Fiction - Crime

4:23 a.m. The phone rings. The officer on the other end says, "It's a bad one, Darren. Can you come?" Darren McDaniel has worked dozens of homicides in his years as a detective. It's a dark and gritty business, and he's prepared to handle...

Your club and your brothers are your life - Damage Damage's club has had an offer it can't refuse, to patch over to join The Brethren. But what does this mean for Damage and his brothers? What choices will they have to make? What...

Terrence Bailey awakes one night to find his mother-in-law standing in a corner of his bedroom.The only problem is that his mother-in-law has been dead for seven years.Several weeks later Terrence dies of a heart attack . . . or does he?Josiah's nose starts...

West Virginia, 1972 Mt. Harmony is a great place to raise kids, until the monsters arrive. Two college students hitchhike. They are found dead, headless. A machete is the likely weapon. A deranged 'Nam vet protects their two skulls. Rattler knows he didn't kill...

Frank Young is a man who keeps to himself, but after he loses family in two separate accidents and with the police not being able to find the people that caused the accidents, Frank takes matters into his own hands. After entering the military,...

The Green Lama returns in Adam Lance Garcia's thrilling new novel, fully authorized by Kendell Foster Crossen's Estate, the GREEN LAMA: CRIMSON CIRCLE. After defeating the Great Old One Cthulhu, the Green Lama and Jean Farrell are faced with their most dangerous enemy, a...

Jack, a retired police officer, decides he and Toby, his oversized orange tabby, need a holiday after their last big case so Jack rents a lake cottage in the Kingston area.Violet is lonely and tired of being everyone's go-to. having wanted to write a...

The body of a brilliant woman journalist is recovered from the wreck of a burning car. It is soon discovered that the smash did not kill her; she was dead already, shot by a Browning automatic that was found near by. Superintendent Mitchell, with...

The hunt for a serial killer takes criminal profiler Emily Roys and true-crime writer Alexis Castells from London to Sweden, and back into the past, to Buchenwald Concentration Camp, in the first instalment an addictive, award-winning new series from the Queen of French Noir...

John Lynch has found his literary voice in this life story of disadvantaged soul, Billy McErlane. Having a harlot for a mother doesn't make life easy and nor does going to jail at fourteen, but when he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart peace...

'One of the best crime novels I have read ' Renita D'Silva 'You've got to help me.' On a wet road in the black of night, Karl Seabury is driving home to his pregnant wife. Suddenly, caught in his headlights in the middle of...

"Mr. Holmes is an amateur, Hopkins." Lestrade was smiling around the stem of his pipe as he spoke. Hopkins could hear it. "Not a man who works well in teams, he. He still trusts Dr. Watson not to lie to him...and Dr. Watson's pulled...

Moonshiners and bootleggers in eastern Kentucky discovered a second living, beyond the soil and the coal mines, during and after America's Prohibition. Growing cannabis used to be a misdemeanor in Kentucky. A stray patch out back didn't fetch attention in the holler ... or...

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...

"I can't say enough about The Black Ledger. It is superbly written and it's a compulsive page turner. A book like this is especially rare. They don't come along that often. So, grab it and hang on for a unique experience you might never,...

Detective Carter knows all about torture--but he's never known a case as dark as this one.The Six...An abandoned building goes up in flames. Six women are chained inside and left to die--the truth is left to burn with them. Only one piece of evidence...

I was married minutes before the pastor was shot dead. Married to a woman who was a loner like me. Minutes before we were taken captive by a biker gang. Chained down, I was forced to listen as my bride was questioned. I heard...

Sometimes the best of intentions...Have dire consequences.With business thriving and her relationship with the private detective, David Morris, going better than ever, deli owner and amateur sleuth, Moira Darling, is on top of the world. Events take a sudden turn, however, when a fun...

From legendary master Fredric Brown An ex-newspaperman finds crime going on, based on radio scripts he wrote.Author: Fredric BrownISBN-10: 1515426777ISBN-13: 9781515426776Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 206Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

HALF a dozen boys were gathered in one of the studies at Shrewsbury. A packed portmanteau and the general state of litter on the floor was sufficient to show that it was the last day of term. "Well, I am awfully sorry you are...

Life is hard in the Beardsley Terrace housing projects of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and seventeen-year-old Jesse Westbrook has built a dangerous reputation for himself by necessity. His family offers a calming, supportive environment, even if his stepfather has questionable mob connections.However, Jesse's life soon takes...

Louella Lawrence knows her daughter was murdered. She received the call that the young woman overdosed from heroin while attending Oxford University. Further investigation does indeed prove foul play. A wealthy Panamanian student is the prime suspect. Unfortunately, he has an iron clad alibi...

In Regent's Park, a woman is lured to her death at the hands of a hard-line judge... The murder investigation is led by Inspector Mackie Divine, who has transferred to the Met from the Merseyside police. When she stumbles on the truth, that the...

