Crime Fiction

When an eccentric widow claims she is being stalked by her former lodger,Detective Jack Warr is the only person who believes her wild claims. Days later, she is found brutally...

Take on the role of hard-bitten detective and track down a brutal killer in The Puzzle Murders

Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man....

IT'S NOT JUST MURDER THAT IS IN THE SPOTLIGHT . . . The blinding new Detective Jane Tennison thriller from Lynda La Plante. __________________ Things can't get much worse for...

SOME KILLERS CAN'T BE TAMED . . . The brand new Detective Jack Warr thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante. __________________ 'Do you know what a...

The gritty new thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama and the fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling Jane Tennison series. Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the...

Dolly, Linda, Shirley and Bella are back. And this time it's a fight to the finish. Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a...

An afternoon's shooting in the country seems a pleasant prospect to Roger Taine, a respected family man with a distinguished military record. But when he discovers a poacher on his...

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. The gripping twenty-fifth Ikmen mystery from award-winning crime...

A heart-pounding, high-stakes, high-adrenalin relentless blast of an action-packed thriller, from Gabriel Bergmoser. the bestselling author of The Hunted and The Caretaker . After a year of searching, rogue ex-cop...

Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team, DI Joe Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the...

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'These three novellas in a single volume show...

The new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series featuring Paradise police chief Jesse Stone. Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiance by crazed...

The seventeenth novel in Anne Perry's acclaimed William Monk series 1864 - Monk and his wife Hester are doing their best to care for Scuff - a homeless boy slowly...

A dubious cul-de-sac just off the busy main road in a sprawling West Country port, Stanley Street is definitely not a salubrious place. And the victim, found naked and strangled...

When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding, DS Wesley Peterson, a keen amateur archaeologist, is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse, buried in keeping...

Emil Ganz was always extraordinary. Child genius. Prize-winning astrophysicist. And then, aged 40, missing person. A decade later he re-emerges as Jupiter, guru of an apocalyptic new age cult, bringing...

**NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN** 'A real triumph of storytelling and suspense.' Daily Mail 'A very special kind of twisted genius.' SARAH HILARY 'Complex, hard-hitting and...

A clever, ingenious, edge-of-your-seat thriller.' Liv Constantine 'The stakes are high, the body count is higher, and yet I would still follow Lily anywhere.' Stacey Willingham from the Sunday Times...

THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW . A CHILLING MUST-READ. 'Haunting . . . compelling.' DAILY MAIL 'Banville is one of my...

William Benson. Criminal barrister. Convicted murderer.... Convicted of murder sixteen years ago, William Benson is ostracised by the establishment and his family. Supported by a close-knit group including solicitor Tess...

New York City: from 1937 to the 1970s, the NYPD owned the streets, and the Irish owned the NYPD. Officers ruled their beat, fighting crime the way they wanted, and...

'Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe; Adam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved?' A chilling mystery from the world's best living crime...

The greater the evil, the deadlier the game... When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a...

At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Tallinn stands on the edge of Christendom. Merchants, monks, knights and pirates all struggle for control of the wealthy city. When the brutally...

It's a steamy, restless end of the school year in New Orleans. Sister Holiday is busy teaching music classes and preparing for her permanent vow ceremony, a pivotal moment in...

The remote Clock House is filled with priceless timepieces from across the world. It is alsorumoured to be haunted by the spirit of a dead girl. A team of ghosthunters...

A new paperback edition of the brilliantly dark and twisty psychological thriller about a serial killer in therapy. 'A brilliant game of cat and mouse between author and reader' The...

Was Richard III truly the ogre of legend and Shakespeare's play. - a wickeduncle who murdered his nephews to steal the crown of England? Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard...

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff beneath the glass houses of Mulholland Drive with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran...

A dark comedy about how to live your best life, even when you're dead. Stacey was trying to live her best life, but now she's dead. But why hasn't she...

The world's most beloved literary characters. The gilded opulence of the Roaring Twenties. A murder that scandalises high society. And a clever young woman of unusual persistence... Be ready to...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time...

'Magnificent.' Richard Osman 'Razor-sharp.' Erin Kelly How far would you go for a friend? Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To...

'HIGHLY recommended' Marian Keyes 'Nora Breen will become a favourite character.' Ian Moore 'Nora Breen is Maria Von Trapp on steroids.' Richard Armitage 'A seaside mystery full of intrigue and...

'One of the best crime novelists writing today.' - PAULA HAWKINS 'Lippmann is fast creating a new genre-busting category full of remarkable writing and dazzling plot lines.' - Daily Mail...

Some people are in On the last Saturday in August, politicos and socialites trade tidbits of gossip and sips of Pimm's under the tasteful bunting of a Richmond garden party.They'd...

The night before Rupert's 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's - cateredwith cocaine and Veuve Clicquot. The morning after His girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered...

'Brilliant.' The Times 'One of Upson's most evocative novels.' Guardian September 1939: The worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on...

'A tantalising mystery, executed with perfection.' - THOMAS ENGER He was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . . When a dead man is...

I wasn't in any particular hurry to kill him. What was important was to make sure that the deed was done without suspicion settling on me. Follow P D James,...

Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in...

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation...

Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent...

Simon Weekes becomes an overnight celebrity after his heroics during the 7/7 Bombings. But Simon can't afford the newfound fame and attention - he has too much to lose. July...

When criminal justice lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of Zelasny & McVay's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time. Assisted by average law graduate...

A boy has disappeared from his school. Heloise Kaldan heads over there to look into it. At the schoolyard she runs into her close friend Erik Schafer, the outspoken investigator...

James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start - but someone wants to make his first big case his last.Welcome to...