Fiction - Crime

When Kitty Green returns to the Gloucestershire school where she was once a child evacuee during World World II, she discovers that it is to be rehoused on the premises of the old boys' home Heaven House. At the time Kitty had been inseparable...

A quick trip to the capital goes horribly wrong when Blotto and Twinks get accidentally involved in London's criminal underworld . . . It starts innocently enough at the intimate review 'absolutely everyone is talking about', Light and Frothy, where its glamorous star, Frou...

Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbour. One of them comes down in the water but no one is hurt - except that the balloonist dies later when taken into the Naval Hospital for a check-up. But he is not...

Set in Dundee, this fast-paced crime novel is the first to feature Polish Detective Sergeant Dania Gorska.Volatile times in the city of discovery . . . DS Dania Gorska is a stranger in a foreign land. Born in Poland and transferred from London to...

Lord Francis Powerscourt is visited at home in London by the Bishop of Lynchester who wants his advice about the suspect for the death of an aged parishioner. Powerscourt advises that discretion rather than accusation is the best way forward, but this is just...

Life for the Wilson family living in a small English town was picture perfect. But when her young son receives a toy train as a gift, Dorothy reacts with strange agitation. Soon she is having recurrences of an inexplicable old nightmare involving a terrible...

Retired detective Ed Traynor returns in the next exciting thriller from Vaughn Hardacker, and this time, the case is personal. When Private Investigator Ed Traynor is summoned to a remote spot in the New Hampshire woods by his old friend County Sheriff Buck Buchanan,...

Danno Garland has it made. After years of planning, backstabbing, and shady handshakes, he controls the world heavyweight champion and just about everywhere he can wrestle. Danno's outmaneuvered the other New York bosses, and he's the first in pro wrestling history to expand beyond...

DARK PSYCHOLOGICAL SHORT STORY NARRATED BY A PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER. 'I couldn't believe it as I looked at them. They were aliens. Actual aliens......I hadn't auditioned for this, had I?' So concludes a confused Jack Hansen, as he is thrust into an enigmatic play, armed...

1923. The Great War is over, but the ghosts of the dead still linger. Agatha Christie was one of the lucky ones - her husband returned from the conflict - and for her, and her local neighbours, life has resumed. Agatha is beginning to...

Kate works as a secretary, but as the brains behind a criminal gang, she masterminds the theft of a trainload of gold.Author: Edgar WallaceISBN-10: 150587677XISBN-13: 9781505876772Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2015Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.46d

In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: Captain Trevelyan . . . dead . . . murder.Is this black magic or simply...

Little did Anthony Cade suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy. Drawn into a web of intrigue, he begins to realize that the simple favor has placed him in serious danger.As events unfold, the...

The first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction."Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe," declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, "would be doing the world at large a favor "It was a...

A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie's Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife.Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a...

In Death Comes As the End, Dame Agatha Christie transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest's daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp's nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder.It is Egypt in 2000 BC, where death gives meaning...

When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man's Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie.Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the...

There's a serial killer on the loose, workinghis way through the alphabet and the wholecountry is in a state of panic.A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for BettyBarnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston. With each murder, the...

There's a serial killer on the loose, workinghis way through the alphabet and the wholecountry is in a state of panic.A is for Mrs. Ascher in Andover, B is for BettyBarnard in Bexhill, C is for Sir Carmichael Clarkein Churston. With each murder, the...

Jake Crosby has traded in a stockbroker's suit and tie for a standard-issue uniform. As a newly minted Mississippi game warden, he has two tough cases to cut his teeth on--the ongoing robbery of wealthy hunters and the ruthless search for a rumored hidden...

Beatrix Rose has worked her way through her Kill List. Four are dead and just two remain. Her enemies know she's coming. The hunter becomes the hunted.In a thrilling conclusion to the breakneck trilogy, Beatrix and her daughter must fight them in North Africa,...

The page-turning psychological thriller from the author of #1 bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a young couple on...

Dive into the bestselling Gibson Vaughn series where the past won't rest, but neither will he.After a period of brutal isolation in a CIA black-site prison, former Marine and gifted hacker Gibson Vaughn is free--but with no idea where he was or how much...

Hunters become the hunted in a pulse-pounding art heist thriller from an international bestselling author.It begins with a tantalizing clue: a recent photograph taken of Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man--one of the most priceless masterworks ever plundered by the Nazis, which disappeared and...

In Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh's edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was safe--but there's a new killer in town.When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock's doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that's about to envelop...

Con artist Billy Cunningham is no stranger to the casinos of Las Vegas--he's ripped off every single one. But his latest scam--a year in the making--promises his crew their biggest payday yet. Billy has thought of everything down to the last detail...or so he...

The Missing...In a hidden basement, eighteen-year-old Toni is held captive and no one can hear her screams. She's been abducted after investigating unspeakable things in the darkest corners of the Internet.The Vigilante...Fearing the worst, Toni's mother turns to ex-SAS operative Mitchell to help find...

Success becomes dangerously seductive for this Wall Street broker in a dizzying thriller by the author of the Amazon Charts bestseller Dead Certain.Will Matthews came to Wall Street with hopes and dreams of hitting it big. But things have not been going as expected....

Detective Maria Kallio investigates a doping scandal turned murder in award-winning author Leena Lehtolainen's pulse-pounding thriller.After surviving a terrifying assault during her last investigation, Maria Kallio traded in her badge for a comfortable desk job. But when the head of social affairs for the...

From Johnny Shaw, the Anthony Award-winning author of Big Maria, comes a wild tale about the wonderful things that bring a family together--larceny, deception, and revenge.Fifteen years ago, Axel, Gretchen, and Kurt Ucker lost their father. At the same time, they learned that he...

A gripping crime thriller from the bestselling author of Hide and Seek. Three police officer brothers are carrying out their own form of vigilante justice by executing criminals who have escaped prosecution on technicalities. They have managed to keep their actions hidden until an...

Now in paperback and soon to be a major motion picture--the terrifying techno-thriller in the bestselling tradition of Michael Crichton! When the first planes go down -- in Europe, in California, in Asia--authorities blame terrorists. All flights are grounded as world leaders try to...

In this thrilling courtroom drama from the author of Expert Testimony, reluctant hero Gideon Page returns to help Blackwell County's most prominent lawyer in the murder trial of the daughter of a well-known fundamentalist minister. Appearing as if his luck has turned at last,...

The next page-turner in Julie Kramer's bestselling series featuring intrepid television reporter Riley Spartz is "a flat-out tour de force of harrowing twists and turns" (New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger). Crime-solving means high ratings for Minnesota TV reporter Riley Spartz when...

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...