Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

'There's more crime going on in Carey's Circus than in the whole underworld of London. Theft, immorality, blackmail - you'll find all the pretties here.'Seven Bengal tigers are the star...

'Vivid, amusing and immensely enjoyable . . . A triumph' Alexander McCall SmithMeet Tannie Maria: the loveable writer of recipes in her local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette.One Sunday morning,...

'Denise Mina is a one-of-a-kind storyteller' James Patterson"This is Marlowe.""Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked.I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by...

After years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife home to the Yorkshire Dales.But Laura is gone, and Chris is on his...

The twenty-seventh entry in Janet Evanovich's No.1 New York Times bestselling series isn't just the biggest case of Stephanie Plum's career. It's the adventure of a lifetime.**The No. 1 New...

Senseless is the first in a two-part series by Mary Burton - America's dark mistress of crime. Every Serial Killer Knows . . . The vicious burns scarring the victims'...

From the bestselling Sunday Times author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's thrilling series that is now a major NBC TV series.Can Lincoln Rhyme catch a diabolical killer in...

Merciless follows Senseless as the second in Mary Burton's thrilling two-part series. First you beg. Then you die . . . No PityEach skeleton is flawless - gleaming white and...

The theft of the diamond necklace and the antique pistols might all be explained, but the body in the lake is particularly puzzling. 'Don't expect me to solve anything,' Inspector...

Jon Smith is attending a W.H.O. conference in The Hague on infectious diseases and wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes...

Brilliant biochemist Emma Caldridge, caught in a drug cartel's deadly plot, must find a cure to an extremely virulent disease that is lethal nine days from exposure.

Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered. For the next eight years Dr Beck re-lived the horror...

In the past: a man crawls desperately through a claustrophobic escape tunnel beneath a POW camp in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Above, a shadow passes across the moon, while ahead only...

TV producer Fliss Benson receives an anonymous card at work. The card has sixteen numbers on it, arranged in four rows of four -- numbers that mean nothing to her....

What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about...

THE HEART-STOPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE MISSING PERSON MYSTERY'The Lost Women is Tim Weaver at the absolute top of his game - a masterclass in...

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Fame can be deadly. A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. ____________________________________________________ A FALLEN ROCKSTAR. ONE LAST CHANCE...

'HELP US'Lilly Valentine tries to help a damaged teenager - but has she been horrifically abused, or is she lying to save her own skin?Lilly Valentine is not in a...

'Creepy and compelling' HARRIET TYCE 'Brilliant - filled with tension and twists' SARAH PINBOROUGH 'An unsettling, terrifying thriller' ABIGAIL DEAN 'Masterclass in suspense' THE TIMES 'Will have you up all...

'An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller' - THE TIMESThe gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Fuhrer. In this brilliant...

From the acclaimed writer of Luther and Hard Sun comes a compulsive thriller. Meet William Holloway: Family man. Gentle man. Wanted man. Holloway has secrets. Years ago, he witnessed his...

The brand-new gripping thriller from the million copy bestseller M.J. ArlidgeNowhere to hide. No-one to turn to. Nothing to lose.Helen Grace is sure she made the right decision to quit...

'Fun and entertaining... The action never stops' DAILY MAIL. Sean is at a shopping mall when Henry Alan Keen, scorned by a woman he's been dating, pulls out a gun...

Danny Buchanan is a top Washington lobbyist who once earned a vast fortune serving the interests of giant corporations. Appalled by the desperate poverty he witnessed on his global travels,...

In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his pushchair and his seven-year-old brother, Kristoffer,...

Fans of Lisa Jewell, Cara Hunter and Karin Slaughter will devour this menacingly dark and disturbing thriller with an unnatural twist from bestselling author Sharon Bolton. Guaranteed to entrance and...

'Dark, tense and very clever... One of the best unreliable narrators I've ever come across' CLAIRE DOUGLAS'Another fabulous read by Gilly Macmillan... You're in for the twistiest of rides!' LESLEY...