Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency,...

The Pope is dying.In the catacombs of San Domatilla, deep beneath the streets of Rome, a militant group of disaffected priests are urged to wage a new Inquisition. As the...

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...

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...

After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne's most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which...

Your Truth or Mine? is about the dark secrets couples keep from one another and how a marriage unravels, perfect for fans of Lauren North's The Perfect Betrayal and Lisa...

________________________________The pedal is to the medal in this chilling Olympic thriller - and the finish line is fast approaching...July 2012: The Games have arrived in London and the stage is...

The nameless and beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney in the cold room, awaiting the dissecting scalpel...

The Snow Angel is a deliciously dark family saga from Lulu Taylor, the bestselling author of The Winter Folly.A forbidden passion. A lifetime of consequences. In 1960s London, Cressida Felbridge...

'Chilling, spectacular stuff' Mark BillinghamAfter the first snowfall of the year, a young boy wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared.Only one trace of her remains: a pink...

Cotton Malone has recently retired from the US special forces, to pursue his dream of running an antiquarian bookshop in Copenhagen. But when his old boss is attacked on a...

Always let the meat rest under foil for at least ten minutes before carving...Meet Lizzie Prain. Ordinary housewife. Fifty-something. Lives in a cottage in the woods, with her dog Rita....

'LOVED it. I read it in 3 hours in one sitting' Goodreads reviewer, THEIR FIRST MISTAKE WAS INVITING HER IN...Rose has it all - the gorgeous children, the husband, the...

A family wedding. An unsolved murder. Til death us do part?Dr Nell Ward is in the lush, emerald-green hills of Ireland to attend the wedding of two dear friends at...

A superb collection of short stories from Reginald Hill, the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels and 'the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' (Independent)...

Reissue of the timeless Higgins classic... In 1930's Brazil, Neil Mallory works as a courier flying mail and machine parts around the Amazonian rain forest. On a routine day his...

BANKS IS BACK - AND THE HUNT IS ON.When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Then a bloodstain is discovered in a disused...

The Winter Secret is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor, top ten bestselling author of The Snow Rose.'My dear boy, the place is cursed. It always has been and it...

Meet Ash, thirteen years old, saying goodbye to his father before he goes to serve a stretch in prison. His dad's friend Kieran helps get rid of social services and...

Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going...

Hitchcock meets the Coen Brothers in a darkly comic suspense novel with the tense pacing of a thriller and the beauty of the best of literary fiction. "A ripping good...

It begins with the apparent suicide of a young American student in Stockholm. What is at first an open and shut case of suicide quickly leads to a complex web...

______________________When you own the world's greatest detective agency, you make the world's most dangerous enemies.Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most successful detective...

One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare - it's real. Not only is she savagely...

A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller, The Interpretation of Murder. September 16, 1920....

At nightfall on June 22, 1965, a soldier walked in from the outskirts of a small town in the Dominican Republic and reported that he had just shot and killed...

Rendell returns to a darkly atmospheric London to explore how the lives of a small group of people from very mixed backgrounds are affected dramatically by a series of apparently...

It's the sixties, and sixteen-year-old Carole Mason and her friend Naomi set out to lose their virginity to Eddie Lindbaeck, a man they barely know. Events, however, go horribly wrong...

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...

Jack Howard is about to discover a secret. Perhaps the greatest secret ever kept.What if one of the Ancient World's greatest libraries was buried in volcanic ash and then re-discovered...

Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Qaeda lurks in South-East Asia and there, Nick Stone's bosses get wind of an act of terror that will dwarf even the...

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...

Gabe Driscoll, chief of Internal Affairs for the New York City police department, stands in the city morgue, watching an autopsy. His interest is more than professional. The body is...

'A compelling legal thriller - I loved it' Katerina Diamond, Sunday Times bestseller'Timely, anger-inducing and very powerful - it's excellent' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood OrangeWhen you read this book,...

The sixth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesChristmas had never been a particularly good time...

'Intriguing ... an impressive debut' Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door'It made me look at marriage in a different light' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife'T. A....

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...

A team of surveyors working in the Sahara happen upon an object buried deep in the rock. The object turns out to be a flying saucer and it is older...

Going back is never easy . . . Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to forget. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for...

If your son was on trial for murder, what would you do?Andy Barber's job is to put killers behind bars. And when a boy from his son Jacob's school is...

From the author of Days of Drums and Last Rights comes a new, heartpounding thriller that's destined to be an international bestseller. His name is the Handyman. For fifteen years...

Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It's tiny. It's...

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'....

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to...