Fiction - Crime

A mysterious death. An unresolved past.John Cowan is living a peaceful life on the Big River in Labrador with his part-Inuit wife and their two children when his brother Duncan, whom he hasn't seen in thirty years, pays him a surprise visit. Duncan wants...

In 1974, top UK band Figgis Green was riding high in the charts with their blend of traditional Celtic ballads mixed with catchy, folky pop. One of their biggest fans was sixteen-year old Pippa Gladstone, who mysteriously vanished while she was on holiday with...

Harper Miller doesn't want to handle what has happened to her over the past year. Her father left, her mother killed herself, and she still has to be the good girl, the one that doesn't make waves, who is always nice. But one day,...

A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 - One of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on...

Truth can be stranger than fiction. Segments of this fictional tale were inspired by actual events. Manipulation, persuasion, brainwashing, all the religions do it in one form or another. If it's one of the other faiths, you can see it. When it's your own,...

Long before Miss Marple came on the scene, mystery writer Anna Katherine Green introduced Amelia Butterworth, the original spinster detective. The Affair Next Door marks the literary debut of this beloved character and offers up some of the most richly detailed, intellectually engaging detective...

Miguel is a wayward boy. Coming from a broken home he has seen his fair share of trouble. He wants to be somebody in this life and he is not going to let anyone get in his way. In comes Roberto Demario, smooth, charming...

The Freelancer Three weeks in Hawaii with his daughter was the plan, but Keanu 'Skorpion' Hamari didn't expect another job with his former handler-or the beautiful complication that came with it. The Accountant Good with numbers, Ada Edgar has made a career of keeping...

Max Mosbey and Skip Murray, veteran police officers, have grown accustomed to their routine over the years, patrolling the numerous bars in the Midwest college town of Ames, Iowa. After bar close on Saturday mornings, before going back to the station, they stop at...

Based on the 1988 crime spree involving the murderer, Genero Camacho, this is the story of a young man caught in a nightmare. Struggling to escape a whirlwind of drugs and coldblooded murder, he fights to overcome the allure of greed and power to...

Chase Murdock, a former U.S. Army Green Beret, an El Paso, Texas, police officer, and a Drug Enforcement Agent (DEA), knew it was time to change his occupation. At thirty-eight years of age, the native Texan completed the required training to obtain a Private...

Set in New York, New Jersey, and Las Vegas in the late 1970s, early '80s, The Commission of Angels is the intricate story of one man's struggle to shed his violent past--a past that repeatedly betrays him. Angelman is the last of a dying...

ONE NIGHT WAS ALL HE WANTED ... Synek 'Syn' J sson has never been anything more than a jaded, broken man trying not to lose himself in his darker urges, but sometimes, the need to do something reckless proves too strong. ONE NIGHT WAS...

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman By E. W. HornungThe Ides of March/ A Costume Piece/ Gentlemen and Players/ Le Premier Pas/ Wilful Murder/ Nine Points of the Law/ The Return Match/ The Gift of the Emperor In these stories, Raffles, the public-school gentleman, mixes his...

Misty Lewis, a twenty-five-year-old, recent graduate student of Florida State University, has found herself in the fight of her life. Her dreams of being a nurse have been put on hold as she tries to prove her innocence of the murder of her on-again,...

On a hot rainy summer night in Nassau, the Bahamas, in 1943, someone murdered Sir Harry Oakes, one of the richest men in the world, as he slept. When police found him the next morning, there were four wounds to his skull. His corpse...

Dennis Faraday was a failed writer with a dead-end job...until he met Mack, an international assassin. Seeing an opportunity for a story, Dennis decides to accompany Mack on a mission to Paris. However, when the mission goes wrong, a multi-million dollar bounty is placed...

An ex-mob fixer must solve the murder of a hitman's wife and daughter before becoming the next victim.A vigilante justice crime thriller with a twist ending.Connor Harding is the go-to man when it comes to solving problems for the underworld's most dangerous criminals. Freddie...

An ex-mob fixer must solve the murder of a hitman's wife and daughter before becoming the next victim.A vigilante justice crime thriller with a twist ending.Connor Harding is the go-to man when it comes to solving problems for the underworld's most dangerous criminals. Freddie...

After Sangre Road comes to a dead-end for the love of his life along with a one-ton buffalo and his prized Pontiac Sunbird, one time Army Military Police officer turned bounty hunter Moses Kincaid, hailing from the Ho-Chunk Nation, limps and thumbs his way...

Maddie Wells' life spirals out of control after the murder of her wife Char, a transgender woman of color. Hunger for revenge drives Maddie to take a job at a wax museum near the murderer's hometown, where she studies revenge and plots how to...

When the lives of his family are put in danger, a small town gangster will stop at nothing to survive, and run the table in a game that nobody wins! Keep a small circle you can trust with your life, and protect it. Don't...

Trevon Harrison returns in the climactic ending of the Miami Nights series. He has to face the demanding life of fatherhood with two different baby mothers, LaToria, known as Kandi, and Jurnee. His life in front of the camera continues, dripping with lust and...

Baja Silver (The Sam White Homeless Mysteries)A 2022 American Writing Awards Finalist in the Fiction: Thriller/Adventure Category.In a race against a Mexican cartel, Sam White is on a mission to find two young fugitives from Sacramento. Dani and TommyLynn are sex workers, but not...

Silver Winner: 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Mystery & Thriller One brutal attempted rape. One unbowed woman facing impossible odds for justice. One dedicated D.A. who believes her. "First great book of the #metoo era." "A disturbing but intelligently crafted crime drama." - Kirkus...

