Crime Fiction

The powerful new thriller from the global No.1 bestselling author, Paula Hawkins 'Vivid, extremely tense, unnervingly unputdownable. This is a superb, powerful read.' Independent 'Undoubtedly Hawkins' best novel yet' Observer...

In the latest thrilling novel in the globally bestselling Private series, Jack Morgan chases a violent criminal to Dublin and is dragged into the city's dark underbelly. A star-studded movie...

From the bestselling thriller writer comes an emotionally gripping novel about a young woman who plans to do the unthinkable in order to change the world. You-all of you-are sleepwalking...

Sam Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself. Four times world judo champion, she now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency in London. But when her brother Mark...

Australian poet and academic Rick Harding has a good life, until he discovers someone is stealing his poems and publishing them under another name. Who is Jason Schwartze and why...

An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India....

From the legal tactician who has represented such famous clients as Mike Tyson, O.J. Simpson, and Michael Milken, comes a novel that goes far beyond the limits of the courtroom...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.' In this thrilling collection, we meet Ars ne Lupin, a brilliant,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!' A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the...

You saw it. You were too scared to act. But now it's coming back for you... A terrifying new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Whisper Man Dan...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. "I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the...

The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot - legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile - puts his little grey cells to work...

Jason Ginaff doesn't get out much. Partly because of the anxiety, mainly because he works at home. Researching people on the internet. Job candidates doing bucket bongs on Instagram accounts...

Famous bestselling author, loving husband, generous friend-Henry Hayden is a pleasant personto have around. Or so it seems. And when his mistress, who is also his editor, becomespregnant, his carefully...

Funny, romantic, and action-packed, Rough Diamond introduces Australia's own Stephanie Plum - the unforgettable Erica Jewell. The shock ending to Erica Jewell's marriage left a huge hole in her bank...

After a series of harrowing and life-changing cases in St Kilda-Head Shot & Blood Sunset-DS Rubens McCauley is burnt out and on the edge. Addicted to prescription medication, running away...

Shooting for fame could end your career ... and your life. A sparkling mystery from a stylish new voice in crime fiction, in a book that will delight fans of...

'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBEN Emma's the one that got away. The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as 'the hairdresser' -...

A gripping, suspense-filled thriller from the author of the internationally best-selling Hammarby series. A deadly secret haunts a group of strangers who cross paths in the snow of a Swedish...

A special forces agent-turned-strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a hitman for the New York mob seeks out a deadly drug lord in the poppy fields of Afghanistan....

Eighteenth-century London - the lives of the sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity, become entwined with the nearby Fowler household, charged with providing safe harbour to a mysterious baby from far...

I'm not saying I don't experience fear - I've seen enough to worry about every female coed walking home alone at night ... But that's why I chose this job....

'Theo. Come to Oliver's winery. Search for Four Dogs Missing. You'll find me there. We need to talk.' While estranged twins Oliver and Theo Wingfield are identical in appearance, they...

Shaun McCreadie was a young detective with a bright future until he crossed the line and suddenly found himself behind prison bars for his role in a brutal home invasion...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail 'The perfect holiday treat' Guardian This collection of tales by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr...

'Compelling, haunting and beautifully written. You'll be thinking about it long after you turn the last page!' Liane Moriarty Two women. A tragedy on the lake. And secrets beneath the...

Some cases never leave you. For John Rebus, forty years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. Murdered in her hotel...

'Terrific entertainment' -- STEPHEN KING on Thomas Mullen's Darktown A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in this gripping historical thriller set in World...

'A clever and utterly absorbing thriller which marks the arrival of an author to watch' i News 'A powerful feminist thriller . . . twisted in the best way' Clemence...

Liza Barclay, aged 10, shot her mother while trying to protect her from her violent stepfather, ex-FBI agent Charley Foster. Despite her stepfather's claim that it was a deliberate act,...

Twelve-year-old Jamie Gabriel gets on his bike before dawn to deliver newspapers in his suburban neighbourhood. Somewhere en route, he vanishes without a trace. Fourteen months later, still with no...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . . Hakan Nesser's third title in the Van Veeteren series is the dark and...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl,...

AT 40,000 FEET UP... THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE. Kate Hood is searching for a second chance. A contract pilot for a private jet company, she lives a quiet...

'Clever and compulsive' LOUISE CANDLISH 'A fantastic read' JAMES DELARGY 'I loved it' LEE CHILD 'It's everything you could want from a crime novel' SARAH WARD 'A bold and brilliant...

Have you ever wondered what undiscovered gems lie waiting to be found in your garden? Lawrence Quilter, a man in a position of power, finds some interesting records amongst his...

C L Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder is the start of your new favourite crime series, The Number One Ladies Detective Agency meets The Fellowship of the Puzzle...

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery....

Megan and Cisco Flynn are back in town. Nobody had ever been caught for the Klan murder of their father, Jack, and Detective Dave Robicheaux knows that trouble cannot be...

On the night the Used Women's Book Club meet to swap novels the husband of one of its members is being brutally murdered. It isn't the first time Rob has...

A Scobie Malone mystery set in the world of shady financial deals and desperate dreams.

The world's most notorious art heist. Where did all the loot go? Art conservator JJ Jego is housesitting an apartment for her museum director boss in an exclusive part of...

This stellar collection of 26 never-before-published short stories features work by the worlds most popular female crime writers, including Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, and Amanda Cross, Women on the Case...

A simply brilliant debut novel which will rank alongside Mark Billingham's SLEEPYHEAD. Patrick Lennon writes in a wonderfully heightened, evocative style, making the back-streets of Cambridge 'the flip-side of the...