Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

'A truly original voice' Peter JamesDreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen's 2020 New Year's Honours ListBOOK 2 in the FLESH AND BLOOD series, BLOOD...

The brilliant new psychological thriller from Number ONE bestselling author, Valerie Keogh!An unwelcome guest?Still in shock after the tragic death of husband Richie, Cassie Macreddin hopes that her new home,...

'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...

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...

Special collectors edition EXCLUSIVE to the first print run! *Gold foiled design underneath the dust jacket* *Bonus Lincoln Rhyme short story* Lincoln Rhyme is back, and this time he's in...

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...

A powerful and political thriller from the master of the genre. The scene is set for a huge funeral in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The rich and the...

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...

Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A list. FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation in Disneyland when he gets the call. A well-known actress has been shot outside her home in...

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...

Frustrated with the sheer ennui of London life and looking for fresh excitement, Anthony Anstruther and his girlfriend leave a nightclub to find a drunken Russian tramp playing noughts and...

Chilling new YA, perfect for fans of Orange is the New Black and Stephen King. After three years in juvie, Angela Davis is just three months shy of release. She'll...

Paul Leibovitz was once an ambitious advisor, dedicated father, and loving husband. But after living for nearly thirty years in Hong Kong, personal tragedy strikes and Paul's marriage unravels in...

The Bad Book Affair features the magnificently hapless Israel Armstrong - the duffle-coat wearing, navel-gazing Jewish librarian who solves crimes, mysteries, and domestic problems whilst driving a mobile library around...

Visitors to Venice might hope to find a Venetian friend who will guide them through the narrow streets, explaining a bit of history here, a story from his youth there,...

In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordan has been arrested for the brutal murder of elderly Lavinia Fanshaw and her live-in nurse, Dorothy Jenkins. As shock...

Libro, Sweden. A mutilated body is found lying in the snow. Husband, father and reformed trouble-maker John Jonsson leaves behind a devastated family and friends to struggle on without him....

'Love is the death of me,' read the handwritten note. The gunshot victim was found in Detective Sergeant Kathy Mallory's apartment. It was not clear at first if it was...

Sultan Gadaffi has escaped from Libya with a fistful of dangerous secrets. The British Government want ex-Special Forces operative Steve Range, the go-to man for any Black-Ops missions, to lead...

The enemy within...It should have been a routine protection operation. But when the Croatian Foreign Minister is kidnapped on British soil by a known assassin, maverick DPU agent Charlie Paddon...

A gripping masterpiece of dark family rivalries, shadowy politics and hidden secrets, Identical is the stunning thriller from bestselling author Scott Turow.Two families entangled in a long and complex history...