Fiction - Crime

The Adventures of a 21st Century Bootlegger Extraordinaire" is a veiled memoir told through the lens of literary fiction-because sometimes the only way to tell the truth is to disguise it. Beneath the surface of polished homes and private schools ran a machine powered...

Nestled against the sun-drenched shores of Oahu, where paradise seems eternal, a dark force looms beneath the idyllic surface. A string of gruesome murders disrupts the serene landscape, leaving the island's residents in fear and chaos. At the heart of it all is Eric...

The fourth in the page-turning cosy crime series from Glenda Young, this unputdownable whodunnit is perfect for fans of Julia Chapman's Dales Detective Agency and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club.The Seaview Hotel mystery series was shortlisted for Best New Crime Series alongside bestselling...

Code Blue Murder is a cozy mystery with amateur sleuth Janessa Williams investigating a murder in a small community hospital. She must try to find the killer before she is arrested for the crime.Author: Nanci RaceISBN-13: 9798999230416Publisher: Mfm BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2025Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize:...

A police force in shock at a brutal act. The Forseti group target DCI Macleod's task force to save its skin. Can Macleod regroup his troops and allies and finish the war he was dragged into?With the obliteration of the Revenge group, Macleod seeks...

In the shadow of justice, the courtroom becomes a battleground of morality, fate, and redemption. Linda Sanchez, a tenacious prosecutor, has earned her place in the exclusive "Nickel Choir," securing death penalty convictions for the most heinous crimes. But beneath her composed exterior lies...

Gordon Stone is a gifted investigator who works for the Food and Drug Administration. When he unexpectedly finds himself detailed to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, he is assigned what is believed to be an insignificant case-a straightforward charity scam out of Africa....

Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims, from the internationally best-selling author of Betty. "Capture[s] what goes horribly wrong when...

Meet Detective Anna McArthur. Back at work after being stabbed in the line of duty. And solving serious crimes in West Norfolk. The brand new mystery by a bestselling author.When the body of reclusive pensioner Barney King is found floating in a winter pond,...

Even legends pass away - but they don't necessarily pass on! Now, over 100 years after their deaths, Sherlock Holmes and his biographer and beloved, John Watson, haunt the space in Baker Street where they became famous. The new building has trouble keeping tenants...

This eerie tale sees a group of men haunted by one traumatic event from their childhood. They thought they'd moved on . . . but someone - or something - won't let them! 1988: Thirteen-year-old Andy Miller and his friends - Carl, Brian, Johnny...

How far would you go to take back a dream that was stolen from you? Making movies is Adrienne Monet's whole life. But her best film was dumped after a studio takeover by male executives who were blind to her genius, condemning her to...

In the ruthless streets where loyalty is a luxury and betrayal is a constant threat, Sage has claimed her throne as queen. But maintaining power comes with a price, and enemies lurk in every shadow. When a devastating betrayal shakes her crew to its...

A dazzling debut mystery about a young girl and her grandmother grappling with the fallout of an unexplained murder in 1979 Glasgow If it hadn't been for her wee stupid dog Sid Vicious, 12-year-old Janey Devine might never have stumbled upon the corpse of...

Broke. Barely employed. Desperate. After blacking out at a party, Dusty wakes up in the morning different. His body is changing in upsetting ways. Now he has to piece together what happened. Part low-stakes dirtbag crime story and part eco-horror nightmare, Beneath the Swimming...

They all want me.The nobody.Their savior.I'd always idolized them growing up, but since they forced me back, I see them for who they are. My four beautiful, angry boys grew into stubborn, selfish men. Men who take what they want with no regard for...

The Rasp introduces the world to the amazing Anthony Gethryn an ex-secret service agent and occasional newspaper correspondent. He is assigned to cover the story of a cabinet minister John Hoode who was found murdered in the library of his country house battered to...

Author: PipinoISBN-13: 9798385157099Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1753Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.20d

They say a friend in need is a friend indeed, but that couldn't have been further from the truth for Christie.Author: Linette KingISBN-13: 9798305280647Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2024Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.17d

A suspenseful, shocking, and tense story that looks into the weight of indecision. What happens when we make decisions that seem harmless, but culminate in severe consequence? What actions that seem like gestures, turn out to bear no weight on the outcomes anticipated? Life...

A self-made millionaire living in Malibu, Miranda Marquette is summoned by her cousin Sabine, to return home to New Orleans and solve a mystery.Miranda, an ex-undercover vice cop, jumps in with both feet to help her cousin. While investigating the case, she learns more...

Jake Reynolds is an art thief. Perhaps the greatest, luckiest art thief ever. He steals rare paintings and replaces them with forgeries so exact that nobody can tell the difference.It's 1915 and WW1 rages across Europe. After finding the owner of an unknown Rembrandt...

Twins Mindy and Mandy rely on shaky advice to find ghosts at an abandoned house. Discovered with a bloody knife in their hands, they turn to Hawk Theriot to clear them for the murder of the old man, Gramps Atkins, who once lived there.Hawk...

Winnipeg, 1935. 47 year old Detective Inspector Sidney Baxter is the finest Detective with the Winnipeg Police Force with a keen analytical mind. He's also blind. When two grisly murders are discovered in different places, they appear to be unrelated. There is no evidence...

