Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

After an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider goes horribly wrong, depressed scientist Aaron Gall wakes up to discover his mind and body have undergone an astonishing transformation. Now bursting with the joys of life, he is inspired to undertake a radical new therapy:...

In The Perfume of the Lady in Black, Joseph Rouletabille, the young journalist turned detective, is once more pitted against his arch-enemy Frederic Larsan. The mysterious crime committed in the Square Tower again directly challenges the reader to find the correct solution - though...

The Highway of Tears is real. Since 1969 there have been over 1,200 women reported missing in north-western Canada. 23 of those women disappeared along the stretch of Trans Canada Highway #16 that runs from Prince George to Prince Rupert, in British Columbia.Finding Hope...

There is no wall separating the United States from Canada. A river marks the border between Detroit Michigan and Windsor Ontario. The bridge and tunnel that link the two cities make up the busiest international crossings in North America. Together, they once owned bragging...

With his stunning debut Whitetooth Falls, Justin Joschko explodes on the horror scene with a chilling tale of genuine horror Highly recommended --Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and RageHomicide detective David Moore has never had a case quite like this:...

When rural and seemingly-placid Southeast Kansas State University is rocked by death of an English professor, Dr. Tom Holt begins asking questions--questions that uncover a loose conspiracy of embezzlement, sexual harassment, poor pedagogy, and murder. Normal School is an academic noir filled with the...

Carrie & Autumn are college girls with a simple dream: To score enough weed to pay off their last semester of college. But when the buy goes terribly wrong, they find themselves being pursued by a trio of hardened killers. Desperate to get back...

When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood...

While she seems to have it all, Sophie Knight is looking for more. When gorgeous and carefree Michael Frisk walks into her life, he offers the excitement and passion she desires. Sophie is willing to risk everything she has. After all, she is used...

When seven murder victims are found in a small town, the homicide investigation shakes a small-town sheriff to her core in James Patterson's tense thriller.Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is...

Can a piece of music be cursed?When a young marine biologist is found dead of suicide, his father can't believe he took his own life and hires Scott Drayco to prove it was murder. But what of the strange song found with the young...

How far would you go to save someone you never met? Eight years after getting out of prison, Shea Stevens has her own business building custom motorcycles. But when her niece is kidnapped, Shea launches herself back into the criminal underworld of Arizona's high...

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary...

Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. She would lie still and undisturbed for many years but above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning.When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed...

From thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, here is the startling conclusion to the internationally bestselling Caselli and Torre trilogy in which two damaged but deductively brilliant detectives must sort out what is real and what is imagined. Reeling from a deadly bombing in Venice and...

Fans of Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers and Jessie Keane will be hooked by Reckless Girl.She's back and this time she has a score to settle.Anna Davis and Freddie Tyler are finally getting their lives back on track when an unexpected face turns up on...

"Sam uses everything from seduction to Glocks to survive as this book sizzles in your hands. Get ready for a wild ride." Jeffrey Hammerhead Philips, Author --Present Day-- When Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran threaten America and the UK in a deadly race...

Florida's Citrus Belt, finest place in the world to grow citrus, Tropical Zone summers, hot, humid, rain. Temperate Zone winters, mild, possible touch of frost, minor chance of freeze. Perfect. Except, the place is directly in the flyway of airborne illegally imported illicit opioids...

With The Head of the Snake, author Tim Conner picks up where Dirty Harry left off, but on steroids. Faced with endless gang violence and death in Chicago, a band of Marine veterans becomes the law. Their solution is Camp Keokuk in Iowa where...

She was warned.Don't dig up the past. The faded love letter and snap shot wouldn't let her leave it alone.As Amanda looks at the snap shot and holds the letter, she knows something inside her has changed. She can't live without answers, but will...

'She reached into the pram and placed her hands on the cotton blanket. It was still warm. But her smiling, new baby sister, with her wide blue-grey eyes, was gone...' Twenty five years later, three bodies are found at a ramshackle cottage in the...

From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a story of revenge as a former SAS soldier is ready to settle into civilian life when he's hired to solve the mysterious death of a daughter, diving into a seedy world that a parent never expects...

One of Kirkus Review's "Best Books of 2013" The shocking end is only the beginning . . . #1 bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has created the most riveting and original novel of the year-a race-against-the-clock mystery, told in reverse. The October List Gabriela waits...

When a faceless body is found floating in the river on a summer's morning, Detective Kay Hunter and her team are tasked with finding out the man's identity - and where he came from.The investigation takes a sinister turn when an abandoned boat is...

Tales of vengeance delivered by the hidden hand of a ruthless master of disguisePractically everyone who has an appetite for the mystery, crime and thriller novels which were offered to the reading public during the inter-war years of the 20th century will be familiar...

Tom Beckway is retired. In his younger years, he had a brief but extremely successful career in law enforcement. Because small-town police departments could not afford to pay their officers very well and because he had a young family, Tom made the decision to...

Historical fans are in store for an edifying treat Publishers Weekly Starred Review When two bodies are washed up in the Kentish marshes, Detective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone is propelled into a disturbing investigation. December, 1928. When two bodies are found washed up in...

