Crime Fiction

'A dark and powerful portrayal of small town secrets and a friendship that leads to tragedy. Luke Johnson is an uncommonly sensitive storyteller - a writer who understands how silences...

Married to an undercover cop, Leslie MacHugh is lonely and bored. She thinks she knows what it means to share her life with a man who spends his days living...

James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into the UK and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the...

Dark deeds in the Peak District refuse to stay buried When a skeleton is unearthed at a building site in the village of Meresham, the police immediately link the case...

February, 1979, 'The Winter of Discontent'. Economic chaos has led to widespread strikes across Britain. Jane Tennison, now a Detective Sergeant, has been posted to Peckham CID, one of London's...

It's not easy being a good detective - when your brother's a serial killer. Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near...

' Neighbourhood Watch is a sharp, stylish thriller with a killer opening hook, a generous dose of dark humour, and a truly distinctive voice.' Christian White The annual Curlew Street...

A 2021 pick for Barack Obama and the New York Times, Intimacies is a dazzling exploration of truth and power 'An incredible writer' Natalie Portman 'One of my favourite novels...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER. 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' -...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy, The Force , and Broken comes the first novel in an epic crime saga about the Irish and Italian crime...

The seventh title in the bestselling Inspector McLean series from James Oswald Inspector McLean is back in the next gripping instalment in James Oswald's bestselling crime series.

The Instant Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller from the Author of Slow Horses SUNDAY TIMES, THRILLER OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN, CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR DAILY TELEGRAPH, BOOK OF THE YEAR...

Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team uncovered and stopped a...

Inspired by true events, Forget You Saw Her is the pulse-pounding standalone prequel to the international bestselling, BookTok sensation Ask for Andrea. She lost her daughter once. Now, she'll go...

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold,...

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...

Can Skinner penetrate multiple layers of intrigue to unearth a killer? An exhilarating installment in this hugely popular Scottish crime series. Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has witnessed the aftermath...

In Edinburgh s old Parliament House, an armed robbery trial is about to take a macabre turn. While the lawyers tussle over the evidence, the judge suddenly collapses in agony...

Skinner faces the greatest, most personal tests of his career in this gripping crime thriller. Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking not only that someone up...

Bob Skinner must challenge local beliefs and legends to solve a gruesome murder in this fourth installment in the fantastic Scottish crime series. A four-day tournament involving the world's leading...

Skinner is on the trail of organised crime and a cold-blooded killer in this gripping third novel in Quintin Jardine's bestselling crime series. First the joyous birth of Skinner's son...then...

In the thrilling first novel in Quintin Jardine's acclaimed Scottish crime series, DCS Bob Skinner faces a twisted serial killer. As head of Edinburgh's CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner...

A MONASTERY Hidden deep in the wilderness are the cloisters of two dozen monks - men of prayer and music, famous the world over for their glorious voices. A MURDER...

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new...

Hitchcock Sewell - part-owner of Sewell and Sons Funeral Home - is most surprised when Carolyn James arrives at his mortuary and asks to make arrangements for her own funeral...

While investigating two murders, Detective Harry Doyle's eight year old daughter is abducted, and Harry is miles away, left to rot in a mineshaft. A gripping thriller about murder, revenge...

Two brothers - one a top FBI agent, the other a brilliant, twisted criminal - with an undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime and the ultimate challenge: Stop...

Sometimes the danger is on the inside . . . High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of dubious background,...

Jason Bourne, hero of "The Bourne Identity" and "The Bourne Supremacy", is forced out of retirement in this novel by his old enemies the Jackal and Medusa. Other books by...

It was, Adam Dalgliesh thought, uncommonly inconsiderate, if not negligent, of his doctors to reconcile him so thoroughly to death and then change their minds. Unsettled by this brush with...

When ex-Wall Streeter Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree bought a charming 1823 fixer-upper in tiny Eastport, Maine, she figured she'd also bought herself a tranquil, stress-free life. But Jake soon learned that...

A trio of desperate convicts has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur...

#1 New York Times #1 Wall Street Journal #1 Los Angeles Times #1 Entertainment Weekly #1 Publishers Weekly Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has...

Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex...

In this must-read thriller, an ambitious young cop suspects there's more to random, horrific murders in her small town and stumbles upon the first known Omnikiller - a serial killer...

The second psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. In the fishing community of Fjallbacka, life is remote, peaceful - and for some, tragically short. Foul...

A darkly compelling serial-killer novel introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for many books to come. A body...

You know everything about your husband. Don't you? He loves you. He loves your children. He'd never put his family in danger. One of these is a lie . It...

Heart-stopping and addictive, LOOK FOR ME is a stunning thriller that explores the deep and complex bond between mothers and daughters. 'Once you start reading, you won't want to stop'...

The unmissable new mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman \"A wedding. A code. A murder. Time is ticking . . . Your move.\" It's...

Emily and Poppy are living happily in the quaint village of Ashton Mead, where every household is friendly - with one exception. Unlike the other villagers, Silas Strang and his...

Not every witness protection programme is fool proof... Stephanie Plum finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time in Ten Big Ones, the tenth gripping adventure in the...

From the age of ten, Annabelle moved from city to city with her father, changing names, houses and histories every few months. But she never knew what they were running...