Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead...

One will change your life. One will end it.Who will ... FIND YOU FIRST? 'The best book of his career' STEPHEN KING 'Insanely paced, wildly entertaining' JOE HILL 'A full-throttle...

'James Patterson and Mark Seal have brought Sin City to life' TELEGRAPHWhat happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - until now.Whether you're a Vegas regular or have only heard the...

The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Hakan Nesser.It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and...

The 6:20 Man is a heart-racing thriller with an incredible ending, set in the world of high finance in New York, from the number one bestselling author David Baldacci.It's time...

Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Terese. She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help. When he gets there, he discovers that her...

The twenty-first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something slightly less savoury - a human...

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...

The darkest secrets of World War II... finally revealed. The number one bestseller returns with his most explosive book to date. Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the...

AN OLD SANATORIUM. ONE TERRIFYING MURDER. FOUR SUSPECTS. AND A CASE THAT NEVER CLOSED...'ONE OF THE FINEST CRIME WRITERS IN THE WORLD TODAY' DAILY MAIL'A knowing, unnerving mystery' The Times'Superbly...

Dublin, 1841. On a cold December morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. This could be just one more small, sad death...

Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both in this twisty, action-packed historical thriller for...

Winner of the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award.How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he...

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**THE GRIPPING NOVEL BY LOUISE DOUGHTY, PLATFORM SEVEN, IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR ITV...

AN ABANDONED CHILD A young girl has been found in a deserted cemetery. She speaks a foreign language, and she cries for her mother. But nobody claims her. Nobody knows...

International bestseller Jeffrey Archer returns THE UNPUTDOWNABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER 'Only someone like Jeffrey Archer . . . could have written a compelling story like this. Every...

'Powerful and gripping - an adrenaline-filled thriller you won't forget' - Sunday Times bestseller Kimberley Chambers What to believe Who to betray When to run... Plastic surgeon Dr Maria Martinez...

'She was a girl, really, with short red hair and a waif-like slimness. But despite the flowered dress she wore, her belly had begun to show. Immobile, the girl gazed...

Private investigator Julia Stark receives an unannounced visit at the office. The man at the door is one of the owners of a successful family business. The day before, he...

Paige Vallis claimed that she gave in to Tripping's sexual demands because he had threatened to harm his son if she didn't. Alexandra Cooper, prosecuting the ex-CIA man, knew she...

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY_________________________________________The fifth book in Karin Slaughter's #1 bestselling GRANT COUNTY series.Deep in the...

'If you like your crime medicine strong, this will keep you gripped' Mail on SundayA series of horrific murders seem disturbingly familiar to Detective Jane Rizzoli. They remind her and...

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new...

Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman - whose first book Falling was an instant international bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021 - returns...

A wonderful treat for all fans of the novels by Kate Atkinson and Dennis Lehane, David Bell's The Hiding Place is a powerful psychological suspense thriller which unravels the secrets...

Israel: two Concorde jets take off for a UN conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry...

No stockings, no gifts, no tinsel and no tree - has Christmas been cancelled?It's mid-December and for the fifth year in a row, there is little sign of the festive...

Five years ago Ed Fagan, the serial killer known as the Night Hunter, disappeared. Since then nothing has been heard from him. But now a Dublin newspaper has received a...

Some things are easier to forget than others...Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse,...

'All I can say is WOW. I was immediately glued to the pages. This is one of the best books I've read this year... The authors did such a great...

At eighteen, your closest friend commits suicide.At twenty-nine, you're backpacking in the Australian outback when you see her. She has a husband. She has a ten-year-old son. She has a...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that...

A retreat doesn't always mean safety...Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais...

Gus Dury is a changed man. He is off the Edinburgh streets and back with estranged wife, Debs. He has promised her that he won't get involved in any more...

Ever so wholesome. Ever so deadly... When art restorer Astrid Swift moved from London to the Dorset village of Hanbury, she thought she was heading for a quiet life. Far...

The shadows hide a deadly story . . .1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in...

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then, something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same...

On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina, a West End actress, faces a...