Crime Fiction

'A splendid read, with an authentic 60s flavour. I recommend it unreservedly.' - Kerry Greenwood Peregrine Fisher is unexpectedly summoned to a meeting of the Adventuresses' Club of the Antipodes,...

The seventh gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which new parents Ruso and Tilla leave Roman-occupied Britain--and the military--for a new life as civilians in Rome. Ruso and...

Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder... Get ready for a claustrophobic, roller-coaster ride in 2025. MOST FAMILY REUNIONS END IN TEARS. THIS ONE WILL...

The captivating sequel to Foul Lady Fortune , by the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. Winter is drawing thick in 1931 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing...

'The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather's latest edge-of-your-seat thriller. ***** Vicky Lewis is a force to be...

'You know I did a terrible thing. What you cannot know is that there exists an extreme irony, in that, but for one unforgivable sin - far more terrible things...

It was 2.47am when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had...

Gervase Bonel, with his wife and servants, is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he is suddenly taken ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the...

A body with multiple stab wounds was found in a tiny New York apartment; there were intimations of cross-dressing, male prostitution and mistaken identity. For the jury the days it...

Journeying to wintry Montreal to testify at a murder trial, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan discovers three skeletons in the basement of a pizza parlor and realizes that she has stumbled...

Queensland's Gold Coast swelters in record temperatures, and car salesman Gary Braswell is hot under the collar. With sales at rock-bottom, and up to his neck in debt to loan...

'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy...

TELL ME YOUR SECRETS... 'Tense and compulsive' Louise Candlish, bestselling author of The Other Passenger 'Suspicion, betrayal and dark secrets abound' TM Logan, bestselling author of The Catch 'A delicious...

He spots the two girls through the cracked screen of beech, sycamores and leg-scratching gorse: a flash of red skirt and a unison of giggles. The smaller girl sees them...

Dead bodies aren't unusual in the alleyways of Fenest. Muggings, brawls gone bad, debts collected - Detective Cora Gorderheim has seen it all. The first novel in a fantasy crime...

James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.When former SAS captain David Shelley goes looking for an old comrade who has taken to a life on the streets, he finds his...

What would it take to make you a killer? One day a total stranger walks into your home and offers you $100k in cash. The only condition is that if...

'Koryta is one of the best, plain and simple' - Michael Connelly Crusty old John Weston hires partners Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard to investigate both the death of his...

The Narrows: Harry Bosch is adjusting to life in Las Vegas as a private investigator and as a new father. Then he gets a call from the widow of a...

Silvermeadow--calculated, manipulative and dressed up to deceive. If this glossy, huge new shopping mall on the outskirts of London had been a suspect rather than a place, Kathy Kolla would...

Marshall Browne is easily the best Australian mystery writer. Nicely sophisticated and generous-minded. Kate Jennings Shortlisted for the Best Crime Fiction Award, Ned Kelly Crime Awards Marshall Browne is easily...

"The telling is masterful...Sit back and enjoy Watson's latest. It's better than bourbon on the rocks." -- Kirkus Reviews , Starred review "Hypnotically beautiful novel...Paranoia has been defined as 'seeing...

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her...

'I lived every second with the characters. A masterpiece' JANE CASEY ' Misery meets Room ... a triumph' MARIAN KEYES 'Ratchets up the tension to the point where I had...

This is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective... William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his...

'This is devastatingly good' Heat From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice...

Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes an explosive thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon. The most beautiful music hides...

"Superb. . .a fast-moving and gripping plot" Publishers Weekly Starred Review of The Merchant Murderers March, 1557. Jack Blackjack is back in London and enjoying a sedentary life - after...

Murder in Paradise is the third mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Cheerful festivities take a dark...

Another Man's Poison is the fifth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. Molly Palmer-Jones arrives at her...

Sea Fever is the sixth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. A rare and unrecorded sea bird...

A lead agent for BAD (Bureau of American Defense), Sydney Westbrooke values order and discipline; Joshua Steele is a rogue officer with an attitude problem and authority complex. When Sydney...

The death of a beautiful woman...an arrogant man who claimed to be her suitor but was probably her murderer...a cop accused of planting evidence...and a town steeped in secrets and...

A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park meets Groundhog Day, by way of Agatha Christie 'We have work to do,' he says. 'I...

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'These three novellas in a single volume show...

Hostage Security - Lisa Childs He'll risk anything to save the child he didn't know he had... After five years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, Josh Stafford...

SHORTLISTED - 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel Gutsy new PI Lou Alcott takes charge in this brilliantly crafted, gritty thriller. Perfect for readers of Sarah Bailey and Jane...

She's never been so far from home. And never so close to a killer. Private investigator Olivia Knightley has finally pressed pause on her busy schedule and regained some work-life...

The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood, but there is no victim. Only an odd series of numbers is left behind. When a girl...

Best-selling novelist Harlan Coben, a master of suspense and creator of the critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series, edits this latest collection of the must-reads in mysteries from the past year. Featuring...

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question- Who has authority over a woman's body?...

Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going...

The nineteenth installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with...

POSTMORTEM The first Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which won five international awards for the best first crime novel of 1990. 'Terrific first novel, full of suspense, in which even the...