Fiction - Crime

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...

For a woman obsessed and a killer in her shadow, remembering the past becomes a mind game in a novel of psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were sixteen when Clare's body was found in...

For a woman obsessed and a killer in her shadow, remembering the past becomes a mind game in a novel of psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were sixteen when Clare's body was found in...

Laurie Lisa's latest novel, Hollister McClane, is a captivating, fun, and lighthearted picaresque mixing crime fiction with a bit of good old-fashioned Southern charm. Hollister's adventures will keep you reading non-stop!Hollister McClane is a small-town, southern Missouri, gorgeous (if she does say so herself)...

New York Times best-selling author Roy Johansen delivers a thrill-a-minute listen featuring a fearless heroine for hire.An army vet and former bodyguard for the rich and famous, Jessie Mercado has faced all kinds of danger and always emerged victorious. But one thing this motorcycle-riding...

MY PEOPLE and other crime stories is Liza Cody's collection of innovative and cutting edge short stories written between 2003 and 2021. Two have never been previously published in English.This prize-winning author is known for her outspoken yet subtle invocations of all aspects and...

With all the time he's spending on the island running his cold case unit, Andrew Cheatham is considering buying a house there. Bessie is happy to go along on the hunt with him, but they're both surprised and upset to discover a fire raging...

Aislinn Cain and the rest of the SCTU have just finished a case in Colorado when they are rushed back to Kansas City to deal with a problem close to home. The person that has been trying quite pathetically to kill Nadine Daniels for...

I can't run from my past, no matter how hard I try. Charlee I knew the second I'd arrived back in Portland he'd know I was here within days, so it wasn't a shock to me that he came knocking on my door, literally....

Anna (Rothstein) Riccio, a non-violent Torch Club Singer, becomes a Nancy Reaganesque wife and Unofficial Consigliera to her husband Salvatore Riccio, a Mob Boss. Anna finds her life evolving into that of a bloodstained confidante. This highly charged novel takes root in the 1940s...

As Lauren and Michael Casey bicycle through Miami's Coconut Grove, Michael races off while his wife is preoccupied with changing gears. When she gets up to speed, Michael is out of sight. She anticipates he will surprise her by coming up from behind and...

Loyalty, love, deceit, revenge, politics and money form an explosive mix.Alex Dulaine is a strong willed, independent but vulnerable woman. After Jed Mitchell helped locate her grandfather's aircraft lost in WW2, she's attracted to him but resists commitment. Another adventure will delay the need...

This book was written in a time when we did things differently.Everybody had a new story. We lived in fairy tales, our streets had their own stories and families learnt to understand each other better. When you can't go to faraway places, you look...

A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm in this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf.She thought she was alone ...True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn't mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she's retreated to...

The highly anticipated new thriller from the bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage. Opulence. Sex. Betrayal ... Sometimes friendship can be deadly.Meet the women of Buckhead--a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships.Shannon was once the queen bee of Buckhead. But she's...

What happens when a gang of vicious drug dealers hit the sleepy Canadian town of Serendipity?After waking up to the sound of gunshots, Annie rushes over to Ben 'The Butcher' Rough's meat shop, only to find out the man has been shot and killed....

A trilogy of stories that shatter the myths of stereotypical islands of paradise.In Promises, during the late 1960s, the ketch, Mercy, sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin Islands. Ciara Malloy assumes custody of her drowned fiancé's son and learns a...

Cambodia, 2001 - a country re-emerging from a half-century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse.German Detective Maier travels to Phnom Penh, the Asian kingdom's ramshackle capital, to find the heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. As soon as the private eye and former...

When Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is drawn back into Glasgow's dark underworld...Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knows Kim Rafferty is bad news the moment they meet. Desperate people always spell trouble in his experience, and Mrs Rafferty...

When a former NYPD colleague is shot dead in front of him, private investigator Marshall Grade discovers there's far more to the killing than meets the eye. Ray Vialoux is in trouble. Big trouble. And he needs Marshall Grade's help. Reluctantly, Grade agrees to...

It's 2007, and Sandra Treming has just served 25 years in prison on a terrorism and murder conviction stemming from her involvement in the "Berkman Brigade," an early 1980s political activist group. Described by the media as "the mastermind behind a monstrous terrorist act...

When psychologist Ben Pecos gets the call-his 12 year old ward, Nathan Yazzi has been expelled from school-Ben sees a road trip as an opportunity to spend extended time with the troubled boy, camping and fishing and talking things through. Little does he realize...

It's 1665 and the Black Death has London in its hideous grip. Bad news for everyone...almost. Where better, after all, to hide a dead body than among a whole city full of dead bodies? And who gets the delightful task of pawing through the...

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...

Three months before the invasion of Iraq, a member of a Masonic fraternity known as the Rosicrucians escapes from a British Intelligence holding station.Orchestrated by the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, this event is somehow linked to a the highly classified CIA...

