Fiction - Crime

The trouble with this screamingly smug little country, said my Aunt Emma, is that nothing ever happens! - So begins the last crime novel by writer, painter and hotelier Paul Townend. Very soon, however, a murdered woman is recovered from a deep ravine. The...

From the acclaimed author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon comes another beautifully presented seasonal mystery.1889. The First Terror.At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's...

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...

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...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

On a seemingly ordinary Saturday morning, Fraser McCourt awakens to a nightmare.He finds himself in the grounds of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, close to the University - and he's naked. A short distance away is the lifeless body of fellow student Reggie Bartholomew, with strangle...

Captain Jim Cade, Lieutenant Jaime Ontiveros and Josie Du Puy of the Phoenix P.D. Homicide unit are engaged in a life and death struggle with a group of vigilante cops.The discovery of this group of killers is a task in itself, and the chase...

Captain Jim Cade, Lieutenant Jaime Ontiveros and Josie Du Puy of the Phoenix P.D. Homicide unit are engaged in a life and death struggle with a group of vigilante cops.The discovery of this group of killers is a task in itself, and the chase...

Looking for your next unputdownable mystery? Meet Detective Tyrone Swift. He takes the cases that the police have given up on. One dead fiancé.One dead runaway.One woman desperate for answers. Respectable, dull Sam Goddard is found dead in the River Thames the evening before...

Author: Dani RenéISBN-10: 1739935268ISBN-13: 9781739935269Publisher: Dani Rene BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2021Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.76d

A special deluxe hardcover edition of The Godfather--the unforgettable saga of an American crime family that became a #1 bestseller and global phenomenon. This deluxe edition of The Godfather includes: - A jacket featuring a new take on the iconic original cover- Printed cover...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - This "deeply immersive novel" (The Washington Post) from the author of the award-winning Preparation for the Next Life is an "epic coming-of-age tale filled with pain, heartache, fear, and undying love" (The Associated Press),...

After stealing a famous Rembrandt painting, Terry learns that his daughter Angie has been kidnapped... and the canvas is the ransom.But Terry has his own ideas on how to get his daughter back. A master forger and thief, Terry devises a master plan to...

After stealing a famous Rembrandt painting, Terry learns that his daughter Angie has been kidnapped... and the canvas is the ransom.But Terry has his own ideas on how to get his daughter back. A master forger and thief, Terry devises a master plan to...

There's a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn't the food selection that attracts customers, it's the illegal weapons available with the...

A jealous psychopath hunting another serial killer to regain lost limelight.A feisty young detective caught in the crossfire.Can she end the carnage before she joins the body count? Simone Singh, assistant superintendent of police, would rather spend her days locking up criminals than apologizing...

Calamity befalls the little Vendome Theater in the tenth installment of the sun- and wine-soaked Proven軋l Mystery Series.Proven軋l Mystery Series #10Watch the series! Murder in Provence is now on Britbox. When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine...

Royal bastards CARNAGE. Ezekiel "Carnage Creator" Ford. Brother of the Royal Bastards MC. Brutality incarnate. A lone wolf. The one they call in from the dark when they need shit done-and there's no one better for the job than me. I have a tainted...

Violet Winters was a master criminal. A one-woman crimewave. Until lockdown happened. Now she's stuck in the house catching up on box sets and ordering crap off the internet.And then she finds out about The Lakehouse. A former rehab facility, the residents have been...

La Boutique is the chic London dress shop owned by Eve. ex-wife of internationally acclaimed songwriter Lewis Bristol. Lewis returns from Los Angeles to London with important information for his brother Supt. Robert Bristol of Scotland Yard, but soon Durbridge-like things begin to happen....

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable "consulting detective" at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back...

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable "consulting detective" at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back...

Death is waiting in the Deep South.After she embarks on a seemingly routine cross-country road trip to Alabama to visit her close friend's sick aunt, Rhonda Knight looks forward to a quiet journey that will let her spend quality time with Zach, the man...

"What I read in your hand is tragedy-a horrible tragedy that doesn't come to one in a million people." Bookseller Theodore Terhune buys the substantial library of the recently deceased James Strudgewick, a wealthy Yorkshireman who fell and drowned at a local beauty spot....

"Frank Hugh Smallwood was first murdered on the 15th of April, 1927" Bookseller Theodore Terhune investigates an old homicide case after he stumbles on the freshly murdered corpse of seaman Frank Smallwood, a man thought to have been murdered nearly twenty years previously during...

'Breathtakingly original, and a captivating sense of place' Val McDermid, bestselling author of Still Life 'Compelling and original, this glints with freshness' Daily Mail'A brilliantly inventive and twisty tale' Claire McGowan, bestselling author of The Push 'A good detective story . . . intriguing'...

