Fiction - Crime

A killer is silencing is victims...forever. When a man is killed by a high speed train, it's initially assumed the death is just a normal suicide...that is until it's discovered the victim's lips have been sewn shut, and his tongue removed.Detective Ryan Chase is...

Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--still the largest unsolved art theft in history--one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain...

Attorney Jamie Quinn is on a six-month hiatus from practicing law to deal with her beloved mother's death. Rarely leaving the house, she shares most of her days with her late mother's cranky cat.But soon, Jamie is forced into action by a frantic call...

Guardian Best Book of 2020Irish Times Best Crime Fiction of 2020Times Book of the Month Mail on Sunday Thriller of the MonthThe Spectator Crime Fiction of the MonthCrime Time Book of the Year 2020'Vivid, stylish, funny' Mick Heron The first time I met Harold...

Roman McNamara is not only the president of the Savage Kings of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but he's also the king of one-night stands.Growing up in a tourist town where there's a party every night means living up the good life with no commitments...

From Venice, the city where you can dream and succumb to the magic of love - for no one loves like Venetians do - to Malaga and its passionate flamenco music.To the enchanting beauty of Cortina, where skiers go to ski, relax and find...

The fourth fast-paced novel in the Nicky Burkett series, Hell on Hoe Street keeps up the page-turning action and deadpan humor in a multicultural tale of loyalty and revenge. All Nicky wants is a quiet life in his London district of Walthamstow. But the...

Volume one of a six volume collection Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism and philosophy. Great writers have...

A second helping of deadly justice from the Four Just Men This is the second volume of stories of vigilante justice meted out at the hands of the Four Just Men. These are iconic stories of adventure, intrigue and retribution set in the time...

Tony Palma was an elite assassin. Upon his demise, the Devil denied him access to hell and God, because the evil that Tony committed would not allow him into heaven.His only hope is in celestial court. A function developed by the Creator allows questionable...

A gritty and ferocious novel written by Will Beall, an LAPD officer who continues to patrol the streets he writes about. L.A. Rex is the story of Ben Halloran, a seemingly fresh-faced rookie assigned to the 77th Division, L.A.'s most violent precinct, still reeling...

When ten-year-old Eddie Haldon's sister dies, John Cuddy promises to protect the boy, until young Eddie suddenly disappears, forcing John to begin what may be a wild goose chase through a world of greed and madness. When he sees the Dodge by the side...

PI Harry Kenmare is back, with a visceral lust for vengeance.Sydney's elite and powerful are awash in corruption, like rats sunning themselves in an open sewer. And so, in these sordid episodes, Harry's business is as busy as ever.All the better, then, to finance...

The creator of "exciting, thoughtful, wily fiction" (The Washington Post), Jeremiah Healy has won critical raves for his John Francis Cuddy novels, "a superior series" (The New York Times Book Review). Now Healy pushes the envelope of mystery writing with a soul-searching tale that...

With the help of his irrepressible hero, John Francis Cuddy, Jeremiah Healy never fails to deliver scintillating, perfectly pitched mystery masterpieces in what The New York Times Book Review calls "a superior series." Now the Shamus Award-winning author "looks ready to join the honors...

In April 2010 in the city of Beverly Hills, California, a routine traffic stop quickly escalates into an arrest, of an African-American man, placing his blood into CODIS - the FBI database of DNA evidence collected from crime scenes and convicted criminals - revealing...

FINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE!From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark RideSometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is...

What place does fear have in falling in love? HOLLIS In my family, I wear a lot of different hats all centered around the same role. Comedian. Life of the party. The jokester. Everyone's favorite fool when I wasn't getting on their last nerve....

What place does fear have in falling in love? HOLLIS In my family, I wear a lot of different hats all centered around the same role. Comedian. Life of the party. The jokester. Everyone's favorite fool when I wasn't getting on their last nerve....

A daring pilot races against time to deliver an important package -- and keep it from falling into the wrong hands -- in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller of spine-tingling suspense and tantalizing romance. Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged...

The storm is hereWhen a freak blizzard descends on Manhattan, Erin O'Reilly plans to take shelter and wait for it to blow over. But Irish mobster Evan O'Malley has other ideas. He's heard there's an undercover cop in his organization and wants Erin to...

Janet Wright left tiny Graylee, Georgia, at age five, when her mother fled a destructive marriage. Now forty and reinventing herself aft er a failed engagement, Janet returns as the sole inheritor of her recently murdered father's valuable estate. Life should be easy, but...

Amongst this assemblage are stories that have never been seen before, many of which have appeared in literary journals, magazines, or anthologies, and others that found their way into some of Hess's novels. Crime stories, all, and most on the Noir side of the...

Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell is all at sea. He's been demoted and exiled to Newenham, an ice-bound bush town in the middle of nowhere, where he's taken up residence in a leaky old gill-netter on the bay. Newenham is small, but Liam Campbell...

An "intelligent and sophisticated" (Lee Child, #1 internationally bestselling author) thriller in the vein of Night Film and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, this tautly crafted novel is about stories: the ones we tell, the ones we keep hidden, and the ones that we'll do...

The storm is hereWhen a freak blizzard descends on Manhattan, Erin O'Reilly plans to take shelter and wait for it to blow over. But Irish mobster Evan O'Malley has other ideas. He's heard there's an undercover cop in his organization and wants Erin to...

