Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the...

It's the night of the full Cold Moon - the month of December according to the lunar calendar. A young man is found dead in lower Manhattan, the first in...

It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case...

It's 1933, and the political landscape of Europe is darkening. Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia's Fuhrer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over...

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...

*** A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and an instant New York Times bestseller ***'One of the most riveting books I've read in a long time' - Louise Candlish, author...

Andie DeGrasse, aspiring actress and single mother, does not want to do jury service. But despite her attempts to get dismissed, she still ends up as Juror No.11 in a...

Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns in Resurrection, the new high-octane, high-stakes international thriller from David Gilman.Somewhere in the Sahara, on the desolate border between Sudan...

An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he...

'I don't know why you came back to Liberty, Ms. McCall, but little towns have long memories.People don't forget.You'd be wise to keep that in mind.'Ten years ago, Kat McCall...

The next caper in the Sister Pelagia mystery from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg - and an official rebuke of her crime-fighting...

It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address - a tape recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic...

Old Case. New Rules... An utterly compelling crime debut, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and longlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger 2013After a long and murky career with...

Readers were first introduced to Jason Bourne's nemesis Leonid Arkadin, a brilliant Russian assassin and fearless international mercenary, in THE BOURNE SANCTION. His girlfriend was killed during a fight for...

Now the Mastermind is in prison, Alex Cross is ready to leave the Washington Police Force. And, finally, Alex has met a woman, Jamilla Hughes. With Nana and the kids,...

When psychologist Dr Jeremy Carrier's romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, he is left emotionally devastated and being watched by police seeking...

Keep everything in the family. Even betrayal... BETRAYAL by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole is a gripping novel about the bonds...

A new order. An ancient evil. A battle about to begin.It is the near future. Adrian De Vere, President of the European Union, oversees the signing of an unprecedented international...

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's...

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...

**THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR**'Chilling, spectacular stuff... anyone looking for serious, and seriously compelling, crime writing need look no further' Mark Billingham SOON THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME A...

Worldwide bestseller and master of the legal thriller John Grisham will keep you on the edge of your seat with his most suspenseful thriller yet.Praise for John Grisham:'A superb, instinctive...

Burton and Swinburne return in a new wildly imaginative steampunk adventure, and this time they're facing their greatest foe...Leicester Square, London. Blood red snow falls from the sky and a...

'A stunning debut that kept me guessing until the final, heartbreaking twist' Claire Douglas 'Addictive, twisty and beautifully written' Alice Feeney * * * * * A fast-paced and action-packed...

A Fallen Angel. A Devil on the Loose. When a young girl is discovered dead on an isolated Irish country road, it seems at first glance to be a simple...

A chilling, haunting ghost story set in the modern day which delves into the real-life legend of a 19th-century sea witch... Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey...

Snow Blind is yet another top ten bestseller from the chilling PJ Tracy. The Dead of Winter... Minneapolis, winter's first white flakes; a park full of snowmen. But the layers...

Sometimes, getting away with it is all that matters.Dixie Peyton, widow of a petty criminal, is struggling to regain custody of her son. In desperation she seeks the help of...

Read the clues. Decode the science. Reveal the murderer.That's Reilly Steel's mantra. Find the answers, solve the crime. But the Quantico-trained forensic investigator is finding her skills aren't enough when...

A drug deal gone bad. A daughter gone missing. A hit man on the loose. And five days to find the answers. As journalist Siobhan Fallon embarks on a hunt...

Fans of Scott Mariani, Ken Follett and Michael Connolly will love this riveting, fast-paced, high-tech thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author John Twelve Hawks."A cyber 1984...Page-turningly swift, with a...

I want a riot of my own... Die-hard copper Superintendent James 'Marsh' Mallow, of the Belfast CID, is nearing the end of his career, but he's not handing in his...

When Detective Bill Corde looks at the beautiful face of the murdered girl in the mud, he does not know his own life is about to turn into a terrifyingly...

DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD.A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. Is it a phone glitch or...

The Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Congo and Sphere takes on global warming in this gripping and critically acclaimed thriller. In Paris, a physicist dies after performing...

From the bestselling author of GIRL A and DAY ONE comes a heart-wrenching novel about love, tragedy and forgiveness. 'Wonderful... The Death of Us lives up to the hype' Stephen...

**The Sunday Times Top 5 bestseller** Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Award Four friends. One luxury getaway. The perfect murder. 'Pure adrenaline' ERIN KELLY 'An intense thriller' HEAT 'Agatha...

When Natalie Raines, famous Broadway star, is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound, her former husband, Gregg Aldrich, whom she was in the...

To his friends, his foes and even to himself it looks as though Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. On his last case he had seriously over-stepped the mark,...

Kate Moran, 30, is an FBI agent. The day before she is due to marry her fiance, he and his twelve-year-old daughter are abducted and murdered by Constantine Gamal, otherwise...

'Intriguing and compelling ... will enthral you to the end' Liz Nugent 'Absolutely gripping ... an addictive page turner.' Patricia GibneyIn a small town south-east of Boston, a young nanny...