Fiction - Crime

The Hollow Needle (1910) is a novel by Maurice Leblanc. Originally serialized in in Je sais tout, a popular French magazine, The Hollow Needle is a crime and adventure novel featuring the legendary Ars?ne Lupin. Partly based on the life of French anarchist Marius...

Everyone believes Rachel is dead. But she's very much alive. Rachel Scott Emery's life unravels when she comes upon an old news article online that states she was killed thirty-five years ago at the age of eight. Even more shocking is her murderer was...

Fifteen years ago she escaped with her life. Now he's back - but has her luck run out?Michaela is sure it's him. The killer. She's been wrong before, but she knows she's right this time. And she's going to make him pay for what...

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...

The clear sky burst into flames of peach and gold, illuminating the small body leaning against the rocks. He looked even smaller than he had in the photos, purple marks blemishing his neck. His eyes were open, staring ahead at the vastness of the...

Misplaced trustVeterinarian Jessie Cameron agrees to fill in for her mentor, Doc Lewis, at Riverview Racetrack so he can take a long-overdue vacation. When he's tragically killed by one of his equine patients the night before he's supposed to leave, Jessie quickly suspects the...

A brand new detective series with a supernatural twist. The X Files meets Line of Duty in this gripping thriller!'Eerie, original and compelling' C.L. Taylor'Tense and twisted' Susi Holliday'A brilliant, clever murder mystery' Jane CaseyEven in your dreams you're not safe...The nightmare is only...

Author: Thomas PerryISBN-10: 1432887459ISBN-13: 9781432887452Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2021Pages: 433Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90dLarge Print

Tommy McNaul is an FBI agent with twenty-five years of service, a firm sense of law and order, a beautiful Irish wife, and a passion for fine art. He risks them all one snowy night when he and his partner, Kate Bacon, lead a...

Edgar award-winning author Joe Lansdale returns with a standalone novel following the gripping and unexpected tale of the lost town and dark secret that lie beneath the glittering waters of an East Texas lake.Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried...

'An excellent debut novel, I couldn't put this down! A definite must read' 5* reader reviewThe closer you are, the less you see . . . When Kev's girlfriend is killed in a hit-and-run, he thinks he's suffered the worst. Haunted by his past,...

"A CULT CLASSIC WAITING ON ITS CULT."-William Boyle, author of City of MarginsRecently fired from his job, Dave sets out on a manic, misguided quest for answers up the food chain of law enforcement corruption and down the increasingly bizarre Florida coastline. Battling cops,...

Urbane, vain Nick Montaigne has a taste for Porsches, fifties jazz, and cinnamon chewing gum. When a beautiful Georgia coed is brutally murdered on the Appalachian Trail, detective Montaigne and his lovable but awkward partner Vern Wister are pulled into terra incognita. Montaigne not...

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time...When a woman's body is found in the sea at Blakeney Point with a single blow to the head, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work out who wanted her dead and...

A teenager's brave escape from the clutches of Nazi Germany, an American World-War II soldier, and the killing of an FBI agent collide in this compelling tale. Maddie Ellis, a.k.a Celeste Butler, has entrenched herself in financial fraud and money laundering as a tool...

A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There's Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop...

An edge-of-your-seat crime mystery so action-packed you'll find it impossible to put down. Investigative reporter, Samantha Bell, wakes to the worst news of her life. As shots ring out at a local high school, Samantha is thrown into the crosshairs of the biggest story...

She runs her trembling fingers over the dark, damp walls surrounding her. Above her head, she hears heavy footsteps. She knows she has nowhere to hide and as the door to the cellar is flung open, she finally sees his face. It's winter in...

The stakes don't get much higher than murder...It's January 1969 in the small rural community of Center Springs, Texas. Constable Ned Parker suspects a larger mystery behind the seemingly accidental death of his nephew, R .B., who was found in his overturned pickup near...

All she wanted was the life they had...It is the day of Erin's fortieth birthday party. Pink and silver balloons drift through her garden, the platters of food are empty and the recycling is overflowing with empty wine bottles.As Erin mingles with groups of...

Caleb Lambert kills people for a living. The money is nice, but it comes a distant second to his primary reason for choosing such a vocation: Caleb often calls it "scratching an itch." Here's the thing, though: Caleb won't just accept any contract. He...

IN THE 1980s WEST-TEXAS OIL PATCH, WHEN THE POLICE REFUSE TO GET INVOLVED, A LOW-LEVEL CRIMINAL WITH FAMILY PROBLEMS, COLTON PARKER, AND FELLOW LOW-LIFERS ARE HIRED TO FIND TWO MURDERERS.Gamblers, cons, and whores inhabit the night-time bar world of the early 1980s Odessa, Texas...

Fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers will love this gripping new book from Emma Tallon, set in the same world as her bestselling Tyler Family series.There's a new girl in town and she has a score to settle.Scarlet Drew isn't to be messed...

The perfect plan to disappear forever. No more cops. No more lawyers. In the end - freedom.A restaurant full of patrons are enjoying lunch at their favorite downtown Kansas City lunch spot, when a group of armed men enter. The patrons had just become...

A seemingly well-reasoned justification of murder comes to pieces as the murderer is forced to confront the true nature of his crime. After much thought Rodion Raskolnikov determines that certain special people deserve the right to step outside of normal law and order to...

Complex, fascinating, and fun ... Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada's best, and with good reason." -- Shelf Life Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize Is someone systematically killing the judges called...

