Crime Fiction

A new look for the seventh installment in the award-winning Brunetti series by crime fiction writer Donna Leon 'Every detail on every page forms part of a succession of clues,...

Now published in the Discworld Collectors Library hardback, the penultimate adult Discworld novel from the master, Terry Pratchett, sees Sam Vimes investigating a country house murder. It is a truth...

The thirty-fourth Discworld novel, now available in hardback as part of the Discworld Collector's Library. 'Some people would be asking- whose side are you on? If you're not for us,...

The 27th Discworld novel, now available in hardback as part of the Discworld Collector's Library. A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Commander Sam Vimes of the...

Inspector Maigret investigates a case of deception in an isolated community Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good...

Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run When Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a...

A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Nobody mentioned the victims, or the terror that had gripped...

A gripping new translation of Simenon's cinematic tale of greed, guilt and the cruel workings of fate 'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at...

An extraordinary tale of betrayal from the celebrated author of the Maigret series On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city...

A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenon's celebrated literary detective 'The truth was, Maigret knew nothing! Maigret felt. Maigret was sure he was right, would...

A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a...

A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector Maigret An ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A...

A hardboiled detective story that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological suspense of Dostoevsky Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only...

A gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, part of the new Maigret series 'There was an exaggerated humility about her. And yet he sensed, beneath that image, glints...

A new translation of this haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, part of the Maigret series A first ink drawing showed a...

Martin Arkenhout, a seventeen-year-old Dutchman travelling across the States, kills his young American travelling companion, Seth Goodman, and adopts his identity. Some months later he takes - and takes on...

After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife,...

Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win...

Following the bestselling success of HORNET'S NEST and SOUTHERN CROSS, this is another irreverent portrait of politically driven law enforcement run amok. Chaos breaks loose when the Governor of Virginia...

The eighth novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series. A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles -...

The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a...

The third novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series. A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives...and leaving just one tantalising clue... When the bodies of young courting...

The fourth novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series which was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of 1993. The fingerprints say the murderer is...

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike...

Robbery, murder, vandalism, incompetence and not enough parking spaces - just another day in the life of a big city's police department. Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond,...

The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she's being framed and she no longer knows who she...

Realistic and entertaining thriller which throws an ironic light on how to police a city. Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, Hammer, but with an increasing number...

A priest is conducting the funeral service for a beloved member of his congregation. But when he lifts the chalice to his lips, he dies suddenly and horribly - poisoned...

When Gordon Hilcock discovers the body of Sean O'Farrell, Detective Den Cooper is more than happy to cast the farmer in the role of chief suspect as Gordon is currently...

Detective Inspector Helen Grace is no stranger to tragedy. But when a body is found in a Southampton nightclub, the death cuts too close to the bone. Hiding her personal...

One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare - it's real. Not only is she savagely...

After more than twenty years of distinguished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team or, as...

The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination...

Breathtaking adventure from the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award-winner. Intelligence officer Jack Valentine sets out on another dangerous mission - to rescue a friend's daughter and the women he loves...

Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers are strictly small-time until his mentor introduces him to the one big score that every small-timer dreams of: kidnap. But now...

It's a business trip that takes advertising agency owner Maddie Fitzgerald to New Orleans, but it is hardly business as usual when a man breaks into her hotel room and...

When she revisited, always with astonishment, what had happened to her, it was the deliberate breaking of her fingers that remained indelibly printed on her memory . . . Twelve...

Snobbish Tarquin Winot sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. As he travels, he introduces his life through...

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is...

'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions...

1963: A Tory government beset by a defection, sexual scandal, cover-up and a ministerial resignation - Frederick Troy, now Britain's most senior police detective, unravels a trail that leads to...

In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the skeleton of a man half-buried in its sandy bed. It is clear immediately...

Strikingly sharp and thrillingly violent, Little Criminals is the celebrated debut of the doyen of Dublin crime and winner of the Gold Dagger 2012. Justin and Angela Kennedy have money,...

'Crime fiction for those with a soul and a dark sense of humour' - Independent on Sunday In Banon, a small, peaceful village in upper Provence, the local community's principal...

When a headless corpse is found by a prison work gang on a windy Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun might seem the perfect man to solve the...