Fiction - Crime

** The Craig Crime Novels can be read out of sequence or as standalone novels.Location briefs and character biographies are included at the back of each book. ** About the book When a body is found in an unusual location near Belfast's Cave Hill,...

The body of a young woman is found in the marshes of L.A.'s Ballona Creek. As with most murders Detectives John Testarossa and Alex Ortiz are asked to solve, this one makes no sense.When a second body is found, and then a third, the...

Author E. W. Hornung is perhaps best remembered for creating the unforgettably raffish criminal mastermind, Raffles. In the novel The Crime Doctor, Hornung flips the script and takes a hard look at crime from the other side of the equation. Doctor John Dollar is...

Harry Rigby is right there, an eye-witness when Finn Hamilton walks out into the big nothing nine stories up, but no one wants to believe Finn is just the latest statistic in Ireland's silent epidemic. Not Finn's mother, Saoirse Hamilton, whose property empire is...

March, 1919. DI Hardcastle must find Lily, the missing daughter of Austen Musgrave MP. Hardcastle, aided by DS Marriott, discovers that Lily provides risqué entertainment for ex-officers. When she returns home of her own accord, Hardcastle assumes the case is closed. But Lily goes...

One late evening in the year 1 AD, Senior Constable Gidon of the Bethlehem Town Watch begins what should be a routine crime investigation. Three chests of treasure given by visiting scholars to a newborn boy they believe is the long-awaited Messiah are stolen...

When violence sweeps through their town, the Men of Hell must figure out who's after their club. Someone is watching Romeo Barrigan's every move. Chloe Matsumoto's favorite pastime is studying the Men of Hell Motorcycle Club's president. Ever since he helped rescue her deaf...

"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges." Herman Melville's Billy Budd is a work of fiction that delves into philosophical questions such as justice, law and destiny. It tells the story of an illegitimate orphan who grows into a charismatic and ambitious...

Leyendecker tells the story of Mr. December-a cynical man whose barren outlook on Redtown shrouds his life in misery-as he reflects on his life, both past and present. After a chance encounter at a local nightclub, he soon finds himself in the powerful embrace...

Switching jobs from federal agent to suburban deputy police chief should mean rubber chicken lunches and golf every Friday. But, when a judge and her daughter are gunned down, Harry Cork must hunt their killer...and his investigation leads from the quiet 'burbs to the...

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...

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run...

Grady Williams was on top of the world. Raised by middle class parents in a small town in Tennessee, he became a successful Wall Street investment banker. His picture was common, not only on the front page of the business section of the New...

The Kingdom of Killain -- that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the crossroads of the world. The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make -- all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his turf --...

One piece of mail brings his whole world crumbling down... When Brock Bradshaw receives the wedding invitation for Summer Griffin, he feels the stabbing pain of regret and despair. He gave up the love of his life years ago for her own good, and...

The new compelling mystery featuring Anglophile Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired policeman Alan Nesbitt ...Dorothy Martin's husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral. The very day that the short list...

The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston's ruling families arranges to...

WILL A MISSING WOMAN BE FOUND BEFORE IT'S TOO LATESheriff Dell Hinton returns with a missing persons case that plagues his every waking hour. A young woman has disappeared in his rural county of Downeast Maine. She may have run away but the possibility...

The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling "cerebral, immersive" (The Washington Post) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm. For more than a year, Emil...

What would you do if you stumbled upon a conversation that could cost you your life? For Alberto Capuano, this is precisely what happens. After eavesdropping on a conversation that reveals a dark conspiracy involving the Mafia, the Catholic Church, and money laundering, Alberto...

When a killer dog and a toddler are found sitting precariously near I-65 in Kentucky, they are taken to what appears to be a working farm, or is it? To the neighboring town, the farm is business as usual, Hay and cattle, but something...

In the early morning hours of December 6, 2004, a killer fled an apartment complex in West Knoxville as a young woman bravely fought for her life. Her strength failed her at the bottom of the stairs of the apartment building after she'd banged...

A COZY MURDER MYSTERY SET IN A PICTURESQUE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE. Suzy Spencer is branching out - she's working with local retiree gardeners on a podcast about rewilding the graveyard garden in Norbridge. But a body is found in a wheelie bin and chaos begins...

The house is deathly silent as the summer sun starts to creep in through the dusty windows. The children should be waking up, the parents should be cooking breakfast. But they all lay still, their heads on their pillows, lifeless eyes staring at nothing,...

Spurred by her husband's infidelity, writer/college lecturer Valerie Hawthorne has a romantic encounter with a compelling stranger in a rustic river-side hotel. They agree it will be a one-time thing, but it becomes an extended nightmare when she discovers the meeting was not accidental....

This is the second book featuring our protagonist Cid Radley as he continues to transport a nuclear weapon back to its original owner. The bomb is being sailed home aboard an unsuspecting cruise ship. But word may have gotten out that a secret package...

Within the last year, acclaimed fashion designer, Carmen Davenport, has witnessed the ups and downs of being romantically linked to one of New York's most prominent men. On the heel of her engagement to Jay Santiago, a Puerto Rican businessman, she learns her oldest...

