Fiction - Crime

Some are born with a perfect palate, others with perfect pitch. Lily Sparks was born with a perfect eye. As Conservator of Paintings at the Denver Art Museum, she uses her keen visual powers to restore masterpieces and detect what's authentic and what is...

LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his K-9 partners try to outmaneuver not one but two serial killers, while investigating the suspicious death of a woman who belonged to a cult.When a woman in Bel Air dies of a rattlesnake bite, the case doesn't seem...

In the streets there are many savages, but the man known as 40 is unlike any other. 40 is cool headed but beastly and after coming home from a stint in jail and finding out that SKALEZ, his childhood friend has been brutally murdered,...

What do you get when you mix Agatha Christie's masterpiece And Then There Were None with the blockbuster television show Survivor? JACK FROST Jack and Alice have a new assignment: to investigate the suspicious death of a soundman on the hit TV show Planet...

This is the book of the expanding man. What's the end result of a crazy scheme to match some of music history's most evocative and memorable songs with twelve of today's most entertaining writers? You're looking at it. With this collection there's no need...

Originally banned in the UK, this is the story of Miss Callaghan. Not of any particular Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who disappear from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those who knew and loved...

Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler's craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast. When...

The saying goes you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you, but maybe you should if that same hand prevents you from feeding yourself. Every territory has a king, and Metro Atlanta is no exception. Gang lords Blanket and Guerilla have been growing their...

In this stunning novel, premonitions or gut feelings-the inherent knowing without rational basis-play a starring role. Lynn Conley, a litigation paralegal, experiences this phenomenon recurrently. Visions of accidents and murders invade her mind far too often, creating chaos in her life. Sheri Noland, a...

Celebrity and crime pay off big time for an American sociopath in Paris in "one of the great joys in new noir fiction" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Dr. Crandall Taylor--or rather the actor who plays him--is enjoying a cushy new life in the...

When a weird meteor crashes in the heart of Central Park on Halloween night, its uncanny light attracts the attention of Richard Wentworth-alias The Spider Investigating, the millionaire criminologist encounters a maelstrom of madness in the making. Drawn, too, are two sinister figures from...

"Reading the fifteen stories in Prison Noir is a sobering experience. Unlike most claimants to that much-abused term, this is the real thing . . . The power of this collection comes from the voices of these authors, voices suffused with rage ("3 Block...

All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple.--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014 Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog Included in...

The Shiny Car in the Night by Nick Mamatas has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa ScottolineThere is plenty of mayhem for fans of dark fiction in the pages of Long Island Noir:...

Originally published in 1941. The nightmare tale of the life and death of Dillon, American gangster. From the first to the last page, the ruthlessness of an inhuman killer is set down with stark realism. Chase's second book.Author: James Hadley ChaseISBN-10: 1617209899ISBN-13: 9781617209895Publisher: Black...

Lt. Gianna Maglione of the DC Police Department's Hate Crimes Unit teams up with her journalist girlfriend, Mimi Patterson, to find out who murdered three Muslims on their way to prayers and bring them to justice. They've done this before, but this time it's...

A Mapuche woman in Buenos Aires tries to solve a friend's murder in this Prix Landerneau-winning crime novel by the acclaimed French author of Zulu. Twenty-eight-year-old Jana is a Mapuche, one of those indigenous "people of the earth" who were dispossessed when the Argentinean...

A missing groom--a deconsecrated church--a hidden crypt--a skeleton wrapped in a blanket When a skeleton is discovered in the hidden crypt of a deconsecrated church, everyone is convinced the bones must be those of Conor Devitt, a local man who went missing on his...

Into the house. Down the stairs. Through the dripping dark of the cellar. Someone is there. Someone that shouldn't be there.As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones-with a terrified, feral child lurking...

Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Here, for the first time in a deluxe three-volume Library of America boxed set, are eleven of his classic Lew Archer mysteries. Contains: Four Novels of the 1950s...

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.Author: Robert CraisISBN-10: 1594136726ISBN-13: 9781594136726Publisher: Large Print PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2014Pages: 467Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00dLarge Print

A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio Cort zar, The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and...

Summoned to a remote Tibetan village from the hidden lamasery where he lives, Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, must save a comatose man from execution for two murders in which the victims' arms have been removed. Upon arrival, he discovers that...

Dead Air signals trouble at the radio station. Glenn Beckert discovers his high school best friend is shot in the head while on the air. Beck, the owner of Blue Water Security, is employed to provide security for the station. He becomes willingly embroiled...

'It's a funny thing about holidays in the country, but after only a few days away you feel as if you've been out of circulation for a month...' Holidaying out in the sticks in the Alban Hills, Marcus Corvinus is bored out of his...

Are you ready to explore and question your own views on faith, hope, forgiveness and the afterlife? On a typical weekday morning in a peaceful suburb of Akron, Ohio, the town awakens to discover that Rachel Turner and her son, Evan have been brutally...

