Fiction - Crime

As an investigative journalist, Karina Ashworth's job involves delving into New York's black market of criminals and mischief where sin is almost too tempting to ignore.When she crosses paths with a man whose smile is a little too cunning-and his power a little too...

Michael Lindsay wrote this murder mystery coming directly from his forty-plus years of forensic experience as a police officer, crime scene specialist, investigator, and academy crime scene instructor. More than being just a technically correct police story, this saga intertwines Mike's passions for the...

A commercial airliner departing Moscow is missing over France. Two days later, with world tensions at an all-time high, that same plane is headed for the White House. Soon after, following a mysterious breach of the launch codes, US nuclear missiles aimed at Russia...

A real estate agent who didn't like cycling or heights dies after riding off a cliff in the Colorado mountains, and the police label it suicide.The victim's brother adamantly believes it was murder and hires me to investigate. After accumulating a list of suspects,...

When a client begs me to find the prize-winning Maltese show dog stolen from her back yard, I suspect I may be channeling Ace Ventura: Pet Detective rather than my hero, Humphrey Bogart.It sounds like a simple case, but when a ransom drop goes...

Things are great with my girlfriend, Willie, and I'm about to make a big decision, but when Charlie Preston, second baseman for the Colorado Rockies, is suspected of murdering his best friend, he turns to me for help.I believe in Charlie's innocence and take...

In the world of high-stakes gambling, a killer lurks...It's springtime in Denver, and I'm less than a week away from my wedding. When an old flame shows up asking for help, things quickly go awry. Alicia plays in high-stakes poker tournaments, and she believes...

"I think my father might have killed my mother."With this one sentence, Gina Smith immediately draws me into a case.Questioning her past and yearning to find the mother she's never met, Gina hires me to find answers. With the help of my wife Willie,...

My latest case is a nightmare.When Brenda Evans asks me to deliver a message to her estranged daughter, Sally, I think this will be the simplest case I've solved. Unfortunately, Sally moved without leaving a forwarding address. When I find her, she is the...

A collection of eleven of Barbara Collins's best cat-themed stories, edited by Max Allan Collins. In "A Proper Burial," a childless couple is driven to extremes to get back the remains of their beloved dead cat, held as evidence in a murder case. In...

The beautiful young Countess Fiorenza d'Arda has died dramatically at her villa near Lake Geneva. Judge Fran ois Ferpierre, the senior magistrate assigned to Lausanne's central court, arrives to investigate whether it was murder or suicide. In either case, who is responsible? A diverse...

The beautiful young Countess Fiorenza d'Arda has died dramatically at her villa near Lake Geneva. Judge Fran ois Ferpierre, the senior magistrate assigned to Lausanne's central court, arrives to investigate whether it was murder or suicide. In either case, who is responsible? A diverse...

It was a debt to be settled, a price to be repaid.Sold. My body, mind, and soul, given to the most terrifying man I've ever met. Enzo King.Violent, commanding, gorgeous, and sinister. He's a killer, a thief, and feared by many. He has the...

A merciless killer who will stop at nothing. And a detective with nothing left to lose.When Detective Karen Hart hears a scream echoing out of beautiful Lincoln Cathedral one snowy evening, she is the first officer on the scene. In the chapel a man...

A merciless killer who will stop at nothing. And a detective with nothing left to lose.When Detective Karen Hart hears a scream echoing out of beautiful Lincoln Cathedral one snowy evening, she is the first officer on the scene. In the chapel a man...

The first thing Wolf learned about being a serial killer is: never Google "how to get away with murder". Despite the cameras, despite all the ways to get caught, he strives for infamy. Wolf becomes The Lullaby, the last thing you hear before you...

Dr. Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA (11 April 1862 - 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime...

Is it a ghost or a murderer? Tori Hartley rents out one of the magnificent old mansions in Old Louisville to Scott Mallory, who disappears without a trace. Facing an alarming lack of physical evidence, the police look to Scott's blog, in which he...

Some secrets are deadly. When approached by a troubled woman, Shea Stevens offers the protection of the Athena Sisterhood Motorcycle Club. But the powerful politician this woman is running from will do anything to conceal a dark secret. After Shea and the Sisterhood tell...

New York City, Summer 1963 Rookie beat cop Jack Meara is bleeding out on the dirty floor of a tenement hallway - next to the body of another cop. The eyes of the shooter burned into his memory. Meara watches and waits to see...

Everyone's favorite Thanksgiving-themed mystery anthology is back for a sixth outing, celebrating not just the best in murder-most-fowl short stories (not a turkey among them) but also ten years of Untreed Reads Publishing In addition to enjoying the holiday magic that is bumping off...

Guilty Justice is a story based on true events, although names and locations of the story have been changed. Chevis Hooker, a completer of a special education program in the late 1990's, gets caught up in a grotesque miscarriage of justice in a small...

It was the seventies and the eighties, the Florida Keys, a time of insanity. But at the time, it was the norm. People that if you didn't know any better, you would never have suspected-or believed-that they were running drugs. Prominent people. Businesspeople. Politicians...

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech...

Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties--Florida's fifth mass shooting in as many years--in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize-winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious...

Based on the life and exploits of one of America's most memorable heroes - award-winning author Max Allan Collins delivers a fast-paced, one-two punch of crime and mystery. In 1938 Cleveland, Eliot Ness finds himself in the midst of a racially explosive war between...

