Fiction - Crime

The second novel in the Marko della Torre series, Killing Pilgrim is a propulsive political thriller following a complex plot hatched by members of the CIA and set against the backdrop of war-torn Yugoslavia. Early autumn, 1991. Croatia and Slovenia officially declared independence from...

Racing to find a killer before he strikes again, an unlikely investigator is haunted by an even more unlikely source in this gripping crime novel "Clark writes well and has created some amusingly zany characters." -- Publishers Weekly on Clean Sweep It's the summer...

Fresh off investigating the ambush murders of two police officers, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent, Buck Taylor and his team are called upon to find a missing journalist, in a case that leads to murder and child pornography, in the much anticipated fourth "Crime"...

Sharonda Miller AKA Almasi came from the gutter to the top of the food chain of the black underworld of Philadelphia. From the gutter to the head of the notorious BSN game. They threw her to wolves but never expected her to come back...

Outlaw is not just his name...Christopher "Outlaw" Caldwell lives life the only way he knows how. Hard. Loyal. Brutal. As president of the Death Dwellers he takes what he wants and gives only what is deserved, even meeting death head-on if it's called for....

Revisit the "mean streets" of MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN with this tale about two cousins, both of whom grew up back in the day on those very same mean streets of South Brooklyn, who team up against a powerful bully who will stop at nothing to...

It's a hot Boston summer, and Nick Young, a washed-up journalist back in town to care for his dying father, is feeling the heat. A major labor strike has everyone taking sides, and a wave of anti-capitalist violence has targeted the city's most prominent...

The novel that introduced Tommy and Tuppence, a bantering pair of 1920s bright young things who solve a mystery together while falling for each other. The Great War is over and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, who were friends before...

Richard Hannay, a restless hero, is set to show the integrity of the ordinary man who stands in defence of his country. Buchan's terrific yarn excelled as a Hitchcock movie of the same name, and inspired all subsequent spy thrillers, including the much later...

Suspensefully enjoyable.Season of Malice, the fourth book in the standalone suspense series starring Detective Kendall Halsrud.Her wedding planned for New Year's Eve has Detective Kendall Halsrud looking forward to the holiday season. Recently disciplined for involving non-professionals in a case she was working, Kendall...

The first book in a new series from New York Times bestselling author M A Comley, who has sold over two and a half million books worldwide.He stands in the shadows. Watching them. DI Sara Ramsey's life is about to change forever. Recently moved...

This story of intrigue is based on real events. Rod Burton, a retired police detective, owned the inn at Collana D'Ora, a remote settlement. On a weekend holiday four members of a criminal organisation, the Cartheren Brotherhood, arrived at the inn and hours later...

"I got her to pull the groceries from her shopping bag, there were a lot of things to eat, like bread, cheese and other stuff. So, I told her we would eat first. She was pretty scared and kept asking me not to kill...

THEY DINE WITH BISHOPS. THEY VACATION WITH PRESIDENTS. THEY SLEEP WITH MOVIE STARS. SO WHO CAN STOP THEM WHEN THEIR ACTIONS TURN DEADLY?Sydney Rye and Gia Santella-two fierce vigilantes devoted to justice-meet for the first time when they find themselves caught up in a...

Her next case. She's in it for good. Just months after solving her first case, Isabel Long is in a funk. Her relationship with the Rooster Bar's owner is over. Then the cops insist she must work for a licensed P.I. before going solo....

From the Author who brought you "Waiter to the Rich and Shameless" comes the fictional novel, "Kings of Malibu." Follow the adventures of four righteous restaurant servers as they embark on a Robin Hood quest to avenge the sins of their despicable and avaricious...

"A phenomenal talent blazing up suddenly on the horizon. . . . precise, brilliant language that evokes without ever having to explain. . . . His transcendent vision gives us devastating glimpses."--Elle"John McManus writes visceral prose that explodes within the tight boundaries of the...

Author: David CroweISBN-10: 1941165753ISBN-13: 9781941165751Publisher: Deeds PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2015Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.67d

Author: Lou ReiterISBN-10: 1941165737ISBN-13: 9781941165737Publisher: Deeds PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2015Pages: 510Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.14d

In this gripping novel, "Beef" Buddusky, who wanted nothing more than a one-day job when he entered the Salvation Army in Colorado Springs, finds himself swept up by an obsessive mother with a diabolical plot.Author: Darryl PonicsanISBN-10: 1941071155ISBN-13: 9781941071151Publisher: Stairway PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2015Pages: 264Format:...

1999. Ex-con June returns to Los Angeles to bury his father, and in the process brings violence and mayhem to everyone he encounters. Low-rent gangsters fight dogs and pistols shoot quiet through potato silencers, and at the center of this sweltering California Gothic and...

Two pieces of fiction, and two pieces of nonfiction. Authors: Nick Mamatas Steve Rasnic Tem Benjamin Whitmer James SallisAuthor: James Sallis, Nick MamatasISBN-10: 1940885469ISBN-13: 9781940885469Publisher: Broken River BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2018Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.12d

Lima, 1970: a tremendous earthquake has just struck the Peruvian capital, and mayhem reigns. Tensions are high, with a population reeling from the disaster and mesmerized by the World Cup. Enter detective Simon Weiss, tasked with solving two seemingly unrelated murders: the crucifying and...

"Impossible to put down. Sparkling dialogue, references both musical and literary, and an offbeat cast of believable characters make the pages fly by."--Library Journal STARRED REVIEWMaggie Fiori uses her powers as a journalist to dig into the world of San Francisco's elite after a...

