Fiction - Crime

Claire knows her sister Holly didn't send the text message saying she was safe in Martha's Vineyard...but who did? And what happened to Holly? Claire's younger sister Holly has been working on the millionaire's playground of Martha's Vineyard for the summer--all barefoot beach parties...

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, may be true for a tourist. When you're born and raised in the devil's playground, and when the conditions are just right, what happens in Vegas is a closet bursting with skeletons.Author: Chase PeaceISBN-10: 8223412314ISBN-13: 9798223412311Publisher: Chase...

In Afghanistan, a US pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children. Finding the connection between the two will lead the Private team right into a deadly trap. A wealthy...

A quirky and funny series for fans of a good mystery and compelling characters. Can you solve the crime before our dressmaking duo? After losing her job at an exclusive London hotel, Penny Slipper is only too happy to help when her grandma asks...

The basis for the Oscar-winning buddy film. "There is no questioning the rampant power achieved through shriveling, shattering scenes" (Kirkus Reviews). Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The main story centers...

In Allen Wyler's 6.0 installment of the Deadly Odds techno-thriller series, Arnold Gold-reformed hacker turned security consultant-lands a vital contract for his fledgling company-a penetration test of both the computer and physical security of a high-profile law firm. Up against the clock and a...

Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity; "Every time I read one of George Pelecanos's novels, I'm left a little awed."(Dennis Lehane) When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under...

Duffy is back! After almost a decade our social working, pro boxing, Schlitz drinking, basset hound loving, bleeding heart tough guy has no idea what he's in for. His world literally blows up with a new gig, a career shift, another hound and, though...

He's always been good at being bad. When he decides to match wits with the mob on their turf, will he push his luck a shade past survival?Matt Friedrich figures there's no way out. Half a million in debt after doing time for fraud,...

Scotland Yard's Murder Squad--and Jack the Ripper--return, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit. In The Devil's Workshop, London discovered that Jack the Ripper was back, sending the city--and Scotland Yard's Murder Squad--into chaos. But...

"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le CarréAfter receiving a series of mysterious calls from a man who later turns up dead, Inspector Maigret must plunge into the murky Parisian underworld to solve the case...

"A harrowing, humane, and very beautiful book." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption--a debut novel from one of Europe's bestselling literary stars. A...

What if the trip of a lifetime ends in murder? Nineteen-year old Maisie leaves behind her demanding family to hike the West Coast Trail. One day, she meets Ric and Sera, but what begins as a fun-filled adventure, quickly turns sour, with devastating consequences....

2024 Spur Award Winner!Grand Prize Winner for the 2023 Chanticleer Laramie Award for Americana Fiction!"A novel as compelling as the incredible true story it's based on." James Wade, two-time Spur Award-winning author of Beasts of the Earth. When Santa Claus enters a Texas bank...

Despite their different backgrounds, Teo and Gordo have been friends since they were at school. Teo's father is head of neurosurgery at the local hospital and wants his son to follow in his footsteps. Gordo's father is a drunk, a wastrel. Gordo leaves school...

I found my love, a tall golden girl, in the cruel, thousand-angled city that was Tokyo, mid-occupation, death-hungry for Mate Buchanan. I am Buchanan. Mate Buchanan, that is, ex-G.I., court marshal and all, sent to this treacherous town on a mission, literally, of life-or...

Raves for the hottest thriller of 2023! "This is wicked fun." --Publishers Weekly "Absolutely amazing. Readers are going to flip!" --Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of ONE STEP TOO FAR "Like a firecracker on a hot summer night . . . If...

BOOK ONE, Origin's Edge, of The Book of Men seriesA fate-changing manuscript is at the center of a battle that could forever alter the course of humanity. Against the backdrop of the idyllic Great Plains of Colorado and the 1970s New York blackouts, a...

DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge! When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic novelist, accepts an invitation to be the headline author at a prestigious book...

In the bestselling tradition of Jennifer Weiner, a clever, funny yet poignant novel about the friendship between two absolutely unforgettable women. Ellen has been an outsider since she was a child. In fact, she has done everything in her power to make herself seem...

What are the dead sea scrolls? Relive their discovery and uncover their translations and meanings. Follow N.M. Reed's fictional characters as they travel on a journey of discovery. Professor Anthony Jacobs is [part of a team of researchers chosen to translate the current finds...

Across nearly a dozen internationally-acclaimed and awards-nominated novels, the Hector Lassiter series has beguiled readers with a secret history of 20th Century crime, politics and the arts.Hector-wanderer, lover and a fiction author frequently described by literary critics as "living what he writes and writing...

Not every gift is one you want to keep on giving.What if you had the ability to know things about people just by touching them? As a massage therapist, that would be an extremely helpful tool. Unless your gift showed you about the darker...

