Crime Fiction

Read the prequel to the Sunday Times bestseller Dark Winter, where DS Aector McAvoy's journey began...A city united in grief.A journalist ready to kill to keep his secrets.A copper capable...

How much would you pay to survive? Mum-of-three Ronni Ashcroft had just pieced her life back together after her husband left. On a remote spur of the Scottish Highlands, she...

If you play games with a killer... you can't afford to lose. Looking for a subject for her book about evil, Lydia Tune travels to the infamous Mortem Asylum in...

Why did he survive? An assassin guns down the justices as they are hearing a case in the U.S. Supreme Court. Solicitor General Jefferson McKenna, the government's top lawyer, is...

How well do you know your children? And how well do they know you? When Helen Whitmore's stepson brings home a new girlfriend one evening, her already imperfect family begins...

I practise my shock-horror face in the mirror for the seventh time. 'My husband, he's . . . dead.' Bethan Phillips has only one thing on her mind: killing her...

Former Secret Service agent, Nick Averose, must expose a dark conspiracy in this electrifying thriller from New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quirk.'Opens with a bang and keeps exploding for...

From the explosive world of Jason Bourne emerges a new hero. Operation Treadstone made Jason Bourne, but he's not the only agent they trained.Adam Hayes was moulded into a weapon...

Bourne is Back....and in the crosshairs of every intelligence agency on the planet.New York Congresswoman Sofia Ortiz has been assassinated - and it looks like Jason Bourne was the rogue...

From the explosive world of Jason Bourne emerges a new hero. Operation Treadstone made Jason Bourne, but he's not the only agent they trained.Adam Hayes was moulded into a weapon...

*** OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD ******THE RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK****** THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ****** SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER...

Obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, Alistair Haston heads off to Greece, where she is on holiday. Mugged on the harbourside in Paros, he is robbed of everything. So when Ricky a...

Fearless Florida bounty-hunter Lori Anderson travels to Chicago to trap the head of a notorious crime family, in a high-stakes, nail-biting mission that sees her trapped in one of the...

A young man discovers a family secret that turns his world upside down in this dark, emotive, shocking psychological thriller by number-one bestselling author Michael J. Malone.'A tense, immersive thriller...

The wolves are no longer in the dark ... they are at his door. And they want vengeance ... The next instalment in the international, bestselling Varg Veum series by...

Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers. They cover the full...

A woman lies dead on the ground. A girl watches from the shadows. What did she really see? The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. A lost...

'Lesley Thomson gets better and better' Ian RankinWhen Freddy Power was eighteen, her father threw her out. Her sin had been to fall in love with a woman. Freddy waited...

A reality TV star becomes a suspect in an Essex murder case in the sharp, funny and moving new thriller from M.K. HillThree years ago, Danny 'Abs' Cruikshank, star of...

'Both gripping and scarily plausible, from the first page to its chilling conclusion, The Cover Wife is a book that demands to be read' Kevin Wignall, author of A Death...

Pitch-perfect World War Two crime for fans of Agatha Christie and Jasper Fforde. Detective Betty Church is forced to revisit ghosts from her past when a skeleton is found buried...

'Fast-paced, with more twists and turns than a high-octane roller coaster' New York Journal of Books'Nail-biting suspense, high-octane action and a keep-'em-guessing plot . . . Superb!' Booklist'One of the...

"Full-bodied and dynamic characters carry this one along a mystery, tying a brutal past with a bloody present that will keep you guessing right up to the finale." - Unnerving...

LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2018'Brilliant . . . twisting the tension tauter with each page' Guardian'The dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns'...

An explosive debut thriller about one woman's search for revenge - and the dangerous chain of events she sets in motion...'Compelling... Wildly entertaining' Daily Mail__________Caroline Atkinson is powerless and angry....

'A class above' IAN RANKIN. Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed for ever. The case of six-year-old Sarah Ferris, killed in an...

THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. THE RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK.'Utterly bewitching ... a pitch-perfect modern Gothic' AJ FINN, author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOWA dark...

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Eyes Like Mine comes the new thriller featuring Nora Watts, 'a brave, unflinching heroine' (Lee Child). This time in order to protect her...

A gripping, unsettling debut novel about two sisters and a dangerous game that becomes all too real. Perfect for fans of The Girl in the Walls and The Little Stranger.The...

With the suspense of JEFFERY DEAVER, the tension of THOMAS HARRIS and the gruesomeness of M. J. ARLIDGE, The Mayfly is a breathtaking debut that will have you leaving your...

For decades the blood-steeped Burroughs clan ruled Bull Mountain, Georgia. They ran moonshine across borderlines, farmed marijuana and supplied meth across six states. Now they're gone, leaving Clayton - the...

The gripping noir thriller from the bestselling author of The Last. They want the truth. They'll kill to get it. Eli and Ronnie are two lawless Brits on the road...

'Leo Stanhope is a wonderful creation, his world atmospheric and terrifying, and his own story as powerful and enthralling as the mysteries he investigates' Sam Blake The second book in...

'Tremendously good' Observer'The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White' Sarah Perry'Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle' Guardian'Huge fun' Daily Mail'Has...

Crime's most original series character returns in a gripping new case. Dr Harry Kent is on the edge...He works too hard, sleeps too little, hardly sees daylight. And then the...

They don't know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way.How far would you go to win? Hyper-competitive people, mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine...

Shocking, dark, addictive - THE LIES YOU TOLD is the latest compulsive thriller from Harriet Tyce, bestselling author of BLOOD ORANGE.'A jaw dropping last line twist' Lisa Jewell, #1 bestselling...

1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. When Ireland's greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a gay man,...

'Vivid characters, great storytelling and a spine-tingling twist.' Jo Spain'MacDonald builds the action to a spectacularly creepy climax, and there is a superbly worked twist to follow that will take...

'Blood Ties is a compulsive read: thought-provoking, compassionate, and beautifully written. McGilloway is one of the finest crime writers working today.' ANN CLEEVES'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and...

From the international bestselling author of Dexter come a brilliant new thriller starring Riley Wolfe: a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. ********'Another...

Detective Dave Robicheaux first met Desmond Cormier on the backstreets of New Orleans. He was a young pretender who dreamt of stardom whilst Robicheaux had his path all figured out....

Heart Attacks is California's last secret spot - the premier mysto surf haunt, the stuff of rumour and legend. The rumours say you must cross Indian land to get there....

'Hugely absorbing. . . the best Strike novel yet' SUNDAY MIRROR'Highly inventive storytelling' GUARDIAN'Outrageously entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central...

When ex-priest Tom Shaman, jaded from years in the LA ghetto, decides on a last-minute trip to Venice, he gets much more than the break he'd been hoping for. A...