Fiction - Crime

Every relationship comes at a cost in this tense and gripping Turkish mystery from award-winning crime writer Barbara Nadel and featuring Ikmen - 'one of modern crime fiction's true heroes' The Times When jeweller Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment in the...

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter 'What? You mean the earl does it for money? That's way beyond the barbed wire!' This explosion of disgust from Blotto is provoked when Twinks informs...

Seven years ago in Cape Town three young white South African schoolboys were abducted in broad daylight on three consecutive days. They were never heard of again. Now, a new case for the unpredictable Colonel Vaughn de Vries casts a light on the original...

Ronald K. Fried is the author of two novels, My Father's Fighter and Christmas in Paris 2002 and the nonfiction title Corner Men: Great Boxing Trainers. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Beast, and his work has appeared in The New York...

The New York Times Bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems. THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL....

'Terrific' Ian RankinSome victims leave clues to their killers... A Hidden Clue A victim leaves a note for the SIO who will investigate her death. This not what DCI Kate Daniels expects to find concealed at a crime scene. A Desperate Plea The note...

Get ready to meet the toughest, deadliest, and most calculated players in Manchester's murky underworld... HE'S GOT EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL.You don't know Craig Malton. Hopefully you never will - until you need his help, help that the police can't give you. As well as...

Surely an investigative journalist looking into a simple housing development shouldn't merit threats and rifle shots? Nobody would think so until active members of the community opposing the scheme start being seriously injured or dying in suspicious circumstances.Enter DI Jim Trussell and his sergeant,...

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author."S.A. Cosby's reissued debut thriller proves he was a master from the start...Cosby has in three books emerged...

"'Locust Lane' is as perceptive as it is compulsively readable."--The Washington PostFor fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon's Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the...

From Nick Cannon comes King of the Dancehall, an exhilarating coming of age and tumultuous love story of Tarzan Brixton that spans from the projects of Brooklyn to the shores of Jamaica. After being released from a 5 year prison sentence for an armed...

A Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus and a Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Editors' Pick for AmazonA Reactor Magazine Best of the Year Pick "Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever...

From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, Julia Dahl's The Missing Hours is a novel about obsession, privilege, and the explosive consequences of one violent act. From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063310953ISBN-13: 9780063310957Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2023Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.34w x 0.65dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2023

Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy.How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn't exist?A glamorous...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!ONE BODY. SIX EXPERTS. CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE BEFORE THEY DO?Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a wholly immersive thriller like none you've seen before: written as the teleplay of a true-crime...

"Politically savvy, cleverly plotted...the kind of book that invites the ravenous language of binge reading: compulsive, propulsive, addictive."--New York Times Book ReviewFor fans of Jane Harper's The Dry or Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, a searing debut crime novel set in the Australian outback, where...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAgents Savich and Sherlock are back in the latest installment in Catherine Coulter's #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series, and this time both are enlisted to help women with traumatic pasts who are in mortal danger.When she was twelve...

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral, and Heat teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters...

A propulsive, mind-expanding thriller--and the world-shaking conclusion to the Course of Empire trilogy--about bold scientific dreams turning into nightmares ... or perhaps new beginnings ...After usurping control of the world's most powerful military technology, General Chip Walden knows the endgame is near and tasks...

Meet Gabriel Pr st, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark's Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present in a page-turning Nordic murder mystery with a cosmopolitan vibeEveryone in Denmark knew that Yousef Ahmed, a...

"The thing I love about Connie Briscoe now is the same thing I've always loved about Connie Briscoe--she writes highly commercial, pacey, character-driven stories. She was made for domestic suspense." --Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling authorThe revered New York Times bestselling writer makes...

When a man is shot at point blank range outside an isolated country pub, Kay Hunter is thrust into one of the most dangerous cases of her career. As personal and political disputes threaten to undermine her efforts to track down the killer, Kay's...

When a man is shot at point blank range outside an isolated country pub, Kay Hunter is thrust into one of the most dangerous cases of her career. As personal and political disputes threaten to undermine her efforts to track down the killer, Kay's...

A party ending with a slice of fresh murder . . . ?It's the spookiest night of the year and Honey Driver dresses up as Morticia Addams to go to the Halloween birthday party of one of her oldest friends at the Moss End...

A fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast in "one of the best LA noir novels I've ever read" (Attica Locke). "The book everybody's been waiting for" --Michael Connelly "An absolute tour de force"--S. A. Cosby "The best mystery novel I've...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor...

A propulsive, mind-expanding thriller--and the world-shaking conclusion to the Course of Empire trilogy--about bold scientific dreams turning into nightmares ... or perhaps new beginnings ...After usurping control of the world's most powerful military technology, General Chip Walden knows the endgame is near and tasks...

The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hit man into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one--why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful...

Crime fiction readers know Quarry--the ruthless killer for hire from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels--but where did Quarry's story start? For the first time ever, the bestselling author of Road to Perdition takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry's...

Another hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo! The end of the cricket season spells gloom for Blotto, until he is invited to bat against the Hollywood cricket team out in sunny LA, where rain never stops play. And so begins...

A fascinating historical mystery by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the Library"This book has it all: intrigue among the British aristocracy, the Nazi threat and a dashing Australian hero. I didn't want it to end!" --Rhys Bowen, New York...

A fascinating historical mystery by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the LibraryShortlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction for 2013"The combination of famous historical figures, detailed descriptions of a troubling time, and plenty of action makes...

A fascinating historical mystery by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the LibraryWinner of the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction for 2012Travel back in time to 1932 and book a first-class suite on the passenger liner RMS Aquitania,...

Fans of Steven F. Havill's Posadas County and Lisa Regan's Josie Quinn series will enjoy this fascinating and complex story set in small-town Missouri. "Balances well-developed characters and dry humor with a solid police procedural"- Library Journal Starred Review Elderly tourists visiting Branson, Missouri...

Introducing Maurice Mundy, retired detective constable at the Met; a maverick who's back and about to raise the temperature on a ten-year-old unsolved murder of a young boy. Maurice Mundy, recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police, has returned to join Scotland Yard's...

It was past midnight, and I was only a few kilometres from my destination when I noticed flashing blue lights in my rear-view mirror...It's the summer of 1980 and Sam, a charismatic young man of eighteen years, leaves New Zealand seeking adventure. A series...

Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, "The Godfather for our generation" (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The Power of the...

Quarry Lake. Twelve years ago.Three young women are attacked, all with long, dark hair. The attacker wears a yellow hi-vis jacket. One is murdered.One is left in a coma.One escapes. A small town lives in fear. It's Riona's last summer before heading to university....

When a mysterious laboratory explosion injures a student at Burlington University in northern Wisconsin, Lisa and Andy and their friends use their chemical knowledge and skills to track down the perpetrator of this crime. Their sleuthing uncovers a drug operation and a web of...

In a world that has changed much during the six years he's been in prison, Ronnie Harrison struggles to piece together a new life from the wreckage of his old one. As a condition of his early parole, Ronnie must stay at a halfway-house...

On paper, Steve Jones is a stellar law professor at an elite university in Miami, with impressive credentials and a long list of academic accomplishments. But there is a side Professor Jones only shows to a select few: he is a prolific serial killer.Detectives...

On paper, Steve Jones is a stellar law professor at an elite university in Miami, with impressive credentials and a long list of academic accomplishments. But there is a side Professor Jones only shows to a select few: he is a prolific serial killer.Detectives...

On paper, Steve Jones is a stellar law professor at an elite university in Miami, with impressive credentials and a long list of academic accomplishments. But there is a side Professor Jones only shows to a select few: he is a prolific serial killer.Detectives...

On paper, Steve Jones is a stellar law professor at an elite university in Miami, with impressive credentials and a long list of academic accomplishments. But there is a side Professor Jones only shows to a select few: he is a prolific serial killer.Detectives...

On paper, Steve Jones is a stellar law professor at an elite university in Miami, with impressive credentials and a long list of academic accomplishments. But there is a side Professor Jones only shows to a select few: he is a prolific serial killer.Detectives...

Tanned and relaxed after a holiday in Spain, Detective Joanna Piercy is brought back to reality with a bump thanks to Staffordshire's appalling weather - and another dead body.It's local Leek resident Kathleen Weston who makes the gruesome discovery. The smell is so bad...

Welcome to Cobden Manor. A beautiful retreat in lush green grounds, with charming rooms, mouth-watering cuisine . . . and a dead body up the chimney. Thank goodness Honey is on the case! It's a crisp sunny day when Honey Driver and fiancé Steve...

Pearl and McGuire are thrust together again as partners in crime in this ninth instalment of the popular Whitstable Pearl Mystery series, from bestselling author, Julie Wassmer.Pearl Nolan receives a wedding invitation from an old school friend she hasn't seen for years. Amy, a...