Crime Fiction

A collection of short stories featuring the 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in...

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready.Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing. And...

Nameless is a gripping underworld thriller by bestselling author Jessie Keane.She never forgot, and she'll never forgive . . .In 1941, mixed race Ruby Darke is born into a family...

The Secretary of Homeland Security has been shot dead at his home in Washington. The last man to see him alive? Special Agent Jack McClure. Secretary Denis Paull had information...

Omerta, the Sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the Mafia's sense of honour for centuries. Born in the Sicilian hills, omerta carried the Mafia through a hundred...

Max Parkman-autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive-is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting...

Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, a doctor with one of the aid...

His job is to hunt down criminals. But he's about to become the hunted... Find out why Stephen King calls John Sandford 'one of the great novelists of all time'!...

The eleventh Virgil Flowers novel by internationally bestselling author John Sandford Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle... and a murder... in the wickedly entertaining thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers....

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH 'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry'Irresistible, a compelling psychological thriller.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'Vividly realised'...

When Charlie Walden took on the job of Resident Judge of the Bermondsey Crown Court, he was hoping for a quiet life. But he soon finds himself struggling to keep...

'The Rule of Three absolutely blew me away. An incredibly intense and original creepy page-turner that made me keep turning the pages in a desperate need to finish it and...

TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands accused of killing his wife and teenage children as they slept before burning the...

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake...

Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of...

* Pre-order LOYALTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2023. *Keep your family close... Set in the heart of London's criminal gangland, FACES by the 'undisputed queen...

WINNER OF THE ANTHONY, BARRY, THRILLER, LEFTY AND MACAVITY AWARDS FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL'Harrowing and heartfelt, assured and highly accomplished. One of the standout thrillers of the year' CHRIS WHITAKERIf...

Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancee the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his...

Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings and his dedication to meting out strict, impartial justice. Taking a break...

LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'The year's best debut' SUNDAY TIMES 'The best crime novel of the year' INDEPENDENT 'Sensational. Gripping, haunting, and beautifully written' RICHARD...

When Fi went to support her best friend's drag debut, she didn't imagine a killer would be going to watch it too. And they're waiting for their grand finale...Fi McKinnery...

**THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Completely ingenious, entirely satisfying - a delight from start to finish' ALEX MICHAELIDES'BY FAR Sophie Hannah's best one yet. Relatable, funny, high concept and so...

'O!M!G! This just blew me away.... Gripping, compelling... I could not put this down... Be prepared to be amazed... 5 very excited stars.' Goodreads reviewer, Both of them loved him....

When a body is found in a hotel room, the press soon pick up on the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics officer, apparently gone to the...

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his...

MURDER AND DECEPTION IN THE OLD BAILEY.Meet Adam Green. Misfit. Purveyor of justice. Barrister-in-training.When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old Bailey, it threatens to shake...

'The queen of the one-sit read' Linwood BarclayThe latest unputdownable thriller from Shari Lapena, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and SOMEONE WE KNOW.'Shari...

The spectacular new standalone thriller from the author of the critically acclaimed Frankie Sheehan novels It all started to go wrong the day the Wrights moved in next doorMyles and...

*If you love The Butlers, meet QUEENIE! Kimberley Chambers' new No.1 bestseller and prequel to The Butler series is out now!* With family like this, who needs enemies. . ....

Shortlisted for:**The Kathy Reichs Award for Fearless Female Character****The Cat Amongst the Pigeons Award for Most Exceptional Debut****FINALIST IN THE INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARDS FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL**Part-time Florida bounty-hunter...

A Twist of the Knife is Peter James' first full-length collection of thirty short stories, including all the stories in Short Shockers One and Short Shockers Two, plus many more....

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLER 'If you like your conspiracies twisty, your action bone-jarring, and your heroes impossibly dashing, then look no farther' Mark Dawson When twelve-year-old Valentina fails to return...

When maverick movie star Sean O'Toole is forced to leave the glamour of Hollywood to make a film about an Irish gangster, he's not best pleased - and even less...

'The best thriller writer alive' - Ken FollettI'm not a typical lawyer. I don't maintain a pretty office filled with mahogany and leather. I don't belong to a big firm,...

It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of...

THE NOVEL THAT STARTED IT ALL - ARKADY RENKO NOVEL #1 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val...

Armistice Day, 1940. The nation remembers the Great War while a new and harrowing conflict rumbles on. The Blitz Detective, John Jago, must set aside his own painful memories to...

'Britain's answer to Donna Tartt' Sunday Times'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel'Was this how it was going to be for ever? Wrapping things for customers in womenswear, no conversation. Polishing the...

Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying...

Was it murder? Was it horribly botched surgery - accidental malpractice? Was someone in the great Boston medical centre -violating the Hippocratic oath? No one knows exactly. . . Only...

'The darkness dwells, the desperation grows between the characters and the walls close in until you're caught in the trap.' - Lars KeplerA breathless page-turner from an international master of...

'Dazzling' Crime Monthly'My kind of book!' Belfast Telegraph'Captivating' My Weekly Magazine'Suspenseful' Country Life Magazine_____________________________________*WATERSTONES AUGUST THRILLER OF THE MONTH*November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail to New York with 2,000 passengers...

'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a...

It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing...A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse...

The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes' night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green. There were definitely a number of witnesses. And...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY THRILLER PICK NO ONE HOME HE SEARCHES FOR THE DISAPPEARED.Missing persons investigator David Raker specializes in finding the lost. Whether dead or...

From multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell, this is a darkly humorous and piercing observation of human behaviour. Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon...