Fiction - Crime

Readers of Tana French, Lucy Foley, and Dervla McTiernan will be spellbound by the USA Today bestselling author's unsettling, atmospheric suspense novel set in Ireland's rugged countryside. Combining an eerie and atmospheric backdrop with compulsively taut plotting, a twisty mystery unfolds as an Irish...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

Mark Ablett's house party is going well at the Red House in English countryside until his brother Robert returns from Australia and becomes part of the merriment. But, shortly after his arrival, he is found dead, and Mark disappears. A gentleman at the party,...

Don't miss the captivating new page-turner from internationally bestselling author Susan LewisYou think you're safe.You think you know your neighbours.But can you ever really know who's telling the truth?Jeannie Symonds is a force to be reckoned with - an eccentric, award-winning publisher, spending lockdown...

A brand-new, brilliantly twisty Sherlock Holmes mystery from 'best kept secret of British genre writing' - British Fantasy Society When investigating what seems to be a suicide, Holmes and Watson uncover a murderous forgery ring with ties to the British government. As the web...

'Unpredictable, challenging and compelling' Sophie Hannah A terrible car accident - or calculated murder? An evening out for five students ends in tragedy, with two dead and one critically injured. Nicci Waldock survives, but her life is left in tatters. Years later, a sighting...

Just as his partner Sandra is due to give birth, D.C.I. Alex Warren is sent to lead a difficult and sensitive investigation.Why has a young Asian girl been sexually assaulted and murdered in the home she shares with her Scottish boyfriend? Families are brought...

Someone's playing both sides and now they have a score to settle...When the family business is crime, you can never be sure who to trust. And when three of their businesses are hit in one night, the notorious Glass family close ranks. Either someone...

Some say that Art is what brings us humans close to the divine, to God. Art is the expression of our sentiments, of our views, feelings, of what we are. The art world is surrounded by intellectuals, by merchants, by art lovers and haters,...

The House Without A Key is the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries. Atmospheric and entertaining, Biggers shows you a side of Hawaii that few will ever see. John Quincy Winterslip travels from Boston to convince his aunt Minerva to end her extended vacation...

Kind erthfolk agree a deathbed deal to hang around a bit longer, become invisible, and protect the vulnerable they've left behind. Awakening to find themselves in a hi-tech MI6-esque crime unit surfing our planet, they have to wonder if they made the right choice?...

Discover a new series of whodunits by million-selling author Faith Martin. These charming mysteries will have you scratching your head to work out who the murderer is. Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur detective. Please note this book was first published as...

An ambitious epic novel showcases the brutal elements of human nature and mother nature alike in Iceland's most desolate regionAuthor: Ófeigur SigurðssonISBN-10: 1941920675ISBN-13: 9781941920671Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.10w x 0.50d

Hard-as-nails gangster 'Big Nick' Fenner and his associate Joey have known each other since childhood, when Fenner stood by as Joey was injured by a gunshot that left him mentally impaired. Their lives since then have been closely intertwined - but will they also...

Teenagers are capable of anything. And when drugs and alcohol are mixed in, anything is possible...imaginable or unimaginable. When the local high school football coach goes missing, the police are quick to blame the new kid in town and the only African American teen...

A young local journalist, haunted by his own past, along with syndicate hoods looking to gain power, corrupted politicians willing to forgo the public trust for their own personal advancement, and detectives determined to solve a homicide one way or another, all collide across...

" An] exquisitely made thriller...A remarkably powerful narrative. The interrogation scene repulses while it grips...but readers are advised to stay with it for a rich reading experience."--Booklist, Starred Review"Arellano's world of clinic doctors, hotel hustlers, secret police, and neighborhood spies is as rich and...

Jimmy Torrance sat a long time in thought after the Lizard left. "God " he muttered. "I wonder what dad would say if he knew that I had come to a point where I had even momentarily considered going into partnership with a safe-blower,...

DARK CORNERS The past is never dead... A missing child's body is found on the edge of the Peak District. As DCI Kenny Murrain and his team investigate, more attempted child abductions are reported. Murrain's instincts tell him this is a community with secrets,...

A rare blue diamond goes missing in London. A terrorist bomb explodes in Mumbai. A feud between brothers turns lethal. A mistress lies to the police to protect her lover. And a New York diamond dealer is too busy fighting with his greedy client...

In a nation still recovering from the nuclear tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp for the Malcontented. But when Moonis's sister, Cecily, goes missing, the old friends...

The discovery of a severed head in a golf course bunker triggers a frantic race to find a serial killer that brings the town of Burnham-on-Sea to a standstill.A connection is made with a series of unsolved murders harking back to the 1970s, and...

This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1923. 'The Step on the Stair' is a must read for fans of one of the first American authors to write in the detective fiction genre. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn,...

From the highly praised author of Hot Plastic, a gripping, suspenseful novel about a young woman being chased by her violent past, and the flawed father forced to come to the rescue. It's been three years since Lydia Carson ran away from her privileged...

