Fiction - Crime

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...

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...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

Liene, the girl with hair colour of angry Etna. Somewhere between 800 and 1000 Celsius. And a much hotter temperament-is gone.Tristan Grieves. The enigma peeler and ferryman on watered time is moving oars through rough months.Boomerang throws TG into an ex-serotonin chaser's house that...

Liene, the girl with hair colour of angry Etna. Somewhere between 800 and 1000 Celsius. And a much hotter temperament-is gone.Tristan Grieves. The enigma peeler and ferryman on watered time is moving oars through rough months.Boomerang throws TG into an ex-serotonin chaser's house that...

Liene, the girl with hair colour of angry Etna. Somewhere between 800 and 1000 Celsius. And a much hotter temperament-is gone.Tristan Grieves. The enigma peeler and ferryman on watered time is moving oars through rough months.Boomerang throws TG into an ex-serotonin chaser's house that...

After putting away the head of the Albanian mafia in Hamburg, Homicide Detectives Thomas Ritter and Motz Beck are confronted with a bloody war to control the local drug trade in the mobster's absence. First an Albanian courier is shotgunned to death at the...

College student Courtney Middleton disappeared fifteen years ago. Everyone presumed she was dead... Detective Madison Knight shows up at the local train station in the aftermath of a fatal shooting, and finds two women killed on scene. One was expecting her first child. The...

College student Courtney Middleton disappeared fifteen years ago. Everyone presumed she was dead... Detective Madison Knight shows up at the local train station in the aftermath of a fatal shooting, and finds two women killed on scene. One was expecting her first child. The...

Kat and Dodge only wanted to make a dollar building houses. But in 1990's Broome, Western Australia, life was more like Dodge's namesake of a town in the old Wild West. Money could be made, fortunes won, and lives lost depending on who you...

A slaughter of innocents. A crazed public demands vengeance from any source. Can Macleod hold his poise amidst a cry for blood before justice?When a heinous crime against children provokes a national outcry, Detective Inspector Macleod and his team are under pressure for results...

Brought together for the first time, this collection of nineteen short stories, from best-selling author Allan Martin, asks, "Is murder always wrong?".Well-known for the darkly dry humour of his Inspector Angus Blue series of crime thrillers set across Scotland, Allan Martin brings his razor-sharp...

THREE WOMEN. ONE MISSION. ENEMIES EVERYWHERE. May 1944. When spy Elisabeth de Mornay, code name C馗ile, notices a coded transmission from an agent in the field does not bear his usual signature, she suspects his cover has been blown - something that is happening...

Imagine you found a key. A key that opened a locker. A locker that contained a holdall. A holdall that contained money. A lot of money. 350,000 to be exact. In used, untraceable notes.What would you do?Put it back in the locker and walk...

In 1999, art dealer Alex Clayton stumbles across a lost portrait of Molly Dean, an artist's muse brutally slain in Melbourne in 1930. Alex buys the painting and sets out to uncover more details, but finds there are strange inconsistencies: Molly's mother seemed unconcerned...

A bold and ambitious thriller exploring how women can feel invisible as they grow older--and what happens when they decide to take back control. Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone, even Bernie herself. At nineteen she was full of promise,...

A dark and unexpected novel about a Dublin undertaker who finds himself on the wrong side of the Irish mob. Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established--some say the best--funeral home in Dublin. One night driving...

WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC! New York Times Bestseller GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton are back in this electrifying thriller from bestselling author Karin Slaughter."Enter the world of Karin Slaughter. Just be forewarned, there's no going back." --Lisa GardnerAfter that...

As a recovery specialist, Lexi Bowen's jobs typically require more trickery and thievery than honest work. Her former captain might not approve of her flexible morals, but stealing artifacts for rich assholes pays the bills, and Lexi's had enough of war and death. The...

A gripping new crime series for fans of Val McDermid, Jane Casey and Cara Hunter'Gold-standard crime writing' Erin Kinsley'An impressive start in an exciting new series' The Sun'Authentic and atmospheric' Adele Parks, Platinum'Packed with authenticity' Mail OnlineEvidence never lies... But people do.CSI Ally Dymond's...

Who killed this wealthy couple? It doesn't take a clue-sniffing Golden Retriever's sense of smell to know something is up. For semi-reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan, his long-time girlfriend, Lili, is acting out of character, and he's eager to figure out why and how...

National bestselling author Kiki Swinson never lets up with relentless characters, unpredictable twists, and a merciless depiction of Southern striving, scheming--and dying. Now she takes you to the explosive beginnings of wild-card lawyer Yoshi Lomax, who discovers that even a life of privilege isn't...

The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie and It introduces the characters of Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen ""Bundle"" Brent. At the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to host a weekend party at...

