Fiction - Crime

As the world celebrates the fall of the Berlin wall three men, all ex-Stasi operatives, exploit the chaos and escape Germany. Thick as thieves the trio stick together; quietly reinventing themselves in the shadows of the British criminal underworld. Michael and Richard still live...

"Spend a night of sexual adventure with this gritty debut thriller. In a toxic world of lust, lies, and elegant hotels, London's high-class escorts cater to the carnal appetites of powerful men. It's a game Stella knows how to play, one that allows her...

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it"...

You know what they say, "keep your friends close and your enemy closer." However, Joker Red is quickly learning that it is hard to distinguish between the two. Surrounded by betrayal and lies, revenge is certainly on the menu. However, with the enemies he...

Joe Lawler, retired veteran street-cop, has quit Chicagoland to relocate from the cold rainyMidwest to the blue skies, the115-degree summers, mountains and deserts of Southern Nevada.And, oh yes, Glitter Gulch, the Las Vegas Strip, and it's 24/7 gambling, booze, sex, shows, lightsand glitz. Lawler...

A home invasion ends in murder. Was it a burglary gone bad, or was it personal?Mild-mannered professor, James Harris, met his future wife, Rachel, when she was a student in his class. Despite her age, she was more an adventurous vixen than an innocent...

Author: Gary PhillipsISBN-10: 1420516361ISBN-13: 9781420516364Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2024Pages: 404Format: Library BindingLarge Print

A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the body of controversial Professor Zambear in a distressing state, and lo and behold, the likely perpetrator is his wife, Stella Zambear. James Kingsley calls on the savvy private investigator...

The New York Times bestselling multitalented artist makes his fiction debut with this electrifying novel--The Accomplice combines the imaginative page-turning suspense of S. A. Cosby's novels with the high-tension thrills of the Netflix blockbuster series Money Heist.In The Accomplice, Curtis ""50 Cent"" Jackson and...

With a new foreward from bestselling and Edgar award-winning author Jordan Harper, this reissue of the cult classic The Contortionist's Handbook follows a talented forger who continually reinvents himself to escape the authorities. A great read for fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh....

You can never escape the past. Especially on the moors...After the National Crime Agency cracks a major drug gang, junior barrister Julia McGann finds herself defending the violent enforcer Terrence Bonner. This high-profile case is a coup for her, but almost immediately things start...

A large country mansion. A locked room. A gruesome murder.Russian oligarch Alexander Volkov has invited 1000 guests to a party at his palatial Surrey residence, Westgrave Hall. But while giving a private tour of the library, a gunman kills Volkov, wounding his ex-wife and...

From the bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye comes a gripping thriller that pits algorithms versus experience, logic versus instinct, and one undetectable killer versus two extraordinary detectives. When the body of a man is found crucified at the top of...

John Brennon, a college professor of astronomy, and Denise Cole, a college professor of music, both dabble in helping the police solve crimes of almost any kind. They live in Cedar Falls, a small Midwestern town that has crimes of rape and murder to...

My older sister ran away from home to avoid being forced into an arranged marriage with the mafia family blamed for her mother's death. Now that burden has fallen to me. Eighteen and sheltered, my life has only ever revolved around the familiar comfort...

City streets break the weak. The vice and violence compel men and women to swear an oath to protect the most vulnerable in society.To swim amidst the criminal tide, a police officer needs courage and conviction. To thrive in a department corrupt to the...

When two teenage girls vanish without a trace from an educational retreat set in the imposing Brandling House in Middleton, Leeds, Detective George Beaumont is eventually called to lead the high-stakes investigation. Still haunted by childhood memories involving Brandling House, George must push aside...

Detective Inspector George Beaumont has seen his share of gruesome crimes, but nothing could prepare him for this: After four decades, the Ripper has killed once again in Leeds.With the memories of the past still fresh in the collective consciousness, Beaumont is determined to...

When a young woman is found brutally murdered in the bustling suburban village of Middleton, Leeds, shock ripples through the community. DI George Beaumont is hoping to close the case quickly, but whoever the culprit is, left no evidence behind.Autumn has arrived-the nights are...

In the frostbitten streets of Leeds, the holiday season brings not only festive lights but a chilling series of murders cloaked in Christmas terror. Detective Inspector George Beaumont, still grappling with the physical and emotional scars from his last case, finds himself at the...

When the body of a married, wealthy man is found in a cheap B&B in Leeds, Detective Inspector George Beaumont is called to action.George and his deputy, DS Wood, find a bloodbath, and soon the citizens of Leeds worry that there is a violent,...

After a blisteringly hot summer, Autumn has finally arrived. And that's not the only new arrival, of course.George struggles to juggle his job as a detective inspector and being a father. And so, when a string of grisly murders occur throughout Leeds, beginning with...

An old man is shot during a scuffle with an intruder in his own home.Sanjay Patel is part of the team that investigates the suspicious death, which is thought to be manslaughter rather than murder, but progress is slow. Before the investigation ends, he...

