Fiction - Crime

Connor Herne loves the eastern Kentucky mountains. When he finds barrels of nuclear waste in a secluded hollow, he never imagines that years later his daughter will suffer the consequences. After a high school friend's car is blown up, he can no longer ignore...

In the small mountain town of Nelson, newspaper reporter Stella Mosconi never speaks of her crippling fear of deep water. Now spring runoff is in the alpine, the creeks are on the rampage, and Stella watches the lake rise outside her door. When a...

Meredith Kendall is a graduate journalist student in Phoenix in the nineties. When a popular attorney/male model is arrested for killing his ex-wife, she decides to study it. She asks people closely connected to the case to contribute a written reaction. Each chapter is...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the...

Steve Carella does not fit the picture of a big city detective. Well-mannered and the consummate professional, he lacks the rough-hewn edges of the men who devote their lives to fighting crime on the streets. But there is one thing that tears him up...one...

When Jack Hargreaves takes a job with Fingers Molloy, it doesn't quite go to plan. Fingers turns out to be a time-travelling burglar, with a host of ingenious devices supplied by the mysterious Mr Smith. And the things they're stealing are, frankly, odd. But...

Brash, sexy, and dangerous Yaseer is the leader of a young, ambitious team known as The Torture Crew. They live by a code of Loyalty, honesty, and respect which gets tested every step of the way as jealousy and greed find its way into...

A city is paralyzed by fear after a series of violent crimes that break ultimate taboo: harming infants and young children. The police suspect a pedophile; the media fuel fears of a violent new gang. Meanwhile, a street-smart shrink and a hard-nosed cop defy...

The detective novel The Telephone Voice is fascinating in many ways, especially because it gives a credible picture of everyday police work. Far from the heroism and glamour of detectives in films and famous crime novels we meet an Irish policeman, chief inspector Bill...

In the mid-1970s, a bank employee was kidnapped and murdered by notorious bank robbers. The FBI stepped in, but not to solve the crime. Instead, they were there to do whatever it took to cover up their involvement in this crime. Based on real...

A fictional memoir about the writer's grandmother, a Civil Rights activist in Baltimore.Author: Robert WardISBN-10: 1440555028ISBN-13: 9781440555022Publisher: Tyrus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2012Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

For decades, war has raged between the Russo and De Luca families. When Damon De Luca finally brings the head of Russos to his knees, he demands to have Milah Russo at his beck and call. Not as his wife, but as his mistress....

A selection of classic stories featuring France's answer to Sherlock Holmes: a brilliant master criminal with a mischievous sense of humor--now the inspiration for the major streaming series Lupin. Ars鈩e Lupin is a gentleman and a thief, a world-famous master of disguise and a...

Guilty is a magazine of crime stories, of criminals, their motivations and their beginnings and ends. In issue five: "Blood Loss" by Trey R. Barker - It's been years since John saw Diane, but she was still beautiful, the wound still bled, and John...

He loves the ladies, and the ladies love him... Tripp Molloy is the town playboy. When your father is the President of the Deranged Drifters, one of the most dangerous and well respected motorcycle clubs in the tri-state area, you have to live it...

Set in northern Argentina, the gorgeous and gruesome story of two brothers following in their criminal father's footsteps in a bloody battle to save their family from drug lords, perfect for fans of Don Winslow and Narcos. Tom疽 Cruz swore he would never be...

An enterprising young man marries an unpretentious and discreet heiress. Both are determined to succeed in their respective careers, capitalizing on their skills, drives, hard work, and strong marriage which provides harmony in their lives, rather than become trust babies. Yet several issues will...

A young aviator turned reluctant bootlegger and bank robber spends his life seeking redemption, clemency, and romance with the unlikely and unexpected help from a politically connected woman. Based on real people and true events gathered from newspaper accounts, official documents, and personal papers....

"The thing I love about Connie Briscoe now is the same thing I've always loved about Connie Briscoe--she writes highly commercial, pacey, character-driven stories. She was made for domestic suspense." --Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling authorThe revered New York Times bestselling writer makes...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. This edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains twelve short stories that introduce the reader to the iconic detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson. Sherlock Holmes is a mysterious person. Extremely observant, highly intelligent, and yet emotionally unstable, Holmes' reputation...

This is the first novel in the Cain series. Long ago, he was sentenced to walk the earth as part of his punishment. Now, he has become the anti-hero everyone wishes they could be. This is the story of his visit to St. Louis,...

She's stronger than he thinks. She just doesn't know it yet. Fourteen-year-old Persephone Wolf is head over heels for her new older boyfriend. She would do anything for him, including running away. Unfortunately, her new life is not the paradise she expected. To earn...

Sometimes perfection is worth killing for... The second gripping crime novel in an exciting new series. Ex-priest DI Frank Farrell finds himself on the trail of a vicious killer in rural Scotland. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, James Oswald and Val McDermid. Each...

