Fiction - Crime

There is no code Elroy Coffin can't break, nothing he can't hack, no safe he can't get into. But for the past two years, he's been incarcerated in a maximum-security hellhole after a job gone bad, driven to near-madness by the revelation of his...

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death. Lovecraft scholar...

Prime Suspect meets Ashes to Ashes as we see Jane Tennison starting out on her police career . The fourth in the bestselling Jane Tennison thrillers, MURDER MILE is set at the height of the 'Winter of Discontent'. Can Jane Tennison uncover a serial...

The instant New York Times bestselling thriller from the "master of ticking bomb suspense" (People) who created Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance is "a tour de force...the suspense never flags" (Kirkus Reviews). When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house...

Brock Callahan, ex guard for the L.A. Rams is now a tough private eye, weighing in at 220 pounds with a passion for Einlicher beer. In Day of the Ram Callahan becomes involved with Johnny Quirk, ace quarterback of his old team, the Rams....

Daredevil DEA agent Jack Walker cruised down Hollywood Boulevard into the best unscheduled party of his career: a car-jacking featuring a .38 semiautomatic and his own movieland heroics. In any other city, the pretty woman he saved would be a star. Here she was...

New York Times Bestselling AuthorAn aging art scholar and a visiting student, haunting echoes of France�s colonialist past, and a delicious navarin of lamb � Bruno is back, and his latest case leads him from the Renaissance to the French Resistance and beyond by...

A missing woman, a shocking pregnancy, a dash of international intrigue, and a bottle or two of good Bergerac: it's another case for Bruno, Chief of Police. When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic...

The accidental carbon monoxide deaths of her brother and sisters in 1966 left Shelly Summers an only child that encountered both sexual and physical abuse. Three of her own children would populate the rural cemetery east of the flashing yellow light in the little...

Truthful Moments is a timely, compelling murder mystery that involves a witness who is an American veteran soldier suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The murder triggers flashbacks, and he struggles to sort out his past from the present as he helps solve this...

Considered by many to be one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, "The Thirty-Nine Steps" is Scottish author John Buchan's most successful work. Published in 1915 and set during the early days of the First World War, it is the first of...

Charming amateur sleuth Jenny Cain returns in Bum Steer, to solve a mysterious murder that sends her on a twisting adventure in the wild, wild West.Author: Nancy Pickard, PickardISBN-10: 1416583831ISBN-13: 9781416583837Publisher: Pocket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2007Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d

In the darkness of a moonless night, a red glow from the gun's laser sight danced across the pillow, casting an eerie image and creating a stark contrast to the dark of night. A woman's scream echoed in the darkness. Something sinister and evil...

Secret tensions and fractious relationships come to the fore when the assistant director of Dayspring Counseling Center is found murdered in her office. Detective Cameron Ballack and his Special Investigative Division team discover that this arena of soul care is a dangerous and deadly...

Chicago, 1947. Private investigator "Matt" McBride runs afoul of corrupt politicians, vicious mobsters and a trigger-happy Texan femme fatale to prove that the "suicide" of his best friend was murder. Matt's perilous journey to track down the killer nearly dead-ends in a motor home...

Crime Syndicate Magazine is back with ten fantastic crime fiction short stories from some of the top crime writers on the market today. Guest-edited by Eryk Pruitt, this issue has a little something for everyone: Work out your drugged-out marital problems and feed your...

What links the two largest Texas Universities to the disappearance of Laredo ATF agent, Stuart Dyson? When the investigation stalls, FBI Tracker Adrian Dillard is sent to Texas, and he's not greeted with open arms.Plagued by resentment from local agents, his uncanny intuition kicks...

Intrepid journalist Jerome Fandor picks up the trail of Fant mas in London, but before he can relay the details to Inspector Juve in Paris, the Lord of Terror pounces. Meanwhile a certain Dr. Garrick, suspected of the murder of his missing wife, flees...

Juve languishes in prison after being arrested as Fant mas, but when the Minster of Justice is kidnapped, the public is thrown back into fear and confusion, doubting whether it is really Fant mas who has been thrown in jail. Following this renewed wave...

When Callie tries to help a teenage child wade through the emotional trauma caused by a demented uncle, she ends up in the path of the monster herself. Pumped full of romance and excitement, Callinda Beauvais returns to Oregon to sell her house and...

Los Angeles Times Bestseller. International Association of Crime Writers Hammett Prize Nominee. "Vivid and] intense SMITHEREENS has brooding, ominous atmosphere, sexual awakening, loss of innocence, murder. It could be described as a gothic coming-of-age novel, but it's far too good to lend itself to...

KATE BOWEN IS ON A MISSIONDetective Kate Bowen is no stranger to dealing with Ireland's worst. Life in SIU, Dublin's elite surveillance unit puts her in daily danger.But what if two of the world's worst terror groups formed an alliance... to hit an unknown...

Conservation Officer Rob McNabb teams up with Samantha Williams, a government bush pilot in an attempt to bring a murderous polar bear poacher to justice in the midst of a harsh northern winter. The story is set in the remote Hudson and James Bay...

Ana Torres is a Texas Ranger assigned to a dusty outpost to protect the border. When she discovers the body of a dead crosser, the stage is set for an investigation and a confrontation in the nighttime desert. Luis Gonz lez lives on the...

BASED ON A TRUE CRIME STORY STRAIGHT OUT OF CSI OR THE X-FILES WHERE MANY BELIEVE PARANORMAL INTERVENTION OCCURRED. Do you believe in Ghosts? Sergeant Sharlene Bate of I-HIT, Vancouver's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, pries open Pandora's Box when two drug informers are brutally...

