Fiction - Crime

A CASE OF PIOUS MURDER?When a City Councilman is killed, the citizens of Whitewater, Washington demand an immediate solution to the town's first unsolved murder in decades.Police Chief Jack Tallon's only clue implicates Dharmaville, a controversial religious cult led by an inscrutable swami. Was...

NIGHT STALKERDrug addicts, prostitutes, street gangs and shoot-outs. Police Sergeant Jack Tallon had had enough; he wanted out. He traded his L.A. beat for the quiet, wide-open spaces of Whitewater, Washington.And trouble followed. A few short days after his installment as Chief of Police,...

A T.D. STASH CRIME ADVENTUREDRUGS, DAMES, DEATH-A BUBBLING BREW OF DANGER IN THE FLORIDA KEYSKEYS TO TROUBLEA young kid in over his head in the kind of snow that doesn't melt but kills. An aging rock star running out of voice and money. His...

There's a lot going on in the 87th Precinct this spring, and none of it is good. Jumpers on building ledges, a salesman torn apart by an explosion, and to cap it all off, they find the dead, half-naked bodies of Irene Thayer and...

Her name is Virginia Dodge. And she's here to kill Detective Steve Carella.An ordinary day at the 87th Precinct is about to take a turn for the worse when Dodge shows up to put a bullet in Carella's head. And she doesn't care if...

Detectives Brown and Carella answer a call to a double homicide. One guy broke in and another defended himself and now they both are dead. The case seems open and shut. Except for one piece of evidence: a torn picture in one of the...

Snow whips through the city's streets like lethal daggers when a young actress leaves the theater after her latest performance. She walks home instead of taking the subway, and soon the snow on the ground is stained red with her blood. A cold, hard...

In the middle of a stifling heat wave, why would an artist intent on committing suicide turn his air conditioning off before taking his life? That's the question troubling Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling until more personal--and deadly--questions threaten to tear Kling's life...

It's January. The weather is cold--and it's about to feel even colder. Detectives Carella and Kling of the 87th Precinct stand at the edge of their jurisdiction staring down into a ditch filled with six naked, murdered bodies. But who put them there and...

Stan Gifford is the ultimate comedian. A pro through and through, when Stan's act dies, so does he--in front of forty million viewers from coast to coast, including the 87th Precinct's Steve Carella. But what seemed to be death by natural causes quickly turns...

THE SCARLET SENTINELS spans a period of one year at a large Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in the Interior region of British Columbia. Although written as a novel, this story accurately reflects the kinds of events that typically occur in the police world,...

"Follow the Sun is just plain fantastic. Edward J. Delaney has orchestrated a tight, tense page-turner and a harrowing, deeply imagined literary portrait of an entire family. . . . What a knockout read." --Paul Harding"In this pungent, gritty novel, hardscrabble lives are rendered...

Quinn Boyle is a lobsterman afloat in a shambled vessel, haunted by his battles with lobsters and with heroin, and ever behind on his child support. Since Quinn lost a man off his boat and served time for possession, only na?e beginners will work...

When you see him, it's already too late...Four days before Christmas, a young woman's body is found in a ditch in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle, the discovery rendered even more terrifying by the message 'More Will Die' written on her body in blood....

A shooting in the silent Vatican reading room leads to a horror beyond imagining for Detective Nic Costa and his team. Whilst Sara Farnese pours over ancient texts in the silent Vatican reading room, a brutal murder is taking place in a nearby church....

Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend will have to rely on his observational gifts to have a ghost of chance in solving his latest murder case. The night after the mysterious appearance of the legendary Dark Lady on the road outside Westbury Park, a German efficiency...

A huge mountain fire leaves destruction - and death - in its wake. But are the charred remains of a male body really the result of a natural disaster, or murder? The Meredith Mountain fire starts on Labor Day weekend and rages for days...

Three murders. One item ties them together: a can of spray gas has been left after each crime. With no leads and no witnesses, the cops have to wait for murder number four, but Archer realizes there's a pattern taking shape. Teaming up with...

Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are facing their most challenging cold case yet: the year-old murder of a female student. When, a year after she went missing, the body of 19-year-old student Elizabeth Williams is discovered in a field near her...

"Harrod-Eagles graces her narrative with a quiet wit that makes the book a pleasure to read" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review Another sterling entry in a truly outstanding series" - Booklist Starred Reviewbr DCI Bill Slider tackles the coldest of cold cases in this...

Ex-police dog handler Daniel Whelan finds himself drawn into the complex affairs of a neighbouring family - with potentially fatal consequences Lorna Myers thinks she knows where her businessman husband is - until two men come looking for him one October evening. By chance,...

NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMAThe Master House, close to the Welsh border, is medieval and slowly falling into ruins. Now the house and its surrounding land have been sold to the Duchy of Cornwall. But the Duchy's plans to renovate the house and its...

NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMAMerrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called...

Three complete books in the third Chesterton volume for detective, crime and mystery enthusiasts Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry,...

Justice-without jury, without appeal and without mercy These are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallace's famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far...

London in the late 1980s - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black...

Blonde on the Spot, the seventh Hank Janson novel, picks up directly where Lilies for My Lovely, the sixth, left off. But all is not well in Hank's relationship with Sally Taylor, and when he winds up in a replica Wild West ghost town,...

Only recently out of the Army and back in the USA after fighting the Japanese in the Far East, Hank Janson is in no mood to just sit back and take it when his old friend Lola gets caught in the crossfire of a...

There's a new criminal element in town and they state their arrival by knocking off a few of Vincent's men. Recker and the team get drawn into the middle of it and start investigating to learn the identity of the mystery player. Recker and...

Somebody is shooting police officers. After several killings, and no progress on finding the shooter by the police department, Recker is asked to lend a hand. One of Vincent's men inside the department, a homicide detective, reaches out to The Silencer, setting up a...

Nikos moved from the small town of Glastonbury, Connecticut, to the Bronx to start his senior year of high school. On his very first day, three thugs in homeroom class challenged him. However, the six-foot-three-inch and 210-pound Nikos didn't back down. Nevertheless, as it...

This novel follows the life of a 26 year old Amsterdam resident named Jip, during the autumn of 2016 and the summer of 2017. Haunted by painful unprocessed memories, he sinks further and further away in a vicious circle of hatred and disintegration. Meanwhile,...

For More Than Ten Years She Lay Beneath the Floorboards of Hill House For more than ten years, she waited. Who was she? Who put her there? Why? Harry Starke vows to find the answers to those questions, but how? The trail has gone...

When a decent, regular guy in Virginia does his thieving neighbor a favor by driving him out to a seemingly abandoned farm to steal an old panel truck, the two spark the ire of the hidden, quasi-occult residents of the place who prove eager...

I'd waited my whole life for this. Nothing and no one was going to stand in my way. From the moment Lux opened her mouth that night I wanted to be pissed at her, but with one outburst she'd given me everything I'd fucking...

"A murder? In our house? How could I not have known?" Maude Travers, shopkeeper, novelist, and psychic seer of historical events wondered how an occurrence of this magnitude could have escaped her attention. The discovery of this news came almost a century after the...

Winery owners murdered in Sonoma, California. A serial killer on the loose. What's the connection? Will there be another murder?A desperate call from a Sonoma County sheriff Kelly and Mike have helped before leads them to a winery guest house in Sonoma and then...

Thirty years ago, four-year-old Georgina Adams was kidnapped from a fair in Franklin, Tennessee.She was taken away from her sister, her parents, her community. Neither she nor the people who knew her were ever the same again.This is her story.Author: Patrick LoganISBN-10: 1790278295ISBN-13: 9781790278299Publisher:...

It started with the judge. He was about to sentence five of Cork's most notorious criminals. But his body has just turned up, beaten and broken, on an isolated road in his burned-out car. Now four members of a rival gang have been shot,...

THE LOST FIRST MIKE HAMMER THRILLER! The lost book that begins the iconic Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition. "When someone frames me for rape and murder, I take it personal..." Mike Hammer...

20pt Large Print Edition Sometimes, crime occurs with the sound of a drip of poison, or the whispering whistle of a knife moving through the air. And, sometimes, it happens with a "flash and bang." The Short Mystery Fiction Society was formed in 1996...

In "post-terrorist" Belfast, the old hatreds continue to fester, and the politics remain deeply personal. Anyone, at any moment, may decide the war's not yet over. When his wife catches Belfast journalist Dan Starkey wrapped in the arms of a woman he hardly knows,...

Leaving the Helsinki police force to put her new law degree to use, Maria Kallio is ready for a fresh start. But when she discovers a strangled body, old habits die hard for the redheaded sleuth--especially since the accused is related to her new...

Based on a true story, this "extremely compelling novel" delves into the mind of a murderer (Booklist). The Avenue of the Giants follows Al Kenner as he progresses from antisocial adolescent to full-fledged serial killer in the turbulent 1960s and '70s. A giant at...

Sherlock Holmes, legendarily-if fictionally-the world's first consulting detective, returns for his third novel-length adventure in this 1902 work, originally serialized in the Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902. When Holmes and his sidekick and biographer Dr. Watson are called to Dartmoor, in...

"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch...

When Grant Lambert and Chase LaMarca--partners in life and crime--learn that $7 million in not-so-petty cash is hidden in the safe of a rightwing mega-church, they assemble a team of gay and lesbian criminals to infiltrate the church and steal the money. But this...

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in this classic thriller from 1958, only to get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. Dolores Hitchens wrote crime...

The Real Lolita author Sarah Weinman presents a landmark collection of 4 brilliant novels by the female pioneers of crime fiction--women who paved the way for Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Lisa Scottoline Though women crime and suspense writers dominate today's bestseller lists, the...

The Library of America inaugurates its Elmore Leonard edition with four funny, street-smart early masterpieces, gathered in one volume for the first time: Blending gritty toughness and unpredictable violence with wild humor and an uncanny ear for the rhythms of ordinary speech, Elmore Leonard...