Fiction - Crime

"Lean, mean, darkly funny." --Boston Globe "A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense." --Dallas Morning News"Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world," declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master...

From the author of the acclaimed Promise Not to Tell comes a chilling and perfectly plotted tale in which crimes of the past and present blend in a mesmerizing tale of mystery, shattered innocence, guilt, and redemption On her a way to a job...

Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company...

A twisty tale of card sharps and con artists, in a world of magic where secrets are traded and gambled like coin. The Lies of Locke Lamora meets Casino Royale Never stake more than you can afford to lose. When failed magician turned cardsharp...

In this "engrossing piece of Nordic noir" (Booklist, starred review) and sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Tenant, detectives Jeppe K rner and Anette Werner race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a...

Sheriff Hank Worth struggles to keep his team together and solve a brutal murder of a former antagonist in this captivating mystery."Balances well-developed characters and dry humor with a solid police procedural"- Library Journal Starred Review Elderly tourists visiting Branson, Missouri for a fun...

FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TERRENCE MCCAULEY COMES A RIVETING CRIME THRILLER SET IN PROHIBITION-ERA NEW YORK.The year is 1930 and New York is a city on the edge - banks are failing, companies are closing their doors, and breadlines grow longer by the day. The...

Sometimes instinct is all a detective has to go on. Add jealousy, money, and family ties to the equation and what do you get? Detectives Connor Maxwell and Kate Stroup, along with canine Sundae, must sift through the ashes to find the answers. From...

"De Giovanni has created one of the most interesting and well-drawn detectives in fiction."-The Daily BeastChristmas is over and a fog-draped Naples is preparing to celebrate the new year when, on stage, the famous actor Michelangelo Gelmi fires a prop gun at his wife,...

Raw and true to the street, no one portrays the underground like the godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines. Trapped in jail for a petty crime, Prince hatches a scheme from his cell to make it big. Once Ruby, the only woman worthy of...

"Available Dark works well as a thriller, but it's Cass who makes the book extraordinary." -- Time Magazine A searing and iconoclastic crime novel in which photographer Cass Neary, introduced in the underground classic Generation Loss, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of...

'Fans of police procedurals will want to read all in the series after this compelling, twisted story' - Library Journal Starred Review A murder of an Icelandic man during a Full Cold Moon reminds Lauren Riley of a previous case she failed to solve....

Betrayal has many guises . . . London, 1593: Five years on from the Armada and England is taking its first faltering steps towards a future as a global power. Nicholas Shelby--reluctant spy and maverick physician--and his companion Bianca Merton are settling into a...

Crack the case with Sherlock Holmes in three familiar tales, now written with young readers in mind: "The Red-Headed League," "The Speckled Band," and "The Hound of the Baskervilles." It's always an adventure with the world's smartest detective and his trusty partner, Dr. John...

This explosive standalone thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author follows ex-Secret Service agent Cain Lemaire as he uncovers dark secrets hidden beneath the Tokyo streets.The Bayou is a unique place to live and it provides a grit and passion to any who hail...

Set between Cubas twenty years apart, Havana native Teresa Dovalpage's new murder mystery explores lingering grudges between old friends and lovers separated by Castro's final sanctioned raft exodus. Juan, a Cuban construction worker who has settled in Albuquerque, returns to Havana for the first...

The suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside... When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up...

Katie focuses her mind, trying to keep another anxiety attack at bay. The victim's long brown hair is slick and wet, her body rigid in the grass. She looks more like a mannequin than the woman Katie had spoken with only yesterday, the woman...

After spending 17 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, TINY is back on the streets. And as soon as her feet touch the cold, hard concrete, she's faced with the kidnapping of her beloved daughter, ALEXIS. Using the guile and...

Two killers are prowling Manhattan. It's double duty for Erin and Rolf.A detective doesn't always have the luxury of giving all her attention to just one case. Erin O'Reilly and her K-9 partner, Rolf, have just started to sink their teeth into their latest...

This third book by Roger Riccard brings forth a series of six short stories occurring during the Christmas seasons of Sherlock Holmes' career, with each title taking its name from the carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. In this first volume we meet The...

York, 1371. The Bishop of Winchester, William of Wykeham, is tasked with bringing home the remains of the powerful patriarch of the Pagnell family. But Wykeham's arrival is fraught with tension. The Pagnells are reeling from their father's death and they suspect Wykeham of...

MariaI was trapped. There was nothing left of me. Then he came and wanted to make me his.He saved me. He gave me a home, a family. He made sweet love to me. I was his Angel. He was my everything. I thought we...

It's a dog eat dog world, especially when all the dogs involved are hungry For a sheltered mama's boy like Demarcus, everything was all roses until a life-changing experience showed him that every rose has thorns. After a well-orchestrated set up, Demarcus's plans to...

In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, desperation as she becomes...

A shocking abduction rocks idyllic Sandhamn Island in an enthralling novel of suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment.With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has...

As he faces a devastating personal loss, Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career: a kidnapping crisis that could destroy the most powerful people in America.The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of...

