Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Her beautiful face is caught in the final moment of death, lips slightly parted where the last breath escaped. Her unseeing blue eyes are wide and fearful. A few flecks of sand, sparkling in the morning light, cling to her long, dark lashes. A...

"YOU ARE LIVING A LIE. Everything about you is a lie..." This is a story about an ordinary woman, a mother of two.To most women, to most mothers, her life is relatable in every way.Except behind closed doors her truth comes with unimaginable consequences.Amid...

PAPERBACK BLURBYou'll spot him on the edge of gaze, but when you turn, he is but haze...The Following man, folk tune.When a landslip on Pembrokeshire's stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of 2 bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow's quiet retirement is shattered.As the original...

From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller comes a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run--and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the...

In this heart-pounding and sharply written thriller from J.A. Jance, the "grand master of the genre" (The Providence Journal), Ali Reynolds's personal life is thrown into turmoil just as two men show up on the scene--a former employee of her husband's who has just...

Sidewise Award Winner for Best Long Form.Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself.North America was never colonized. The United States and Canada don't...

EVERY CRIME IS CONNECTED.BUT WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS? THE CHILLING THRILLER FROM THE MIND OF MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER M. J. ARLIDGE A crimewave sweeps through the city and no-one is safe. An arson at the docks. A carjacking gone wrong. A murder in a...

Over New York's Finest-the police organization without equal in the world-fell the blight of lunacy, sweeping on like wildfire until it had turned Manhattan into a chill, whimpering madhouse and released the helpless city's wealth to a wild carnival of crooks and vandals! What...

"Complexly plotted... skillfully drawn." --The Wall Street Journal A series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page in Robert Pobi's Under Pressure. On a...

The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman, and the missing daughter of Jenny's violent ex-husband present the Skelf women with their most challenging - and deadly - cases yet... _______________ Keeping on top of...

In his authorial debut Aaron R. Tyler produced this edge of your seat crime thriller that you can't put down. There is a serial killer terrorizing the largely rural twin tiers region of Pennsylvania and upstate New York. He enjoys conversation and torture, and...

You're safe, Stride. I found the body at the Deeps. I buried him.Jonathan Stride's best friend, Steve Garske, makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Hours later, the police dig up Steve's yard and find a body with...

Author: Charlotte DuckworthISBN-10: 152940830XISBN-13: 9781529408300Publisher: Quercus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2021Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Suicide or murder? DI Ford is sure there's a killer to catch, but time is running out.A young female soldier is found on Salisbury Plain, her throat cut and a bloody knife in her dead hand. Everyone assumes that she killed herself. But something...

From the author of spy thriller Water Memory comes a riveting installment in the Sentro series in which past and present collide.When a Canadian spy comes to ex-black ops specialist Aubrey Sentro for help tracking down notorious Cold War spymaster Günter Witt, she wants...

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author"One of America's greatest storytellers."―Stephen KingNeal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the...

Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this utterly original thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just...

Lieutenant Colonel Eric West is the clinical director of the Combat Casualty Research Center (CCRC), an elite group of emergency physicians who provide operational medical support for the United States military, the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, and the Secret Service. Deployed throughout the...

A young TV journalist is forced to revisit her harrowing past when she's thrust into a sex-trafficking investigation in her hometown. A startling, searing, debut thriller by award-winning CNN journalist Sarah Sultoon. 'A brave and thought-provoking debut novel. Sarah Sultoon tackles a challenging and...

'An excellent debut novel, I couldn't put this down! A definite must read' 5* reader reviewThe closer you are, the less you see . . . When Kev's girlfriend is killed in a hit-and-run, he thinks he's suffered the worst. Haunted by his past,...

Trey Hansen is the man they call to investigate multimillion-dollar art heists...but what happens when a CIA-trained assassin starts tying up loose ends? And what if that assassin might be his father? When international art detective Trey Hansen is brought in to investigate the...

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time...When a woman's body is found in the sea at Blakeney Point with a single blow to the head, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work out who wanted her dead and...

When two men, recently discharged from the air force, set out for a hunting trip on Kodiak Island in Alaska, they expect the adventure of a lifetime. Instead, they find themselves embroiled in a never-ending nightmare. More than forty years later, biologist Jane Marcus...

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. And lately, Mike Daley's family has been keeping him very busy.An ex-priest, ex-public defender, and ex-corporate lawyer, Daley and his former wife, Rosie Fernandez, now run their own San Francisco criminal defense firm.Most...

When the bonds of brotherhood are strained, who do you turn to?The celebration of the Viking Festival of Fire ensures that thousands descend annually on the the small coastal town of Sheringham, but when one man dies amidst the grand finale, it falls to...

Love triangle--motive for double murder? First loves are never forgotten. Ever. Certainly not for Tommy "Pancake" Jeffers. His first-kiss, sixth-grade love, Emily, who he has not seen since grammar school, is sliding toward divorce in the artsy Gulf Coast town of Fairhope, Alabama. Longly...

