Crime Fiction

Lola Dakota had to call in the police several times to restrain her abusive husband, but he always returned, so when they got wind of his plan to hire a...

KwayFay lives alone in a squatter shack on the mountain slopes of Hong Kong, and commutes each day to her job as a lowly office clerk. She survives by paying...

Kneeling to receive Holy Communion at St. Saviour's Church in Dublin one Sunday, it suddenly dawns on Magda Finnan how she can earn God's blessing. She vows to kill Father...

'The night of my mother's funeral, Linda Dawson cried on my shoulder, put her tongue in my mouth and asked me to find her husband. Now she was lying dead...

A story featuring the foul-mouthed Kinky Friedman, ace private eye. Little old ladies are dropping dead at an alarming rate in the vicinity of the family's ranch/summer camp in Texas,...

New in paperback with fantastic new cover look A centuries old mystery is about to unravel hen Tim Harding agrees to do a favour for a friend by bidding on...

For fans of A TOUCH OF FROST, more tales of Inspector Frost as he muddles his way through a gruelling assortment of crimes. 'Fast-paced and wryly amusing... A delight from...

When the incorrigible Kinky Friedman, private dick and public nuisance, gets word that his old friend, the legendary singer and tokemaster-general Willie Nelson, is starting to become highly agitato, he...

US Navy intelligence analyst Ryan Evans is used to treating life like a code to be deciphered. But a brutal kidnapping in the Iraqi desert presents him with an excruciating...

It's 30 years since Harry Starks and his gang kept the underworld of Soho under control but the consequences of their brutal reign are still being felt.

Beijing detective Li Yan travels to the capital of China s economic revolution to investigate, and finds the most horrifying catalogue of killings ever uncovered in the Middle Kingdom. American...

A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat. Video cameras have filmed him and another leaving the Heathrow concourse. Ex-copper turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case...

Hiaasen at his riotous and muckraking best. When eco-enthusiast Twilly Spree spots someone in a Range Rover dumping litter onto the freeway, he decides to teach him a lesson -...

From the author of the successful The Greenway comes an atmospheric tale of a young woman's search to uncover the demons haunting her grandfather - images of a woman hanging...

Ageing bluesman Soupspoon Wise is alone, ill and dying. He has never played so memorably as the time he played with Robert RL Johnson in the Missisippi delta. And so,...

Every man has his dark side . . . Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers. The job seems...

Introducing the Hon. Charlie Mortdecai, art dealer, aristocrat and assassin, in the first of the Mortdecai novels Portly art dealer and seasoned epicurean Charlie Mortdecai comes into possesion of a...

Alex Cross chases a cold-blooded killer... with a conscience in the twenty-fourth novel in the bestselling series 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is...

The third Jan Fabel thriller This dark, atmospheric and spine-tingling crime thriller from the mind of prizewinning and bestselling author Craig Russell will get right under the skin. If you...

Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter returns in a hard-boiled murder mystery about the dark and dirty underside of upstanding family life. Three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award. While...

Meet Erik Winter- not a stereotypically glum detective. The youngest chief inspector in Sweden, he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz and is about to...

A beautiful, atmospheric detective story set in Berlin during The Second World War.Orianna Ramunno's Hugo Fischer series is full of tension, drama and, ultimately, hope. A DETECTIVE WITH A SECRET...

Behind the sequins and the sparkles, the competition is about to turn deadly ... 'I loved it! I'm quite convinced I've danced with Lily Richmond, and if anyone can solve...

The stunningly written, atmospheric new debut crime thriller you won't want to miss!Winner of the 2024 CrimeFest Debut Crime Novel of the Year! A detective ready for a new life...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A brutal murder. A detective with no one left to trust. '[Steiner] solidified the promise of last year's debut, Missing, Presumed , with another hyper-realistic police...

Clever Italian art-history crime series featuring scholar and dealer Jonathon Argyll, from the author of the best-selling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. The hardest part of being an art...

In a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, private detective Sam Caldwell's life unravels after a woman slips a drive into his pocket before killing herself. Overnight, Sam's world explodes...

A few days later what they have been warned of comes to pass- a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive...

Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun...

'Because you use your centre forward to make yourselves feel like gods who can manage victories and defeats, from the comfortable throne of minor Caesars: the centre forward will be...

Eight days after the summer solstice, a man s corpse is discovered on the grounds of Stonehenge, strange symbols carved into the flesh. Amid a media frenzy, the case falls...

Her table manners were a crime. But she didn't deserve to die! There's not a cloud in Hamish Macbeth's sky - just plenty of warm sunshine but not quite enough...

Two prostitutes have been murdered in Tokyo. Yuriko had been working as a prostitute all her adult life, starting while still at school, where her stunning beauty compensated for what...

Streetwise Jack-the-lad hero Roy Angel is bored; so his fashion designer partner Amy gets him involved in her latest project - working on a big budget American movie being filmed...

The very first thriller in James Patterson's series international bestselling series featuring forensic psychologist Alex Cross Two children have been kidnapped from an elite private school in Washington DC, and...

Should she catch the killer - or let them strike again? On a bloodstained mattress in a grimy flat, a man lies dead. A terrified girl kneels over his body....

The critically acclaimed, breathtaking thriller: perfect for fans of Angela Marsons, CL Taylor and Kathryn Croft. Seattle Homicide Detective Alice Madison is bound to jailed murderer John Cameron and attorney...

When washed up journalist Harry Hendrick wakes with a hangover and a strange symbol tattooed on his neck, he shrugs it off as a bad night out. When more tattoos...

'A sparkling debut...this is a very good plot-driven thriller dressed in a glittery jumpsuit.' GUARDIAN 'I couldn't stop turning the pages . . . a debut you won't want to...

A gruesome murder. Two sides. One truth. Gripping investigative drama perfect for fans of Michael Connelly. There are two sides to every story. Husband and wife Archie and Francine Hughes...

Celia used to lie for a living. Henry still does. Can they ever trust each other? Six years ago, Henry and Celia were lovers and colleagues, working for the CIA...

The first novel in the Oslo Crime Files, a tense and dark quartet of thrillers for fans of Camilla Lackberg and Jo Nesbo. 'Sleek and cunning' Evening Standard A woman...

FROM CWA CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD WINNER COLIN DEXTER That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse's...