Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Nothing is more important than family . . .Matt Forrester has followed in his dad's footsteps, climbing the police ranks to become a DI. But when he receives an urgent call for help, Matt has to rethink his career. His dad has been murdered,...

Soon after retiring as a lecturer at Sussex University, Dr Malcolm Weston is attracted to an on-line friendship website seemingly directed at older people who have lost their partners. He responds to an invitation from a woman whose photograph reminds him of his recently...

Edie Baylis has produced another fantastic gangland read. I loved the characters and was gripped from the first page' Caz Finlay Who can you trust? Once bitter enemies, Samantha Reynold and Seb Stoker's powerful alliance enables their firms and casinos to go from strength...

Discover the gritty gangland read from bestseller, Kerry Kaya Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers. Nothing to lose' When nineteen-year-old Tommy Carter throws away a promising career to work for local villain Davey Abbott, everyone thinks he's made a huge mistake...

A brand new gangland series by bestselling author Kerry Kaya!Meet the Tempest family - and get ready for the storm.Tracey Tempest adores her husband, Terry. But when on his 50th birthday, tragedy strikes, Tracey must face the terrifying prospect of a future without him....

A criminally good gangland thriller from bestselling author Kerry Kaya The next instalment in Kerry Kaya's bestselling Tempests series! Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers and Martina Cole. Damage will be done... After the brutal gangland murder of her husband Terry, Tracey Tempest just...

If no one knows you're in danger, no one can save you...The Baxter house in the Lowther Hills, in Scotland, has been up for sale for decades. It's dilapidated and near-derelict, and nobody is interested in it. But for one potential buyer, the remote...

Do you want to read The Hound of The Baskervilles? If so then keep reading...The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale-the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted...

Do you want to read The Hound of The Baskervilles? If so then keep reading...The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale-the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted...

Do you want to read The Hound of The Baskervilles? If so then keep reading...The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale-the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted...

Do you want to read Crime and Punishment? If so then keep reading...One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, Crime and Punishment catapulted Dostoyevsky to the forefront of Russian writers and into the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. Drawing upon experiences from...

When little Yazmin Fletcher's bones are discovered in Wiltshire woodland twenty years after her disappearance, DI Jeff Lincoln promises Sonia, her mother, that he'll find out what happened to her. His efforts are hampered by his new boss, though, who'd rather he investigated an...

The story takes place in a police precinct. It is a story about real life issues of how pride, achievement, stereotyping, prejudice, personal bias and systematic discrimination affects how we relate to others within the everyday world. The books reveals that in order to...

The story takes place in a police precinct. It is a story about real life issues of how pride, achievement, stereotyping, prejudice, personal bias and systematic discrimination affects how we relate to others within the everyday world. The books reveals that in order to...

A small city begins to receive enormous amounts of state and federal money. The money appears to come with no strings attached and little accountability. Greed overcomes the good judgment of the city clerk, and a plan is hatched to steal millions of dollars....

A year has passed since the Pack faced-off against Mr. X., but now the time has come to answer to the big boss, SinTao. In the Town of Serafin Falls, the Soul Drawer is back, and he's more powerful than ever. It's up to...

When a teenage Sri Lankan au pair goes missing, it's up to the Bradford police to find her. When they fail, the objective turns to justice. For DCI James Turnbull, the case is a puzzling contrast to his career in the Murder Squad -...

Amid the gristly serial killings of a deranged psychopath, a father stands accused of filicide - the murder of his own daughter... His alleged crime is strikingly similar to the ones causing terror in the Bradford community by the predator known as The Ripper.The...

DCI Brindle and DI Blakely end up tracking a psychopathic serial killer who has been off the radar for years.The sheer doggedness of the streetwise DCI Mike Brindle and the sharp intellect of his partner DI Donna Blakely make these a formidable force in...

Dreams Come TrueRose has these nightmare dreams, what do they mean? Her journey of discovery frightens her into believing she has the power to foresee the future! A Dark SecretA confession! Holding back for so long about the truth has been eating away at...

The year is 1849 and Charles Watson is offered a job in Plymouth. Leaving his family and friends in Kent he makes his way, via London, to Devon by railway and mail coach. His new landlady has one of her rooms burgled and something...

Classified. Hacked. Disaster. A group of international scientists is sent to an abandoned island to investigate a mysterious technology, only to face a terrifying discovery that defies imagination.Calla Cress is a no-nonsense British Museum curator, turned cyber agent. Nicknamed the Decrypter, she finds answers...

BEYOND GOLD there is only grey is the story of a fraud on a massive scale, involving credit cards, property and banking. As the recent Banking crisis shows, the World is vulnerable to these forces that surround us, using the instant responses of the...

Thomas Carter was born in England but has lived in Australia for the last eighteen years. What is it about a newspaper report of a record price realised at auction for a bronze sculpture in England, that makes him drop everything to return home?...

Journalist, David Buckley, walks into a murder scene. Only one problem - the murderer doesn't exist, so now Buckley's the chief suspect, and he's on the run. Can he prove his innocence - and his sanity?David Buckley's obsession with fellow student, Alison Tindell, led...

