Fiction - Crime

It's a glorious autumn evening in Tarnfield when Deborah Arbiter falls to her death.What was she doing on the roof of her old Georgian country house, St Jane's?People think Deborah was up there inspecting a leak. But Suzy Spencer doesn't believe the seventy-year-old was...

No motive.No weapon.No confession.One suspect.It isn't every day that Detective Chris Bailey is handed a triple homicide.They may have their share of problems in the scenic wooded hills of Tennessee, but news that a young man - a child, really - wiped out his...

After a series of personal tragedies and abuse from his alcoholic mother, eighteen-year-old Bax is determined to rebuild his life.Using money left to him by his father, he finds a place to live and a job at the local coffee shop. But after he...

Sometimes the shadows that haunt us are what lead us back to the light Disgraced former police detective James Draygo has sunk as low as his habit allows, working as a fake psychic despite his very real talents. When a media mogul's trashy trophy...

In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of Scotland Yard, the ambitious,...

"Burglar Junior Bender may just be our favorite literary P.I."--Entertainment Weekly It's three days until Christmas and Junior Bender, Hollywood's fasttalking fixer for the felonious, is up to his ears in shopping mall Santas, Russian mobsters, desperate holiday shoppers, and ('tis the season) murder....

Hollywood burgler Junior Bender finds himself caught in a revenge plot epic enough for the silver screen. Los Angeles's most talented burglar, Junior Bender, is in the middle of stealing one of the world's rarest stamps from a professional killer when his luck suddenly...

A teenage runaway... Sydney teen Keely Johnson went missing in 1988. Five years on, with her family ripped apart by their grief, her younger sister Ashley remains determined to never give up hope of finding her. An unsolved disappearance... From the outside looking in,...

Author: T. W. PersonISBN-10: 1499017723ISBN-13: 9781499017724Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2014Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Dangerous Lies follows the lives of two characters: Jake Stern and Tina Davis. After losing his parents and sister in a fire, Jake is raised by his grandparents. As he goes from being a traumatized boy to exceptional student-athlete and finally to ambitious Assistant...

While trying to free a lawyer friend convicted of a crime he didn't commit, New Orleans private investigator Luke Jacobs is drawn into an international web of real estate fraud, pharmaceutical corporation misdealing and murder. Mardi Gras may have to be put on hold.Author:...

A People Magazine "Book of the Week." "Jessica Treadway draws her characters into an impossible knot and then expertly teases apart...kept me up half the night." -- Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth Fans of Reconstructing Amelia will love this pulse-pounding...

It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas. The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics...

Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache--until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother's driveway. Even worse, her supposedly respectable brother begins behaving in decidedly non-innocent ways, like fleeing to the Bahamas and leaving her with both a...

A MURDER BEGINS AND ENDS this story of scandal and tragedy in a college town. You'll meet some memorable characters here - most of them hair-raising - as novelist Vin Packer spins out a sinister excursion with the cool, campy kids of Far Point...

'An addictive new talent' Helen FieldsONLY A MOTHER . . .Erica Wright hasn't needed to scrub 'MURDERER' off her house in over a year. Life is almost quiet again. Then her son, Craig, is released from prison, and she knows the quiet is going...

'Brand new series. Same top-notch writing.' Eva Dolan When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS...

The creator of the acclaimed Detective Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a murder mystery set in rural Shropshire, England, in the darkest days of the Second World War. Following the disastrous retreat of the British army from Dunkirk in 1940, England...

Branson county sheriff Hank Worth struggles to uncover the truth behind a fatal car crash in this absorbing mystery. Hank Worth thinks he's performed a good deed when he pulls over the car of six teens caught speeding on a Saturday night and lets...

"Ward Just is not merely America's best political novelist. He is America's greatest living novelist."--Susan Zakin, Lithub "An achievement . . . [that] fuses the romanticism of the early Kerouac and his mentor, Thomas Wolfe, with the wry humor of Richard Yates."--New York Times...

Dennis Bogdanovich buys a glass-bottomed boat in Russia to start a tourist business in New Zealand. His Russian cousin, Sergey, offers to transport it to Amsterdam in his friend Zaheed's truck. Bad idea, as already on board the truck are the essential parts for...

The author of the celebrated memoir Blue Blood ("May be the best account ever written of life behind the badge." --Time) delivers a mesmerizing, relentless thriller that rings with the truth of what it takes to be an NYPD detective. Nick Meehan is introspective,...

