Crime Fiction

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she...

The chance discovery of a 30 year old blue movie leads back to the film's maker, Tim Purdom, and the London of the late fifties and early sixties. Purdom was...

Two ageing actors attempt to solve a murder after a body is found on the set in this witty, fun whodunnit, perfect for fans of Thursday Murder Club and Death...

Some scars don't heal. Some killers don't forget.Life has been good for DCI Jack Logan lately. Happily settled down with the woman of his dreams and a dog he begrudgingly...

Fresh from the scandal at Hampstead County PD, Detective Sergeant Casey Wray works a complex double-homicide that points to a killer on a murderous rampage and a shattering series of...

AT THE DAWN OF THE COLD WAR, A NEW BREED OF SPY IS BORN . . .The gripping new 2025 novel from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling...

A stolen child. A killer stalking the streets of Glasgow. A troubled detective running out of time.Five years ago, DCI John Lomond led the search for notorious Glasgow child-killer 'The...

No rest for the wicked - the serial killer with a heart is back . . .As seen on TV - DEXTER: NEW BLOOD - major new dramaDexter Morgan is...

'Simon Mason has created crime fiction's most entertaining double act in decades' Mick Herron'As great a contribution to the noble British genre of detective fiction as any writer for decades'...

______________________________________With an exclusive introduction by director Francis Ford CoppolaTyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man,...

WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE IS INNOCENT?The papers want blood.The force wants results.The law must be served, whatever the cost.July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and...

BERLIN. JANUARY 1940. After Germany's invasion of Poland, the world is holding its breath and hoping for peace. At home, the Nazi Party's hold on power is absolute.One freezing night,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Fantastic' Lee Child'Absolutely brilliant' Mick HerronIf the truth's in the shadows, get out of the light . . . Lawyer Bobby...

THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND NETFLIX'S THE LINCOLN LAWYER THE PATH TO JUSTICE CAN BE PAVED WITH LIES Defense attorney Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - rides the wave...

WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTHBBC RADIO 4'S OPEN BOOKOne family's skeletons emerge on a 1950s seaside summer holiday in this classic mystery from 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith' and 'grandmother of psycho-domestic...

Was Kayla's fate really meant for Gaby?Gaby works part-time as a delivery girl at Pete's Pizza. She also drives a Mini Cooper. One night Kayla, who also works at Pete's,...

From the author of The Missing Girl, Jenny Quintana's gripping novel, Our Dark Secret, tells the story of two girls, two deaths and two decades of silence . . ....

'Jack Reacher may just have a fresh rival.' Daily Mail'Put Mercy River in the So Damn Good column ... I couldn't put it down.' MEG GARDINERWhen Van Shaw receives a...

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'An enjoyably dark and entertaining tranche of Glasgow noir . . . [A] deft, engaging thriller' ObserverGlasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina...

Liverpool: a suburban crime family grips a whole city with fear.And their ambition reaches further still.Galicia: an entire community waits on the windswept edge of Europe for the delivery of...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail'The perfect holiday treat' GuardianThis collection of tales by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr Ruth Galloway,...

EASY MONEY - the Swedish bestselling sensation, a dark and brutal account of the Stockholm underworld. Jorge knows one thing -- he's never going back inside. Mrado knows one thing...

Village life can be deadly... A move to rural Oxfordshire is not the peaceful existence the London couple are looking for in A Touch of Morality, Ann Granger's ninth English...

The New York Times bestseller and Guardian Book of the Month'This flawless masterpiece deserves to be a bestseller.' DAILY EXPRESS'Tough, tense and twisty - but tender, human and deeply affecting,...

It takes one moment to call for help. So why did he wait? 'The rare gift that delivers it all: elevated prose, characters with depth, unpredictable twists, and a pitch-perfect...

Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. Since then she's retired from a life of...

A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector...

Don't stoke the flames unless you want to get burned . . .It's not going well for Aberdeen's NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave has been...

From bestselling Ian Rankin, winner of the 1997 CWA Macallan Gold Dagger for fiction for Black & Blue, come the early Inspector Rebus novels, gathered in one volume for the...

Two Supreme Court Justices are dead, their murders unsolved.But one woman might have found the answer.Darby Shaw is a brilliant New Orleans legal student with a sharp political mind. For...

Kenny Mancuso shot his childhood buddy Moogey Bues and then jumped bail. Now bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the case to track Kenny down. Then someone finished Moogey off,...