Crime Fiction

Lights, camera, murder In the Lake District, someone's laying on a deadly welcome... The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District -...

The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4's Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and The Kumars at No. 42. Shortlisted...

'Another on point mix of humour, chaos and quirky fun' Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of...

Behind the sequins and the sparkles, the competition is about to turn deadly ... 'I loved it! I'm quite convinced I've danced with Lily Richmond, and if anyone can solve...

Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the...

Promising Young Woman meets High Fidelity in the dark and twisty thriller from the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl, The Strangers We Know and The Paris Affair. A bad...

**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...

She thinks it was murder. But if she can't trust herself, can anyone else? Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new...

Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK...

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...

Lucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of her glamorous and outgoing high-end model sister Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to Sao Paulo, Lucinda...

Promising Young Woman meets High Fidelity in the dark and twisty thriller from the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl, The Strangers We Know and The Paris Affair. A bad...

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power...

'The perfect summer escape, I adored it!' USA Today bestselling author Faith Hogan In a tiny bookshop in Dubrovnik's historic Old Town, a book club begins... Newly arrived on the...

A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Dinah Jefferies and Kate Mosse. 'A poignant page-turning story, beautifully written' Leonora Nattrass, author of Blue Water 'Hugely evocative and beautifully written'...

'Gritty, compelling storytelling' Daily Mail 'Dark, tense, action-packed, and so, so clever ... I couldn't stop until the very last page. Outstanding' Andrea Mara, number one Sunday Times bestselling author...

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'Hauntingly creepy' - ERIN KELLY 'A unique jewel of a book' - LIZZY BARBER 'A heartfelt and chilling gothic tragedy' - CHRIS WHITAKER People come to visit my home and...

In this gripping mystery, an FBI Agent's search for her sister clashes with a military investigator's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy--from which neither of them...

The Binding meets The Handmaid's Tale - Discovering a book of dark and ancient power, a convent librarian must defend it with her life. Perfect for fans of dark academia...

Winner of the Fingerprint Award for Thriller of the Year THE NEW CAUTIONARY TALE OF OBSESSION, LOVE, JEALOUSY AND DECEPTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE AND...

IT'S GORY, IT'S GRIPPING, IT'S GERRITSEN. A Rizzoli & Isles bestseller. JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING . . . 'Absolutely riveting - you won't be able to put this down' Mo...

From the bestselling breakout author of The Bluffs comes a heart-stopping new thriller set on the rugged coast of Tasmania about family bonds and betrayals, and the hidden dangers that...

The number one bestselling thriller from the 'queen of the one-sit read', multi-million-copy bestseller. Secrets start to unravel in a family-friendly neighbourhood when a local girl goes missing. 'The most...

A spellbinding, edge-of your seat thriller, INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE follows a family tasked with guarding a trove of magical but deadly books, and the shadowy organisation that will do...

A new look for the first installment in the award-winning Brunetti series by crime fiction writer Donna Leon 'A splendid series . . . with a backdrop of the city...

In this gripping new thriller from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger, Wilde follows a tip that he hopes will finally solve the mystery...

A page-turning collection of dark and twisted crime stories from the international bestselling author of the Harry Hole series. **THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR** **Shortlisted for the Crime Writers'...

Murder stalks a touring stage production of A Christmas Carol in this 1930s-set festive mystery. It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies Dark, strange, thick...

How do you stop a murder when it's already happened? Find out the lengths one woman will go to save her family It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent...

Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? The follow-up to the international bestseller Beartown Can a broken town survive a second tragedy? By the time the last goal is...

The phenomenal bestseller. The overall bestselling novel of 2017, with almost 700,000 copies sold in print alone. 'Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn...

Would you kill for... THE PERFECT LIFE? Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When...

The killer isn't out there. It's one of you. Everyone thinks that Sadie Saunders is dead. Missing now for a week - there are whispers of murder. As the police...

The British Secret Service turn their attentions to a linguistic prodigy in the Congo in this espionage thriller, new to Penguin Modern Classics At a top-secret meeting between Western financiers...

**A Journey into the Wild and the Human Heart** From the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands INDIE FICTION...

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was...

Philip Marlowe's client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Easy. Probably too...

A woman has been reported missing to detective Marlowe and a corpse is found in the lake. Yet it is not the body of the missing person, but that of...

When the services of famed detective Sherlock Holmes are engaged to ensure the safety of Baskerville heir Sir Henry - recently arrived from America - Dr Watson is surprised to...

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat,...

Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of iniquity . ....

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake...

One of the best-known pieces of detective fiction and probably the most popular of all Holmes stories The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery...

A collection of some of Holmes' most challenging cases - and his first encounter with Moriarty This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance...

Penguin Classics relaunch The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...