Fiction - Crime

It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes's new client is a High Court judge, whose free-spirited daughter has disappeared without a trace. Holmes and Watson discover that the missing woman--Hannah Woolfson--was herself on the trail of a missing person, her close friend Sophia. Sophia was...

Louis Kehlweiler of the Three Evangelists trilogy returns, along with his beloved pet toad, Bufo. Vauquer Clement, a young accordionist in his thirties has disappeared, believed by police forces from Nevers to Paris to have killed two women, both shockingly violent murders. But Kehlweiler...

"Robb continues to adeptly blend politics with period detail and three-dimensioned characterizations in the Owen Archer tales." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY From the marshy Thames to the misty Yorkshire moors, murder stalks Welsh soldier-sleuth Owen Archer and one of his oldest friends. On a snowy morning...

A priceless violin. And a dark secret someone is prepared to kill for.Revised edition: This edition of The Quartet Murders includes editorial revisions. DCI Oldroyd has seen his fair share of victims, but he has never witnessed a murder--until now. When world-famous violinist Hans...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect!Charles Belfoure's next novel is a puzzling historical thriller about a man who must dig through the rubble of his past to construct a future worth living, grounded by Belfoure's experiences as a professional...

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS In the stunning climax to Rendell's classic 1998 novel A Sight for Sore Eyes, three bodies--two dead, one living--are entombed in an underground chamber beneath a picturesque London house. Twelve years later, the house's new...

The Monster in the Box is the latest addition to Ruth Rendell's "masterful" (Los Angeles Times) Inspector Wexford series. In this enthralling new book, Rendell, "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world" (Time), takes Inspector Wexford back to his first murder case--a woman...

OMAR TYREE DOES IT AGAIN The Philadelphia-born author, who jumpstarted the urban fiction craze more than a dozen years ago with Flyy Girl, presents the riveting new tale of Shareef Crawford, a celebrated writer of romantic fiction, who leaves his sunny mansion in South...

Could a witch hunt happen again in Salem? New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader Brunonia Barry returns to Salem with this spellbinding new thriller, a complex brew of suspense, seduction and murder. When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night,...

Winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott PrizeShortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas PrizeThe Irish Times March Book of the Month From Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times...

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,...

The British Library presents another captivating example of classic crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder.Four men were due to fly to Dublin from England. But, when disaster struck and the plane went down over the Irish sea, only three of them...

Meet Eve Mallow: an American far from home, a professional busybody... and an amateur detective? Seasoned obituary writer Eve Mallow has a new assignment: to tell the life story of famed musician Bernard Fitzpatrick. A chance to spend a few days in the sweet...

You haven't heard of William Colton Hughes. Or, if you have, then you're not telling anybody. Not telling them anything, ever. He's not the serial killer on the news, in the textbooks. He's the one out there still punching his card, and a few...

Homicide Detective Alex Cross teams up with his wife to beat a D. C. criminal at his own game.Washington, DC, has never been more dangerous. After shots pierce the tranquil nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at first...

The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith's finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be...

A police constable named Oliver Wicken has apparently committed suicide, leaving his mother and his invalid sister to fend for themselves. The evidence, according to the coroner, is irrefutable. Wicken was shot in the temple with his own revolver and a farewell note has...

When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover relics stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along--but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central...

An almost twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pot-hauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah's friends and neighbors in Sulfur...

The number 1 New York Times-bestselling author is back with an electrifying new entry in the FBI series featuring Savich and Sherlock. FBI Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith, last seen in Backfire, has been recruited by Dillon Savich to join his unit in Washington, D.C....

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he...

-Previously published as Funerals are fatal- A1953--Title page verso.Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0062573209ISBN-13: 9780062573209Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2016Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.3Point Value: 11Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8868 / Funerals Are Fatal/After the Funeral

From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him when he...

First published in 1924, "Poirot Investigates" is a collection of several short stories by Agatha Christie featuring her brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. In this collection of entertaining and captivating mysteries, Christie's most famous character solves several murders and thefts with his trademark wit and...

