Fiction - Crime

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through...

Someone has decided to make life difficult for Jamie Quinn's boyfriend, Kip Simons: the new director of Broward County parks.There is trouble in the park, but who's the culprit? Is it the angry supervisor passed over for promotion, or the disgruntled employee Kip recently...

The story of a Lebanese murder case set against the backdrop of sectarian animosity from an award-winning author The story of a Lebanese murder case set against the backdrop of sectarian animosity Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction In mysterious circumstances, the...

"Jam-packed with heart stopping suspense." -Book Fetish ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED... New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series...

Justice is back In her hometown of Chicago, she is trying to live a normal life for once. But as demons from her past start to rear their ugly heads, she is forced to confront them head on. Beneath her shrewd business persona lies...

SHE WAS EVERY MAN'S DREAM - AND ONE MAN'S NIGHTMARE Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn...

Paula Daly-"a master of psychological thrillers" (Library Journal)-returns with a pulse-pounding tale of domestic suspense that follows a bestselling crime novelist's tragic turn from fictional perpetrator into real-life victimAuthor: Paula DalyISBN-10: 0802147224ISBN-13: 9780802147226Publisher: Grove PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2019Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x...

ChickenfeedAs part of World Book Day 2006, Minette Walters took part in the Quick Reads initiative, designed to encourage developing readers and adult learners as they explore the exciting world of books. Chickenfeed, Walter's contribution, is a crackling tale based on the true story...

Clinical psychologist Tony Hill has had a good run. He and police detective Carol Jordan have put away scores of dangerous criminals at a rate that colleagues envy. But there is one serial killer who has shaped and defined their careers, and whose evil...

1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen's convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk promoting the museum's new 'Age of King Arthur' exhibition when he was...

Thea Osborne and her loyal spaniel Hepzie are still pursuing their occupation as house-sitters, despite the disastrous incidents of the past. At the moment they are staying in the late Greta Simmonds' house, which is currently between ownership. But when a body is discovered...

Assistant Chief Constable Iles finds himself suspected of murder in the fast-paced 35th installment of the popular Harpur and Iles police procedural series. Tensions in the community are mounting following the gruesome deaths of two men, both of whom were accused yet acquitted of...

A deathbed confession has chilling consequences in this gripping novel of psychological suspense. "I have to tell you something ... I did something bad". Ever since her best friend Molly was murdered fifteen years before, Blair Butler has returned to her small hometown in...

Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Linwood Barclay brings terror closer than ever before in a stunning thriller in which murder strikes in the place we should feel safest of all.... In a quiet neighborhood, in the house next door, a family is brutally murdered...

Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family-mother, father, brother-had vanished. No note, no trace, no return. Ever. Now, twenty-five years later, she'll learn the devastating truth. Sometimes it's better not to know. . . .Cynthia is happily married with...

In the dead of night on a lonely Melbourne street, a cabbie discovers to his horror that his drunken passenger has been murdered -- poisoned with a chloroform-saturated handkerchief. The killer, his motive, and even the victim's identity are unknown. The last person to...

Life got off to a rough start for CORONA aka Sweets but giving up is not in her DNA. Instead of relying on her beauty and sex appeal to make it out of the hood, she decides to go to college and make something...

Murdered criminals. Flawless forgeries. Encrypted operas. The murder of an opera house director forces world-renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team into an impossible position: protecting notorious criminals-from what appears to be a serial killer. Genevieve plunges into the world of...

The monsters are always closer to home than you think. My fianc was one of those monsters, but by the time I learned the truth, it was too late for me. What he didn't know was that his betrayal would send me into the...

For two FBI agents with a past, love becomes a matter of life and death in the new Hidden Sins novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert.Maggie Gaines used to be an FBI agent--top of her class and one...

Ten years ago, Beatrix Rose headed an off-the-books hit squad to carry out the dirty work of the British government. When she discovered that the commander of the squad was corrupt, he sent five of his assassins to rub her out. But they failed....

The desire to kill is becoming contagious in this riveting novel of conceivable mad science by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.Computational biologist and serial-killer hunter Dr. Theo Cray receives an off-the-record request from the FBI to investigate an inexplicable double...

The instant New York Times bestselling thriller from the "master of ticking bomb suspense" (People) who created Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance is "a tour de force...the suspense never flags" (Kirkus Reviews). When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house...

A lavish penthouse party on top of a Vegas hotel and casino plays host to a bizarre set-up to murder in which a security guard is trapped and killed in a private elevator--and the body soon vanishes . . . leading crime scene investigators...

A teenager is found dead in his motel room, the cause of death: millipede poison...Now crime scene investigator Gil Grissom must aid CSI's Nick Stokes and Riley Adams against a serial killer whose knowledge of entomology rivals his own -- a brutal murderer who...

