Crime Fiction

**THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****A THE TIMES TOP 10 CRIME BOOK OF THE DECADE**'This is the king of Norwegian crime on top form' Observer HARRY HOLE'S DEADLIEST ENEMY IS BACK......

THEIR DREAM HOUSE WILL BECOME HER WORST NIGHTMARE'Ruth Ware just gets better and better' Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of The Family Upstairs'The queen of creepy crime' MetroWhen Rowan comes across...

'A masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain's finest living crime novelist' Daily Telegraph 'Absorbing... this is a bravura performance, a true original' Ian Rankin Glasgow, 1957. It is...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur IndridasonTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in...

Harry Hole is back! 'The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express There's a new killer on the streets A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteriesFredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the...

'I read this in two lightning-quick sittings...I absolutely adored it' Lisa JewellHAL MUST KEEP GOING OR RISK LOSING EVERYTHING...EVEN HER LIFE. When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her...

'I could not put this book down' Reese Witherspoon' IT ISN'T A GAME WHEN SOMEBODY DIESThe text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you.Isa drops...

The gripping new DCI Serena Flanagan thriller from the bestselling author of Those We Left Behind'Stuart Neville is...a crime-writing star' Mark BillinghamDCI Serena Flanagan is asked to sign off the...

Harry Hole returns in a pulse-pounding thriller like no other.'This book had my pulse in the red zone from start to finish' Michael Connelly A freezing December nightChristmas shoppers have...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the...

**THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR**'Chilling, spectacular stuff... anyone looking for serious, and seriously compelling, crime writing need look no further' Mark Billingham SOON THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME A...

The twelfth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written'...

**THE BRAND-NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****'A TERRIFIC WRITER' MARK BILLINGHAM****PETER MAY: OVER 5.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE**In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot...

Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona.Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him....

He has the key to hundreds of houses.Maybe even to yours.A gripping, sinister, deeply unsettling novel from the most sociopathic narrator of 2018. Meet Mr Heming...***William Heming is an estate...

'This book reminds me of the things that crime fiction can do when it works well ... Miller isn't afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don't hold their...

The girl who teetered out of the doorway was exactly who they were looking for... DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers...

The beautiful game just got deadly. London City is playing in Athens, and football manager Scott Manson is keeping his team on a tight leash. He needs them home in...

`Gripping' - IAN RANKIN; The RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK that sends pulses pounding, Marked for Death will grip fans of David Baldacci and Peter James until the very...

'Smart characters, shocking twists' Lisa Gardner'A compelling read with great set pieces and, most of all, that charismatic cast of characters' Sun'I couldn't turn the pages quick enough' Heidi Perks'Terrific,...

The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a...

Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But...

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 NINTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.Long-awaited sequel to Anne Holt's massive bestseller 1222.It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen's life was forever changed by an assault that...

"Ice-cold modern noir" Mr. HydeThe inspiration for Lynne Ramsay's award-winning film, starring Joaquin PhoenixJoe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood...

Virginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk and covered in someone...

Prison will make or break you... Danger and violence have always been a part of Susan Dalston's East End upbringing, but being locked up with another murderess will have consequences...

Meet Tannie Maria - recipe writer turned crime fighter - and before she has time to take her Venus Chocolate Cake out of the oven, our glorious heroine finds herself...

"Dr. Deborah Serach Gold died on the cross sometime during a night of freezing rain in late October of my last year at Three. It probably wasn't the worst thing...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOROVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE'A TREMENDOUS COLLISION OF CULTURES' HERALDThe fifth China thriller sees Li Yan and Margaret Campbell uncover an insidious conspiracy on...

If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, Nineteen Seventy Four, then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the Red Riding Quartet, is...

Red Riding Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim...

Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy...

Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the...

* WINNER OF THE CWA JOHN CREASEY AWARD** THE FIRST NOVEL BY INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WALTER MOSLEY *'A damn good read'VAL MCDERMID'A brilliant novel'JONATHAN KELLERMAN'A first novel of astonishing virtuosity'...

A young gang leader is found stabbed on a Hackney estate, but two people confess to the murder.Ndekwe, an ambitious, newly promoted Detective Sergeant within a subtly racist police force,...

When New York's most vicious gossip columnist is found dead, "Heat" uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects. Heat's investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist...

Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his clients of two services: eliminating the assassins, and finding out who hired them...and then...

As Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil in the thirteenth thriller featuring the NYPD's finest detectiveWeeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett...

'High-octane . . . nail-biting' Daily MailThree women are on the run, wanted for the murder of a high-ranking mobster in this stunning new stand-alone from the world's bestselling thriller...

__________________________ONE WILD PARTY. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER.A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wild enough to herald the end of days.The next day there isn't...

_________________________Jonathan Kellerman's legendary thrillers have sold over 80 million copies.This might be his best yet.An uninvited guest. A missing identity. A trail of deadly secrets.When a horrified bridesmaid finds the...

THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'A TSUNAMI OF A THRILLER. This may well be Gardner's best work' - DAVID BALDACCI_______________One death might be an accident.Two deaths looks like murder.A man...

`My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz' - SHARI LAPENA, author of The Couple Next Doorand A Stranger in the House_________________________Death, deception, and a detective with quite...

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDBerlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work...