Crime Fiction

The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV's Wire in the Blood. The award-winning Val McDermid is at the height of her powers in this...

'A delicious web of grief, sex and obsession that will leave you guessing until the very end . . . fast-paced and addictive' ELLE KENNEDY'A shocking debut thriller . ....

'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously. 'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?''No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly. The garden...the...body... we need you, Penny.'For women of...

SHORTLISTED FOR MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA BEST FIRST NOVEL EDGAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ILP JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2024SHORTLISED FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARDS BEST FIRST...

'What a ride!... The story is stunning.' James Church, author of the Inspector O series Agent 10483 carried out his missions perfectly. Too perfectly. When a top agent in The...

Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region...

A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the comic crime caper. He's the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop...

'Smart characters, shocking twists' Lisa Gardner'Lots of clever links in the breakneck plot' Cork Evening Echo'This crime drama races along in short, action-packed chapters' My Weekly______________The Sunday Times bestsellerA city...

'This latest from crime master Coben is a thrillingly tense yet emotional tale concerning a missing seventeen year old girl' HEATSeventeen-year-old Haley McWaid never gave her parents a moment's worry....

An interesting twist from George: her protagonist is a young violin virtuoso whose sudden inability to play while centre stage leads him into a dark secret in his past. Hardcover...

She says she's an ordinary mother. He knows a liar when he sees one. Sarah thinks of herself as a normal single mum. It's what she wants others to think...

'A compelling, vividly realised prison drama with a mystery at its heart. Hugely enjoyed it' Steve Cavanagh, author of Thirteen Jenna knows she didn't do it. But she is running...

When Cal Weaver stops at red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled-looking teenaged girl trying to hitch a lift. Even when she starts tapping...

The gripping page-turner from the massive No. 1 bestselling author of FIND YOU FIRST and Richard & Judy Book Club winnerThe worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with...

Once a year, Corso Bramard receives a message from the man who destroyed his life.He left the police after a serial killer he was tracking murdered his wife and daughter,...

McCaleb, now married to Graciela and with a baby daughter, is persuaded to take a case from the LA County Sheriff's office. He is asked to profile the killer of...

Shortlisted for the Edgar Award, Best Novel 2019Irish Times' Best Book of the Year, 2018 'Dark, yes, but tender too. The Liar's Girl is tightly plotted and crackles with suspense.'...

The dead tell no tales . . .Hollows Bend is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner....

A psychiatrist is bound to her patients by confidentiality but do ethics always override catching a murderer? You don't know who I am. Someone is tormenting psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli's patients,...

After two high-risk missions, CIA special agent John Wells is living on the edge, his nights filled with disturbing dreams. He knows he has no time for rest - and...

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not...

For thirty-six years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write.All...

London, 1852. On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant, Sergeant Victor Leeming, are dispatched to...

Some cases aren't as cold as you'd thinkKurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is accepted, only...

Two years ago, Jack Morgan was in Rio consulting on security for the World Cup. The tournament went without a hitch. Until a man died in one of the executive...

In THE BITTER SEASON, Tami Hoag - the Sunday Times bestselling author of A THIN DARK LINE - returns with book five in the gripping Kovac & Liska detective series....

From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ice slowly melting in a cocktail glass. But look a little closer, and all is not...

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing...

Hettie Bagshot and Tilly Jenkins are hired to investigate a spate of mysterious deaths at Mr Whisker's Academy for Wayward Cats. Before Tilly even opens her notebook, the hockey mistress...

The town is celebrating its first literary festival, and The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency has been hired to oversee security.When the body of the most popular author, Sir Downton...

Tom Winscombe and his ex-girlfriend Dorothy Chan are on a mission to crack a code - a code embedded in a chip inside two alpacas that used to belong to...

The mystery deepens in the gripping second novel in David Baldacci's Camel Club series, The Collectors.Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, planning the heist of the century...

'A fresh new voice in crime fiction' - JANICE HALLETT'Funny, sad, witty and very engaging' - EMMA CURTIS'Darkly funny and deftly plotted' - ALICE CLARK-PLATTSEveryone needs a hobby...Things haven't been...

Breaking the Dark, the first book in the brand-new Marvel Crime series, introduces fans to a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, and will continue with original novels featuring...

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power...

It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life.Sixteen-year-old Jenna Harbough's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club...

Another runaway adventure with glamorous heroine Phryne Fisher! Whether foiling kidnappers' plans, walking the wings of a Tiger Moth or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles everything...

Who are you when no one is watching?When beloved high school student Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched - not the boy...

The second Grant County novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller.When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical...

A dazzling literary thriller - the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive...

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office...

Joe Pike is out for revenge and no cop, no bad guy, no one alive, is going to stop him.'Crais just gets better and better . . . Crais's novels...

'As you may have gathered, there was a suicide in St Peter's this afternoon. Someone threw himself off the gallery inside the dome. Such incidents are quite common, and do...