Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben--with a dose of Big Little Lies or Stranger Things--an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated...

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded,...

Van Shaw was raised by his Irish immigrant grandfather Donovan to be a thief--to boost cars, beat security alarms, and crack safes. But at eighteen, Van broke all ties to that life and joined the military, serving as an Army Ranger in Iraq and...

Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Depraved Heart: "Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief."--Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Pagan Babies is classic crime fiction from the master of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to...

The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon's death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for...

"No one working in the crime genre is better."--Baltimore Sun L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back on a case in Hangman--an electrifying new novel of suspense from Faye Kellerman, New York Times bestselling author of Blindman's Bluff, The...

"I always look forward to a new Jack Hunter book-Jack's character is colorful (ex-adman from LA, a sax-playing, fun-loving kinda guy), with an unfortunate penchant for discovering bodies...."-Annie Montana"This writer wastes no words and is most entertaining. It's better than trying to read 'War...

A disturbed grave and a switched corpse. A new TV show and a quest for the truth. Can Macleod and McGrath bring an increasingly popular vigilante to justice before mob rule takes over?When the first episodes of a new programme coincide with the discovery...

BLAZER WANTS THE TRUTH, EVEN IF IT MEANS RISKING HIS LIFE.In the 1990s, SFPD's Special Forces was shut down under mysterious circumstances. Now, the city faces a criminal crisis, and the once-forgotten unit is reinstated with Sergeant Steve Blazer in command. But Blazer inherits...

Looking down at the familiar, pale and lifeless face floating in the salty waters of the marsh, her blood freezes. It's a face she hasn't seen for years, but used to know so well... When Detective Casey White is called to a murder scene...

Facing enemies at every turn, freelance private spy Simon Riske dashes across Europe to find the truth behind a mysterious investor known as the Collector, in this fourth installment to the high-stakes, page-turning international espionage series known for its stylish escapism. (Booklist) Simon Riske...

"The murder of a police recruit pins a black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violence, and cover-ups intersect in this relevant, razor-sharp novel of suspense. Black rookie cop Trevor "Finn" Finnegan aspires to become a top-ranking officer in the Los...

Our darkest secrets are best left buried...When a local journalist is found dead in an isolated spot on Roydon Common, lying beneath a hangman's noose on the anniversary of a teenager's suicide, DI Tom Janssen is asked to take on the investigation as a...

Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Southern Gothic thriller from #1 bestselling author Lisa Jackson! A serial killer is on the loose in The Big Easy, murdering victims in pairs, and it's up...

Shallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found.Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Abducted. Or worse.And now the dead are calling.These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin...

Soon, I'll see you. Soon, we'll be together again... For FBI agent Blake Wilder, the past is inescapable.And the one lead she had, regarding the mysteries of her past, only led to dead bodies and dead ends. When Blake is assigned a new case,...

Murder 101 opens with Professor Bruce Monroe and the new president of Northlake University on a hike in the mountains, near Vancouver. Two days later, the president is found dead in his office. The police call it a case of misadventure, but Professor Monroe...

In Under Blood Moons, J. J. Partridge pulls back the curtain on the drama of parole board hearings and unpopular decisions. Under Blood Moons introduces a not-to-be-forgotten hero, the raffish Jake Fournier. As a former boozer and opiate abuser who still suffers migraines and...

Her pulse pounded in her ears as she scanned the house. Her eyes traveled over the porch where three empty chairs lazily rocked in the breeze, surrounded by scattered children's toys. In the yard, there were mounds of earth. Graves. Only big enough for...

Not all killers can be tamed... The thrilling second book in the Sunday Times bestselling Detective Jack Warr crime series. Wild mustangs are difficult to rope, their lead stallion wary and protective of his herd. To capture that special stallion takes time. He is...

As SFPD Detective Jimmy Spracklin tracks a killer in Haight-Ashbury in 1968, his greatest worry is the fate of his runaway daughter Marie. The reality of what's happening in Haight-Ashbury in 1968 hits Spracklin as he tracks the killer of artist John Blakely. Heroin...

Dressed in a sage green bridesmaid dress, and smiling for pictures, Holly is the happiest she's ever been. Hours later, Holly is dead. People love to hate Holly Long. Smart, beautiful and a woman who men find it hard to say no to, she's...

The majestic Inishowen Peninsula shore--home to dangerous and unpredictable currents A woman's body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen Peninsula. Partially clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been...

