Crime Fiction

Israel: two Concorde jets take off for a UN conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry...

'The most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters Rizzoli and Isles.' Daily MailHE WATCHESSomething terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark...

'A clever and utterly absorbing thriller which marks the arrival of an author to watch' i News'A powerful feminist thriller . . . twisted in the best way' Clemence Michallon,...

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD.Henry Loving is a 'lifter', hired to extract information from his victims. He is very, very good at it.His next target is a Washington, D.C. detective, whose family...

Michael Hrubek, a schizophrenic psychopath, escapes from a mental institution. The directors of the hospital, concerned for their reputation, tell the police he's harmless. But Hrubek doesn't need to sleep...

Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face. In the year since his twin sister's abduction his world has fallen apart: his father has disappeared...

'A MASTERPIECE' SUNDAY TIMES 'Original . . . unpredictable' DAILY MAIL'A dark unpredictable read' BELLA'Will have you compulsively reading' HEAT'Gauntlett is a master of misdirection' NEW YORK TIMES 'SHARP, SHOCKING,...

The annual thrilling instalment of John Connolly's popular Charlie Parker series. It is deep winter. The darkness is unending.The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished, and Charlie Parker is...

A gripping Charlie Parker thriller perfect for fans of Stephen King and Michael Connelly.'Haunting, scary and addictive' - Independent on SundayIn the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of...

Daniel Clay, a once-respected psychiatrist, has been missing for years following revelations about harm done to the children in his care. Believing him dead, his daughter Rebecca has tried to...

The fourth instalment in Syd Moore's spooktacular witch detective seriesHalloween in Essex and the Mystery and Suspense creative writing course at old Ratchette Hall is off to a satisfyingly creepy...

Book 3 in Steve Burrows' fabulous Birder Murder mystery seriesThe threat from above casts a dark shadow. A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland....

The second book in Steve Burrows' series of Birder MurdersWith murder, everyone pays a price ...Why would a killer ignore expensive jewellery and take a pair of turtledoves as the...

Pendergast - the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent - returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife...

Perched like a black crow on a crag in the most hostile depths of the Himalayas stands a monastery. For a thousand years the monks have kept guard. Now their...

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round...

One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An...

BOOK 3 OF 3The final book in the Promise Falls trilogy, The Twenty-Three is a pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller. The day begins like any other Saturday - a shower, coffee, breakfast....

Italy, 1943. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie leaves the chaos of Nazi-occupied Rome for neutral Switzerland on a mission his government knows nothing about. Waiting for a late-night connection in Zurich...

'A page-turner full of secrets and lies, this is a totally addictive read' HEAT 'An addictive, jaw-dropping read. I loved it' CLAIRE DOUGLAS'A nerve-jangling tale of tension, suspicion and betrayal'...

Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life...

'Smart, empathetic and all too real. I love her writing' LIZ NUGENT One murder, three families destroyedAnd a detective guilty of a crime of her own When 18-year-old Ben Renshaw...

'Head-to-head with Nicci French and Karin Slaughter' Daily MirrorTHE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY.She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat...

'One of the most strikingly original police procedurals this year . . . It is breathtakingly good' - Daily Mail'This thriller has it all' - T. M. Logan'Breathless plotting and...

Your father is on death row. You have seven days to save him. But do you want to? Alice knows her father is guilty of many things. He's guilty of...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTen years ago, a tragic accident tore through a community.Ever since, the nine survivors - just teenagers at the time - have met on the anniversary...

'Delicious tensions between parents and squabbles among their children seem so harmless, yet every one has the potential to start a devastating snowball of events. I couldn't put this one...

The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda Asher's timeless translation.There was an exaggerated humility about her....

'You turn the pages as if your very life depends on it' - Daily MailMr Marseille is polite, elegant, and erudite. He would do anything for his genteel true love...

'Death is my beat.' Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of THE POET, could also apply to Michael Connelly. He was an award-winning journalist before he became one...

Haunted by her past. In danger from her present.Isolated, alone, vulnerable.Sometimes the danger is closer than you think.As a teenager, Sarah D'Villez famously escaped a man who abducted and held...

Ireland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan...

When the body of a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighbourhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis - now...

Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a...

The latest thrilling entry in the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. Two identical brothers, both handsome, intelligent and popular recent college...

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023**'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.' RACHEL RHYS'Impressive... worthy of Sarah Waters' THE TIMESTHEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY...

Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year.The Other Mrs Walker is the beguiling debut from Mary Paulson-Ellis, for fans of Kate Atkinson and Sarah Waters.Somehow she'd always known that she would...

In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years...

The New York Times Bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case...

'A read-it-in-one-sitting thriller . . . Twisty and gripping but always relatable, Friend Request is the ultimate it-could-happen-to-you read' Erin KellyWhen Louise Williams receives a message from someone left long...

For fans of Nicci French and Sophie Hannah, Corrie Jackson's explosive new thriller will leave you questioning how far you would go for friendship. Charlie and Emily Swift are the...

A twisting tale of murder, mystery and eighteenth-century England by a dramatic and gripping new voice in the genre.On the frozen fields of Romney Marsh stands New Hall; silent, lifeless,...