Crime Fiction

In the early hours of the morning in a luxury Leeds penthouse, a terrified victim is doused with petrol, set alight, and thrown out of a ninth-floor window. The victim...

Rome is in chaos. The empire of a mobster chief is falling apart following his death. Rivals, fearsome relatives and associates are taking up position to vie for the spoils....

She thinks it was murder. But if she can't trust herself, can anyone else? Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new...

Martin Cruz Smith does more on a page than most writers manage in a chapter. He is unique and irreplaceable' MICK HERRON, author of Slow Horses ARKADY RENKO IS BACK...

How Many Cats Have You Killed? by Mick Herron and Strangers in a Pub by Martin Edwards from Ten Year Stretch are longlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger Twenty...

George Markham has a nasty little hobby, one that erupts into an orgy of vicious sexual depravity. Patrick Kelly is a hard man. His one soft spot is his daughter,...

The 26th book in the award-winning Faith Fairchild Mysteries series. Katherine Hall Page's beloved amateur detective gets wrapped up in a Zoom-bombing scandal that sends her community into a tailspin...

Agatha Christie's sensational mystery thriller set in her Devonshire homeland. On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot meets a pretty young woman with an unusual name, 'Nick' Buckley. Upon discovering a bullet-hole...

She's written murder mysteries before, but can she solve this real life cold case? Just as Jen sits down to start writing her next murder mystery novel, she stumbles across...

Sweetpea TV series starring Ella Purnell now on Sky Atlantic! Everyone's favourite serial killer is back, and she's more unpredictable than ever... Readers LOVE Thorn in My Side 'Perfect for...

It's the season of peace and goodwill, but a Victorian Christmas is no holiday for the world's most popular detective in this new book from Bonnie MacBird, author of the...

The Sunday Times number one bestselling debut novel 'Absolutely outrageous. A total snigger-fest.' SINDHU VEE 'Unputdownable. Thoroughly enjoyable and twisted.' KATERINA DIAMOND Welcome to a hen do where revenge is...

Lucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of her glamorous and outgoing high-end model sister Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to Sao Paulo, Lucinda...

Promising Young Woman meets High Fidelity in the dark and twisty thriller from the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl, The Strangers We Know and The Paris Affair. A bad...

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power...

' 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...

'Gritty, compelling storytelling' Daily Mail 'Dark, tense, action-packed, and so, so clever ... I couldn't stop until the very last page. Outstanding' Andrea Mara, number one Sunday Times bestselling author...

'Hauntingly creepy' - ERIN KELLY 'A unique jewel of a book' - LIZZY BARBER 'A heartfelt and chilling gothic tragedy' - CHRIS WHITAKER People come to visit my home and...

In this gripping mystery, an FBI Agent's search for her sister clashes with a military investigator's high-stakes case, leading them both deep into a global conspiracy--from which neither of them...

The Binding meets The Handmaid's Tale - Discovering a book of dark and ancient power, a convent librarian must defend it with her life. Perfect for fans of dark academia...

Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced....

In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a...

The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue. Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten...

The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes,...

PRAISE FOR YUKITO AYATSUJI'S MYSTERIES 'Very clever indeed' Anthony Horowitz 'From the first page you know you're in the hands of a master... Flawless' Ian Moore, author of Death and...

WINNER OF THE JAPANESE DETECTIVE WRITERS CLUB PRIZE _____ This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto. _____Early...

Glamorous socialite Iris Carr is on her way back to England from a European summer holiday and looking forward to the comforts of home, when she strikes up a conversation...

'The solution is one of the most original that I've ever read' Anthony Horowitz 'This book is an unmissable triumph' Tom Mead, Publishers Weekly 'It's a budding Sherlock's dream' Crime...

THE ACCLAIMED LEGAL THRILLER FROM THE QUEEN OF CRIME DRAMA Young Cassie Booth goes missing on her paper round. Then her bloodstained jacket is found in a boathouse belonging to...

THE CAST OF SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING THE APPEAL RETURN FOR A FESTIVE MURDER MYSTERY One dead Santa. A town full of suspects. Will you discover the truth? Christmas in Lower...

Strange things are happening in the Chizurui mansion... At night, a figure clad in a Hannya mask is spotted wandering around the house. The amateur crime fiction writer, Akimitsu Takagi,...

Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the bloody recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime struggles to...

An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. But no sooner...

Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki, a brooding, troubled composer, has been found dead. When...

Every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote, castle-like Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived...

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that...

A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all... The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has...

Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the sixteenth century eight samurai, who had taken refuge there along...

'[ Death on Gokumon Island ] is perfect summer fun' - Anthony Horowitz Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news - the son of one of...

On the eve of the Great Purge, a horseman and horse mysteriously collapse in the middle of a race in Leningrad. Weary Detective Zaitsev, still raw from his last brush...

The members of a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly, unsolved multiple murder the year before. They're looking forward to investigating...

In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan's terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons,...

The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of Japan. A curious place for the millionaire Kozaburo Hamamoto to build a house,...

The Lady Killer leads a double life in the shadow world of Tokyo's singles bars and nightclubs. By day a devoted husband and hard worker, by night he cruises nightclubs...

Daisy Clayton's killer was never caught. In over ten years, there has been no breakthrough in her murder case. Detective Renee Ballard has faced everything the LAPD's notorious dusk-till-dawn graveyard...

Shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction 2024 Defence attorney Mickey Haller has agreed to represent a woman who is in prison for killing her husband,...

Rene Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit find a DNA link to a serial killer known as the Pillowcase Rapist. But when Ballard and her team move in on their...

Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now-in startling circumstances-one of their own is found dead in...