"Sitting Shiva" is Elliot Feldman's first novel, with illustrations by the author. It is a genre-bending tale about a son coming to terms with the death of his father, a small-time Detroit gangster. Charlie Fish's father is found dead in a cheap motel room....

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict was "death by...

2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada It's the end of March and Trafalgar, British Columbia, is preparing for the last influx of the seasonal skiers. Teachers, parents, and students are preparing to relax at home or head...

Holmes and Watson return in this atmospheric crime novel, featuring the wild Devonshire moors, a phantom hound, and a centuries-old familial curse. Investigating the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must rely on their rationality to solve what appears...

It is the story of the strange, private world built by a man of many faces and as many distorted passions, and of the women who dared enter that world.Author: Vin PackerISBN-10: 1440556075ISBN-13: 9781440556074Publisher: PrologueLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2013Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...

The well respected Judge Daniel Adams is murdered in the mid-1950s, seemingly by his daughter Carrie. Police officials circumvent their own investigators and have her committed to the Elm Hill Psychiatric Hospital for Women, instead of being arrested. However, Carol Mason, Director of Nursing,...

A strange message sets Skylar Wilson on a perilous journey to rescue her sister from a deadly cult. Searching for answers, Skylar discovers that the cult stretches far beyond its pseudo-evangelical veil, penetrating the upper echelon of the United States government and pushing a...

John Lang was Australia's first locally born novelist, publishing early work in Sydney in the 1840s and going on to write several bestsellers. The Forger's Wife (1856) is a lively adventure novel, set in an unruly colonial Sydney where everyone is on the make....

As the second book in Maria Pease's Sam Parker Mystery series, this fast-paced detective mystery finds Samantha Parker in some compromising situations as she works her caseload. Financial scams, cheating spouses, missing persons and deviant behaviors are just the tip the iceberg but, with...

Editor and sleuth Claire Rawlings and her 12-year-old sidekick Meredith visit a cozy New England inn where murder is an unwanted guest. Author: Carole BuggéISBN-10: 0786753331ISBN-13: 9780786753338Publisher: West 26th Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2013Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Even in a small town, street rules apply. That means you handcuff everybody. Even the dead and dying. When two cops spend hour after hour together on the street, policing the bleak hours between midnight and dawn of a Montana winter, they live by...

The tenth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn series features the murderous fallout of a tell-all book on the troubled adult children of Canadian celebrities. When journalist Kathryn Morrissey's sensational book on the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent Canadians is published,...

Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the...

A Globe and Mail bestseller in its first week, the thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved Joanne Kilbourn mystery series is the best of them all: very bad things happen very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again. "Security for...

A national bestseller in hardcover, the 14th Joanne Kilbourn novel is as rich in human drama as all the series: Jo and Zack's young daughter's precocious artistic talent draws the attention of people who may not be at all what they seem. A treat...

'A fast-paced, terrifying journey.' RACHEL ABBOTT 'A born storyteller.' PETER JAMES The Sunday Times bestseller returns with his latest nail-shredding thriller - a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M.J. Arlidge. How do you find the missing when there's no trail to...

This double cold case and current homicide have Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Trooper Gabriel Hawke calling in favors... and exploring a childhood he shoved into the deep recesses of his mind. While patrolling on the Snake River in Hells Canyon, Gabriel Hawke's...

This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir "will keep readers laughing" (Publishers Weekly). In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before...

This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir "will keep readers laughing" (Publishers Weekly). In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before...

When a world-renowned forensic anthropologist journeys to Winchester, Wyoming, to examine the long-dead remains of a woman who claimed to be Etta Place - the Old West's most mysterious and legendary female outlaw - he's not expecting to find a man's headless corpse in...

This double cold case and current homicide have Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Trooper Gabriel Hawke calling in favors... and exploring a childhood he shoved into the deep recesses of his mind. While patrolling on the Snake River in Hells Canyon, Gabriel Hawke's...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 6:20 Man comes a twisting new psychological thriller in which two women--one a former detective, the other a dangerous con artist--go head-to-head in an electrifying game of cat and mouse. Mickey Gibson, single mother...

An original Gently novel on which the prime-time BBC series starring Martin Shaw is based.Speed makes the teenage bikers feel alive, but they soon find that murder is the fastest way to dieA five-mile stretch of arrow-straight road outside Latchford acts like a magnet...

Part murder mystery, part political thriller, Rock Creek is an epic work of historical fiction set in Washington, D.C. It's the most important city in the world in 1952, but at its heart it's still a small Southern town deeply divided along race and...

Officer Remo Wolf is on the run. Can he prove his innocence before the assassins kill him? Remo Wolf is a Chicago Police Officer haunted by memories of his tour in Afghanistan. Alcohol and his partner, Bobby Lynch, help soothe the rough edges. When...

Author: Steve BeniditoISBN-10: 149311770XISBN-13: 9781493117703Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2013Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

With her newly attained power, Ebony Davis, alongside her indentured henchmen, starts to feel and become more like her notorious late father, Tyrone Davis. However, things go awry when she realizes that she has to let Rick and Bull go, and plans to make...