Fiction - Crime

Born into the unscrupulous, male-dominated, lifestyle of drugs, murder and money, REIGN had no time for love, she was all about that bag and folding niggas up. Using a heart-shaped pattern drawn with her favorite lipstick, as her calling card, the beautiful female assassin...

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,...

YASEER always feared karma might come back to haunt him. But never did he imagine it would appear with a vengeance stronger than anything he had ever encountered. After surviving a vicious attack, Yaseer is out to prove his team, The Torture Crew, is...

NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has...

When Domeko's mother Dorothy is blindsided by a severe illness, it renders her incapable of being able to adequately provide for Domeko and his twin sister Dameka, any longer. Thus Domeko concocts a plan for quick and sufficient, funds. All of which he finds...

Los Angeles TV journalist Beatrice Middleton has lost her job. With a possible employment offer in Atlanta, she heads home to Savannah, Georgia, to reconnect with her contentious African-American family, arriving to find that her 15-year-old nephew has been murdered.This begins the unraveling of...

Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content. And occasionally, even more disturbing patterns arise......

After graduating from High School John Dre Dodson finds his future looming before him. He is forced to make a number of decisions that will change his life. Choosing school over the mean Detroit's Eastside streets, the sudden reality of his poor circumstances make...

Choice was born into a life of crime. Growing up in an inner city this became his norm. His mother moved the family to a suburban area when he was young, but Choice was already addicted to a life of crime. Through all the...

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book.Featuring stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M....

Two dead bodies are found buried beneath undergrowth just outside Mildenheath. The race is on to uncover their identities and catch their killers.When two young men tell police they've escaped with their lives from a local brothel where they were kept as male prostitutes,...

"We've managed to head off the Press men so far. But that won't last. We can't escape publicity, and the reading public enjoys murders."Harriet Hall, living in her isolated cottage outside the village of Larnwood, might not have been everyone's cup of tea, but...

It had been so quickly done that he felt almost as if a little knife had actually flashed by him and stuck, quivering, in the door at his back.Violet Hunter disappears at dusk one evening on a lonely road not far from a mysterious...

"Jiminy He's going to fish for him."A small Cornish fishing hotel, The Tremarden Arms, is renowned for its adjacent waters where guests fish for salmon and trout. The unpleasant Colonel Donoughmore is found drowned in a salmon pool in the hotel grounds. He was...

'I'm Scarface. I'm just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I've bumped off six or eight myself and another one - especially a rat like you - wouldn't mean a thing in my young life. Get me?'Scarface is...

When a double murder takes place in a Norwegian village high school, a teenager finds himself subject to trial by social media ... and in the dock. Bestselling, highly emotive and award-winning Nordic Noir... 'One of the finest writers of the Nordic Noir genre'...

"I know what we'll do. We'll play Devil-in-the dark." When Sarah Trent was engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, she didn't bargain for a series of sinister occurrences--scary noises, the nocturnal rattle of claws against glass, a sabotaged bicycle. Then there is a...

The parcel was addressed in sprawling capitals to "Antony Rossiter, Esq. By hand." There was no more address than that. A sea-faring man brings an unassuming brown paper parcel to the offices of a distinguished law-firm. It soon plunges intelligence operative Antony Rossiter into...

"I wouldn't like to make you really angry, darling. You know, the only time I did you nearly scared me dead. I believe if you were really roused you might do something rather frightful." Lucas Dale, new owner of King's Bourne, was flirting with...

"You talk of him as if he were alive." "He is alive," said Benbow Smith. "And you think he would do murder?" "I am quite sure that he would do murder, Captain Loddon." Rose Anne disappeared on the eve of her wedding to Captain...

When private investigator Tess Grey accepts a commission to track down state witness Crawford Wynne, one of the few men still alive who can help the state nail a vicious drug lord, there's only one man she can turn to for help: renegade ex-con...

While accompanying her husband to a conference, Dorothy discovers what looks like a pool of blood on the floor of one of the university's laboratories. She goes to fetch help, but when she returns there is nothing to be found. Was she mistaken? Or...

A boiling-hot August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath, exsanguinated. Bill Slider's colleague takes one look at the body and is convinced something isn't quite right. As Bill investigates, he reluctantly has to agree. But as Slider and...

When a Silicon Valley wonderboy whose company just tanked is found dead in a gruesome pose, Detective Charlie Crawford and his partner Mort Ott swing into action. Only problem is the crime scene is scrubbed clean, and leads...not a one. This comes the day...

The serenity of an early morning hike near the shores of Lake Superior is horribly disrupted when a young couple discovers the naked, broken body of a woman in a rocky gorge at the bottom of Gooseberry Falls. It turns out the dead woman...

How can a little girl vanish into thin air? Five-year-old Cassie Bailey's mother tucked her into bed and kissed her goodnight. This morning she's missing, her unicorn bedcovers are empty, and her parents are frantic. DCI Rachel Hart knows that the first few hours...