Pretty, young Anne Beddingfield comes to London looking for adventure. But adventure finds her when she sees a man fall off an Underground platform and die on the rails. The police think the death was an accident. But who was the man in the...

Part of the elegant Timeless Classics series, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is comprised of 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories featuring the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective. For Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide, this stunning hardcover edition is perfect for gift giving. Written by...

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 random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man,...

From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog, a fierce, elegant, page-turning novel about race, money, and the American Dream***Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize***Sins of Our Fathers follows small-town banker J.W., who has been caught embezzling funds...

The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

The Second Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

PAYBACK!America's disorganized military evacuation from the Hell on Earth called Afghanistan left ace CIA field agent Jack Cody with a bitter, dissatisfied fire in his gut. Maybe it was strategically viable, but too much good was being left undone in a country that had...

The Third Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

The First Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

The First Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

Kenny Prince enjoyed the finer things in life - namely cocaine, strippers, and a 1976 Corvette Stingray. But Kenny wound up dead on his couch with two bullet holes in him and a QR code slapped onto the wall above his body. So now...

Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.Uncle and Ava are summoned by Wong Changxing, "The Emperor of Hubei" and one of the most powerful men in China, when he...

Solving mysteries is never easy. Dealing with an infuriated mob boss and acute amnesia only makes it worse.Dylan Woodger is a college student who is captured and tortured by the mafia. After amnesia obscures the last three years of his life, Dylan learns that...

The Fourth Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

A dead controller killed alone in his tower. A climate of fear and coercion among employees and managers. Can Macleod enter the world of air traffic and bring a safe, orderly, and expeditious solution to the case?When a commercial turboprop is forced to go-around...

Some liaisons are deadlier than others . . .After a long day of meetings, Arnold heads back to his hotel room. That's when he hears it.A ragged scream coming from Room 307.Arnold races to the door to find his boss, Simon Brent-Ellis, in bed...

The decomposed remains of a body are found entombed in the depths of a disused Manchester cotton mill. Detective Rachel King is called in to investigate the grisly discovery. With gunshot wounds to the knees, this was no accident. This was murder. But the...

The Third Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

A female serial killer with a deadly agenda. The detective who must stop her. Luxury holiday lodges in the stunning Peak District. The game begins . . .Callum is lured to an isolated boathouse by an attractive older woman. When she gets him alone,...

A man is found dead in his bed, suffocated, covered in confetti and with his ring finger missing. Detective Rachel King informs his daughter and takes her to identify the body. But she's never seen the man before in her life. Then a second...

Secrets, lies, bodies. Nothing stays buried forever . . .It starts on an abandoned campsite in Norfolk.Developers unearth a human skeleton. The remains of an eighteen-year-old girl.Robina Scanlon - a blast from the past that shocks Detective Tom Mariner to his core.First love. Last...

After a series of personal tragedies and abuse from his alcoholic mother, eighteen-year-old Bax is determined to rebuild his life.Using money left to him by his father, he finds a place to live and a job at the local coffee shop. But after he...

Robert Reuland's Brooklyn Supreme is a hard-edged literary thriller about a racially charged police shooting, by one of "crime fiction's most gifted writers" (George Pelecanos). No one knows better than Will Way that it's not so easy to get out of Brooklyn. Seeking escape,...

Welcome to the beautiful seaside town of Port Agnes.A fresh start...Midwife Ella Mehenick left the small Cornish town of Port Agnes for London and never looked back. But when her seemingly perfect life crashes down around her, there's only one place she can heal...

Introducing hardboiled PI Henry Gore, in this pitch-black noir novel set in 1950s revolutionary Cuba."Darkly atmospheric writing, an action-packed plot, plenty of suspense, and a sometimes-hapless hero caught between saving his own life and doing the right thing drive this outstanding, packs-a-punch thriller"- Booklist...

Solving mysteries is never easy. Dealing with an infuriated mob boss and acute amnesia only makes it worse.Dylan Woodger is a college student who is captured and tortured by the mafia. After amnesia obscures the last three years of his life, Dylan learns that...

Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica's Montego Bay might just be paradise. If people didn't keep getting murdered.Detective Preddy hoped for a quiet start to the new year. But there's a murder at Sugar Rush Beach. A man is...