Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

They can buy everything except the truth.Each week, they come to lie on her couch. Carrie, Henry and Grace. They don't know one another, but Dr Alex knows them all...

Scratch the surface of any family hard enough and you'll draw blood . . .No one can believe it when straight A student Romy Field finds herself at the centre...

May, 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano, Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves and Denton Police Division welcomes its first black policeman, DS Waters - recently...

The nail-biting new novel from the thrilling Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose, and Book 3 in the Cincinnati series.Cincinnati's children are in grave danger, and time is running out to...

SOON THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf...

A riveting crime novel from No. 1 bestselling author Ian Rankin.It's twenty-five years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, and five years since EXIT MUSIC. But 2012 sees his...

It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the...

On a still, foggy evening in Cambridge the sharp crack of a pistol shot disrupts the sleepy calm of the university, leaving a porter lying dead. Ex-cop John Bewick is...

The next gripping book in the Ben O'Keefe series.Praise for Andrea Carter's Inishowen Mysteries series'Atmospheric and vivid' The Irish Times'I adored this traditional crime novel; it's modern day Agatha Christie...

It's Denton, 1981. Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active and the country's on alert for an outbreak of rabies. Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is working under...

Married for ten years. Four children. She thought she knew her husband better than anyone.She was wrong. 'Heart-poundingly suspenseful and heart-wrenchingly insightful' J.P.Delaney, author of The Girl Before 'This compulsive,...

The spellbinding No 1 bestsellers Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls introduced Washington homicide detective Alex Cross. Now he's back - in James Patterson's most explosive and powerful...

Every so often a thriller appears that offers more to the reader than just entertainment. White Crocodile is just that. When emotionally damaged mine-clearer Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to...

The new book from the number one bestselling author of The Son and The Snowman, Jo NesboJon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.Fleeing...

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...

A compelling police procedural set the day-after-tomorrow: a chilling murder mystery and a gripping conspiracy thriller London, the second decade of the twenty-first century, two years after the InfoWar. The...

The true value of a human life is being tested to its limit in this sharp, page-turning thriller...When soldier Paul Curtis, recently returned from active duty, is approached covertly by...

A breathtaking novel of suspense from the co-author of five No 1 James Patterson bestsellers including Judge and Jury and Lifeguard, and the hit thrillers The Blue Zone and The...

Feeling jilted and cross, Agatha follows a fortune-teller's advice and rents a cottage in the pretty village of Fryfam, where she hopes good fortune and true love will come chasing...

As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing she has seen prepares her for the horror of the honeymoon murders, when...

A powerful new Alex Cross thriller from number one bestseller James Patterson introduces the most vicious killer yet - a maniac who calls himself the Mastermind. The Mastermind orchestrates a...

A dangerous IRA prisoner has escaped a top-security US prisoner is en route to Ireland with his Mafia accomplices with the intention of going on an arms-buying spree which would...

The wave of the future confronts Tweed - carrying death for at least a hundred million people. With Paula Grey and Bob Newman, Tweed tracks the creator of the supreme...

"You did nothing." Christine Steinmeyer knows the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve has nothing to do with her. But the man calling in to her...

In the backwoods of South America, an ex-SAS officer now working for British Intelligence embarks on a terrifying mission to find a woman who holds the key to a dark...

The master storyteller hurtles us once more into his heart-stopping world of violence, betrayal and high-octance suspense. Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a "K" working for British Intelligence on deniable operations,...

Mike Cullen has created the most effective PR agency in London. His client list comprises a veritable who's who from the FTSE 100, and the cream of the crop is...

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the...

Your time is up...Emily Parker is missing, kidnapped from a car park in broad daylight and the police are clueless as to her whereabouts.The only man her family can turn...

'An intense, brilliantly crafted thriller that hums with menace from start to finish' TM Logan 'He did kill. Kill and kill and kill.' Tess's number one priority has always been...

'Addictive as a puzzle, moving with breakneck speed, Nemesis had me guessing until the very end. Try to predict what Nemesis is. I dare you.' - Victoria Aveyard, #1 NYT...

When, despite all his training and twenty five years experience as a private detective, Phil Kramer is shot dead on a quiet suburban south California street his wife and partners...

The No. 1 Bestselling The Nowhere Man is a thrilling, pulse-pounding ride for readers and the hero of Orphan X . . .'THE PACE NEVER LETS UP' DAILY MAILTHEY TRAINED...

'NOMAD is unputdownable. A must-read.' - Wilbur SmithFIND THE TRUTH BEFORE THEY FIND YOUA pulse-racing terrorist thriller - perfect for fans of I Am Pilgrim, Bourne, 24 and HomelandMarc Dane...

A religious icon, thought to have been destroyed during World War II, reappears in contemporary New York in this debut thriller that blends faith, art, history and suspense. In a...

'a tour de force work of art' - The Wall Street Journal, Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the 2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger AwardIt's Saturday evening, 9 March...

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this tense and unputdownable medical page-turner from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Incredible medical knowledge...

Kerry Wilkinson's sensational Jessica Daniel series returns with Behind Closed Doors, as Jessica faces her darkest mystery yet.Detective Sergeant Jessica Daniel has barely left her house in months, isolated away...

Shanghai, The People's Republic of China. Eight bodies chained together and horribly mutilated are found in the mud of the Huangpu River. Sun Piao, a Senior Investigator with the Homicide...

Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return...

BOOK 1 OF 3Broken Promise is the first book in the epic Promise Falls Trilogy from master of the thriller, Linwood Barclay.When David Harwood is asked to look in on...

The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth Jack Reacher thriller - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher.Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He...