Author: Lynda La PlanteISBN-10: 1499861508ISBN-13: 9781499861501Publisher: ZaffreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2018Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.40h x 4.10w x 1.10d

A USA Today Bestseller!A brooding covert operative and a spunky CIA agent discover a burning passion in the next installment of Julie Ann Walker's red-hot BKI seriesDagan Zoelner has made three huge mistakes The first two left blood on his hands. The third left...

In 1913 Spartanburg, South Carolina, a black man hovers in the county jail, arrested for a horrendous crime against a white woman, and aware of a howling mob outside the jailhouse walls determined to lynch him. Basically true, this novel tells the story of...

Terrorised and alone in a basement flat, Bella overcomes her fear and transforms herself from victim to avenger. Over the course of a very dirty weekend she goes out in the night and kills seven men and one myth.The men make the mistake of...

Rock climbers can't afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon's former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge...

This is an alternative historical account of the only man convicted in Buford Pusser's murder. It is the story of a period of time that although recent, seems distant in our memory. In many ways, it is as relevant now as it was then....

A ruthless and expertly trained contract killer is on assignment in Nevada's remote Desert National Wildlife Range...and he deliberately sets in motion a series of seemingly unconnected events that will soon test the skills of Gil Grissom and his team of CSIs -- Catherine...

When softhearted handyman Cedric O'Toole agrees to help Barry Mitchell renovate his farmhouse, he finds himself facing old fears. Not only did Mitchell bully Cedric all through school, but his life has been troubled ever since. Now, just out of prison, he's broke and...

In the #1 bestselling series, Private's Jack Morgan must hunt down a killer before the Olympic games begin in Rio.Rio de Janeiro, Brazil knows how to throw a party. So it's a natural choice to host the biggest spectacles in sports: the World Cup...

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...

There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I love those stories. And since I work in the National Archives, I find those stories for a living. Beecher White, a young archivist, spends his days working with the most important documents of the U.S....

From the international bestselling author of the The Thorn Birds comes a captivating suspense novel about a string of horrifying murders and the police lieutenant tasked with solving the case. Colleen McCullough's first book in the Carmine Delmonico series will leave your breathless and...

Still reeling from his wife's recent miscarriage, Moe Prager is bullied into taking the case of an up-and-coming politico whose career has stalled over the suspicious disappearance of a young woman. It's been almost two years since Moira Heaton, State Senator Steven Brightman's intern,...

As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of the wild west in The Removes, a historical novel from New York Times bestselling and...

With The Devil's Muse, Bill Loehfelm returns with another gripping installment in his "edgy, dangerous, but pulsing with life" (Booklist) Maureen Coughlin series. New Orleans's toughest female cop tackles her very first Mardi Gras Now that she's back on the force and her work...

When Philadelphia's right-wing-ranting radio host Drew Harrigan is arrested for possession of illegal pain killers, he implicates a homeless man, Sherman Markey, in the drug buys, and is soon checked into a locked rehabilitation facility. While Harrigan is away, beyond the reach of the...

Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson's friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will's hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help save them, causes...

Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys--including...

From the NY Times bestelling author of the Justice series with over two and a half million copies sold to date.Some people have secrets...And there are those who have deadly secrets...The murder of an unidentified woman in a hotel room proves to be a...

When he's not holding down a dead-end job or lurking in his mother's basement, Tony Anastos spends his time shooting ultra-low-budget horror flicks. After meeting his sexy fame-hungry coworker Anna, he sees an opportunity to launch his career into cult stardom. But when Tony's...

o A steamy Caribbean islando A missing female photographero A daughter's relentless search and her entanglement in the island's twisted subculture Don't expect an umbrella in your drink when you escape to the Virgin Islands in this heart-pounding suspense novel as young Olivia Benning...

A finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards and awarded 2nd place in the Royal Palm Literary Awards, this suspenseful story has overlapping characters from South of Justice. North of the Killing Hand is a prequel to South of Justice.Author: Joni M. FisherISBN-10: 0997257520ISBN-13:...

Christmas is a time of goodwill to all men--or is it?As the nights draw in, throw another log on the fire and settle back into your armchair to enjoy this collection of ten classic Christmas mysteries, in which crime's best known sleuths, from Rebus...

Book 10 in the Chief Inspector George Gently case files finds Gently dodging bullets when he investigates the murder of a trucker who died in a hail of gunfire. Murdered in a lonely lay-by in the heart of the countryside, the trucker is identified...

No good deed goes unpunished as they say. In Brandy Alexander's case, no good deed goes without finding a body and a crime to solve. She returns a jacket her friend left in the bar and finds herself smack in the middle of a...