Fiction - Crime

A collection of six classic tales featuring hard-boiled ex-cop Donny Donahue, who now works for the Interstate Detective Agency. These stories ran in Black Mask magazine between 1931 and 1932. This collection was originally published in 1950.Author: Frederick NebelISBN-10: 1627553711ISBN-13: 9781627553711Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage:...

The knife was as familiar to his hand and as innocuous as a pencil, in spite of its razor edge. And yet earlier in the day he had closed his hand on the sharp edge and noticed with surprise that the steel had sliced...

The Golden Spoon was strictly for suckers. Located a block north of the river in a renovated three-story building, it sported a white-and-red striped canopy which stretched from plate-glass door to curb, a huge tri-colored neon sign which flashed Follies Parisienne-Twenty Beautiful Girls-No Cover...

Shean Connell, a private detective, sets out to clear up a divorce case in Reno, and finds that he has been framed by the man who is boss of the town's criminals. After he views the woman in the morgue and has the tip...

A bold yet flawed pilot, a cold killer, and a beautiful woman are drawn together in greed and murder. They use their knowledge of the Air Traffic Control System and the pine woods and swamps of the Florida Panhandle for a smuggling operation. No...

Nick Stryker, a Chicago Homicide Detective, finds himself in the middle of a real life techno-thriller complete with murders, organized crime, and the CIA. Espionage and modern terrorism exposes the risks of research and new threats to the very existence of our Earth. Nick...

'An irresistible concoction of crime and culture' Daily Mail A game of blackmail and betrayal is played among the backstreets and canals of Venice . . . Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and...

'Unpredictable, challenging and compelling' Sophie HannahFrom the first time I saw them together I knew it felt wrong. I didn't like the way he touched her or the self-conscious way he played with Molly and Luke. Joanne saw none of it of course. So...

Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller. A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries...

How did she get here?And why does she hurt so bad?When Amber-May regains consciousness in the woods, she doesn't remember what happened to her. Once she discovers the truth, she makes a firm decision......she wants those who hurt her to pay for their crimes.But...

It's been two years since the events of The Void. Tiffany Gibbons is planning to marry the love of her life, Hakeem Andrews. But the Ridgely Square community isn't faring as well. Since the events that occurred two years ago, when Tiffany's aunt Gina...

A Cuban American woman searches for her long-lost mother and fights to restore a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco home in the heart of Havana in this moving, immersive new mystery, perfect for fans of Of Women and Salt. Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey...

Nora flees her small town after the sudden death of her lawyer husband. In Toronto, an ad lures her to rent a cheap apartment, where the landlord Henry lives in the next unit. Initially helpful to Nora, his charm hides a desire to manipulate...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in...

Unravel the Dark Secrets: "The Beast in the Field" - A Gripping Tale of Survival, Cults, and a Race Against Time! In "The Beast in the Field," follow the harrowing journey of Melissa Eastman, a resilient survivor, and forensic psychologist, as she teams up...

SURVIVAL TIPS FOR SONS OF SERIAL KILLERS1. Change your last name. Be forgettable.2. Take comfort. Serial killing is not hereditary. Not usually, anyhow.3. Never contact your parents, whether on Death Row or elsewhere. You are messed up enough.4. Choose a dull career. Run an...

After dark, danger lurks in the ravine. "amazing characters...atmospheric style...enthralling, tense and exciting" - NetGalley review "draws you in and keeps you reading" - reader review "Entertaining, haunting and very well done" - Goodreads review It's summer, 1950. The bodies of handsome young men...

Scientists around the world have either abandoned their breakthrough medical research and disappeared or mysteriously died before finishing their work. But no one knows about it. They can't be connected. That changes when a doctor working for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in...

MaliaThe title of a mafia princess has been my burden. The advantage has been me being tucked away as Daddy's little secret.His secret weapon.I've been trained to kill and to lead. I enforce and uphold the expectations of The Olin Empire. A job that...

Lucas Davenport takes on another challenging case in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.Author: John SandfordISBN-10: 0593714490ISBN-13: 9780593714492Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 400Format: Hardcover

McCauley brings the issue of human sex trafficking to the forefront in his fictional account revolving around a young girl who falls victim to modern slavery.The story follows Angel, a young girl driven to prostitution and drugs who dreams of home but is forced...

ALIBI FOR AN ALIBI is a Police Procedural novel, set in Ireland. Gangs and drug dealers are taking over Cork City and they have decided that New Years Eve is the night to settle old scores. The 'perfect alibi' is set at a New...

AN UTTERLY GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED THRILLER THAT WILL HAVE YOU HOOKED.No bad deed goes unpunished.As a favour to his old friend Sir Gerald Campion, Nick Shannon is investigating the books at an advertising agency to make sure everything's kosher - his first mistake.His second is...

With Generations, MP Kollman's Brothers series comes to its exciting conclusion, and until the end, Kollman lobs twists at readers. In Generations, the romance between Sandy and Samantha Grayson takes a surprising back seat to the coming-of-age story of Isaac Vaughn, a resident of...

For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast...

