Fiction - Thrillers - Crime

Tommy Doyle is an ex-Detective Inspector in his mid-forties. He lives alone in an old three-story, brownstone building, in a district of LA. Tommy had joined the police force after leaving school, much the same as his father and grand-father had before him. Having...

Julie never talks about her past. Her neighbours have no idea where she is from or how she ended up living on a council estate in Manchester. She was different. She was troubled and had an alter-ego that imagined risky sex was simply a...

Catch a killer or save a child. What would you do?DI Jen Flowers thought she'd seen it all after fifteen years on the force, but when a vigilante serial killer hits the city and uses social media to gather supporters, she must fight the...

Corruption. Murder. Violence. Barely escaping her last mission with her life, Lucie Musilova is assigned a low-profile case to regain her superior's trust. All across the country, women have been disappearing who each have something in common: all are European nationals, and all have...

After a life of crime in the East End of London, Tommy Sands and Lenny Burns leave prison to enjoy the proceeds. Having purchased an isolated house on a large estate, they leave their past behind. After five years, with their money running out...

He killed his father to save a girl's life. But he's broken his gangster clan's code, and they want his blood. Ben Halloran became an outcast when he killed his crime boss father to save Kat White from slaughter. Hated by those he loves,...

Don't you wish print was easier to read? Here's your answer! This pacy crime thriller has been published in a LARGE PRINT format that's dyslexia-friendly too.He killed his father to save a girl's life. But he's broken his gangster clan's code, and they want...

Murder most terrifyingly cruel... It is not just revenge he wants. It's much more. Cruelty and death is the only weapon that will give him the satisfaction he craves. Even a mother can make a mistake... A mistake that will ruin a life. A...

From the horrors of war in Yugoslavia to life on a Newcastle council estate in the north of England, the tremendous pace of Flying with Kites will take your breath away. Katya Gjikolli is bent on her own and her son's survival in a...

Where can a wanted man hide in a country full of returned war heroes? It's 1952 and Frank Danby has been looking over his shoulder for the last ten years, forced to lead an itinerant life, getting work wherever he can while trying to...

It appeared that they were destined to meet as soul partners. Their karma had locked horns and nothing but inevitable tragedy could release them from self-inflicted torment. When two toxic individuals meet at work, although from fundamentally different backgrounds, a train of grotesque deceit...

When his business card is found in the pocket of a man who has died under the wheels of a train at Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Kenneth Sharpe's life takes a turn for the worse. The stakes start high, and rise higher, as Sharpe...

The good news: Leo has finally walked out on his wife after years of misery. The bad news: he finds his girlfriend in bed with another man. The good news: he's got 3,000,000 in the bank. The bad news: the bank is in Japan,...

Who is the sinner and who is the saint?Jamie Brooke is working as a private investigator in the London Borough of Southwark when the body of a priest is found in the ruins of Winchester Palace, his tattooed arms flayed, his mouth stuffed with...

Crime Thriller novel in double language: English/ Italian. Gabriele Erno Palandri's debut novel. The artworks associated with the story are part of the series "INCIPIT", they are all realised with ballpoint pen and acrylic on paper. "...The metaphor is the fundamental element that connects...

When evil comes back, it brings death and destruction never seen before...John Withers is the Sheriff of the small cosmopolitan town of Bakerton and its neighbours, Copper Ridge and Thurlow Junction.Copper Ridge began as a lumber site, when the huge copper birch trees were...

Driven by good intentions and with a little help from an obscure Order of Monks in Italy, Professor Finn Kelly, Ireland's leading mediaevalist finds a way of making easy money for his favourite charity in Dublin. This involves him "discovering" a long lost manuscript...

In this fifth thriller featuring Dave Woolf, the unorthodox, hard-living lawyer-detective faces his toughest challenge yet. The disappearance of his friend Tim Dowell and the unexplained deaths of a number of Members of Parliament appear to be unconnected cases, but are they? Dave's investigation...

Derek doesn't have much going for him. He only puts up with the long hours minding his brother's strawberry stall because at night he can become a different person... calling himself 'Hank', donning a Stetson and fronting a country-and-western band. Derek has modelled his...

In this sequel to the acclaimed novel and Wishing-Shelf Awards finalist, The Sixth Pillar, we again follow the exploits of former SAS officer Rory Calderwood, as he tries to rebuild his life following his time on the North Sea Gas rig. He has now...

The Valley of the Serpent is another sweeping thriller by Alan Reynolds, taking the reader on a roller-coaster journey through the Derbyshire Peak District in the UK, through Switzerland, France and The Northern Territories of Australia.Young Geologist, Harry Bentham is head-hunted by an unscrupulous...

Professor Jason Chadwick, co-developer of the World Wide Web and son of a man who revolutionised casino security in Las Vegas, is found dead in his Cornish mansion. Amy Pearce, his PA, is convinced that he was murdered. All she has to remember him...

Crime, romance, smuggling and Cornwall all come together in this light thriller set in the early 1990s Living in London suddenly becomes too uncomfortable for the attractive Jo Smart and her sixteen year-old son, Alex, after he is beaten up, so when they are...

In the Fenland area of Norfolk, the last Earl of Wynherne is found dead on the study floor of his Gothic mansion. His daughter is missing, having run off after stabbing the seemingly respectable Mr Allerton in the leg. Detective Inspector Charles Hadley and...

Some secrets are worth killing for... Jack Winter was once an idealistic and brilliant news reporter who broke the biggest stories around. But after wrongly blaming himself for a young girl's murder he changed sides and began killing stories for the rich and powerful,...

