Fiction - Crime

A covert cop becomes a target when she picks the wrong cover storyThe Treadwater Estate has become the epicentre of a series of strange events. People go missing. Bodies are found - buried and wrapped in clingfilm. Yet there appears to be no connection...

The final volume of the special Leonaur six volume Chesterton mystery collection 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, biography, journalism...

Volume two of this Chesterton collection-enter Father Brown 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, biography, journalism and philosophy. Great writers...

Do you want to read Crime and Punishment? If so then keep reading...One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon experiences from...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!No one was lookingA missing girl.Her confused family and friends don't know what to think about her disappearance.The police will only put so many resources into the search for a missing teen. They don't have time and money...

In Cat Connor's pulse-pounding crime thriller "Terrorbyte," Supervisory Special Agent Ellie Conway is forced to team up with the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency, in a high-stakes mission. As the investigation unfolds, Ellie and her unlikely partner must navigate through a web of deception...

Police Lieutenant Tony Marigny married the girl of his dreams, and his job heading the Winding Falls Major Crimes Task Force has been quite successful. Having pulled together a top-notch team of criminal specialists, Tony feels his homicide department can take on anything. Marissa...

Mark's past has sent him down a path with danger at every turn, putting him at odds with the city's most dangerous crime mob...Mark would like to think he's a good man. After all, he's a loving husband and dedicated policeman living the life...

One dark night, Hamlet sees a ghost. It is his dead father, who claims he was murdered by Claudius, the new king. But did Hamlet really see a ghost? And if so, was it telling him the truth? Hamlet plans to avenge his father...

Set at Christmas time, the Golding and Travis families prepare for their festive celebration. Little did they know that murder would engulf their reunion. In the wake of Charles Golding's gruesome murder, the two families learn that they all had a motive. Assigned to...

When the Black Fairy, Azura Noir, has enough of being blamed for the misdeeds of the people whom she is assigned to be Fairy Godmother of, and instead becomes a police detective, the mysterious world beyond the veil of what everyday people call "real"...

Get inside the mind of a killer.He looks like the boy next door. He could be the young man dating your daughter or sister. He could be the boy who cuts your lawn. He considers himself an artist, creating twisted art using human canvases....

The Shanghai Extortion is a fictional story about a young army officer's atonement for his social indiscretions, the inadvertent involvement into a criminal investigation that threatens American national security, and the complexities of life and love in a far off land.Shanghai China in 1897...

The book that predicted a man-made pandemic! THE DEATH OF AN EXECUTIVE SPARKS A PROBE THAT UNCOVERS A DIABOLICAL INTERNATIONAL PLOT. A prominent Chicago law firm asks Jake Scarne to look into a murder in Hawaii. The firm's client is the dead executive's widow...

The girl lay in the grass on the side of the trail beneath the low-hanging limbs of a dogwood tree. Her arms were by her side, one leg bent at the knee. She was completely nude, and her skin glistened with a thin coat...

This second set of adventure tales featuring the world's first consulting detective gathers in one volume eleven stories originally published individually in London's Strand Magazine and first reprinted in book form in 1894. Notable for an instance in which Holmes's deductions turn out to...

Sandy Goodson in 2002 vanished without a trace.Seventeen years later, retired detectives Isadora Fawn and Hugh Halligan team up, working for the Cold Poker Gang task force, to look into the Goodson missing person's case.As active detectives years earlier, both individually tried to solve...

After Salem's chief of police unexpectedly retires, Detective James O'Connor is suddenly burdened with preparing the town for its annual sandcastle competition. As if that is not bad enough, a dead body has just been found, dressed like a leprechaun with a sword through...

A man is sat in a bar quietly drinking. He sips at his neat scotch and frowns. Nothing wrong with the booze, he's wondering where his life has gone so wrong. He's been betrayed at every turn by those he has loved and trusted....

When the newsroom police scanner buzzes with initial reports of a grisly murder of a Southern California family, hardcore crime reporter Kate McShane rushes to the scene of the crime, unaware she is stumbling high-heels and all into the web of a police coverup...

The Melody of Death (1915) is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace. Written at the height of Wallace's career as one of England's leading popular fiction writers, The Melody of Death showcases his effective narrative style and innate sense of the strange in everyday...

"I didn't guess whodunnit at all, so I was gripped from start to finish!" --Amazon Reviewer, five stars Money may make the world go round, but it turns a village upside down, in this tense British crime thriller by the author of The Last...

The British Prime Ministers Daughter has been kidnapped by two renegade IRA terrorists who are wanting to make a name for themselves. Sinn Fein deny any responsibility to the British Government, but secretly they ordered and are supporting the action. The Prime Minister sends...

Welcome to the world of the dammed, the forgotten, the left behind. Born into a world condemned by Lucifer and without God, Ainsley is traumatized, afraid, and hunted. Her life is an unending storm of sorrow, fear, and grief, and it's almost more than...

