Crime Fiction

'I jump back, curse in rapid fire, and then lean forward and shove the box hard, off the bench, and away from me. It thuds on the floor. Is this...

When a child's severed hand is found, DC Toks Ade and DS Philip Dean are put on the case. Thrown into a world of Nigerian traditional customs, ritual sacrifice, and...

Bolt the doors, turn on the lights and pray for mercy - you'll be up all night with this disturbingly addictive novel - perfect for fans of Karen Rose. It's...

'Quirky, compelling and thoroughly enjoyable' Kate Ellis 'A super start to the series' Frances Brody 'An entertaining murder mystery . . . witty' L C Tyler Buddhism, love, art and...

'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. Beaton Mistletoe and murder at Honeychurch Hall... It's ten days before Christmas at Honeychurch Hall and Kat Stanford has persuaded...

You can get in. But you can't get out. Welcome to the library... Twins Ana and Nan are lost after the death of their mother. Everyone knows who drove Elena,...

Eccentric, octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit return in mystery No.13 from the multi-award-winning Christopher Fowler: lucky for all Bryant & May fans! The...

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards - RTE Radio One's The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners' Choice The young woman standing on Lottie's step was a stranger. She was clutching the...

To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation - and proving...

There are two worlds in racing. Winning and losing. Private detective Sid Halley has gone from one to the other - fast. First his career as a jockey ended when...

Charles Todd makes a living as a painter of horses. However someone is making a fortune forging paintings by the masters and then selling them to people who usually end...

Edward Lincoln had scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases, defeated scores of assassins. As a film action man he'd even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After...

The final Sherlock Holmes novel links a gruesome murder in England to strange and violent events in the United States The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out...

The first Sherlock Holmes novel - a story of letters written in blood, Mormonism and poison pills When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock...

A superb selection of some of Sherlock Holmes' most brilliant cases As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ... There, as if it had that moment...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library \"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!\" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for the novel behind the famous 1950 film starring Humphrey Bogart Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best...

First paperback publication of the legendary collaboration between William S. Borroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation In...

First time in Modern Classics In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to...

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIGH WINDOW and THE LITTLE SISTER.

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...

'Compelling, haunting and beautifully written. You'll be thinking about it long after you turn the last page!' Liane Moriarty Two women. A tragedy on the lake. And secrets beneath the...

'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....

After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old...

Agatha Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence mystery adventure, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Tommy and...

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...

THE WOMAN UNKNOWN: Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taking care of her sick mother and calls on the...

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...

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...