Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

An absolutely gripping mystery thriller with a jaw-dropping twist. This book will hook you from page one and keep you reading 'just one more chapter' late into the night. On a damp October day, a body is found in an abandoned hospital, too burnt...

You have to fight for the ones you love. Anna Davis has spent years terrified of her sadistic gangster boyfriend. Right up until she runs away in the dead of night, she's frightened he will kill her. And she knows he still will, if...

How well do you really know your husband? Grace Dalton is trying to put her life back together after her husband John died suddenly in a hit and run. Her perfect world is collapsing around her, the home she hoped to fill with children...

Rose Denton wakes up in her car. She has no memory of how she got there. But she knows something bad happened... There's blood on the windscreen and bonnet - but it's not hers and there's no sign of anything or anyone she might...

Phoebe. Tiffany. Melissa. They all made one little mistake... When twenty-five-year-old Phoebe Stiles opens the door to her perfect apartment she doesn't realise it's the mistake that will kill her... The body of the beautiful English girl is discovered months later - dumped behind...

She took a mouthful of the sweet liquid and started to feel a pounding in her head. Arms went around her waist and she was half lifted and half pulled. The last thing she was aware of was her head hitting a step... Sixteen-year-old...

She had stopped crying. There was no window, the walls were smooth and it was quiet. She didn't want to be alone. But she didn't want him to come back. On a bright spring morning, walkers find a tattered plastic bag half-buried in the...

It has been a week since anyone last saw fifteen-year-old Daisy, after she left her best friend's house and started her short walk home. Detective Kate Matthews and her team have been looking for her ever since. When a tip-off leads Kate to a...

Bobbi caught a glimpse of the car, saw the blood splashed across the front seats, and felt the nausea rise up. It should have been her who was working last night, not Harriet. It should have been her. When a social worker is brutally...

Blinking her eyes open, she looks around the room, taking in the bed and the wardrobe full of clothes she's never seen before. This isn't her bedroom. Those aren't her clothes. She begins to cry as she wonders if she'll ever see her own...

'I was hooked from page one and couldn't put it down until I'd reached the end. The twists and turns just keep coming... will have you gasping in surprise.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'Police, please... My daughter's gone ... she's been abducted...' Michelle Harper's...

As she reached the park, she heard a baby crying. She stopped. She couldn't see anybody around. "Hello?" She raised her voice an octave. "Anybody there?" Katie Calumet is on an early-morning run when she hears a baby crying. The park is deserted, and...

Take a breath. Pray it's not your last. Just a few months after a terrifying case that nearly took her life, Detective Lucy Harwin is back with her squad in the coastal town of Brooklyn Bay - and this time, she's faced with a...

How do you catch a killer who knows your every move? The woman lay flat on the table, her face to one side, her wrists bound with thick tape. Deep scratches marked the wood beneath her fingers, now resting cold and still... When a...

She got into bed but sleep didn't come easily. Every creak in the house made her alert. She was waiting for him to come and get her. The small city of Stockleigh is in shock as three women are brutally attacked within days of...

You tried to save a life. Now you're fighting to save your own. It's the perfect Sunday. Summer sunshine, a barbecue with the kids. But a knock on the garden gate and two words, 'HELP ME', changes everything. When loving parents Rob and Wendy...

'From the first to the last page, I was completely and utterly at the mercy of this book. I was turning the pages like they were on fire, it was that good ' Bibliophile Book Club Imagine you are having lunch at an exclusive...

London, 1855: in the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. The city is soon alive with talk of the foreign killer and his striking accomplice: a young...

The new case was probably just a matrimonial. Sad, because of the girl involved, but inevitable, given the background. When private detective Frank Sterling returns to Belgium, however, things take a darker turn.Before long, he and his ragtag team are involved in a desperate...

A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her...

The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Amy Tan, Richard Ford, and Michael Chabon, who calls SO MANY DOORS "Beautiful, powerful, even masterful." It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of...

ON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow...

Portrait in BLOOD They were the New York art scene's golden couple -- until the day Amanda Oliver was found murdered in her SoHo loft, and her husband Philip confessed to shooting her. But was he a continent away when the trigger was pulled?...

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...

LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL -- LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can...

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...

Matt Helm was aware of Bultman - a legendary assassin, the leader of a group of fanatical revolutionaries, an ambitious criminal - but he had no business with taking him down. Until now. Bultman blew up a restaurant on the Florida coast full of...

A prim young lady needs a favor: help her father beat a bum drug rap. But when Dad's boat detonates outside Miami Harbor, Matt discovers that young Amy isn't as innocent as she looks. Lured to the Bahamas, he will discover an unlikely pack...