"Creepy, tense, and utterly gripping. I savored every superb word of this hypnotizing, unpredictable thriller" Samantha M. Bailey'On May 26, 2004, Jessie Germaine rode her bike into the forest and disappeared...into thin air.'Margo hasn't been back to Lake Moss since her friend went missing....

Niki Dupre is overwhelmed with cases. And then, her fiancee asks her to take two more.One is the murder of a friend, a partner at a stockbroker's office. The other, the sudden collapse of his nephew on the football field. Both cases seem clear...

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in...

Baby's down--and could be out for good--when she faces off with forces bent on turning her lakeside paradise into a living hell, for fans of Alissa Nutting and Amy Engel. Baby's heart is in the right place, but she's got problems--namely, a fierce taste...

Something salacious is afoot in Morgan City.After the discovery of Coach Leo McClure's body in Lake Palourde, Hawk and Kristi are called in to investigate. As they dig deeper, long-kept secrets about the late coach begin to surface.When a PI turns up dead, Hawk...

The twins are on the hunt for ghosts again, and trouble follows. Tripping into an open grave, they discover a dead man covered in fresh blood.They race to find Hawk Theriot, the only federal ranger in the vast Atchafalaya Basin. Hawk tracks the murderer...

Los Angeles, 1932. Hack Hollywood writer Eliot Blunt finds himself involved in the mysterious death of a top movie producer - an event which provides him with the chance to produce exciting and original screen treatments of work by Virginia Woolf. Ellis Sharp's powerful...

A small town college in northern Alberta can be chilling.One crisp winter morning the college's domineering president, Vanessa Dworking, is found frozen behind the wheel of her Oldsmobile. Now to be sure, Ms. Dworking was not particularly well liked. In fact, she had a...

Outlaw bikers, rogue police, brutal gangsters and a ruthless assassin converge in the city of Shoremont to claim the bounty on Ryan Hall's head and recover the girl he rescued-Taylor Brown. Detectives Jesse Wishman and Larry Manning must clear Hall's name and uncover the...

Are you ready to meet the hot alpha bikers of the South Carolina Savage Kings MC? Roman Roman McNamara is not only the president of the Savage Kings of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but he's also the king of one-night stands. There's just one...

Dirty pictures, secret wars and human beasts. Detective Maier is back to investigate the politics of murder.When award-winning German conflict photographer Martin Ritter disappears in a boating accident in Thailand, the nation mourns the loss of a cultural icon. A few weeks later, Detective...

For readers of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love. Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the...

An emotional spellbinder from the bestselling author of NOT SO DEADThe Last Appointment: what happens when a writer discovers that her made-up stories not only predict the future, but put her life and the lives of those around her in mortal danger?Zombie Phone: A...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #16 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."NOBODY SAW HER. NOBODY CAN FIND HER. When 37-year-old Lisa Jackson sets out for work one Friday morning she is in high spirits. Things...

A cargo container crashes in rural Pakistan. Inside are forty-six kidnapped street children... As a grizzled, semi-retired policewala living in rural twenty-second century Pakistan, Officer Nawaz had dropped any ideas of heroism long ago. But when he discovers a crashed cargo container near his...

The second instalment in the gripping gangland UK crime scene, from compelling author, Susan Wilkins.If she can't get justice, will she settle for vengeance?Kaz Phelps has escaped her brother and her criminal past to become an anonymous art student in Glasgow. But can life...

Can DS Karen Hart rely on the word of a little girl to save the life of a woman in grave danger?When a woman is abducted from a quiet suburban street and bundled into the back of a white van, the only witness to...

His French honeymoon continually interrupted by a series of misdeeds, DCI Jack Austin returns to Portsmouth to find the missing link.When an ambitious new detective infringes on his territory - and his ego - Austin resorts to illogically effective tactics to protect those that...

His French honeymoon continually interrupted by a series of misdeeds, DCI Jack Austin returns to Portsmouth to find the missing link.When an ambitious new detective infringes on his territory - and his ego - Austin resorts to illogically effective tactics to protect those that...

From the CWA Historical Dagger Award-nominated author of The Angel's Mark and The Serpent's Mark The Elizabethan world is in flux. Radical new ideas are challenging the old. But the quest for knowledge can lead down dangerous paths... London, 1594. The Queen's physician has...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshall Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father's past.A small town hides a big secret.Who killed Emily Vaughn?A girl...

A family cloaked in secrets. A beguiling woman. A unique setting. Inspector Bordelli is back to solve one of the most difficult cases of his entire career in the sixth book in this atmospheric crime noir series - perfect for fans of Andrea Camilleri....

They left him for dead. They made a mistake. On sabbatical from the force after a personal loss, DCI Harry McNeil spends his days renovating an old cottage he bought, and his nights down at the local bar. He's living in a small town...