Crime Fiction

1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying summer on their Sussex estate when they are visited by Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned...

April, 1933. To the costermongers of London, Eddie Pettit is simply a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When he is killed in a violent accident,...

In 1924, San Francisco is booming. The great fire and earthquake of 1906 cleared the ground for a modern city, but the closer she comes to the place she used...

It was meant to be a harmless prank. Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese...

'A bookworm's treat.' Sunday Times 'Unforgettable.' Wall Street Journal 'An entertaining cat-and-mouse thriller. 'Daily Telegraph' 'Smart, funny and deliciously dark.' Guardian 'Delicious' New York Times ** One of the New...

*A Telegraph Thriller of the Year* 'The epitome of the female-led revenge thriller.' CRIME FICTION LOVER 'Enraging, funny and exciting.' THE TIMES 'A fantastically brutal gore fest, this was WILD!...

**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**From the Sunday Times bestselling authorTWO'S COMPANY, THREE'S MURDER'I loved it!' GILLIAN McALLISTER'Nobody writes psychopaths like Swanson.' MARK EDWARDSWhen private detective and former cop Henry Kimball is...

A Cordelia Gray Mystery Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious....

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called...

Combe Island off the Cornish coast offers a peaceful and secure respite to the over-stressed professionals who holiday there. But their peace is violated when one of the distinguished visitors...

When a young girl is found murdered in a field, the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory. But...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills,...

Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh has been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing...

A piercing scream, shattering the evening calm, brings Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from his literary party to the nearby Steen Psychiatric Clinic, where he discovers the body of a woman...

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its...

An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India....

Aimee Joubert is a drop-dead gorgeous femme fatale with a penchant for bloody murder. Ever on the lookout for opportunities for self-enrichment, she finds plenty to like as a newcomer...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE APPEAL 'An absolute original' - MICK HERRON 'Hallett at her very best' - ELLY GRIFFITHS 'A slice of genius' - LOUISE CANDLISH Six Students....

** AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF YEAR **'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet' - GUARDIAN'A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession' - DAILY EXPRESSWriters are monsters. We eat...

The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now!An unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one...

'A bold, beautiful, sexy, full-throttle thriller: immaculately constructed and rich with detail, it is a gorgeous, creepy Gothic story for our times' NICCI FRENCH   'The queen of psychological gothic...

Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region...

A massive novel of World War II Los Angeles. The crowning work of an American master.It is January, 1942. Torrential rainstorms hit L.A. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park....

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail'The perfect holiday treat' GuardianThis collection of tales by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr Ruth Galloway,...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday TimesWords can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill...Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite...

The second thrilling instalment of Adam Simcox's 'wildly entertaining' (Adam Hamdy) THE DYING SQUAD series.There's a new serial killer on the streets of Manchester - and only a dead cop...

'A cracking crime thriller' The SunTHERE'S BLOOD ON THE WATER. NO ONE IS SAFE...1999. A young Detective Constable Louise Mangan crosses the Thames one misty morning in pursuit of a...

A weekend away that has lasted a century. True love's kiss can't break this spell ... A cosy, romantic fantasy mystery for all fans of Rebecca Ross, Legends and Lattes...

Agatha Christie's seaside mystery thriller, based on the Devon location of Burgh Island, now reissued as a hardback 'Special Edition' with a gorgeous new artwork cover. 'It is peaceful. The...

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

In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to...

  'Simply superb.' NetGalley Reviewer, 'Excellent from beginning to end.' NetGalley Reviewer, 'A bone-chilling thriller.' NetGalley Reviewer, 'WARNING: do not start reading this if you have things to do. It's...

'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 YORK TIMES Editor's Pick**THE SUNDAY...

An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genre An unsolved historical mystery. A brutal bomb attack.Only one man can track down the killers that link them both.It's 2005:...

A NEW YORK TIMES 'EDITOR'S PICK'ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 BEST DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2020'Enrapturing' New York Times'A brilliant debut' Louise Doughty'You'll have the heart rate of an Olympic hurdler'...

With a new introduction by Colm Toibin"Absolutely captivating" ANDREA CAMILLERI"Monumental" GuardianDrawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind and The Name of the Rose, and an instant bestseller in many languages,...

PRE-ORDER NOW! THE BRAND NEW HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHORAt seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a ropeNow reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders...

Author: Jason Starr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A New York bar bouncer with dreams of being more, Tommy Russo jumps at the chance to join a horse-owning syndicate....

Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region...

For one weekend every July, thousands of readers descend on the historic English town of Harrogate, Yorkshire in pursuit of mysteries, mischief and murder. In Murder in Harrogate, ten of...

A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the children, there is only doubt.One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes...

A queer historical romantic suspense novel about a young engineer working for Gustave Eiffel caught in a web of deceit that could destroy both him and the famous tower.Fin Tighe...

Lucinda has lived her whole life in the shadow of her glamorous and outgoing high-end model sister Viviana. But when Viviana suddenly disappears on a trip to Sao Paulo, Lucinda...

**An Irish Times best book of 2024 so far**"A very early candidate for the crime novel of the year" IRISH TIMESLive Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of...

'Smart, empathetic and all too real. I love her writing' LIZ NUGENT One murder, three families destroyedAnd a detective guilty of a crime of her own When 18-year-old Ben Renshaw...

A one-off collection of twelve Shakespearean-themed murder mysteries set in Elizabethan London, featuring Master Hardy Drew, Constable of the Bankside Watch, from the acclaimed author of the 7th century Irish...

When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered, LAPD Detective Jessica Allen knows she's seen this MO before.     A sadistic serial killer has been operating undetected...

When her personal copy of the current Finance Act is found a few metres away from a body, young barrister Julia Larwood finds herself caught up in a complex fight...