Fiction - Crime

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today). "In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett When it comes...

The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was recently rocked when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the center of the mystery, working...

Kevin Maloney has a strong inclination to serve others. Now separated from the military, where as a US Navy hospital corpsman he treated wounded Marines on the battlefields of Afghanistan, he's applied to become a firefighter in his hometown of Philadelphia. In the interim,...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."-- theSkimm Recommended by Washington Post - theSkimm - GMA.com - Popsugar - Bustle - Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Augusta Chronicle - Sun-Sentinel...

Dostoyevsky's epic masterpiece, unabridged, with an afterword by Robin Feuer Miller One of the world's greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences--an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition to the...

"Hamilton has never been better." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) When a new security gig turns into a setup, expert thief Van Shaw finds himself the prey in a cross-country pursuit--in this electrifying sixth novel in Glen Erik Hamilton's pulse-pounding and emotionally resonant thriller series....

In this gripping prequel to his Edgar Award finalist and New York Times bestseller The Deep, Deep Snow, Brian Freeman takes us on Rebecca's dark journey to reveal the truth about the Ursulina ... a journey that ultimately leads to an excruciating choice that...

A November Book Pick from The New York TimesWhen archivist Nadia Fontaine is found dead of an apparent drowning, Emily Snow is hired by Regents University to finish the job she started--to organize and process the papers of Raymond West, a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning...

A haunting crime story about the broken characters inhabiting yesterday's Brooklyn, this is the new novel from modern master of neo-noir William Boyle. An explosive crime drama, Shoot the Moonlight Out evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues...

A secret binds them together, the truth will unravel them.Jenny Ocean's life is already on shaky ground when a violent attack sparks a chain of events that leaves her with a terrible secret that she can share with no one, and which clouds her...

Selected as a Most Anticipated title by People, Parade, Bustle, CrimeReads, She Reads, and more! An electrifying work of literary suspense from internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, The Tenant--heralded as a "stunning debut" by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs--follows two Copenhagen...

On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He...

Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf--only to have the FBI and the DOJ ask him to stand down--in the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author C.J. Box....

The debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man...

In this heart-stopping thriller, a brazen kidnapper targets the most lavish New York City wedding of the season--and takes "Here Comes the Bride" as an invitation. Reality star Erin Easton's "Wedding of the Century" may have a cable crew documenting every extravagant bridal detail,...

In this electrifying novel, New York Times bestselling author and "an important voice in American literature" (Jada Pinkett Smith) Sister Souljah returns to the story of her beloved character, Midnight. Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to two women living in one house along with...

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, an illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection...

TIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book...

Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ The Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, even for game warden Joe Pickett and his friend Nate Romanowski in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller... Nate is off...

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). - A Netflix original miniseries.It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her...

The hunt is on...They kill wild animals for sport. She's about to return the favour. A spate of distressing big-game hunter posts are clogging up her newsfeed. As hunters brag about the exotic animals they've murdered and the followers they've gained along the way,...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of Op-Centercomes a different kind of law enforcement.In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them, control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within...

An FBI investigator must uncover the secrets of his hometown to solve a double murder in this twisty "page turner" that's "perfect summer reading" (Stephen King). "And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?" Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and "masterful storyteller" (USA TODAY) Sandra Brown--a sexy, sultry, family-based thriller set in a small southern town. When her younger brother, Danny, commits suicide, Sayre Lynch breaks her vow never to return to her Louisiana hometown, and...

In the first novel of the Gideon Page Mystery series, readers are introduced to public defender Gideon Page as he is pulled on the case to defend a psychiatric patient accused of murdering of a prominent state senator. Social worker turned public defender Gideon...

Named Best of Debut of the Year by Suspense Magazine and the winner of the Barry Award for Best Debut Novel.​ In this "sophisticated international thriller" (The New York Times Book Review), an American antiques-dealer-turned-reluctant-private-eye must use his knowledge of Japanese culture to unravel...

When a scholarship student is found hanging from the chapel bell tower at Margaret Barlow's alma mater, the amateur sleuth returns to the exclusive boarding school and plans an ingenious trap for the killer. Grandmotherly sleuth Margaret Barlow returns to the hallowed halls of...

In 2007, the Hector Lassiter series launched with "Head Games", a literary thriller set along the borderlands of 1957 America-a road novel that met with ecstatic reviews and international awards attention, including Edgar and Anthony nominations for Best First Novel by an American Author....

