Crime Fiction

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,...

Winner of the British Book Award for Best Crime and Thriller Novel 2017 Winner of the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger 2016 Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger...

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...

Framed for murder. Out for revenge.Private bodyguard Alex Drayce is on assignment in the States, tasked with protecting a wealthy businessman under threat of assassination.He is presented with the opportunity...

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....

The mystery deepens in the gripping second novel in David Baldacci's Camel Club series, The Collectors.Annabelle is a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, planning the heist of the century...

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'...

Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground. At a time when the supernatural world is in upheaval and spilling over into the mundane reality of...

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...

From New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman, author of KILLER and BREAKDOWN, BONES is a disturbing thriller in which psychologist Alex Delaware must delve deep into the mind...

'Exhilarating' Sunday TimesNewly elected as President, domestic pitfalls await Jack Ryan around every corner. Now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR -...

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...

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...

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, a chilling and compulsive novel about a family holiday that takes a terrifying turn.A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...

SOMEONE ELSE'S SKIN was the twisty, compelling winner of the Theakston's 2015 Crime Novel of the Year, and a 2014 Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Introducing DI Marnie Rome,...

Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She...

A GRAVE EXPECTATIONS MYSTERY'Warm, smart and laugh-out-loud funny' Andrea Mara'Alice Bell writes with real verve' Janice Hallett'There are apparently a lot of ghosts on Spike Island,' said Basher. 'So perhaps...

THE MILLION-COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER RETURNS WITH A DARK AND TERRIFYING JOURNEY INTO THE MIND OF A KILLER. 'Truly exceptional...twists and turns that I didn't see coming, a unique concept, and...

The Number One bestselling, award-winning Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid delivers a searing psychological suspense thriller. A serial killer is on the loose. His victims? Crime writers... A murderer...

When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own...

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the...

Lt. Eve Dallas is back and this time she's investigating the death of one of her own When a retired police officer is found dead in his home, Lt. Eve...

'Breathtaking twists and turns' Anthony Horowitz'An unmissable, breakneck ride' James Swallow'Exhilarating, high stakes action' Lesley Kara__________________________In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.In New...

The thrilling new bestseller from acclaimed crime writer Louise Phillips. 'Intriguing and compelling ... will enthral you to the end' Liz Nugent 'Absolutely gripping ... an addictive page turner.' Patricia...

The clock is ticking.To save her life you must take another.When Jack Morgan is invited to the luxurious Monaco coast to set up a new Private office, it seems like...

In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr Temperance Brennan must harden herself against the horrors she excavates.And then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City.When a skeleton is found...

Tudor England is brought vividly to life in Tombland, the seventh novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series.Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII,...