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Apparently.Jacky Huggins only wants to cheer up the recently-bereaved Dr Watson. But when she accompanies him on a secret investigation into a kidnapping, she doesn't expect to raise the dead.Now Jacky is caught up in a cat-and-mouse game between an...

'I should have been the happiest woman in the world...'When Jacky Day accepts Tom Huggins's proposal of marriage, there is just one problem. Abandoned as a baby and raised in the workhouse, she has no family to call her own. Now, with her wedding...

In this captivating novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing.Emlyn doesn't let herself think about...

PSYCHOPATHShe shackles them to the bed, andshe glues their eyes closed.She punctures their eardrums.She sews their lips shut.TORTURESSThey can't move. They can't see or hear.They can't scream.All they can do is feel.And with her tools-her scalpels and needles, her bonesaws and her knives-She gives...

BRAND NEW FROM SALLY RIGBY AND AMANDA ASHBYShe'll do anything to protect her family...Libby Curtis never wanted children, until she met Nathan, a gorgeous widower with two young children. Now ten years later she can't imagine her life without Sam and Sienna - she'd...

Dead bodies in the wilderness.A child gone missing.Book 2 in the Gabriel Hawke series.Fish and Wildlife State Trooper Gabriel Hawke's job is to find a missing family in the Eagle Cap Wilderness. After finding the parents murdered, can he track a little girl on...

Mayhem. I bring it. I own it.Then I walk away and leave you to clean up the mess. That's the way I've always lived. For me, there is no other way. This is who I am. With all of this world comes death. I've...

Not since Mario Puzo's Godfather has a novel so passionately captured the soul of organized crime as did mob insider Sonny Girard's astounding debut, Blood of Our Fathers. Now Girard brings us the extraordinary successor, an explosive drama of the changes rocking the American...

Author: Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 0595014674ISBN-13: 9780595014675Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

After a former minister dies suddenly upon his return to Emerald Springs, his memorial service is cut just as short. Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, wife of the current minister, knows why. The poor old guy was murdered. But who in this bucolic village could be capable...

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence--now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storyteller.Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early...

It is 5:30 am on Clio's forty-fifth birthday and her hated ex is lying dead on her doorstep. Even worse, this is no accident. Someone's killed him...When single mum Clio's ex Gary turns up dead on the doorstep of her caravan - the one...

Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Carter has been a committed lawman for over thirty years. A decorated Vietnam veteran, he was highly regarded as a patriot and a man of indisputable principles. And now, a tragic event has caused him to question his own moral...

"A thrilling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages. Well worth a read." Bestselling author T.A. Williams.The high society wedding...Social media influencer Crystabel Hughes is determined her wedding to Giles Preston Smythe will be the talk of the town. No matter the cost...

Sometimes the job can be peaceful. Sometimes it can be downright violent! Hanna Posner is a woman living off the grid, taking delivery jobs that no one else would dare to do. When she takes a job to deliver a package across the country...

From the bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive Thriller about a family man with a deadly secret lifeKabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him....

Love has a brother ... and his name is hate.Life was never easy for Marcus, even before his parents' murder/suicide in a seedy trailer park in Florida. Now he's landed in Vegas with his older brother, Mac, hoping to start over. But plans usually...

The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy concludes. We've traversed the interlocked conspiracies of the decade and are there for the wind-up and swan songs. Blood's A Rover takes us into the seventies. MLK and RFK are dead. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago has spawned chaos....

For seven months a serial killer stalked the streets of Lake Side City. He struck at random, targeting victims of all ages and sexes. Because of his mercurial M.O. and use of a scythe, the media dubbed him The Mad Reaper. Too cunning and...

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late...

When a prisoner is shot to death in a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician...

Gail Bowen, winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel for her last Joanne Kilbourn mystery, A Colder Kind of Death, is back - with her most daring mystery to date. In the horrifying opening paragraph of A Killing Spring, Reed...

Is there a killer on the Cornish coast?One high-profile case. No leads. No witnesses... And no body.D.I. Rachel Morrison is overworked and under pressure. She needs to get results.Local people have been reported missing and the public, and her bosses, want answers...In an idyllic...

Luke loves his Nana, his girlfriend Sylvia, and his cool new job at Eliminator Sanitation. But when his roommate gets a grown-up job in Vancouver, and his parents move to Peachland, he is forced to face the harsh realities of adulthood. And to make...

'Suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric rural crime; a riveting debut.' - Michaela Lobb, Sisters in Crime AustraliaWhat will they risk for answers?Picturesque Daylesford has a darker side. Melbourne writer Georgie Harvey heads to the mineral springs region in central Victoria to look for a missing farmer,...

Two dead teens. A case gone cold. A twisted tangle of clues and dead ends.One Dark Night... Geeze, was that ever a doozy of a case? See? It was April first, 1998 when the bodies of two teenagers, a young fella and his girlfriend,...

A poignant and quirky insight into the lives of three lifelong friends and their unbreakable loyalty in the face of lifes challenges and the inevitable fate of one of them. There is one thing they have left to do for their friend, which requires...