Be Like That Sometimes Part Two is the follow up to your Favorite book. There over 8 million stories in the city of Los Angeles and this one may be the realest, most compelling and sex ladened, crime story ever written in a book....

LOST RIVER is the 10th novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper & Fry series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District. A number 17 Sunday Times bestseller in the UK. A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic...

It's time to show some ovaries.All Jules Nichols wants is respect--and babies. A quiet life with a happy family. So with the help of her lover, she comes up with a plan to get rid of her abusive hubby. Once Eddie's dead she and...

Real-life crime has engulfed the domestic life of the Riverside Theatre players. For starters, there's the violent death of Estelle Bignall, the beautiful, neurotic wife of a well-to-do doctor (and aspiring resident playwright). In truth, suicide seemed more Estelle's line--especially during the Christmas holidays--but...

Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows...

From the moment Emma Sutton walks into the FitzCoopers auction house, the disgraced media darling knows exactly what she wants: an antique dining table. What she gets is a chance to set things right. Fresh from a yearlong stretch in prison, Emma finds her...

After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the game to face his greatest opponent yet. After years of war on the streets the man known only as Animal is finally able to hang up...

This book contains 82 vignettes relating to the author's experiences as a rookie, then as a member for 12 years of an Inner-City Unit dealing primarily with gangs and drugs, then with a Unit dealing with "Incorrigible" juveniles and "Dysfunctional," often violent, families and...

Privileged, educated Melissa Cody's search for her birth parents and her volunteer job with a women's advocacy group on the Navajo reservation, casts her into the midst of the egregious problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women.As she is sensitized to Native culture and...

From the author of The Strain comes a tense, psychologically gripping, Hammet award-winning thriller.Four masked men--thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown--take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple....

It's mid-spring 1975 and twenty-two-year-old Dice is in the process of avenging his brother's murder. Then his landlord tells him he has thirty days to move out of his place due to renovations. He also tells him he will be doubling the rent. Dice's...

Investigative reporter Emerson Moore heads to Chincoteague Island to recover from physical and mental wounds brought on by his near-death escape in Cuba. He decides to ponder his future and rest quietly in the home of legendary Chincoteague Island duck carver Roe "Duc-Man" Terry,...

*Author has won countless awards and fellowships, including an NEA Fellowship in Creative Wrting (non-fiction), Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship (fiction), Meridian Editors' Award (poetry), Iowa Arts Council Major Artist Grant (non-fiction), Northwestern U Center for the Writing Arts Study Grant (fiction) *Pulitzer prize finalist for...

Jordan returns home after a night of chaos, finding two dead family members in his kitchen and Pam (wife) missing. The uncertainty of Pam whereabouts, pushes Jordan into turmoil and contests his integrity as a cop. As he fights the dark temptation of becoming...

When survival is determined by a ticking fuse, a rogue team of experts brings the fire. Officer Harris and her bomb squad pyros defend the public from dangerous murders when they are in fact facing a perilous stalker themselves. Harris and McKenzie, her professional...

Time Has Run Out!The fuse can't burn any shorter. An insane media megastar, Thelma Justice, and her power-hungry lover, a Russian nuclear arms dealer, are close to unleashing hell on earth.CIA field agents Jack Cody and Sara Durrell have gone rogue. On the run,...

When the ground beneath you starts to shake, there will follow an aftershock...A normal day dawns, but for two people, lives have taken an unplanned and unwanted path.Anna can't remember anything about the night before and struggles to piece together what happened. Mark remembers...

Detective Inspectors Vance and Shepherd reunite in the second book in John Broughton's Vance And Shepherd Mysteries. After a murder is committed in a quiet suburban subway under a tramline, it becomes obvious that the murder squad is dealing with a copycat killer.The murder...

Detective Inspectors Vance and Shepherd reunite in the second book in John Broughton's Vance And Shepherd Mysteries. After a murder is committed in a quiet suburban subway under a tramline, it becomes obvious that the murder squad is dealing with a copycat killer.The murder...

Detective Inspectors Vance and Shepherd reunite in the second book in John Broughton's Vance And Shepherd Mysteries. After a murder is committed in a quiet suburban subway under a tramline, it becomes obvious that the murder squad is dealing with a copycat killer.The murder...

Jace and Tessa appear to be a young couple in love with nothing to hide. But looks can be deceiving. When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There's broken glass at the back door....

When private detective Vincent R. Sturgis stumbles across his second case of a deadly drug known as the Black Death, he suddenly finds himself to be a very popular fellow. Mob bosses tell him to either keep his mouth shut and walk away with...