Fiction - Crime

Havana, Cuba, 1958. After losing her family to a brutal dictator, Ariana Rojas wants revenge.Alluring and highly educated, she joins a ragtag group of revolutionaries who try to overthrow the Cuban government, wreaking havoc to support their cause. Ariana plots the kidnapping of Jimmy...

Discover the most explosive crime thriller this year.EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER.Emmy and her little sister Dani are sleeping upstairs. Their parents are downstairs in the kitchen.A knife is jammed to their mother's throat. Their father has a stack of kitchen plates...

Two ageing actors attempt to solve a murder after a body is found on the set in this witty, fun whodunnit, perfect for fans of Thursday Murder Club and Death & Croissants. In 1970, on the set of downmarket sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading...

"A beautiful story about epic love, loss and hope with a gorgeous speculative twist. Meet Me on The Bridge gave me all the feels." - Becky Hunter"All the romance of About Time with an added dollop of delicious mystery... I loved it." - Isabelle...

Fatality enters your room one day while your landlady's away. You come in and find it clothed in flesh and bearing a man's name. Wearing a brown cloth coat and long boots, it asks you whether the outer door is closed. And you don't...

Phil, a former semi-pro racer soon faces one of his biggest challenges. Phil and his wife raise their son Brad to follow in his dad's footsteps. Once again tragedy hits their family. With the help of good friends and a former rival turned ally,...

Thieves Like Us, first published in 1937, is a Depression-era noir novel centering on three small-time criminals, who escape from jail and begin a spree of Texas bank-robbing. The youngest of the three, Bowie, falls in love with the cousin of one of the...

A bestseller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. The seventh DS Logan McRae thriller is a gripping page-turner in which fame and fortune crash head-on with crime and punishment. No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. 'You will raise money for the safe...

After enforcer Richard "Rico" Sanders stepped in to protect his girlfriend from a local mob boss's hot-headed nephew, all hell broke loose.When the smoke cleared, the nephew had vanished and three goons lay dying where they'd stood. Fighting for his life, Rico was alive...

E.A. POE. The chevalier Dupin's Trilogy, with 4 new illustrations by Jean-Michel René Souche.Author: Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 8749094831ISBN-13: 9798749094831Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2021Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.33d

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...

Two break-ins. One body. Countless unanswered questions...When Diane Gates's father died, she opened a bookstore in his honor and left her criminology career behind. Her passion for literature earned Diane quick success, and Gates' Bookstore fast became a popular stop for locals and visitors...

You are about to read stories inspired by real people, true crimes and actual events from my 28-year career. Overlapping my years as a fed were 20 years, between active and reserve duty, as an Army CID agent. The true events in my stories...

The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil. There was the arsonist, the safe blower, the boy-faced killer-there was a regiment of crack, lawless...

Xlibris author Jordan P. Castro has seen his book Smoke and Mirrors: Police Dreams reviewed by the New York Times. The review praises Jordan Castro's prose and writing, comparing it to the works of such writers as Mike Hammer. The New York Times review...

A telephone rang - and Steve Griffin recognized the distant, terrified voice of his wife. ''He's trying to run me down with a car. He's trying to smash the life out of me, Steve.'' But who her pursuer was Maureen never lived to tell.What...

When a human trafficking ring kidnaps PI Sean "Mick" McPherson's pregnant wife, he learns the lines he'll cross. Because when a person has it all, they have everything to lose.Author: Laurie BuchananISBN-10: 1684632382ISBN-13: 9781684632381Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2024Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...

Only one person can help crack this case--but he's also the prime suspect.DC Sophie Jones was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Viciously bludgeoned one night in a dark alley, she is left fighting for her life in hospital, leaving no clues...

The Sarah Roberts Series Vol. 31-33 - Three novels in one collection! The Damned (Sarah Roberts Book Thirty-One) Sarah Roberts and her boyfriend are driving across the U.S. when a random stop at a Wyoming gas station turns their road trip into a nightmare.A...

A gripping thriller of obsession, murder and revenge, from a Bath Novel-award winning authorAuthor: Kate SimantsISBN-10: 178816699XISBN-13: 9781788166997Publisher: Serpent's TailLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.10d

The first three books in 'Buttercup Bend Mysteries', a series of cozy mystery novels by Debbie De Louise, now available in one volume!The Case Of The Cat Crazy Lady: Cathy Carter and her brother Douglas own an animal rescue center in the small town...

A dark cloud has descended upon the elegant mansion of Jazz Age New York's illustrious Greene family as, one by one, the heirs to the fortune die off under mysterious circumstances. It begins when an intruder shoots two daughters, leaving one dead. Soon after,...

When he's not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately - which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew...

From #1 internationally bestselling author John KatzenbachFive serial killers ...Known only to each other as: Alpha. Bravo. Charlie. Delta. Easy.Connected through a secure internet location, encrypted and concealed, a unique chat room they have named Jack's Special Place in homage to their ultimate model--the...

