Fiction - Crime

Milo Burress was an Army veteran who'd come back from the war a little worse for wear, and instead of coming home to a ticker tape parade in honor of a war hero with a Purple Heart, he ended up living on the streets...

Author: Simon MasonISBN-10: 1529426030ISBN-13: 9781529426038Publisher: Quercus PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2024Pages: 288Format: Paperback

On Christmas Eve in 1945, a devastating fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jennie Sodder and four of their children escaped, but five of their children mysteriously vanished without a trace. Despite extensive investigations and numerous leads, the...

A BRAND NEW Gangland Series from Gillian Godden - Meet The Silvas... A new start. A deadly past... As the new owners of the local village pub, Alex and Maggie Silva and their two children, are the picture of respectability...but looks can be deceptive....

A new dimension in detective stories...Once a promising cop with a bright future, Kevin Fahey's self-destructive tendencies led him into alcoholism-destroying both his career and his marriage while ultimately contributing to his early death. Now a lost soul in limbo, Fahey is desperately trying...

When old secrets return to haunt us...Following his untimely death, dead detective Kevin Fahey roams the streets of his town, uncovering secrets the living do not know and seeking redemption in other people's lives. When a beautiful and very pregnant pre-school teacher disappears, the...

Of all the ways Kellan Firebrand could have expected to die, being burned alive in his equipment shed had never even made the list. Divorced, and a year and a half shy of his fortieth birthday, Kellan is contemplating pulling up roots and moving...

An organized crime boss in Kentucky believes money and power are everything until his enterprise collides with a family tragedy in this gripping noir thriller perfect for fans of S.A. Cosby and Eli Cranor. Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County...

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was sick in bed with a duodenal ulcer, an illness that followed him throughout his life and never disappeared. It was later written by Buchan's son William that the name of the book came from the...

In "Lady Lawyer: Small Town Justice," Lindsey Jones is a force to be reckoned with in her small Oklahoma town. As a defense lawyer, she takes on tough cases and fights tirelessly for her clients, but her personal life is crumbling around her. Her...

The third novel in Keating's Harriet Martens series sees Harriet battle the press, the police, and prejudice as she fights corruption at the highest level. Harriet Martens, named the 'Hard Detective' by the media, has been secretly summoned to London to investigate corruption in...

Philip Martin, home from Germany on Army leave, goes to visit the widow of a former comrade in Ireland but never arrives there. His brother, photographer Larry Martin, and Det. Insp. Hyde have to unravel the many inconsistencies in not only Philip's story but...

When a fellow agent inexplicably vanishes during a standard observation assignment in Morocco, the San Martín brothers are pulled, yet again, into a dark underworld of organized crime, drugs, and global intrigue.But in the seventh installment of Bonnie Ridley Kraft's stunning suspense-thriller series, the...

A murder. A missing manuscript. An undying love.Thisbe Chisholm wants to be a writer. It's 2007, a time of digital revolution and skyrocketing property prices, but she's an old-fashioned girl. She doesn't even own a mobile phone. She has no stars-in-her-eyes desire for fame,...

"TJ is a special kind of evil."Experience the life of the post-apocalyptic tyrant TJ Swenson. Growing up on the streets, Swenson finds himself alone. An unlikely caretaker, Mr. Lee, takes him under his wing and allows him to clean his gym in exchange for...

The thrilling adventure of the Eternal Flame Trilogy concludes with NAVY MEN PRESIDENTS: Book 3--Eternal Flame Trilogy: Operation Eternal Flame Destiny Achieved.The Navy Men Presidents from World War II have reached the first step in their intertwined destiny: Kennedy now President of the United...

Randi Jo Gaylor's family is poorer than dirt. Yet the little girl survives with an optimistic attitude despite imagining a Fear Angel haunts her. Through four decades, she covers up murder and betrayal by others until a threat against her daughter forces her to...

Pulp crime fiction is at its best in this Mike Hammer novel that sees the hard-boiled private eye unpack a scandal involving a US Senator and his femme fatale of a wifeHammer is summoned to a meeting with Jamie Winters, a United States Senator...

In 1960's America, a 12-year-old boy resurrects from near-death a strange man with no remembered identity or past, until the past is revealed and the boy realizes the terrible consequences of his action and the devastating reality of the man he almost came to...

Angel was a good kid from a small town who had an unfortunate past. But, decisions he made as a teenager led him to prison before his 18th birthday. After a couple of years inside, he found a way to serve his time without...

It was the figure of a girl, her arms thrust out to ward off the ripper... her body distorted, rigid with terror... her mouth open in a silent, eternal scream. Originally published in 1949.Author: Fredric BrownISBN-10: 1515426203ISBN-13: 9781515426202Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 202Format:...

Darrell Jenkins believes he is finally free from the demons of his past. He survived the ultimate betrayal and exacted the perfect revenge. Now he has traded in the cold unforgiving streets for the urban jungle of the business world. His empire is growing,...

This novel, set in Victorian London in its heyday, presents a picture, both horrific and authentic, of the 'underside' of life in the first city of the world. It tells of Godfrey Mann, a young painter, who has access to the golden world of...

A series of gruesome murders, all of them in different states. There is seemingly no connections between the victims, however, as they are identified it quickly becomes apparent they were not model citizens, and have possibly been the victims of targeted attacks. The first...

Vanessa Michael Munroe--the fearless heroine of the New York Times bestseller The Informationist--returns in a gripping new thriller.Eight years ago, five-year old Hannah was spirited out of school and into the closed world of a cult known as The Chosen. Ever since, followers of...