British crime fiction where characters become people and place is part of the story."You don't attract trouble. You go looking for it." On a sabbatical from the Metropolitan Police, Beatrice Stubbs is considering her future while touring Northern Spain. In the Basque County, she...

London. 1993. Investigative journalist Clare Woodbrook goes missing on the brink of unveiling her biggest-ever story. Is it kidnap? Murder? Worse still, the police investigation into her disappearance is being led by a corrupt DCI - himself the subject of one of Clare's current...

London. 1993. Investigative journalist Clare Woodbrook goes missing on the brink of unveiling her biggest-ever story. Is it kidnap? Murder? Worse still, the police investigation into her disappearance is being led by a corrupt DCI - himself the subject of one of Clare's current...

Kate Sanders has suffered many years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of her abusive husband Alan, and convinces herself that she is only holding the family together for the sake of her eight-year-old daughter. If it wasn't for her best friend...

When a mummified body is found in a renovated building, the gruesome discovery leads Detective Kay Hunter and her team into a complex murder investigation. The subsequent police inquiry exposes corruption, lies and organised crime within the tight-knit community - and Kay's determination to...

"Downright chilling " - Tranquility Book Reviews"Gets your heart racing." - Reading Out Loud__________ From author Malcolm Richards comes the start of a terrifying trilogy about a mother's fight to save her son from the corruption of evil.Seven years after her son vanished beneath...

"One hellish, fast-paced creepshow that demanded my attention..." -Tammy's Tea Time She had the day planned out to perfection-before he called off the wedding and broke her heart. Now all she has are dreams of what could have been. She doesn't yet know that...

We know serial killers exist. We don't want to believe they're in our own backyard. "Tense and terrifying." -The Reading Café Rookie FBI Agent Brandon Fisher and his team head to nearby Prince William County, Virginia, when a woman's recent disappearance sheds light on...

In the epic fifth installment in this "compulsively readable" (People) series, Galbraith's "irresistible hero and heroine" (USA Today) take on the decades-old cold case of a missing doctor, one which may be their grisliest yet.Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall...

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto finds the perfect bait to lure Jack Reacher in this gripping new suspense thriller. In Lee Child's twenty-third Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense, Reacher found his roots and a heap of trouble in Laconia, New Hampshire. A young Canadian...

Clinamen is a riveting literary thriller that tests the limits of the human spirit against a crushing backdrop of guilt and tragedy. It tells the tale of Patrick Wallace, who finds himself destined to be intertwined with Mohawk Indians, drug traffickers, DEA and FBI...

In this un-put-downable thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, a beautiful young lawyer suffering from traumatic memory loss peels back her past to discover that she might be a killer.All of Jagger's novels are independent of one another and complete within their own four...

Cabal - a secret political clique or faction.The sheer amount of interests involved in crimes both mundane and ground breaking are obfuscating the most heinous in society who attack Jia and Erik from the shadows.How do you find those hiding in the shadows, when...

Alexander Strange lives and works aboard a fishing trawler in Naples, Florida writing about news of the weird. His laid-back lifestyle is disrupted when a feisty author of conspiracy books insists he investigate the death of her brother in Key West. Her name is...

Carrie Tollman awakes in the night to an intruder gazing down at her. He seems crazy. He tells her he's killed before and he'll kill again. Carrie is one of two carers looking after Enora Andressen's favorite scriptwriter. But Pavel is now paralysed, as...

Under a cloudless Mediterranean sky, two families wheel their suitcases past swaying palm trees towards their hotel to grab a spot by the pool. But behind the smiles, someone is hiding a terrible secret... I never wanted to come on this trip. I thought...

A tragic accident shatters the lives of four college friends.The girls have supported each other through emotional traumas, demanding parents, difficult boyfriends and college deadlines. When Kym suffers a loss and Cara's boyfriend lets her down, Jenna and Allie decide they all need to...

Two women's husbands are murdered on the same night in the same way--and their investigation uncovers a terrifying connection. Two men from vastly different backgrounds are murdered one after another on the same night, in the same fashion with two bullet wounds: one in...

________________________ "Simon Kernick is an absolute master of the adrenaline-fuelled ride" - PETER JAMES The new high-octane thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick ________________________ Alastair Sheridan has it all. Wealth, good looks, a beautiful wife and children and, in the chaotic world...

An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as a hell of a debut Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book. --Louise ErdrichVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer...

For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Phillip Meyer, Fargo, and Justified, a gritty rural noir thriller about family, drugs, and the legacy of violence. In an isolated town on the coast of southern Australia, Vernon Moore and his wife, Penelope, live in retirement, haunted by...

Video footage of an apparent murder on a London train thrusts crusading journalist Lydia into a terrifying web of money, politics and power, in sophisticated, shockingly believable contemporary thriller **LONGLISTED for the CWA Steel Dagger** 'Brutal, brilliant and razor sharp. Blood Red City is...

Billy Nelson is back home in Belfast, but the Troubles have cut this ex-Army Loyalist hard man deep and his city's allegiances have shifted. An outbreak of gang violence forces him to Edinburgh, where he muscles in on the drug trade. Underworld rivalries between...