Martin Cruz Smith's "masterful" (USA TODAY) and "irresistible" (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post notable book of the year: Arkady Renko must connect the dots among a Russian journalist's mysterious death, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats. Arkady Renko, one of...

Opposites really do attract but so do mayhem, murder and sex. After Jamal Shield, aka Preacher (Leo Sullivan), a notorious young B-More gangster, is sentenced to life in prison for multiple crimes, including an armored Brinks truck heist for a cool 5.2 million, he...

"A little Elmore Leonard, a little Charles Portis, and very much its own uniquely American self. . .Tom Cooper has written one hell of a novel." -Stephen King When the BP oil spill devastates the Louisiana Gulf Coast, the citizens of the bayou town...

From the New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry, "who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks" (Stephen King), comes a new thriller about an unlikely burglar--a young woman in her 20s--who realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else become...

Hard Ground is a treasure chest of stories for lovers of the outdoors, fans of smart crime fiction, and, of course, the legions of Joseph Heywood fans. Featuring the game-warden colleagues of Woods Cop star Grady Service, the tales in this collection follow the...

Kenyatta, the living black legend, concentrates his army's ruthless forces to rid the black community of rampant drug traffic. With the help of Elliot Stone, a black football star and latest recruit to the army, Kenyatta discovers the identity of the fat-cat king of...

FIRST TIME IN PRINT THE HIRED KILLER. Victor, a former assassin-for-hire, has joined forces with a CIA special unit. His first assignment: Three strangers. Three hits. Fast and clean. Victor's a natural for this. THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY. It should have been simple. But with...

A heart-stopping story of romantic suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter. Lindsay Foxe is a successful model in New York, a woman who hides behind a new name to protect herself from a past of betrayal and treachery and a...

From New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins comes a rollicking crime novel of brazen thieves, good ole boy politicians, truck stop women--and one decent man crazy enough to fight them all... The bank robbers wreaking havoc across the South are carrying out their...

In the stunning follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Second Life of Nick Mason, the remarkable hero fights to take back control from the crime lord who owns his life, as he races to complete a daring and dangerous new mission... Nick...

Roland J. Beckerman is an American author and is coming off the success of Seeking Justice, published by Newman Springs Publishing. This book, Atticus Wentworth Comes of Age, was born because it needed to establish who Atticus Wentworth really was and is in Seeking...

Great Malvern sleeps peacefully beneath the quiet splendour of the hills and next to the comforting presence of Malvern Priory. But this apparent serenity is suddenly broken by the disappearance of a local headmistress in mysterious circumstances, leaving local police struggling to find a...

Chris and Bond Mondello leave their home in Hawaiian Paradise and fly to the COVID ridden Las Vegas Nevada to uncover a most lucrative crime business in the present collapsed economy. Through this underworld operation, lives can be made or lost. Travel, suspense and...

Snake in the Grass has something for everyone: a dead body, racism, social injustice, kids coming-of-age, the challenges and dangers police face, and romance, all served up with a dash of snarky humor. The good guys are a mixed-race male detective, a smart wise-cracking...

FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TERRENCE MCCAULEY COMES A RIVETING, GRITTY AND AUTHENTIC CRIME THRILLER OF 1930'S MANHATTAN.New York City - August 1932Caught between the Great Depression and a massive heatwave, New York is a city on the edge. Businesses close up shop, breadlines grow longer,...

Modern day slave catcher to some, Black hero to others, and a walking contradiction to who he was as an adolescent, Elijah Steel offers his readers a look into the thoughts of a young Black man from New Orleans, who just happens to be...

"A nimble political satire that should appeal to Americans of every stripe...reminiscent of books by Christopher Buckley, the author of Thank You for Smoking (1994)" - Kirkus Reviews Suspected terrorists attack with a pre-dawn bomb spree, baffling law enforcement as the only targets are...

As I stood looking eye-to-eye with death and the gun the killer was holding on me, I turned my back expecting to be killed in the middle of the road. I asked God to show me a way out of this dark place, trying...

Now with a beautiful new series look, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme.Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his "counting house" when he suffered an agonizing...

Jane Fairweather has experienced the worst of humanity in her foster homes; whatever potential for normalcy she possessed was shredded after her first assault.Facundo has been waiting years to find the man responsible for his mother's brutal murder. As a marine veteran, all he...

2022 Action Thriller of the Year (BestThrillers.com Book Awards)Working with a joint multi-law enforcement task force, Detective Pat O'Connor infiltrated a Ukrainian crime family headed by Dmitry Andruko. O'Connor and his control, Detective Paul Eiselmann were the linchpins in the guilty verdict.The two detectives...

The hero of The Poet and The Scarecrow is back in this thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Jack McEvoy, the journalist who never backs down, tracks a serial killer who has been operating completely under the radar--until now. Veteran...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR - Another shocking thriller in the Killer Instinct series: It's up to Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer to untangle one of the most complex cases of their...