Two detectives embark on a relentless pursuit of justice through the world of drug trafficking in their local town on a dark evening in the middle of winter.Their investigation takes them to suburban London and then onto the wild and rugged Cornish coast. In...

FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION 'A classic crime star in the making' Daily Mail France, 1963. A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Amiens, Picardie, followed by gunfire. A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight. A homeless man's...

"Dune scrub in every direction... and a body that appears to have fallen out of an endless, cloudless sky. Colin King takes us to the remote and beautiful Big Desert of Victoria's Mallee to introduce his latest absorbing murder mystery. Here is an author...

An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes.Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words,...

Owen Jackson, also known as Arc1, is the head extraction specialist of SEED, a special unit that is called upon to extract deep-cover intelligence operatives working anywhere in the world. When a double agent named Atifa Naifeh sends a coded message from Pakistan, Jackson...

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 perfect murder must be so simple that no one would suspect it to be murder.'Stories of Crime and Detection Volume III contains a novel, a novelette and a short story: This Way Out Philip Marshall is locked in a long and hellish marriage...

Against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1970s Vietnam war era, Passage To Marfa plunges readers into a gripping journey of escape, radical politics, and revenge. Gary Dalton, a conflicted University of New Mexico dropout, finds himself caught between his draft board and a vendetta...

From two-time Edgar Award-winning author Steve Hamilton, An Honorable Assassin is another terrifying thriller featuring the unstoppable Nick Mason.He was released from federal prison to a second life as an unwilling assassin, serving a major Chicago crime lord until the day he finally won...

Johnny-Boy is a killer. He lives for the thrill of the hunt, the stalking of human prey. Fittingly, he works as a hitman but always finds time for extracurricular activity on the side. When a new assignment sends him to Baxter, a depressed Rust...

Killer secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author"McAvoy is a true original" Mick Herron DS Aector McAvoy is on a well-deserved family holiday when the news reaches him that he's been attacked and...

The 1964 Sava River flood sets in motion this literary thriller and then sweeps away everything before it. With Water, Spiderweb Nada Gasic cements her reputation as both a spellbinding author and a remarkable chronicler of the city she calls home: Zagreb, Croatia. An...

For the first time ever, the complete short fiction of literary legend James Sallis is collected in one gorgeous volume--a must-have holiday gift for the crime, mystery, or speculative fiction fan in your life. Published over the six decades of Sallis's storied career, the...

When you playing in the streets, disloyalty is the name of the game. Loyalty is only reserved for a select few. And in this finale of Stuck In the Trenches 2: Flush Season, disloyalty is running rampant like a bull in Spain.Savage, Sky, and...

A TERRIBLE CRIME WAITS TO BE UNEARTHED.The second twisty and atmospheric Wiltshire-set crime novel in the DI Lockyer Series. Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid. A long, hot summer in Wiltshire is broken by a sudden downpour. Flash floods bring something...

Four friends.One tragic death.20 years of secrets and lies. One wintery night, when they are young, Anna and her three friends Rudy, Seth, and Dougal are involved in an accident in which a stranger is killed - that night it snows heavily, covering everything...

Sheriff Tom Jessup works to keep his county nice and safe. Unfortunately, things aren't staying that way.A questionable death in Whitman County takes Jessup out of jurisdiction to Spokane, Washington. He's following family blood, and it's led him to a double murder.The Spokane Police...

In honor of the 25th anniversary of Motherless Brooklyn--a hardcover omnibus edition of two of the most acclaimed novels by one of America's most inventive novelists Motherless Brooklyn, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a compulsively readable riff on the classic...

April, 1941. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg and Sergeant Lampson are called to the former Whitechapel Road tube station when the body of a woman is discovered. Her body was found in an isolated part of the subterranean area away from the platforms currently being...

The Book of All-Power, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063376105ISBN-13: 9780063376106Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 272Format: Paperback

Rory James is fond of a good red, but that's not why he's asking questions in the wineries of Heathcote. The Detective Sergeant is trying to bring a cold case back to life. But another body at Lady's Pass Run sets Rory on a...

All Antonio did was hurt her.All he did was give her hell.He took away everything in her world, everything that mattered.Jenny is used to putting on a brave facade, letting the outside world see her as wild. Jules was only supposed to be a...

Dee knows what it's like to be accused of something you didn't do. So when young women go missing in her English town, she resolves to prove the innocence of the man falsely accused and track down the real killer. After spending decades in...

TRUST NO ONE. EVEN YOURSELF. __ 'Sucks you in from the first page, with twists and turns that will leave you gasping for air!' Netgalley reviewer, 5***** When Claire Wright wakes in hospital, she doesn't recognise the person staring back at her in the...

Prepare yourself for an exciting clash of intellects as two powerful opponents face off in USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne's latest gripping thriller within the Touch of Evil series... Lorelei Jameson, a woman of wealth and mystery, strides purposefully through the doors of...

The Sharkfish Man follows The Narcissus Touch in which a defence lawyer is accused of murdering his own client in the middle of a civil fraud trial in Calgary, Alberta. The crown prosecutor, Lloyd Nagano, whose nickname is 'Sharkfish', is satisfied with the guilt...