Crime Fiction

Amis unfolds a chilling story of marital duplicity, sexual discovery and murder, new to Penguin Modern Classics A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman...

Collins' exhilarating story of two girls who fight for what should justly be theirs, in a typically labyrinthine plot Magdalen and her sister Norah, beloved daughters of Mr and Mrs...

The secrets of the past never die. But they can kill- August Penrose created the stained glass 'Lady Window' to adorn the chapel of the university he founded for the...

' Glamorous, compelling and completely addictive , this sparkling page-turner is a total joy to read ' B.P. Walter You know she has been murdered. Can you stop it happening...

* THE SMASH-HIT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2023 *'A great deal of festive fun' - GUARDIAN'Sharp, witty and suspenseful' - SUNDAY EXPRESSOne dead Santa. A...

'A worthy and frightening sequel to Chizmar's Chasing the Boogeyman. Terrific storytelling' - Stephen King Back in the summer of 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the centre...

Through a hundred million copies and seventy-three brilliant cases of crime and detection, the adventures of America's largest private detective continue to captivate and enthrall readers around the world. Discover...

Discover Nero Wolfe--one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, created by the grand master of the mystery form, Rex Stout. Now the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth returns in...

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A generous selection of some of the strangest and most memorable of the Sherlock Holmes stories Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man...

The lurid, sinister and claustrophobic second Sherlock Holmes novel A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman...

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a...

The most famous of all of Hammett's tough, hard-bitten novels, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this classic suspense novel Laurence is a young ex-sailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, a seminal and prophetic work of science fiction, with a new afterword by the author A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave....

The year is 1940 and the British have their backs to the wall. Everyone is preparing for the battle that, as Winston Churchill said, would see the "whole fury and...

Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again. Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives,...

* A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * * A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION PICK OF THE MONTH * 'A splendid romp from a wonderfully clever historical novelist'...

A lawyer is found murdered on the eve of a landmark trial at the foot of Angels Flight in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The superb sixth Harry Bosch...

"While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story," writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those...

YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE... Kate Irving arrives at her grandfather's cottage at Frenchman's Creek in the dead of night with her young son, a small suitcase and...

George Gates is a former travel writer. He used to specialize in writing about places where people disappeared, sometimes individuals, sometimes whole societies. Now, since the murder of his eight-year-old...

On a cold January evening in 50BC, two strangers enter Rome - one an Egyptian ambassador and the other a eunuch priest. Both are seeking Gordianus the Finder, who has...

A chilling classic thriller from the 1930s, by the author of The Lady Vanishes 'Adept at laying one icy finger on the back of your neck' Spectator 'An astonishing and...

Bridget Vanderpuff is the Best Worst Baker in the World. A recipe for fun with villainy, cake and sprinkles of silliness, heart and hope. Bridget and Tom travel to Butteralp...

Acting on a confidential tip, Detective Sergeant Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night and drop a duffel bag of drugs at a...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land... England, 1348: as the Black Death spreads through the country, people start to die by the thousands. In Dorset, young Lady Anne...

A puzzling locked-room mystery that puts someone Oldroyd loves in terrible danger... When a film shoot on Wharfedale's vintage railway turns into a grisly crime scene, DCI Oldroyd's idyllic visit...

An Amazon Charts bestseller. For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist . Coming...

Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide. "Salander remains, in Lagercrantz's hands, the enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction" Financial Times "Salander and Blomkvist...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024 'It's a clever book ... [Im Seong-sun] offers readers his razor-sharp observations on consumer capitalism and what it means...

'Stella Rimington was the first female director general of Britain's MI5 and brings true authenticity to her tale of intellectual thievery' Irish Independent A historic institution is hiding a very...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK OVER 60,000 5 STAR REVIEWS GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOKS OF 2022 GLAMOUR...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'You'll devour Northern Spy . . . I loved this thrill ride of a book' REESE WITHERSPOON 'A...

'Master of the jaw-dropping twist' S MAGAZINE 'An edge-of-your-seat thriller that'll keep you guessing right until the end, get this to the top of your reading pile' HEAT ** The...

The eleventh book in the Sunday Times -bestselling Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's most celebrated crime writers. The charred remains of an elderly woman are discovered in a...

THERE'S A BAFFLING MYSTERY IN THE VILLAGE OF STEEPLE MARTIN...BUT LIBBY SARJEANT IS ON THE CASE. 'With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner' Katie...

There are some crimes you can't sweep under the carpet... Lena Szarka, a Hungarian cleaner working in London, knows all too well about cleaning up other people's messes. When her...

Chief Inspector Henrique Monroe of the Lisbon Police Department is not your usual cop. Eccentric, elliptical and stunningly observant his peculiar behavior at crime scenes is legendary. But his colleagues...

You are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead, and the desperate living. When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector and moved to...

No connection. No clues. No escape... For DI Andrew Hicks, solving a murder is logical: your first suspicions are usually right. So when the brutally beaten body of a young...

Two spectacular novels from number one bestselling author Ian Rankin. THE HANGING GARDEN (Rebus # 9) DI Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork but an escalating dispute between...

Masterful #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag is back with a riveting, emotionally powerful new thriller! 'A gripping thriller that glued me to the pages' FREIDA MCFADDEN 'Tami...

Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as LA's finest bomb squad technician. Three years have passed since the explosion that shattered her life...

A superb new noir/science fiction fusion from the 'mastersinger of space opera' ( The Times ) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe - strap in for a...

She's the daughter he doesn't know he has, until she calls him...from death row. Michael Gresham meets his lost daughter, Cache, in her prison cell. She is scheduled for execution...

A killer in the guest room. When Michael Gresham and his wife offer to help their priest, life takes a dark turn. The holy man's has a son, illegitimate of...

Smoky Mountains Mystery - Lena Diaz When his decades-old cold case meets her very recent murder investigation... While Lance Cabrera's company, Unfinished Business, specialises in solving cold cases, he has...