Fiction - Crime

A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci's new thriller.Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap...

No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide.Earl Thomas, a straight-laced taxman with his fair share of police encounters, is the begrudging foreperson in a high-stakes trial in Miami. Laura Hurtado-Perez is a physician whose unassuming manner conceals a private pain....

How does Gregory Thackery, a novice reporter working for a third-rate newsweekly, scoop the New York Press, the New York Daily Tribune, New York News Journal, and the vaunted New York Dispatch, America's so-called ""newspaper of historical memory""? Luck? Common sense? Hidden connections? Even...

Before he can solve a brutal murder, a small-town police chief/preacher battles the town council, who wants to fire him, a hit man posing as Jerry Lee Lewis, who wants to kill him, a bar owner, who gets drunk every Christmas Eve and climbs...

Chris Vincent is the union's trusted computer software vendor who has been drawn into a trap between the union and the FBI. He has discovered the union's secret conspiracies and how organized labor attains power and how their computers are used to move millions...

Chris Vincent is the union's trusted computer software vendor who has been drawn into a trap between the union and the FBI. He has discovered the union's secret conspiracies and how organized labor attains power and how their computers are used to move millions...

Sherlock Holmes must solve three cases that carry him into the unnatural: the disappearance of the Baker Street Irregulars, the true identity of a Great War veteran, and a vampyre's grisly death. He must cross into the worlds of the Grimm Brothers and Bram...

Twenty-Three Minutes takes you on a ride-along in the front seat of a patrol car with Officer Howard Hamilton of Orchard Hill PD.He loves working the streets and finds out he is assigned to train a new recruit who may be a former gang...

Is he guilty or innocent? Even he doesn't know...On the eve of their thirtieth birthday, twins Jasmine and Nicolas Moretti celebrate late into the night. But when Nicolas wakes several hazy hours later, Jasmine is dead--and he is covered in her blood. Panicking, he...

Booklist calls the Ben Pecos mysteries, from award-winning author Susan Slater, "A series to watch." Ben Pecos finds himself leaving his new home and new wife Julie in Florida, as he is sent on temporary assignment with the Indian Health Service to remote and...

Complexities of Human Emotions: TouchedBy: emily nicole Touched is the tale of a young woman living in the present but struggling with a secret from her past.Tiana Reed has a perfect life-doting husband, inquisitive daughter, and the career of her dreams...but when an estranged...

Before presenting his thesis defense, Fredrick Davidson plants a gun in the first-aid kit of one of the university's science labs, preparing for whatever might lay ahead. Sweating and delusional, he watches the potential victims file in. When the defense is set to start,...

Steve Keller is a bright young man with a bright future. He's highly educated and modest to a fault, but a resolving thinker thwarted by his own stubborn undoing. A return to the Navajo Reservation wasn't in his immediate plans but after completing his...

The sequel to Deadly Distrust occurs three years later during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. The morals of sex are changing, and the LGBT community is in turmoil. Our heroine, Elinor DeMartini, inherits a large estate. However, the board of directors doesn't want...

Abuser and loser Eugene "Downlow" Colston is left with tormenting, bitter defeatism and relentless despair as a total failure, brokenhearted and frustrated by his fed-up former fianc e. She beat him badly during a spat and, later, legally, in a court case against her....

Welcome to the Den ... Four days before she's meant to take on an assignment she doesn't want, Luna 'Calavera' Santiago is offered another gift-this one from the man she knows she shouldn't trust-the Kingmaker.He'll stop at nothing to get revenge against those that...

His only chance to save a young girl's life is to put his trust in a headline-hunting kidnapper.Former reporter Scott Fleetwood and his family are still recovering after tangling with a notorious kidnapper, the Piper, when another kidnapper grips the city. The Shepherd has...

A staggering debut novel of murder, loyalty, love, and survival at all costs, set in the teeming underbelly of Calcutta's most infamous neighborhood.In Calcutta's notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to a better life. Her unfailingly loyal client Tilu Shau has dreams too. A heady...

Betrayal, secrets, revenge, and murder: they're in the blood in a provocative novel of psychological suspense by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Everything Is Mine.As Norway's newly appointed minister of justice, child-rights advocate Clara Lofthus has a chance to accomplish something meaningful on...

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

A trilogy of vintage British crime stories by the author of the Stone Dead and Inspector Ketch series. All three are based on the historic English seaside resort of Cromer. In 'A Cromer Corpse, ' ex-cop John Bottrell is looking forward to a peaceful...

FIND THE SOURCE. BREAK THE STORY. STAY ALIVE. ONE YEAR AFTER the 9/11 attacks, Alex Vane--a brilliant, fitness-obsessed reporter for The New York Standard--wants nothing more than to break into the flashy world of TV news. But when he uncovers the scoop of a...

Lamar, better known in the streets as Loot, is all about his money. When his little sister is kidnapped and held for half a million-dollar ransom, Loot goes on a rampage to get the money in return of his sister. Blood is shed all...

Recovering from a head injury, former soldier John Dollar is drawm into a new path protecting his nation. Using his knowledge of medical science, coupled to a keen intelligence and all the skills he learned as a soldier, Dollar sets out to track down...

A boy named Mark bullies people. But he goes way too far.Author: Rebecca C. BenamatiISBN-10: 1535539895ISBN-13: 9781535539890Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/27/2016Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.23d

The Efficiency Expert is a 1921 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of a small number of Burroughs' novels set in contemporary America as opposed to a fantasy universe, The Efficiency Expert follows the adventures of Jimmy Torrance as he attempts to make a...

