Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

Michael Hrubek, a schizophrenic psychopath, escapes from a mental institution. The directors of the hospital, concerned for their reputation, tell the police he's harmless. But Hrubek doesn't need to sleep...

Alex Barclay is back with another stunning Ren Bryce FBI thriller NOWHERE TO RUN FBI agent Ren Bryce's hunt for some of the country's most dangerous killers is about to...

The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world -- now reissued in...

From the outside, the house was unremarkable. Just one of many on an ordinary, suburban estate. But inside was a different matter. With pink ribbons and pink walls, stuffed toy...

______________________When you own the world's greatest detective agency, you make the world's most dangerous enemies.Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most successful detective...

An ancient organization more powerful than the federal government has targeted the USA. They'll stop at nothing to destroy the republic and raise an empire. The adventure begins with a...

Welcome to HMP Ashcroft. An institution run by a corrupt governor whose determination to impose his will at any cost will have far-reaching consequences on all the inmates.Within these walls,...

From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot wastes of the Gobi desert, Dirk Pitt is on the trail of fabled treasure ...Rescuing an oil survey team from a...

Keisha Ceylon is a psychic. At least, that's what it says on her business card. What Keisha actually does for a living is she watches the news for stories about...

The 2am phone call is from a young, frightened, lost girl who has called the one adult who had promised to help her if she ever got into any trouble...

A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York - including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her...

Kathleen, from privileged Newport, Rhode Island; Colleen, from a poor Irish village - two teenagers who are both pregnant, and both in great danger. A private detective named Anne Fitzgerald...

In a late-night showdown, Detective Lindsay Boxer has to make an instantaneous decision: in self-defence she fires her weapon -- and sets off a chain of events that leaves a...

When staying alive is the only game worth playing... Detective Jacob Striker has had more than his fair share of brushes with death. But this one really shocks him. When...

Karin Schaeffer's husband is missing presumed dead.The police are convinced that Mac took his own life after the brutal murder of his parents in what looks like a robbery gone...

Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. But his clients are the people he grew up with, the people who...

Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who...

Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do - they're Elites,...

A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity and The Husband. Amy Redwing risks everything in her chosen field of dog rescue. She's as reckless...

One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederstrom finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl in a plastic bag, partially buried. He gives her the kiss...

When photojournalist Jordan Glass chances upon a painting which is part of an exhibition entitled 'Nude Women in Repose' by an unknown artist in the Hong Tsin museum in Hong...

Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and his father, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality - and forcing Myron to...

In Texas, a man goes to the electric chair for the kidnap, torture and murder of six small children. In Boston, Massachusetts, a nine-year-old girl has been admitted to ER,...

As 'Scarecrow' Schofield watches his mission to eliminate a Siberian turn into a bloodbath, he realises he has been tricked -- and now become the prey rather than the predator....

One balmy Texas evening, widowed financier Ben Fosberg answers the door to two Homeland Security agents. From the minute he lets them in, his life spirals out of control. A...

In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, a once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by an underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known...

They think as one. They act as one. They kill as one. 'Look Both Ways is devilishly good - exciting, thrilling - Barclay at his best!' SHARI LAPENA, No. 1...

The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Hakan Nesser.It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and...

Ditton is a small-time dealer who just wantss to saty out of trouble. The harder he tries to go straight however, the more people keep dragging him back into the...

The Snow Angel is a deliciously dark family saga from Lulu Taylor, the bestselling author of The Winter Folly.A forbidden passion. A lifetime of consequences. In 1960s London, Cressida Felbridge...

'A superb, highly original thriller with a terrific premise. I loved it.' PETER JAMESFormer Broadway star Tommy Jump isn't getting the roles he once did; as his final run as...

The twenty-first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something slightly less savoury - a human...

She'd cycled this way hundreds of times before, every twist and turn familiar. She didn't know this would be the last. When the body of architect James McCallum is found...

Jack Ryan defends the USA against economic sabotage from the East that escalates into war in Tom Clancy's record-breaking Sunday Times No 1 bestseller - now reissued in a new...

In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt...

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly...

Kyle McAvoy is one of the greatest legal students of his generation. He has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him.But he has a secret from the...

You DO NOT MESS with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher s drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now...

When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of...

Discover the dark boarding school psychological thriller, an exploration of power, corruption and retribution, perfect for fans of Girl A, My Dark Vanessa and Anatomy of a Scandal.'Excruciating suspense' Stephen...

In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of treachery and...

From bestselling Ian Rankin, winner of the 1997 CWA GOLD DAGGER for fiction for BLACK & BLUE the three Jack Harvey novels, gathered together in one omnibus volume.WITCH HUNT, BLEEDING...

Something is waiting in the dark... The stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Velocity and Breathless. Billy Lucas confesses to a shocking crime. He's only fourteen years old...

After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer-an old friend...