Fiction - Crime

Peachtree City is a modern, new town just south of Atlanta. Duncan Robertson, a Scottish detective inspector who is also a world-class bagpiper, goes there to help with a piping workshop and to have a golfing vacation with a friend who is a detective...

It's just another ordinary day for Brett Jacobs. He's spending it in the cemetery with his family like usual. But suddenly, his quiet morning is about to get thrown for a loop. Standing in the crosshairs of a sniper, Jacobs is saved from certain...

Rich Mallette is nothing but a distant memory. But with him out of the picture, it doesn't mean Brett Jacobs is living on easy street. With the city wide open for a new leader for the criminal element, new prospects emerge, hoping to take...

Carmella always knew she would find the love of her life in an exotic foreign country. But there's a deadly catch to it, in "Souvenir". Watching archaeologists unearth a mummified Iron Age corpse from a Danish bog gives a college professor an idea...how to...

Author: B. A. ShapiroISBN-10: 1665159855ISBN-13: 9781665159852Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/23/2012Format: CD

As Jacobs becomes more at ease with his nickname, and starts using his abilities to help others, he finds he is still not done with Mallette's bunch. Or at least what they used to be known as. Lawrence Wiggins, Mallette's lawyer, is found dead,...

Frustrated that his organization is crumbling while he's in prison, Mallette starts getting desperate. Willing to do anything to get the former detective out of his life, and further drive him into a hole he can never recover from, Mallette orders the kidnapping of...

In At the Villa Rose we meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud for the first time. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Whilst on holiday in Aix-les-Bains Inspector Hanaud is...

A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students at...

On Deanes Island where peace and quiet reign, the residents do not expect murder, but suddenly, they're right in the middle of one and find themselves surrounded by evil. A neighbor has been brutally murdered, and no one knows how or why. The Island's...

From a death camp to a college. Over thirty years, Schmuel's journey takes him from Auschwitz to New Hampshire. But not all who leave the Holocaust are survivors. Some are criminals. And even a small New Hampshire town, where everybody knows everybody, can have...

The first book in Leighton Gage's critically acclaimed police procedural series set in Brazil, now available in paperback at the special introductory price of $9.99 Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's Federal Police is a good cop in a bad system--Brazil's justice system is...

Competition can be murder...Will a delicious recipe be the death of the deli?Deli owner and amateur sleuth, Moira Darling, has her hands full, preparing for the county fair - a big deal in her quaint small town. While her daughter, Candice, embarks upon her...

There were three witnesses to swear that only Gregory Drake could have been in the back room with Maysie Grey when she was strangled to death. Even Randolph Lee, Drake's defense counsel, thought that his client was guilty. It took two more murders to...

Author: Adrian EnglishISBN-10: 1453507345ISBN-13: 9781453507346Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2010Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly 20 years. Victor secretly loathes Joan more and more each day. Joan is bored by Victor, and his snoring drives her mad. Their marriage has reached a crisis point. Victor decides there is...

In the early 1960s, Hallowell, Maine was a sleepy small city on the Kennebec River. Dip Barrett ran a beer store where he socialized with local criminals and took bets for horse racing tracks around the state. His business and the community are turned...

Marcus Leoni is in the wrong place at the wrong time. When he witnesses an execution-style mob hit, and is discovered hiding behind a dumpster, he is shot and left for dead. Not even Marcus' family knows the truth. Miraculously, he survived. Marcus was...

They all wanted something. The Colorado Governor wanted another term. The Virginia Governor wanted a seat in the U, S, Senate. A new Yorker wanted to join her fiance to begin a new life in West Virginia. A young lawyer wanted to bring peace...

A murder mystery tied to Mormon polygamists in Montana and Minnesota, Laman's River follows the path of a destructive avenging angel and the two police officers bent on bringing him in.Author: Mark MungerISBN-10: 0979217539ISBN-13: 9780979217531Publisher: Cloquet River PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2014Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.50h...

In far northern Caithness a man has been drowned. But why was his body left in a ruined croft house as carrion for the merciless ravens? When DCI Kelso Strang arrives to investigate, he finds the village of Forsich still in the grip of...

Marnie Bruce has hyperthymesia; she can remember everything she has ever seen. Everything except from one fateful night when she was eleven; she woke up in an isolated cottage with a head injury and her mother gone. Twenty years later Marnie heads back to...

Mark and Kathy are a young couple who were childhood lovers. After college, they got married and are still very much in love. He is a banker, and she is a beautician. Mark has been having trouble sleeping, experiencing out-of-body episodes, and eventually goes...

The sweltering Iowa sun beat down upon me like a heavy blanket as I prepared myself to enter the sanctum of the unknown. With my CI at my side, whom I have to rely on with my life, we enter the garage where I...

Meet Siiri and Irma, best friends and the queen bees of Sunset Grove, a retirement community for those still young at heart. With a combined age of nearly 180, Siiri and Irma are still just as inquisitive and witty as when they first met...

The moment they met, she saved him and he loved her. Murder couldn't change that. Dawn, bright and alive with love, reached out to Matt for a brief moment before she was gone. The image and the idea that she was trying to tell...