When Bethany Crutchfield failed to show for Sunday brunch and her father's phone calls remained unanswered, concern was warranted. Police officers from "America's Safest City," Irvine, California, discovered a gruesome homicide scene which established Bethany as the first in a series of murders that...

"Brilliant." --3: AM Magazine"Intelligent... thrilling." --Michael Silverblatt, 'Bookworm' on KCRWCarl Stagg, a writer researching imperial power struggles in 17th century Sri Lanka, ekes out a living as a watchman in a factionalized America where confidence in democracy has eroded. Along his nightly patrol, Stagg...

When a robbery goes horribly wrong in a small town on the plains of Oklahoma, the end result is ultimately not one but two men dead. Gayla Early claims to know who did the first killing but now she's wanted for the second ......

The first new Spider novel in 65 years picks up where the last left off, packed to the gills with the greatest slam-bang action ever penned by master pulpster CJ Henderson! Richard Wentworth, the Spider, wonders if his long struggle against the forces of...

"Tense and evocative . . . Despite its powerful social critique, Vengeance is cautious and prismatic, openly troubled by its own claims to authority." --Katy Waldman, The New Yorker As someone who writes "fiction, nonfiction, sometimes a hybrid of both," the narrator of Vengeance,...

Three friends...one agenda...get money Trina Bell, single mother of three, can't seem to make ends meet working at a fast food restaurant. Mia Jackson, wife of a notorious incarcerated kingpin, is left fending for herself after the Feds confiscate money from their joint account....

Atlantic City is a kiddy pool and the sins in Las Vegas are like good deeds compared to The Casino; Lauryn's place, the roughest spot in Philly to roll sevens and yell out blackjack. Welcome to her gambling spot. A place where all bets...

Born to a black gangster and an Italian mother with high-profile mob connections, Spaz emerges as the most formidable gangster in the City of Brotherly Love. Initially aiming to relocate his mother from the dangerous streets of North Philly, he ends up creating a...

On the outside, twenty-eight-year-old Fiona Yu appears to be just another Hello Kitty--an educated, well-mannered Asian American woman. Secretly, she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the social mores of being an American girl.To escape the burden of carrying...

An engrossing and tragic literary thriller that evokes the sinister realism of Cormac McCarthy and the inescapable family bonds of Daniel Woodrell, The Marble Orchard tells the story of Beam, the black sheep of the Sheetmire family, a large and entrenched rural Kentucky clan....

In the Somme Valley a British soldier teaches his fellows to hide cigarette coals inside their mouths. Half a world away, a war-ruined photographer drinks in a bar beneath a Colorado butchery, blood dripping from the floorboards into ashtrays. Gutierrez writes with a metaphorical...

DIG MY GRAVE DEEP Daniel Port works for Stoker as his number two man, the brains behind all the crooked deals that's kept Stoker's gang going for years. But there's a new set-up in town, a supposed reform party led by Bellamy. Trouble is,...

"American Visa, the best-selling novel in Bolivian history, relates the harrowing and hilarious adventures Mario Alvarez endures in his quest to get a visa so he can visit his son in Miami." --Boston Globe"Quite possibly Bolivia's baddest-ass book . . . Ironic that Juan...

Ten years after California Governor Red Davison engineered the collapse of Owen Allison's consulting firm, Owen crosses paths with the Davison family again. A win in the West Virginia primary is all Red's son Jason needs to capture his party's presidential nomination. Reporter Tom...

Ten years after California Governor Red Davison engineered the collapse of Owen Allison's consulting firm, Owen crosses paths with the Davison family again. A win in the West Virginia primary is all Red's son Jason needs to capture his party's presidential nomination. Reporter Tom...

In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In...

Detective Inspector Ellie March of the Ontario Provincial Police is called in to investigate when a man from the village of Sparrow Lake is found shot to death, execution style, in a farmer's field in rural eastern Ontario. Leading an inexperienced team of detectives,...

John Patrick and Martin Joseph are two teens born in the dusty, poor neighbourhood of Huruma in Nairobi. Raised by single unemployed mothers, they turn to scavenging for valuables in the city's middle-class neighbourhoods to survive the harsh life of Huruma. City residents have...

The boss's daughter is mine-or I'll get her the hard way.My enemy leaves me no choice.I'm a hitman. I'm mobster. I'm a gangster. Not some thug.I live for this sh*t and un tocco femminile.My family doesn't know, but my life is about to change....

In 1999 and 2000, three young women disappear from outside the Autostrada nightclub in the Perth suburb of Claremont. Knockabout Snowy Lane is hired as a private investigator, but neither he nor the cops can find the abductor. Seventeen years on, the daughter of...

Winner: 2016 Australian Crime Writers Association, Ned Kelly Award, Best Crime Novel Detective Inspector Daniel Clement is back in Broome, the tropical town where he grew up, licking his wounds from a busted marriage and struggling to be impressed by his new team of...

Is there really such a thing as an innocent person? Teachers, cops, mothers, wives ─ everyone has a moment of crisis; when things could go either way. From the prostitute with no way out, to the bitter author and the cop who just wants...

On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the...

"At first it may seem an astounding coincidence that two members of a family should have considered it necessary to ask for the services of the same detective agency. I think I can prove otherwise, and even if I can't, the facts remain. Alice...

"I have an idea that a certain man is going to commit murder. He told me so--in so many words."If Ludovic Travers hadn't been so sure the man was serious, he might not have gone snooping. If he hadn't kept his eyes peeled, he...

The murderer was clever and the planning was perfect. There was apparently nothing that had been overlooked and nothing that didn't go to plan. There was nothing that could be called a slip. Why then was the murderer caught?Too few answers chasing too many...