"[H]ighly recommended for connoisseurs of the genre."--Midwest Book Review 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...

Buried secrets, dirty lies, and unbridled greed and ambition raise the stakes down South in the lauded crime series from New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins. Twenty years ago, Brandon Taylor was thought to be just another teen boy who ended his life...

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.London. 22nd December.Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes have been called to a gloomy...

Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-Not Banerjee, are back for another exotic adventure set in 1920s India. *Winner of the CWA's Historical Daggar Award* 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London...

With NIKKI laid up in the hospital fighting for her life, SHEMAR must find a way to navigate the slums of Cloverland, Houston with the streets calling for his death at every turn. Surviving the slums is nothing new to a savage that was...

Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young "national model worker," renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases...

A daring pilot races against time to deliver an important package -- and keep it from falling into the wrong hands -- in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller of spine-tingling suspense and tantalizing romance. Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged...

The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of...

The Teflon Queen is back and better than ever. All Angela wants to do is disappear and live a quiet life. All is well until she bumps into an innocent eight year old child by the name of Ashley. Before witnessing her father's head...

When a body is found on Jim Qwilleran's property, he and his cats Koko and Yum Yum will have to determine who committed the fowl deed in this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series... The good people of Moose County are in a...

"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise.Plant tells...

The New York Times bestselling series starring Hannah Smith continues with this electrifying new thriller from the author of the Doc Ford novels. The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Dexter Morgan's neatly organized life as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police, devoted husband and father, and killer of only those who deserve it is turned upside down by the arrival of his new daughter, Lily Anne. - The...

In the fifth novel in the Sean Stranahan mystery series, Montana's favorite fly fisherman-detective tackles a case of lost love, murder, and wildlife politics. Cold Hearted River, the sixth in the series, is now available. "Keith McCafferty is a top-notch, first-rate, can't-miss novelist."--C.J. Box,...

From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume.No one captures the complexities of Appalachia--a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty--as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron...

"No one is Leonard's equal," declares the Chicago Tribune--and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard's riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.The twisty tale of a Detroit process server whose search for a missing...

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the expert detective delves into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife.Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal...

"A mystery novel of profound depth." -- Booklist (starred review)"Walter is at his incisive best. . . . Hypnotically compelling." -- Publishers WeeklyIn this fiendishly clever and darkly funny novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter explores the bonds and compromises we...

"Chilling, completely credible.... An] absolutely gripping story." --Chicago TribuneNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston in this gripping, deeply evocative thriller. The basis for the critically acclaimed motion picture directed...

Drugs, romance, dirty cops, and the Big Easy-the perfect recipe for a jambalaya of explosive action, seduction, and death. David LaRoux, New Orleans' favorite philanthropic son, did not simply ruffle the feathers of the DEA; he plucked and skinned its director, Will Martin, who...

When Michael arrives at work early one winter's day, he discovers that he's not the only one who's had a busy morning...A Dirty Business forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.Author: Rachel AmphlettISBN-10:...

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...

A pulse-pounding and twisting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of HerAuthor: Karin SlaughterISBN-10: 1504780310ISBN-13: 9781504780315Publisher: Blackstone PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2021Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs

Struck Off is a gripping comic novel of our times. Set in a busymarket town, it follows the dramatic story of Eaun Wright, awell-liked trial lawyer and partner in a local solicitors' practice, as his business, marriage, and reputation are all unexpectedlyand dramatically trashed...

'A brave and unflinching novel... It ultimately speaks to the power and triumph of the human spirit' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of The Booker Prize'Defiant... direct... conveyed with skill and emotional force' The Guardian'Brave, raw and strikingly original' Daily MailAn astonishing and unique novel inspired...

'Abir Mukherjee is doing something uniquely different in the crime genre. His evocation of 1920s India under British occupation is breathtaking' Peter May, Sunday Times bestseller, on The Shadows of MenCalcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city...