Fiction - Crime

After National Park Service Ranger Sarah Higgins helped US Park Police Lieutenant Mike Finnegan solve the theft of a priceless artifact from a federal building in lower Manhattan, she informed Finnegan that she began to receive anonymous letters in her mailbox. The first envelope...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "OMG!! Wow!! I couldn't wait to turn each page, wanting to read ever faster. What a brilliant gripping book." Nicki DISCOVER YOUR NEW FAVOURITE DETECTIVE - SHE'S SMART, BRAVE AND JUST A BIT RECKLESS. It was just an ordinary Wednesday lunchtime when Detective...

Girl at Midnight has sold over a million copies in Poland and Katarzyna Bonda has become her country's undisputed Queen of Crime. For seven years, Sasza Zaluska has lived with her little girl in the north of England. Far from her previous job as...

Two murders, forty years apart. What links them? Detectives Anderson & Costello undertake their most baffling investigation to date. The body is found in the early hours of the morning, drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Twenty-three-year-old medical student Aasha Ariti had been enjoying...

The fourth and final book in Small Town Secrets: Sins!THE CONVICTEx-con Curt Tillman never knew his father. He only discovers he's the son of notorious serial killer Ed Dryden when his old man escapes from prison and goes after the woman Curt loved... and...

Assistant Chief Constable Iles finds himself suspected of murder in the fast-paced 35th installment of the popular Harpur and Iles police procedural series. Tensions in the community are mounting following the gruesome deaths of two men, both of whom were accused yet acquitted of...

Phillip Fairview is a writer with no ideas, his solution? Hire a serial killer named Gareth to murder people so that he can find inspiration for his true crime novel, of course.Author: Josh KempISBN-10: 8665521844ISBN-13: 9798665521848Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2020Pages: 102Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.00h...

When Emma Corsi's best friend Jack Russo decides to expand Ristorante Massimo into a luxury restaurant and hotel, someone sabotages half a million dollars worth of his best French wine. Was it environmentalists worried about Blissburg's development run amuck, the 98% worried about affordable...

Franks finds himself in a bind and enlists the help of his friend, Brett Jacobs, to help alleviate the problem. Barberio's Butchers, a small-time gang with big-time aspirations, is looking to put a hurting on the pawn shop owner. It's up to Jacobs to...

There's a contract out on Brett Jacobs. He knows it has something to do with Mallette, but he keeps hearing the name of Harper. There are multiple teams of hitmen scouring the city streets for him, all looking for a chance at a big...

A dark mafia romance novel by International Bestselling Author, Nikita Slater.Born to the mafia and gifted to a mobster.Two years ago, Raina found out that she was the daughter of a very powerful family. She was introduced to a dark new world, a mother...

"The colonel was right. You had to draw a line through mankind, a wavy line but a line, and on one side you had Good and on the other side you had Evil. There was good and bad in everyone, sure, and every shitheel...

Kenny Thurmond is a young man on top of the world, he has just eloped with the woman of his dreams and about to welcome a child. The thing that he has waited for his whole life, finally is being realized. A family of...

Author: Bill RobertsonISBN-10: 1925367126ISBN-13: 9781925367126Publisher: Brolga Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2016Pages: 418Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.85d

A tempting mission could connect Kathy with her birth father...or get her killed. When a decades-old packet of letters surfaces, Kathy Klein discovers her father wasn't who she thought he was, and he may still be alive. Although she recognizes it's probably a hopeless...

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.Author: John...

From the author of Family Business and Lucifer's Children comes FAMILY BUSINESS: Live Bait, an epic novel of criminal activity and unimaginable atrocities which span two rural counties. Worlds collide when Allen Chambers, pit bull breed advocate and country boy, begins his search for...

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished man who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, ridding...

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containinAuthor: Charles DickensISBN-10: 1515426793ISBN-13: 9781515426790Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 780Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.88lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Doan, a chubby, wisecracking private eye, and Carstairs, a Great Dane so huge he ought to be considered a new species, follow a trail of mayhem and confusion from Hollywood to the Mojave Desert town of Heliotrope, a place so thoroughly offensive that neither...

He Knew He Was Right describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife. As is common with Trollope's works, there are also several substantial subplots. Trollope makes constant allusions to...

Reproductions of the classic Sherlock Holmes stage plays, The Speckled Band and Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. These plays offer a fascinating insight into an early and often forgotten chapter of the Sherlock Holmes legacy.Author: Sir Arthur Conan...

The latest from Governor General's Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.In between the mountains and the sea, on the north shore of the...

Author: Jay KiddISBN-10: 1465367314ISBN-13: 9781465367310Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2011Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Gay Mormon FBI Special Agent James Stern befriends Laramie local Richard Boehme, deputizing him to assist in the apprehension of Emma and James, a murderous couple from Oklahoma hiding out near Lubbock, Texas. Set mostly in 1936 at the depth of the Dust Bowl,...

Shortlisted for the Sixth Annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Literary Fiction Category Niall Howell's Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland's...

