Fiction - Crime

In the picturesque village of Thornwood, an invitation to a weekend getaway at the luxurious Honeysuckle Manor promises relaxation, respite, and the intoxicating scent of honeysuckle and jasmine in the air. But when a series of murders unfolds, the scent of death begins to...

SUSPENSE STORIES TO KEEP YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEATThere is a peculiar allure of insidious characters-and especially assassins, hitmen, contract killers, and their ilk. Perhaps we find their uncomplicated moral codes and brutal efficiency appealing. These characters care little about ethics or...

Ted Rohrbacher takes on the questionable defense of an old friend charged with murdering his wife and Ted thinks he has a shot at winning---because the body has disappeared. During his investigation, Ted discovers his client suffers from a rare and uncontrollable mental condition...

London 1700. The intrepid and impecunious heroines Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant, Alpiew, are scavenging for scandal for that scurrilous rag, the London Trumpet. With the bailiffs, as ever, in hot pursuit, the Countess and Alpiew escape to a philosophical lecture...

Inspector Duff works with the Scotland Yard. He is called in to investigate a mysterious murder that occurred at a famous local London hotel. A deaf old man, traveling on pleasure trip from America with his daughter and granddaughter, has been murdered during the...

Three big bangs shook Dublin in May 1974. Angie and Joe meet in the wake of the single worst atrocity of the Troubles. Brought together by the effect of the bombings on their lives, these two young people set out on a quest to...

"An unusual and challenging puzzle mystery that will keep [you] guessing until the final pages. Wow!" --Library Journal STARRED reviewSeven years ago, Bethany Friend was found drowned in mere inches of water in the lonely Serpent Pool in England's Lake District. Was it suicide...

Dr Fu-Manchu is back once again! His very existence seemingly proves him immune from natural laws, a deathless incarnation of evil! Brand new editions of the world-famous novels featuring one of the most iconic characters of the 20th Century, standing alongside Sherlock Holmes and...

Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission. Arrested and imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge; he quickly escapes, creating an international incident by getting into a fire fight with Russian agents. On his stateside return, the government is...

Lord Peter Wimsey and his friend Chief Inspector Parker are told about the death, in late 1925, of an elderly woman named Agatha Dawson who had been suffering from terminal cancer. She was being cared for by Mary Whittaker, her great-niece and a trained...

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell's Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble). With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and...

Emma Grace has spent most of her life being abused by her stepfather, Frank, who treated her as if she was nothing more than an object to be used by men.When she meets Dante, a smooth, handsome Italian, everything changes. Dante is everything a...

A gigantic double horror/thriller novel featuring 21 different serial killers... For everyone who thinks the bad guys are so much more fun to read than the good guys, this is a book just for you. The definitive volume containing every major villain from the...

Award-winning author Susan Hill's The Risk of Darkness is a pulse-pounding mystery featuring investigator Simon Serrailler. "A master storyteller. Hill's crime novels are engaging and . . . gripping reads." --Strand magazine A grief-stricken widower becomes deranged with obsession, spreading threats, violence, and terror....

The first detective novel, with Inspector Bucket the prototype of the literary detective--Bleak House is both a literary classic and a classic of crime The case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce--a dispute over a vast fortune left by a miser who died intestate--has occupied the...

In this captivating psychological thriller, ICU travel nurse Allison Jamison is found unresponsive with a needle in her arm, and implicated as a drug user. Awakening as a patient in her own unit, she discovers her fiancé, Detective Mark Derning is missing and so...

You're Next Gregg Hurwitz Mike Wingate had a rough childhood---he was abandoned at a playground at four years old and raised in foster care. No one ever came to claim him, and he has only a few, fragmented memories of his parents. Now, as...

Never did I imagine her triggering the self-destruct. The absolute last resort, for when things were so bad there was no choice but to wipe it all away. A means of escape made possible by obliterating all that was forty years in the making.Destruction...

Criminal defense attorney Jason Kolarich returns in this shocking new thriller by the Edgar(R) Award-winning author.A young paralegal is brutally killed. A homeless Iraq war veteran has been caught with the murder weapon and the victim's belongings--and he can't remember what happened... Jason Kolarich...

Author: Lora LeighISBN-10: 1250878020ISBN-13: 9781250878021Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2018Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.76d

A killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland....The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an empty farmhouse. Two males -- brothers -- both killed by bullets from a Russian automatic fired at close...

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter Mosley, Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up (National Book Foundation). When friend of...

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on...

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter Mosley, Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up (National Book Foundation). When friend of...

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter Mosley, Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up (National Book Foundation). When friend of...

New York Times bestseller"Swanson rips us from one startling plot twist to the next... A true tour de force." --Lisa Gardner"[A] multilayered mystery that brims with duplicity, betrayal and revenge." --USA TodayFrom the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes a chilling...

New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers behind the scenes of New York City's theater world -- from Lincoln Center to the lights of Broadway -- in a riveting novel, rich with her trademark blend of cutting-edge legal issues, skillful detective work,...

The series Sherlock offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective--these tie-in editions feature introductions from the show's creators and actors Sherlock and Dr Watson...

