Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

The first in the excellent Strange and Quinn series from 'The coolest writer in America' GQ.Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to...

Two teenage girls are victims of a bloody Valentine's Day shooting; one survives, the other is less fortunate...It's one of a rising number of violent incidents in the city, and...

No.1 international bestseller Jeffery Deaver returns with a stunning new thriller - the first in an exciting series featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw. Escape or die trying... Three people are...

'He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.' Tess's number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy's father Jason means that she cannot...

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...

A wickedly funny psychological thriller about literary ambition, envy and the lengths an author will go to get on the bestsellers list. Cal Cunningham dreams of writing an autobiographical novel...

A gripping and suspenseful thriller perfect for fans of Stephen King and Michael Crichton. THEY CAME LOOKING FOR ANSWERS A group of explorers arrive in the remote town of Birchlake,...

How well can you ever really know someone?As Ben Casper watches his best friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is about to change. Diana had...

When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife's cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him, but in the face of the...

After thirty years of attending to the phsical and mental health of the inhabitants of Knife Island, a tiny community in the Micronesian archipelago, Dr William Moreland feels it would...

Mark Beamon has always been an unconventional FBI agent. Years of putting the truth ahead of political expediency have resulted in a dead-end job in the Phoenix office. But a...

James Carroll only meant to do one deal to get to film school. But it went wrong. Now he owes GBP30,000 to drug-dealer Roger Oates. Just a year away from...

The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect - except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking...

Advertising director Charles Schine is just another New York commuter, regularly catching the 8.43 to work. But the day he misses his train is the day that changes his life....

The sixth volume in the fast-selling series of high-tech, high-action thrillers created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. Tom Clancy's Op-Centre, the series of international thrillers centred on the National...

John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents, has been found...

Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic,...

Inspector Christian Tell and his team are called to the scene of a double murder. University lecturer Anne-Marie Karpov lies dead in her home, alongside her student and lover, Henrik....

Psychologist Alan Gregory has a new patient: Gibbs Storey, whose looks turn grown men into dazzled adolescents. She tells Alan that she thinks her husband, Sterling, may have murdered one...

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into...

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...

Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people...

Fear is just the beginning...Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, 'don't think, just shoot' - pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time...

From Edgar Award-winning Chris Pavone, author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thriller (fans of The Expats will be...

P.I. Craig Gisto, head of the latest branch of Private, is enjoying the glamorous launch party with his new team when their celebrations are interrupted by the bloodied arrival of...

Frannie O'Neill's life turned upside down when she and FBI maverick Kit Brennan rescued six incredible winged children from the school that created them. Now the young flock wants to...

Hotter than The Beach House and scarier than Kiss The Girls, James Patterson's explosive new thriller introduces a bride who is beautiful, talented, devoted - and deadly. When a young...

From the bestselling author of Along Came a Spider and Cat and Mouse, a mesmerising tale of non-stop action and suspense. Already a bestseller in paperback - now reissued in...

From the bestselling author of Along Came a Spider and Cat and Mouse, a mesmerising tale of non-stop action and suspense. Already a bestseller in paperback - now reissued in...

______________________NOW THE HIT 2020 MOVIE THE POSTCARD KILLINGS STARRING JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN AND FAMKE JANSSEN______________________Murder is on the cards...NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous...

When Lauren Stillwell sees her husband with another woman, her perfect world is destroyed. His betrayal turns her into a woman lusting for revenge. It was supposed to be a...

__________________________A man who calls himself 'the Teacher' is devising a meticulous plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, he plans to teach New York a lesson it will never forget.Intent on exacting revenge...

There are two sides to every story.Husband and wife Archie and Francine Hughes are heroes in their hometown of Philadelphia. Archie is a football star, while Francine is a Grammy-winning...

A vital Central American nation has fallen to Cuban-backed guerrillas. The American ambassador is held prisoner. And the US President faces the choice: get him out ...or kill him. In...

Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission. He always does. It seems like a simple...

*Longlisted for the 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller*'Even better than Child 44' Daily Telegraph'Peppered with memorable characters, carved with precision, ... highly recommended' Shots Magazine'Given that...