Beautiful, intelligent, fresh out of prison- Madeleine Ellershaw is Matt Helm's latest case. Madeleine may have been imprisoned as a spy, but Helm soon realizes that her story isn't so simple. He's got to figure out why she took the rap for her husband...

Raymond "Red" Reddington voluntarily surrenders to the FBI after eluding capture for decades. He has a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world and is willing to guide FBI operations in exchange for immunity. However, he insists on exclusively working with a...

Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who's looking to get...

"That cold-blooded human spider spinning his lousy webs of intrigue..." Matt Helm is on vacation in Mexico with nothing on his mind except fishing, when some joker tries to shoot him in the back. Naturally it was no accident. When secret agents get shot...

On a lonely heath in northern Scotland they recovered the body of the third agent sent to complete a tricky mission. He had died from bubonic plague. Somewhere on the moors was a half-crazed scientific genius who could kill millions, and it was Helm's...

Meet Educated Evans and 'The Miller' in the shady side of London between the World Wars Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include The Four Just Men, Sanders of the River, and J. G....

The complete short story casebook of the blind rival of Sherlock Holmes In the pages of the influential Strand Magazine, there was a time when Ernest Bramah's stories of crime and detection, featuring the blind detective Max Carrados, appeared alongside those about the world's...

THE DAY THE MONEY DIED 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 internet...

Detective Nic Costa finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he's sent to infiltrate the mob in a remote part of southern Italy. Roman police detective Nic Costa has been sent undercover to Italy's beautiful, remote Calabrian coast to bring in the...

In Sports, you exploit your opponent's weaknesses, taking advantage of your strengths. While executing your gameplan with skill and precision.In Sales, you have the smooth talker, instilling trust and confidence. With optimal packaging for your target audience.Possessing all of these attributes is Master Con...

Perched on a Welsh clifftop, the ancient, picturesque hamlet of Rhosddraig has its peaceful fa ade ripped apart when human remains are discovered under a pile of stones. The village pub, The Dragon's Head, run by three generations of women, becomes the focal point...

The mayor of Copenhagen is found murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further complicated by the fact that the victim's mother is the leader of the country's most radical political party and the current...

Racing to find a killer before he strikes again, an unlikely investigator is haunted by an even more unlikely source in this gripping crime novel "Clark writes well and has created some amusingly zany characters." -- Publishers Weekly on Clean Sweep It's the summer...

A man found hanging in a usually serene Oregon forest sends the town of Brookings into a panic and brings Detectives Patty O'Toole and Rick Starker running. Who is he? What has he done to be murdered in such a way? Uncovering the answers...

Paradise is haunted by betrayal.What if you discovered that those closest to you were not who they seemed?Tech sleuth Sophie Ang, her lovable dog Ginger, and her partner, Jake Dunn, tackle a new case involving a famous hula festival on the Big Island--but that's...

Paradise has no protection from a hidden evil.What would you do to rescue a child trapped in darkness?Security specialist Sophie Ang goes "off the grid" into the remote valley of Kalalau on Kaua i, where she stumbles across the disappearance of a young boy....

Paradise can't contain a thirst for revenge.How would you handle a sadistic stalker?Security specialist Sophie Ang returns to Maui, working alongside dynamic partner Jake Dunn to solve a series of bizarre and escalating threats against a rocker with a beach mansion. But soon, catching...

Paradise has no protection from an insidious cult.What would you do to defeat a deadly cult?'Wired in' to her computers, tech agent Sophie Ang has been content in her clean, cool tech lab, where she chases criminals online, continuing a dance in the dark...

When a driver burns to death on the side of a New Mexico highway, evidence from the scene leads reporter Luke Murphy to a series of murders involving the region's multi-million dollar energy market.A year after breaking the biggest story of his career, Luke...

CROWNS OF GOLDSYNOPSISAncient Scythians (800B-200AD) re-emerge in the modern word to take over. This nomadic tribe had their roots in the Altai Mountains where China, Mongolia and Siberia meet. They created the first "Silk Road" from western China to the ancient empires of Egypt,...

They survived a nightmare - but they didn't escape unscathed.FBI profiler Nathan Thomas and fianc e Bella Amsel begin to mend their lives after horror and loss.Little do they know the horror is only beginning.The psychopath obsessed with Bella isn't giving up that easily.How...

Heart pounding thriller and suspense detective tale that stretches from Honolulu to Hong Kong. New Zealand ex-pat and Honolulu PI T. J. O'Sullivan, follows the trail of a con man to Hong Kong hoping to recover her client's half a million dollars' worth of...