A murder in plain sight brings Scotland Yard to investigate family secrets in a sleepy English town in this mystery from the beloved series.In the close-knit community of Enderby, Ned Bunn wasn't what you'd call popular. In fact, there were some fellow residents who...

Having left her hometown in the Idaho mountains eight years ago after her sister's tragic death, Assistant District Attorney, Sylvianna Dunlap, returns for a memorial. Her short weekend visit is sidelined, however, when she discovers someone wants her dead.Dealing with old heartbreak, old friends...

From Edgar Award-winning author Steve Hamilton, An Honorable Assassin is another terrifying thriller featuring the unstoppable Nick Mason.He was released from federal prison to a second life as an unwilling assassin, serving a major Chicago crime lord until the day he finally won his...

The world-famous locked-room mystery from a master of detective fiction A frightful act of malice committed in Paris: the dastardly attempted assassination of the daughter of a famed scientist who was working late in his laboratory with an assistant when the attack took place...

Inspector Littlejohn confronts a challenging case across the Channel in this classic mystery from the "venerable" British author (Kirkus Reviews). When Alderman Dawson is stabbed to death while visiting the Riviera with a group of English tourists, Inspector Littlejohn puts his holiday on hold...

Maggie Maise, a wandering, bewildered reporter with an elusive past, takes a job at Ore Town's newspaper, The Messenger. What begins as a newspaper job quickly becomes an odyssey into the memories of a vanishing generation raised during the Great Depression and subjected to...

Detroit runners hustle product and money to and from drug spots day and night, rain or shine. That is the rule of the game. Unbeknownst to three friends, Jay, Key and Gerald, celebrating their friend's landing a dream job, street drama swirls on the...

A recovery cruise turns into a work request. A mystery body leads to consternation for multiple passengers. Can Macleod discover the identity of the victim and unmask the killer before the passenger disembark forever?When Seoras Macleod's holiday cruise turns into a work request, he...

Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Frozen Lives, the next thrilling mystery from Jennifer Graeser Dornbush.Chicago surgeon Emily Hartford has never quite shaken off the dust of her hometown in Michigan. She may be a professional success and have a princely boyfriend in the...

Inspector Littlejohn is drawn into a perplexing case when a judge is murdered on the Isle of Man in this classic British mystery.The small community of Castletown has plenty of odd customs--one being the office of Deemster, who serves as every sort of judge...

Following a disgraceful fallout, former cop Cato Kwong is called back to the police force to investigate a gruesome murder case after a torso washes up on the shore. With dark criminals standing in his way, and migrant exploitation at the heart of the...

Author: Derek RaymondISBN-10: 0345342895ISBN-13: 9780345342898Publisher: Random House Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/1987Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d

Maggie Byrne is having a bad day. Her flaky sister shows up in the middle of the night. Her ex shows up with a fianc馥. An annoying acquaintance shows up dead. How much more can a soccer mom take?Byrne Your Bridges is the first...

When young historian Adam and his daring art conservator girlfriend Gina embark on a Roman holiday, they expect delicious food and captivating sights - not a bewildering mystery. While touring the Vatican Museums, Gina suddenly vanishes. Adam's desperate search for her uncovers a shadowy...

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 is doing the catering for the village cricket match. But she's not expecting one of the players to come to a sticky end....

The wife is always the last to know...What if everything you believed was a lie?Your life...your marriage...your very existence.What if the person lying to you is your husband, the man who claims to love you more than anything in the world?Isolated in his remote...

Angela Guzman, head of a Columbian drug cartel, is known as "La Llorona", "The Crying Woman". According to legend, if you hear La Llorona's spirit crying, you are doomed to imminent death.After inheriting the Guzman Cartel from her brother, Angela discovers that Rico Garcia...

"Slow and steady wins the case" as a dedicated London policeman puzzles through a fatal fall, a financial mystery, and an eccentric family's many secrets (Kirkus Reviews). Miss Penelope Blow's fatal fall from her bedroom window would seem like a tragic accident, if it...

A relaxing holiday is cut short by murder for the Scotland Yard detective in a mystery by "one of [the genre's] subtlest and wittiest practitioners" (The New York Times). Set on having a relaxing holiday in Tilsey, Detective Inspector Littlejohn once again finds himself...

The disappearance of a reclusive widower sends Detective Littlejohn on a far-flung hunt for a killer in this classic British mystery.It was meant to be a fool-proof scheme. The victim was someone who wouldn't be missed, yet even the most meticulous criminals can make...

When a petty hoodlum encounters murder most foul, Inspector Littlejohn must uncover the dark secrets of a sleepy English village in this classic mystery.It's a quiet night at the Oddfellow's Arms until a stranger walks in. He looks like your average, untrustworthy, street corner...

Being the son of a legend isn't easy...And though CJ Caldwell idolizes his father, Outlaw, he's not sure he'll ever live up to the Caldwell reputation. Worse, he's not sure he'll get the chance. CJ must finish high school and attend college before he...

Mike Villiers was a ten-year-old boy when his father, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Villiers, died with eleven others on a flight from Bangkok that crashed and burned near Saigon in November 1970. A tragic accident they said. Thirty years on Mike comes to believe that...

She survived the deadliest serial killer of her generation. Or so everyone thought. No one knew how many pieces of her he took to the grave with him. She hid her scars, her nightmares. She hid everything until she couldn't. Then she ran.But Colby...