In the heart of Chicago, where shadows conceal secrets and organized crime reigns, one retiree embarks on an extraordinary journey. David Blazen spent 50 years comfortable in his work routine but now is retired and desperately searching for purpose in his life. He ultimately...

If you love Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers, don't miss Casey King's absolutely gripping and gritty crime thriller about betrayal, revenge and family secrets.It's a story as old as time. Girl meets boy. Their marriage promises peace between their feuding families. Then it all...

Axel Petersen's life imploded when his teenage daughter disappeared. Manyyears later, no one knows where she is or what happened to her. On the twentieth anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, Axel meets a girl ona train. She's almost exactly the same age as his...

For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers. ------------------------------------ The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the...

When a teenage girl is strangled and left for dead on a lonely country lane, by an attacker she describes has having the head of a dog, the police are baffled. But when the body of another young woman is found mutilated and wrapped...

"Pranks can have lethal consequences, even when they seem harmless to start with . . . A poison bonbon that ranks with the best of Ruth Rendell."--Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly One mild summer evening, a young couple are enjoying dinner while their daughter...

Richard Beaumont hoped to see the elusive crow on the Dover cliffs. Instead he sees a young woman falling to her death. No one recognizes her, and no one has reported her missing. Richard returns, shaken, to his wife, but instead of seeking comfort...

New Mexico, 1979: After a career in the military as a CID detective, all James Pinter wants to do is drive his rig and mind his own damn business. But when his daughter, Molly, finds a dead woman behind a gas station and a...

When murder is your business, solving the case is personal ...The Homicide Hunter's riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth ...All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose...

A shattered career. A crooked lawyer. An unsolved murder. Seeking peace in the Northwoods is fraught with danger. Every night John Cabrelli relives the tragic events that ended his career. While struggling to find himself again, John inherits his uncle's cabin and returns to...

Marlin Stains is a lonely man who is filled with words. Words that he longs to share with the world but so far only shares with himself. He has over 300 notebooks brimming with them in his trailer room. A wood-paneled tomb of prose...

On a moonless April night pretty college-coed Sarah Martin was walking back to her dorm from the campus library, where she had been working on a course paper. Suddenly a shadowy figure appeared from between two parked automobiles and grabbed her from behind. In...

Business is dead at the Pick Me guitar store. But that's not the only thing that's dying in town.Gene Stevens owns a gorgeous rare guitar - his favourite 'axe'. He wouldn't be seen dead without it. Until one day, he's seen dead with it.Somebody...

Inspired by true events, The Last Horseman is a gripping story of a Midwestern housewife who secretly devises an epic gambling scheme to save the career of her alienated horse trainer husband -- perfect for fans of Secretariat and The Greatest Gambling Story Ever...

December 1971 - The dark days of the short but brutal Indian-Pakistan War. In an East Bengali village near the front lines, a young Pakistani girl hurrying home from a shopping errand witnesses her family home destroyed, her parents killed in an indiscriminate rocket...

"Keep your eyes open, because when someone stab the body it can heal, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."In the final installment of Gangsta Fever everyone is tested and it's either swim or drown in the intertwined web of love,...

A standalone dark mafia romance novel by International Bestselling Author, Nikita Slater.When she runs, he will hunt.Protector, stalker, lover... she is his obsession. From the moment Roman Valdez set eyes on Katie, he knew she was the one for him. Beautiful, carefree and captivating,...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. This story was first published in The Court and Society Review, in late 1887. The main character, Lord Arthur...

It's eviction day for The Hope Apartments.The residents have known about it for over a year.It's too bad they ignored all the warning signs.More than a century ago, developer Elijah Hope constructed a state-of-the-art hotel. As the generations passed and tastes changed, The Hope...

Rule #1 - Only be where flip-flops can be worn.Former deputy Sam Strait lives his life by a particular set of rules. They provide him freedom to do the things he wants where he wants with whom he wants. For a single man in...

Robert Binder is a prominent attorney currently waiting to hear from the White House about his appointment as Assistant Secretary to the Department of Health and Human Services. His wife, Ann, is a renowned economist and, quite possibly, a future Nobel Laureate. Their teenage...

Second book of the Knight of Sin Series. Book Theme: Romance and Crime. Theme Story: The Kiss, Neysa.This book has all new stories. I may come out with another future volume containing continuation chapters of some of the best stories from these first two...

Author: Steve LoweISBN-10: 1940885116ISBN-13: 9781940885117Publisher: Broken River BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2014Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.33d

A collection of short stories detailing the lonely lives of drunks and killers. Navigating the deserts of Mexico to the backwoods of North Carolina, our narrators tell their stories in hauntingly poetic voices reminiscent of William Gay and Cormac McCarthy. INCARNATIONS is a bold...

Melville Davisson Post's famed historical detective, Uncle Abner, solved perplexing crimes of passion and greed with courage and the understanding that justice must be served. All 22 of the original Uncle Abner stories are included here.Author: Melville Davisson PostISBN-10: 1616460164ISBN-13: 9781616460167Publisher: Coachwhip PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...