Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

Voinjama Johnson is an investigative journalist for the Cape Town magazine Urban. Her life is a mess and Vee's been seeing things: a teenage girl in a red hat that...

In the villages and on the mountains of County Tyrone, in the heartland of the Provisional IRA's most active Brigade, the golden rule is 'Hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing'....

'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this one' Daily MailCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY...

The Trap by Melanie Raabe is set, and ready to spring.I know who killed my sister.I wrote this novel for him.Twelve years ago, Linda's sister Anna was murdered. Her killer...

Jeez Curwen, a British undercover agent in South Africa reporting on the African National Congress, has received the death penalty for his part in a job in which he should...

'Here ends one of the finest achievements of recent crime fiction' - Sunday Telegraph'Outstanding' - The Times*Winner of the 2022 CWA Historical Dagger and Gold Dagger*Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A...

Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique meditation on murder and fate. Dagmar, a gentle, eccentric...

Tense and expertly plotted, "The Midnight Choir" is a stunning portrayal of life on the edge of society. Joshua Boyce watches a jewelers from a rented flat across the road,...

'A read-it-in-one-sitting thriller . . . Twisty and gripping but always relatable, Friend Request is the ultimate it-could-happen-to-you read' Erin KellyWhen Louise Williams receives a message from someone left long...

Two joggers have been found dead in San Francisco - bitten and hung by their feet to drain the blood. Further murders in California, and then on the East Coast...

TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS, HE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING . . .Discover 2024's most original new thriller, a story of glamour, secrets and obsession...'GRABS YOU FROM THE OPENING LINE AND WON'T LET...

GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTSFrom the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery ....

A century-old mystery - and a desperate battle to survive. Abandon is a compulsive standalone thriller from Blake Crouch, the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion.On...

PRE-ORDER THE NEW JO CALLAGHAN NOVEL, LEAVE NO TRACE, NOW! COMING MARCH 2024As seen on BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS'I devoured this in one sitting' Rob Rinder, as featured on...

An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent.The CIA's highly classified Special Activities Division is in the business of tracking people...

When criminal justice lawyer Joanna Chylka is tasked with defending the son of Zelasny & McVay's biggest client, she is stumped for the first time. Assisted by average law graduate...

ONE DOOMED PRIME MINISTER.TWO WOULD-BE SUCCESSORS.BUT WHO'S PULLING THE STRINGS? The second novel from Britain's foremost political commentator is a thrillingly intimate look at the inner workings of Whitehall, and...

Karen Riney is a young woman desperate to put bad memories behind her and get back on her feet when she hits upon an idea to make fast money. In...

Life gets tough again for Shannon Flinder when her best friend is murdered, and she comes to believe that the police have arrested the wrong person. So who did kill...

Sotheby's, London, 1936. A paper by Sir Isaac Newton is sold at auction to a bookseller's agent and within minutes of leaving the auction house, he is killed and the...

ANNA O - THE WORLD WILL KNOW HER NAME 'Certain to be one of the year's best thrillers' LEE CHILD 'Reads like a dream but unsettles like a nightmare' A...

THEY CALL ME THE LUCKY ONE. THEY DON'T KNOW I LIED.Nine years ago, Charlie Colbert's life changed for ever.On Christmas Eve, as the snow fell, her elite graduate school was...

The sixteenth thrilling instalment in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series._________________________________________________________How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace?In New York City, a sniper dubbed 'The Longshot Killer' is...

'The boy turned and looked at me, and everything slowed right down...In that moment, there was nothing but me and our boy, our eyes holding each other's. Dillon.' Five years...

Where did they come from? Why did they fall?In a quiet town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events...

First came the stunning bestseller, ALONG CAME A SPIDER, which introduced its memorable hero, Washington, DC, detective and psychiatrist Alex Cross. Then the explosive novels KISS THE GIRLS and JACK...

When Rose Trevelyan sees a young girl being carried away by someone who appears to be her father, she thinks nothing of it. Until, that is, the appearance of a...

As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal...

On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes...

WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD 2023 FOR THE LAST GRUDGE While her colleagues investigate the brutal murder of a prominent businessman, Jessica Niemi must battle demons from her past...

I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. 'She was little,' he said. 'Little like me. But old. Older than you.' Those words gave me a cold shock. I could...

'Omg... Gripping from page one... Love love loved it!!!' NetGalley reviewer It's every parent's worst nightmare... Seventeen-year-old Bryony Lloyd's father drops her off at a friend's house to study -...

***THE No.1 BESTSELLING SENSATION!***'Activate your '"do not disturb" because you will NOT be able to stop reading until you turn the last page' Tammy CohenThree women. Three secrets.Claudia's life imploded...

The Cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. Its usage causes incalculable misery, poverty and death....