A young woman is found brutalized and hanging upside down in a tree, her death kicks off an enduring hunt for a killer who proves to be illusive and gaining more confidence with each victim he kills. As a prophesized Death Dog of the...

Raised on the streets of Charlotte; North Khak aka The Queen City; Meme and her best friend Kyra are what you call "Don Diva's." After a tortured family life, Meme and Kyra set out on their own with Meme's two little sister's in tow....

Special Agent John Tall Wolf of the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) describes his job like this: "I work at the intersection of Native American and mainstream cultures. If there's a four-car pile-up, I try to sort things out." The metaphor is particularly apt...

Gothic, in the sense of Southern Gothic, these eleven stories emphasize the "grotesque" and take place in various Florida environments. Some involve crime and violence, most involve sex; and animals are often central to the plot. "Stormy, Mon Amour" is about a woman who...

★★★★★ "The scenery description, characterisation, and fabulous portrayal of the hotel on the hill are all layered into a great English trifle."A missing scientist. A dark and stormy night. A secret worth killing for...When a devastating hurricane surges toward the quiet island of Jersey,...

In rural eastern Missouri sits St. Basil's Seminary, an idyllic center of reflection and study and peace. But when the sudden, suspicious death of a visiting priest shakes the community to the core, Detective Cameron Ballack is called to investigate the matter. Facing hardship...

The journalist Fandor befriends the King of Hesse-Weimar during one of his Majesty's incognito pleasure trips to Paris, but when the King's mistress is found dead, having fallen from a third-floor window, Inspector Juve is called upon to investigate. When the indomitable detective discovers...

Captain Brocq, an officer of the Ministry of War, is assassinated while in possession of documents containing military secrets. The journalist Jerome Fandor, covering the story for La Capitale, seeks an interview with an associate of the murdered man, a diplomat called Baron Naarboveck....

Tori Van Camp wakes one morning on a luxurious ocean liner where she's offered whatever a person might desire: food, clothes, recreation, and the companionship of congenial people. But Tori has no memory of booking a cruise. What she does have is a vivid...

On April 5, 1981, two college coeds were kidnapped from a residential street of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The next morning, the girls were found in a desolate mountain arroyo; one raped and murdered, the other savagely stabbed 33 times and left for dead. As...

New Jersey mob boss, Giuseppe 'Joey' Ponti, assigns his trusted lieutenant, Carmine 'Chickie' Santorella, to find out why the family's casino is losing money. Chickie and three mob soldiers, Bobby Battaglino, Richie Paldino and Sammy Trombino, travel to a small Nevada town, kidnap the...

NEW YORK CITY is under war with the ongoing gangs, Kingpins, and drug Cartels. Going throughout the five boroughs, F.B.I. Agent Frank Anderson is trying to take his streets back from the Bloods and Crips that are killing each other. The Cartel that are...

The classic proletarian crime novel based on Pretty Boy Floyd's life, now in print for the first time since 1936. Most closely compared to William Anderson's Thieves Like Us, in my opinion Cunningham's Pretty Boy is a much better book. We get priceless visions...

Not all drug dealers are prolific salesman and money geniuses. However, Stic broke that mold when he became a criminally minded pharmacologist. Add in a hint of technology, which if used properly, could propel him into the next decade. But what happens when he...

Decades ago, Dan and Grace Robertson encountered a childhood legend: Bicycle Bob. Some say he's an insane drifter with a taste for blood. Others call him evil made flesh and claim his touch will poison your soul. Some say he's just another country ghost...

May 1940, Husted Colorado, a few miles from Colorado Springs an unspeakable crime takes place and the Whim-Wham Man begins. The Whim-Wham Man, a murder mystery that has it all . . . A crime you can't forgive, a plot you can't imagine and...

Warren Hodges, head of International Pictures, lives in a house like a Norman castle with a view of the Pacific. Marta Brooks, blonde and beautiful, takes classified ads for the Romance Advertiser. Victor Shaw has spent time in Soledad state prison but understands that...

IF HE CAN'T HAVE HER, NO ONE WILL. Award-winning journalist Darcy Mayhew thinks she has faced her worst nightmare when her beloved husband dies in a car accident. But after moving to New York City with her teenage son to begin their lives anew,...

In this gripping psychological thriller, a holiday home invasion becomes a dangerous battle of wills when an artistic family is pitted against a pair of career burglars. From the international bestseller Katia Lief whose work Lisa Gardner calls "Mesmerizing" and Richard Montanari calls "Nail-biting...

"A gripping story that pulls you in and doesn't let go until the end." -Book Review Caf A GRISLY CRIME On a day that seems perfectly ordinary, Alice Halpern waits for her best friend at the playground where they always meet with their children...

A novel both literary and suspenseful, Revere Beach Boulevard tells the story of a family that rallies around an errant son, even as a long-hidden secret that has touched all their lives comes to the surface. Peter Imbesalacqua has bent the rules and battled...

A working reporter's search for the truth turns upside-down as she discovers a world filled with bribery and corruption, feeding unchecked into the very heart of America's soul. As she slowly uncovers the long-hidden secrets that will place her in grave danger, the story...

Terrorism, crack cocaine and rape. Failure, miscarriages and suicide. Divorce, incest and misery. This Other Eden is Michael Hemmingson at his most brutal. A man wins the lottery and loses his family. A book agent must deal with a wild girl writer, a white...

When people ask the writer, Alan Scarfe, why he wrote this novel, he generally sidesteps the question and begins by saying what the book is not. It is NOT yet another in a long line of attempts to prove the identity of Jack the...

With this strikingly sure-footed debut novel Deborah Delano brings a fresh contemporary female voice to English crime. Set in a 1980s northern British city, THE SADDEST SOUND tells an authentic story of female grit and resistance to violence as, in the face of prejudice...