Your daughter drowned. You know it wasn't an accident. Anna Applegate's daughter, Michelle, drowned after a night out with a friend. Anna's convinced Michelle's death was deliberate, and that her boyfriend, sports star Jack Marsh, killed her. As Investigator Andrew Hunter begins to dig...

One hot summer's afternoon, five-year-old Ava Sawyer went to a party. She never came home... When five-year-old Ava Sawyer goes missing from a birthday party at a local garden centre, the police are bewildered by the lack of leads. That is until two years...

Lucy watches the doctor leave, then turns to the nameless victim on the table. 'I promise I will catch whoever did this to you, ' she whispers. In charge of a new team, Detective Lucy Harwin is called out to attend the discovery of...

'I honestly can't give this book enough praise... without doubt being added to my top ten of 2018... an absolute must read... I couldn't put it down.' A Booking Good Read, 5 stars As he watches his daughter turn the corner and out of...

'This is a well paced and exciting read. More please ' Alexander McCall Smith 'It's a rare talent that creates a work that is both whip smart, fast paced and at the same time gloriously genteel. Carter is that talent.' Amanda Prowse The second...

Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to...

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is...

It's normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they're dead bodies - and the cast and crew discover they're trapped in a house with a serial killer - Quarry's got his work cut out for him. NOW A...

Detective John takes you on a ride into a world of murder and drugs. A gripping tale of how one man combats the dark side of Chicago. Going undercover, John does whatever it takes to protect his people; he becomes what Chicago needs a...

After the wife of a rich American expatriate is found murdered all the evidence seems to point to the household's attractive governess. When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are contacted by the governess's friend, it is the beginning of a typically complex and challenging...

With a ruthless criminal loose on the Suffolk coast, life is anything but peaceful for the Anglian Detective Agency . . . At Rooks Wood Farm, Rosalind Breen's twin sons grieve her death. Daniel shoulders the burdens of running the farm and caring for...

Bullets, Bombs, and Mayhem! Think 'American Sniper' meets 'The Godfather' in this action-adventure thriller. 4.4 Stars on 573 Reader Ratings.As Bob Burke's 737 lands at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, he sees a man strangling a woman on a rooftop below. No one believes him, of...

Big trouble comes to paradise when people begin disappearing on beautiful Sanibel Island. NYPD Detectives Pete Nazareth and Tara Gimble interrupt their Florida vacation to help untangle clues in the most unusual case of their careers. This is the tenth novel in the series....

Sin of Silence is a dark mafia romance novel. It is the first book in a series of three.Shaun is a doctor working in the Ukraine with Doctors Without Borders. She is kidnapped from the hospital and forced to help fix a dying man....

A man has been discovered dead on the front pew of Grace Community Church. Jo Elliott and her group of gospel singers have been the ones to find Harold Ashton when they enter the church to set up sound equipment for the evening concert....

Savannah Raymore ran away from her entire life 10 years ago. She packed her bags, moved hours away, and cut off contact with everyone she had ever known. Now, thanks to an unexpected phone call, Savannah must come home and deal with everything she...

Marcia Pullman has been found dead at home in the leafy suburbs of Bulawayo. Chief Inspector Edmund Dube is onto the case at once, but it becomes increasingly clear that there are those, including the dead woman's husband, who do not want him asking...

From the author of "Killing Me Softly" comes a terrifying thriller that will make you think twice before you open the front door... It's Saturday morning. April Fool's Day to be exact. Malcolm Gilbert is on his way to play golf. His wife, Blair,...

For police chief, Big Ray Elmore, the disappearance of a young black girl is not just another routine case. Something evil is stalking the small Arkansas delta town of Split Tree, and Elmore, broken by the war in the Pacific, is now hearing the...

Why would a man with no problems and five million dollars in the bank disappear?I should have run when Amanda Ghering walked into my detective agency looking like a femme fatale from a film noir. But I didn't. Instead, I took the job-and my...

A missing teenager, a mysterious cult and a case of mistaken identity - just another day's work for Epiphany Bloom.Epiphany 'Pip' Bloom is down on her luck. She can barely afford cat food, and just because Most has three legs doesn't mean he eats...

A boat found abandoned off the north-east coast of England. A girl snatched from the banks of the River Tyne. Another discovered face down in a sea of mud. Something links them. Something rookie detective Ryan Jarrod must uncover before the sands of time...

My roommate is a serial killer.And I have been powerless to stop him because I... am a cat.Don't get me wrong, Dean has never been cruel to me. He provides me with shelter, toys, and plenty of affection. But I have seen his dark...

Set against the contrasting backdrops of Wisconsin's pristine Northwoods, known as God's country, and the hustle and bustle of the Windy City, unfolds a mystery of unique characters with complicated pasts and conflicting agendas-the innocent, the socialites, the vigilantes, the village chief of police,...