Fiction - Crime

Everett Skidmore, a high school science teacher, is a delusional transvestite on a killing spree. The teacher is plagued by a transitory ocular deficiency that causes his eyes to grossly cross whenever in contact with his demon neighbor, an elderly woman who traumatized him...

Eight minutes after entering the bank, and after locking the three tellers and manager inside the vault, and hitting the silent alarm button, the couple exited the building. They stepped out onto the sidewalk, the man turned left, and the woman turned right. They...

Putting out fires is what Lieutenant Charlie McMahon does best. The streets of Chicago keep him busy and provide a respite from his family's chaos. But everything changes when his rescue squad is called to a house where female victims are found chained to...

Separated at birth, identical twins Ann and Veronica couldn't be more different: Ann, a loving wife and mother; Veronica, a heartless sociopath. When Veronica learns that Ann has married into a wealthy family, she manipulates family members and the police into believing she's Ann...

More than 40 years after his debut and nearly a decade since his last appearance, one of the most renowned characters in all of crime fiction is back on the case.Well past retirement age and feeling his years-but still staying sober one day at...

A merciless killer who will stop at nothing. And a detective with nothing left to lose.When Detective Karen Hart hears a scream echoing out of beautiful Lincoln Cathedral one snowy evening, she is the first officer on the scene. In the chapel a man...

Upon winning the prestigious 2013 Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award, the judges praised Alex by saying, "An original and absorbing ability to leash incredulity in the name of the fictional contract between author and reader... A police procedural, a thriller against time, a...

Ralph Delchard, a former soldier in the notable Battle of Hastings, and Gervase Bret, an exceptional lawyer, continue to travel the length of England inspecting anomalies uncovered during the collection of information for the Domesday Book, the great survey of the country commissioned by...

An innocent girl like her... sold to a beast like me.NikitaAs the boss of the Bratva, I live my life by a code: Always stay in control.But I broke my own rule on the night I bought Annie.She was so delicate and desperate up...

This book gives the reader a detailed look at what is going on inside of prison. Each chapter covers everything about prison life and how the prison experience continues to live with a person once they are released from prison. Many people have stereotypical...

Leah thought she could sleep easy now. She was wrong. A production company is interested in making a movie about Isabel Fielding's life, but Leah knows this is a huge mistake. When the actress cast to play Leah is found murdered, she's proven right...

'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBENEmma's the one that got away.The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as 'the hairdresser' - because of the trophies he takes from his victims.Or she thinks she was.The police aren't convinced....

64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories - XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60...

64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories - XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60...

Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One perfect crime.When Amelia is invited to an all-expenses-paid retreat on a private island, the mysterious offer is too good to refuse. Along with six other strangers, she's told they're here to test a brand-new product for Timeo Technologies. But...

From "the heir-apparent to Elmore Leonard" (Crime Syndicate Magazine) comes a caper novel full of twists, hitmen, and loads of stolen cash. Wanting to free herself from her boyfriend, aging gangster "Maddog" Palmieri, Bobbi Ricci concocts a misguided plan with Denny, Maddog's ex-driver, a...

On the day that Major Baker's wagon rolled into Watervaal Farm loaded with spoils from the Boer War in South Africa, nobody suspected that it was of much importance. Two tons of ivory and a four-ton boulder etched with prehistoric native art, though, would...

Detective Inspector Jacob Vance and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Brittany Shepherd, are called upon to prevent a series of murders across London.The Metropolitan Police Commissioner has provoked a psychopath with her inaugural speech. Soon later, the commissioner receives a letter threatening a series of...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Clouds of Witness, Sayers' second mystery novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, was first published in 1926 in the U.K. and later in the U.S. under the title Clouds of Witnesses. It was adapted for television in 1972, as...

Freeman's Bourne novels might get more publicity, but his Stride novels are where his skills as a storyteller are really showcased. First-rate. -- BooklistA woman has been kidnapped.Now Jonathan Stride must decide if her husband wants her back ... dead or alive.After nearly dying...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read--but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream...

In 1960's Brooklyn, NY, troubled teen Billy Delaney's life takes a drastic turn. After Billy and his high school friends get arrested during an attempted armed robbery, their lives are torn asunder.Billy struggles with unresolved issues of guilt over his friends' misfortunes. Obsessed to...

A special edition of The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy. When Frank, an amoral young drifter, gets thrown off a hay truck in the California desert, he ends up at a diner run by Cora...

Working on multiple cases at the same time, homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales have their plates full of problems.Turner is a man with an unnerving resemblance to a 30's movie matinee idol. He has the same jet-black hair, the same wiry, sardonic...

Working on multiple cases at the same time, homicide detectives Turner Hahn and Frank Morales have their plates full of problems.Turner is a man with an unnerving resemblance to a 30's movie matinee idol. He has the same jet-black hair, the same wiry, sardonic...

Reluctant family law attorney Jamie Quinn is loving life - and why wouldn't she? Her boyfriend Kip is back from Australia, her long-lost dad finally has his visa and she's about to start her dream job at an art foundation.It all falls apart when...

Detective Mike Nash thought that moving back to Yorkshire from London would give him a quieter life. Little did he know . . . A violent murderer has escaped from Felling Prison. Craig French slit the throats of a husband and wife and stole...