Leyland Denton must discover the cause of suspicious deaths among heirs of the ten million dollar Norton estate. Do fatalities on both sides of the lawsuit arise from the bitter family feud? And what's the Al Capone connection? To what lengths will Wisconsin Attorney...

For fans of Harper Lee and Rita Mae Brown, Roy Hoffman's new novel is steeped in a sense of place--coastal Alabama--with its rich tapestry of characters caught in a web of justice not for all. Early Praise for The Promise of the Pelican: "Roy...

Glasgow 1492. Gil Cunningham remarked later that if he had known he would find a corpse in the university coal house, he would never have gone to the Arts Faculty feast.In this mysterious adventure, Gil Cunningham returns to his old university for the Nicholas...

Book 11 in the Gabriel Hawke SeriesA church fire.An unconscious woman on Starvation Ridge.Gabriel Hawke, fish and wildlife officer with the Oregon State Police, helps with a fire at the Lighted Path church before heading out to check turkey hunters. He discovers a car...

"The Pinned Butterfly is noir of a higher order. Taut, fast-moving, emotional, and filled with surprises. Johnny Mack is a modern-day Robert Stone and this novel is an essential piece of crime fiction." NY Times-bestseller Tod Goldberg, Gangsters Don't Die An anniversary trip to...

New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current Tim Johnston returns with an absorbing new crime novel set in a small Wisconsin town haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s. What if? What if Sean Courtland's old Chevy...

When you fly high, you fall hard.A sleazy playboy's private plane crashes in Brooklyn without a pilot, but with six kilos of cocaine on board. The playboy's body washes up on the beach a few days later. Why did he jump out of his...

A NAIL-BITING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH ONE OF THE BIGGEST TWISTS YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR.After choir practice for midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead.The last thing she...

From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel...

COMING IN JUNE AS AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL From #1 New York Times bestselling author and hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, this story brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary...

The prank pact was meant to be fun. Now they just want to live through it.Tulsa, 2006. Jon Ryan and his three best friends spend the final days of their senior year goofing off and taking mushrooms at casino concerts, keeping adulthood at arms'...

In the summer of 1874, a beloved schoolteacher mysteriously goes missing upon closing up school. After a frantic search, the young woman is discovered horribly mutilated in the woods, and authorities question everyone in the small railroad village of St. Albans, Vermont. With the...

Revenge and murder define Ximena Godoy's story. Her lifetime spans the first half of the 20th century, a transformative time of revolution, economic depression, uprooting and migration. During that time, she witnesses and participates in an era of revolution, bootlegging, dance halls, as well...

When you fly high, you fall hard.A sleazy playboy's private plane crashes in Brooklyn without a pilot, but with six kilos of cocaine on board. The playboy's body washes up on the beach a few days later. Why did he jump out of his...

Shawn Deloro, an outlaw biker from Mexico at 19 returns to his Mother's home town of Louisiana, Missouri in hopes of a new beginning. It's there he meets Maria who takes his breath away with the very sight of her beauty. Their relationship moves...

Comprised of ten thrilling tales, Bunny recounts stories from various times in he and Raffles' lives. In Out of Paradise, Bunny is heartbroken over his ended engagement, which he called off after his fall from social grace to save his fiancé from the shame....

Nick Daniels, intrepid reporter and writer for the Calumet News Service, returns to complete the investigations into the murders of his friend and three of his foes that occurred two years before during five days and nights of bloody chaos on Chicago's southeast side....

Who killed Gwendolyn Paddington?When an extra ticket becomes available to see the dress rehearsal of King Lear, Kellan tags along with Nana D and her buddies. But when one of them dies of an apparent heart attack in the middle of second act, Nana...

"Intense and captivating." -Readers' Favorite"Once again, AJ McCarthy has crafted a masterful mystery." -Mary Ellen Bramwell, author of The Apple of My Eye"[A] clever and engrossing serial-killer story." -Jeffrey James Higgins, author of Furious: Trapped in a Perfect Storm of Terror"Dark, innovative..." -Timothy Gene...

Margaret Dexxman is surprised when she receives a Wordsearch puzzle, but no clue to its contents. Careful examination however, reveals a woman's name, and within hours her body is discovered. Several other puzzles arrive over the next few weeks, and each time a body...

In a region of Brazil that few would recognize lies an arid world of small cities, drought, vultures, rattlesnakes, scorpions, cowboys, rodeos, peasant farmers, university students, dope-heads, schemers, gossips, assassins, kidnappings, corruption and untold wealth. Three women and three men with nothing in common...

'Locked Away' is the first in the DCI Alice Candy series.When Ellie Braintree, a local young woman, goes missing, Detective Chief Inspector Alice Candy knows that she has been taken. And this is no ordinary abduction.Alice uses an uncanny knack she has to tune...

The Bodleian Murders is the third collection of short stories, all based around the university city of Oxford. These stories once again cover the range of emotional topics that are skilfully woven into the local landscape from murders motivated by ambition to romance and...