police Department and is assigned to the Violent Crimes Task Force. Graham is part of an elite unit of crime fighters who are given the toughest tasks and pursue the most notorious criminals in the...

Graham Stone is a young detective with the Memphis Police Department and is assigned to the Violent Crimes Task Force. Graham is part of an elite unit of crime fighters who are given the toughest tasks and pursue the most notorious criminals in the...

"But will it play in Peoria?" For years, the Midwest has been used as a stand-in for "average America". The sweeping great plains, the heavy snows of winter, ice fishing and mighty rivers and frozen lakes. Midwesterners have a reputation for being the salt...

"This collection of crime stories takes its inspiration from the darker corners of everyday life in a city that many associate only with a historic assassination--or a glitzy TV show about oil fortunes and family feuds. All of the authors are Dallas natives and...

Brig Ellis is a new age private investigator with old school values. When he gets a call from an old flame seeking protection for her husband, he agrees to help. Seems the hubby is an artist whose star is ascending. What Brig doesn't know,...

In this thrilling installment of the #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in Old Town Alexandria with the threat of violent protests. Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta...

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...

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned, Scotland's toughest cop is called in to solve the high-profile case... Skinner joins his old team in a complex murder investigation in the twenty-ninth gripping mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling crime series. Praise for Jardine's compelling novels:...

Atlanta. 1963. Three adolescent girls go missing. And a killer is on the loose. Young Billy Tarwater, eleven years old at the time and infatuated with one of the girls, thirteen-year-old Cynthia Hudspeth, finds himself caught up in the drama and suspense of the...

Riveting stuff that leaves one wanting to know more and more If you are an addict of books about murder, mayhem and perversion; in other words, the "dark side of humanity"; in the author's own words; "the beast that lies dormant within all of...

Six friends. A bride to be. One murder. Too many secrets. After drinking too much at her bachelorette party, Maggie Trueheart wakes to find a stranger in her bed. To make matters worse, a phone call brings the devastating news that her friend Angie...

A serial killer is at large. One item ties the victims together: in each case, their bra has been removed. Can DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Pool crack a disturbing case? On a hot Tuesday morning in June, Detective Chef Inspector Harry Brock...

A case of burglary going wrong turns complicated in the latest Brock & Poole mystery At near midnight on a sweltering hot July Saturday, Detective Chief Inspector Brock is called to a murder in a house at West Drayton, close to Heathrow Airport. The...

Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a victim with a decidedly shady past in this gripping contemporary mystery. The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop. But there's no ID in the pockets...

Accused of murder, former marine and disgraced ex-cop Steve Flynn is on the run - and on the hunt ... Wanted for murder, Steve Flynn finds himself on the run, alone and without resources, driven only by a burning desire to avenge himself on...

No good deed goes unpunished, as Ellie Quicke finds out in this engaging and entertaining mystery. Ellie Quicke believes in helping people in trouble. But it would appear that her latest good deed has returned to bite her when she takes in a weeping...

When reclusive, blind violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus is invited to speak at a seemingly innocuous symposium on Baroque music at a prestigious music conservatory, he has no idea he is about to become enmeshed in an entrenched culture of sexual harassment and its cover-up...

Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails to come home one night, she rings the police, certain something has happened to him. DI Joanna Piercy and DS Mike Korpanski are sceptical. As the investigation...

When a man is murdered in the woods and the main suspect appears to be a giant ape, Hannah steps in to solve the mystery. Does Bigfoot really exist? Hannah is delighted to reconnect with her former roommate, Susan Lockley, owner of Scarborough Fairs,...

The discovery of a damaged vase takes Hennessey and Yellich back to a twenty-year-old murder case, with consequences for the present. A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team to take a...

A holiday on the picturesque island of Alderney leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin. When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Alderney in the English Channel, they...

When a New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. But it's only when he encounters a beautiful young voodoo practitioner that he starts to make headway in the investigation - and enters the world of darkness...

Lambert & Hook discover that interrogating professional actors is an impossible business in the latest intriguing mystery. Sam Jackson is not a man who suffers fools - or anyone else - gladly. A successful British television producer who fancies himself as a Hollywood mogul,...

DCI Peach and DS Northcott investigate a murder at an exclusive tennis club Detective Sergeant Clyde Northcott - DCI Peach's tall, black, powerful prot g - has no interest in joining the snooty Birch Lane Tennis Club. So it is unfortunate for him when...

One summer's evening, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party. But the evening turns sour when, on a tour of the sculpture department, the lift breaks down - revealing a corpse at...

Annabelle Bellange and her friend Doroth馥 left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but the only contact from them has been a postcard sent three months ago. DI Joanna Piercy investigates, and must answer two important questions: what is the anxious bed-and-breakfast...

Evie McCulloch's sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Elvie's efforts to find out what happened to Sophie, and to the other local missing girls, will find her pitted against a terrifying...

Dorothy Martin's husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral when one of the candidates is found murdered in his own church. Then a second candidate is found dead, and the case...

When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within twenty-four hours of each other at the same location, each with a similar cause of death, Vicary and his team are drawn into a complex investigation which leads them to the door of a...

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt go to Orkney in Scotland to see some intriguing Stone Age excavations. When the donor of the dig is found murdered, Dorothy and Alan launch an unofficial investigation into the murder.Author: Jeanne M. DamsISBN-10:...

Ex Ireland rugby player and now successful businessman Jim O'Connor is shot dead, point blank range, in the car park of a restaurant where he is hosting a family celebration. DCI Percy Peach is brought back from holiday to head up an investigation that...

i>Fans of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers will enjoy this very traditional British cozy Booklist Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, have just visited Buckingham Palace, where Alan was awarded the George Cross, when they and a friend, retired...

More crimes to solve and villains to bring to account in volume five Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography,...

Father Brown returns Chesterton's fourth volume of great mystery fiction Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy....

Volume two of this Chesterton collection-enter Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy. Great writers...

Volume one of a six volume collection Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy. Great writers have...

When a successful but brutish playwright is stabbed to death in the aftermath of a wild party, there is no shortage of suspects - but which is the killer? In his latest assignment, Chicago Chronicle crime reporter Hank Janson finds himself participating in a...

Ace crime reporter Hank Janson meets the girl of his dreams, Sally Taylor, only to have her taken from him by a cruel twist of fate when she suddenly dies of a heart attack. Or does she? Hank finds himself with a mystery to...

From the dawn of time to the present day; crime is an unavoidable by-product of our human existence. Visit the cave of the world's first detective; pass through the blitz-torn London streets; explore the pitfalls of the 1980s Giallo film industry; delve into the...