Crime Fiction

It is Richmond, 1806. Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries. Having solved the riddle of her niece's missing fiance and the body in the bushes at...

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...

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...

Al Franken, "one of our savviest satirists" ("People"), takes on the issues, the politicians, and the pundits in one of the most anticipated books of the year. For the first...

Even an experienced forensic pathologist like Jessica Coran is shocked when she learns that a woman has been killed-and her spine has been removed from her body. Complicating the case...

From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery. Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell...

Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare, in one of the scariest Prey novels yet from the number-one bestselling author. The "Big Three" are a trio of inmates locked up in...

Jimmy Gage is a reporter for Slap magazine in Los Angeles--"a troublemaker by trade and inclination, with fast hands and too much curiosity for his own good. Fight or flight,...

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...

February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support...

When Judge Sidney Piggott gets kicked to death in his chambers at the Four Courts in Dublin, few tears are shed. Neither Jim Quilligan nor Molly Powers, the Dublin police...

A blistering political critique wrapped up in a murder mystery - from the bestselling author of MIDDLE ENGLAND Post-university life doesn't suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with...

They are two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both. Scott Weiss is a private detective. John Foy is a profes-sional killer. The...

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,...

Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles over the province of Skane, and Wallander prays the...

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...

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...

From the author who created the superbly chilling international No 1 bestsellers Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls and Jack and Jill comes an irresistibly fast-moving crime thriller. John...

Based on a true story, the cause celebre of its day, Paul Ferris's atmospheric novel tells the coruscating story of sexual obsession, bigamy, amorality, and the sinister disappearance of a...

When the head of one of two feuding families is found murdered, homicide officer Tom McMichael, a member of the suspected family, is challenged to put aside his personal feelings...

Author: Chester HimesBinding: HardbackPublished: THE CHATHAM BOOKSELLER, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis hardboiled crime novel, For Love Of Imabelle, plunges...

Author: Joe GoresBinding: HardbackPublished: The Mysterious Press, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping crime novel, Come Morning, plunges readers into a world of intricate investigations and relentless...

Alone in his New York loft our hero, the private detective Kinky Friedman, reflects on friendship and why his friends are out of town. The phone rings. It's Kinky's old...

In San Francisco, Dan Kearny Associates raids a classic car dealership, while in Los Angeles, a Gypsy's dying words finger a Gypsy princess for his murder. In Hong Kong, a...