Exquisite forgeries. Espionage. Hidden codes. Doctor Genevieve Lenard's carefully structured life is thrown into disarray when a brutally beaten stranger collapses on her doorstep. The desperate words he mumbles before slipping into unconsciousness spark a torrent of alarming questions. And as his broken hand...

When three bodies are found on a wrecked ship in the Orkney Isles, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is brought in to investigate.Author: Lin AndersonISBN-10: 1529033691ISBN-13: 9781529033694Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2022Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.96d

Trapped on a remote island by a howling storm, nine people sit down to dinner.One of them is about to die.A group of international players has gathered in a tiny village off the coast of Iceland for a diplomatic dinner. There's Kristj?n, the mayor...

Author: Wally LambISBN-10: 1668006391ISBN-13: 9781668006399Publisher: S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 432Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Library Journal 12/01/2024 pg. 1

The insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913) is the first novel in the Dr. Fu Manchu (sometimes "Fu-Manchu") series by Sax Rohmer. It collates various short stories that were published the preceding year.Author: Sax RohmerISBN-10: 1583483276ISBN-13: 9781583483275Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2001Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.16w...

Tommy Spenser, a decorated combat veteran and narcotics cop born into a family of cops, is a functioning addict, hooked on daily cocktails of Oxycontin, whiskey, and self-loathing-and his cancer is back. But everything changes when Tommy is summoned to a domestic call down...

Tommy Spenser, a decorated combat veteran and narcotics cop born into a family of cops, is a functioning addict, hooked on daily cocktails of Oxycontin, whiskey, and self-loathing-and his cancer is back. But everything changes when Tommy is summoned to a domestic call down...

For fans of Tod Goldberg and Tim O'Brien, this debut contemporary noir follows a burned-out tech entrepreneur into the Wild West of California cannabis and the converging worlds of contraband weed and illegal immigration. There are only two reasons to take a left on...

Cassie Dawson has spent years trapped in an abusive, toxic relationship with her Fiance, Levi. When she uncovers a shocking betrayal just months away from their wedding, she takes matters into her own hands, only to find herself in a dangerous situation. On the...

EPIPHANY is the final book in bestselling novelist, Jacqueline C.N. McDonald's Lowell Trilogy. Following the series' beloved heroine, Jackie, her detective mentor, and beloved family, EPIPHANY rolls readers through grief, humor, mystery, shock, and romance. True to the award-winning, page-turning style of THE PAPER...

Author: Carlene O'ConnorISBN-10: 142052108XISBN-13: 9781420521085Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2025Format: Library BindingLarge Print

Featuring brand-new stories by: Naomi J. Williams, William T. Vollmann, Maureen O'Leary, Reyna Grande, Jamil Jan Kochai, Maceo Montoya, Nora Rodriguez Camagna, Shelley Blanton-Stroud, Luis Avalos, Jos? Vadi, Janet Rodriguez, Jen Soong, and John Freeman.In his introduction, John Freeman writes: "This book is an...

A brand-new British crime mystery set on the Dorset coast from bestselling author Michael Hambling.Meet Detective Sophie Allen. She's an expert on murder and violent crime. Her brilliant mind works tirelessly to put the most vicious criminals behind bars, but conceals dark secrets from...

Author: Lloyd Devereux RichardsISBN-10: 000867986XISBN-13: 9780008679866Publisher: HQLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 320Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Adrian McKinty comes the origin story of his most famous creation, Detective Sean Duffy.Belfast, 1980, is the apocalypse. Bombings, riots, army on the streets, low flying helicopters, and ever-present rain. The grinding Northern Irish...

The Spectre is a novel about a criminal profiler hunting a serial killer, akin to The Silence of the Lambs, which is not an uncommon genre but The Spectre has some features which few other novels in the genre have: the story is set...

'An instant classic' Daily Mail'A real page-turner!' Ben Kane The ship was doomed before it ever left port. His fate was sealed before he ever stepped on board. From R. L. Graham, Death on the Lusitania is an immersive WW1 historical novel set aboard...

This is a story of gangland enforcers, military intelligence and a naive student who falls for the first woman who smiles at him in a pub. It starts in a village on the Holy Loch of Scotland and follows a traditional hero's journey into...

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a new novel about an injured cop who must fight to bring down a pair of twisted killers...Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers in the...

A heart-stopping new psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell.They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...When her fifteen-year-old son Milo goes off the rails, Alex Harding is terrified she's passed on her abusive father's 'bad' genes. When she then makes...

From Britney King, the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair, comes a dark psychological thriller that will make you question the boundaries of trust and the depths of deception. They say love is blind. But what happens when seeing the truth could...

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from "huge literary talent" (Karl Ove Knausgaard). FINALIST FOR THE FALLON BOOK...

Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of fifteen masterful short stories.With a cohort of writers including Dorothy L. Sayers, Ethel...

Humorous cosy-crime caper from the author of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl Detective series in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to solve fiendish crimes, A love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits. When rock musician and World...