Crime Fiction

One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from...

Early one morning among the magnificent honey-coloured buildings of the Sorbonne, the tranquillity of the university is shattered by a death. But why would Albert Cadas, a quiet, crumpled professor...

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head...

When Serena Sheridan's grandfather vanishes into the vast and infamous swamps of Louisiana for no apparent reason, she feels compelled to abandon her successful career as a psychologist and go...

A gripping psychological thriller on the bonds of friendship and the cost of breaking them, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files.Everyone has...

What secrets is she keeping in the hidden room...?Life is good for Laurie and Martha. They have a beautiful home in the fens, three great kids. Laurie's career as an...

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb' Daily MailThe honeymoon is...

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the...

INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA'Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illuminates every page of her novel. It is a masterly book,...

Wife. Mother. Daughter. Killer. 'You can't stop reading, even as you want to look away' New York Times Life is going well for Marie. She and her husband, Laurent, live...

How do you solve a murder... when everyone has the same motive? From global bestselling Anthony Horowitz, a brilliantly entertaining new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.'Easily the greatest...

'WOW I was blown away by this thriller... This book had me guessing right up to the very end. An exceptional book.' Just One More Page, 5 starsShe can give...

Two assassins go head-to-head on the open seas in this gripping new historical thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author David Mark. London, 1628. Nicolaes de Pelgrom, assassin and devoted servant...

The Secret of Annexe 3 is the seventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.Morse sought to hide his disappointment. So many people in the Haworth Hotel that fateful evening...

* A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023 *'A gloriously foreboding Gothic tale' - HEAT'A thrillingly dark page-turner' - MAIL ON SUNDAY'Marta is Jane Eyre's black-hearted alter ego' -...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Tucked away from the building sites of modern Shanghai are the beautiful mansions once owned by the smartest families in 1930s China. They have...

Sally is a young, talented journalist living life to the full. So why would she leap fifteen floors to her death?When the Hong Kong authorities decide it was suicide, Sally's...

If you're looking for a gripping new crime series, you'll love Aline Templeton. Featuring DI Marjory Fleming - 'Big Marge' - and set in Galloway. If you enjoy novels by...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series.Former dancer and party loyalist Wen Liping vanishes in rural China just before she was to leave the country. Her husband, a key witness...

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church...

When wisecracking detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro agree to protect the son of a prominent psychiatrist who believes she may have angered the Boston Irish Mafia, they soon find...

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an...

Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's most deadly killers. But when a misplaced bomb ripped apart a group of passing kids, she left all that behind her.Now, years later,...

IN AN EVIL WORLD, EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE... The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further...

'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth' - Sunday ExpressWhat is the Summerfield secret?Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found...

Banks isn't back, and that's the problem.If DCI Alan Banks had been in his office when his old neighbour came calling, perhaps it would have turned out differently.Perhaps an innocent...

When Sydney Chaplin left D.C. nine years ago for college, she vowed never to return. But when her sister is found brutally murdered, she finds herself drawn once again into...

A city on flood alert, a killer on the rampage Heavy rains have burst the banks of the WillametteRiver; several people have died in the furiously rising waters ... but...

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known...

In the early hours of a cold January morning, two narrow boats catch fire on the dead-end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When signs of accelerant are found at the...

A compelling look into damaged minds, The Chameleon's Shadow is a psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head...

Discover the most original murder mystery which will have you guessing until the very last page . . .'One of the year's most entertaining crime novels' SUNDAY TIMES'When did you...

They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln car, travelling between the courthouses of...

SOME WILL WAIT A LIFETIME TO TAKE THEIR REVENGE . . . A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of pounds' worth...

IT'S A PRIZE ANYONE WOULD KILL TO WIN...Ten celebrities have arrived to take part in the most gruelling - and lucrative - reality survival show ever devised: two weeks completely...

Young lawyer Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the South of France. But business in the picturesque village is far...

Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories, which all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular novels. Now his two critically acclaimed short story collections -...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE FOR SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR'One of the great Scottish crime writers' The Times'Brilliant' Sunday Times Crime ClubNO ONE WILL FORGETIn a grimy flat...

An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband has a secret life - and it might cost them all their lives.Everyone in the small town of Hemingway Grove knows...

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