Fiction - Crime

From Alafair Burke--New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife--comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old resentments ....

"Classy, humorous and surprisingly touching tales of cricket, friendship and crime." The SpectatorRichard Foreman's acclaimed series of Raffles stories, which gave life again to the gentleman thief and cricketer, are here collected in one volume, Raffles: The Complete Innings. Full of wit, crimes and...

Maggie Sullivan is a single woman in her early twenties, living alone and working for an accounting firm in the small Mississippi town where she grew up. A chance encounter on an evening walk brings her face to face with a stray dog longing...

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller."Tracy Crosswhite is one of the best protagonists in the realm of crime fiction today, and there is nothing cold about A Cold Trail." --Associated PressIn New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's riveting series, Seattle homicide...

From the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale Soon to be a Netflix Original series, Alias Grace takes listeners into the life of one of the most notorious women of the 19th century. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has...

Screams of a man being burned alive resonate in the mind of a young woman stranded in the desert.SheAuthor: Steve BertelISBN-10: 1978107676ISBN-13: 9781978107670Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2018Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.77d

Whose Body?, first published in 1923, introduces the inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey to the world of crime. When a corpse, wearing only spectacles, is discovered in a bathtub in Battersea, Lord Peter must determine the identity of both the criminal and the victim. Assisted...

The pINPOINt: Intelligence Criminal Police Organization. They work on gathering Intel on people that could or are very harmful to the country and the world. They work alongside with other law enforcement agencies in the country. Their main goal is to make a case...

Since the night he made an ill-advised decision to commit a pair of revenge killings, Nick has made his living as a professional murderer. Early on, he dispensed with guilt or emotion. But after a routine hit gets messy, Nick gets sick and the...

SCHINA and the Queens, IVORY and NICOLE, are back from Mexico and this time the treacherous streets of Dallas threaten to take more than the ladies are prepared to lose. The plot thickens With a medical condition she wasn't prepared to deal with, a...

SCHINA was hardened by the treacherous and unforgiving streets of Dallas, trusting no one except her crew, The Queens: best friends IVORY and NICOLE. That was until she met MONEY. Calculating and cunningly smooth, Money was able to win what others failed at getting--her...

STEPHON is a young, black man who's innocent of the world's hate and racial division, until he witnesses his father get gunned down in another unjustified killing by a cop. In an instant, everything Stephon knew, including his belief in the justice system, is...

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...

On the streets of Chicago, Illinois, life usually comes with an early expiration date. The goal is to live hard and play harder while you can. And if you're lucky, you'll find a little love along the way. But death is always just around...

After all of the turmoil they've been through, KEYZ and SHAUNIE finally make their way back to each other, where they belong. This time they're stronger than ever before. But just when everything is going good, tragedy strikes. In the midst of a tragic...

A woman's loyalty is tested when her man has nothing. A man's loyalty is tested when he has everything. Twenty-three year old SHAUNIE is living the good life. She has all of the material spoils a girl desires courtesy of her long-term boyfriend, KEYZ,...

What is the price MINNIE must pay for loving her husband so blindly? And what's SAMIYAH to do when boyfriend #2 doesn't take GERRAN, the other man in her life, too kindly? Now that SLEEPY is home, he learns he's not there alone. His...

Fresh out of prison and seeking a quick come-up, SNAKE is ready to do whatever it takes to get that bag, so every hustler in the city who has big paper becomes his prey. Determined not to leave behind any witness who could send...

With an official plug, a new engagement and a baby on the way, KILLA has the world in the palm of his hands. But behind his back there's trouble brewing in paradise. At his side is TIARA, a poisonous snake of a woman who...

MACAL is a mouthwatering, successful and wealthy man. On the surface, he is a woman's dream come true. But when it comes to love and commitments, he is nothing more than a lying dog. When Macal's many infidelities are exposed, will his wife remain...

Enter the psyche of a serial killer, a desperate man trapped in a treacherous maze of murder, lies, love, and suspense.The violent love story Justified Murder defines destiny - accepting that which is written - versus fighting for control of one's life. It is...

Joe Ricker writes with a voice reminiscent of Jim Thompson and Raymond Carver. This collection of stories is set in the darkest corners of New England, where the damaged American underbelly emerges. The characters in these stories will challenge every notion you have of...

The Go-Go's made music on their own terms and gave voice to a generation caught between the bra-burning irreverence of the seventies and the me-first decadence of the eighties. Anthems like "We Got the Beat," "Our Lips Are Sealed," and "Vacation" are an indelible...

Read tomorrow's best-selling authors today in the first and best multi-genre pulp fiction journal. Since 2011, Pulp Modern has offered a wide variety of fiction from authors who have gone on to write some of today's most compelling novels.Author: Alec Cizak, Michael Bracken, Thomas...

After the demise of Lady Scarface, the last remaining members of Tiana's crew, led by a loyal and devastated Smurf and Young-God, pack up all the drugs and money that they could salvage and head to Charlotte, NC. It doesn't take long for them...

