Fiction - Crime

'Heather Atkinson is my no.1 author. She keeps you glued to her books from beginning to end.'Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne's parents are lost at sea, she is forced to leave her London home and is sent to live with her aunt and uncle...

'Heather Atkinson is my no.1 author. She keeps you glued to her books from beginning to end.'Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne's parents are lost at sea, she is forced to leave her London home and is sent to live with her aunt and uncle...

Please note this book was previously published as A Wreath for My Sister. A young woman frozen on the moors. A mother who never came home. A third woman in danger. Sharon Priest is on the moors in a flimsy red dress and high...

A trove of Chinese treasure throws up a dilemma for Arnold and his team. Should they keep it? Or sell it off to the highest bidder? Enter Steven Sullivan: a suave young magnate with ties to the Far East. His boss has more than...

Please note this book was previously published as Catch the Fallen Sparrow.It's a cold, grey morning when soldiers on an exercise drill find a smouldering body up on the moors.The body is scarred by cigarette burns, the hands covered in tattoos and the clothes...

Please note this book was previously published as Winding up the Serpent.It's Detective Joanna Piercy's first day back at work after her promotion. You could cut the tension with a knife. The rest of the team are more than a little bit jealous.But there's...

This ancient grave won't stay empty for long.Arnold Landon heads to Rome, ready to begin retraining for his own job.His first port of call? An ancient tomb out in the sun-scorched Roman hills.Arnold treads the dark and twisty path down to the burial chamber,...

Detective Inspector Andy Horton spots a police car outside Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. He's supposed to be on holiday, but his curiosity gets the better of him and he stops to investigate. Lying face down and sprawled out in Number One Dock is the lifeless...

Please note this was previously published as Death Lies Beneath.Detective Inspector Andy Horton is at the funeral of ex-con Daryl Woodley. He's there to keep an eye on the mourners and watch out for a big-time crook, who they suspect was involved in Woodley's...

Can you crack the code?Detective Mary Hume is on the trail of a vicious serial killer. A killer who leaves a baffling code carved into the skin of his victims.The first victim, a young man, lies spreadeagled in his stylish Soho flat. Carved deep...

Please note this was previously published as A Killing Coast.Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send DI Andy Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller.An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on...

The world's deadliest spider. A detective terrified of the creatures. A ruthless psychopath who will use her fears against her.Detective Kate Hamblin is called out to a reported theft at Moat House in the marshy wilds of the Somerset Levels. The evidence points to...

Twelve years ago, Noah Palmer went for a bike ride and never came home. His body is found in the Box Hill woods, a five-pointed star carved in his chest. He is the fourth victim of a serial killer who has never been caught.Now,...

Please note this book is a completely revised edition of Righteous Anger.One girl disappears. And there's a link to an unsolved disappearance close to home.Katie Wells goes missing on her way to school. Her pink backpack is found weighed down with stones in a...

Please note this book is a completely revised edition of The Revenge Killer.A spate of brutal stabbings. An ambitious young detective. A killer hell-bent on revenge.A father is found dead in his posh West London home. Stabbed to death. By somebody who couldn't stop....

Please note this book is a completely revised edition of The Surrey Stalker.A deranged serial killer targeting brides-to-be. An ambitious young detective. A case that could destroy everything.A young woman is brutally attacked on her way home. It looks like she was the victim...

When he was seven years old, Detective Inspector Temple found his mother murdered. Since then, he's been a man on a mission to find her killer. It's what drove him to join the police. Now, finally, he has a chance to discover the truth.An...

Detective Siv Drummond moved back to her hometown in Sussex, hoping for a quiet life by the sea. But trouble soon follows . . . A little girl and her grandfather are murdered, minutes before her fourth birthday party. Detective Siv Drummond arrives at...

It's Friday the thirteenth and Detective Inspector Andy Horton's luck is about to run out.His Harley-Davidson is vandalized, a strange symbol etched into the paintwork. Is it some kind of warning?To make matters worse, Horton's nit-picking boss, DCI Lorraine Bliss, has returned early from...

Evil lurks beneath the surface of the beautiful Welsh village of Leighton Meadow.A young woman is found dead in the village church. Shot through the heart with a crossbow.She thought she was safe there, but they found her in the end.DI Jemima Huxley thought...

MEET HONEY DRIVER. HOTEL MANAGER. WIDOWED MUM. CRIME SOLVER?Honey Driver agrees, rather grudgingly, to join a friend on a ghost walk around the crescents and terraces of historic Georgian Bath.There are no ghosts, but death is just around the corner.One of the walkers is...

A hit-and-run. A naked body in the cemetery. A local woman reported missing.A pregnant woman is knocked down by a couple in a car. They don't stop. Nearby, a man films the whole thing. He stands there smiling.Months later, Detective Mike Nash is called...

Nick Shannon is a convicted killer. But don't let that put you off. He had his reasons.After serving time in prison for the mercy killing of his quadriplegic sister, Nick Shannon is finally getting his life back on track working as a fraud detective.Business...

Detective Jemima Huxley gets a frantic call from a man. His wife is missing. She went for drinks with a friend and neither of them made it home. The husband tells her, "You don't know me, but you know my wife, Violet Watkins." It's...

The competition's on. And the knives are out . . .A cooking competition between Bath's top chefs is bound to be murder. Honey Driver knows that much for sure.But her head chef, Smudger Smith, is in the running for the grand prize and Honey...