The warm wind blew through my sun-bleached hair; my eyes watered and ears popped as the trek down the twisting Missouri highway brought back past violent accounts through my mind. The fence posts and passing cars blurred as I cruised at eighty miles an...

The no. 1 ebook from the Sunday Times bestseller Umiko Wada has recently had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mother who seems to want her married again before his body is cold, she just wants to...

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love. Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the...

Author: Lisa UngerISBN-10: 8885780113ISBN-13: 9798885780117Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2022Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.70w x 1.70dLarge Print

A well-dressed corpse found shot in the sand and gravel wharf sparks trouble for Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his unpredictable boss, Assistant Chief Constable Iles. The man is found dead in the local dockyard, shot from behind. Colin Harpur, examining the impeccably...

The Black Pool spans the life of a Dubliner, who was born in the late 1960s, covering his involvement in gangland events in the City of Dublin and Europe across a 50-year period.The story will take you through Dublin's devastating heroin epidemic of the...

Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel. "A super-thief who leaves no trace."--Andy Garcia "An anti-hero for our times."--Sarah Dunn "A can't-miss master."--David Baldacci Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of...

A New York Times Best Thriller of 2021A Washington Post Best Thriller of 2021A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year An Amazon Editors' Pick ''Bloody good.'' --The New York Times''Timely, surprising, emotionally alive, this is about as good as suspense fiction...

The seventh Birder Murder Mystery. Some crimes are beyond the reach of the law. On suspension and unable to work, DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained death at an Antarctic research base. Meanwhile, DS Danny Maik investigates a string of...

David Elliott, adventurous high school junior, stumbles upon the murdered body of his barber, Benny Angelone. Days later David narrowly escapes death at the hands of an unknown assailant who believes David heard or saw something that will send the barber's killer to the...

Detective Inspector Jacob Vance and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Brittany Shepherd, are called upon to prevent a series of murders across London.The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has provoked a psychopath with her inaugural speech. Soon later, the commissioner receives a letter threatening a series of...

WINNER of the 2022 British Book Award for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year In this scorching prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DC Jack Laidlaw, Glasgow's...

The highly anticipated new thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage. Opulence. Sex. Betrayal ... Sometimes friendship can be deadly.Meet the women of Buckhead--a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships.Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she's...

When everyone else is lying to him, she's the only person he can trust. But how can he be honest with her when his lies are the only thing keeping her safe...?Ambitious middleman Conor Baxter is determined to become his own master. He's done...

Natalie Pritchard doesn't want to come between the men of Chaos Bleeds. So when Slash and Butler both try to compete for her, she's not having any of it, and steps away from them. Slash is pissed. He's wanted Natalie from the first moment...

HE'S EVERY PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE . . . In the early hours of the morning, Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling receives a tip-off about a group of children being trafficked on to the streets of Bradchester as sex workers. Hoping he is one step closer...

A woman threatened by her past. An outlaw biker bent on keeping her safe. Does he hold the key to igniting her passion?Smokey can't quit the one-night-stand lifestyle of his rugged Rocky Mountain motorcycle club. Used to smooth whiskey and easy women, he's stunned...

A recently-discovered, long-lost novel and short stories from the 90s featuring private eye Nick Sharman Follow Sharman as he patrols his seedily glamorous South London beat, with its cast of villains, eccentrics, misfits and losers. A magnet for trouble, even when he is on...

Frank J. Morlock has assembled here three lurid plays of sordid murders and implacable vengeance: In The Lemonade Girl (1894) a wealthy elderly woman is strangled for her valuables. An innocent man is arrested and later guillotined. His daughter, the eponymous "Lemonade Girl," swears...

#3 in the acclaimed Best Defence/Robbie Munro Series' A new take on tartan noir.' The ScotsmanScotland's favourite criminal defence lawyer, Robbie Munro, is back and under pressure to find a missing child, defend a murdering drug-dealer and save the career of a child-pornography-possessing local...

Four days after being temporarily assigned to the detective division of a sleepy suburban police department, a young officer is thrust into the task of investigating a double homicide. The investigation takes the upstart officer through unfamiliar and dangerous encounters, including suspicion that his...

"I can't kill you. If I do, Mac will send out the executioners, the termination squads..." When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a...

An affluent woman boards a taxi-cab on a dreary night in the big city. After a harsh drive through sleet, they arrive at her destination. The cab looks back from the weather to discover the woman gone, leaving behind a suitcase and the dead...

Energetic sleuth David Carroll, whose probe into police corruption has made him unpopular at headquarters, is put in charge of an investigation into the shooting murder of civic reformer Edward Hamilton-and the three people trying to confess to the crimeAuthor: Octavus Roy CohenISBN-10: 1627550798ISBN-13:...

Lottery winner and ex-journalist Donal Fitzgerald joins forces with his girlfriend, DNR conservation officer Mercy Virdon, to solve the mysterious death of a beloved angler, Charlie, who was murdered in his tent in a state campground and who was known by all--and who may...

"These days Scandinavian crime writers are thick on the ground. It's nice to see that the women can be just as bloodthirsty as the men." --The New York Times Book Review He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them:...