Crime Fiction

Detective Inspector Bill Reid is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in...

From the international bestselling author of Dexter come a brilliant new thriller starring Riley Wolfe: a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. ********...

London, January 2014. In the space of 32 hours, in a well-planned and highly organised operation, six billionaires' children are taken off the streets of London in a series of...

Trusted surgeon. Loving wife. Murderer? Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in...

'A hugely entertaining character who is wry, gossipy and completely compelling. Full of twists and turns worthy of a classic mystery novel' ALEX MICHAELIDES, author of The Silent Patient 'Gripping...

There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder. Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it...

This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE Something is lurking beneath the water's surface... Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher has escaped to her family's lake house...

'An utterly addictive, deliciously dark look at the underside of glamorous university life . . . An absolute five star read' GYTHA LODGE 'I was completely hooked. Reminiscent of Big...

'Intense, complex and unforgettable' James Patterson * The explosive new thriller in the New Orleans series, from Karen Rose. * Cora-Jane Winslow's father walked out on her family 23 years...

A thrilling selection of short crime stories chosen from the Scarlet Stiletto Awards held annually by Sisters in Crime Australia. This sequel to the bestselling FIRST CUT features the First...

Investigator Lennox just can't stay out of trouble. Lennox is looking for legitimate cases - anything's better than working for the Three Kings, the crime bosses who run Glasgow's underworld....

Human remains are recovered from the bottom of the River Clyde. Tests reveal they've been there for eighteen years. Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the dredged up...

It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all as the 'National Shame',...

In a town full of secrets, who can you trust? In the aftermath of a mass shooting in a mosque, small town tensions run high. Clashes between the Muslim community...

Prepare to be chilled to the bone... Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater...

The Thorns are living a happy family life in North West London when a tragedy changes their lives for ever. Rosa takes a job as a supply drama teacher in...

In Cambridge, in 1914, the golden June days seem timeless. But for Joseph Reavley, a university don, the idyllic summer is shattered by his parents' deaths in a car accident....

Dan Carter, his wife Sara and their two children are at Heathrow, about to get on a plane that will take them on their first vacation as a family when...

Superb standalone thriller from the bestselling author of THE WATCHMAN. Two minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. Ask anyone...

Matt McBride remembers the first victim. He was barely out of junior high when the mutilated body of the popular, pretty teenager was uncovered in the desolate New Jersey Pine...

The first novel in the explosive Matthew Scudder Series. The tenth novel in the series - A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES - is set to be a major Hollywood film,...

His name is the Priest. His weapon is a crucifix. His victims don't have a prayer. A killer is stalking the dark streets of Dublin. Before each attack, he makes...

A. Scott Fenney is a hotshot corporate lawyer at a big Dallas firm. At 33, in the prime of his life, he rakes in $750,000 a year, drives a Ferrari...

Little Woody Swope was gravely ill. Treatment was possible, if painful. But his parents, members of a bizarre sect called the Touchers, threatened to take him out of hospital. Then...

Charlie Fox really didn't care who shot dead her ex-army comrade, Kirk Salter during a bodyguard training course in Germany. But when old flame Sean Meyer asks her to go...

Meet the cast of Jubilee Terrace, one of the most popular soap operas on British television. When one of the cast members dies suddenly of a heart attack, those in...

'Cut his eyes out, so he has. What kind of a monster could. Cut his eyes out?' The brutal murder of ten-year-old Callum Bradley sent shockwaves across Scotland but, as...

Detective Inspector Charlie Priest is officially on sick leave, but this brief break from work comes to an abrupt end when Mrs Marina Norris's chauffeur is found dead from unnatural...

In the autumn of 1523, Roger Shallot, self-proclaimed physician, rogue, charlatan and secret emissary of King Henry VIII, has nothing to do. His master, Benjamin Daunbey, has been sent to...

'As Lewis's eyes adjusted to the light, what appeared at first to be a can of ivory-coloured sticks and stones proved to be a can of disarticulated bones, some like...

A new psychological thriller. Jack is ex-police force and still grieving the collapse of his marriage and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, Jacinta, four years earlier. He is dragged...

Reverend Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) and Dr Arthur Conan Doyle meet with the editor Mr Bassett. Mr Bassett viciously rejects not only Doyle's work, but also that of up-and-coming...

At a derelict port in Stockholm, two brutally murdered men are found by a security guard. In the same area a young woman, Aida, is on the run from a...

Skin is a work of art, a nest of capillaries, glands and nerves that both regulates and protects. It is our sensory interface with the outside world, the barrier at...

Luisa 'Lu' Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her revered father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and...

A crime thriller cutting to the heart of the political sleaze in Italy. A beautiful teenage girl, Simona Biondi, has gone missing from her home in the Italian capital. Castagnetti,...

January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from...

Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson - a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department,...

The most famous police officer in Sweden is found murdered in his bed. His four-year-old son is missing. His wife is suspected of killing both of them. No one believes...

Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father....

When a federal judge is murdered alongside his mistress it looks like a simple case of jealous rage. Until Wyatt Hunt stumbles on a strange connection between the judge &...

In A.D. 644, the Venerable Dacan, a respected scholar of the Celtic Church, is murdered while on a visit to the Abbey of Ros Ailithir in the Irish Kingdom of...