Crime Fiction

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old...

Set in an English seaside town, this bracing, funny crime novel begins with the murder of Marilyn Monroe; a beach donkey found with its throat cut. PI Grace Smith is...

Maddie Layne's life hasn't been the same since her sister was murdered. The police never found Greta's body so all Maddie was left with was unanswered questions - and her...

Set in seventeenth-century rural England, BONE HOUSE is the tale of two women. One is large, voluptuous and charismatic - a prostitute to whom many, not just men, are drawn....

Arriving home from a pilgrim voyage, Sister Fidelma is told that her faithful Saxon companion, Brother Eadulf, is under sentence of death for the murder of a young girl. She...

Barley Newton is cold sober the day he walks down the dusty street in the gold-mining town of Baddock in the Montana Territory. The year is 1870, and Barley knows...

What begins as an adventure through the world of art and antiques turns out to be a wild and fatal journey in this Lovejoy favorite.

Never has Inspector Montalbano's signature mix of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food been more compelling than in "The Snack Thief," When an elderly man is stabbed...

A violent robbery, a family murdered, a daughter missing... A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story...

Charlotte, North Carolina. One of the town?s oldest neighbourhoods. An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint...Called to the scene is forensic...

In Liberty Square, Kate Delafield's lover convinces her to attend a 25th reunion of those she served with in Vietnam. But as Kate's painful memories of the war resurface, a...

All she wanted to do was take her son's forgotten sports kit to school. So why does Nicki Clements drive past the home of controversial newspaper columnist Damon Blundy eight...

As Blackport University starts a new academic year, two more girls fall victim to the killer they are calling the Beast of Blackport. Students, prostitutes...no attractive redhead is safe, and...

An actress dies while preparing to tread the boards at the famous Theatre Royal in Bath. Her ex-lover insists that she was murdered. And perhaps he was right. Flora Messel...

A chilling new novel in the award-winning Inspector Banks series. Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street, owned by an apparently ordinary young couple. But...

Amateur sleuths Jude and Carole take on their third case when a terrible discovery is made in the cellar of a grand old house.Grant and Kim Roxby had hoped that...

Canaletto's feet have barely touched English soil when he narrowly escapes robbery and death. His saviour is an enterprising young woman named Fanny Rooker, who has been awaiting his arrival....

One longs to see what the Floria Toscas will get up to next. -- Sunday Times What could possibly be the connection between a small itinerant opera company, the Lord...

Cordon bleu cook Darina Lisle trades her kitchen for a country inn—only to find the menu includes murder. Professional caterer and amateur sleuth Darina Lisle decides to try her hand...

Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English...

Private detective Lauren Laurano is pretty, funny, fashion-conscious - and gay. With the support of her beautiful psychotherapist lover, Kip, it is up to Lauren to solve the murder of...

The gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international no. 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones. ___________________________________ A...

Detective Chief Inspector Cheadle, displaying characteristic sang-froid at a televised press conference, is facing one of the Yard's most complex investigations - an against-the-clock hunt for a rational but ruthless...

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury a human hand. he body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried...

FYRE FESTIVAL meets ONE OF THE GIRLS in this psychological thriller with twists you'll never see coming. 'It's the hottest ticket in town. But once you're in, there's no getting...