Crime Fiction

'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...

Zoe. Jenny. Nadia. Three women of varying ages and backgrounds with little else in common but for one thing: Someone has sent them each a note informing them that they...

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jewellers on the Champs-Elysees. Shot three times, beaten almost beyond...

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...

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,...

We assume we can spot a psychopath from across the room... Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Anne Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer, Ethan Oswald. With Oswald dead and the...

After a lull of four years, the 'silk stocking rapist' is back at work on the Upper East side, but this time Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman...

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...

After a twenty-year absence, Merlyn Cantelo returns to Leeds to attend his late aunt Clarissa?s funeral. Far from being welcomed back into the fold of his large and quarrelsome family,...

Arriving home from a pilgrim voyage, Sister Fidelma hears that her faithful Saxon companion, Brother Eadulf, is under sentence of death for murder. She hastens to the capital of Laigin,...

'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...

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...

Castagnetti, a bee-keeping private detective, is hired by a businessman to find out who set fire to his car and why. It seems like a dead-end case, nothing more than...

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 the body of a Bushman is discovered near the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the death is written off as an accident. But all is not as it seems. An...

***THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'One of the most addictive thrillers I've read this year. A compulsive page-turner with high stakes and a heroine you find yourself absolutely rooting for'...

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Dark magic is unleashed...

A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS During...

THE TWISTY THRILLER AND TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN A VILLAGE WITH THIS MANY SECRETS, A MURDER IS JUST THE BEGINNING . . . On New Year's Eve, Rhys...

The twenty-fourth book in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. If you are the founder and Managing Director of the No. 1 Ladies'...

TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four numbers that mean nothing to her. On...

August 1966, the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself. Three characters' fates are...

Swallow the Ghost traces the impact of a violent event on three different lives, each interconnected story further complicating the truth. Things are going well for Jane Murphy, or so...

Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. But while they long...

The captivating new historical mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE WITCHFINDER'S SISTER The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by...

You're a whirlwind. A success. You're living life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends....

The fourteenth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down....

"[Israel's] fish-out-of-water dilemmas and encounters with kooky locals will resonate with Alexander McCall Smith fans." -- Publishers Weekly Author Ian Sansom "clearly loves a good laugh" ( Washington Post ),...

The new novel that Sidney Sheldon's millions of fans all over the world have been waiting for. And, like his sixteen previous books, it is destined for a top place...

* FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL IN TRANSLATION *'Kwok is an impressive talent' - KARIN SLAUGHTER'A hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery' - LUCY FOLEY'I will find...

'Memorable and utterly engaging' - S.G. MACLEAN'Nattrass is a master storyteller' - JANICE HALLETT'One of my favourite historical fiction authors' - PHILIPPA EASTLondon, 1774. The opening of a royal tomb...

'A glorious debut' - SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Recommended reading for a long winter night' - GUARDIAN 'A love letter to the classic country house murder mystery' - J.M. HALL A snowstorm....

Nolan must rob every store in a mall in one night - or his girlfriend dies. Two Nolan novels from Grandmaster Max Allan Collins, collected in one volume for the...

Elijah has lived in the Memory Wood for as long as he can remember. It's the only home he's ever known.Elissa has only just arrived. And she'll do everything she...

Mike Hammer is at a high society party when a wealthy and well-respected man, Colby, is hit by a car and badly injured. When all he expected was a night...

'A beautiful sensory overload . . . I didn't want it to end.' - Kirstin Innes, bestselling author of Scabby Queen Three women. A deadly score to settle. EDINBURGH, 1791....

George Mann's Newbury & Hobbes steampunk series concludes as our special agent heroes discover a plot of empire-changing proportions. A plot to kill a queen. A chance to save the...

Fans of Kathy Reichs' Temperance Brennan novels will love forensic psychiatrist Jane Halifax. In Resurrection , Jane Halifax is back, but after suffering a terrible accident her memories have vanished...

Sharpen your claws and use the power of deduction to solve 75 feline felonies. From Dr Gareth Moore and Laura Jayne Ayres, Britain's leading puzzle-writing duo , comes Meowdle -...

A Guardian best crime and thriller book of 2024 'Excellently lean and tense crime novel with a touch of the nouveau roman about it' Ian Rankin 'Mason has been mainlining...

'I doubt if a more exciting and muscular book will come along this year' Peterborough Telegraph Money can't buy everything But it can buy revenge Can a doctor take lives...

She lives in fear of ... THE KNOCK Dora O'Brien had a good start in life, but things went bad when she began to mix with the wrong company. Pregnant...

When does a liar, become a killer? *The second novel in The San Diego Case Files series from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose* Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick finds herself standing...

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Dark magic is unleashed...