Crime Fiction

'He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.' Tess's number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy's father Jason means that she cannot...

'A compelling legal thriller - I loved it' Katerina Diamond, Sunday Times bestseller'Timely, anger-inducing and very powerful - it's excellent' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood OrangeWhen you read this book,...

Martina tells it like it really is, and her unique, honest and compassionate style shines through in her latest novel. Jackie Jackson is preparing a party to welcome home her...

In Vancouver, the wife of a millionaire is dead following an explosion in her own home. Everyone thinks her husband is responsible, but former FBI profiler Jefferson Winter isn't so...

Summer 1881: the streets of Limehouse are thick with opium... and menace. At eighteen Kitty Peck has inherited Paradise, a sprawling criminal empire on the banks of the Thames. Determined...

'Calling to mind the best of Harlan Coben, Johnstone shows us how quickly an ordinary life can take one dark turn and nothing is ever the same again.' Megan Abbott,...

From the number one bestselling author of SAFE HOUSE comes a story about friendship, family, secrets, lies, and the things we do for love.When Claire Cooper was eight, her mother...

A terrifying supernatural thriller for fans of Let the Right One In, The Passage, and The Loney'Very scary. Never mind Scandi crime fiction, the time has come for Scandi horror.'...

Detective Superintendent George Quinn - Mayfair resident and dandy with a razor-sharp brain - has set up a new police unit, dedicated to investigating the super-rich. When he is shot...

May, 1937. Josephine Tey is in London to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots. Meanwhile, the country is preparing to crown a new king. At...

Perugia, he thought. Chocolates, Etruscans, that fat painter, radios and gramophones, the University for Foreigners, sportswear. 'Umbria, the green heart of Italy', the tourist advertisements said. What did that make...

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into...

'Spellbinding . . . superb.' WASHINGTON POST'Emotionally gripping and defiantly original.' ITALIAN MYSTERIESAN AURELIO ZEN MYSTERYZen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next...

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail'Brody's writing is like her central character Kate Shackleton: witty, acerbic and very, very perceptive' Ann Cleeves...

Charhadi's young narrator is a loner, always in dire poverty, and at turns a shepherd, a baker's helper, a petty trafficker in kif, he is continually used, abused and cheated....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD 2016'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year' Independent'Vivid and harrowing' Sunday Times'Police procedural, romance, thriller The Murderer...

Bravo Shaw always knew his father had secrets, he just didn't realise how dangerous they were... When Bravo's father dies in mysterious circumstances, his hidden life is laid bare. Dexter...

'If you have never entered the curious world of Bryant and May, you're in for a treat.' THE TIMESIt was the kind of story that barely made the news.When 91-year-old...

'Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainYou think you know her...But look a little...

'LOVED it. I read it in 3 hours in one sitting' Goodreads reviewer, THEIR FIRST MISTAKE WAS INVITING HER IN...Rose has it all - the gorgeous children, the husband, the...

After three years deep under cover, US agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortress-like mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo-Nazi organisation born after the fall of...

Listening to Van Morrison represents Greil Marcus's quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the incomparable...

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel, set against the bleak fens of East Anglia. Death of An Expert Witness...

Two men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister...

From P.D. James, one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the tenth novel to feature commander Adam Dalgliesh. A Certain Justice is a chilling murder mystery packed with...

St Cedd's Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the...

Two can keep a secret - if one of them is dead...Inspector Archie Penrose invites crime writer Josephine Tey down to his family home in Cornwall so she can recover...

For fans of The Da Vinci Code: A conspiracy thriller about an age-old brotherhood of killers. Once hired by princes of the Church to protect it in dangerous times, whose...

Five strangers. One horrific event. What did they see? 'Assured and engrossing' The Sunday Times 'Tightly-plotted, entertaining' LOUISE CANDLISH 'Meticulously plotted with an ending I really didn't see coming.' SARAH...

A superbly entertaining and suspenseful debut crime novel from Irish Benedictine Monk Andrew Nugent.When a Dublin High Court judge is found dead - slumped in his chair, his neck snapped...

A blistering courtroom drama featuring THE LINCOLN LAWYER's Mickey Haller from the master of the genre.In tough times, crime is one of the few things that still pays, but even...

ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours.The friends of the...

A strong cast of sharply-drawn and colourful characters gives Bob Burns and his two unlikely sidekicks plenty to cope with in an intriguing story of greed, guile, deceit and double-dealing...

_________________'The Catcher in the Rye meets The Great Gatsby via American Psycho' - Harpers and Queen'A whacked-out hybrid of Dickens and Salinger ... Compelling and moving' - Jac McInerney'Echoes of...

A fast-moving new thriller of betrayal and revenge and murder in the bestselling tradition of Chris Ryan and Andy McNab. Haunted by the brutal killing of his UN interpreter wife...

Dublin, 1841. On a cold December morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. This could be just one more small, sad death...

One perfect family. One deadly secret. One killer on the loose.Annie and Terry Eccles seemed to have it all, until one night they are brutally murdered in their bed.Called in...

*This special edition hardback contains a bonus short story* 'There were a lot of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them ...' When a teenage joyrider...

It's the sixties, and sixteen-year-old Carole Mason and her friend Naomi set out to lose their virginity to Eddie Lindbaeck, a man they barely know. Events, however, go horribly wrong...

Nick Paleologus is summoned to the unyielding bosom of his family to help resolve a dispute which threatens to set his brothers and sisters against their aged and irascible father....

When Harry Barnett is anonymously informed that his son is languishing in hospital in a diabetic coma, he is certain there must be some mistake, since he does not have...

In the night there was a blue world lit by the moon . blue sand trickled between her fingers and swells of seawater moved inside her . It was a...

From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and the hit TV show Strikeback.Despatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his...