The latest book in the award-nominated series featuring maverick military veteran, Byron Tibor. Still hunted by the government who destroyed his life, veteran Byron Tibor has taken refuge in the remote Appalachian town of Winter's Rage. But Byron's peaceful existence is about to be...

It's been thirty years since they witnessed the accidental drowning of their friend.Those who were present - now parents themselves - have begun to receive messages claiming to be from the boy who died.The troubling notes become more alarming when a child disappears.Time is...

In Sudan a young Nigerian girl named, Chinwe, is abducted on her way home from school. Some weeks later she was brought ashore, with a number of other girls on a remote part of the English coastline. Chinwe seeing an opportunity to escape, didn't...

An Irish criminal gang is out of control. Already involved in drugs, extortion and prostitution, has moved into people trafficking. The authorities, because of the trafficking, hand the investigation over to the European unit, Unit T, well equipped to handle such investigations. Karen Harris,...

When the body of a beautiful woman is pulled from the black waters of a remote moorland lake by police frogmen, Detective Inspector Mark Hobson is faced with a highly complex case. Given the fact that the victim was universally detested and that a...

Detective Chief Inspector Dennis Llewellen of the Shrewsbury Constabulary has his hands full with the disappearance of two prominent local men, a jewelry theft, and several murders. If that isn't enough, Llewellen and his sergeant, Detective Sergeant Annette Foden, must now deal with local...

Four old friends. Three murdered girls. Two dead brothers. One astonishing secret.George Engle has lived in the long shadow of his superstar twin brothers since they died in a freak accident when he was thirteen. Now, in the spring of 1986, George and his...

An experienced anti-terrorist British agent in northern Italy has suddenly, and against all instructions, broken out from deep cover. His superiors in London desperately need to know why. The search is on. Two fellow agents, Macbride and Cromarty, are given the task of locating...

John Newman's family has a secret, a huge secret, with a responsibility that affects everyone. And when John takes control of the family business, his actions will have world spanning repercussions.Newman is an unusual and utterly enthralling family saga - a scathing but hopeful...

Volume Two of The Roxberg Trilogy After the birth of her second daughter, Inez Roxberg a wealthy spirited artist from Madrid, distanced herself from her unfaithful husband, his mistress, and their love child to pursue an uninhibited bohemian life in France. Many years later,...

One morning, in the early hours, a man is attacked by two youths and left lying injured in the gutter. No one is apprehended but nine months later, the victim sees one of the youths and follows him. From this chance encounter, a seed...

The couple had moved to Spain when they retired and were 'odd' in as much as they never came home. They seemed quite content in each other's company, 'always locked in each other's arms', as one of their children said to the newspapers... They...

Dean Marchant is a young man with a big secret - and a stalker. Trying to escape his tormentor by going on holiday with friends, he fears the stalker has followed him to their remote cottage in France when their vehicles are sabotaged, leaving...

Detective Inspector Wallace Hammond is on the verge of retirement when he is tasked to investigate the unexplained disappearance of a man whose popular and friendly demeanour make him the least likely to have enemies.But as Hammond and his team delve deeper it becomes...

To catch a villain sometimes you have to become one.Bailey's Back! From the bestselling author of Jailbird.Detective Constable Bailey Morgan is back doing what she does best - working undercover.This time she has to infiltrate the inner circle of a notorious underworld family. Posing...

DCI Hanlon faces the toughest decision of her career as a string of political murders lead to a deadly confrontation.A controversial, right-wing German politician is due to speak at the Oxford Union. Following a series of murders linked to a violent anarchist group, the...

A gripping, unforgettable thriller featuring DS Jenna Morgan that will have you racing through the pages. Who's stalking who? When a beautiful, red-haired nurse's body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning after a date with Detective Constable Ryan Downey, all...

Sometimes your past just won't let go...All NEW from Diane SaxonAs a heat wave grips the country, DS Jenna Morgan is called to a domestic incident at the home of a young family in Ironbridge.Pregnant Imelda Cheetham-Epstein has been found unconscious by her husband,...

Murder. Intrigue. Money. Art. Duplicity. Deception. This serial killer doesn't just kill, he is bent on a reign of Terribilità the ability to provoke fear, is intrinsic in this serial killer's methodology of death. It happens in the space between two lives. It sleeps...

Murder. Intrigue. Money. Art. Duplicity. Deception. This serial killer doesn't just kill, he is bent on a reign of Terribilità the ability to provoke fear, is intrinsic in this serial killer's methodology of death. It happens in the space between two lives. It sleeps...

Dark gripping debut crime novel"PERFECT FOR MURDER-MYSTERY FANS!""Parr is adept at portraying his fictional world's most unpleasant characters" - Kirkus Reviews"An impressive debut that leaves the reader wanting more." - Reedsy ReviewIn Parr's debut thriller, a runaway seeks revenge in the grim and gritty...

GETTING 'UNNECESSARY'! When high school teacher Mykee Kane learns of the suicide of a close friend, his curiosity will uncover the sordid underbelly of life and crime in a small Welsh town, provoking emotional and violent reactions. He gets ... all 'unnecessary'! A DARK...

Isabella embodies beauty and tenacity. The city safely cocooned the secrets buried in her heart, while one betrayal pushed her limit. The one constant love in her life is her best friend Frank, who is oblivious to her secrets. He had always thought something...

Alice Granger is no ordinary survivor. She has a tale to tell, a story of revenge.Alice feels driven to protect the innocent from dangerous men. Men like her father. Men who hurt children. Predators who prey on the innocent. And there's nothing Alice won't...

A young mother watches helplessly as her baby daughter is taken into care, her own abusive childhood leaving her ill-prepared to look after her child. But is everything as it seems?A teenage boy is lured on to Wimbledon Common at night and horrifically stabbed...