Fiction - Crime

A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate!The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous tale, as rich and exotic as the gorgeous creation that Diego de Godoy first discovers when he arrives in Mexico with Cortes and his conquistadors.Diego...

Author: Mary KellyISBN-10: 1464215812ISBN-13: 9781464215810Publisher: Poisoned Pen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2022Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d

A story of blood, kin, and betrayal. Will brothers make it to the top from nothing? Or will the love of money be more important than family? Who will have the last say so in this wicked tale! Blood is blood, no matter how...

The discovery of the near-mythical night parrot lures smugglers to the heart of the Australian outback. It falls to lone wildlife officer Ric Butler to investigate but when a malevolent boss repeatedly undermines his efforts Butler proves he isn't the kind of guy to...

FROM #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS, A TOTALLY ABSORBING CRIME THRILLER FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS AND TURNS. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN. Discover the author who's sold over two million books globally. When everyone is sleeping, he comes into their houses....

Mobsters are just like politicians, but more honestA family trip to the museum goes sideways for Erin O'Reilly when a drugged, disoriented young woman stumbles into her on the street. The girl pleads for help and leads Erin to a parked car, where a...

"Are you a detective, Mr. Terhune? If you will forgive my saying so, you do not look like one."Theodore Terhune, bookseller in the tranquil Kent village of Bray-in-the-Marsh, interrupts the attempted robbery of Helena Armstrong, secretary-companion to Lady Kylstone. Someone was trying to steal...

Kids can be so cruel.They'll call you names.Hurt your feelings.Push you to your death. In the garden of an abandoned house, Luke Connolly lies broken, dead. The night before, he and his friends partied inside. Nobody fought, everybody else went home safely. And yet,...

In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years...

In this Printed Words anthology, the lines merge between crime and horror, fiction and poetry. So, you'll be kept guessing whether the villain is human or monster. Sometimes, the worst monsters are those who pass as human. Thanks to the authors: Jack Horner, Rosie...

Ars?ne Lupin (1909) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Originally a four-act play, the story was turned into a novel by Leblanc before being translated into English by Edgar Jepson. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Ars?ne Lupin first appeared...

Father Brown is an insightful sleuth who travels far and wide to solve a new set of mysteries that require his unique skills and wisdom. This selection of short stories also includes a variety of locales from Italy to Cornwall and everywhere in between....

A decades-old crime. A torment not forgiven. Ice-cold revenge. When a prolific international criminal takes one of Doctor Genevieve Lenard's friends hostage in his own flat, she is hard pushed to believe his motivation. Calling on her expertise as a nonverbal communications specialist, she...

A gifted reporter for one of Budapest's daily newspapers, she picks up the trail in Palermo--and of course an international gang is soon hot on her heels. When a Hungarian detective is apparently liquidated and the oily Schberg Belmonte begins insinuating his way into...

The worst day of Laura Greenwood's life began when she learned that her brother had been arrested on suspicion of murder. It only went downhill from there. Within hours, Laura finds herself swept up in a bloody vendetta, framed for a crime she didn't...

Carl Hiaasen meets Tartan Noir in this comic crime caper set on the sunny Costa Blanca. What Carl Hiaasen does for Florida and Elmore Leonard did for LA, Morgan Cry does for Spain's sun-splashed Mediterranean coast, where British expats and certain notorious criminals go...

I have three names: I was born Leigh-Ann. I became Cherrie. When I was a child, they called me Little Bones...My father was Mr Bones - the notorious serial killer of 25 years ago.As a child I witnessed his crimes.Everything is different now. I...

**Pre-order The Secret now - the new edge-of-your-seat thriller from Debbie Howells, coming soon!**Everything was perfect. And then her fiancé disappeared...'Dazzling' DAILY MAIL'A terrific new talent' PETER JAMESTwo weeks before her wedding, a stranger stops Amy in the street and warns her she's in...

"As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction." -- Otto...

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...

Two formidable men collide in this "first-class legal thriller" and New York Times bestseller about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the prosecution of his lifelong friend -- a doctor accused of murder (David Baldacci).At eighty-five years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense...

A driven art critic's plan to steal a painting leads to murder in this classic neo-noir novel by the author of the Hoke Moseley series.Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything--blackmail, burglary, and beyond--to make a name for...

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's...

Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance--the independently wealthy, staggeringly brilliant, not remotely modest amateur sleuth--uses his detective skills to unravel the murders, though sadly not before most of the Greene family has been...

When every last one of the Ohippi hydro-electric power plants are destroyed by flood, Rhys Jardin is one of many who loses everything. But somehow Jardin's longtime partner, finance magnate Solly Spaeth, manages to come out of it wealthier than before, thanks to a...

