Crime Fiction

The Binding meets The Vanishing Half in this extraordinary historical debut - perfect for readers who love gothic mysteries with books at the heart of them, as well as stories...

This is one case Miller won't want to open . . . ____________ 'I'm excited to have found a new favourite detective' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Neat plot twists and a likable...

'If you want to start a new crime series, make it this one. It's one of the best I've ever read' - Amazon reviewer, ????? ---------- Pressure rises as a...

This stand-alone edition of King's novella, retitled The Shawshank Redemption , like the film, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Best Picture Academy Award nominee. A mesmerising tale of unjust...

'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' STEPHEN KING 'Pelecanos... has continued to produce first rate crime novels' BRUCE DESILVA **** After the Carusos family home is destroyed by police...

Chosen by The Times as one of the best crime fiction books in 2025. ' First-class ' Reader review, ????? ' A breathtaking finish ' Reader review, ????? ' What...

Chosen by The Times as one of the best crime fiction books in 2025. ' First-class ' Reader review, ????? ' A breathtaking finish ' Reader review, ????? ' What...

The biggest heist. The most dangerous adversary. By the master of the genre. Oh, and explosions. Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises,...

'Now this is my kind of thriller! The twists were jaw dropping . . . had me flying through the pages . . . A must read ' ? ?...

When private investigator Sandro Cellini is invited to attend a glamorous launch party for a luxury residence overlooking the glittering expanse of Florence, he has no idea what he's walking...

Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It...

He s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency s...

John Francome proves again that he's as skilled a writer as he was a jockey with his gripping new thriller. Jockey Pat Vincent has ambitions to become a wealthy sporting...

How well do we ever know our friends? When Jemima offers to flat-sit for her friend the last thing she is expecting is threatening anonymous phone-calls on her very first...

Night Sins : When 8-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears, the whole community of Deer Lake is stunned. Worse still is the frightening possibility that Josh's disappearance was planned by a desperately...

After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife,...

Battle and burial are built into the history of Lansdown Hill, so it is no great shock when part of a skeleton is unearthed there. But Peter Diamond, Bath s...

Returning to L'Escala, the idyllic Spanish village where they were once so happy, Oz Blackstone and Primavera Phillips are looking to forget the past. But old ghosts are not so...

Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul's decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed on the wall in the old man's blood. But Inspector Cetin Ikmen is...

In the dead of night in a notorious area of Victorian London's East End known as St Giles a factory girl stumbles over the bloody bodies of two City gentlemen....

Chaucer's pilgrims, quarrelling amongst themselves, are now in open countryside enjoying the fresh spring weather as they progress slowly towards Canterbury. A motley collection of travellers, they each have their...

London at midnight on New Year's Eve. Artie Cohen realizes something is horribly wrong with his long-time girlfriend, Lily Hanes. Three days later, a call takes Artie to Paris. Lily...

"Sensitive and shocking." -- Wall Street Journal "In the end, the novel isn't about willful murder or even accidental death, but the psychological aftershocks for the living." -- New York...

Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest exciting...

Nine lives go fast... Legal investigator Sara Townley's not feeling too good about her recent Vegas wedding to a Navy SEAL she barely knows, and her assignment to the case...

'Sparkles with wit and clever plotting' Publishers Weekly 'Sexy . . . clever, fun' Kirkus Reviews The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an...

Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded...

The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- 'money drops' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy...

Manchester's Westy Lane is the hunting ground for a killer who leaves a tiny blue flower in the torn body of each victim after he kills her. Lisa Noone, twelve...

Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back for their most dangerous adventure yet. Casino king and vicious thug Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, who conned him out of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as...

Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition...

A masterful novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite it, by the author of the acclaimed Harlem Detective series Thrill-seeking white teenager Jimmy...

A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem abounds Big Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend...

A darkly comic thriller following a cynical LA gumshoe who makes the catastrophic mistake of helping a 14-year-old find her dog . . . Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading...

Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep...

A new selection of the much-loved Father Brown stories, now part of the Penguin English Library 'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might...

A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for...

A car accident in California, a deadly assault in Provence and two boys thirty years apart left struggling for their lives. The stage is set for one of the most...

White Lotus meets The Guest List in international bestselling author S. C. Lalli's next thrilling novel, where two business moguls were set to be married in the biggest event of...

New York Times Bestseller Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan--first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues-- must track down a missing wife and unravel the...

' Wow this book blew my mind!... Utterly fantastic , I loved it, this is your worst nightmare come true! An explosive start to a new series . This book...

' An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller' - THE TIMES The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Fuhrer. In...

"As Jaq is pulled further into a murky underworld of deceit and corruption, things take an explosive turn... After escaping almost certain death amidst the ruins of Chernobyl, Jaq finds...

It is the year 1893. Thirty-eight-year-old Zofia Turbotynska has assured her husband's rise through the ranks to university professor and is now looking for something to fill her long days...

'SUPER-SMART AND HIGHLY ORIGINAL' - Doug Johnstone 'BRILLIANT AND DEEPLY EVOCATIVE' - Graham Bartlett 'AN EXCITING START TO A NEW SERIES' - Patricia Gibney 'A WRITER AT THE TOP OF...

Three best friends. One too many. California, 2003 A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad's Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby cottonwood tree is the...

'ATMOSPHERIC . . . [AND] ORIGINAL' SUNDAY TIMES 'A WRITER AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME' SUN If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have...