When Cat, a former prostitute, steps off the train in Butte, Montana, she walks right into hell. The dark smoke-filled air reeks of menace. And the stares--scorning her blue jeans, cowboy hat, and empty holster--don't help put her at ease. Still reeling from her...

In another installment in his series on the organized crime Syndicate run by Meyer Lansky, investigative reporter Hank Messick details how the group moved its operations into the Bahamas following the Cuban Revolution. Relying more on moxie than muscle, and the bribe than violence,...

A grisly crime scene is discovered along a snowy English country road while a diabolical plot festers in the innermost sanctums of London's powerful elites. When activist Green Hope is brutally murdered, the line between activism and vengeance blurs dangerously. Journalist Ellie Sato didn't...

A 17-year-old sets out to meet her secret lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Three days later, her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, Inspector Green suspects a personal connection. His search for answers draws...

A young woman is missing, but has she run away - or been captured? A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to investigate a cold case that's still preying on her mind. The naked body of a man found in a remote wood, dismissed...

Creed: Book 1: Everything I wanted, I ran from after the worst tragedy imaginable. I used her and left her. When she shows back up at my clubhouse, I want her back but her past is hidden from me. When I learn what happened...

Benjamin Matthews, né Benjamin Pollock, is a successful businessman marketing the slimming formula "The Daisy Effect." He is preparing for a new life with his wife Rebecah and their twins, Luke and Lucy, moving from England to the United Arab Emirates, where Rebecah just...

Edgar Allan Poe and C. Auguste Dupin strive unravel a mystery involving old enemies, lost soul-mates, ornithomancy, and the legendary jewel of Peru. Philadelphia, 1844. As violent tensions escalate between nativists and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe's fears for the safety of his...

To save a client accused of murder, defense attorney Keera Duggan must fight a complex web of corruption in a riveting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.In a quiet South Seattle neighborhood, a suspected drug smuggler and his girlfriend...

Crack the code. Stop the sequence. Catch the killer.When homeless man Bobby Stover insists his friend's suicide was really murder, DI Sheridan Holler is sceptical--until she uncovers a series of deaths, all of them in Liverpool, all ruled as suicides, that suddenly look like...

Safe. Sane. Consensual. Liz "Gingersnap" finally found the perfect, most compatible play partner. The only problem? DASH is the ultimate bad boy. The last one cost her a great job, but being with DASH? Yeah, Gingersnap upped the ante - her life. DASH has...

The second Newcastle-set police thriller with a twist. DCI Jack Parker fights to hide his Early Onset Dementia while he continues to do the job he loves - investigating crimes and bringing villains to justice. Still haunted by the death of a colleague in...

This is the story of a child with black eyes that float in and out of focus, a child soft and round, with translucent, blue-veined legs unable to hold his weight, an eternal baby. This is the story of his place in the Cévennes...

Repaying a debt of gratitude becomes costlier than Detective Ray Schiller ever imagined possible. A beautiful friend from his past becomes the prime suspect in her estranged husband's murder. Ray's insistence on her innocence, despite overwhelming evidence, gets him removed from the case for...

Art student Nick Wood risks selling a few Ecstasy tablets at a party to impress friends and ends up with a two year prison sentence. He hopes to spend his sentence in an open prison, the type he's read about in the papers. The...

With all the makings of a lost season for the TV series 24, and in the bestselling tradition of Vince Flynn, Frank Miles finds himself thrust into a web of deceit with the fate of the nation at stake. And the clock is ticking....

The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable?Both? Or something else altogether?You think it will never happen to you.The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside out: I'm afraid there's...

Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a Black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has passed for white his entire life. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden the truth about his...

One reporter. Three dead. Five knives. Rookie crime reporter Will Finch is chasing the biggest story of his career. When a man falls to his death from a high-rise apartment tower, it looks like a tragic accident--until Finch spots a flickering lamp from the...

Some say all animal lovers are good people--but that's not always true. Excited for her upcoming wedding, Harvey Beckett treats her pups, Mayhem and Taco, to a day at the new doggy daycare in town. But when they escape and return frightened and bedraggled,...

The Maltese Falcon is the archetypal 'hardboiled' detective story, rich in intriguing characters, dark exciting action and featuring the greatest of all cool, tough private eyes, Sam Spade. Written in 1930, the novel has a timeless quality that makes it fresh and exciting for...

"Israel Rank: The autobiography of a criminal" by Roy Horniman is a darkly comic and satirical exploration of crime. This historical fiction, meticulously prepared for print republication, delves into the mind of a criminal as he recounts his life. A fascinating study of criminal...

Unravel a classic web of deceit in Anthony Partridge's thrilling mystery, "The Golden Web." A captivating blend of suspense and intrigue, this timeless detective story will keep you guessing until the very last page. Expertly crafted and meticulously republished, this edition of "The Golden...

From the creator of BBC drama Silent Witness, comes the gripping sixth instalment in the acclaimed DCI Mark Lapslie series. When Isabel, a British university student, travels to a remote Spanish town it isn't only to enjoy the atmosphere. It's also to trace how...

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series. When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity...

Adam Thorpe's unflinching translation brings Zola's dark and shocking masterwork to lifeMysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out . . . the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected . . . oh yes, there's many...