Crime Fiction

In the brooding milieu of New Orleans, four friends are about to recognise the fragile boundaries between loyalty and betrayal. Once inseparable, Meredith, Brandon, Stephen and Greg enter high school...

'Hypnotically good ' Lee Child'One of the finest debuts of the year' Donald Ray Pollock'A don't-miss-it debut' Michael Koryta'A gripping thriller' Ivy Pochoda----------------------------------------------------AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, CAN JUSTICE...

New York, 2010; one tenement building on one street in one district of the teeming city.In the basement lives Joe McMurphy - the superintendent. He hears and bears witness to...

Nicholas Rhea continues his highly popular police stories - this time with a seaside flavour.During a seasonal break from his usual village beat on the North Yorkshire Moors, young Police...

The next time you visit Olympia, take a good look around and see if you think it would be possible to murder someone in the middle of the crowd there...

Danger. Thrills. Action. Suspense. No holds barred in New York Times bestseller Katie Reus's Deadly Ops series. Fans of Karen Rose, Lisa Jackson, Lisa Gardner and Julie Garwood - be...

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its...

Corruption, violence, rape and a mother's vengeance are the explosive ingredients of this exceptional thriller. Promotion to chief of the Sex Crimes Division, and a budding romance with colleague Richard...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills,...

Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, was banned from flying in the U. S. when an overly probing search wand caused him to blow his top at LaGuardia Airport....

'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' Daily Mirror A gritty tale of hard time, hard men and hard drugs for fans of Martina Cole, Dreda Say Mitchell and...

Keep your enemies close and your family closerAt his beachside mansion, with his large family and beautiful wife, Jack Rush celebrated his stepdaughter's wedding: an extravagant, happy day. But that...

*** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD ***'A little bit Margery Allingham with hints of Mitford, definite tones of Eva Ibbotson and as delightful as I Capture the Castle,...

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.Beth's life hasn't worked out the way she planned....

'This is a book that is surely about killers, but they don't take the spotlight. That belongs to the detectives who work the case, whose eyes are not jaundiced and...

This is the new stunning thriller from the author of "Gorky Park" and "Stalin's Ghost". As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl wakes to discover an...

Nineteen-year-old Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child. Julianna knows that Richard is the man of her fantasies, the one she's...

Seventeen years ago, Jane Killian was nearly killed by a reckless boater. Now she has everything to live for - a successful career, loving husband, and a baby on the...

Following the success of "The Camel Club", "The Collectors" and "Stone Cold" comes the next thrilling novel featuring Oliver Stone and his friendsKnown by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr...

Murder? Or justice...? Men are dying unexpectedly in Charlotte, North Carolina - all victims of bizarre accidents. Or so it seems, until Detective Melanie May realises these men had something...

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on...

Evil lives in Paradise...A panicked message on her answering machine is the last Liz Ames hears from her sister Rachel. Determined to find her, Liz heads to Rachel's home in...

Though best known for his hugely successful novels, Dennis Lehane is also a master of the short story. This collection, his first to be published in the UK, includes the...

From the mind of Dean Koontz, the 400 million copy worldwide bestseller, comes this supernatural tale of good and evil, and life and death. Find out why Odd Thomas is...

Heart-stopping thriller from the master of suspense. Bad things are starting to happen at the Pendleton, an eerie building with a tragic past. The Pendleton stands on the summit of...

Ryan Kaine is on the trail...When a car crash kills a woman and leaves her husband in hospital, Ryan Kaine answers the call. One of The 83 is in trouble,...

They took someone he swore to protect. Now his past may be the only weapon he has left.Life on the water was meant to be a fresh start for Sam...

They locked her up. Now, they want to hear her story. At fifteen, Ruby Wilcox was involved in the Vincent Street Incident - one of the most horrific murders in...

Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still...

'I absolutely loved this smart, twisty novel' Sunday Times bestseller SHARI LAPENA'A dark and twisty read' Sunday Times bestseller NITA PROSEEveryone watches their neighbours.Everyone lies about their friends.Everyone's a suspect...

Psychologist Alan Gregory has a new patient: Gibbs Storey, whose looks turn grown men into dazzled adolescents. She tells Alan that she thinks her husband, Sterling, may have murdered one...

No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrik Hedstroem and Erica Falck - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo....

'Our spy in Cairo is the greatest hero of them all...' Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, September 1942 He is known to the Germans as 'Sphinx', to others as Alex Wolff,...

'A stunning debut . . . I loved every page' CLARE MACKINTOSH'I loved this book. Its witchy, and sweaty and unputdownable. It takes a traditional thriller structure and turns it...

All kinds of secrets get lost at sea...Ella loves the nomadic lifestyle of working on a luxury superyacht. She can leave her past behind and over the years she's found...

Iraq, 2004. Lawlessness is spreading throughout the country and looters have plundered the museums and historical sites. Mina Osman, a young American archaeologist of Iraqi descent, is fighting to preserve...