From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett.Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!A dangerous secret lies beneath Whitehall Palace...Brother against brother. Father against son....

Dorothy Graham is dead. This is hugely inconvenient, not least for her. Luckily, she has planned for this eventuality. Now, if any of her truly dreadful family want to get their hands on her money, they will have to do so via a fiendishly...

Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets?Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in...

All she wanted was the life they had...It is the day of Erin's fortieth birthday party. Pink and silver balloons drift through her garden, the platters of food are empty and the recycling is overflowing with empty wine bottles.As Erin mingles with groups of...

Fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers will love this gripping new book from Emma Tallon, set in the same world as her bestselling Tyler Family series.There's a new girl in town and she has a score to settle.Scarlet Drew isn't to be messed...

"Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré "Every writer owes something to Holmes." -T.S. Eliot With its blend of gothic and detective genres, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), sets forth the mysterious investigation taken on by...

This is a story painting an obvious picture of deception, greed, temptation, lies, finger-pointing, sex and the heart of it all...MONEY Charles Collier was an honest, respectful man that dedicated his life to his family and his work. For eighteen years, he strives to...

When Redwoods Park Enforcement Ranger Kathleen Shepherd finds a third dead bear in the forest, its paws and gallbladder harvested, she contacts U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services for assistance. They send Nick Tanner, one of an elite cadre of undercover USFWS Special Agents. Highly...

'An immensely readable treat!' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH The first book in a light-hearted historical adventure series set during the mid-twentieth century............................................................................ Ernest Drabble, a Cambridge historian and mountaineer, travels to rural Devon to inspect the decapitated head of Oliver Cromwell - a macabre artefact...

When Special Agent Clay Jennings and his K9 partner, Ranger, take to the streets of Denver to fight human trafficking, he is shocked by the inordinate number of stolen innocents who've been forced into the sex trade. With each new face, his resolve to...

Abducted and hidden away deep in the Rocky Mountains, Susan Bell is frantic to escape her murderous captor. Freshman Special Agent Burke Cameron is straight-laced, traditionally minded, and comes with a hefty set of old-fashioned values. Burke doesn't know what to do with the...

1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. When Ireland's greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a gay man, Stefan extricates him from an embarrassing situation. But suddenly he is looking at a...

'Tense, fast-moving and bloody. Broadfoot's best yet' Mason Cross 'A true rising star of crime fiction' Ian Rankin 'Beautifully crafted . . . There's no filler, no exposition, just action, dialogue and layering of tension that'll hold you breathless until the very end' Helen...

An electrifying novel from a multi-million-copy bestselling author.It was supposed to be a night of fun, pleasure, lust, and pain for Susanne Larsen when she agreed to meet with a stranger from a chatroom. She met him for dinner that later led to casual,...

It was supposed to be my family's promising new start, but now it's a nightmare I can't wake up from...I need the two men sitting opposite to trust me. My family's happiness is riding on my getting this job. I smile - there's no...

Some government officials want to eliminate crime by hiring school administrators in zip codes with the highest rate of incarcerations (murder factories) to identify future criminals. The identified kids will begin to disappear, and the FBI agents working the cases will be able to...

The premature heart failure of the matriarch, Mary, tore the Jewel family apart. Mary's children and her cardiologist did not accept that Mary had died a natural death. Brian, Mary's son, clinically depressed by his mother's death, recruited detectives Hoffman and O'Hare to discover...

A serious page-turner from multi-million bestselling author Willow Rose. Once you start One, Two...He is coming for you - there is no turning back.Series sold more than 1 million copies Journalist Rebekka Franck returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter. She is trying...

The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Never Look Back and If I Die Tonight plumbs the dark side of justice and the depths of diabolical revenge in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense that melds the driving narrative of Then She...

"A slow-burn thriller. Emergence .... makes for a deliciously disquieting ride..."-4.5 star IndieReader Approved Review"Cass has many moments in the woods when the hair on the back of her neck rises and she cannot identify why, and the reader shares that sensation..." -Front and...

Detective Billy Harney's reputation as a dirty cop may be the only thing keeping Chicago clean in James Patterson's most critically-acclaimed thriller since The Black Book.​For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by...

To heal his past, he must break the rules...When the body of a girl is found to be linked to a human trafficking ring, Detective Inspector Frank Carver deploys his team of specialists to infiltrate, investigate and report back.But as his latest recruit, Harvey...

A businessman found hanged. A tortured and mutilated loaner. High finance has never been so deadly...DI Nathaniel Caslin is spiralling toward a professional crisis. His biggest case in years has collapsed amid accusations of police intimidation. A rebuilt reputation is now facing ruin...As the...

A murder without motive. A downtown bombing. The sins of the past revisited...DI Nathaniel Caslin is heading up a specialist unit, an opportunity to make a real difference. Little does he know, decisions taken decades previously are about to threaten all that he holds...