Fiction - Crime

When a brutal attack on a business owner is followed by a suspicious death, the police first suspect the beginning of a new underworld drugs war.Then a second victim is found dead, and the truth starts to look like something much worse.With the death...

Now with a beautiful new series look, Christie's classic mystery in which a murder is announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement--and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the...

Why would you pretend your life is a dream when you're living a nightmare?I thought my sister was happy. I thought what we all thought: that Annie and Dom led perfect lives in a lovely cottage in a quiet village by the sea, with...

Has Nolan met his match? MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins' veteran thief faces off against a cold-blooded femme fatale in this double-length adventure originally published as two complete novels and unavailable in stores for three decades. "Pulp fiction doesn't get much better." Sunday Times...

Poirot Investigates is a eleven-story collection written by Agatha Christie. In the short stories, detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries using his typical perspicacity. In The Adventure of the Western Star, a Chinese man warns a famous American film star to return...

ZAVION "ZAY" MILLER is a boss hustler with a quick mind and a sometimes vicious heart. But that's what it takes to survive in filthy game that spares few. Zay knows that in the streets, betrayal is much more common than love and loyalty....

McKenzie has a lot of old girlfriends. But only one went on to marry the current governor of the state of Minnesota. And only one is calling him with a desperate request to meet in secret. The First Lady is carrying an email that...

The NYPD's most elite task force must protect the city from a shadowy killer with a vendetta in this New York Times bestselling mystery.The richest of New York's rich gather at The Pierre's Cotillion Room to raise money for those less fortunate. A fatal...

Dive into the thrilling world of Miranda Benderas, the daughter of a notorious Cuban Kingpin and a stunning African American supermodel. Raised amidst opulence and crime, Miranda's life takes a drastic turn when her father is sentenced to life imprisonment.At the tender age of...

A series of ritualistic murders committed across the United States draws Lucas Davenport into an unimaginable conspiracy of revenge in this "classic"(Boston Globe) thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A slumlord butchered in Minneapolis...A rising political star executed in Manhattan...A judge...

FROM THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY, THE EXCLUSIVE AUTHORIZED EDITION OF THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME--NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!"The murderer is with us--on the train now . . ."Just after midnight, the...

"Contrary to popular belief, noir doesn't require a bleak city street for its setting. Nor water, for that matter. Noir thrives on secrets, lies and lust, all flowing plentifully through the jewel in the Coachella Valley's fragile crown . . . For all the...

In this follow-up to the #1 bestselling thriller Invisible, every perfect murder looks like an accident, but as bodies start to pile up across the country, two FBI agents realize that something horrible is happening. FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young...

Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brand-new edition. Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, The Executioner's Song follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed...

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX s Empire: The Cutting Seasonis a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience. Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York...

Edgy, twisted and disturbing, the first Crime Writers' Association Daggers Award retrospective anthology featuring 19 visceral and thrilling stories. Featuring bestselling authors Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina, John Harvey and more. NINETEEN CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF...

The bestselling author of Twenty Years Later delivers a chilling thriller where nothing is at it seems and each reveal is more shocking than the last...right up to the jaw-dropping final twist. "A gripping thriller that will blow readers away." -Mary Kubica, New York...

In this installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series Chief of Police Bruno works to connect the tangled threads of past and present. He nonetheless finds time, naturellement, to enjoy the wine, food, and beauty of the P駻igord region. When a woman's body is...

Make noise for a new Prey package and new author introduction Dr. Mike Bekker, a psychotic pathologist, is back on the streets, doing what he does best--murdering one helpless victim after another. Lucas Davenport knows he should have killed Bekker when he had the...

A riveting work of dark suspense from acclaimed author Clea Simon Gal, a middle-aged musician, is back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend, when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd....

Winner of the 2022 Governor's Arts AwardA 2022 Reading the West Award FinalistA Refinery29 Best New Book to Read in 2021From Deirdre McNamer, a masterful exploration of the rich and hidden facets of human character, as illuminated by the mysterious connections among the residents...

