Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

IN A TOWN FULL OF SECRETS, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? In a town full of secrets, who can you trust? In the aftermath of a mass shooting in a mosque,...

The car that ploughs into the bus stop early one morning leaves a trail of death and destruction behind it. DS Ferreira and DI Zigic are called in from the...

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...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, creation of the CWA Diamond Dagger award-winning author Peter James, faces his most engrossing case yet in Left You Dead.Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday...

After the death of Vourniass Lycern, child-bearer to the Seriattic Royal Household, her twin sons, fathered by former Military Intelligence Officer Alexander Delgado, have grown up ignorant of their relationship....

Frannie O'Neill, a young and talented veterinarian whose husband was recently murdered, comes across an amazing discovery in the woods near her animal hospital. Soon after, Kit Harrison, a troubled...

Every battle leaves its mark...Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire...

Karl Kane is a private investigator with a dark past. As a child, he witnessed the brutal rape and murder of his mother. The same man sexually molested Karl, leaving...

'Striking...visceral, violent and utterly compelling, it nevertheless shines with humanity' Daily Mail'Burns bright and fast' Peter Swanson, author of Sunday Times bestseller Her Every Fear A GRITTY, PROPULSIVE DEBUT ABOUT...

The third in Linda Fairstein's gripping and authentic series of crime novels featuring Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper. With aplomb, style and sharp compassion for her 'clients' Coop again unravels the...

How do you solve a mystery when you can't understand the clues? 'A rich tapestry... distinctive and compelling' Observer 'A stunning whodunnit' Mail on Sunday 'A beautiful, original novel, at...

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...

Original Swedish crime stories from the masters of Nordic noir including a never before published story by Stieg Larsson. Ever since Stieg Larsson shone a light on the brilliance of...

Sf thriller exploring our greatest journey and our greatest mystery - death itself - from the winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Psychologist Dr Joanna Lander has...

'The new Gone Girl' Marie Claire'If you liked The Girl on the Train then I think you'll like this just as much, if not more' Scott Pack ******Alice Salmon young,...

Kathryn Ardleigh is becoming accustomed to the high-society circles of her husband, Lord Charles Sheridan. She has found a kindred spirit in Jennie Jerome Churchill, an American who married the...

SIX FOUR. THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE. THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a...

ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours.The friends of the...

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...

A brilliantly witty story of unconventional, unwavering, and regularly exasperating friendship. Meet Jarvis Ham: tea-room assistant, diarist, lift-cadger, Princess Di fan, secret alcoholic, and relentless seeker of fame. Jarvis may...

The gun is the coward's fist. The gun is power.Alex and Ethan are growing up on an estate where there are just two choices: sport or crime. Ethan is selected...

As a contract agent of the CIA Cafe, the agency's black-budget Contract Agents for Economics, Terry Weston played a clandestine game of espionage against the spy services of Europe in...

Dublin's Harmon Penitentiary is Europe's most dangerous jail.Dr Frank Ryan is in charge of looking after its inmates. It's a risky job - the last doctor was murdered - but...

Rob Sullivan, a British customs officer, is on secondment to Brussels where a tiny unit from the EU's member states are supposed to tackle all excise duty crime in Europe....

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...

'GRIPS LIKE A VICE' - Val McDermid'Absorbing, tense and beautifully paced' - Daily MailTwenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were killed in what has become the...

In this electrifying debut, the slaying of an old couple in small town America looks like one-off act of brutal retribution. But at the same time, in Minneapolis, teams of...

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's...

HE WAS THE KEEPER - Arno Holmstrand is about to die, his life cut short by an organization intent on laying claim to the secrets he has spent a lifetime...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton....

A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . .Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa...

Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves. She recognised the dangers, but her search for...

Poseidon's Arrow by bestselling Clive Cussler is the twenty-second thrilling Dirk Pitt adventure.In 1943 a submarine returning from a secret mission is attacked, its vital cargo believed lost . ....

The most famous police officer in Sweden is found murdered in his bed. His four-year-old son is missing. His wife is suspected of killing both of them. No one believes...

_________________'This homage to P.G. Wodehouse is so good ... a masterpiece in every sense' MailThe Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. Oh, and His Majesty's...

A female corpse is found in the town of Lotingen. The girl's neck has been ripped open, all the blood drained from the body. Hanno Stiffeniis hastens to investigate a...