Crime Fiction

Death is only the beginning... 'Breathtaking ... A new talent [in] the field of gothic historical literature' NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS 'Devilishly macabre ... As dark as a midnight...

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A Sunday Times bestseller for the w/c 11th January 2021 A house of secrets... As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith's home is falling into the sea....

Jack Reacher, \"the coolest continuing series character\" (Stephen King), returns in a brand new, pulse-pounding read from Lee and Andrew Child. Jack Reacher is a hard man to track down....

Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives. At...

Ghostalker Ropa Moyo and her rag-tag team of magicians are back in The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third book in the spellbinding Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu....

THE AMAZON UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER "Superbly written. Well thought out plot and in-depth knowledge of the location made this a must read book. Can't wait for the next one."...

2017 Arthur Ellis Best First Novel Award Finalist It's too cold to go missing in northern B.C., as a mismatched team of investigators battle the clock while the disappearances add...

Bermondsey Priory, 1114. A young chaplain succumbs to the temptations of the flesh - and suffers a gruesome punishment. From that moment, the monastery is cursed and over the next...

The New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling, brilliantly crafted crime-thriller sequel to the no.1 debut of 2019, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder . NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES...

Don't miss the new, totally addictive psychological thriller from Sarah Goodwin, with bombshell twists that will leave you stunned. Fans of The Sanatorium, The Paris Apartment and One of the...

Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom. A short story featuring Giordano Bruno: heretic, philosopher and spy, from Parris's Sunday Times bestselling series. Even the dead have a story to tell......

Gordianus is now twenty-two years old and living in Alexandria with Bethesda, scraping by in modest and haphazard fashion. But then Bethesda is kidnapped by mistake. With few resources available...

1984: It looked like a simple job. That was why they gave it to him. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after a savage acid attack - at...

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As Shanghai surpasses Hong Kong as Asia's most important city, Zhong Fong's Office of Special Investigations faces an increasingly sophisticated, and increasingly global, breed of criminal. When Zhong follows a...

The biggest race riot in Manchester's history and his brother's death have left PI Callum Innes a physical and emotional wreck, when the word comes through that his erstwhile nemesis...

Marcus Williams is a former New York City homicide detective. Francis Ackerman Jr is a serial killer. And both men are about to become unwilling pawns in a conspiracy that...

When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal or so-called 'Funeral' owl, the paper's editor Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding....

Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident - he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, 35...

A mesmerising fiction debut - that's part coming-of-age novel and part mystery - set in a small Australian town. 'Ross's debut blends small-town mystery, romance and magical realism into an...

'Superb crime writing from a master' - Stephen Loosley, The Australian

Deaf since early childhood, Caleb Zelic is used to meeting life head-on. Now, he's struggling just to get through the day. His best mate is dead, his ex-wife, Kat, is...

Art, scandal, and murder in Renaissance Florence as a great art historian is charged to investigate the murder of a painter - from the author of the international bestseller HHhH....

'Clever, dark, and hopeful . . . a love letter to reading and the power childhood stories have over us long after we've grown up' V.E. Schwab, author of The...

'An English private investigator with local establishment connections and a potent mix of doggedness and naivete. You can smell the ragu... You can feel the fear of those who fall...

WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD IAN RANKIN'S CHOICE FOR BOTH BEST MYSTERY BOOK OF 2021 (PBS), AND BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ( NEW STATESMAN ) 'Russell writes a...

Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you...

This riveting, heart-stopping suspense novel is set at St. Marguerite's cathedral, where nuns are being murdered: viciously garrotted, and left covered with an altar cloth. With the aid of one...

Private Investigator Regan Reilly moved from Los Angeles to New York City when she married Jack 'no relation' Reilly, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad. To help a friend...

The Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet...

The multi-million copy international bestseller Linwood Barclay is back with a thriller that will keep you awake all night . . . From the author of FIND YOU FIRST Paul...

14-year-old Amanda Creay arrives home from school to find her mother murdered: her throat slit, her corpse brutalised, subjected to the most appalling torture before she died. A piece of...

A new psychological thriller. Jack is ex-police force and still grieving the collapse of his marriage and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, Jacinta, four years earlier. He is dragged...

'A real race-through read. Bolton's writing is pacy, and features a brilliant twist I wish I'd written.' Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of I See You (in Shortlist ) 'For once,...

Famous killers have fan clubs. Hamish Wolfe is no different. Locked up for the rest of his life for the abduction and murder of three young women, he gets countless...

April, 1945.East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich.To the north, at a lonely outpost near...

When Rob Hale wakes up in hospital after a motorcycle crash he is told that Lena, the woman he claims was travelling with him, doesn't exist. The woman he describes...

As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger...

SEPTEMBER 1939. THE SECOND WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. Even as the fighting rages in Poland, Stalin's long time obsession with the missing treasure of Tsar Nicholas II is rekindled. An...

It is 1939. The world stands on the brink of Armageddon. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have left the country unprepared to face the onslaught...

A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and...

Fresh from the triumph of their first case, Mrs. Emma Hudson and Mrs. Violet Warner are thrust into a new mystery when young Winston Churchill arrives in need of help....

* SELECTED AS ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 IN THE MYSTERY/THRILLER CATEGORY* 'Superb! T he Devil's Playground is imagination on steroids... breathtaking!' Jeffery Deaver 'A terrifying...

'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court , this is the second instalment in the...