In Robbed Blind, Gerry Boyle's signature character Jack McMorrow returns in a fourteenth novel, beginning a two-book arc that will see the acclaimed series come to an end thirty years after McMorrow first appeared in the now-classic, Deadline. This time around, freelance investigative reporter...

From the author...Back in the late 1950s and early 60s, when I was finding myself as a writer and producing a great quantity of books under pen names, some of the books I wrote were as much crime fiction as they were erotica. Indeed,...

"Ed London is the kind of private investigator you call to clean up the mess when your mistress turns up dead. But after he dumps a body in Central Park, it appears this case is still alive and kicking. Seems that the dead girl...

"If you're not part of the solution, you must be part of the problem." You heard that a lot in the early 1970s, when the country seemed to be teetering on the brink of revolutionary upheaval. Miles Dorn, living quietly in retirement in the...

In the third book of the Adam Stone detective series, Adam and his partner, Marcus Williams, investigate the late-night murder of a Charleston doctor. Soon two other doctors are murdered, and the detectives find themselves embroiled in the middle of an international Chinese opioid...

In Charles DuPuy's second installment of the E.Z. Kelly mystery series, readers will see E.Z. Kelly put to the test when one of her clients is kidnapped, and what she needs to do to save them."There are few things that cause panic and concern...

In Charles DuPuy's second installment of the E.Z. Kelly mystery series, readers will see E.Z. Kelly put to the test when one of her clients is kidnapped, and what she needs to do to save them."There are few things that cause panic and concern...

A mysterious stranger upsets life in a quiet bookstore. A police negotiator finds more than he bargained for on his latest case. A quick trip to the liquor store becomes exciting. And dangerous. Private Investigators seek to recover a lost heirloom. A man goes...

In August of 1844, aman named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois, and four days later he is dead. The cause? Arsenic poisoning. The suspect? Hiswife, Betsey. The chief witnessesagainst her? A hired girl, Eveline Deal, and the local...

From international bestselling author, J.A. Owenby, comes a dark and angsty new adult standalone with an HEA.He's been my friend forever.Until one kiss and my world falls apart ...Reeling from the death of my father, I find Ramsey on my doorstep with open arms.He's...

In this third installment of Dr. Allen Wyler's Deadly Odds series, it's a race against time for techno-geek Arnold Gold when Islamic terrorists target him for revenge. From Honolulu to Seattle, Arnold must use the tools of our information age to save himself and...

When Casey Vice was eight years old, her father, a Police Captain who founded Saturn City's Criminal Intelligence & Organized Crime Unit, and her mother were murdered in front of their home. Orphaned and left with unanswered questions, Casey and her siblings narrowly escaped...

Clowns are like politics; everyone has an opinion on them. In this collection of short stories you'll find numerous takes on the world of the painted harlequin entertainer. Often maligned in today's day and age, the institution of the clown means something to everyone....

Malefactors is defined as "those who commit an offense against the law", or more simply put, "one who does ill toward another". This collection of short stories from Jim Wilsky is chock full of them. Tales that are all different, yet all the same....

SHARED INNOCENCE: On a hot summer night in Tampa, Florida, ten-year-old Jack Burcher witnesses his mother's abduction. No one listens to him, not even the police. The next night Jack returns to his nest in the field of wildflowers by his house. This time...

EVIL LIKE ME - Inspired by true events - Classified paranormal research and an inconceivable bid for global dominance become an electrifying struggle between world powers and one man. In 1970, the U.S. Government launches research into the feasibility of psychic-weaponry, based on growing...

An active school shooter leads John Jordan on a riveting chase into a stunning mystery.While attempting to prevent a school shooting, sheriff's investigator John Jordan becomes an unwitting witness to the evolution of a particular type of evil. When the echoes of the gunfire...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TABLET, AND CRIMEREADS - A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their...

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times Little Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 and, when he never returned home, by his grieving family assumed the worst. Now, thirty years later, teenager Leah Wakefield has disappeared and DI Wesley Peterson has...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE WOMAN BEFORE ME'Superbly written... The plot twists and turns on the way to a nail-biting finale. A compelling read.' The Sun'The eponymous young adult Ben is drawn with unflinching honesty by a writer with a masterful...

A fictional historical story of an Australian colonial family's dark side during the birth of a new colony at the Yarra River settlement of Port Phillip Bay. To the riches of the Ballarat goldfields and beyond the Eureka Stockade Rebellion.67,000 words - 211 Pages...

1950's Yorkshire. When former Battle of Britain pilot, D.I. Yarrow of West Garside CID, finds himself faced with three seemingly unconnected murders, he has his work cut out.The cases include a long-dead body found on the rugged moors, possibly connected to a case that...

1950's Yorkshire. When former Battle of Britain pilot, D.I. Yarrow of West Garside CID, finds himself faced with three seemingly unconnected murders, he has his work cut out.The cases include a long-dead body found on the rugged moors, possibly connected to a case that...

Ebony Makepeace has had enough. Still living in Bradley's townhouse on the Altona foreshore, she is struggling to build a new life for herself.When tentacles of drama again wrap themselves around Bradley Culley and his family, Ebony feels as if she is suffocating. She...

Ebony Makepeace has had enough. Still living in Bradley's townhouse on the Altona foreshore, she is struggling to build a new life for herself.When tentacles of drama again wrap themselves around Bradley Culley and his family, Ebony feels as if she is suffocating. She...