Chicago, 1954. A kid with self-doubt, Jesse Cruz spends his days drinking beer and playing ball with his friends. At night, they commit petty crimes to supplement their income.One night, Jesse sees a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car. He's been...

Chicago, 1954. A kid with self-doubt, Jesse Cruz spends his days drinking beer and playing ball with his friends. At night, they commit petty crimes to supplement their income.One night, Jesse sees a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car. He's been...

Chicago, 1954. A kid with self-doubt, Jesse Cruz spends his days drinking beer and playing ball with his friends. At night, they commit petty crimes to supplement their income.One night, Jesse sees a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car. He's been...

Chicago, 1954. A kid with self-doubt, Jesse Cruz spends his days drinking beer and playing ball with his friends. At night, they commit petty crimes to supplement their income.One night, Jesse sees a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car. He's been...

Chicago, 1954. A kid with self-doubt, Jesse Cruz spends his days drinking beer and playing ball with his friends. At night, they commit petty crimes to supplement their income.One night, Jesse sees a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car. He's been...

A church janitor is dead and priceless chalices are missing. Detective Dana Demeter agrees to look into the closed case as a favor to the parish priest, having plenty of time on her hands while suspended from the Chicago Police Department. Problem is, she...

Detective Lola Harris returns from a miserable solo holiday - an effort to get over her useless ex - only to find herself in charge of a high-stakes investigation. She rushes to a crime scene in the historic Gallowgate neighbourhood. The smell in the...

A serial killer who dumps the victims' bodies in Soho Square. A sleepless detective thwarted by his box-ticking boss. Detective Rob Miller thinks he's seen it all, but this murder scene takes his breath away. The victim is bound and gagged, with whip marks...

Detective Jaswinder Singh, a Metropolitan Police Officer, has returned to work from gardening leave. His reputation for solving cases in the most unorthodox of manners has made him many enemies within the police. Unfortunately for them his methods always achieve great results with all...

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.In the fourth Widow's Island novella, the truth of a twenty-year disappearance will finally come to light.When the town drunk ends up dead in a hit-and-run, FBI special agent Cate Wilde expects that solving the case will be cut and...

It's wintertime in the seashore resort of Sandpiper, Maryland. Detective William Brogan is a hard-nosed, no nonsense ex-Baltimore City homicide detective. He is now the lead detective for Sandpiper Police Department. Winter is normally a slow time for police in Sandpiper, but suddenly, women...

Raised in Japan by American expatriates, Karen Leith now lives a reclusive life in New York, known chiefly for her highly regarded novels, of which the latest has won a major American literary award. When she is found on the floor behind her desk,...

When Nigel Strangeways books tickets for a holiday in the Greek islands with renowned sculptor Claire Massinger, he has no idea that the trip will end in tragedy. From the moment the boat sets sail it becomes clear that many of his fellow passengers--from...

"A must read. I couldn't put the sucker down."--Stephen King Proving Ground, New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner Peter Blauner's first novel in more than a decade, is a sweeping crime novel, an intricate story about the quest for redemption, and a...

"One of the finest police procedural writers around... [Standing in the Shadows] is as narratively rich and surprising as Robinson's best work. Knowing it's his last makes the reading bittersweet." -- New York Times Book ReviewThe 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks...

"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...

The new addictive, compelling and immersive thriller from Nell Pattison, with enough dark twists to give you whiplash...Fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell will be hooked.My name is Isabella Butterworth. Your name is Isabella Butterworth.We're around the same age. We live in the...

'At the end of chapters, I was either "Wow" or "Oh my God!"' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Robson does it again. The end will leave you flabbergasted!' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'The intense suspense had me finishing this novel in a day!' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A birthday to remember....

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...

A TIMES CRIME CLUB ⭐STAR PICK⭐ and AMAZON and KINDLE BESTSELLER!'Fantastic. Excellent. Incredible. I could not put this one down for the life of me.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review'A stunner! Without a doubt, one of the best crime novels of the year!' - No.1 international...

Gail wakes in the middle of the night to everyone's worst nightmare.She can't move, can't speak and a stranger is standing over her. Then everything goes black.Gail knows she didn't dream it. Or him. But the police don't believe her.That was two years ago....

The day Clay Shelton is set to be hanged, he requests to speak with the inspector who arrested him, Arnold Betcher Long. He tells Long that the Gallows Hand will have its revenge. Assuming he is a dead man trying to delay the inevitable,...

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 Chief Inspector Jonathan Quinn, stumble across the body of a young girl hidden in St James's...

Christian Price is a scientist who suffered a tragedy unsolved by local police. To right that which he perceives is broken, he begins to execute experiments in different cities to test the response times of local law enforcement. Detective Hardwick is a 30-year veteran...