The play is over. Most of the actors are dead or gone, but the story lingers on, too haunting to forget, yet too frightening to remember. With an inner urgency, I feel compelled to relate this story to a sleeping giant, a confession to...

Originally published in The Strand Magazine, where he was second in popularity only to the legendary Sherlock Holmes, these stories introduced the world to antihero gentleman cricketer and thief, A.J. Raffles, along with his faithful cohort, Bunny Manders. Stories included: The Ides of March...

Welcome to the Den... Seven years ago, Niklaus "Red" Volkov was offered an opportunity, one that would give him the ability to even the score with the Albanian mobsters that had tortured him for days and took the life of the only girl he'd...

There is a conspiracy afoot, one involving some of the most dangerous people on the planet. A network of organized serial killers exists; Aislinn Cain and the SCTU have found evidence of it. Yet, they have very few leads. Until the serial killers go...

"Trapped" is a complex psychological story about Kay, who as a young woman escaping her troubled family, makes impulsive destructive choices, as well as establishing success in her legal career. Kay's chronic distrust of others, and her unrealistic dreams of a different life story...

In The Plumber Lee W. Hickok, MD, an alcoholic urologist, is faced with case after case of patients from the skid-row of Galveston Texas who have had one or both kidneys removed by a surgeon who calls himself The Plumber. These victims are from...

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

A university intrigue. A prestigious Vice-Chancellor receives two formal complaints just before he is due to retire. The underlying theme throughout weaves a potent, cultural mix between Maliha, a Muslim student, and Jenny, a Jewish secretary. How will they get on, especially working for...

When a woman plunges to her death from the penthouse of a Palm Beach hotel, Detective Charlie Crawford rushes to the scene. Arriving at the hotel, one thing is clear: she definitely did not jump.A few days later, Crawford catches a break: seems there...

Having been made the laughing stock of her hometown by her cheating ex-fianc , Investigator Markie Pearson has sworn off overly-confident, good-looking men. When Bryce Hawk strolls into town, Markie quickly realizes he's the classic example of a man she needs to keep at...

Just outside the city of Seoul, Korea, a crime scene is discovered with two corpses and two critically injured victims. Detective Yong Taemin is assigned to the case. Of the two surviving victims, only one awakens. But, she has lost her memory. With Taemin's...

Meet Tommy Martini, the monk with an anger management problem. Since killing somebody with a single punch is not a needed talent in a monastery, he spends his time praying, meditating, and taking his anger management medicine. But his meditations are interrupted by a...

Buyer beware. To create excitement, Ruger, a shady dealer at the annual rendezvous flea market, puts up for auction a locked Civil War trunk with contents to be sold sight unseen That night, the highest bidder, Zeke Jones, is found stabbed to death beside...

Chance C. Bouchard (Chancey to his friends) was a rookie cop in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina. He left due to some bad blood between him and some of his fellow officers. Adrift for a time, he follows the advice of a departing girlfriend...

The Jewish FBI Agent is a story about finding a source of precious opal, and tracing it's trip to Harry Winston, where a very expensive piece of jewelry was created. The necklace eventually ends up the property of a digital wunderkind. The necklace, along...

In his new novel, Robert Gadkey takes you on a wild ride exploring what matters in life, and the price people pay to get it.On a snowy afternoon in rural Minnesota, con artist Ronan Sullivan sat on a bus bench waiting to go back...

Officer Kelsie Lee Ray joins the search for a missing man. The investigation will uncover not only this wayward individual, but much darker threats looming all around their small town. Amidst returning loves and pressing new ones, Kelsie begins to suspect the peril might...

Silver has brought thousands of men to Virginia City, Nevada circa 1860s. Millions of dollars worth of silver is being pulled from the mines, ladies of the evening ply their trade in the local brothels and the streets are rife with danger. Assistant Police...

You've met the Morelli family, now delve into the love story of Mateo's callous brother, Dante Morelli...Loving Dante was my original sin. They warned me of the slippery slope, the moral corruption, the outright debasement of the Morelli family. They warned me not to...

After Petros Stavrianos leaves the Greek Police to become a private investigator, he receives an invitation from John Alexandrou, a wealthy airline owner, in order to investigate a possible extramarital affair of his wife. The case seems easy and ordinary. However, upon arriving in...

A broken tree branch.A dead body.An ambitious personal assistant.An unfaithful husband.Was it murder or simply an unfortunate accident?A lot of people resented Amelia Prescott, the grande dame of marketing agencies, because of her success. But did someone resent her enough to murder her? That...

It is the summer of 1972: the Vietnam War is still raging, the Cold War is still hot and WWII is still a lurking memory. This legal thriller travels from the Canadian bush to the Australian outback; from courtroom battles to barroom brawls.Old Bill...

Norma, a new work of fiction by writer Mark Zwolinski, asks you to enjoy a roller coaster like story about a kind, elderly woman, who saves a town from corruption and violence by surviving those very things herself. But the book also asks you...

Vegas 1967. The mob controls the town as casino executive Harry Lake finds himself at the center of a deadly battle between a psychotic gangster and the Mormon church for control of the Desert Inn hotel, jeopardizing his elaborate scheme to steal $500 million...