Do you believe in Superheroes? Dr. Samantha Nichols remembers her college boyfriend Douglas as a cynical, selfish, and materialistic person. When she runs into him again years later, he is selfless and idealistic. Trying to figure out what caused the radical change in his...

Edgar Wallace's 1931 novel "The Devil Man" is the mysterious and thrilling story of Charles Pearce, an small, unnerving, musician, gifted but terribly boastful. Woman can't resist him, but they don't know the real Pearce. Full of dispense, action and amusing characters, "The Devil...

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Four Square Jane' is a novel of a successful female crook who employs cunning to outwit her victims and the police....

When ex-Major Ed Parker of the US Army is pushed over a cliff at Pointe du Hoc following the D-Day anniversary, a crisis is sparked off in British Intelligence. The cream of the Secret Service gather: Dr Audley, Oliver St John Latimer, Commander Cable,...

Intriguing interlinked mysteries from the Medieval Murderers group, including Karen Maitland, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Philip Gooden, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, and Simon Beaufort. In the spring of 1348, tales of fast-moving poisonous clouds capable of destroying the populations of entire cities--even countries--begin spreading...

Redemption isn't given. It's fought for. After years of violence, Solomon leaves the brutal backdrop of New York and its underworld to find peace in California where he settles for the quiet life of a gardener defined by routine, restraint, and a fragile kind...

"Again Sanders" is a collection of twelve short stories written by Edgar Wallace. The tales are all loosely connected and centre on Lt. Augustus "Bones" Tibbetts. Part of his famous "African novels" ("Sanders of the River" series), this volume is highly recommended for those...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Megan "Meggie" Foy has had a tough life. Living with her mother and step-father is a complete nightmare. They seem to have the perfect little family, but appearances can be deceiving. When her body and mind can take no more abuse at the hands...

When the system fails, people take justice into their own hands. Justice delayed may not be justice denied.Author: Anne ArrandaleISBN-10: 1095593986ISBN-13: 9781095593981Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2019Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

They closed the case. She never did. FBI Special Agent Dom Walker has spent years outrunning the disgrace tied to her name. Her father, a decorated NYPD officer, was arrested in a sting and dead by suicide days later. Case closed. Pain shelved. Until...

A desperate rescue. A war-torn land. A love that refuses to die. Detective Bernadette Callahan's impulsive nature has landed her in hot water before, but this time, the stakes are higher than ever. A heated argument drives her fiancé to take a dangerous security...

In the tranquil setting of the South Downs a killer is at large as a young girl suffers a cruel death, the second such death in the area. Law enforcement officers are under extreme pressure to apprehend the culprit and suspicion falls on a...

A classic of detective fiction, "The Viaduct Murder" by Ronald A. Knox presents a compelling investigation into a perplexing crime. This meticulously prepared edition revives a timeless story of murder and intrigue, offering readers a fascinating glimpse into the world of early 20th-century police...

Step back in time with William Russell's "Recollections of a Policeman," a fascinating collection of short stories offering a unique glimpse into the world of law enforcement. This meticulously prepared reprint preserves the historical charm and enduring appeal of classic police procedural fiction. Explore...

A 15-year-old Iranian girl is viciously attacked by her father for holding a boy's hand. In running to escape certain death, she undertakes a dangerous journey to a new land with unfamiliar customs, where she must hide the truth from everyone she meets. Twenty...

Former war hero Bill Conlin embarks on a mission with international implications as he struggles to survive in a criminal world and continues the fight to avenge his ruined life. Now on the run from U.S. authorities, Bill is also on the hunt to...

Richard Cory (A poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson) Whenever Richard Cory went downtown, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always...

The final volume in Leonaur's Craig Kennedy series In Craig Kennedy the American nation might justifiably lay claim to their own Sherlock Holmes, for here is a detective whose activities projected him into the modern age. Where Conan Doyle's famous character of a more...

They stole her family. They destroyed her body. They left her for dead. Their mistake. If memory serves, Mrs. Robinson had a happy life with her husband and daughter. Memory is a tricky thing, and hers has been forever altered by a series of...

The Internationally Bestselling Debut ThrillerAlso Available as a Paperback Original "Emotionally charged and tautly plotted, Emily Elgar's debut is a stunning example of psychological suspense."--Clare Mackintosh, international bestselling author of I Let You Go and I See YouFrom a terrific new voice in psychological...

The tenth Logan McRae novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author. Scottish crime fiction at its very best. Some things just won't stay buried... Logan McRae's personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he's policing his...

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.The Joymount Rapid Hardening Cement Manufacturing Company on the Solent is...

A notorious Mexican drug baron has his New York fentanyl operation eradicated by three former Special Operators who have teamed up with an intuitive Homeland Security agent and an ingenious computer hacker. Don Carlos Ventura seeks revenge and dispatches his most sadistic contractor south...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls--a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or...

Retired Sherlock Holmes is unwillingly drawn back into a perilous world by Mycroft, as his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty, impossibly resurfaces. Operating under the guise of the shadowy 'M Agency, ' Moriarty is developing a terrifying scientific superweapon for the German Kaiser, threatening European peace...