Crime Fiction

'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...

They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland...

Otis Joy is a very good vicar - he's attracted record-breaking congregations, his parishioners admire and respect him, and the village of Foxford is very content with its lot. What...

On an otherwise unremarkable afternoon, two boys who had spent most of the day paddling about on the dark waters of the old gravel pit pulled in to the side...

Peter Diamond, the traditionalist dinosaur of Bath CID, finds the low murder rate in the city a touch frustrating, so he decides to check whether a couple of suicides which...

The Bloodhounds of Bath is a society that meets in a crypt to discuss crime novels. To their latest recruit they are simply a gaggle of dotty misfits, until one...

Carrie Foster was still young when she started breaking the law. And she took to it like a duck to water. Gordon Matthews had transgressed only once, but his crime...

Summoned at night, Peter Diamond is collected from his West London flat by two policemen who drive him to bath, where once he headed the murder squad. Out of touch...

Major Johnson has served in the army faithfully and now, in retirement, he sets about village life in the same way. But beneath the surface of a quiet village, the...

Norman Widnes was the kindest nurse his invalid wife could wish for, but Norman was so pleasant to everyonea blameless shopkeeper in a quiet town. The murder of Emma Widnes...

Following on from the book The Last Detective , ex-CID and difficult-to-work-with Peter Diamond is sacked from his latest job as a security guard at Harrods. Doggedly he turns his...

Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: 'not some lad out of police school with a degree in computer studies' but a genuine gumshoe, given to doorstopping and deduction....

'Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill's best' Financial Times When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller...

Midsummer, and in an unassuming house on a quiet residential street on the edge of Brockwell Park in south London, a husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own...

Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically murdered and dumped...