Crime Fiction

From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal, now a major Netflix series... Reputation: it takes a lifetime to build and just one moment to destroy.'Sarah Vaughan has done...

'A roar of rage, a pacy page-turner, I loved it with all my broken heart. Read it. You'll love it' Marian Keyes 'A brilliant book. Thrilling, fast paced and original....

Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and...

The Cat Who Caught a Killer by L T Shearer is a charming cosy crime read for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and S. J. Bennett's The...

**BRINGING DANGER CLOSE TO HOME . . . THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR NICCI FRENCH, COMING SPRING 2023. PRE-ORDER NOW!** 'Fantastic - a breathless drumbeat of dread and...

A search for a missing son... and a toxic mystery that threatens the globe. 'Did a 1981 Dean Koontz thriller predict the coronavirus outbreak?' Daily Mail'Dean Koontz is not just...

Cassie Dewell returns in this thrilling new read from the series that inspired the hit TV show Big Sky, from award-winning author C.J. Box.Investigator Cassie Dewell is headed to Anaconda,...

Her birth was mankind's greatest breakthrough. Her life is man's greatest threat.Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine Miracle Babies conceived without male DNA on an experimental commune...

Waterstones Thriller of the Month'Lightseekers is ripe with all the twists and turns you could hope for... A fast-paced thriller that offers insight into the ever present tensions in a...

For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of HighlandIsle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcementmust walk a...

'Laetitia Rodd is a warm and engaging heroine' The TimesFor readers of The Thursday Murder Club, M.C. Beaton and James Runcie, The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden is the charming...

'Don't be ordinary, Leo. Passion has its price.'1883. Leo Stanhope, transgender journalist and amateur detective, and his wife Rosie have come to Portsmouth - but this is no simple seaside...

*A TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER 2022 SELECTION* *A TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH*'In the gutsy Casey, [the author] has created an unstoppable yet entirely credible modern heroine... Much...

*The brand new Roy Grace novel from Peter James - Picture You Dead - is available to pre-order now*Faced with his most disturbing case yet, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace tracks...

'Unputdownable... Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now! It's an incredible book! READ IT.' Lemn Sissay on When the Dead Come CallingGone but not forgotten...An archaeological...

'A brilliant rollercoaster of a thriller about obsessive love and hidden secrets. Tense, twisty and unputdownable. I loved it!' CLAIRE DOUGLASSomeone's trying to frame me for murder. But I can't...

'An addictive read that will remain with you long after you emerge from the rabbit hole' - THE TIMES'A marvellously twisty whodunnit [with] the brutal, clockwork ingenuity of an Agatha...

*You Don't Know Me, the BBC adaptation of Imran Mahmood's brilliant debut thriller, is currently one of the most streamed programmes on Netflix!*'The very definition of a compulsive page-turner' CHRIS...

To Remember the truth, she'll have to forget the lies...When former high-powered lawyer turned PI Selma Falck is shot and her oldest friend, a junior MP, is killed in a...

'One of the best Nordic Noir writers' - GuardianA trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever . . .It begins in 1969. Six young people arrive in...

Heart-stopping international spy thriller from 'An espionage master' (Charles Cumming) starring ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson for fans of Mick Herron, Lee Child and John le CarreEx-MI6 officer Paul Samson has...

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTHHana Westerman is a tenacious Ma ori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland's Central Investigation Branch. When she's...

A killing like no other.A killer more twisted than he's ever seen before.A case that will test him to the limit. Has Robert Hunter finally met his match?'Do you believe...

The explosive conclusion to the Jane Hawk saga, from No. 1 New York Times bestseller Dean Koontz. She will destroy her enemies once and for all... 'It's over, and so...

I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort. The thing is, us Cunninghams don't really get along....

'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive - my favourite Ruth Ware yet' Lucy FoleyEveryone wanted her lifeSomeone wanted her dead It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago. It...

A murderous game. The killer makes the rules. Death hangs on the roll of the dice. In murder investigations, it pays to keep things simple: motive, method, opportunity. But the...

'Powered by a subtle, ominous tension. I loved this book' LEE CHILD'Paradise never felt so sinister' RUTH WARELies can be buried... Secrets always come to the surfaceAmarante is paradise... An...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2022A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame...

**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR****Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards 2022**____________________________________Murder. Assassination. Revenge.Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crime.Meet a detective on...

LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT (CWIP) PRIZE. KILLING EVE MEETS MICK HERRON IN THIS GRIPPING AND WITTY PAGE-TURNER ABOUT HAVING IT ALL, KEEPING IT ALL AND SURVIVING IT...

Will the dark secrets of a small mountain town finally be revealed? Ten years ago, Abigail Lovett fell into a job she loves, working at the Passage Inn, nestled in...

Jason Bourne tackles a global media conspiracy and a murderous tech giant in the latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum's New York Times bestselling series.Bourne is back... Jason Bourne has...

'If you're a crime fiction fan and haven't discovered them yet, welcome to the very best day of your life' Heat MagazineIn this brand new thriller in the Sunday Times...

Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva follows up his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestsellers The Order, The New Girl, and The Other Woman with this riveting, action-packed tale of...

THRILLERS THAT RACE FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE . . . 'Felix Francis' novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper 'From winning post to top of the bestseller lists' Sunday Times...

In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived Legendary spy and...

The explosive new book from the master of the modern espionage thriller and Sunday Times bestseller James Swallow.___________________In modern espionage, every action has a reaction. One wrong move could sink...

The world's most ruthlessly efficient assassin, Jason Bourne, has carved a bloody swathe through all his opponents but now he's facing the one force he can't defeat - his own...

Every year, on average 23 people disappear without a trace from cruise ships.No one has ever come back.Until now.Five years ago police psychologist Martin Schwartz lost his wife and son....

In the crosshairs, no one is safe. In the new Joe Pickett novel, the Wyoming game warden must investigate an attempted assassination on his own turf... Wyoming's Twelve Sleep County...

'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists' HARLAN COBENEmma's the one that got away.The only survivor of a killer known in the tabloids as 'the hairdresser' - because of...

'A fast-paced thriller . . . An impressive debut' - FINANCIAL TIMESThe incredible thriller about a codeword, an extraordinary murder - and the detective who must solve both to stop...

'Gripping, stomach-churning . . . Marwood is in a class of her own' LISA JEWELL'A ripped-from-the-headlines thriller . . . I couldn't put it down' MARK EDWARDS________________Sun-drenched glamour and obscene...

*The brand new thriller from Lucy Foley - THE PARIS APARTMENT - is available to pre-order now* The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller *Over 1 million copies sold worldwide* *One of...

Upgrade is the new mind-bending thriller from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Dark Matter and Recursion.'You are the next step in human evolution . . .'What if you were...