Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

When a young butcher spots a strange shape on the banks of the River Liffey in the hot summer of 1866, the city of Dublin is gripped by a grimy...

*****Coming soon to your screen as a major BBC adaptation by Golden Globe winner Peter Straughan*****They're here ... The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh...

***THE TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER******LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD***''So thrilling and unexpected that it made my head spin' LISA JEWELL'A dazzling psychological thriller' Sunday Times'Deliciously...

A memoir by a diagnosed sociopath. Fascinating, shocking and funny, Confessions of a Sociopath is a gripping insight into the mind of a self-confessed predator.M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning...

A collection of three gripping new stories from the world's bestselling thriller writer3 DAYS TO LIVEA CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned...

Powerful thriller set in London, Europe and Middle-East, with hard-hitting non-fiction angles to exploit. Ever since his days of collaboration with Dominique Lapierre (Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Is...

Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer.Leningrad, Russia, 1968. From an...

'The boy turned and looked at me, and everything slowed right down...In that moment, there was nothing but me and our boy, our eyes holding each other's. Dillon.' Five years...

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the...

If your son was on trial for murder, what would you do?Andy Barber's job is to put killers behind bars. And when a boy from his son Jacob's school is...

The Kremlin Device is an unremitting police-racing thriller from start to finish, by Sunday Times top ten bestselling ex-SAS novelist Chris Ryan. Perfect for fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child,...

OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. UNTIL NOW... 'Emily' is a devoted single mother. 'Jack' starts a new job in a new town. 'Russell' may be falling...

John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents, has been found...

The Number One bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Besy NovelAfter years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife...

Gabe Driscoll, chief of Internal Affairs for the New York City police department, stands in the city morgue, watching an autopsy. His interest is more than professional. The body is...

THE RUNAWAY SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING EMILY BLUNT'Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic...

I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. 'She was little,' he said. 'Little like me. But old. Older than you.' Those words gave me a cold shock. I could...

PRE-ORDER THE NEW JO CALLAGHAN NOVEL, LEAVE NO TRACE, NOW! COMING MARCH 2024As seen on BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS 'I devoured this in one sitting' Rob Rinder, as featured...

The missing pieces in your past can be deadly . . . Will Rebekah find hers before it's too late?THE GRIPPING AND PULSE-RACING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB'Smart,...

'A confident, original new voice in Irish writing' JANE CASEY'Claustrophobic and gripping, this will keep you on tenterhooks!' HEAT'A clever premise, compelling characters and brilliantly plotted' T. ORR MUNRO'Dark and...

Detective Michael Bennett is back and the race is on to catch a deadly killer terrorising New York. he Teacher has a meticulous and calculated plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, no...

The No.1 bestselling book from Mark Edwards and Louise Voss. A terrifying enigma - with the power to destroy... Twenty years ago, Kate Maddox was a volunteer at a research...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Front Row'The best crime novel I've read in a very long...

A jewel heist. A murdered actress. A killer case for NYPD Red. In a city where crime never sleeps, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in when a...

As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patterns of an elusive killer. A propulsive new series by New York Times bestselling author...

They would rather die than become mothers.A serial killer is on the loose in Tel Aviv. Each victim is found tied to a chair with a baby doll glued to...

The fourth book in Chris Ryan's hugely popular SAS Danny Black series, by the creator of the hit TV show Strikeback. Readers can't get enough of the Danny Black series:...

'Animal lovers will delight' Ann Granger'A real treat . . . I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine' Barbara Nadel'This debut promises to build up...

The twenty-second book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus have...

On the anniversary of a teen's disappearance, three friends face a deadly hometown reunion in this twisty suspense novel by a New York Times bestselling author.On prom night, Caroline Winterfield...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 McILVANNEY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 1Edinburgh, 1847. Will Raven...

University professor David Webb - forever caught between two identities - is still haunted by the splintered nightmares of his former life as Jason Bourne. Soon he finds himself embroiled...

The countdown has begun...True-crime podcaster Elle Castillo has been obsessed with The Countdown Killer for decades. Twenty years ago, he established a gruesome pattern of taking and murdering three girls...

An Easy Rawlins Mystery - from Bill Clinton's favourite novelist.The year is 1964, and though Easy seems settled into honest work as a Los Angeles custodian, he's having other problems...