Fiction - Crime

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide - an electrifying, heartpounding, truly unputdownable thriller - a bestselling debut from talented newcomer, Gabriel Bergmoser. 'A truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel. It gut punches you in the first few pages and doesn't let you recover until the...

John Milton is the man the government call when they want a problem to vanish. But what happens when he's the one that needs to disappear? After a botched job leaves a bloody trail, government assassin John Milton does the one thing he's never...

Urban lit superstar Leo Sullivan delivers a story of love, betrayal, and crime, hot enough to ignite a war in the streets... Sunday Kennedy has never had an easy life, but nothing has troubled her like the love she has for two men. Malik...

Jealousy breeds betrayal.A young woman is strangled in her bed. The door is smashed in and the apartment ransacked. Is this a robbery gone wrong? A random attack? A jealous lover? Or a serial killer? It's up to Detective Erin O'Reilly, her K-9 Rolf,...

If you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention... Cary Mackin is a TV journalist who has covered crime for nearly twenty years. After losing her job she moves to a small town in Connecticut--only to get caught up in the web of a deranged...

When the calm of Saxford St Peter is disrupted by a deadly fire at the Old Mill, amateur sleuth Eve Mallow finds herself investigating a most surprising mystery!Everyone in Saxford St Peter is desperate to know more about Harry Tennant, the newcomer who owns...

Fear hits her like a wave crashing against the sheer cliffs nearby. She sees the woman's feet first, then the legs bent like broken driftwood. Then, the blouse strewn open; the marks on her beautiful neck. Her knees buckle as a hand grabs her...

The first in a stunning new crime series from 2m+ international bestseller Adam Croft.A peaceful Sunday morning in Rutland is shattered when a dead body is discovered on the rocks at Normanton Church.The victim has been laid out in a crucifixion pose, facing the...

Nasty and Soulja, were ruthless kingpins on the streets of Baltimore. Now in prison, nothing has changed. They are still running things from behind the penitentiary walls. Even though they are still getting large amounts of money, it cannot solve all of their problems....

This is the first Street Lit book to be written in reverse Thuggz Valentine is the story of a modern day Bonnie & Clyde, natural born killers who go out in a blaze of glory after taking on the city s police force. Step...

From her deathbed, where HIV is choking away her last breaths, Black Girl, an infamous ex-prostitute of Atlanta's Auburn Avenue 'ho stroll, exacts two promises from her three young teen-aged sons, Khalil, B-Man, and Quantavious. She does not try to fool herself that the...

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency. HBO series Perry Mason airs June 2020 starring Matthew Rhys in the titular role. Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of...

FOR FANS OF LEFT BEHIND -The Scriptures is a thrilling debut about the end of the world following a nuclear attack on New York. It is the end of days. A nuclear strike hits New York. Alfie, a young black male, survives but with...

A lightly surreal story of misfortune, menace, and high-end stereo equipment in the cutthroat, capitalistic world of modern China. An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where everyone is doing their best to hustle up the ladder of...

The third of Gary Indiana's famed crime trilogy tells a story inspired by the virtuoso con artistry of mother-and-son criminals Sante and Kenneth Kimes.She collected future marks like lottery tickets. She operated by reflex. Any public room was a pristine harvest of human information....

The charming first novel in a new comic crime series from New York Times bestselling author Lynne Truss. It's 1957, and Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman in the seaside British town of Brighton. As far as he's concerned, the town...

When three small-time country gangsters break jail, they return to the only life they know-small-town bank robbing. When Bowie, the youngest of them, falls in love wit Keechie, one of the older gangster's cousins, it becomes a classic tale of love with nowhere to...

For a wealthy businessman, a kidnapping puts him in a predicament as troubling as any he has ever experienced. For Detective Steve Carella and the men at the 87th Precinct, their troubles are even worse. Their only hope is that he will play ball--at...

It took months for psychiatrist Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband's pressure to have sex with strangers at suburban spouse-swapping parties, and after attending a few, she is murdered. Was it her husband--whose father is the head of the Crime Investigation Unit--one of...

In this "flawless," fast-paced crime thriller, Scandinavia's hottest new writing duo, Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt, present the first book in the Sebastian Bergman series (Politiken). It all begins with a call to the police. A sixteen-year-old boy, Roger Eriksson, has gone missing in...

There's three types of people in Killdeer, Montana; those with money, those with land, and those with neither. Marley Dearcorn's father has land, but not much money. Even so, when she's forced to return home to the tiny rural town she escaped years ago,...

Longlisted for the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Named One of Entertainment Weekly's Best New Books Insidious Intent, the latest installment in Val McDermid's popular series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan, reaffirms Val McDermid's place as Britan's...

The Reverend Charles Howard once sat in judgment of Toronto's poor and assessed their applications for the workhouse. Now he has been found dead: stabbed, beaten, and robbed of his watch and boots. Is it simply a case of burglary gone wrong, or has...

Now a major motion picture and titled for the screen as RUMBLE THROUGH THE DARK; a blistering tale of violence and deliverance set against the mythic backdrop of the Mississippi Delta. The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred-year-old antebellum house, all gone....

It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture that provided Robert DeNiro with his first film role. Its title has entered into the language as a catch phrase. And it's terrific fun! The Gang...

Lovable serial killer Serge Storms is back and coming to the rescue of a Midwestern couple who aren't finding Florida quite as charming as he does in Riptide Ultra-Guide, the sixteenth installment in Tim Dorsey's bestselling series.When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide...

How far would you be willing to go...for permission? Set in the crime-, riot-, and earthquake-racked Los Angeles of the 1990s, Permission tells the story of a screenwriter on the brink of success, derailed by a destructive marriage that drives him into a breakdown....

"The First Amendment remains front and center in this legal thriller...The cast is comprised of an eclectic group of complex characters with intriguing backstories. And Lambek, a Vermont attorney, is a meticulous writer who stages even relatively minor scenes with the same descriptive precision...

After twenty-five years with the Sacramento Police Department, Willis Prescott has now spent almost ten years as a private investigator. So far, many of his cases have been rather straight forward-that is, until Will receives a call from Lorna McIntyre. Six months ago, her...

A suspected car-jacking leads to something deeper and darker in the compelling new Will Traynor forensic mystery. The emergency call comes in the early hours of the morning. A man and a woman found in a car in a rundown part of the city,...

A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers...over the two decades between 1929's The Cocoanuts and 1949's Love Happy, the Marx Brothers-Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and sometimes Zeppo-entertained movie-goers around the world with their madcap antics, rapid-fire dialogue, and...

Christy is a young girl trying to discover who she is and where she comes from but finds dark family secrets and even makes some secrets of her own.What adventure will she find herself on? What new things will she learn from her past,...

Semi-retired detective Amos Parisman confronts inequity in his L.A. community when he sets out to hunt a serial killer preying on the homeless. Author: Andy WeinbergerISBN-10: 1684428173ISBN-13: 9781684428175Publisher: Prospect Park BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2022Pages: 290Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81dReview Citation(s): Library Journal...

A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year"A masterpiece"--LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year's Eve...

"I felt I was eavesdropping on genuine 19th-century grave robbers . . . the author's skilled prose . . . convinced me. I felt I was there in the rough and tumble streets of 1830s London. Grotesque, pathetic, yet with poignant moments of calm...

The novel that sparked the hugely popular Murdoch Mysteries television series celebrates its 25th anniversary. Includes a new introduction and a previously unpublished short story featuring the young Detective Murdoch. In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a young woman...

Form 100 is a tragic, multi-faceted detective novel. It follows the story of Zaza Zandukeli, an unemployed writer with an elderly grandmother. One day, a film studio offers Zaza the chance to compose a script that allows him to write the story that has...

'A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller' MAIL ON SUNDAYTwo women are found dead.Both had a secret.Both had a choice.Artemis leaves her home in Greece to start a shiny new life with her wealthy husband, Clive Witherall, in 1990s London. Finally she has escaped...

No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead.56 DAYS AGOCiara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores.35 DAYS AGOWhen lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests...

St. Petersburg, Zurich, Shanghai, and Miami are the background for this extraordinary novel that takes place during the post-Soviet era. A large part of the Russian economy has criminal origins, and a number of former mafia heads have become the driving force behind many...

A masterful novel illuminating the rich and hidden facets of human character among the residents of a senior residence in Montana--and "a cleansing antidote to the last few years of political and cultural turmoil . . . if you have anything in the way...

Like The Gracie Allen Murder Case before it, Winter was first written as a screenplay, in this case a vehicle for the figure skater Sonja Henie. However, while Allen's scatterbrained persona made a charming foil for Philo's stuffed-shirt pretensions, Ms. Henie provided no such...

An immigrant's mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth in this gripping crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed "Brilliantly gripping."--Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List "A police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvelous lightness of...

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...

In this mind-bending crime novel by Shamus Award-winner John Straley, one man attempts to save his town from nuclear annihilation. It's been seven years since Gloomy Knob landed in the Ted Stevens High-Security Federal Penitentiary and five years since the end of the war,...

Previously Published as Robert B. Parker's WonderlandNOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING MARK WAHLBERG AS SPENSER Old friends. Small favors. Bitter rivals. Stirred together, it all makes for one explosive cocktail in this New York Times bestselling thriller that has Spenser feeling the heat... Henry...

LOVE is no stranger to pain. Losing her mother at an early age and growing up having to fend for self, hardened the woman who would soon be crowned The Queen of the 'Burg. At the age of eighteen, her life was forever changed....

After waking up in the hospital with a hole in her chest, SWEETS knows that she has no other choice but to kill her ex-boyfriend, JAY, before he manages to put her down for good next time. Waiting is not an option, she must...

When wildlife photographer Ray Ingalls is murdered in the new owl-protection zone in rural White Rock, New Hampshire, Chief Sam Mason's number-one suspect is his archenemy Lucas Thorne. ... Until a mysterious stranger reveals that the victim was up to a lot more than...

Eeeny meeny, miney, moe. Who lives, who dies only I know. When the body of a doctor is discovered brutally murdered in local woodland, Detective Kim Stone is shocked to discover the victim is Gordon Cordell - a man linked to a previous case...