It's the dead of winter, and a killer like no other is turning a small Wisconsin town into a death trap-one that's closing in on Lucas Davenport.Author: John SandfordISBN-10: 0425231062ISBN-13: 9780425231067Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2009Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.40h x 4.20w x 1.00dAccelerated...

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the indomitable Miss Marple investigates some rather deadly doings at a rehabilitation center for delinquents.Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are...

Love always comes with a price. After the murder of a dirty Los Angeles detective, St. Louis "Lou-Loc" Alexander finds himself a hunted man. Trying to stay one step ahead of the gas chamber, he flees to New York to pick up the pieces...

When a ring of six elite assassins strikes D. C., Alex Cross teams up with the Secret Service and the FBI to take down a dangerous threat that could destroy America.A leader has fallen, and Alex Cross joins the procession of mourners from Capitol...

A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where...

"One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!" A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating...

"A terrifying book, a mixture of poetry and obscenity. . . [the characters] are people who can't be ignored. Mr. Johnson has written a dazzling and savage first novel."--Alice Hoffman, New York Times Book ReviewThe most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson's novels,...

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 MCILVANNEY PRIZEDetective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park's internationally bestselling thriller series.Glasgow is a city in mourning. An arson attack on a hairdresser's has left five dead. Tempers are frayed and sentiments running high.When...

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, and a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes that Poirot investigates. A beautiful...

You're safe, Stride. I found the body at the Deeps. I buried him.Jonathan Stride's best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later, the police dig up Steve's yard and find a body with...

In the rough edges of 1940s Chicago, the discovery of a corpse in an alleyway isn't always enough to cause a big stir--especially when the victim is killed in the midst of a night-long bender, caught between barrooms in what appears to be a...

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES An electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules With an introduction by Stephen King. Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." --Annie Proulx In a remote...

When a convicted killer is saved by another man's confession, Amos Decker, now an FBI special task force detective, must find the truth in this "utterly absorbing" #1 New York Times bestseller (Associated Press). Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours...

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorNew Bremen' Minnesota' 1961. It was the Twins' debut season; the country had a new' young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited often and took many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide....

Soon to be a BritBox limited series written and directed by Hugh Laurie!A dying man's bewildering last words pull an inquisitive young man and his beautiful companion into a dangerous web of lethal secrets in Agatha Christie's classic mystery, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?While...

When a ring of six elite assassins strikes D. C., Alex Cross teams up with the Secret Service and the FBI to take down a dangerous threat that could destroy America.A leader has fallen, and Alex Cross joins the procession of mourners from Capitol...

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the...

"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen...transporting. Long live...

Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history's mostintriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a...

Now with a beautiful new series look, a classic mystery from the Queen of Crime in which the indomitable Miss Marple exposes a small town's shameful secrets.Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets--a town where even a sudden outbreak...

Josie flinches as she takes in the faded blue sports jacket wrapped around the girl they just pulled from the water. Josie knew someone who'd once owned that jacket. He had died in her arms five years ago.Heavy rain pours on the small town...

A beautiful hardcover edition of the first great prison memoir, Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with an introduction by Richard Pevear. Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DEVIL'S PEAK--starring Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright, Hopper Penn, and Jackie Earle Haley! In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bone meets Breaking Bad, a savage and beautiful story of a young man seeking redemption--a finalist for the...

Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates--short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead.Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly...

DS Aector McAvoy must face the dark, disturbing secrets of his past if he's to keep his family safe.No, he tells himself. No, it's not familiar. No, it's not like before . . .The clairvoyant is found with her tongue crudely carved out, a...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CBS ORIGINAL SERIES TRACKER In this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, reward-seeker Colter Shaw infiltrates a sinister cult after learning that the only way to get somebody out...is to go in. In the wilderness...

When a Boeing 747 drops out of the sky with the men of the Cartel aboard, the women of the family have to step into their own. With the federal government on their heels and the family on the brink of destruction, a female...

"Georgette Heyer has given me such great pleasure over the years in my reading, and rereading, of her stories. --#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts'Tis the Season--for murder... A colorful assortment of guests at a festive holiday house party discover there is...