Crime Fiction

SHE HELPED A PERFECT A STRANGER. SHE DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THE PERFECT KILLER... 'Steve Cavanagh's twists hit you between the eyes. You never see them coming' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'This...

Nancy and Calder are moving from London to an isolated slate island, off the west coast of Scotland. Nancy is focused on their new beginning, but is increasingly unsettled by...

A little boy is kidnapped as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home, waiting for his lift to school. n ex-con finds it impossible to stay...

Another hugely successful crime novel by the creator of A Touch of Frost. For fans of Peter James and Stuart MacBride. 'Possibly the most accurate picture of police work in...

A brilliant crime novel from the creator of A Touch of Frost Ten days to Christmas and Tracey Uphill, aged eight, hasn't come home from Sunday school. Her mother, a...

The brand-new crime thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, J, D. Robb. 'J.D. Robb is a fantastic storyteller who knows how to keep the pages flying by' -#1 International Bestselling...

Introducing Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, and an outstanding new voice in historical crime fiction... Moscow, 1936 and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated Church, a young woman is...

Richard Beaumont hoped to see rare birds on the Dover cliffs. Instead he sees a young woman falling to her death. No-one recognises her, no-one has reported her missing, and...

Sarah Fortune inherited her flat from one of her many lovers. Now a son has appeared claiming it is his, morally if not strictly legally, and he is using illegal...

A brilliant historical mystery series begins: in gaslit Victorian London, writer Thomas De Quincey must become a detective to clear his own name. Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir...

Madness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian plotting and a great train robbery in a captivating Victorian mystery about desire and possession. A stuffed bear, a pet mouse, fraud and felony on...

A PERFECT DAY. A TWISTED CRIME.THE AWARD-WINNING JAKE JACKSON SERIES RETURNS... 'This series is irresistible' LEE CHILD 'Atmospheric and chilling' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Totally immersive' ANN CLEEVES 'My favourite new crime...

Elemental rage, bloody Greek myth, man's greed and capacity for cruelty, the insane imaginings of a killer, all intermingle in this stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Messiah...

'Reggie Nadelson knows how to raise the hair on your arms, and she does it with the authority and sureness of a natural born writer.'GuardianLondongrad opens on the desolate fringes...

They thought they were safe. They were wrong. The murder of a young prostitute and the discovery of an abandoned baby on the same winter night signals the start of...

The dead don't tell secrets... unless you listen. When Detective Kim Stone and her team are sent to Westerley, a forensic research facility, they discover the body of a young...

'My top read of the year' - LISA HALL'Shimmers with danger and heart' - LESLEY KARA'Brilliant writing and essential reading' - JANICE HALLETTGold fever has taken him. I believe he...

Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. Exceptionally bright, she has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose. The motorway she lives by regularly offers up...

Detective Scott Jericho returns in Jericho's Dead , the second gripping crime thriller by William Hussey - now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook. ________________ Former CID detective...

* THE NEW FIENDISHLY CLEVER MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SMASH-HIT BESTSELLER THE APPEAL * Get ready for the sudden-death round... Mal and Sue Eastwood were once the kindly...

'Brilliantly atmospheric' - L.V. MATTHEWS 'Compelling and suspenseful' - LISA HALL 'Subtle and dry dark humour laced into thrills' - EMMA CURTIS Everyone brings their secrets to the island... On...

*** FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK *** 'A wild, twisted family gothic unlike any you've read before'...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday Times Words can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill... Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham,...

PRE-ORDER HOW TO CHEAT YOUR OWN DEATH , THE LATEST INSTALMENT IN THE CASTLE KNOLL FILES, NOW. OUT APRIL 2026. The much-anticipated sequel to How To Solve Your Own Murder...

"Outback noir has a new star" Mark Sanderson, The Times "A rising star of crime fiction" Joan Smith, Sunday Times "Delivers another larger-than-life, take-no-prisoners slice of outback noir. A truly...

'A Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit' IAN RANKIN 'A total gobsmacking original' JAMES PATTERSON 'A blast from start to finish' DENNIS LEHANE Los Angeles...

'A real page-turner, one that kept me guessing, and pulling the rug out from under me' Novel Notions ' A glorious reconfiguration of classic fantasy ' David Wragg, author of...

'S. A. Cosby's novels always hit the grand slam of crime fiction' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'American crime fiction has found its future and his name is S.A. Cosby' DENNIS LEHANE A...

'This gripping thriller shows what a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMES 'A dark and enthralling historical novel with a powerful narrative. The mysterious Daniel Pursglove has all the qualifications...

Escape to Enchanted Hill in this historical mystery where two people with a dark, shared past collide while working undercover at a glittering mansion on the California coast. The year...

There's suspicion, smuggling and shady goings-on galore in the second novel in Dan Kavanagh's darkly humorous series, featuring bisexual private detective Duffy. Everyone knows a bit of petty theft goes...

The first novel in a darkly humorous London-based crime series featuring bisexual private detective Duffy. When Brian McKechnie finds his wife attacked, his cat killed, and himself blackmailed by a...

Half a lifetime ago, Alex McKnight was a young cop in Detroit. Now he's an occasional private eye up in Paradise, Michigan, and trying hard to put the past behind...

'Terrific entertainment' -- STEPHEN KING on Thomas Mullen's Darktown A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in this gripping historical thriller set in World...

From the author of the UK's bestselling crime debut of 2014, Eeny Meeny, comes this new chilling thriller A young woman wakes in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea...

DI Helen Grace - heroine of Eeny Meeny - returns in this furiously paced new thriller. A man's body is found in an empty house. His heart has been cut...

BOOK 5 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'Another clever, twisty read' i Paper 'You'll want to take a front row pew in Champton while this delicious series unfolds'...

Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland **** At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America...

After achieving her lifelong dream of solving a murder, Beatrice Steele feels like everything is finally falling into place. Accompanied by her ever-trusty chaperone, Miss Bolton, she's traded her small...

The brand-new gripping thriller from the million copy bestseller M.J. Arlidge Nowhere to hide. No-one to turn to. Nothing to lose. Helen Grace is sure she made the right decision...

A city on the brink. A mother on the edge. A nightmare that only DI Helen Grace can end. Sometimes, the darkest secrets hide in plain sight... Naomi's mother is...

A PERFECT MARRIAGE. A PERFECT HONEYMOON. A PERFECT CRIME... Laura Ayars' perfect world is shattered at a time which should have been the happiest of her life. On her honeymoon,...

'Utterly charming and expertly plotted with twists I genuinely never saw coming!' Jessica Bull, author of Miss Austen Investigates A gripping and twisty standalone instalment in a charmingly bookish new...

She is the girl with the dragon tattoo. Lisbeth Salander. An uncompromising misfit whose burning sense of injustice and talent for investigation will never respect boundaries of state or status....

Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island - meteorogically wet but alcoholically dry - to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school there:...

The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday to the centre...