Crime Fiction

A noirish Hollywood murder mystery, from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line A Hollywood screenwriter is brought to write up the grisly murder of a middle-aged,...

In this emotionally charged thriller, detective Merci Rayborn faces the challenge of a lifetime - a high-profile murder case that points to her lover as the main suspect. A riveting...

Third in the series of explosive thrillers featuring Sam Packer from the bestselling author of The Lucifer Network Sam Packer, hero of Firehawk and The Lucifer Network, has a new...

A long-defunct gay activist group seems to be threatening radio shock jock Jay Plankton. As The J-Bird, the man's hate-filled rants offend Strachey deeply. Among the subjects Stevenson tackles in...

How on earth did nebbish university librarian David Goldberg end up on Virginia's Ten Most Wanted Criminals list for bestiality? And how did he get ensnared in a vast right-wing...

Miss Merkel is on the case! The #1 Germany cosy crime bestseller which features the crime-busting retirement adventures of the former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, for fans of Richard Osman....

Author:  David Hewson An ancient ritual. A modern-day crime. A body is found in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber. Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes...

THE NEWEST THRILLER IN THE DS ADAM TYLER SERIES, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIREWATCHING 'I was hooked on DS Adam Tyler from the first page . . . Spot...

From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends torn apart by gang violence and class differences. Dogge is from affluent Roennviken in Stockholm....

London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighbourhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of...

Few locals believe Sinclair's wealthy golden boy Martin Avery actually took his own life-or that his beautiful young widow had nothing to do with his death. Well aware of the...

After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which...

Pulling a handbag from a pushchair handle, two teenage trouble-makers, Zipp and Andreas, unwittingly commit murder when the baby inside is thrown to the ground. Unaware of what has happened,...

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously...

Bestselling French author of psychological suspense Karine Giebel makes her American debut with this dark and haunting novel about the unbreakable bond between two brothers, both treated unfairly by the...

The heat is on to catch a killer In the picturesque Australian Blue Mountains, the sleepy town of Rislake is burning. Caught in the path of a major bushfire, the...

Alone in his New York loft our hero, the private detective Kinky Friedman, reflects on friendship and why his friends are out of town. The phone rings. It's Kinky's old...

**THE BRAND NEW SUN-SOAKED THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER** 'Escapist, thrilling, unforgettable' Gillian McAllister 'The queen of the destination thriller is back with her best book yet' Claire Douglas 'Wickedly...

**Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Christian Bale and Gillian Anderson** April 19th, 1831. In two or three hours I'll be dead. So begins the chilling last testament...

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question- Who has authority over a woman's body?...

JOHN HANNEBERY NEVER WANTED TO BE A HITMAN. He had no system for it. And, although a dark part of him took pleasure in hurting people, bad people, he had...

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the...

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a belligerent...

You think you know what happened that night But the truth is far more dangerous ... 'Exquisitely told by the author of last year's bestselling debut Anna O ... just...

A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six. 'The secrets simmer in this atmospheric,...

IT IS THE EARLY 1980'S. Greg Bowker is a young senior constable forcibly transferred to a one-officer station in a remote and dying Mallee town. Welcomed by a brutal combination...

The world's number one thriller writer introduces a cast of unforgettable characters in twenty pulse-pounding standalone short stories, collected together for the first time. I was the guy who always...

The gripping new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author which asks the ultimate question- How far should you go to protect those you love? Frannie, Cathy and Joe...

A perfect getaway to a beautiful, remote hotel turns deadly in this claustrophobic, pulse-pounding and unputdownable thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, Shari Lapena. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER...

The extraordinary top ten Sunday Times bestseller about a school under siege In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens- a school is under siege. Told...

Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life-a mother out to numb the...

EVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . . PARIS, CHRISTMAS 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl...

Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks...

Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that...

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe,...

When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she thought would be futile turns lethal. Old skeletons from the city's...

When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. Sligo is missing, and a manhunt begins, but the letter A...