Crime Fiction

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...

In the packed queue for a popular West End Theatre in 1920s London, the crowd surges forward as the doors open at last... But as they do so, one of...

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...

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...

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...

As the spring warmth melts the ice, divers search the wreckage at the bottom of the Angermanland River - but the murdered man they recover was put there much more...

'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...

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...

'Some of the most beautiful prose being written in Ireland today' Irish Times Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that...

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...

The incredibly gripping, must-read Sunday Times bestseller 'Utterly compelling... I couldn't put it down' Lisa Jewell, No.1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs 'A classy thriller with complex and compelling...

Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed for London. The place where she'll...

A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner...

FIVE WITNESSES. FIVE DIFFERENT STORIES. WHO IS THE KILLER? 'A rising star of Australian crime fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'S. R. White is the real deal' CHRIS HAMMER In the courtyard...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO THE BLACKHOUSE BOOK TWO IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY 'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years' Independent A MAN WITH NO...

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans...

The third novel in the Women's Murder Club series. One of the best-loved heroines from the Women s Murder Club is about to die. Which one will it be? Detective...

When a young girl is found murdered wearing nothing but a torn red mandarin dress, it does not completely surprise Detective Yu. Possibly one of those material girls fallen foul...

'Highsmith constructs her plot with masterly finesse' - Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. Wherever possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work....

'Patricia Highsmith is unrivalled' - Daily Telegraph The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago...

The classic thriller by the five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award The pain seemed to dissolve. Cold and rough tarmac against the face, chill wind down here at ground...

When a woman's crumpled body is discovered in a gas-filled flat in London's Primrose Hill area, it looks like suicide. But DI Christy Kennedy isn't so sure, especially when the...

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My little girl has vanished. And I can't tell anyone... My nine-year-old daughter Hollie should be leaving school smiling and laughing with all the other children but she's not here....

The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Muller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will...

East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Kernick, comes the thrilling second instalment in The Bone Field series. Featuring DI Ray Mason and PI Tina Boyd. Fans of David Baldacci,...

A town engulfed in flames. The dying coastal town of Broughlet is being torn apart by wildfires, and the locals suspect arson. A cult devoted to fire. The sinister People's...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD 2025, CELEBRATING THE BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends...

In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as 'old maids' to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of...

'Powerful, provocative, beautiful and unforgettable. All Us Sinners is a chilling, moving, majestic debut' --- CHRIS WHITAKER *WINNER OF THE ILP JOHN CREASEY FIRST NOVEL DAGGER 2025* Leeds, 1977. A...

' The Talented Mr Ripley meets How to Kill Your Family . Sharp, funny and has a twist you won't see coming' Eve Kellman Even for a con artist, Liz...

**Shortlisted for the 2025 CWA Whodunnit Dagger** 'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously. 'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?' 'No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly....