Crime Fiction

I took you, Becca. You are not my daughter.Becca Wall loves her family, so when her mother says these words, they strike her to the core. But then, her mum...

The fourth Grant County novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller.When medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a trip away from the small town of Heartsdale, it...

"A superior police procedural" Mark Sanderson, The Times Crime Club"Northern Italy's answer to Inspector Montalbano" Alessandro BariccoSeptember 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery: the bones...

Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart.TJ Devlin is the...

Alli Carson was once First Daughter, only child of the US President. Then, after a car crash killed her father and hospitalised her mother. Alli battled her grief and threw...

'Leon's books are a joy, and the 19th Venice-based Commissario Brunetti novel is well up to her consistently high standard.' GuardianA Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association BestsellerOne of Deadly Pleasures Best...

He's a rich, anonymous white guy. When he's not making money in the boardrooms of multi-natinal pharmaceutical companies, he's at one of his palatial homes with his wife and daughter,...

'Detective Inspector Alex Steen is up there with Jo Nesbo's notorious, extraordinary Harry Hole... A gripping, addictive and unforgettable read.' Crime Review'There's a real heart beating through Steen's darkness, and...

In an all-consuming novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the survivor of a brutal family massacre must uncover the shocking truth about a fateful...

An investigation leads DI Kelly Porter back to her former command... and the ex who betrayed herA brutal murder in the Lake District.A double assassination in a secret lab in...

Black Books meets Lead Balloon meets Gavin and Stacey in this hugely entertaining follow-up to MYSTERY MAN, from acclaimed author Bateman. The Small Shop Keeper With No Name is back....

H is for Homicide is the eighth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton.It was one of those occasions when I suddenly realised how happy I was. I...

When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm...

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton...

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestsellers Preston & Child. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton...

The Bad Book Affair features the magnificently hapless Israel Armstrong - the duffle-coat wearing, navel-gazing Jewish librarian who solves crimes, mysteries, and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around...

What if having a best friend was the most dangerous thing you could do?A killer that the police are calling 'Billy Dead Mates' is murdering pairs of best friends, one...

'One of the most purely entertaining books you'll read this year. It's a blast' JOHN CONNOLLY'A fantastic thriller writer' MARK BILLINGHAMFRAUD. BLACKMAIL. MURDER.IT'S ALL IN A DAY'S WORK FOR EDDIE...

This work is a compelling new crime series from the pen of Booker Prize winner John Banville. In the Pathology Department, it was always night. This was one of the...

It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later, four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days...

"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity" - Richard III, Act 1 Scene 2 An angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an ex-con's attempt to negotiate the...

You're not the only one watching.'Page one intrigued me. Page three hooked me. By page five, I was consumed. This compulsive, propulsive novel is both a seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a...

SOMETIMES ONLY A THRILLER WILL DO. PICK UP SOMETHING YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN . . . NOTHING IS DEADLIER THAN TRUE LOVE...NOTHING IS DEADLIER THAN TRUE LOVE...Wes...

'A riveting wilderness suspense novel by a novelist at the height of her powers' Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Candy House'I can't recall the last time I've been...

'One of the best British crime writers' - Lee ChildRoy Grace is about to find out just how dangerous a dead man can be . . . Arriving late for...

In a blue-collar Boston neighbourhood a planned robbery takes place. The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the pretty bank manager, Claire Keesey, who nervously recites the alarm...

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to...

Samson Kolechko has been assigned a most perplexing case - though it is mostly perplexing because it's hard to understand why selling the meat of one's own pig constitutes a...

Sarah Hilary, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year winner and author of Black Thorn, returns with Sharp Glass. Trapped and alone in a remote house in the country,...

'The best book I've read all year' - SARAH PINBOROUGH'A sure-fire shocker. This book will not let you go without a fight' - JANICE HALLETT'The best book I've read about...

'A masterpiece' - Lisa ScottolineDuring one of the fiercest conflicts the world has ever known, three strangers' lives collide as they confront the raining bombs of their present and the...

'I adored this deliciously twisty and wickedly sharp murder mystery' Lucy Clarke'A thriller with a twist!' Cosmopolitan'Slick and witty' Daily Mail_____________________________________Two unlikely detectives. A killer cocktail of suspects.A Gibson martini...

'Funny and smart. . . a top-class, deep-dish murder mystery and one of my favourite books of any year.' IAN MOORE'Gloriously absurdist, darkly comic and utterly readable.' HELEN LEDERERSHORTLISTED FOR...

** FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RESTLESS AND ANY HUMAN HEART **'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius. The result is brilliant fun'...

'No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me - nor made it seem so sinister' Peter James'David Hewson's Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place...

From the bestselling thriller author, experience this action-packed novel now available in paperback.'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does...

Prepare to be hooked by this compulsive cat-and-mouse thriller from bestselling thriller author, James Patterson, in which a brilliant cop must nail down an ingenious true crime writer for murder....

'There are some things in life better not known - some things that should be left where they rest...'Erin Paterson is a highly successful lawyer in Glasgow and a control-freak,...

THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORSecrets only survive in the darkWhen journalist Ben Harper is asked to help re-examine an unsolved murder case from thirty years...

Witnesses, CCTV, even DNA . . . All the evidence is there. Your husband is a murderer. Or is he? Everything points to his guilt . . . except the...

Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced....

Former FBI agent Rachel Walling is working a dead-end stint in South Dakota when she gets the call she's been dreading for four years. The Poet is back. And he...

They can't see her, but she can see them...Simone has a secret. She likes to stand at her bathroom window and spy on the couple downstairs through their kitchen skylight....

'Another perfect page-turner' The Times 'A triumph from the master thriller writer' The Sun In this twisty thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author, a man desperately tries to track...