The chef's knife was in the wrong place... wedged deep in the gut of celebrity chef Carlos Cruz. With her bloody discovery, Mercy could lose it all. And not just for her, her entire family is at risk too.San Francisco's hottest young chef rose...

Top cop, devoted sister, and now Inmate 3329: even prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother.Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop -- as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.So, following a...

"The Game..." makes for strange bedfellows. Local gangster Dante (Jack Boy) knows more than anybody how dangerous and ruthless the streets can be. But against his better instincts allows himself to fall for a local female gangster named Alinna. Considered to be somewhat of...

Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven is a medical student, apprenticing for the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Sarah Fisher is Simpson's housemaid, and has all of Raven's intelligence but none of his privileges. As bodies begin to appear across the Old Town, Raven and Sarah...

Lizzy pulled the covers over her head. Then she realised what was being dragged behind the person with the torch. She rammed her fist into her mouth to stop herself from screaming... For decades, The Moore Asylum was home to the forgotten children of...

The Bond That Never Was Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up - about a Western businessman seeking...

A high ranking female MI6 officer - Jayne Archer - commissions private detectives Ben Sign and Tom Knutsen to investigate two matters: first, why her best Russian double agent has lost her nerve and no longer wants to work for Archer; second, what has...

Jack felt the familiar burn of shame in his chest. Why do I keep doing this...thinking about her? It was so long ago, but I can't get what happened out of my head. I shouldn't let any of that junk define me, but I...

Given the opportunity, would you assume someone else's identity and leave your old life behind? A serendipitous crossing of paths between Lisa Barnes, a down-on-her-luck job seeker, and Julie Forman, a personal trainer to an Olympic hopeful, forever changes the course of both women's...

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones delivers a gripping new thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end. A detective with a dark secret... Samantha Jazz used to be one of the top profilers in...

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto receives a kidnapper's cryptic message in the middle of the night. The Hunt for Jack Reacher turns personal when the victims have a tenuous connection to Jack Reacher. And a stronger connection to her. Innocent preppers are caught in...

Lucy thought she'd seen her uncle's murderer die in Guerrero. He was incinerated in a Jeep explosion while trying to put a bullet through her head. She didn't know officials had never found the body.Now, Gary Mercer, Hollywood bad boy, drug czar and psychopathic...

It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Killing Floor. Fifteen years later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of readers and the dismay...

Rory is waiting at the door of the pre-school - a painted picture of his mother Susan in his small hand. But Susan isn't going to see the picture, because she has vanished. Susan Wheeler is a devoted mother. She would do anything for...

Trusting his family was her first mistake. All Ria ever wanted was a family. Growing up alone in foster care, she imagined just how it would be. So when she fell in love with Grayson and had their daughter Shelley, she was determined to...

A tough special-agent with the Department of Justice, and a dedicated single mother to her orphaned nephews, Samantha Chase is unbreakable. Until two women, both from the shadows of Sam's past, are discovered strangled."A real thriller, a tantalizing story with an an ending that...

When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his...

In this action-packed thriller, Miami just got a lot more dangerous--especially for one innocent young woman running for her life. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and,...

British crime fiction where characters become people and place is part of the story.Never underestimate a beautiful woman. You might not live to regret it.Suicide - the act of taking one's own life.Homicide - the act of taking someone else's.An unethical banker suffocates. A...

Marquis and Alexander have always had it rough. Their single mother, Carolyn, works hard to make ends meet, and though they are grateful, they are growing tired of eating beans and rice, sharing three pairs of pants between the two of them, and being...

Now that Max has a few nice wins under his belt, more money in his pocket than ever, and his parole officer/lover in his pocket right where he wants her, he feels like he is unstoppable.With greed in his heart and his lust for...

"I start with zero. Nobody dies today."The strange note delivered to Howard County, Maryland Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller proves to be a warning shot. Soon Peller and his prot馮駸 Detective Sergeants Corina Montufar and Eric Dumas are pursuing a cunning killer basing murders on...

An anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and Fulci; American noir and crime fiction; and the grim fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, Guy...

When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica...

Alan Steele Nicholson, Former Press Officer - US Senator Jacob Javitz, New York"Brilliant and timely political who-done-it. Having been a press officer for a US Senator for a number of years, I've had a front row seat to the inter workings of Capital Hill....

The dark side of espionage . . . Joe Johnson's investigation into a horrific wartime killing on an iconic bridge is thrown off track by his former CIA boss, who once hired him, then later fired him. Now, decades later, he's trying to kill...