Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

As a contract agent of the CIA Cafe, the agency's black-budget Contract Agents for Economics, Terry Weston played a clandestine game of espionage against the spy services of Europe in...

ONE TWIN LIED. ONE TWIN DIED.'Dean handles his plot with skill ... Molly is an intriguing protagonist and Dean has plenty of surprises for the unwary reader' OBSERVER'The talented Mr...

Assistant County Attorney Ellen North's assignment to the Kirkwood case has landed her in the hot seat - a position she thought she had left behind in the crime-chocked Minneapolis...

When down-at-heel lawyer Mickey Haller gets the news that his old colleague Jerry Vincent has died, he also gets an unexpected windfall. Jerry had left instructions that Mickey should inherit...

The last major work of martyr-suicide Franklin Koenig before his spectacular self-immolation in 1958, MIRROR shows up in Manhattan where it sells for USD23 million: the highest price ever paid...

'A cracking debut thriller packed with great characters that leaves the reader wanting more' Irish IndependentHe turned away for a split second. And she was gone.Eighteen years ago David Dunnigan...

You'd kill to protect your child - wouldn't you? From the #1 bestselling author of My Sister's Secret... When radio presenter Anna Graves and her baby are attacked on the...

Daniel Easterman crosses boundaries never before visited with this awesome novel of politics, fundamentalism and kidnapping. In an idyllic Northumberland village, the locals prepare for the Harvest Festival as they...

A pacy literary thriller, 'The Buried Circle' is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters. The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places...

The latest gripping thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, now a Netflix sensation! 'Gloriously glamorous, and brilliantly plotted: Dead to Her is everything I...

A place of worship is vandalised, daubed swastikas testifying to a hatred that, for a time at least, defies understanding.But the Deckers, Rina and her detective husband Peter, soon realise...

Pilot, James Airie was named, curiously, after his father's passion - he flew for an airline. It wasn't a profession pilot ever considered for himself but Pilot had not exactly...

The latest short-story collection from Britain's bestselling writer, 'the greatest storyteller of our age'. The fourteen new stories in To Cut a Long Story Short follow in the tradition of...

Three sons, one massive fortune. The race to be the first to make GBP1,000,000 to win the inheritence is on... Harry Bingham is a wonderful new talent in the great...

For decades, Omar Yussef has taught history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favourite former pupil, George Saba, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of...

Simon Tolkien's gripping Oxford-based thriller which sees Inspector Trave in a race for justice against deception, conspiracy and the long shadow of the past. When an eminent art historian is...

A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White, perfect for fans of Stephen King and SQUID GAME. The challenge:...

In the midst of a snowstorm, creative writing professor, Nan Lewis, thinks she hit a deer. But then a police officer tells her that her student, Leia Dawson, has been...

When Islamic militants infiltrate an elite British counter-narcotics programme, disaster is averted thanks to ex-SAS soldiers John Patterson and Dusty Miller. But when fallout from the affair threatens to topple...

A gripping psychological thriller, taking the reader from 21st century Britain to the darkest days of war-torn Eastern Europe. The cries of the innocent echo through the years... Her obsession...

Don't miss Sarah Clarke's gripping new thriller, THE SKI TRIP. Out now! 'Tense, suspenseful and an amazing ending. One of the best books I have read this year.' NetGalley reviewer,...

This is a blisteringly action-packed adventure thriller from an exciting Steel Dagger award-winning writer. Jack Valentine is back...When a set of dog tags, supposedly belonging to a seaman missing since...

Hell hath no fury...like a brother scorned. The brother journalist Henry Parker never knew, has been shot point-blank in a rat-hole apartment, wasted by hunger and heroin. Stephen Gaines was...

'If you like a legal thriller you'll love this!' HARRIET TYCE TO STEAL A MAN'S FREEDOM ALL IT TAKES IS . . . CONVICTION Wade Darling stands accused of killing...

A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. He believes it will end with his death in faraway England. For honour, for glory, for victory....

Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy . . . Now employed...

The discovery of a body in the East River tells journalist Henry Parker that the Fury is back - and more deadly than ever. In New York, there are hundreds...

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...

Mark Gridley's latest computer project - a program designed to protect online security by scanning for 'invisible' hackers - suddenly becomes very useful when his buddies, Dan Sanchez and Maj...

Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental...

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...

It is early April of 1945. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages uselessly in his Berlin bunker. But the...

THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES' CANON CELEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'Cosy crime with a cutting edge'SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Even better than I knew it would be' INDIA KNIGHT, THE...

'One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read...Read it!' David Baldacci'Packed with sneaky moves and teasing possibilities that keep the reader guessing...The Dry is a breathless page-turner' Janet Maslin,...

The Evidence Exposed: The two-week course on 'Great Houses of Britain' brings together a varied group of enthusiasts. When one of their number turns up dead, Inspector Thomas Lynley makes...

It's the trial of the decade -- Dominick Cavallo, the modern-day Godfather, has finally been put in the dock, and there's enough evidence to make it certain he'll be convicted....

After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart...

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...

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....

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 investment...