Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, the...

"I drive. That's what I do. All I do." 'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching...

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things: 1. She was one of the last people to see her parents alive. 2....

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...

Waterstones Thriller of the Month'Lightseekers is ripe with all the twists and turns you could hope for... A fast-paced thriller that offers insight into the ever present tensions in a...

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...

'You'd think they'd do something about the taxi shortage,' he says. 'Especially with the missing women.'Stranded on a dark road in the middle of the night, a young woman accepts...

A assassin with a mission. But whose side is he on? This is an another action-packed thriller from one of the world's most popular writers. Back in DC after successful...

'A bold, beautiful, sexy, full-throttle thriller: it is a gorgeous, creepy Gothic story for our times' NICCI FRENCHOne of them has killed before.One of them will kill again.In the sweltering...

The gripping top ten Sunday Times bestselling thriller from Jeffery Deaver - featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw Say goodbye to your problemsIn pursuit of two armed fugitives in the wilderness...

Four days before the dedication of the new Freedom Tower at ground zero in New York City, five passengers and a flight attendant bravely foil the hijacking of a commercial...

A Fallen Angel. A Devil on the Loose. When a young girl is discovered dead on an isolated Irish country road, it seems at first glance to be a simple...

Three housemates. One dead, one missing and one accused of murder.The new standalone thriller from the award-winning writer of the bestselling Gemma Woodstock trilogy. Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a...

Stressed single mother and law partner Kate is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call to say that her teenaged daughter Amelia has...

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...

Dawn on a cold February morning and a mist hangs over Oxford, shrouding spires and domes. Feisty novelist Kate Ivory enjoys her early morning run with the (mainly) women's jogging...

'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...

'Omg... Gripping from page one... Love love loved it!!!' NetGalley reviewer It's every parent's worst nightmare... Seventeen-year-old Bryony Lloyd's father drops her off at a friend's house to study -...

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'....

Novelist Kate Ivory is used to receiving letters, each week, from her readers. But when she receives a package containing a gold knot-ring, with no explanatory note, she is more...

From New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman, author of KILLER and BREAKDOWN, BONES is a disturbing thriller in which psychologist Alex Delaware must delve deep into the mind...

Christopher Townsend, Development Officer of Bartlemas College, was reportedly drunk when he plunged from the top of the Tower of Grace. His tragic death does, however, lead to an offer...

Lincoln Rhyme is back, and this time he's in danger, in the brand new crime thriller from Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Final Twist A CITY IN TURMOIL Looming...

Meet Charlie. An everyday bloke. Good news is, he has a job. Bad news is, it's in a photo kiosk. He whiles away the hours with his rather eccentric colleague...

Why would anyone confess to the murder of someone who isn't dead? Ruth Bussey knows what it means to be in the wrong and to be wronged. She once did...

THE UNMISSABLE, UNRELENTINGLY GRIPPING NEW BOOK FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE UP-ALL-NIGHT THRILLERYou thought she was safe. You were wrong . . .Lauren can't wait to see...

A full week after death, a barely recognisable body is discovered in a closet. 'Death by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head' is the initial assessment, but the victim's relatives...

Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's mysteries, as well as Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins, the ninth psychological thriller from Sophie Hannah is a literary mystery and a puzzle that's...

A modern serial killer - hunting an ancient secret.A woman is left to die as the rebuilt Globe theatre burns. Another woman is drowned like Ophelia, skirts swirling in the...

The next chilling thriller from the bestselling author of THE WIDOW NEXT DOOR... "Get out while you can. You'll die here..." Adeline Evans has recently moved into a home for...

Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life...

All kinds of secrets get lost at sea...Ella loves the nomadic lifestyle of working on a luxury superyacht. She can leave her past behind and over the years she's found...

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...

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial killer is still at large and very close to home....

Criminal profiler Maggie O'Dell had been instrumental in putting Albert Stucky, the notorious Collector, away. Named for his ritual of collecting victims before disposing of them in the most heinous...

THEY CALL ME THE LUCKY ONE. THEY DON'T KNOW I LIED.Nine years ago, Charlie Colbert's life changed for ever.On Christmas Eve, as the snow fell, her elite graduate school was...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD'Maximilian Ponder is lying face up, dead, on the dining table in his own front room. This is something you really should know, right...