Author: Theresa HollisISBN-10: 1480041122ISBN-13: 9781480041127Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2019Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.84d

Growing up in Carson Homes, one of the most ruthless hoods on the eastside of San Antonio, Peanut has seen it all. Although, Peanut is determined to never follow in his old man's ruthlessness, the streets keep calling his name. Before his old man...

A horror movie celebrating its sixtieth year. A copycat murderer enacting the scenes from the movie. Can Macleod spot the celluloid fan amongst terrified public, or will the killer bring the curtain down on a bloody final scene?When a gory slasher film from the...

Discover an electrifying crime thriller full of breathtaking twists, set amid the lonely hills of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.Gerren Penrose has waited too long to call on his friend, reclusive old Rob Harris. He takes the twisty road to Rob's secluded cottage, steps inside...

It's a baking hot British summer, and the sleepy town of Market Foxleigh is staging a crime writing festival... with the three Dahlias as guests of honour. After all, not only have Rosalind King, Caro Hooper and Posy Starling each played fictional detective Dahlia...

A remote lake house. A wolf in sheep's clothing. A terrifying fight for survival. Three years after losing her teenage daughter, with her marriage on the brink of unraveling, Barbara needs a break-time away, time alone, time to process. The lake house is perfect....

8 years ago she ran to safety. Now Charlotte Montgomery's past has caught up with her.Charlotte Montgomery was forced to leave everything behind to shield her son from a dangerous life. As an artist, she's built a new world of safety and security for...

Chopper down to LZ Babs, snick your safety off, and get ready to hump the boonies with Two Squad, cherry! You is family now! Private Hooch has been drafted into the U. S. Army and packed off to the Central Highlands of South Vietnam,...

The start in a BRAND NEW cosy mystery series from Debbie Young A picturesque village. A quaint highstreet... And a murder to solve. Alice's new life is off to a deadly start. When Alice Carroll steps into Curiosity Cottage, a picture-perfect former bric-a-brac shop...

The start in a BRAND NEW cosy mystery series from Debbie Young A picturesque village. A quaint highstreet... And a murder to solve. Alice's new life is off to a deadly start. When Alice Carroll steps into Curiosity Cottage, a picture-perfect former bric-a-brac shop...

The next installment in the popular Kay Scarpetta series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia CornwellSummoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved....

Most detective stories are located in one city, the Maigret series in Paris, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow in Los Angeles. These stories, like the television series based on Colin Dexter's Morse novels, are set in Oxford. Unlike Raymond Chandler's and Colin Dexter's novels these...

Jason Colt wakes to find his partner unconscious, a twisted bloody corpse nearby, and his weapon still warm in his hand. With no memory of what happened after entering a dark alcove, he soon becomes the prime suspect. In order to save his partner's...

As a member of an organized crime family, remaining loyal and keeping one's mouth shut is the only option for staying alive. But for duplicitous hitman Devlin Davenport, staying alive isn't part of the plan. Handpicked to be the right-hand man of Mob boss...

A few years ago, Brian Wedemeyer, an elementary school principal in rural Arizona, is watching a documentary about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman when a question suddenly pops into his head. He expects to get a quick answer on his...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063397889ISBN-13: 9780063397880Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2024Pages: 320Format: Paperback

THE STRONGEST WEB introduces the reader to the terror that an organized criminal gang can bestow upon any city. Cork City is besieged by such a gang. Their leader has a propensity for violence, not seen since the Black and Tans, or even Cromwell...

One fateful moment changes the course of a life.The moment seems trivial at first but it seals Joe Rose's destiny. Fresh out of high school, Joe finds himself at a pool hall where he intervenes to help a stranger, Vince DeLuca, fend off some...

Twenty-two years ago, Ike Rossi's life was shattered when his parents were murdered in cold blood. He surrendered his football scholarship and returned home to find their killer and raise his nine-year-old sister. Now, the crime of a local ten-year-old genius, Jack Cole, threatens...

"A delight for mystery lovers and celebrity fans alike. Skillfully intertwining elegance and corpses, humor and pathos, Deserving of Murder earns a well-deserved standing ovation from even the most discriminating of audiences." -Michael Giorgio, author of A Week of Criminal HappinessIt's January 1947, and...

For fans of Jane Harper and true crime, a dark and gripping thriller set in a small town in the Australian Outback, by the author of the international bestseller WAKE.Gemma Guillory has lived in the Australian Outback enclave of Rainier her entire life. She...

Chief Superintendent Philippe Maigret - the most decorated police officer in Paris - has been given an undercover assignment by his friend, Christophe Saint-Val?ry, the Minister of Police. He is to find an ancient grimoire - an 18th Century book about witchcraft - stolen...

The brand-new gripping thriller in Will Shindler's acclaimed DI Alex Finn series - available to pre-order now! Years ago someone got away with murder... But time's up. 2009 During a summer heatwave, teenagers are going missing. Junior officer Alex Finn takes the case and...

The New York Times bestselling multitalented artist delivers an electrifying novel--The Accomplice--that combines the imaginative page-turning suspense of S. A. Cosby's books with the high-tension thrills of the Netflix blockbuster series Money Heist.In The Accomplice, Curtis ""50 Cent"" Jackson and award-winning mystery writer Aaron...

It's all relaxation and pampering... until another passenger winds up dead. After surprising her aunt Bee with the cruise vacation she's always dreamed of, Jessie Henderson is looking forward to a week of rest and relaxation. The most difficult thing she'll have to do...