Crime Fiction

Celebrated Berkeley private eye Helen Black returns to unravel a knot of politics, family loyalty, love and death.

After her narrow brush with death in Holy Hell, you would think Lillian Byrd would have learned to keep her head down. But when a friend in crisis calls from...

In this wickedly funny crime novel, Lillian Byrd is a small-time reporter with a flair for making big mistakes - like getting fired for rejecting the boss's son - so...

Detective Sarah Lindstrom comes home to find her ex-lover bludgeoned to death in her bed. When it transpires that Lindstrom was the intended victim PI Meg Darcy rushes in to...

Stoner is in the sleepy little New Age town of Sherburne Falls, where dark forces are afoot, and Aunt Hermione is their prey. Reluctant detective Stoner, alongside lover Gwyn and...

Micky Knight is a hard-hitting, tough-talking dyke detective who struggles against demons, past and present, in her death-defying search for the killer who is terrorizing a women's health clinic.

James Flood, just released from a Florida prison, plans to hold the Hayworth women hostage, while Marcus Hayworth, small-town banker and Quaker, is convinced he can subvert Flood's plan.

For Faith Cromwell, trompe l'oeil artist, it is the commission of a lifetime: painting the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate. But her new patron has a macabre...

When journalist Kevin Burns gets a call from former schoolmate Carl Greene, he's surprised. They weren't that close at school and the temperature cooled when Carl married Kevin's girl, Lucy....

Lily Forrester is back on the top as a district attorney, but haunted by an explosive secret. Six years ago she tracked down and killed the man she believed raped...

Saskia Thomson is the most glamorous, successful, talked-about magazine editor in the world. Her creation, STREETSMART, is on a roll, building a circulation that exceeds even VANITY FAIR or VOGUE,...

Stella Cataloni, rising star of the Dallas DA's Office, has everything ' an unbeaten court record, good looks, TV fame for her latest successful case, and her boss's backing to...

Toy Johnson believes she is a good teacher, a devoted wife, and a decent person. So how can it be possible that she has been arrested as a child stealer...

Paralyzed by a crime that horrifies all who live in the city of Seattle, the police department is racing against time in search of a psychopathic criminal who is focused...

Artie Cohen is a good-looking New York cop with a taste for girls and jazz and with a secret past. In Red Mercury Blues he is confronted with a case...

Lisa Hanley has cheated death. Shot seven times, twice in the head, she should be lying on a slab in the morgue. But survive she did. Now her family want...

Artie Cohen's long-time girlfriend Lily Hanes, has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, where drugs are sold...

"Lippman is a writing powerhouse." -- USA Today New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction--including the Edgar(R), Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero...

A noirish Hollywood murder mystery, from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line A Hollywood screenwriter is brought to write up the grisly murder of a middle-aged,...

A woman's body washes up on a beautiful deserted beach as the Australian Cricket Team undertakes a three test-match-tour of India. Was she known to the touring party? Was it...

Whether you run or whether you hide, he'll find you. And then he'll kill you... The game is simple-he is the Hunter. They are the prey. And they're both entangled...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code , Angels & Demons, and Inferno --now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom...

The first installment in the Cold Case Quartet from the international bestseller, Jorn Lier Horst Twenty-six years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin...

*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS *** In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the...

Kate Conlan, ex FBI agent, finds herself protecting a teenage runaway from a serial killer who burns women alive...Known as the Cremator, the serial killer has already claimed three victims,...

New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers behind the scenes of New York City's theater world -- from Lincoln Center to the lights of Broadway -- in a...

Now with a brand new cover. Book 1 in the Gemma Lincoln series. Gemma Lincoln wakes up one morning to discover her clothes laid out as an effigy of a...

When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change...

Evan Delaney is a heroine of our times: a woman with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper that gets her into trouble. She is shocked to...

In this emotionally charged thriller, detective Merci Rayborn faces the challenge of a lifetime - a high-profile murder case that points to her lover as the main suspect. A riveting...

22-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry s 'undercover stunt double', standing in for Cherry whenever the...

The words murder and romance seldom appear together. If given a choice, most of us would prefer them to be as far apart as possible. But there is no denying...

When Rachel Lindquist returned home to care for her ageing mother, she found herself chasing a ghost. Addie Lindquist insisted a presence haunted Drake House and hired parapsychologist Bryan Hennessy...

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of...

The first in a brand new series of Devon-set crime thrillers featuring DS Eden Driscoll 'Crime fiction at its very best, a knotty mystery ' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Terrific ... Perhaps...

' Gone Girl meets Mean Girls and The Secret History ' Guardian A darkly intoxicating novel of female friendship and obsession that will keep you turning the pages, perfect for...

'No matter how big and fast and strong you are, how heavily armed or well trained, there's always going to be someone out there who is bigger, faster, or stronger....

'Danger is desperately seductive . . .' Aud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the colour of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way....

'Stay in the world, Aud . . . Stay alive inside. Promise me.' Raw with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to rebuild a remote cabin...

His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second the search for a lost child. Specifically the child of Valerian, lead singer of a great rock...

Army interrogator Nicholas Finch is hot on the trail for why sixteen of the world's worst serial killers are all from the same small town, but his path to answers...

An exhilarating crime novel from the two-time winner of the THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD. Maureen O'Donnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She...

185 A brilliant, blistering crime novel, A Season in Exile moves seamlessly between Mexico and London culminating in a nail-biting finale... Praise for Oliver Harris: 'One of our finest thriller...

Sarah Fortune is happy to be sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, as it promises to distance her from a claustrophobic relationship with Malcolm Cook, and she cannot...

Three girls have disappeared from a New Orleans university and the police think they are runaways. But Kristi Bentz - a cop's daughter who has faced murderers and survived -...