At forty years of age, Daniel Winter has just begun his career as a private detective, having been pensioned off by the Metropolitan Police (where he rose to the rank of Detective-Inspector), ostensibly on mental-health grounds. During his period of enforced leisure, he wrote...

When a customer is poisoned at San Francisco's popular Corsi's Restaurant that caters to the world's most famous musicians and opera stars, Debora Corsi worries that her restaurant will not survive. With the Opera's Opening Night dinner only weeks away, Debora Corsi needs to...

Some people just need killing.By all appearances, Lucas Langford is a totally normal guy. But the retired manager of a car dealership in Texas has a dark secret. Years ago, he found and kept a 9mm gun and seventeen bullets. Ever since, he has...

'I'm a killer, an assassin, a murderer, a criminal. But above all, I'm an artist.'France, 1986. Achilles Clazay is a successful and charismatic businessman who is adored by his partner and respected by his colleagues. He is also a talented artist who lives for...

Orion Jackson, kingpin of the BGO, otherwise known as the Black Gangsta Organization, has inherited a world of life-threatening problems.The adverse circumstances of an uncouth outside affiliate have mercilessly entangled Orion and his organization to an ongoing murderous conflict with the Mexican mob. This...

A murdered priest, a missing body, stolen treasure: Brother Athelstan tackles his most challenging investigation to date. October, 1381. Brother Athelstan is summoned to the church of St Benet's in Queenhithe to investigate the murder of a priest. Parson Reynaud has been found stabbed...

I risked all, lost all, and now fear nothing in this world nor the next. Barman, fill a pint of the finest Guinness for this curious reader.Can you put a price on honour? Answer me this while the temper in your pint settles.How much...

A legal thriller/crime drama that tests the bonds of love and loyalty among District Attorney Amanda Hawthorne, Dr. Jen Dawson and Detective Tommy Vietti. In Sativa Strain, Amanda carries with her the quiet confidence of a yogi, the unrelenting burden of a prosecutor, and...

Detective Mark Young is caustic, dark, and funny... when he's in a good mood. If not, he's downright dangerous-especially to himself.Detective and family man Mark Young seems to be losing his mind as the bodies pile up around him. He stalks young women, unloads...

She would be severely beaten and likely killed if she stayed, but certainly killed if she tried to leave. Was it self-defense, or was it murder? To defend his client, one lawyer from Michigan's Upper Peninsula must find the truth in forensic evidence and...

Autumn Carlisle loves her job as cabin crew supervisor for Lomond Airlines. At least she did. For months, she has experienced a deepening sense of dread whenever she steps onto an aeroplane. Her dreams are filled with horrific scenes of injury and destruction. Autumn...

Perth, Western Australia was in the grip of terror. An ice-cold hand clawed at its heart. Five teenage girls were missing. Three were from Kalamunda village in the Perth foothills. The police were completely baffled.Was someone toying with the police? A police officer and...

The setting is an island off the southern coast of Norway where vacationers are enjoying the hospitality of a resort hotel. Following the suspicious death on the island's moors of Forestry Agent Blinde, recently engaged to the beautiful Hilde Gj rnes, master detective detective...

Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business afloat, her father's failing health, the challenge of developing a long-term relationship with Christopher, but also the approach of Mother's Day, a busy and painful day for her.But in taking...

Preorder Chris Brookmy're stunning, unique new novel THE CRACKED MIRROR now A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick'Strikingly original and definitively Brookmyre - there's nothing he can't do'Mick Herron 'I recommend The Cut SO HIGHLY! A fast-paced thriller, lovely characters, [and] it kept me...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend's murder--but only if the killer doesn't get her first. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is...

An intelligent and page-turning thriller from the international bestselling author of Killer Move. It should've been the greatest day in David's life. A trip to New York, wife by his side, to visit his new publisher. Finally it looks as though the gods of...

A searing, poignant, darkly comic novel set on Cape Cod by the author of the bestselling true crime story Invisible Eden. Young Alden Warren's husband has vanished without a trace. Her daily routine -- working for the National Park Service at the Cape Cod...

There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the class act of the urban thriller, Michiko Kakutani of The New...

"A gritty, noirish crossbreed of Blade Runner and L.A. Confidential. . . . An intelligent, finely crafted mystery, a speculative thriller that brilliantly channels the anxieties of our time." -- New York Times Book ReviewFor fans of Terry Hayes and Daniel Silva, this chilling,...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's seminal classic, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a...

"This bruising story is less a murder mystery than an unflinching look at a culture and community." - Kirkus Reviews"What does a boy do when things go bad at home? Who does he tell when things grow worse? Leeland didn't tell anyone--or did he?...

"She wasn't pretty but she was ours..." Sandwiched between seedy businesses in the scorching east LA suburb of Glendale, The Damned Lovely dive bar is as scarred as its regulars: ex-cops, misfits and loners. And for Sam Goss, it's a refuge from the promising...

When Ebony Makepeace packed a few things in a carry bag and closed the door of her North Melbourne apartment for the last time, she struggled to believe she was dead. But when she saw her parents, best friend and ex-boyfriend all crying at...