Fiction - Crime

When Quinn first meets Bricky, she's working as a partner-for-hire at a dancehall and he's struggling to shake the anxiety of his guilty conscience. Earlier that day, the young man took advantage of a found key and used it to rob a stranger's home....

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...

It's 1971, and the Naval Investigative Service, or "NIS" as it's better known, is nothing like the NCIS of present-day television. There are no cell phones, desktop computers, DNA, or the Internet. All the Navy and civilian personnel working for this specialized unit have...

Evil always leaves a legacy.Detective Dana Capone has a sixth sense for serial killers. After all, she grew up with one.When the bound corpse of a young woman is discovered behind an Austin comedy club, Dana's instincts say this is only the warm-up act....

A thirteen-year-old boy bludgeons a man to death in an abandoned building. A vanload of migrants is delivered to sex traffickers in a deserted Las Vegas suburb. A superyacht moors off Malibu in the glare of a massive wildfire as a passenger drowns. A...

The Eight Strokes of the Clock (1922) is a collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius Jacob, Ars?ne Lupin first appeared in print in 1905 as an answer to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes....

The Return of Ars鈩e Lupin (1917) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time--Ars鈩e Lupin, gentleman thief. Partly based on the life...

Did you believe writing was a safe pastime?It was not the first time bestselling author Sheila Armstrong had died on stage, but it would most certainly be the last.DCI Alex Warren and his girlfriend, D.I. Sandra McKinnon, return from a short holiday, but hardly...

The third in our Giallo mini series, Sisters of the Seven Sins provides an Italian-style pulp adventure centred around a band of nuns who are not, quite, what they seem.Author: Miguel RibeiroISBN-10: 1716281326ISBN-13: 9781716281327Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/22/2021Pages: 76Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x...

"A small town police procedural with a big heart." -BestThrillers.comPolitically blacklisted detective Luke Campbell's last chance in law-enforcement is a job with the police department of rural Granton, Vermont. It's a beautiful town, home to a beautiful, intriguing girl who's caught his eye, and...

When an Italian mob named The Red Hand extort the English nation, threatening to release a plague if their financial demands are not met, Professor Tillizini, a clever man, seeks to save his country by dismantling the secret society. After deciding the most efficient...

PLAYAndrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the...

From Cold Spring Harbor in 1971 to River of Dreams in 1993, Billy Joel released a dozen studio albums that remade the face of American pop music, produced twenty-six Top 10 singles (on Billboard's Top 100 and Adult Contemporary charts), and earned the Piano...

A corrupt detective found dead... a senior officer with links to organised crime... and a former colleague on trial.When a detective accused of corruption is murdered, alarm bells start ringing for DI Zoe Finch and her team.Was the victim connected to organised crime boss...

In an attempt to soothe growing Cold War tensions between America and Russia, Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US to see all that his "enemy" has to offer. Top of his to-do list? A trip to Disneyland and an introduction to sexual icon Marilyn...

48 Hours To Stop A KillerA student set on revenge is about to commit Australia's first university mass shooting.Detective Jack Creed has seen the disturbing YouTube videos. Fellow students are named.Can Jack Creed stop this crazed gunman?It's a race against time; then Jack discovers...

'A little girl is missing from under her mother's nose. She'll be scared and vulnerable - if she's still alive. But no one is helping us search. No one wants to give us information. No one even seems surprised. What's going on?'Detective Bernadette Noel...

The Confessions of Ars鈩e Lupin (1913) is a collection of short stories by Maurice Leblanc. Blending crime fiction, fantasy, and mystery, Leblanc crafts original and entertaining tales of adventure starring one of the greatest literary characters of all time--Ars鈩e Lupin, gentleman thief. Partly based...

Throughout the turbulent Sixties, Tana followed her heart wherever it led her, searching for fulfilment in her work as a highly successful lawyer, in friendships, and in fleeting affairs. Until one day, quite unexpectedly, she discovers a gaping void in her life that only...

Detective John Stone of the NYPD has the best arrest record in the 43rd precinct. But he's a dinosaur who belongs to another age. Detective Carmen Dehan has such a bad attitude that nobody at the precinct can stomach her. Captain Jennifer Cuevas wants...

THE FETTI GIRLS' audacious leader, BLACQUE BARBEE, is up against her strongest test yet, and the outcome seems all but destined. With the odds stacked against her, and a sentence of life in prison hanging over her head, will the most savage chick of...

If your daughter went missing, how many years would it take for you to admit she's never coming home?Betsy Blake was only four years old when she vanished outside her family home in Dublin.Her father - wracked with guilt for the past seventeen years...

Together they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-white-striped pyjama trousers, with a red sash belt and a white silk shirt open at the neck.A Christmas gathering of young and old in a great country house in...

"The door " he shouted. "The door " Every man in the room looked where Fifteen was looking. Above the water-lilies and the storks, where the top panel of the door had shown, there was a dark, empty space. The door was open. A...

Why can no-one stay at the Dower House? Amabel Grey, a charming and lovely widow, had not seen scientist Julian Forsham since she chose to marry another man. But it is their fate to meet again now at the eerie Dower House, a house...

Emily Cavanaugh has finished transforming Windy Corner into a writers' retreat. But the Christmas revelries of her first guests are brought to a sudden halt by the discovery of a body in one of the guest bedrooms. It transpires the victim was poisoned, but...

Call it mother's intuition, but I knew she was dead the moment she was late home. As I listened to her phone ring and ring, that's when I knew for sure. My little girl was gone. Twenty years ago, Sophie Nicoll never came home...

My little boy's room was empty, his bed neatly made. Alarm bells should have rung immediately. Then the knock on the door came. All I remember is a thick fog wrapping itself tightly around me. This couldn't be happening to us. Three years ago,...

Six senior MI6 officers have been shortlisted to be the next head of British Intelligence. One by one, they are committing suicide. But the suicides are not what they seem. They have been forced to take their lives by a supremely clever individual. Former...

Arsene Lupin, accused of murder, heads the police investigation to clear himself by finding the true killer First published in 1919, 813 is one of the very best Lupin novels.Author: Maurice LeBlancISBN-10: 1627551867ISBN-13: 9781627551861Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2013Pages: 310Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Laurel Dane was no angel. She'd changed men as often as she'd changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she'd like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn't believe that...

The lost masterwork of British crime icon Ted Lewis--author of Get Carter--is an unnerving tale of paranoia and madness in the heart of the late 1970s London criminal underworld. In London, George Fowler heads a lucrative criminal syndicate that specializes in illegal pornography. Fowler...

When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth,...

The dog days of August are making the 87th Precinct feel like the inside of an oven. But things can always get hotter. With nearly half the squadroom on vacation, Detectives Carella and Hawes look into what appears to be an ordinary warehouse fire--but...

Sebastian Synard doesn't want any more trouble than he already has. But when he leads a group of tourists along the cliffs of St. John's harbour, one of them ends up dead. Not only is there a murderer in his tour group, but the...

The voice in her head says he's guilty. She knows he's innocent.Devon Burges is in the throes of a high-risk birth when she learns of her dear friend's murder. The police quickly name another friend as the chief suspect, but Devon doesn't buy it--and...

From USA Today bestselling author, Louise Jensen, comes another mind-bending thriller where the "twists just do not stop, ramping up the fear and anxiety and keeping readers on their toes and watching their backs" (Booklist, starred review). Ali thought she was ready to date,...

One evening as the sun is setting, Amelia Madison's car slides into the sea off Mason's Pier. Her body is never found.Two years later, Elena Langdon meets Nicholas Madison. She is grieving the loss of her mother, he is grieving for his wife. Together...

Alex Cross faces a D. C. bomb threat, the Women's Murder Club investigates a millionaire's death, and Michael Bennett hunts down a Thanksgiving Parade attacker in this collection of detective novels.Detective Cross: An Alex Cross Story: An anonymous caller has promised to set off...

A debut thriller that channels Gone Girl, from the newest writer to watch, Catherine Ryan HowardThe day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and...

..From the moment that fifteen-year old "Ty" (Tyrell Nobles) first ventured out into the streets and started hustling, his life was forever changed from that of the average ghetto youth into one of a seemingly complicated adult. He had placed himself in a direct...

Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited by unspeakable crimes in New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton's throat-clutching novel of suspense...Trauma victims are not new to medical examiner Faith McIntyre, but this one is different. The unconscious woman clinging to life after...

"A fearless exploration of the line between mental illness and true evil, a place many thriller writers visit but without the kind of fearless insights Tawni] O'Dell reveals in this powerful novel" (The New York Times Book Review). Dr. SheridaAuthor: Tawni O'DellISBN-10: 1476755930ISBN-13: 9781476755939Publisher:...

'While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl'Daily Mail Disappearance at Oare is the fifth book in Julie Wassmer's popular crime series - now a major Acorn TV drama, Whitstable Pearl, starring Kerry Godliman as private detective and restaurateur, Pearl Nolan....

'While Oxford had Morse, Whitstable, famous for its oysters, has Pearl'Daily Mail Murder on the Pilgrims Way is the fourth book in Julie Wassmer's popular crime series - now a major Acorn TV drama, Whitstable Pearl, starring Kerry Godliman as private detective and restaurateur,...

With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other. With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never...

On Christmas Eve, Alex Cross must risk everything to solve a mystery and stop a hostage situation from spiraling out of control.It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind...

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...

This first in a series launch introduces Claire Watkins, a deputy sheriff for the Pepin County Police Department. Claire, a former Minneapolis police detective, and her 10-year-old daughter Meg fled the Twin Cities after her husband, Steve, also a cop, was killed.When Landers Anderson--an...

Brad Parks's smart-mouthed, quick-witted reporter returns in The Girl Next Door--another action-packed entry in his award-winning series, written with an unforgettable mix of humor and suspense. Reading his own newspaper's obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino,...