Crime Fiction

Budapest's dark history finally catches up with Detective Balthazar Kovacs in the final instalment in Adam LeBor's Hungarian crime trilogy. Budapest, January 2016. The Danube is grey and half-frozen, covered...

'A phenomenal, haunting debut.' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone GirlKaycee Mitchell died. And everyone has been lying about it. For years.Ten years ago, Abby Williams left her hometown behind. Ever...

The thrilling new standalone suspense novel from Sweden's answer to Val McDermid and Sunday Times Book of the Month author, Anders de la Motte.**DON'T MISS DEEDS OF AUTUMN. AVAILABLE TO...

A gripping tale of murder and mystery in eighteenth century England. Across the still, dark English Channel come the smugglers. But tonight they carry an unusual cargo: a coffin. Several...

A dark, addictive thriller, ingeniously plotted with a twist that will make you gasp, LIE IN WAIT is perfect for readers of Angela Marsons or Rachel Abbott.A man is dead....

An unsolved murder. A community turned against each other. A killer close to home...Katie Taylor is the perfect student. She's bright and funny, she has a boyfriend who adores her...

Abbie is missing. Her mother knows who's to blame.But nobody is listening.When the case falls to DCI Bob Valentine, he has no choice but to listen. Haunted by the girl's...

DCI Hanlon faces the toughest decision of her career as a string of political murders lead to a deadly confrontation. A controversial, right-wing German politician is due to speak at...

Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness PrizeIn the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a series of...

A serial killer. A hero to some. A wanted criminal to others. The man who calls himself Vindici broke out of prison last year. Now he's filmed himself torturing and...

FOUR WOMEN. ONE FATAL PROMISE.Dina, Ronit, Naama and Sheila: the Others. As students, they chose to be different - bound by a pact never to have children.Even as their friendship...

Perfect for fans of Mick Herron and John Le Carre"The most important thing that's happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years" Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph.It's Christmas in Culiacan...

Maris used to be a loving, happy mother. Then her daughter was murdered. Who is she now? A man stands on the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge. His son...

MADRID, 1982. Comandante Leopoldo Guzman has decided it is time to disappear. Franco is dead and there's no place in the new order for the former head of the tyrant's...

A slick and sophisticated mystery from the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs.'This gorgeously written, funny adventure tale will keep readers up finishing it while also quietly breaking their hearts...

Liv has a lot of secrets. Late one night, in the aftermath of a party in the apartment she shares with two friends in Alesund, she sees a python on...

In the night of Rome, nothing is what it seems. It's all change in Rome. The new Pope, determined to bring radical reform to the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary Jubilee...

That Autumn it seemed the rain in Naples would never stop, and Commissario Ricciardi found himself having to face not only a homicide but long-buried feelings that have grown thick...

Shortlisted for Crime Writers' Association International Dagger 2019Traumatic stress causes Inspector Albertus Beeslaar to trade tough city policing for a backwater posting on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. But...

James Patterson and Bill Clinton - the 'dream team' (Lee Child) - return with a thriller even more compelling than global number one bestseller The President is Missing.____________Every detail is...

22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life.SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind.There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the...

The second Shetland novelWhen the sun never sets it brings to light deadly secretsOn Shetland the launch of an exhibition at The Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a...

The Earthquake Bird is Susanna Jones's stunning, prize-winning first mystery - now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander.Winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel...

'Creepy, atmospheric and darkly comic' C. J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man'Bakkeid is already big and his work is only going to get bigger and better' Daily RecordDisgraced, damaged...

'Brilliant escapism... Perfect for fans of The White Lotus, it had me gripped' Harriet TyceIT'S THE PERFECT ESCAPE... UNTIL THERE IS NO ESCAPEWelcome to Turtle Cove.A luxury resort surrounded by...

'Brilliant escapism... Perfect for fans of The White Lotus, it had me gripped' Harriet TyceIT'S THE PERFECT ESCAPE... UNTIL THERE IS NO ESCAPEWelcome to Turtle Cove.A luxury resort surrounded by...

Now a major ITV series, The Long Call, adapted for television by screenwriter Kelly Jones and starring Ben Aldridge.'Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning' - David BaldacciThe...

The Trap by Melanie Raabe is set, and ready to spring.I know you killed my sister.I wrote this novel for you.Twelve years ago, Linda's sister Anna was murdered. Her killer...

A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and C.L Taylor.500 five star Goodreads ratingOnce you start reading, you won't want to stop. Two women, two secrets, one murder......

The second book in the heartwarming and charming Baby Ganesh series.For centuries the Koh-i-Noor diamond has set man against man and king against king.Now part of the British Crown Jewels,...

If they ever catch you, say nothing. Admit nothing. Never tell.'High-wire suspense that keeps you riveted' Lisa GardnerPerfect for fans of James Patterson and Karin Slaughter, the new novel Sunday...

Run. Don't look back. Just run.When Michael Rowland saves his younger brother Joshua from the clutches of his stepfather, he runs for his life with his brother in his arms....

A brilliant high-concept debut thriller - just how do you solve a murder when you only remember yesterday?'The thriller of the summer' - Observer'Yap is a phenomenon' - Guardian'The intrigue...

This is the story of three days last September when eight old friends gathered in a beautiful house by the sea. There was food, wine and laughter, and then the...

In this Christmas installment of Rhys Bowen's New York Times bestselling historical mystery series, Molly Murphy Sullivan's generosity to a beggar draws her into a dangerous investigationIt's Christmastime in 1905...

How could the heavily-pregnant bride of the lanimer-man vanish into thin air?Young Mistress Audrey Madur is missing and her husband, responsible for maintaining boundaries and overseeing land use in the...

Making a killing in the market...A bomb takes out a CIA station chief in Geneva. A serial killer strikes apparently at random across the UK. In Algeria a terrorist network...

'Will suck you in from the first page' Stephen Booth, author of Fall Down DeadIn a small northern town, girls are disappearing. You won't see it in the papers and...

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE GIRL LEFT BEHIND? A masked man with a gun enters a sandwich shop in broad daylight, and Meredith Oliver suddenly finds herself ordered to the filthy...

Your life is in danger - and the death threats are coming from someone close to you. But who? Someone in your family is lying to you. Francesca was widowed...

The third title in Genevieve Cogman's clever and exciting The Invisible Library series, The Burning Page is an action-packed literary adventure! When it's your job to save the day -...

Blake Nelson had three perfect wives.Until one of them killed him.'An exquisite murder mystery' CHRISTINA DALCHER'Atmospheric and addictive' THE SUN'I could not put it down... I loved it!' MARIAN KEYES*****Blake's...

Erykah Macdonald has a nice life, the kind you're supposed to want. But on her twentieth wedding anniversary, she's about to cross a line. Several hundred miles away in the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE'Enthralling, exciting, extraordinary and utterly convincing. Everything a great book should be' Sarah Hilary'Wonderfully atmospheric,...

'Raw, relentless and heart-poundingly real, this book knocked me off my feet like a river in flood' Ruth Ware, bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman...