Fiction - Crime

'Call Bernard! I'll see him-and you-in hell first!'It is 1947 and a sumptuous banquet at Fairfield Manor is underway to celebrate Bernard Smith-William's recovery from a serious illness. Among the guests are Bernard's childhood friend Rupert Lavering and his wife Louise. A war veteran...

David O'Driscoll, a prominent detective with an impeccable reputation in an otherwise sleepy little town, finds himself deeply immersed in the daunting task of attempting to piece together a violent cold murder case which surfaced twenty years ago. All the while, he is attempting...

Tom Parker, retired Army Colonel and CIA Agent called back into action by the President after American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, killed by Afghanistan troops working with the CIA. Was it an accident or was it something else? Tom had a price on...

Judge Not... is a family saga about the Crapper family, most specifically focused on Judge Bat Crapper's life and two important cases he has had to deal with in his career. Beginning with his mother, Ophelia, in 1895, the story unfolds with the circumstances...

Detective Inspector Isobel Woods returns to work after her wedding and honeymoon in France, but things are not quite what she expected. Her boss DCI Adele Addison confines her to a desk job where she is to remain for the foreseeable future. When a...

Author: Philip Gwynne JonesISBN-10: 1408715384ISBN-13: 9781408715383Publisher: Constable & RobinsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2025Pages: 400Format: Paperback

Author: Rebecca ZahabiISBN-10: 1473234492ISBN-13: 9781473234499Publisher: GollanczLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Format: Paperback

Steve Anders is the chief of staff for Senator Edward Buchanan. Senator Buchanan is a powerful and controversial figure surrounded by intrigue. The Senator is rumored to be in possession of classified information and of having affairs with a staffer. Steve is the Senator's...

'I was hooked from the start and finished this book in 1 day. I couldn't read it fast enough. It was a whirlwind with plenty of suspense, secrets and betrayal.' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ How far would you go to protect your family? Mark Burcham...

'This book is one hell of a ride. Neil Lancaster's Blood Runs Cold is spellbinding.' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ She was taken against her will. On her fifteenth birthday, trafficking victim Affi Smith goes for a run and never returns. With a new identity and...

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter The latest hair-raising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo! Praise for Simon Brett 'One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . ....

The East Harlem Murders The bustling streets of Manhattan are no stranger to crime, but when a Latina is brutally raped and murdered in the heart of the city, it sends shockwaves through the community. The victim, a young Latina in her early teens...

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...

A mysterious symbol is the key to a murder case in this classic suspense tale by the Edgar Award-winning author.Gordon Craigie and Department Z--the squad of top-secret detectives within British intelligence--are embroiled in a desperate investigation involving drugs and murder. How will the department...

A terrifying international plot threatens the agents of Britain's Department Z in this tale of suspense from an Edgar Award-winning author.Leopold Gorman studies the World Economic Conference with interest--and then picks five rich and powerful men to bring his plan to fruition. If any...

The detectives of Britain's Department Z look into a murder at an exclusive club.Sir Basil Riordon is mysterious, frightening, and immensely wealthy. But is he also a killer? As head of England's elite secret service, Department Z, Gordon Craigie has to find out, but...

The great Hercule Poirot investigates suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site Now with a beautiful new series look!Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert...

A young constable faces prejudice in a small country town, but the search for a missing child changes everything. A breathtaking novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback. 'Fleur McDonald is a master of the rural suspense novel, her characters...

America's most dangerous Human trafficking organization who have ZERO mercy, known as the Fury Platoon, led by Victor Washington, AKA, Major Mcbeth, goes around kidnapping every teenage kid they can find, and forcing them to work by doing drug and sex trafficking. What makes...

Bean cake for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Your cell is dimly lit; you never know if it is daytime or nighttime. In fact, the only thing you know for sure is you're doing dead time. As usual, I would exercise like a fiend, basically...

A dead veteran. A little county with a major problem. What will happen when a big-city PI noses around? Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson gets a client he never expected: his police detective cousin Rich. In rural western Maryland, Rich's old Army friend Jim died...

Two rival gangs. Four dead innocents. One beleaguered city caught in the crossfire. Erma Johnson lives in a rough part of Baltimore. Gangs are a fact of life. She lost her daughter and grandson to their violence. She's convinced, however, that her grandson wasn't...

A Russian team of ex-KGB agents, led by experienced spymaster Andrei Grushkov, smuggle a nuclear device into the US with the intention of mass destruction. The multilayered Russian plot involves satellite teams across the US weaponizing the Internet for digital espionage to undermine American...

From an early age, Jeremiah Krone had a strong sense of right and wrong and of justice. In the fifth grade, he stood up against, Buzz, the class bully. When Krone graduates from high school, he applies to the police academy, is accepted, and...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1905 collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in...

Operation Tomcat Left almost penniless after divorcing her cheating husband, Tammy moves to the country to reinvent her life. But life in a country town isn't as simple as it looks.... Operation Camilla A sleazy solicitor hacks into a dating website in order to...

The rays of the September sun flooded the great halls of the old chateau of the Dukes of Charmerace, lighting up with their mellow glow the spoils of so many ages and many lands, jumbled together with the execrable taste which so often afflicts...

In this exciting addition to The Wyn Lewis Mystery series, the thrilling story of a chase for a serial killer in the small town of Waggs Neck Harbor, Long Island, as realtor and reluctant sleuth Wynsome Lewis investigates the murder of a keynote speaker...

A jewel thief on the loose . . . a dead body in the closet . . . a good deed gone wrong, and the homecoming is just getting started When the McKall triplets return home to Cape May, New Jersey for their high...

As Glasgow is buried under snow, a killer is on the loose and a deadly secret threatens to take Brodie to the edge of sanityIt's 1947 and the worst winter in memory: Glasgow is buried in snow, killers stalk the streets, and Douglas Brodie's...

Beneath the carefree atmosphere of Mardi Gras, something very sinister is going on in the intriguing new Quentin Archer mystery. Three murders so far. No apparent motive; no link between the victims; none of them have been robbed. One item ties them together: a...

In Orkney, a grave in a primary school pulls Rhona MacLeod and DS McNab into a complex web of crime. The eleventh suspenseful forensic thriller in the series from Lin Anderson.Author: Lin AndersonISBN-10: 1529000696ISBN-13: 9781529000696Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2019Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.60h x...

Britton Rainstar never knew he could love a woman as deeply as he does Manuela Aloe and be so terrified of her at the same time. It's not just that he thinks she's out of his league. It's more that the longer he stays...

The deeper into the past she digs, the higher the price she must pay for the truth.It's been ten years since Alison's perfect world fell apart. Ten years since her son Sam disappeared while on a family holiday. Lost at sea, they said, his...

Julia has already had enough heartbreak and grief to last a lifetime. After losing both of her adoptive parents, Julia finds herself completely alone after a devastating event leaves her widowed in the brisk Brooklyn night. When a letter shows up at her door...

Author: C. J. BoxISBN-10: 1420518747ISBN-13: 9781420518740Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2025Format: Library BindingLarge Print

Murder on Demand, the new book in the delightful Morning Show Murders series from bestselling author and TV news icon Al Roker, finds Billy Blessing investigating a suspicious boating accident in Long Island.Ten years have passed since Billy Blessing's adventure in Chicago, and a...

In this cold-blooded urban fiction finale, 18 year old Sage Michael Thomas shows exactly why he is better known as Coldhearted. Even at a young age, Coldhearted demonstrates that his business acumen is even greater than his street sense. When both sides are in...

The BRAND NEW instalment in the Malvern Mysteries from Kate Wells This is no peaceful walk in the countryside... When Jude Gray and DI Binnie Khatri join a local walking group, their expectations for a peaceful outing to the Malvern Hills takes a grim...

Beneath the surface lie deadly secrets...DI Shona Oliver agreed to move to Dumfries with her ex-banker husband when their teenage daughter got in with a bad crowd in London. As a Glasgow native, she's back on home turf.Living on the shores of the Solway...

BENJAMIN LADD is an outlaw biker who meets and falls in love with a born-again Christian woman named Lynne. After joining the church and marrying her, the two settle down on her family's farm and soon afterwards adopts her son Joshua. At the age...

A troubled young man sits alone on the rooftop of a crowded shopping center, his hands steady on a rifle, eyeing the unsuspecting customers below. Meanwhile, in a nearby suburban neighborhood, the Pike family grapples with their own challenges. Billy Pike, a middle-class man...

Author: Tom McAuliffeISBN-13: 9798991861076Publisher: Next Stop Paradise Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2024Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Author: Katie MarshISBN-10: 1785139290ISBN-13: 9781785139291Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2025Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.74d

Author: A. B. Patterson, Vern SmithISBN-10: 0645266124ISBN-13: 9780645266122Publisher: Publicious Pty LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2024Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.02w x 0.62d

'A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction' Marion Todd If the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell? With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s...

Jennifer, an intelligent police officer, has always believed in justice. But when a series of murders leads her to a famous author's deadly book signings, everything changes.The victims? All fans of Charlotte-whose presence have become a death sentence. Jennifer must uncover the truth before...

Run. Moonlight slants through the trees on the ancestral Dunlow estate, where a young woman runs for her life. Gunshots break the silence. The next morning, the body of seventeen-year-old student Melanie Pirt is found. DS Gabe Martin is more than ready to take...

In the magical smuggling town of Lashton, the youngest son of the Laithes, a prominent crime family, struggles to make himself heard and accepted by his family, especially his father. At the age of 17, he undergoes a metamorphosis. 23k, rated E for violence,...

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...