No one disappears without a trace....Don't try to tell Victoria Sands that time heals all wounds. It doesn't work that way for a woman who's lost her husband the way she did. She was never able to say goodbye. Never able to arrange a...

"A very clever wordsmith." --New York Times Book Review"Ms. Arsenault...reveals strange truths beneath everyday surfaces."--Wall Street JournalEmily Arsenault's first two novels, Broken Teaglass ("a beautifully written, engaging mystery" --Dorothy Allison) and In Search of the Rose Notes, received resounding critical acclaim. With her third,...

"Those guys might have been brutal, but they built this place from the ground up by implementing a code. Rules for the rest of us to follow."Retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Detective Solomon Hill hasn't heard the name in years. A man he...

Bones or Demons, no one messes with our women or they face nasty consequences. Arkham (Bones MC 5)Rain -- When a team of rough looking men start nosing around the slums of Rockwell, I make it my business to know what they're up to....

★★ Now available in large print. ★★A killer. His son. And a body hidden for twenty years.Peter Wilson has a career, a girlfriend, and a lifetime of opportunity ahead of him. It all unravels the moment the F.B.I. show up on his doorstep with...

After the pandemic hits, Ellababe and husband Tim's start-up restaurant goes belly up, like many businesses during the shutdown. They divorce and she isolates, struggling to kickstart her life again. Tim revisits some old, reckless habits and then abruptly goes missing. Ortiz, a Marine...

Motels, mescaline, and murder. Frank Trinity is hired to find missing coed Lisa Brooks.Edison Graves wants revenge for the murder of his brother Livingston.In the crosshairs, a drifter named Parrot. The first in the Frank Trinity Crime Novel series.Author: Trevor HollidayISBN-13: 9798475894866Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage:...

It's 1988 in the once-affluent Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, and crack cocaine is king.Reinaldo Arenas is the brutal leader of the reigning Dominican gang selling the drug in that area, and Assistant District Attorney Frank Corda is the man assigned to take...

A case of murder in the cathedral Compton Minster is preparing to celebrate a very special anniversary in the year 1901 - a thousand years of Christian worship. But a few weeks before the main ceremonies, a high official of the cathedral, the chancellor,...

He wanted sun, sand, and boat drinks......what he got was a mystery, mayhem, and murder..Can this unlikely hero beat the odds one more time?John Pilate is in sunny Key West, looking to recover from gunshot wounds and Nebraska's frigid frontier. Everything's looking pretty great...

Author: Ed McBainISBN-10: 1559700807ISBN-13: 9781559700801Publisher: Little Brown and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/1990Pages: 293Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/25/1990

Private Detective Nicholas Chambers boards the SS Santa Rosa on a simple assignment. Cross the Atlantic aboard a luxury liner, then pick up a female passenger and bring her back to the states. Soon an elderly woman is found dead. A second woman is...

Engrossing, Enlightening, Character-Powered Suspense - The Haunted Reading Room Impressive thriller They say write what you know. Mr. Harmon clearly knows his criminal business. -- AllynMACE HAS A LOT TO PROVE AND NOTHING TO LOOSE - OR DOES HE?Mace Franklyn is haunted by his...

Book #1 in the SpoCompton SeriesJake Stankovic has been flying below the radar for years, dealing safely in stolen property crime with his two-man crew. But times are tough, so he decides to step up to the big money with a drug deal. Everything...

Book #2 in the Ania Series!When Ania Kozak hits Vegas, she's only looking for a place to relax and lay low with her stolen cash and diamonds. But Sin City has other plans for "Annie."Cord Needham is a poker circuit champion with an eye...

Killers lurk beneath the waves of the western Pacific Ocean. The USS Encinitas, the first attack submarine crewed by both men and women, stalks the Crescent Moon, a renegade Iranian sub armed with nuclear-tipped missiles. But another predator hides aboard the American sub, a...

A city councilman is dead of an apparent suicide. Ex-cop Stefan Kopriva finds himself drawn into the case, serving an unlikely client. Once involved, he discovers that things are not as they seem.Kopriva is quickly embroiled in dirty city politics. Along the way, he...

Book #1 in the Ania Series!When half-brothers Mick and Jerzy Sawyer are summoned to their father's prison deathbed, it isn't for a tearful goodbye. The spiteful old man tells the two estranged brothers about an old diamond heist with outstanding loot, and sets them...

The latest in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's acclaimed Nameless Detective Series -- Strangers. Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with. That's the book on him and it's why the citizens of Mineral Springs...

Jeffrey was a casino table games dealer since 2000. He has virtually seen it all, done it all, heard it all, and smelled it all. He dealt blackjack, roulette, mini baccarat, and many others. He is writing a series of novels that highlight his...

He fought for his country. Now he's home and engaged in the deadliest of battles.Josh Kavanagh eats and breathes loyalty. Wary of how he'll fit in after a twenty-four-year absence, the Special Forces legend returns to his family's Montana ranch on an undercover mission....

'Establishes beyond doubt that Iain Banks is a novelist of remarkable talents' Daily Telegraph Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that...