Fiction - Crime

The bloody series continues as Joshua, a wanted hitman, runs to Texas to lay low. He begins a new life that he knows will be temporary, as law enforcement and the cartel zero in on his location with vengeance in mind. As the story...

'An emotional rollercoaster of a read. Had me gripped, and in tears, brilliant!' Valerie KeoghThe letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna's perfect life apart.A baby scan photo.Anna and...

IN THE SMALL WEST TEXAS TOWN OF BURSON the murder of one of the richest young men in the city has the entire community in a whisper.As police chief Ward Thompson and sheri Buck Jones combine their services to identify the killer and find...

"Happenstance disrupts the picturesque youth of Mitch Graves. What follows is a terrifying perverse trek through hell and back to exact revenge. This is Natural Born Killers meets Splatterpunk-Cody J. Thompson is here to stay." -Aquino Loayza, author of DeepWhen 14-year-old Mitch Graves, bored...

Dylan Davis is a funny guy, but his regular standup gig at the Carney Chop Shop doesn't pay for more than a crummy car and a crummier apartment, and the club owner Dimitri is always telling him he's not that good. So Dylan tends...

It's been five years since Dahlia fan Scott Baker was arrested for a murder that had eerie echoes of one of Lettice Davenport's books. But now a true crime podcast is convinced that the police got it wrong - and they want the three...

"The Charing Cross Mystery" is a detective novel written by J. S. Fletcher. It belongs to the mystery genre, where a central puzzle or crime forms the core of the narrative. J. S. Fletcher was known for his contributions to classic detective fiction, and...

A dark and twisty police procedural with a brilliant female detective, set in the Scottish HighlandsWhen a body is discovered in the water at the Falls of Lora, it looks like a straightforward suicide to DCI Christine Caplan. But when her superior officer alerts...

Rodrigo Santos has tried to leave his criminal life behind. What happened in Miami has been repressed to the furthest reaches of his brain. Breaking good has been more difficult than he ever imagined. Becoming a wedding planner should have been easy. Or so...

The brand-new gripping thriller in Will Shindler's acclaimed DI Alex Finn series - available to pre-order now! Years ago someone got away with murder... But time's up. 2009 During a summer heatwave, teenagers are going missing. Junior officer Alex Finn takes the case and...

Detective Jamie Brooke must overcome her personal tragedy and work alongside museum researcher Blake Daniel to solve a series of shocking murders against the backdrop of a divided London. 3 full-length psychological thrillers with a hint of the supernatural.DESECRATIONHer daughter is dying ... and...

Irene Granger is the whip-smart, buttoned-up, and insatiably curious secretary of a deadbeat private detective. When her boss gives up on a case involving a missing trombone player, Irene takes matters into her own hands.Armed with nothing but a hunch that a notorious gangster...

1963, Philadelphia. After having to give up his brother to save his own life, hitman Blake Saunders flees the Mob and seeks refuge on the other side of the world. Two years later he has been reborn in a tiny coastal Australian town. The...

Who is behind the mask? Life has settled down for Connie and Katherine. Connie is enjoying life as a new mother, while Katherine is working solo for the Department. When they accept invitations to a charity masked ball, they anticipate nothing but a fun...

Murderous con artist Winston Siebert III returns to the scene of his earlier crimes to engineer his biggest scam ever with the help of a notorious Miami mobster and an enigmatic German banker. Det. Billy Meacham, Jr. is called on once again to unravel...

Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a food stand in Taipei's night market named after a Joy Division album, and also the location for a big-hearted new mystery set in the often undocumented Taiwan. August is Ghost Month in Taiwan--a time to pay respects to the...

2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada In the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. While this should be an open-and-shut drug...

A Johnny Killain Novel The mob got the word when Killain hit town-lock up your women and load your guns Carl Thompson reached in a pocket with his free hand and tossed a glittering object across the room. Johnny caught it and looked down...

The Statute was knee-high, but it carried a fortune in gold and gems, plus centuries of fame in the art world. Everyone wanted it, and for some no price was too high-love, money, or murder... then Johnny Killain stepped in. The Redhead made the...

Dublin 1940. An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on Ireland's east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five are found in...

The Elephant's Footprint is an intriguing crime novel laced with romance and set against a South African backdrop. Linda, a sharp and intuitive detective leaves Australia, to return to her birthplace Rustenburg, amidst the excitement of the World Cup soccer challenge. She finds the...

For Max Pendleton, the New Mexico town of Sue o Roto is dreary and lonesome. Unfortunately, it is also his new home. Forced by a crippled economy to take up residence at his wife's uncle's vacant, desolate house, Max finds himself entangled not only...

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...

Former homicide detective and star of Investigation Discovery, Joe Kenda follows his authentic and fascinating debut novel with First Do No Harm, another addictive tale of crime and punishment as only he can tell it.A string of overdoses in Colorado Springs has Detectives Joe...

Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Eric Pete comes the game-changing prequel to their blockbuster Family Business saga. Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there...

Love thy neighbor or fear thy neighbor?For myself and Lauren, my 10-year-old daughter No3 Beech Close was to be our refuge after two years of hell nursing my sick mother.In need of a fresh start and wanting to distance ourselves from the bad memories...

Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England . . . The year is 1600. With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos. And in London's dark...

Book 3 of the trilogy of sociopoilitical, historical thrillers starts with Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990.Ivan Pettersen and Thembani Dlamini, two brilliant university students, are haunted by the actions of their past activist lives. While trying to settle down, Thembani marries Nkosinati...

"A top-notch mystery full of keen characterization, humor, old English atmosphere, a charmingly decadent family, and a few sudden deaths." --The New York Times A beggarwoman on a bench arouses Albert Campion's curiosity--and helps Scotland Yard lure him into a case of family dysfunction....

First comes love... and then comes murder. A high society Christmas Eve wedding at a secluded Scottish castle sounds like the perfect winter getaway for the three Dahlias - until a dead body wearing a wedding dress and a stolen diamond necklace turns up...

In the heart-wrenching tale of Rebecca Grossman's trial, the narrative unfolds with the tragic loss of two young lives, Mark and Jacob Iskander. This true crime saga delves into the intricate details of a fatal incident that shook a community. The courtroom became the...

When a serial killer targets the North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco, the entire community must band together to help the homicide inspectors catch a killer or risk the tragedy that he will kill again. Lucia is a good girl; she's an eighth grader...

The Sins of S騅erac Bablon, 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...

On most days, Wisconsin farmer Lawrence (Shaver) Ketch works hard and fast in the mornings so he can be at his mother's bar in the village of Wonder by noon for lunch. His routine is disrupted when a tragic accident at a nearby lake...

When a fire deliberately destroys a boat, nearly killing the occupant, Kay Hunter and her colleagues suspect a serial arsonist is targeting a small community of river dwellers.With another man dead and people fearing for their lives, Kay is desperate to stop a killer...

A MYSTERIOUS LETTER IGNITES AN EXPLOSIVE CHAIN OF EVENTS FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA LOWCOUNTRY TO THE OUTER BANKS.An execution-style murder next to the Port of Charleston triggers an intensive police investigation to find a killer. In an apparently unrelated incident a year later, three...

A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2022 FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD Keith Chen, the second son of a traditional Taiwanese family of seven, runs away from the oppression of his village to Berlin in...

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

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 - INSTANT IRISH TIMES #1 BESTSELLER - ONE OF ELECTRIC LITERATURE'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR - "A spectacular read for Donna Tartt and Tana French fans." (Kirkus, Starred Review), this gripping literary page-turner traces the...

'Augustus knows he is inconveniencing a great many people, and he is enjoying this. He will not change his mind.'Augustus Gale was a man in love-with a woman of genius who had been dead for over a century. So great was his dedication to...

Pete Peterson has cracked the United States as both a live artist and a recording star but at some personal cost to his health. Meanwhile the former policeman, Ray Law is climbing the greasy pole as a soul singer with a first hit, 'The...

A Scotland Yard detective probes a high-society house party for someone rotten when a government official is murdered in this classic British mystery. Preparations are underway for a grand party at Scamnum Court, the sweeping English country estate of the fabulously wealthy Duke of...

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.Jenny Starling has a summer job cooking at a prestigious Oxford college. But she's not expecting murder on the menu.Maurice Raines, womanising taxidermy society president, is found...

This story tells of happenings involved with the Blue Train that runs from London to the Riviera. It involves the murder and theft of expensive jewels of the pampered daughter of a wealthy industrialist. She was wanting very much to have a divorce and...

From the Crime Writers' Association, a beautiful new book of short stories, designed as a perfect gift for the reader of crime and mystery, and a lifetime of reading pleasure. From the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), editor Martin Edwards has commissioned an entertaining range...

The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling "cerebral, immersive" (The Washington Post) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm.For more than a year, brilliant lawyer...

In this sequel to to 2023's Death of a Dancing Queen, New Jersey P.I. Billie Levine finds herself at the forefront of a new crime adventure... perfect for fans of Veronica Mars and Serial. Unlicensed P.I. Billie Levine is trying to bank some extra...

Blake is now doing the job he's always dreamed of, and doing it well. He and Lucy, the love of his life, will be getting married in weeks, until a blazing row throws everything into the air, like so many juggler's balls.He is seconded...

The Iowa Lakes region is home to deep blue lakes, summer resorts, and a respectable community with families going back generations. But this idyllic image is shattered one night when a fisherman draws in a net with the body of local darling Virginia Lawrey....

The truth might just be more than reporter Booker Johnson bargained for.TV reporter Booker Johnson doesn't know when to back down. Fresh off his fourth Emmy win and back in the classroom, he teaches the primacy of truth in journalism. But there is danger...