Crime Fiction

Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, the travelling man, Charlie Parker retreats to the wintry Maine...

DI Kate Burrows thought she'd never face a killer like the Grantley Ripper again. But she was wrong. One by one, children are being abandoned. Thankfully, they're rescued from harm....

When Kerry McGrath - a smart, relentless prosecutor - takes her daughter to see a plastic surgeon following a car accident, she sees a woman in the surgery with a...

NO ORDINARY PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER - THIS WILL KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT'Cross-cutting between characters at an ever-increasing pace, this is Scandi-noir at its powerful bleakest.'Daily MailFor fans of Jo Nesbo...

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.She used to work for...

When Professor Alan Tunbridge is discovered in his office with his throat slashed, the suspects start queuing up. The brilliant but unpleasant microbiologist had a genius for making enemies. For...

PRE-ORDER THE NEW JO CALLAGHAN NOVEL, LEAVE NO TRACE, NOW! COMING MARCH 2024As seen on BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS 'I devoured this in one sitting' Rob Rinder, as featured...

Sophie Hannah says it's 'the perfect thriller', now read Sunday Times bestseller Lisa's Gardner's compulsive and unputdownable thriller CRASH & BURN. A WOMAN, UNABLE TO REMEMBER THE EVENTS OF A...

No matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you. 'A gripping and tense thriller' - Heat 'A must have' - Sunday Express Dr Maria Martinez is...

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*'An incendiary cocktail of murder, revenge and a hitman with multiple problems' IndependentThe contract killer.Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer....

A new must-read crime series for fans of Mark Billingham and Sarah Hilary: introducing Harry Kent, a police surgeon working with the Met, determined to help those the world would...

ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours.The friends of the...

SHE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME Alex Prevost - kidnapped, beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden cage - is in no position to bargain. Her...

'An investigation consists of a mass of voices, the sort you can hear, and the sort you can't. You have to listen to the soundless voices, Malin. That's where the...

Nowhere is safe. No one can be trusted.A bloodied body is found in a Manchester Immigrant Removal Centre. The investigating officer and the pathologist seem certain: a suicide. But for...

TWO KILLERS. TWO MOTIVES. A DEADLY RACE AGAINST TIME.When an American Airlines plane explodes in the sky, detectives Alex Cross and John Sampson are first on the scene. They don't...

It's as if he's being mocked from beyond the grave...When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is instantly caught up in the wreckage of...

This is the new blockbuster from the international Number One bestselling author. This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some...

The chilling new Scandinavian thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Praise for Max Seeck: 'Finland's answer to Jo Nesbo'...

Before you discovered DCI Banks, Detective Arvo Hughes was on the case in this vintage standalone crime thriller from Peter Robinson.In 1990s Los Angeles, the beautiful star of a hit...

The second, edge-of-your-seat prequel novel based on Showtime's hit series, HOMELAND, 'the best thriller on American television' New York Post Damascus, Syria, 2009. Carrie Mathison is leading an operation to...

SIX FOUR. THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE. THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a...

In his sixteenth novel featuring the indomitable prosecutor Butch Karp, Robert K. Tanenbaum blends real-life headlines into exciting plotlines, brilliantly combining the seedy underworld of rap and the scandal-plagued Catholic...

'Mesmerising, macabre and murderously funny. The Botanist is M.W. Craven at his sinister best. I couldn't love this series more' Chris Whitaker'Another classy thriller from the king of Cumbrian crime'...

The third Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.'Akunin is an outstanding novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons...

An epistolary crime novel from Dorothy L Sayers, creator of the classic Lord Peter Wimsey series - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries,...

The fourth book in the acclaimed William Dougal crime series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London.James Hanbury is a reformed character. Or he...

Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise.Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cooke have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were aquainted with...

'Oh my goodness!.. I loved this. It had me fully enthralled from the first chapter.' Reader ReviewA moment you never want to forgetSnow falls softly outside Molly Bradley's Boston home...

JUST PRAY YOU'RE NOT NEXT . . .The page-turning new Detective Jane Tennison thriller from the Queen of Crime Drama, Lynda La Plante.___________________A coffin is dug up by builders in...

'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonSpring is in the air ... and so, too, is the sound of music as the residents of Honeychurch Hall...

'An irresistibly delicious mix of cooking and murder' Trisha Ashley'Takes two of the world's greatest pleasures - food and mystery writing - and combines them exquisitely. I devoured it!' Thomas...

There's blood in the backwaters of Kerala BOLLYWOODDetective Harith Athreya is recuperating in the beautiful backwaters of Kerala when he meets a family of vacationing Bollywood royalty, who ask for...

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST CRIME AND THRILLER TITLES OF 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST THRILLER 2024Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in Washington, D.C....

Recommended by Graham Norton on The Graham Norton Show_________________________He'll do anything to protect his secrets. She'll stop at nothing to expose the truth.It only takes one person to break the...

The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesKay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate...

WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER. AND SOON TO BE A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER - SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE.'Extraordinarily compelling'...

Act of Oblivion - the brand new thriller from Robert Harris, available now'An unputdownable thriller about corrupt power and sex' Sunday Telegraph'Guaranteed to keep you awake' The TimesA body washes...

'THE BOOK EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT.' ObserverOn a damp October night the body of beautiful Ashley Cordova is discovered in a Manhattan warehouse. Though her death is ruled a suicide, investigative...

Don't miss the gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author! A loving marriage... Golden couple Annie and David Crayce have it all. A perfect marriage, three beautiful children...

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. There are no obvious suspects, she was not an obvious victim. She...