Sixteen years have passed since we last visited Karma Alonso-Walker. After Money's conviction for attempted murder of their son, Karma turned back to her first love of track and field. Newfound fame, fortune and love has given her a fresh outlook on life, but...

KARESSA' VAULT IN ONE WAY OUT. The first of her Lone Marauder Series installments. Karessa' leads a dangerous life. Growing up in an environment of dereliction to become a notorious criminal, being in the underworld of society trouble can come from anywhere. When she...

Christopher "Cashflow" King is the son of one of the most successful drug dealers ever to walk the streets of Atlanta. After his father's death, Cash followed in his father's footsteps and started the Street Kings. The Street Kings began as a small crew...

A Crime Novella. When two young girls disappear with a trunk-load of pot, unaware their payload has been packed with an extra five kilos of cocaine, a lovable loser persuades a sociopathic killer to pursue them across Northern California on a violent, twisted goose-chase...

Joe Collins used to be Joey Connolly, alias Joey Kotex, an infamous enforcer for the Petucci crime family. He left that world behind to run a blues club in Chicago, but Carl Petucci finds Joe and forces him to do one last job. Joe's...

Beatlemania is back and better than even in this revised second edition. Former teen idol Sandy Fairfax finds that making a comeback can be murder It's been fourteen years since the pop star broke little girls' hearts on the 1970s hit TV show Buddy...

First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first novel. It introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, Christie's Belgian detective, who would go on to be featured in 39 of her novels. The mystery begins with the death of Emily...

On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving children are caught in the middle of a custody battle between their well-intentioned neighbor and their...

It's here -- USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton's newest Samantha Sweet cozy mystery. With nearly 2 million books sold and downloaded in more than 60 countries, find out what the fuss is all about Breaking into another house, creating chocolates worth $200 a...

Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is...

26 stories from 1901 to 1922 by Albert Payson Terhune, author of Lad: A Dog. Contents: A Lightning Change (Lippincott's Magazine, July 1901); A Park Row Galahad (Lippincott's Magazine, September 1902); Drunk or Crazy? (Argosy, March 1910); Back to the Wickiup (Argosy, June 1912);...

27 stories from 1900 to 1919 by Albert Payson Terhune, author of Lad: A Dog. Contents: Introduction by Anthony Tollin; The Beat that Failed (Lippincott's Magazine, November 1900); The Seal of Silence (Lippincott's Magazine, January 1902); She and the Monster (Argosy, October 1908); A...

The hustle doesn't stop...it simply keeps going. That adage is put to the test when Lorenzo Watson sinks knee-deep in the everyday struggle of life. The bills pile up and Lorenzo is pushed to his limits to stay legal. He feels the lure to...

The Black Senate is an epic story of a new breed of gangstas living under a new g-code of street laws. Jerusalem Williams and his two comrades, along with their war princess Pinky are known on the streets as the three Kings and the...

Their face off is inevitable, but neither man knows exactly when it will happen. Antonio ""Ameen"" Felder is an irresistible force destined to collide with an immovable object in Khadafi Fuller. They were once friends, bound by blood and sacrifice, but now they are...

World's collide, and unlikely alliances form when a 14-year-old girl, who has lived her entire life in one of Mexico's infamous garbage dumps, becomes the key figure in a shady land deal involving a corrupt bishop. An unassuming priest searches for the girl, while...

"A rare, hopeful crime story that also manages to be deeply honest." - Kirkus Reviews "The book reads like a memoir, has action and excitement like a thriller, and educates the reader along the way. If you like books with a criminal nexus or...

The offspring of a profligate scoundrel and a drunken circus performer, Aleck Severn was born inside a prison's walls after his mother stabbed his father to death. Severn shows no outward signs of inheriting his parents' faults: a handsome, affable man about town, he...

Desperate to escape living with her miserly uncle, Marjorie Easton eagerly accepts a job offer from the strange Michael Crispin despite knowing nothing of the employment except that it is well-paid and includes some kind of research. Much to her surprise, the "research" involves...

When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the family's fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they won't...

A collection of extraordinary riveting and thought provoking stories from Edgar and Anthony award nominee Patricia Abbott that explore the dark side of human behavior. A daughter finds a way to save a mother who no longer knows her name. A father eases his...

NOMINATED FOR THE ANTHONY AWARD Reminds me of a young Quentin Tarantino. Pruitt is one of our best Southern fiction writers. --Bookreporter Meet Jack Jordan. He's a smooth-talking con artist with a penchant for the fast life. He's snuck into Lufkin, Texas, in the...

"A Dan Brown read-alike tailor-made for an election year. --Booklist A President is murdered. A First Lady demands answers. And a young Senator will uncover a conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. When Robert Constable, President of the United States,...

Ash McKenna used to be an amateur P.I.--emphasis on 'amateur'. Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a...

It's time to save Manhattan.An NYPD detective is always on duty. Erin O'Reilly is just settling down for a drink with her favorite gangster, celebrating her promotion to Detective Second Grade, when she hears the call every cop dreads: "Officer down." Soon Erin and...