Crime Fiction

When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Years ago, when...

January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from...

Castagnetti, a bee-keeping private detective, is hired by a businessman to find out who set fire to his car and why. It seems like a dead-end case, nothing more than...

Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson - a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department,...

The most famous police officer in Sweden is found murdered in his bed. His four-year-old son is missing. His wife is suspected of killing both of them. No one believes...

Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father....

When a federal judge is murdered alongside his mistress it looks like a simple case of jealous rage. Until Wyatt Hunt stumbles on a strange connection between the judge &...

In A.D. 644, the Venerable Dacan, a respected scholar of the Celtic Church, is murdered while on a visit to the Abbey of Ros Ailithir in the Irish Kingdom of...

A rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. THE DREAM She...

When the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems. An...

When young girls start to go missing, Samantha, a new detective on the Botswana police force suspects that muti, a traditional African medicine, is the reason. She and Detective David...

Faced with the violent death of his own father, even Assistant Superintendent David 'Kubu' Bengu, Botswana CID's keenest mind, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? The...

What REALLY happened at Turtle Lake? You think you know. Think again. California, 2003 A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad's Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of...

***THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'One of the most addictive thrillers I've read this year. A compulsive page-turner with high stakes and a heroine you find yourself absolutely rooting for'...

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Dark magic is unleashed...

THE BREATHTAKING NEW KAY SCARPETTA THRILLER FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER Two mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta's career . . ....

'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...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Finlay Donovan is irresistible!' JANET EVANOVICH 'I adore everything about it . . . the perfect blend of mystery and romcom' ALI HAZELWOOD Finlay...

How Many Cats Have You Killed? by Mick Herron and Strangers in a Pub by Martin Edwards from Ten Year Stretch are longlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger Twenty...

Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock have been granted leave to go on pilgrimage, both seeking solace after the recent, traumatic events in Gidleigh. Together they travel across Europe...

THE TWISTY THRILLER AND TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN A VILLAGE WITH THIS MANY SECRETS, A MURDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING . . . On New Year's Eve, Rhys...

For reporter Todd Mills, being the city''s most high profile gay man means fighting for those still cloaked in secrecy. But when he finds himself implicated in the murder of...

'Sparkles with wit and clever plotting' Publishers Weekly 'Sexy . . . clever, fun' Kirkus Reviews The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an...

The twenty-fourth book in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. If you are the founder and Managing Director of the No. 1 Ladies'...

'Intriguing and very scary' Ken Follett Abducted at thirteen. Returned at twenty-eight. Is it time to go back into the labyrinth? A young woman named Samantha Andretti wakes up in...

Life is dangerous when you have everything to lose. Famous, beautiful and talented, Heike Gunn has the world at her feet. Then, one day, she simply vanishes. Jack Parlabane has...

The third book in the Jasmine Sharp series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. One crime brought them together . . . Private investigator Jasmine Sharp should have wanted him dead. Yet...

Now with a new jacket and ISBN. Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost faith in the legal system. In an attempt to restore it, she has secretly devised a scheme to...

A WHOLE NEW REASON TO MIND THE GAP It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student...

TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four numbers that mean nothing to her. On...

US Navy intelligence analyst Ryan Evans is used to treating life like a code to be deciphered. But a brutal kidnapping in the Iraqi desert presents him with an excruciating...

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own...

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to...

August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are...

For ten years, newly retired Policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman brutally murdered and the affection he felt for the victim's mother, Margaret....

Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . . An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge,...

HER BLISTERING NEW CRIME THRILLER Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A noman's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated...

The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny...

Shrinkwrap includes B format editions of The Disappeared and The CoronerThe DisappearedTwo young British students, Nazim Jamal and Rafi Hassan vanish without a trace. The police tell their parents that...

'The world will witness my despair . . .' In the heart of Beijing's business district, a man throws himself off the top of a building. Tied to an advertising...

Swallow the Ghost traces the impact of a violent event on three different lives, each interconnected story further complicating the truth. Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so...

Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. But while they long...

As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts in the city, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own home, the body of Pompey's favorite cousin. Before fleeing the city, Pompey...

When female forensic pathologist Dr. Sam Ryan stumbles upon a mutilated body in a graveyard in the dark of night, the quiet English town of Northwick is changed forever. The...