THEY COULDN'T BUY NESS OR BREAK HIM...SO THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM.Cleveland's a solid union town, but organized crime has put the squeeze on labor with an extortion ring that doesn't stop at murder. Everyone's on the take--everyone except Eliot Ness, who sets a...

Award-winning author Max Allan Collins has skillfully woven fact and fiction to create a unique mystery series based on the life and exploits of one of America's most memorable heroes, Eliot Ness.The former Untouchable teams up with a rookie cop, a headline-hungry reporter, and...

THE UNTOUCHABLES WAS ONLY THE BEGINNINGIn 1929, Eliot Ness put away Alfonse "Scarface" Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it's 1935...With the Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation,...

Cary Wainwright is just the typical private investigator, solving cases that are laid across his desk when a woman walks in, asking him to clear her brother's name of patricide. The secrets this family has are numerous, and Cary is thrusted into a whole...

PI Harry Kenmare loves gorgeous women, fine wine, and Irish whiskey. And he loves to see justice done. He's old school: results matter, methods don't, and political correctness can go to hell, along with the corrupt Establishment.The seven stories collected here have Harry doing...

Swallow and the legendary Chief Superintendent John Mallon must also work tirelessly to counter espionage and subterfuge by the British secret services, who are hell-bent on destroying Charles Stewart Parnell and the Irish struggle for Home Rule. If Parnell falls, the G-men of Dublin's...

YOU CAN RUN FROM YOUR PAST. BUT YOU CAN'T RUN FROM MURDER. The body is found by the river, near a spot popular with runners.With a serial rapist at work in the area, DI Zigic and DS Ferreira are initially confused when the Hate...

How do you track down a lost teenager, when everyone else who has tried to find her ends up missing or dead? PI Cal Rogan goes to Hong Kong to search for a teenager who disappeared while on vacation. Her brother, who went looking...

Max Carrados is a fictional blind detective in a series of mystery stories and books by Ernest Bramah, first published in 1914. The Max Carrados stories appeared alongside Sherlock Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine. Bramah was often billed above Arthur Conan Doyle, and...

A boy's body is found in bogland: a case as cold as the earth that has hidden it for so long and an echo of Northern Ireland's darkest hours.DI Owen Sheen has sworn to get justice for the unnamed child and digs up links...

25-to-Life IS THE NEW 9-to-5.We spent years working our butts off--and for what? One week's notice and a pathetic severance package? SCREW THAT. It's about time we EXECUTED our own corporate takeover. Let's make our scumbag employers squeal as we BLEED them dry. WE'RE...

Married for three years to a successful businessman, Sage Montgomery is living a lifestyle where financially she wants for nothing. Wade was the man she prayed for: loved her unconditionally, supported her dreams, and treated her like a queen. A man who was loyal,...

Unbalanced Justice is the true story of a 20-year veteran of the Trenton, NJ Fire Dept. who is falsely accused of one of the most gruesome murders in Mercer County where he lives. He awakes one morning to find his photograph on the covers...

With property developers greedy for land to build on, it comes as no surprise that there will be fierce bidding for a site that has just come on the market. Edinburgh's New Town North is how it's being touted.It is widely known that property...

What should have been a routine murder investigation, turns into a deadly nightmare...DI Frank Miller and some of his team are called in by the CID from the Borders when the body of a woman is found crucified in a graveyard.A troupe of actors...

An audacious escape is made by two killers from the High Court in Edinburgh city centre. One is a ruthless Glaswegian gangster, Archie Higgins, being sentenced for the murder of his daughter's killer.The other is Glasgow doctor, Kenneth Conrad, who is thought to have...

A Crime Thriller mixing the worlds of Fashion, Law and the mob. Full of action and intrigue with a dash of romance.Madison thought she knew everything about her best friend Abby. Their friendship was one of trust and she believed they didn't keep secrets...

Edinburgh gangster Adrian Jackson has spent the last 25 years in an American prison, but now he's free and back home.He wants to reclaim what was rightfully his and with the help of his wife, Fiona, nobody's going to stop him.Or so he thinks...DI...

A twisted killer, playing a vicious game. And only he knows the rules...Twenty years ago, DCI Willie Dowd retired on a high, having stopped an elusive serial killer. Dowd killed Colin Harris in self-defense. Case closed.Now, DCI Harry McNeil comes across evidence that suggests...

Film and recording artists the world over are broadcasting from home, doing their share to raise money for COVID-19 relief. And now the literati has picked up the gauntlet.Bestselling and award-winning authors have contributed their short stories and essays to inspire one and all...

Charleston Buzz, a TV reality show, is a train wreck of losers, boozers, womanizers, and ne'er-do-wells. Thing is, the show's as addictive as crack. One day its main character is discovered dead in bed, lacy panties tucked under the covers, his wife a thousand...

In a scorching novel of obsession and revenge, New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton ignites fear in the heart of a woman targeted by a killer who knows her secrets.Forensic psychologist and single mother Ann Bailey has joined forces with Montana Highway Patrol...

Cumbria, 1967. Grieving the loss of her son, Cordelia Hemlock is in a village graveyard when lightning strikes a tumbledown tomb--and gives her a glimpse of a new corpse that doesn't belong among the crumbling bones. But when the body vanishes, the authorities refuse...

Smoke thought he was doing his friend a favor when he agreed to protect a beautiful and intriguing psychiatrist. He is a tough, decorated veteran, and a man of few words. The client, Doctor Olivia Bennet is a psychiatrist who wrote a bestselling book...