A serial killer is on the loose in New York City. He frequents busy night clubs and undermines his female victims using a soft, unassuming approach that allows them to drop their guard, where he lures them to his killing field. After cutting their...

'A brilliant thriller from an exciting new voice. Stalker had me on the edge of my seat' Kerry Barnes'An atmospheric, taut thriller which keeps you hooked from the first page. An exceptional debut.' Jacqui RoseEve Harding's world implodes one Sunday morning when she is...

Gisela and Amelia Howard were young girls when their parents were murdered and they were left in the Panic Room of their home. Sent to live with their maternal grandparents, they grow up surrounded with love and support. Upon her graduation, Amelia makes it...

Victoria Dahl is a self-made multi-billionaire who owns, is CEO of, and is the major stockholder for Dahl Haus Cyber Systems, Inc. in Silicon Valley. She made her startup capital as an operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. Any task that seemed impossible was...

It is 1989 when the dean of the political economics department at Yale University is murdered and dismembered. Are members of Yale's secret society, Skull & Bones, responsible for the gruesome death of Anton Ainsley and, if so, why? When the investigation goes cold,...

An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize...

In Burning Ambition a burnt-out prison van with three pre-murdered bodies inside doesn't make sense. Especially as one of the bodies wasn't a prisoner and should not even be there. Why would these three be killed and what has it to do with the...

Embark on an electrifying journey through the realms of the living and the dead in "Sometimes Things Break," a heart-pounding paranormal time travel thriller that will shatter your perceptions of life, death, and everything in between.Meet Buck, a man caught between two worlds -...

With only months to live because of terminal lung cancer, Marcus Gostin is ready to confess his secret to the entire world. He is the person responsible for the frightening and unsolved disappearances of local women - known informally as the "Lake Tahoe Ten"...

Ted Darling was about to kill a man. For the first time in his life...You've never met a copper like Ted Darling. He's small, quiet. He doesn't smoke. He's packed in the booze. But he's a Specialist Firearms Officer. With black belts in four...

When he acts in the name of God, his victims' faith could be their demise.When a young woman is found dead on her bed, dressed in an old-fashioned nightgown with her hands clasped in a prayer position, Detective Kate Murphy is called to investigate...

Organising a fete ought to be a piece of cake...Pippa Parker is desperate to take charge of the Much Gadding summer fete at Higginbotham Hall. When she gets the nod, she's delighted. However, when things start going wrong, a missing celebrity is just the...

Rutherford's New Science businesses are being targeting in a string of office break-ins and threatening notes left by an environmental group. But curiosity turns to alarm when a lead scientist is found dead at his desk. Is the professor's death really to do with...

Good music, fine dining and comfortable surroundings - that's how the Hotel Continental is advertised. Fraud, blackmail, torture and murder - that's what it becomes famous for. The popular hotel on the English coast built its reputation on its Viennese cuisine and Austrian style...

When Maigret's .45 revolver is stolen from his home, he becomes embroiled in a murder in which the gun may have played a deadly role. Maigret is the victim of a burglary in which the .45 revolver he had received as a gift from...

For decades, a string of grisly, unsolved murders has devastated the Florida Keys. Sailors whisper tales of a pitiless seafarer known only as The Man of the Sea who prowls the nearby waters, carving his hostages into fishing bait before ebbing back into the...

Maigret is cajoled out of retirement by a case involving an old classmate in book 26 of the new Penguin Maigret series. All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that...

Author: Clifton AdamsISBN-10: 1515426270ISBN-13: 9781515426271Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 150Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

An Amazon Charts bestseller.It takes more than a lie to hide the dark secrets of this picture-perfect family.When the granddaughter of one of Florida's most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own...

The brand new action-packed gangland thriller from Kerry Kaya!An eye for an eye...Once the top dog, Danny Mckay has walked away from his old gangland life. He's on the straight and narrow now, looking forward to settling down and living a quiet life.But trouble...

A locked room in a castle contains a dead body. Or does it?Trapped in a medieval wine ch穰eau, a fierce snowstorm raging outside. This is not how I imagined celebrating the Beaujolais Nouveau. A sparkling extravaganza had seemed the perfect escape from ordinary life...

"A cleverly plotted and thoroughly enjoyable book about dark deeds in beautiful places."--Elly GriffithsWelcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes...Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright's remote...

An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. The Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines the meaning of murder in the twenty-first century. When...

BIG ISLAND, L.A. In Big Island, L.A., a unique successor to the cult crime classic by Boston Teran, Never Count Out the Dead, a former combat Marine and a crime columnist embark on a suicide mission on the battlefield of L.A. --a city of...

Collected here for the first time are Davidson's remarkable mystery tales, including: the 1840s murder investigations of New York's chief constable, Jacob Hays; a sinister lesson in New England thrift; a bride who disappears on her wedding day; a slavetrader and a deal gone...

From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark RideSometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare...

In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him.Your dad's...