Fiction - Crime

Author: David James KeatonISBN-10: 1940885272ISBN-13: 9781940885278Publisher: Broken River BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2015Pages: 548Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 7.01h x 4.37w x 1.11dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2015

Deceit is universal and murder has no permanent home. Both Al Capone and a medieval relic thief could understand them. So could lawyers, teenagers, union members, contract killers, and Home Economics teachers. With rich historical detail, the stories in Crime In Its Time range...

No matter the effort that Bromise Balducci put forth early on to undermine his passion to kill, he d fall weak to the seducer of power over again. Initially, it was only his mentor and grandpa, Brisco, that basked in the joy of Bromises...

"It was a book called A Spoiler of Men, by Richard Marsh, and there was a repulsive crime on almost every page. It was Hot Stuff." - P. G. Wodehouse "A Spoiler of Men is as good as The Beetle, and when one has...

Everybody's out to get Johnny Porno It's the New York City in the 1970's and John Albano is trying to get by. But they've taken his union card and work is hard to come by. He's hired to pick up the cash at showings...

College student Fred Fuller is pleased with his new part time job as a messenger for Bank USA. The job pays well, the hours are perfect, and many of the bank tellers he works with are young and pretty. When one of the tellers...

In a near-future Toronto, Detective Roberts is on a mission to solve a seemingly impossible-to-solve case. Young women around the world keep disappearing and he has been tasked with an investigation that only has a heel of a shoe and three drops of blood...

All The Devils Are Here - By Michael SaadAt the age of 10, Mom gave me a puff of weed and Dad started cooking meth in the basement. Mom was always high. I thought all families were like that. But when the local gang...

Dana Bowman has misgivings about starting the home-based Attic Investigative Agency with her fraternal twin, Bast Overture. Especially when the agency's launch is preceded by a break and enter downstairs and a kidnapping at the Mini-Mall involving her son David's babysitter, Debbie Sangwell. Especially...

When two small-time hoods execute a drug heist for their boss but decide to keep some of the take, trouble erupts. Stubb Malley's Thornton mob, the Dalco east-coast crime syndicate, an Insurance Company president and College Dean, a High School Superintendent, a nervous rookie...

Johnny Valenti is a hit man as well as a man committed to ethics. True, the standard he abides by is somewhat different from traditional ethics, yet he is a man of principle. His uncompromising commitment is to omert - the code of silence....

Jules Madigan loves his family and he loves his job. The only thing he's missing out on is a Happy Ever After, like the ones written by his favourite romance author Ewan Byge. While he's waiting for that HEA, Jules indulges himself in buying...

A mysterious woman in black, appears at night.Arriving in horse and carriage.Stays at Kyrme Cottage, then at night - disappears.She always wears black lace.Abbey Combe's new Vicar vanishes overnight.A corpse found buried in the garden.Murder in Richmond Park.And the link with Jane Austen These...

A novel about revenge, obsession, and the dangerous gullibility of religious fanatics. In 1944, in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Nunawading, a brutal triple murder heralds the return of a long-forgotten cult. A man named Anthony Prescott has declared himself the Messiah and has promised...

When the body of Inzamam Khan is dumped onto a busy Southampton street, it marks the fall of a dark empire.Khan is a successful restaurateur, married to an equally successful and beautiful wife, with two loving teenage daughters.He is also one of the country's...

Book 2 in The Pain Series. You need to read book 1 as this is a follow on. 18+ After being left for dead, buried alive, Poppy's alone with nowhere to go, no money, no ID, nothing. She's a fighter, she knows she will...

A Crime In The Land of 7,000 Islands is a powerhouse crime thriller fused with folk tales and the influence of anime. This psychological literary fiction tells the tale of Ikigai Johnson, a Special Agent working out of the FBI's Portland, Oregon field office,...

The Scotsmansis the story of a Glasgow detective investigating his own daughter's death in Washington, D.C. Six months after the murder of Catriona Cowan, a Scottish exchange student, her father arrives in D.C. skeptical of the findings of an earlier police investigation. Chic Cowan's...

Nina O'Brien's life changes forever when a stranger appears at the door to her father's truck stop, bloodied and incoherent.As night falls and a ferocious storm descends on the tiny Californian community, the small group of people sheltering with Nina steel themselves to face...

If they move you, they will kill you.When Kate Foster secures a lucrative new job, her boss insists that she undertake a pre-deployment security and hostage survival course - a course that's not meant to be easy, and one that Kate almost fails, to...

One for My Baby is a neo-noir tale of crime, sex and free enterprise in the contemporary American Dream.Like many Americans nowadays, Mark Sharpton has had to take a second job to make ends meet. When not performing as a lounge musician, he commits...

They call him The Kid. He's a killer, a dark legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, "a child who terrifies adults." They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn't exist,...

The third book in the Amaka Thrillers series. Funke's assignation with her pastor lover is cut short when he is assassinated in their hotel room, as she hides naked and terrified inside a sofa. Desperate for help, she calls on Amaka, who has moved...

"Famous Spiritualist Dead . . . Gun Found in Flat"In The Case of the Happy Medium Ludovic Travers is at the top of his considerable form. When Ludovic and his wife set out to attend a s ance, they are in a mood of...

