Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

In order to come to terms with the death of a close friend, Kate Ivory has escaped Oxford and found sanctuary in a friend's cottage a few miles away. Here,...

Joyce Fielding walked out one afternoon into the streets of Oxford and just disappeared. And now, Kate Ivory has been hired to find her. Joyce is a respectable widow in...

When novelist Kate Ivory is offered a special assignment by her friend at Oxford's famous Bodleian Library, she decides to accept. For the University's libraries have a serious problem: valuable...

Writer Kate Ivory can't believe her luck when she's head-hunted by a successful Oxford publishing house. But it seems her good fortune is to be short-lived. Her new young editor,...

Oxfordshire appeared to be a haven of safety for many children sent away from the bombs falling on London in 1944, but for 10-year-old Chris Barnes, the result was death....

Writer Kate Ivory has new neighbours on either side of her terraced house. On one side lives Jeremy Wells, a diffident, charming Oxford academic. On the other live Laura and...

Soft paws come with sharp claws...It's deep winter. Time to light the fire, pull up a blanket and curl up with your cat. But is your feline friend playing innocent?...

*Winner of the 2017 Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger**Vera Stanhope will return in The Seagull*Hidden Depths is the third book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - which is now...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLERDetective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a...

The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of THE BOOK CLUB'Gripping, unpredictable and immensely satisfying' SOPHIE HANNAH, author of Haven't They Grown'A dark, original and twisted story of...

Jockey Josh Swallow is about to retire and he's aiming to go out at the top. He's ridden over 1000 winners and landed all the big prizes in the sport...

In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, the once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly absorbed and taken over by the underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious...

A. Scott Fenney is a hotshot corporate lawyer at a big Dallas firm. At 33, in the prime of his life, he rakes in $750,000 a year, drives a Ferrari...

Yesterday I almost saw her. I was standing on the sun deck, looking out to sea, revelling in the unexpected warmth of the February sun. A butterfly trembled on a...

Stephen Coonts returns with a brand new thriller and a whole new kind of hero...Tommy Carmellini was the best burglar in the business. He was so good that most of...

Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured, lively twenty-year-old when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Washington to Southern California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim...

A timely and topical thriller which looks at the seedy back dealings of criminals and the police. An addictive read for fans of P.J.Tracey and Peter Robinson. A terrifically fast-paced...

The tenth novel in the critically acclaimed Lincoln Rhyme series, from Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. They are calling it the 'million-dollar bullet': a sniper shot from a near-impossible...

A chilling tale of prejudice, ambition and cunning, The Tinder Box is a novella from crime queen Minette Walters. In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordan...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIESAll over the world, brutal animal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread....

'Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he...

The bestselling 13th novel in the Women's Murder Club seriesA LANDMARK MURDERWhen two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer quickly...

The gripping sequel to the million-downloaded The One You Love.Emma Holden and her friends are trying to move on from the horrific events surrounding Dan's kidnap, when a shocking revelation...

A love story, a modern nightmare and an honest and incisive portrayal of a woman who honours her husband's wish to die and finds herself in the dock for murder.When...

Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng - secret servant at the British embassy - the crisis is personal. A few words...

WHO DO YOU LOVE? One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him...

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER."A harrowing exploration of the expanding labyrinth of despair and the self." Paul Tremblay.A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite...