Crime Fiction

JOHN HANNEBERY NEVER WANTED TO BE A HITMAN. He had no system for it. And, although a dark part of him took pleasure in hurting people, bad people, he had...

Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year, but he's still as sturdy as a jungle boar - and as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner to the Lao People's...

Brothers Jonathan and Roger Maguire each have an obsession. For Jonathan, it is his beautiful and talented girlfriend Harriet. For Roger, it is the elaborate universe he has constructed in...

'Nancy Bilyeau's passion for history infuses her books' - ALISON WEIR The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America's Playground. The...

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a belligerent...

London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities....

Discover the ingenious and edgy crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author, with suspense that will keep you guessing to the very last page . . . 'One of...

It is springtime France's Perigord, a time of beauty and calm. But not for Bruno, chief of police of the small town of St Denis. A woman's body has been...

The Marine Next Door by Julie Miller Maggie Wheeler never stopped looking over her shoulder. It was a habit she'd learnt from being a cop - and from a devastating...

On the windswept shore of a frozen lake lurks a faceless killer determined to keep the past buried forever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow. The body of...

[A] fast-paced yarn that nimbly soars above the Irish crime fiction genre Kidd clearly knows very well. -- New York Times Book Review "[A] supernaturally skillful debut." -- Vanity Fair...

When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the...

IT WAS THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD On 22nd November 1963, John F. Kennedy's presidential motorcade rode through Dealey Plaza. He and his wife Jackie greeted the crowds on...

It must have been Otieno's idea of a joke. Too many offended egos back at headquarters, too many influential people unhappy with him in Nairobi. And yet, with his record,...

A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller Nairobi, 2007. In Africa's sprawling megacity, a small elite holds power over an impoverished, restless majority. With Kenya's...

Amos Walker (dauntless, incorruptible and underpaid) is hired to find a reputable newsreader's son who, more often than not, is involved in drugs and women. What Walker finds is far...

Prosecutor Butch Karp takes on the deadliest case of his career in Robert Tanenbaum's most complex and suspenseful thriller to date. The focus of ABSOLUTE RAGE is the moral and...

"Riveting! Camilla, high-five! Amazing work!"-Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered An audacious novel of feminine rage about one...

Finding refuge in a quiet rural backwater, Dr David Hunter hoped he might at last have put the past behind him. But then they found what was left of Sally...

When two newlyweds are murdered in an Arizona campground, Detective Laura Cardinal (Darkness on the Edge of Town) investigates. Still reeling from a tragedy of her own, and teamed with...

"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the "enthralling" ( Booklist , starred review) and "ingenious" ( Boston Globe )...

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has reached a turning point. With his wife now living with another man in London and his career in the doldrums thanks to Chief Constable...

On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse has decided to go without newspapers. But in the hotel he finds himself seated opposite a woman reading her paper, and Morse...

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams --...

"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other...

She thinks it was murder. But if she can't trust herself, can anyone else? Nancy North and her boyfriend Felix are making the move across London to Harlesden. A new...

" Filled with surprising, exotic, and dangerous treats, is the perfect thing for a winter's night by the fire." -Washington Post In Mysteries of Winterthurn , the brilliant young detective-hero...

'This series is irresistible' LEE CHILD'An immersive, intelligent delight' LUCY FOLEY'The Jake Jackson books get better and better' ELLY GRIFFITHS'Highly recommend' KARIN SLAUGHTER'A pleasure' BERNARD CORNWELL A beautiful landscape... It...

A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six. 'The secrets simmer in this atmospheric,...

CRIME DOUBLE FEATURE: Neo Noir features two thrilling novellas packed with mayhem, murder, and mafiosos. Classic crime noir finds a new home in the gritty streets of Paris and Melbourne....

'Taut, moody and suspenseful, Maritime entices with all the strange, mysterious properties of a dream. Peter Mews makes his debut with such style, wit and maturity, it's hard to believe...

Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. But when he investigates the disappearence of an elderly birdwatcher he...

It all happened because John Rebus was in his favorite Edinburgh massage parlourreading the Bible...So opens the latest Rebus mystery and within a few pages the hapless Rebus has lost...

The Hostage Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work. Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever....

Spike Falconer is in prison on the Isle of Wight - convicted of murder. What made him choose four innocent strangers, a family picnicking, as his victims? Why did he...

Behind the closed doors of San Francisco s grandest mansions, beautiful people party the nights away in a heady mix of money, drugs, drink and sex. But the rich and...

When a young woman dies peacefully in her sleep, her husband sits distraught at her side. Returning to his job at the Finland CID he finds that a murder inquiry...

A page-turning crime thriller set in Catalonia. A killer is targeting figures of corruption in the Catalan city of Girona, with each corpse posed in a way whose meaning no...

'Both gripping and scarily plausible, from the first page to its chilling conclusion, The Cover Wife is a book that demands to be read' Kevin Wignall, author of A Death...

Paddy Meehan's former boyfriend was killed before he could expose a dark secret, and Paddy is determined to find the culprit Read the third novel in the Paddy Meehan series,...

Could the perfect wife also be the perfect killer? An addictive, beautifully written thriller from one of Britain's most acclaimed crime writers PERFECT WIFE. PERFECT KILLER? 'A masterly psychological web...

After an elderly woman is attacked and dies, Maureen O'Donnell investigates the suspicious behaviour of the victim's son... A FAMILY DIVIDED. A SECRET THAT COULD KILL. 'Denise Mina is proving...

In the new novel from France's bestselling crime writer, Inspector Adamsberg investigates a series of strange murders linked to a secretive society *Featured in The Times top ten crime novels...

ALMOST HOME. BUT NOWHERE TO HIDE. From the number one bestselling crime-writer comes a brilliant, page-turning new DC Max Wolfe thriller. 'Remarkably moving' The Times When terrorists use a drone...

Forced into hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael Bennett must decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the man who is hunting them....

Author: Raymond ChandlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Ballantine Books, 1949Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Large print text. Ex-library stamps, stickers and casing. Sun-faded DJ...

Author: Ted WillisBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has some minor wear, pages lightly yellowedThis gripping thriller, The Buckingham Palace...