A raucous novel, narrated in deadpan voice-over by Ramesh, a self-described 'lower lower middle class' 24-year-old scammer. . . . His perspective is a delight. . . . a tartly entertaining novel, a potential summer blockbuster. --New York Times Book ReviewA fresh look at...

Euphemia Martin's sixteenth gripping mystery is a nail-biting adventure of espionage and suspense set at the beginning of the Great War. It is 1914 and war is underway. A group of French actors has become trapped in Britain and some of them are seeking...

'Tense, fast-moving and bloody. Broadfoot's best yet' Mason Cross 'A true rising star of crime fiction' Ian Rankin 'Beautifully crafted . . . There's no filler, no exposition, just action, dialogue and layering of tension that'll hold you breathless until the very end' Helen...

Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples and the boy bosses who run them in Savage Kiss, the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Piranhas, the bestselling novel and major motion picture Nicolas Fiorillo and his gang of children--his paranza--control the squares of Forcella...

"There was a contingent of about ten police officers in several vehicles, led by Detective Sergeant Maluleke. The cracking sound coming from communications apparatus in police vehicles had woken up the neighbours who got out of their houses and lined the street in pyjamas....

From adolescence to young men, a group of mentally unhappy individuals, have gotten away with the unthinkable treatment and acts toward young ladies. Fortunately, their bad habits comes to an abrupt halt. Jacob not wanting to be associated with them, did the unthinkable. He...

Clara Montague is a whip-smart and wisecracking amateur detective who relies on her wits and an unusual ""gift"" rather than weapons or fists. It is contemporary murder mystery crafted by a writer with a gift for prose. You can go home again, but should...

Why did Melissa have to die? That's what her older sister, Micaela (Mickey) Moskowitz wants to know. Mickey, a prominent New York City journalist, returns to her hometown of Santa Fe in a quest for answers. She enlists Berg, her physicist paramour, and fiery...

Six weeks. Just forty-two short days. That's all it takes to rip the heart out of a city and change the lives of those who live there. Forever. One such life belongs to Ryan Jarrod. In the early hours of a wet winter's morning...

Adventure, action and dark humor galore, delivered Ralph Cotton style, in his fictional take on the real-life DEA - FBI joint Operation Swordfish, a covert effort launched by the two agencies in the early 1980s. Meet Eddie Vango-Chicago gambling debt collector for the Outfit,...

Inspired by his own career as a special forces soldier, AndyMcNab debuts his best-selling series with action-packed, high-octane RemoteControl, a thrilling page turn you won't be able to put down featuringex-SAS trooper Nick Stone.Tough, resourceful, ruthless - as a Special Air Service (SAS)trooper, Nick...

64 new traditional Holmes adventures in three simultaneously published volumesIn 2018, MX Publishing presented Parts XI and XII of this acclaimed and ongoing series, Some Untold Cases. Now that theme is revisited with 64 new Sherlock Holmes adventures that explore those many tantalizing references...

Three girls. Brutally murdered. Eyelids surgically removed.Their killer never caught.Eighteen years later... a new victim is found.Carolina McKay thought she'd escaped her past. The murders that wrecked her youth. Her family. But most of all, her hometown.After her promising career as a big-city police...

When you stop running, the past catches up with you.Detective Erin O'Reilly has never needed anyone to tell her she's tough. She's taken the worst New York City can throw at her, surviving gunfights, explosions, mobsters, and serial killers. But now, as she returns...

In Joseph E. Mosca's first Trooper John Stella mystery novel, readers are taken on a ride of crime that's filled with twists and turns they won't soon forget in this police procedural."Scorpion Wind captured my attention from the beginning. Mosca's book is the real...

Agatha Christie, an English author of the 20th century, delights readers with her exciting mystery novels that are acclaimed for her skillful writing and masterful storytelling. Her sixty-six detective novels are some of the most well-known pieces of literature for both lovers of the...

Detectives Jeppe K rner and Anette Werner from the #1 international bestseller The Tenant--which New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs heralded as a "stunning debut"--return in this compulsively readable thriller as they race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some...

Pulling off an impossible crime is the only way he can stay alive. Stealing a Faberge egg. Surviving a double cross. And pulling off the most incredible robbery ever, for the world's most demanding--and dangerous collector. This will be the challenge of thief extraordinaire...

Ralph Delchard, a former soldier in the era-defining Battle of Hastings, and Gervase Bret, an accomplished lawyer, continue to travel the length of England investigating irregularities exposed during the collection of information for the Domesday Book. The pair frequently find that where matters of...

Despite her penchant for investigating crimes, florist Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown had hoped that her autumn would be less frantic than usual, giving her the chance to enjoy her pregnancy and looking for a new house in the Patterdale area of the Lake District. But...

The Cornish village of St. Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. An ex-undercover cop, Tom is in the Witness Protection Program hiding from some very violent people, and St. Petroc offers him a...

This was supposed to be just business. No one said anything about falling in love.I can't stand Daniel Marino. He's an insufferable flirt, a womanizer, and all he seems to care about is money-and sex. But he's also the one paying me, and I...

Her daughter is dying ... and a killer with a fetish for body parts stalks London.As Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke copes with the daily pain of watching her daughter suffer through her last days, she is assigned to a macabre murder case. The mutilated...

Ivy and Scotty have been together for five years. Their relationship was seemingly perfect until he presents to her an easy way to get money. She is hesitant until his charm sways her to agree. After years of going along with his plan, she...