Crime Fiction

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to...

Ruth Rendell's seventh collection of short stories also includes two unpublished novellas. The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are...

Garry Douglas Kilworth's third Jack Crossman novel finds the man they call 'Fancy Jack' with little time to recover from the horrors of Balaclava. Following the terrible massacre of the...

On a hot summer afternoon in Washington DC 1972, three white teenagers, stoned and fearless, drive a stolen car into Heathrow Heights - a rough, black neighbourhood near where they...

Rand McCee just wants to lose himself in his painting. His twin brother was shot before his eyes while on a mission for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based global business...

Actor Toby Flood is reaching the end of a tour acting in the play, Lodger in the Throat, when he is visited by his estranged wife, Jenny. Jenny tells him...

HOMEBOY, Seth Morgan's stunning novel, is a gritty, ribald, and frenetically lyrical odyssey through the Strip in San Francisco -a netherworld of whores, pimps, dealers, and junkies - to the...

"One of the boldest, most inventive serial-killer thrillers since The Silence of the Lambs . . . . Perfect for fans of Jeffery Deaver and Lisa Gardner."-- A. J. Finn,...

OPERATION DOOMSDAY... ACTIVATE... Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must...

Another day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Lluis Font discovers a portrait of his wife in an exhibition that leads him to conclude he is...

ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going...

Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her teenage son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. In the aftermath, Jack, a charismatic but troubled ex-con from Kate's past, shows up....

Daniel Pell is a contemporary Charles Manson. A petty criminal with a history of antisocial behavior and obsession with controlling other people, he had a group of women living with...

Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the...

The bestselling thriller debut of 2011 - the apocalyptic conspiracy thriller that has set the world alight... REVELATION OR DEVASTATION? The certainties of the modern world are about to be...

Following her triumphant return to New York high society in Social Crimes , Jo Slater is now in Barbados flirting with the idea of romance when her old friend Russell...

Published to great acclaim, Death in Lacquer Red was the first novel in Jeanne M. Dams's historical mystery series featuring Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South...

Bestselling author Robert Ryan tells the story of the most ambitious robbery of the twentieth century, when seventeen men risked it all in their quest for adventure, success and fame....

The brilliant new novel in the hooligan cop series by the acclaimed author of HORSE S ARSE. It s the seventies, and the boys in blue are preparing for the...

A retarded child is ritually murdered while on a school outing in a nature reserve. The police, led by Milo Sturgis, have got nowhere and are hampered by the girl's...

A haunting and powerful story of passion, betrayal, obsession and loss. A body is found in the sandhills on the southern coast of New South Wales. David is an archaeologist,...

Get set for the next level in book two of the Game Trilogy, the Swedish series taking the world by storm. How do you protect yourself from a threat whose...

'The Best of Sherlock Holmes' is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection...

Whether dressed in her finery or disguised as a frump, he wanted her just the same! How can plain Frederica withstand a Season's scrutiny after the five beauties before her...

K-9 Guardians - Nichole Severn A violent cartel's bloody reign of terror must be stopped and they - nor their K-9 partners - scare easily. When King Elsher's murdered partner...

Protecting The Pack - Julie Miller When a terror campaign goes awry a cop, a foster mum and a canine protector are on the case. Foster mum Stella Smith and...

A Colby Christmas Rescue - Debra Webb Two special agents take on an impossible mission... Special agent Jamie Colby is on a can't-fail mission. Kidnappers need her unique skills and...

Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out...

At the end of City of Bones Harry Bosch quit the LAPD, but he's back in a new role, one that will give him more freedom to pursue the cases...

It began with a double murder: particularly vicious, particularly gruesome. There was only one witness: but little Melody Quinn can't or won't say a word. Which is where child psychologist...

In Washington the murder of a prostitute attracts little attention. For Alex Cross and his partner Sampson it is another name on the rapidly increasing list of Jane Doe murders....

In the autumn of 1703, a great gale ripped through London. Many were killed, among them Joan Fletcher, the shrewish wife of Alan Fletcher, an ironmonger. But the savage blow...

Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a...

BEWARE THE EYE OF A HURRICANE... For a few precious seconds, the shrieking wind dies down and the colossal waves lie flat. Airbourne in the heart of the storm, TV...

Killer blonde PI Grace Cornish returns in the follow-up to Simon Shaw's psychological chiller Killing Grace Grace is in trouble. She's always had a cavalier attitude towards legal nicities, and...

Author: Henry FieldingBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA man recounts the story of Jonathan Wild. He lived in a world of crime...

Author: Tom WolfeBinding: HardbackPublished: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis novel satirizes the excesses and absurdities of 1980s New York City. It...

Author: Gordon ReidBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne; Oxford University Press;, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn October 1857, Aborigines attacked a sleeping homestead on the Dawson River, Queensland and...

'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In 'The Casebook', you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan...

After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in 'The Adventures...