Pop is a young kid from the projects looking for a way to make a quick dollar, and an even quicker way to escape from his crazy mother's house. His whole life takes a turn when he bumps into Fresh, the neighborhood dope man...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER* 'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON 'Charming' RHYS BOWEN 'One of the most likeable heroines in modern literature' SCOTSMAN_________Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant...

New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen delivers an exhilarating mystery in the Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl M rck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose. In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police...

Young Gunz is a gripping tale of manipulation and survival in the harsh streets of Newark, New Jersey. The story revolves around Wustafa, a seasoned criminal who uses his time in prison to strategize and plan his next moves. After serving 15 years, he...

But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror,...

Sponsored by the Melanie Klein Trust, this first addition to the chronological and complete collection of Melanie Klein's writings demonstrates the growth of the writer's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. The first of four volumes in the collection of her work, Love,...

The last person Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne expected to hear from again was Texas Ranger Jim Byrth, with whom he'd broken a Mexican human trafficking ring. But Byrth isn't making a social call. He's found a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and...

New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers a peculiar operation involving a veterinary surgeon and the unexplained deaths of several valuable racehorses.Author: Dick FrancisISBN-10: 0425233316ISBN-13: 9780425233313Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/02/2010Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 6.70h x...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais. It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies started...

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a...

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin's classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private driver. In other words, the...

Bottom feeders beware: the Sunshine State's favorite psychotic killer and lovable Floridaphile Serge Storms has found a new calling, legal eagle, and he's going to make a killing as a crusading attorney--and star as a dashing lawyer on the big screen--in this madcap escapade...

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the twelve cases Poirot must solve in this captivating collection of short crime fiction stories are dangerous, demanding, and positively ingenious.In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet--reasoned the detective--like Hercules...

"The undisputed king of the comic crime novel."--Providence Journal"I guarantee Dorsey will never win the Nobel Prize for Literature--he's far too funny."--Richmond Times-Dispatch"If you've never read Dorsey, you need to start...You won't be disappointed."--Miami HeraldGloriously unrepentant Florida serial killer Serge Storms is back--and he's...

As long as you're breathing, you're still in the fightErin O'Reilly has been walking a dangerous line. In order to save her lover, smooth-talking gangster and former bomb-maker Morton Carlyle, she's been pretending to be a dirty cop. Her efforts have worked well-too well....

What is your whole life worth, to the nearest dollar?A bag of cash. No owner. Do you take it?Emily Scott was the first girl Chloe Medina ever kissed. Back before she was ready to talk about that kind of thing. Now, two decades later,...

A Match Made in Hell!Cody's missions as top American agent, "the President's man," have seen him tackle terrorists, drug lords and international assassins. But nothing-nothing-could prepare him for the potent alliance of evil created when General Greb Vetrov teamed up with Thelma Justice.Vetrov is...

As tensions arise on the sea, so too do they surface in and around the local art community as long-time coastal residents clash with those more newly-arrived. Islands and Bridges, the third book in the Rascal Harbor series, follows the ebbs and flows of...

Complete edition of Ars鈩e Lupin, Gentleman Burglar by Maurice LeBlanc and translated by George Morehead from the 1907 original French edition. The charming book has delighted countless readers, and is the inspiration for the streaming series Lupin. Ars鈩e Lupin, Gentleman Burglar contains Leblanc's first...

Raymond Carver meets Elmore Leonard in this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writing set in the critically acclaimed Gangsterland universe, a series called "gloriously original" by The New York Times Book Review. With gimlet-eyed cool and razor-sharp wit, these spare, stylish stories from a...

A Geologist Lies Comatose in a Portland, Maine Hospital in A World of Deceit, a Detective Joe Burgess Thriller by Kate Flora--Portland, Maine--Unable to awaken her father--eminent geologist, Ted Gabbro--nine-year-old Arielle approaches the vacationing Joe Burgess, desperate for his help.Loathe to let anything interfere...

A murdered millionaire. A violent drug operation. Can a detective with a haunted past stop the next assassination?Detective Inspector Ruth Hunter is still struggling to deal with her stress. So when the body of a businessman washes up on a secluded North Wales shore,...

The murder of a personal fitness trainer draws DCI Bill Slider and his team into a baffling investigation where nothing is as it first appears. Fitness trainer Erik Lingoss is found dead in his west London flat, his head smashed by one of his...

Daring thieves steal the 200-year-old Jade Lily from a Minneapolis art museum and then offer to sell it back for one-third of its insured value--$1,300,000. But there's a catch. They demand that unlicensed P. I. Rushmore McKenzie act as go-between. McKenzie reluctantly agrees partly...

Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction.'The grey eyes, so apt for tragedy, looked steadily up at me."You can't trust me,...