The city of London. Morning rush hour. The police pull over a motorcycle courier for a trivial offence. He doesn't stop. The police give high-speed chase.He jumps a red light and is mown down by an oncoming car. Killed on impact.Detectives Paterson and Clocks...

Originally published as Dead Secret.Arnold finds himself on dangerous ground in shady Wolfcleugh Woods.This boggy land has swallowed many a victim. Including the Wolf Man. Archaeologists pull his body from the ground - perfectly preserved, centuries after death.What other secrets lie buried here?Archaeologists are...

A cold, grey January morning.A woman with a gun in her hand.A corpse on an abandoned golf course.Detective Inspector Andy Horton is taking a break on the Isle of Wight. But even when he's on holiday trouble follows him . . .On an abandoned...

MEET HONEY DRIVER. HOTEL OWNER. WIDOWED MUM. CRIME SOLVER?Honey Driver isn't sure about becoming the new police liaison for the Bath Hotels Association - especially when DS Steve Doherty is her opposite number.Yes, he's good-looking, but he's also arrogant and uninterested in partnering with...

A family brutally attacked in their own home. One survivor. A troubled female detective who must uncover the truth.The call comes through on DI Jemima Huxley's day off. A family of five brutally attacked in their own home. Bradley and Sally Rathbone and their...

An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves. A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career.The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen...

TWO SHIPS IN THE NIGHT.ANOTHER DEAD BODY.NO SAFE HARBOUR.A wave lifts the stern of the boat, rigging groans in protest and a crash comes from down below, as the wails of the cargo rise above the howl of the storm.It's a wild Christmas Day...

Local journalist and sometime sleuth Andi Silvers is on the trail of another mystery.Andrea "Andi" Silvers is starting to feel like the tiny fishing village of Coffin Cove, on the Vancouver coast, just might be home.She's sort of dating Harry and living with his...

You thought you were safe. Until he moved in next door... I haven't lived here long. The house is small and a little rundown, but each piece of faded floral wallpaper I peel away feels like unwrapping the second chance I never thought I'd...

Join Flora Steele - bookshop owner, bicycle-rider, and amateur detective - as she faces her most puzzling case yet!Sussex, 1957: When Flora Steele andhandsome crime writer Jack Carrington attend the grand re-opening of the Priory Hotel in the beautiful little village of Abbeymead, their...

She has my husband. She has my child. She has my life. I never thought I would end up here. Alone, in a cold one-bedroom apartment, only seeing my precious daughter once a week. Another woman is living the life that was once mine....

She glances around as she locks the café door behind her. It's growing dark and the quiet street is deserted. Tired, she starts on her short walk home. She thinks she'll be safe inside within minutes, but the person watching from the shadows has...

She's the friend you trust with your life. But can she trust you with hers? When the police knock on my door to tell me that my best friend Kiara has taken her life, my world shatters. Ever since we met at university along...

I'll never forget that day. It was blisteringly hot, and I begged our mother for an ice cream. As we left you with Dad, I didn't know it would be the last time I saw your face. Minutes later, we returned to the end...

If you love reading Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers you won't be able to put down this thrilling gangland crime thriller from bestselling author Emma Tallon. Scarlet Drew is sailing dangerously close to the wind with her new police detective boyfriend, John. Not everyone...

Francesca Eve, caterer extraordinaire, has come to Claremont House to work for the cream of society. A full breakfast spread? Simple. A glorious picnic lunch? Easy as pie.But a dead body for dinner was definitely not on the menu...No sooner has Francesca Eve turned...

When a dream trip becomes your worst nightmare... You've been excited about this getaway for months - at last, a chance to reconnect with your husband at a secluded island resort. But when he unexpectedly calls you from the beach, you hear the urgency...

I've known him all my life. I know he has taken my daughter. His mother says she can help me. But she's the last person I can trust... Samuel lived next door when we were children. We were inseparable. But he didn't like sharing...

She's in your home. But can you trust her? Newly pregnant and down on her luck, Lydia thinks her fortunes have changed when a customer at the café where she works offers her a job and a room in her plush Pacific Heights home....

Lovelace Manor has a famous past... but when a historian becomes history at its annual open day, amateur sleuth Eve Mallow is on the case! Everyone in Saxford St Peter flocks to Lovelace Sunday, the festival celebrating the romantic history of beautiful Lovelace Manor....

The girl is sitting upright, her dark brown hair arranged over her shoulders and her blue, blue eyes staring into the distance. She looks almost peaceful. But her gaze is vacant, and her skin is cold...When Detective Jackie Cooke is called to the murder...

My father said my mother killed herself. My sister says he's lying.The day of our mother's funeral, my little sister Lucy and I clung to our father's side.He promised he'd get us through it, and we believed him.But then I discovered that the coffin...

Once you're in, there's only one way out...Tired of always doing the dirty work with little reward, Danny McKay wants out of the gangland life. But his boss, Freddie Smith, has other ideas...As the current Top Dog of the East End, Freddie knows he...

The brand new action-packed gangland thriller from Kerry Kaya!An eye for an eye...Once the top dog, Danny Mckay has walked away from his old gangland life. He's on the straight and narrow now, looking forward to settling down and living a quiet life.But trouble...

From the stranger in the car, to the madman at her door...Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Shari Lapena and Lisa Jewell'It's a shocking thriller that grabs at your emotions on every page! Loved it.' - bestselling author Lauren NorthThe day my path crossed...