He was deader than last year's hit-song. At the side of the skull was where the bullet had done its work.Four detectives? Surely things must have come to quite a pass if the well-tried team of Ludovic Travers and George Wharton has to be...

I was thinking of offering Godfrey Prial some sort of partnership. I'm pretty sure now of at least two things--that he liked me, and that he'd have accepted. If he'd lived.When Ludovic Travers took over Bill Ellice's Broad Street Detective Agency, he was glad...

"Murder's my job, not parish politics."Ludovic Travers, the unofficial expert of Scotland Yard, pairs with his friend, Superintendent Wharton, to dig deeply into an East Anglian murder. Interwoven are the thefts of antique rugs and pictures from old churches, and in putting together the...

An elderly woman collapses and dies during a Sunday morning church service in Oakham. But things aren't quite as innocent as they seem.Within hours, there's a second unexplained death in Rutland. Then a third. But the victims appear to be completely unconnected.With the body...

Philip Chance, a writer researching the biography of a dead test pilot, finds a colleague murdered. His own life is threatened when he suspects that not everything is as it seems to be and that not everyone is telling him the truth about the...

A plane crash on Dulworth Bay and the disappearance of two schoolboys are linked when Temple pursues the shadowy Curzon, whose name is inscribed on a cricket bat owned by one of the boys. "Francis Durbridge is one of the finest manufacturers of red...

'Anything doing?''Maybe, ' he said guardedly, and then as a kind of afterthought: 'Just slipping along to Hampstead. Charles Manfrey's dead.'Ludovic Travers is on army leave in London when actor and theatrical impresario Charles Manfrey is murdered, so it is not surprising that Superintendent...

A thrilling crime novel set in Belgrade that dives into Serbia's troubled history. Jelena Volic and Christian Sch?emann's latest thriller follows a case for criminologist Milena Lukin, the protagonist of their previous novels Cornflower Blue and Peony Red. Set in Belgrade, a city of...

A body holding a spade in the sand amidst tales of a missing gem. An old boy's network whose members are rapidly becoming extinct. Can Macleod solve the gamester's clues before the club players are liquidated and the prize is gone forever?In the sixth...

Retired DCI Geoff Sutton now works as a civilian at Parton Constabulary. Life is quiet as he follows his usual routine of golf and watching his beloved Upper Parton RFC - but all that's about to change...Walking home one evening, Geoff sees a familiar...

It's dirty, dusty work for Jack, a builder, working in a small apartment block after fire damage. His boss, Ben, also employs his own son, Tony.Tony does anything but work, and his dad spends too much time searching for him. Left alone in the...

THE PAST WILL NEVER LET YOU GO...When a four-year-old girl and her father are found dead in the Swedish city of Karlskrona, the police quickly conclude it was a murder-suicide, a tragedy requiring no further investigation.But Luke Bergmann, a reformed criminal still haunted by...

Life was never going to be easy for Joe Tubbs. Without a father, his role model was his mother, a promiscuous addict who died of an overdose when he was just fifteen. The Hollywood dream kept his fragile mind together, but ridicule and rejection...

From the award-winning author of Myra, Beyond Saddleworth.A novel that dares to look unflinchingly at a subject the media have turned away from. Alma Black is a campaigning journalist who travels to Orkney to interview Hugh Watts, a troubled survivor of childhood Satanist abuse....

Author: Ricki ThomasISBN-10: 1907954171ISBN-13: 9781907954177Publisher: Wild Wolf PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2011Pages: 310Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

How many times have I told you that we must appear to run this hotel as commercial proposition?"Newly arrived in London, journalist Charles Venables has been invited by his friend Viola to stay - at least temporarily - at a residential hotel in Kensington....

This selection of short fiction by award-winning author Gary A.Braunbeck is a haunting and evocative collection, plumbing the heights and depths of the human spirit. Braunbeck writes of everyday people, with everyday joys and tragedies. He channels his fellow Ohioans Bradbury and Serling, writing...

When Billy Glasheen picks up a trashy paperback he finds in his cab, its plot seems weirdly familiar. One of the main characters is based on him . . . Only one person knows enough about his past to have written it--Max, his double-crossing...

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right-hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire.In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the...

This dazzling thriller and sequel to the national bestseller Conviction finds Anna and Fin reunited for an even bigger adventure, as they once more go on the lam to solve a murder--and make another podcast.Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence.Anna McDonald has...

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...

LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch's "white whale"--a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard quit the force in the face of...

London in 1914 is a city gripped by fear and pushed to the breaking point as a killer stalks the streets. Fortunately, Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Silas Quinn is on the case. A killer is at large in the dark alleyways of early 20th...

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...

Book 1 in The O'Connor Chronicles She ran. They hunted her. They don't lurk in the dark or hide in the shadows. No. They hide in plain sight. They could be anyone: your next-door neighbor, your father, your friend...the person you least expect. The...

Secret Service agent Glinka Glickstien has been "special" from birth. Her talents were always on display, whether she was playing sports, breaking up a counterfeiting ring, or guarding people. But when she and her colleagues discover that she has been the real target of...