THE WIDOW IS A COP. FORGET THE LAW, SHE WANTS REVENGEDetective Inspector Stella Cole was a rising star in London's Metropolitan Police. Then a hit-and-run driver killed her husband, Richard, a human rights lawyer. Grief drove her to booze and pills. Back at work...

What do the new arrivals on Sandhamn Island have to fear? Their own secrets--in this gripping novel of suspense by the bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment.The new summer house on Sandhamn Island is an architectural dream for its owner, Carsten...

Are you my mommy? Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children.Not anymore.She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police,...

In the #1 bestselling series, Jack Morgan teams up with the head of Private India to solve a high-stakes case: one by one, people are missing-and they have to find them before they're dead. Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast. When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the...

A lawyer survives an attempt on his life, a medical examiner uncovers murders in Napa Valley, and a woman hunts down a killer with her drone in this collection of three pulse-pounding thrillers. The Lawyer Lifeguard with Doug Allyn: Are you the lawyer who...

"An entertaining and amusing ride." - Kirkus ReviewsNever say no to Vasily Zinoviev. Or you could end up like the 'working girl' who skinny-dipped in the wrong pool.Living in a $20 million oceanfront mansion with a harem of mistresses, Vasily and his brother are...

Unforgivable Blood -The Forgotten Secrets Of A Family's Ruin; is Yusuf T. Woods latest novel debuting as the first installment of a new original series. A terrifically entertaining thriller that keeps up with his unique style of word play and raw mystifying composing. This...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers' and recognised as one of the 'big four' Golden Age crime authors.The unloading of a consignment of French wine from the steamship...

From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster, comes a new MC dark standalone novel I had it all.Family. Career. A future.Until a couple of bikers took it brutally away from me.They scarred me both inside and out, killing the man I once was.Jared Koynakov...

A brilliantly original thriller and "a startling, smart, vivid book" (Tana French, New York Times bestselling author) from the acclaimed author of Three Graves Full--inspired by the real-life unsolved theft of a seventeenth-century painting. Twenty-eight seconds. In less than half a minute, a home-security...

A brutal murder. An impossible Crime. Why did Genevieve have to die? Who murdered her?Caught between two worlds, one where she didn't belong, the other she couldn't give up, Genevieve committed the ultimate deception and married into a world of wealth and privilege and...

As brilliant as Sherlock Holmes. As daring as James Bond. Sexton Blake, the adventuring detective, is back again! SPY-MASTERS, NAZIS AND SECRETS It's the Second World War, and Sexton Blake is matching minds with the very best... and the very worst. When an innocent...

To commit the perfect murder, you need the perfect cover.On an icy morning, a mother wakes to find her daughter's blood-soaked body frozen to the road. Who would carry out such a killing on the victim's doorstep? Straight off her last harrowing case, Detective...

Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice . . . She is not the only one.When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in...

Your husband's car crash wasn't an accident... Maddy Shaw learns the life-shattering news in the most horrific way: live on air. As the shaky mobile phone recording pans over the terrible crash, she recognises her husband Simon's car in the wreckage... He is critically...

'The new GIRL ON THE TRAIN' Observer What did he do to ... The Girl Before You ASK HIM NO QUESTIONS, HE'LL TELL YOU NO LIES... Alice has always been haunted by the women from her husband's past. As a politician and now a...

Expect the unexpected in this gritty, tense, and page-turning thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.After multiple women go missing, Agent Melina Shepard of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation makes the impulsive decision to go undercover as a prostitute. While working the...

Young, beautiful, and hardworking, Nina Iorizzo discovers her quiet world has been turned on its head after coming in contact with mobster Santangelo Furri. She must find the strength to approach her sudden threat head-on. Santangelo Furri, the cunning and ruthless soldier-turned-boss overnight, must...

Trouble is brewing for coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen when her barista's wealthy beau is murdered. Maggy Thorsen's head is spinning thanks to partner Sarah Kingston's latest idea - selling luxe espresso machines in their Wisconsin coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds. But Maggy soon faces a far...

The "tremendous popularity" (New York Times) of the Philo Vance series stems in part from author S.S. Van Dine's preference for ripping his plots from the headlines of the day. By the early '30s, when Casino came around, those headlines included creepy chemical discoveries...

A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE. A VILLAGE FULL OF SECRETS. Ten years ago, a boy named Samuel Murray went missing from the quiet village of Buckthorpe and was never seen again. Rosie Sharpe cried over her missing friend for weeks after. But her little sister Heather...

A distraught woman hires private investigator Hannibal Jones to track down her daughter who has run away, trying to escape the homeless shelter life her mother has come to accept. No sooner has Hannibal found Connie Blanco than he finds himself entwined in a...

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A life-long devotee of vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to a heart attack. His GP is convinced that this is the case but trainee undertaker Drew Slocombe isn't...