From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a thrilling novel where a detective duo of sisters finds themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous and lawless group. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There...

The Novel: In a small community perched on the rugged Pacific coast, a cluster of friends struggle to make a living, only to find their way of life being pushed aside by a large commercial fish farm and processing plant. As the numbers of...

When Emily Inglethorp, the elderly matriarch of Styles Court, an Essex country manor, is found poisoned with strychnine, a guest of the manor, Arthur Hastings calls upon his friend, famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, to solve the mystery that surrounds her death. Chief amongst...

Bill is a conman with a taste for high-end cars, beautiful suits, and top-shelf liquor. But he's getting tired of the cons he needs to maintain that lifestyle-and he's sick of the violence that's sometimes part of the job.Bill's girlfriend Fiona doesn't have a...

Young women aren't safe in Oshawa with a sadistic serial killer on the loose. Detective Sergeant Hannah Phillips is fierce and dogged as she tirelessly works to find out who is behind the abductions and murders of young women around the Ontario city. After...

Angela Murphy has just started as a detective on the mean streets of Glasgow, when the mutilated corpse of a young prostitute is discovered in a squalid apartment.Called to investigate the grisly murder, Angela is both shocked and surprised. To her boss, Frank Martin,...

On a flight to Washington D.C., environmental lobbyist Michael Warren's life begin to unravel.Michael is on his way to testify before a Senate Committee, and destroy the plans for a housing development built on land tainted with the same toxic waste that killed his...

"The dead will always find ways to speak"When Teffy Byrne steals a dead sex worker's coded journal from a local art show, she thinks it might shed light on an unsolved murder committed seven years ago. The victim? Teresa Squires, her boyfriend Ger's old...

Sarah, his personal chef. Anna, his wife. Serena, his maid. All three had access to a murder victim's home. And all three women are missing. Sarah, his personal chefAnna, his wifeSerena, his maidAccountant Anthony Costello has a talent for manipulating both numbers and people,...

Travis is the night manager at the Cross Motel in Sydney's notorious late-night district, Kings Cross. His life takes a drastic turn after a sex worker is brutally murdered on his shift.Having broken up with his girlfriend and lost his dream of becoming a...

In 1957, a long-buried cache of miner's gold (doré) bars are found and hidden by a few people in the high desert town of Sagebrush. It is illegal to possess gold bullion and the small group, many of them enthusiastic poker players at the...

A high-society wedding party stirs up new evidence in an unsolved murder in this thrilling stand-alone from the New York Times bestselling coauthor of James Patterson's Now You See Her and The Quickie.Hamptons sand ... Hamptons money ... Hamptons murder ... When Terry Rourke...

From Rio Youers, the acclaimed author of Lola on Fire, comes a blistering high-octane thriller about desperate love, vengeance, and the precarious pursuit of fame.A rip-roaring Hollywood noir that smashes the pedal to the metal and keeps it there. The best villain since Ian...

'I loved this warm, humorous and involving whodunnit with its host of engaging characters and atmospheric Scarborough setting' CLARE CHASE 'Just the heart-warming tonic readers need right now. Endearing characters, intriguing twists and one very cute canine' HELEN COX Meet Helen Dexter - proprietor...

MOCK'S BAD STOMP IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY OF PRE-STATEHOOD OKLAHOMA, a brutal assault has been committed against a young Creek woman by the name of Etta Jane "Mock" Burnham. A full description of how and why the assault occurred is revealed, but, surprisingly, sympathy...

One Good Man: Sex and Murder on the Last FrontierIn this wildly creative romantic adventure across the beauty of Alaska, Amy has headed north to Alaska to find her one good man before her baby clock expires. Amy's hearty appetite for sampling the wares...

In book two of the Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries series, Jamie has returned to her family law practice after a hiatus due to her mother's death.It's business as usual until a bitter divorce case turns into a murder investigation, and Jamie's client becomes the...

When most people think of Texas, they most likely imagine big hats, wide open ranges, and cowboys. What most people don't see is the violent and destructive criminal underbelly, left in the wake of dying, dilapidated towns, and desperate people shattered by addiction. Ranger...

Father Brown is an insightful sleuth who travels far and wide to solve a new set of mysteries that require his unique skills and wisdom. This selection of short stories also includes a variety of locales from Italy to Cornwall and everywhere in between....

Volume 5 of Richard Sullivan's The First Ward historical novel series, "Everybody Dies In The End," based on actual people and their activities legal and otherwise in Buffalo's wild and wooly waterfront First Ward, sees five of the real life principal characters die-four of...

If you've already finished Netflix's Lupin, never fear-the Ars鈩e Lupin books have plenty of mystery to keep you occupied while waiting for the next part of the series. The French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Ars鈩e Lupin is both a brilliant detective and a dashing...

Kurt Hammer ends up in Lima, Peru to escape his demons and put an end to his alcoholism.The holiday soon takes a sinister turn though, when Kurt witnesses the brutal murder of an old friend.Facing the most difficult case of his life, can Kurt...

Retired Las Vegas Detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson think the solution to a very old cold case came easy.Turns out, a little too easy.And the deeper they dig into the old case, the more they uncover a very ugly side of humanity. And...