Crime Fiction

In the heat of a British summer, Sidney Chisholm discovers the five bodies of his neighbours, the Gilhooley sisters. In a series of twists and turns, their mystery becomes the...

It matters not who you are born to but where you are made. It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave. 'Vividly told,...

Meet Jez. Jez is a husband and father, working as a business lecturer at his local university. He is also a sociopath and a psychopath and is busy murdering and...

These are difficult times for Nicolas Le Floch: Louis XV is dead and Nicolas' boss Sartine has been promoted to Minister of State for the Navy. Le Noir, Sartine's successor...

Parisian bookseller, Victor Legris, finds a new case to investigate very close to home, when his business partner's apartment is burgled. Curiously the only item stolen is a decorative goblet...

Its France, 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime and immorality ...A police officer...

'a humdinger' Sydney Morning Herald 'an absorbing read another triumph for Ms Walters' Canberra Times 'A seductive writer with an imagination that makes her dangerous to know' Sunday Express 'Walters...

A student's suicide note is not what it seems. A high-school football rivalry turns absurd-and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a different animal all along. A pair...

In the last summer of Queen Victoria's reign it was not considered 'proper' for unmarried women to go travelling with members of the opposite sex. But Nell Bray can't understand...

One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men...

The second book in a hilarious series featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, has become an unwilling crime-solver.

What if everyone in your family was given a DNA test at Christmas: would there be any surprise results? For two women the answers are shocking, and dangerous. Perfect for...

Aurora Teagarden's decision to become a real estate agent turns out to be a life-or-death choice in this mystery from No. 1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. "The perfect mix of family drama and murder mystery" (Kellye Garrett,...

Expect the unexpected and prepare to be entertained . . . No book published this year will deliver more thrills per page than this one. Here are twenty of the...

One day Merchant's Worldwide Bank ceased to exist. Its creditors discovered what its employees had known for some time, that the firm's equity had never existed and that its sole...

Twelve slices from the life of Bobby Gold; by night, the security chief of a mobbed-up New York City nightclub, by day, a reluctant bonebreaker and enforcer for Eddie Fish...

Part thriller, part detective story, Vengeance is an utterly compelling novel about the nature of revenge. Through the dark, icy streets of London flits a man on a mission: he's...

It is 1914 and Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson are back in Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation. But this year a new menance threatens the dig. The...

Dr B. MacRannoch is in the Bahamas with her father who has moved there from Scotland because of asthma. She is a savvy and tough young woman who shows much...

It all starts when Southern Belle Lollie Woolfolk sashays into Rick Shannon's office at Rockin' Vestigations in Vicksburg. She hires him to find the grandfather she never met, one-time blues...

It was, without doubt, the white that reassured them. When a handsome blonde stranger interrupts a family holiday to introduce himself as an old school friend of their son, Philip,...

A new book in The Times bestselling Follet Valley mystery series, by leading TV/radio comedian Ian Moore perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. Richard Ainsworth's French...

A RICHARD & JUDY TOP 5 LOCKDOWN READ 'A total page-turner' - Daily Mirror 'One of our favourite writers . . . a really tight story' - Richard & Judy:...

Bernie Little and his canine companion, Chet, are private investigators. Both have had some setbacks in life - Bernie in combat, Chet in K-9 dog-training school - but together they...

How Many Lies Can She Get Away With? A gripping domestic thriller of secrets, lies, extramarital affairs and murder. "A wonderful storyteller" Chris Whitaker Is it worse to lie to...

A mysterious disappearance, an enormous fortune and a missing unicorn - it's the weirdest and wildest challenge yet for Janet Evanovich's bestselling sleuths FOX AND O'HARE. FBI Agent Kate O'Hare...

One twin is imprisoned for a terrible crime. The other will do anything to set her free. One night Tila stumbles home, terrified and covered in blood. She's arrested for...

Detective Superintendent Jimmy Suttle has finally tired of the relentless struggle against the rising tide of urban crime in Portsmouth. Surely a job in Major Crimes in the West Country...

This is the third book in the trilogy - Lover Husband Father Monster, Her Story; Lover Husband Father Monster, His Story and now, Lover Husband Father Monster, The Aftermath.In Books...

A neurosurgeon is sexually assaulted, stabbed and left for dead in her office at the labyrinthine Mid-Manhattan Medical Centre. The police designate her Likely to Die. Alexandra Cooper, head of...

A religious academic is mutilated on one of the city's finest streets. The grave of a famous colonel is ravaged. A shday entrepreneur is slaughtered while dashing for a train....

Claire is an eyewitness to a brutal murder - and now the killer has her in his sights. He knows where she lives. Can the detective assigned to her case...

In misty 19th-century Edinburgh a headstrong orphan girl is taken to a hunting lodge and sacrificed to a mysterious figure - 'the lamplighter'. Twenty years later four prominent men are...

Lachlan Harriot is in a state of shock. His wife Susie has been convicted of the murder of serial killer Andrew Gow, a prisoner in her care. Unless Harriot can...

An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life--or...

"Stay away from tomb Twenty-A!" says an ominous message delivered by an unseen hand. The year is 1903, the place is Cairo, and with the new century, everything is changing...

'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . . .' Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Janet Evanovich, #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure...

Every fire begins with a little heat-and in Slow Burn, bestselling author Julie Garwood provides the spark, skillfully blending pulse-pounding action, intense emotion, and characters with grit and heart. The...

Zenith has a prime location at the heart of fashionable Deansgate - and Jenna Lorde's inheritance has all the goodwill that any nightclub owner could hope for. The opening night...

Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her adolescent son in a small French town, is a relative newcomer to the Russian community there. Intriguingly little is known...