From #1 internationally bestselling author John KatzenbachFive serial killers ...Known only to each other as: Alpha. Bravo. Charlie. Delta. Easy.Connected through a secure internet location, encrypted and concealed, a unique chat room they have named Jack's Special Place in homage to their ultimate model--the...

To the moon and back, here are 10 tales with a twist. The unlikely characters have one thing in common - they're ready and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. As the old saying goes, "You have to watch out...

Minnesota's winter is freezing cold, but its market for guns has never been hotter.February 1922 - Prohibition has reached a fever pitch, transforming lowly bootleggers and gangsters into wealthy businessmen beyond sanction. The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, known to the criminal underworld as...

A teenage girl and her gangster father embark on a road trip toward revenge in this award-winning coming-of-age Argentinian noir. Fifteen-year-old ﾁmbar has never known any parent other than her father, V兤tor Mondrag, nor any life other than his. On any given Friday night,...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series comes a breathtaking thriller about a man whose only chance to rescue his family is to return to the past he thought he'd left behind.Tommy Miller is a man with deadly...

A Special Operations "fixer" for Homeland Security, U.S. Marine General Ray Hauser, teams up with Air Force Special Agent Sunny Hicks to recover a stolen GAU-8, the Gatling-gun like nose cannon of the military's most destructive gunship, the A-10 Warthog. The weapon fires three...

AN UNPUTDOWNABLE COZY MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF GRAHAM NORTON'S HOLDING AND RICHARD OSMAN.It's the final cut for Bromgrove's best-loved stylist!One sleepy Saturday morning, Becca Drew arrives at the Mane Event, the bijoux salon where she works. To find nothing is as it should...

A GRIPPING NEW CRIME MYSTERY BY CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER NOMINEE JUDI DAYKIN!Detective Sara Hirst is at a crossroads. Can she take the heat or is she about to burn out?It's the hottest summer on record. Norfolk is parched in the heat....

You let her in. You shouldn't have... I was so nervous about someone new joining our house share; after everything that happened with my parents, my friends are like my family. Our imperfect but well-loved house is the only place where I can be...

Dedicating a monument to an eminent member of a Cambridge college should be a simple matter of course, but plans for a statue honouring Sir Percival Biggs-Brookby are far from set in stone and the committee face many obstacles to decision-making - not least...

For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, the fourth suspenseful and thrilling novel in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, author of The Room of White Fire. Charlie Hood searches for an undercover agent...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Blonde comes a fast-paced thriller in which a young law professor must unravel a conspiracy to see justice done Law professor Natalie Greco's life is going according to plan, with a boyfriend handpicked by her...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series comes a breathtaking thriller about a man whose only chance to rescue his family is to return to the past he thought he'd left behind.Tommy Miller is a man with deadly...

Despite her flaws, Roshaunda Jones is a respected and confident Detroit police officer. She trusts her intuition and intelligence in life-or-death situations, but she continues to struggle in her personal life. While on special assignment in London, she teams up with Police Constable George...

Drill rapper Nya Mixon's gangster is put to the ultimate test when her husband, Lejon "Grizzy" White, is gunned down in the backseat of his Rolls-Royce while en route to what would have been Nya's very first paid show. Nya manages to kill one...

Elisabeth Kennedy's life is falling apart. She has lost her job as a detective, she is disfigured from a brutal acid attack, and she remains haunted by the murder of her sister years ago. She takes up residence in a belfry apartment, high atop...

'Fans will hope this series goes on forever' Publishers Weekly. ... though there is no fixed line between wrong and right, There are roughly zones whose laws must be obeyed. It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has...

"I can always count on Katia Lief for gripping, twist-filled psychological suspense." --Wendy Corsi Staub"Mesmerizing....Your heart will be pounding."--Lisa Gardner When Katia Lief first introduced readers to her protagonist, haunted ex-New York City cop Karin Schaeffer, in the chilling mystery masterwork You Are Next,...

The Edgar Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling series by Dana Stabenow set in Alaska. Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak investigates a strange disappearance in Dead in the Water. Last March, two men disappeared whilst loading supplies on a remote island in the Bering Sea: two...

The next installment in the popular Kay Scarpetta series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. Summoned 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...

Ever wonder if revealing your secrets will be the missing piece to finding your soulmate? KEATON They say I'm one of the good ones, whatever that means. While most of my family work against the law, I work for it . . . somewhat....

Ever wonder if revealing your secrets will be the missing piece to finding your soulmate? KEATON They say I'm one of the good ones, whatever that means. While most of my family work against the law, I work for it . . . somewhat....

Scotland Yard's Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit. London, 1890: Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong,...

Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a...

In 1990, Katherine Kenny described the book as the most successful of Sayers' early fiction, coupling a slick detective plot with vivid details of post-war English life. "The book is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an Englishman's club...

The gripping new Kate Shugak novel by New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. What seems a tragic accident soon becomes a murder investigation as Kate is drawn into a case of political intrigue. A mid-air collision in the Alaskan wilderness between two small...