From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression.Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming...

Detective Maier has a new case. This time it is a cold case: investigating the death of Julia Rendel's father, an East German culture attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976.But before the detective can set off,...

Detective Maier has a new case. This time it is a cold case: investigating the death of Julia Rendel's father, an East German culture attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976.But before the detective can set off,...

"A Joe Plantagenet murder mystery"--Jacket.Author: Kate EllisISBN-10: 0749909331ISBN-13: 9780749909338Publisher: PiatkusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2009Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 7.10h x 4.52w x 0.78d

At the book launch of his father's biography, the stilted footage of Holocaust survivors is projected behind Benjamin Hoefer. As the video comes to an end, it closes in on Eli Hoefer's gaunt face, four red words scratched across the last frame: Nazi. Jew...

Rookie detective Joe Finch knows better than most what tragedy looks like. But trying to solve the brutal murder of an entire family? Just another day in Cooper.Even for the sleazy backwater of Cooper, Nebraska, the multiple murder of an entire family, brutally bludgeoned...

Rookie detective Joe Finch knows better than most what tragedy looks like. But trying to solve the brutal murder of an entire family? Just another day in Cooper.Even for the sleazy backwater of Cooper, Nebraska, the multiple murder of an entire family, brutally bludgeoned...

After moving out of the projects and finally getting married, long time couple Brock and Gabrielle "Gabby" Peterson set out to create a better life of continuing forward and leaving the hood and the past behind. Sadly the two are unable to elude fate...

For readers who enjoy hardboiled pulp crime fiction.Author: Tom TytarISBN-10: 1098395425ISBN-13: 9781098395421Publisher: BookbabyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2021Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d

"Dark, compelling crime writing of the highest order," Daily Mail"Gory, startling and a complete one-off," The Sunday Times"Effortlessly blends the brutal and the tender, the dark and the light. Aector McAvoy is a true original. So is David Mark," Mick Herron, authorA gripping novella...

Sara Mason joins in searching for Huxley's MIA brother's remains in the Vietnam jungle. She is joined by her friend Esmerelda.Later in Hawaii, Sara learns that a six-year-old neighborhood girl had gone missing ten years earlier. Something odd is going on at the nearby...

"A man's life changes when he spends time in an unusual kind of prison in this debut novel." Kirkus Reviews (kirkusrviews.com)"The main character in Carmel's high-spirited tale, Zolly Berns ... the middle-aged owner of ... a bar on Chicago's Rush Street ... finds himself...

I'm a no one, the daughter of a mistress. My life was spared to keep my best friend Emily safe. Now she's back with her men, and I've been taken by Earl Valentine-the Beast. The Monsters' Crew sold me to him, and all he...

"Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there's something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it's all Portland's...

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...

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...

From the day her five-year-old was abducted, Abigail Fisher vowed never to stop looking until her daughter was safely back home.But despite multiple searches, twenty-three years have passed without a trace of Becky Ann. When Abigail learns that death row inmate Megan Winnaker is...

Retired Fish and Wildlife Detective Todd Vandivert's third book, TO PROTECT A PREDATOR, finds Washington State Fish and Wildlife Officer Lisa Bennington, Officer Joe Ramirez, and biologist Sunny Hagen smack in the middle of a battle between a new mine and two endangered species...

When Robert was forced to walk away from his dream of playing pro baseball, it looked like he was destined to return to his Idaho family's potato farm. To hear him tell the story, it was thanks to a persuasive friend that he took...

★★★★★ "A visceral and gut-wrenching trip into the dark side of a nation"★★★★★ "The best of humanity shines when faced with the worst"★★★★★ "A significant piece of Australian literature" Australia, 1963. When a sinister series of murders are covered up by the police, two...

LIBBY SARJEANT IS BACK 'Lesley Cookman is the Queen of Cosy Crime' PAUL MAGRS'A real page turner' KATIE FFORDE Libby Sarjeant returns to take on her latest case in this gripping and twisting whodunit from Lesley Cookman. Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, J....

Toronto, 1960. Mo Gold and Arthur "Birdie" Birdwell are like fish out of water. Mo is Jewish and sardonic; Birdie's black, thoughtful and gargantuan. They're private detectives.Henry Turner disappeared eight years ago without a trace, and his mother wants him back. Mo and Birdie...

One determined detective. One thorough medical examiner. And the serial killer that brings them together.Connecticut State Police Detective Wesley Dawson will stop at nothing until this maniac serial killer is locked up and put away for good. With bodies piling up and his older...

In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn't the descent of rival policemen that makes Pel's blood boil - crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles.On top of all this, it's...

It all starts when his dysfunctional relationship with his father reaches its breaking point. Kicked out with no place to go, Alron is forced to turn to the streets. What starts out as survival, looking for; shelter, money, and clothing, turns into a horror...