Twenty-two year old graduate, Mike Denning, takes employment in an experimental town, on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. Fascinating location, excellent wages, food and accommodation all paid for, fine seaside summer weather, and a gorgeous young lady boss who happens to...

Richard Drake is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, but when the simple act of purchasing a bronze statue brings him into contact with vicious killers, can he find the strength of will to do extraordinary things to save himself and his family?...

The idyllic Aeolian island of Lipari seems to be the perfect place for a disgraced ex-police analyst to rebuild his life, away from public view after being released from prison on licence. The quiet life is brought to an abrupt end when the journalist...

MI6 asks for a favour: what could possibly go wrong? Stuart Gleeman, a private and introverted lawyer, is travelling to Colombia on business. Just before he leaves, MI6 asks him for a simple favour: deliver a parcel. However, once in Medellín, Stuart finds the...

Claire Belmont lives in a loveless marriage and seeks solace in the arms of other men. When she and her girlfriend, Carmen Garcia, witness a murder, her life spins out of control. After being kidnapped, she is framed for a murder she didn't commit....

To Damien Palmer, the request seemed pointless. The police had found Heather Burnston standing over the body of her husband. The kitchen was covered in his blood and she was still holding the murder weapon when the police knocked the door down. Yet she...

Employees go missing every day. Some return to their desks, others don't. So the call from the Managing Director of Castle Point Systems did not particularly intrigue Damien Palmer. He was more interested in the missing laptop computer and the software it contained.As Palmer...

When a young woman knocks on Palmer's front door one evening and asks him to find her an alibi for a particular evening sixteen months previously, Palmer thinks it will be an interesting case.Time is of the essence and Palmer wastes no time in...

David Malone's special skill of going through mirrors to find people enabled him to rescue the First Lady when she was kidnapped by an unknown group bent on starting a war with China. That sinister group is back with plan B. This time, however,...

When wayward local councillor Danny Senetti is brought into a routine investigation involving local government fatalities. He discovers a sequence of events which is shrouded in hurt, intrigue and retribution.Increasingly drawn into the complex world of children's safeguarding. He finds events and people are...

"My failure to find that little girl will haunt me to the grave." Bingham looked at the speaker and gave his old friend a sympathetic smile. Neither spoke but each shared the same thought. What had happened to Natalie Beddoes? Little girls deserved better...

Some wounds run deep. Can they ever heal?Tony Slade sits in a coffee shop waiting. He is reflecting on his dark and violent past. He is waiting for the woman he loves, but he is also waiting for the man who wants him dead....

Terry Brankin loves his wife, but it's a bloody nuisance that a cold-case investigator is trying to pin him for a long past IRA bombing that killed a young girl. His wife Kathleen can't take it. He tells her that things were different then....

A gripping original story for BBC Radio 4 by award-winning crime writer Ian Rankin, written for the landmark Radio 4 Book at Bedtime slotSaughton Prison, Edinburgh. 1962. Prison guard Thomas Scott watches over a condemned man sentenced to hang for the murder of his...

The Ventura Casino - a glittering arena where the super-rich go to pit their wealth against chance, and admire the beautiful Chicas who deal at the tables. But behind the scenes lurks a corrupt world of credit-fixing, prostitution and rape - a world that...

Evil may be around the next corner... There are wicked people in this world who seem quite ordinary, even nice. Giles Chambers realised this as he found himself being hunted. But where could he run, and who could he turn to for help? He...

Former Catholic priest Michael Jones and the irreverent Father O'Malley return in this sequel to Out of the Depths (New Generation Publishing 2012) to tackle another baffling clerical mystery set in Liverpool. Battling loneliness and alcohol addiction, Michael meets Martha, a refugee from the...

Is time an illusion? A static concept, brain manufactured, to make sense of our world? A Tangled Web of Time challenges our understanding, taking us into the unknown. In 2017, Natasha Marsh moves into Elm Tree Farm, Suffolk. But she is not alone. Also...

He who murders and gets away lives to murder another day. Children now play on Brampton Common and nearby householders such as Jan, Kerry and Debs know little of the dramas that once occurred so near to their own front doors, and nothing of...

Nancy Allen is American. She is in her early thirties, blonde, attractive and independent. She is in total control of her life until the Passarella family decide she is unwittingly to smuggle their illegal merchandise into America. Nancy is taken hostage by gunmen and...

Heart Shot Emily is a cautious assassin. While researching a target as a favor for a friend it all goes wrong, and she bumps into Finlay Mann-an Agent. A deep conspiracy has them only able to trust each other and risk their most venerable...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as...

I HEREBY SOLEMNLY AND SINCERELY DECLARE BEFORE GOD THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF A MEMBER OF THE GARDA SÍOCHÁNA . . .Detective Garda Bridget Harney's obsession with Séan Flannery began when he claimed his assault on an underage victim was consensual.WITH...

An uncompromising thriller set in the last decade of the 20th Century. Criminality is reaching epidemic proportions. The combination of a vociferous liberal lobby, the breakdown of family and school disciplines over three generations and a weak judicial system have produced a society living...