Crime Fiction

Edgar Award-winning author and "reigning crown princess of noir" ( Booklist ) Megan Abbott reignites in Bury Me Deep the hothouse of jealousy, illicit sex, shifting loyalties, and dark perversions...

Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious hold over Georgina Gray. For her family's history is closely bound up in its dark and terrible...

Author:  David Hewson An ancient ritual. A modern-day crime. A body is found in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber. Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes...

Now in paperback, Jason Aaron's intense crime drama that mixes organized crime with current Native American culture in SCALPED BOOK TWO. In Scalped Book Two, writer Jason Aaron (Thor, Original...

Four people are found shot dead at the luxury home of the Stahlbergs, one of Oslo's wealthiest dynasties and notorious for highly publicised infighting. Three of the dead are members...

When Christopher Thomas, a curator at San Francisco's Museum of Fine Arts, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in Berlin, his wife Rosemary Thomas...

From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends torn apart by gang violence and class differences. Dogge is from affluent Roennviken in Stockholm....

A killer with means but no motive, and the body count is rising A man is found dead in a hotel room, a single stab wound in his heart. Could...

London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighbourhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of...

Rebus is off the case - literally. A few days into a murder inquiry following the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at DCS Gill Templer....

Matt Hunter's life has already been blown apart once. A fight, a friend in trouble and the dull crack of someone's skull on the concrete cost him four years in...

Richard Mitchell is a young buck in the Tokyo finance markets, trying hard to keep up with his mercurial boss, Yazawa. Radical, independent private detectice Mori is trying hard to...

Luke Dantry tragically lost his parents when he was a teenager - his father was murdered by a crazed operative, his mother died in a terrible accident. Brought up by...

A huge funeral for Windermere's popular resident, Barbara Dodge, is taking place and florist Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown and her new assistant, Bonnie Lawson are busy compiling wreaths in preparation. There's...

Valentine's Day is approaching, a busy time for Lake District florist Simmy Brown, and she has a number of anonymous orders to deliver. But the orders and their apparently innocuous...

His great battles against the sea raiders in the Nile Delta have left Pharoah Tuthmosis II frail, but he finds solace in victory and in the welcome he is sure...

Mary Higgins Clark, bestselling author of suspense, always excels in exploring the quirks and twists of the human psyche, and in this new thriller she takes a journey into the...

One day ... one city ... twelve murders 'keeps readers off guard ... thoroughly entertaining' BOOKLIStOnce again bestselling author Colleen McCullough proves she is a master of suspense 1967. the...

A murder mystery and a social comedy by one of Australia's best-known authors. You don't usually get prizes for posthumous novels...Brooke Anderson never had a chance to finish her novel;...

Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What...

The electrifying sequel to Darkness, Take My Hand. Dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of...

An electrifying thriller that is at once gut-wrenchingly violent and achingly melancholy. When wisecracking detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who...

Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret the man she has fallen passionately in love with,...

After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which...

Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who...

Detective Kate Farrer returns to duty after three months of leave following her traumatic abduction. Partnering homicide newcomer Oliver Parke, they are thrown into the investigation of a woman burnt...

In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded, reclusive twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected...

When physics teacher Jonathan Derry is unwittingly given some computer tapes containing a bookie-breaking betting system, his sharp-shooting abilities come in extremely handy against the thug who comes looking for...

by Tom Clancy The most dangerous man of this century has employed the most dangerous weapon yet. Criminal mastermind Harlan DeVane has developed--and spread--a deadly, genetically engineered "superbug" resistant to...

The sixth DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the master of British crime writing. 'Forty-eight hours, that's what they reckon, isn't it? Forty-eight hours. If you don't find them in that,...

When Tempe is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea of the tangled chain of events that will follow. Because the man whose body she...

A week before Christmas Debbie Stansfield's life falls apart. Her son - her funny, cheeky, kind Richard - has been found hanging from a tree at the Seven Sisters. The...

Pulling a handbag from a pushchair handle, two teenage trouble-makers, Zipp and Andreas, unwittingly commit murder when the baby inside is thrown to the ground. Unaware of what has happened,...

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously...

When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her...

Bestselling French author of psychological suspense Karine Giebel makes her American debut with this dark and haunting novel about the unbreakable bond between two brothers, both treated unfairly by the...

'A riveting read' Sunday Times , Crime Book of the Year 'A smartly-paced thriller' Evening Standard 'Dramatic, unnerving... exceptional' The Sun *SELECTED FOR BBC'S BETWEEN THE COVERS * *A NEW...

'Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo's trademark humour' Daily Mirror 'These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados' Guardian 'Fast paced and packed with...

An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning of...

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED COOPER AND FRY , coming toon to TV starring Robert James-Collier ( Downton Abbey ) and Mandip Gill ( Doctor Who ) A dark psychological thriller...