Crime Fiction

A Cordelia Gray Mystery Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious....

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called...

Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers a peaceful and secure respite to the over-stressed professionals who holiday there. But their peace is violated when one of the distinguished visitors...

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills,...

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing...

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman...

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its...

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The latest Bob Skinner mystery from the legendary Quintin Jardine.'The legendary Quintin Jardine . . . such a fine writer' DENZIL MEYRICK On a sunny seaside August morning, a woman...

**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they...

Euphemia Martin's seventeenth gripping mystery is a nail-biting adventure of espionage and suspense set at the beginning of the Great War.When Fitzroy saved his valet, Griffin, from the hangman's noose...

'The most authentic new voice in crime fiction' Martina ColeWakefield, 1964.Life is hardly rosy for Annie Wills an unhappy upbringing and then married too young with husband Gary soon proving...

Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel.     "A super-thief who leaves no trace."-Andy Garcia     "An anti-hero for our times."-Sarah...

'SUPER-SMART AND HIGHLY ORIGINAL' - Doug Johnstone'BRILLIANT AND DEEPLY EVOCATIVE' - Graham Bartlett'AN EXCITING START TO A NEW SERIES' - Patricia Gibney'A WRITER AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME' -...

Compulsive, gripping and dark, NEVER BE BROKEN is the stunning new novel in the Marnie Rome series, for fans of Peter James, Mark Billingham, and Val McDermid'Deeply contemporary, painfully real,...

'Here's a novel to make the great and the good quake.... Harris writes with compassion or satirical glee, depending on which his characters deserve, and this third Kane novel puts...

"A fitting and frightening conclusion to a magnificent series" The Times     The final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close.  ...

'A searing and stunningly poignant study in what makes us and what breaks us' S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland'A gripping novel...

A little boy was found dead in a children's playground. . .Daniel Hunter has spent years defending lost causes as a solicitor in London. But his life changes when he...

'Complex, intriguing, clever, twisty, beautifully put together'MARI HANNAH, author of WITHOUT A TRACE* * * * * * *How do you find a killer when you can't recognise a face?Last...

'Do not read this. No reader deserves to be terrified like this' Linwood Barclay'Explosively exciting' SUNDAY MIRROR'Brutally compelling serial killer thriller... told at blistering pace' DAILY MAIL'Completely mesmerizing!' Lisa GardnerWhen...

Former investment banker Johan Golding - Joe to his friends - is the newest member of the Hartley and Edwards Investigations team. And he's thrilled to be shadowing Kitt Hartley,...

'I loved it! Throw a murder into the politics of the school gates and the parents' WhatsApp groups and you have a witty, insightful and thoroughly entertaining murder mystery!' -...

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRAL In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so...

The ultimate glamorous, escapist blockbuster - perfect for fans of Melanie Blake, Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran's Lace.     'Just the kind of glamorous escapism we all desperately need...

Join this accidental sleuth, Nick Morris, in his first mystery in The Art of Murder series.Nick Morris is your classic struggling artist. He paints pet portraits to pay the bills...

LIFE ON DEATH ROW TAKES ITS TOLL.   UNTIL YOU CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE...     Death Row duty comes with three simple rules:   Do not make it personal...

'A perfect example of what cosy crime should be like - drama, mystery and intrigue' Ginger Book Geek 'There is so much drama and entertainment crammed into this fantastic book...

In the summer of 1991, teen Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. It was the summer the Journal Sentinel dubbed 'the deadliest . . . in the history...

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The ninth book in the Sunday Times-bestselling phenomenon that is the Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers.Her mummified body is hidden in the dark corner...

Heart-pounding domestic suspense from an internationally-bestselling author One morning Caitlin Eckhart receives a phone call that changes her life forever - her much-loved six-year-old stepson Geordie has disappeared from school....

'A beautifully written book with a charming, young narrator, combined with a surprisingly dark and unusual whodunnit. It's a touching, powerful and twisty read, packed with intrigue. Will appeal to...

EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES. The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death.'A writer of almost cinematic talent' DAILY EXPRESSAlex Reeve was Operative 66....

Succession meets Lucy Foley's The Guest List in this thriller with a big heart and even bigger surprises, from the author of Hidden Pictures.'Kept my heart racing and my mind...

'Fresh, gripping and addictive' DAILY MAIL'Grips you from start to finish' KATE RHODES___________The island was abandoned for fifty years. So how did the body get there?Five-hundred kilometres from land in...

'Stunning . . . dark undercurrents and sinister twists' AMANDA ROBSON     'Truth Games is in the very top tier of psychological thrillers' M W CRAVEN     'The...

Fast, funny, spooky and disturbing: meet Tanz, Geordie actress turned accidental psychic, as she tries to cope with the voices in her head, even when they lead her to a...

The fifth novel in Anne Perry's breathtakingly tense and exciting spy thriller series, featuring young British photographer and secret agent Elena Standish, set in the 1930s when the world was...