Crime Fiction

From Amy Suiter Clarke, author of Girl, 11, comes a brilliant psychological thriller about an evangelical pastor's control over a rural town and the secrets they might be hiding. A...

It's personal, isn't it? It's telling me that whoever sent those notes knows all about me, knows everything about me - my habits, my interests, my private life. And it's...

When, despite all his training and twenty five years experience as a private detective, Phil Kramer is shot dead on a quiet suburban south California street his wife and partners...

The first title in The Brinkmann Trilogy. /B> iving a quiet life in the sleepy suburbs, Sophie Brinkmann is captivated by the handsome and sophisticated Hector Guzman. She has no...

Another case to solve for the number-one bestselling Bookshop Detectives. When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we'd made a terrible mistake. The one thing they didn't warn...

Shortlisted for the 2025 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction Shortlisted for the 2025 Danger Award for Crime Fiction Sydney, Australia: The body of a young woman is found...

Another dark and funny crime novel by the author Carl Hiaasen has called "the real deal." The fourth Brenner book finds the detective in Vienna, uncovering corruption in the ambulance...

'Seymour produces the most intelligent writing in the thriller genre' Financial Times *** Gary - 'Gaz' - Baldwin is a watcher, not a killer. Operating with a special forces unit...

AN UNDERCOVER INFORMANT HAS BEEN MURDERED... BUT WHOSE SIDE WAS HE ON? AN UNDERCOVER INFORMANT HAS BEEN MURDERED... BUT WHOSE SIDE WAS HE ON? AN UNDERCOVER INFORMANT HAS BEEN MURDERED......

Double Indemnity is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust. Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other...

Ronnie Sidney is a perfect child. The illegitimate son of a wartime romance, he gives his mother the unconditional love she so craves. In his mother's eyes Ronnie is faultless:...

It should have been an open and shut murder case, but Mia Quinn finds out nothing about it is simple. After a young Chinese prostitute is stabbed to death by...

Olivia Alexander (nee Sharp) thinks her biggest problem is discovering her husband's affair. Then a stranger accosts her on the street warning, "Don't sign anything." When Olivia reluctantly follows his...

London. A city where no-one feels safe and one man's crime is another man's justice. A paedophile is brutally murdered in his own home, and to protect other known offenders...

A Detective Chief Inspector Wexford novel. The fatal car accident involving the stockbroker Fanshawe couldn't possibly be connected with the murder of a cocky little lorry driver. But was it...

' The Split meets Apple Tree Yard . Sharp, clever and wildly addictive... the ultimate summer page-turner ' Sunday Times bestseller B P Walter 'The best kind of up-all-night page-turner...

HUSTLERS meets BIG LITTLE LIES in the heist of the summer... A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Propulsive and captivating' Vogue 'Darkly comedic' Daily Mail Meet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has...

Don't miss the next emotionally gripping thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! THE STORY... The first chapter of a manuscript arrives on Publisher Marina's desk. She assumes it's just...

Play or be played in book one of the Game Trilogy , the Swedish thriller series taking the world by storm. Are you ready to play? When Henrik "HP" Pettersson...

At a dark place in Edinburgh's heart, secrets refuse to lie dormant. Grace Macallan is struggling to see a future for herself in the police. Working in Counter Corruption at...

Private, the world's most powerful investigation firm, has branches around the world. Each is staffed with brilliant agents and has the kind of forensic tools that police investigators dream of....

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political...

An obsessive psychopath must be stopped whilst Detective Superintendent Roy Grace also deals with a very personal mystery in Want You Dead, by award winning crime writer Peter James. Grace's...

A story of intrigue, romance and murder following the formation of a bridge club in a Russetshire village. The club alters the lives of many of its members and the...

Precious Ramotswe has always idolised her father, the late Obed Ramotswe. She feels that she knows all about his life - but does she? Sometimes our parents surprise us, and...

Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo return for a new thrilling adventure North Africa, 533 A.D. The last Vandal ruler faces the invading Byzantines. An oracle predicts defeat unless...

Colton's Last Resort - Amber Leigh Williams Lovers or liars? Anything to solve a murder. Laura Colton knows how to give homicide detective Noah Steele an all-access pass to her...

The stunning new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Knife Edge. Exciting, urgently contemporary and piercingly insightful, it more than confirms the promise of Mayo's bestselling and acclaimed...

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And your family should be closest of all. Patrick Brodie knows exactly how far he's prepared to go to get what he...

DI Kate Burrows thought she'd never face a killer like the Grantley Ripper again. But she was wrong. One by one, children are being abandoned. Thankfully, they're rescued from harm....

The new superb thriller from the highly acclaimed author of last year's success, Improvising Carla; It is the long, hot summer of 1976. Six friends share an idyllic few months...

Did someone try to kill me or am I going mad? When writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his friend s girlfriend, Jenny, back at...

Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding not a rock but a human skull. edical examiner Maura Isles quickly determines...

St Cedd's Church fete has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the...

IN AN EVIL WORLD, EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE... The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further...

Edgar Award-nominated and USA Today -bestselling crime writer Lou Berney returns to his critically acclaimed thriller series starring former mob wheelman Shake Bouchon, who finds himself reluctantly involved in a...

Chef Charlie Hunter finds backstabbing among the online celebrities living in her little Chilterns village turning to murder, in the third of the Old Forge Cafe Mystery series. 'An irresistibly...

Another book in the brilliant cosy crime meets culinary adventure series from Alex Coombs. 'An irresistibly delicious mix of cooking and murder' Trisha Ashley 'A fantastic read which I got...

A Times Thriller Of The Month. Spy fiction at it's finest. A TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH 'Absolutely gripping' Alex Gerlis, Every Spy a Traitor 'Nygate is not afraid to...

Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award winning author Peter James, faces his most mysterious case yet in Need You Dead. Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage...

IN A HOUSE OF LIES ... Everyone has something to hide A missing private investigator is found, locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still - both...

The stunning new thriller from Britain's no.1 crime writer [Devil's feather - [derivation Turkish] - a woman who stirs a man's interest without realising it; the unwitting cause of sexual...

'A good police force is one that catches more crooks than it employs' - Sir Robert Mark 'A good police force is one that catches more crooks than it employs'...

Glen Barber's life has just spiralled out of control. His wife's car is found at the scene of a drunk-driving accident that took three lives. Not only is she dead,...

The newspapers call them the Savages: a band of home invaders as merciless as they are stealthy. Usually they don't leave a clue. This time, they've left a body. The...

Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes. The gamut of Victorian society and...