Fiction - Crime

Victoria Dahl is a self-made multi-billionaire who owns, is CEO of, and is the major stockholder for Dahl Haus Cyber Systems, Inc. in Silicon Valley. She made her startup capital as an operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. Any task that seemed impossible was...

It is 1989 when the dean of the political economics department at Yale University is murdered and dismembered. Are members of Yale's secret society, Skull & Bones, responsible for the gruesome death of Anton Ainsley and, if so, why? When the investigation goes cold,...

An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize...

In Burning Ambition a burnt-out prison van with three pre-murdered bodies inside doesn't make sense. Especially as one of the bodies wasn't a prisoner and should not even be there. Why would these three be killed and what has it to do with the...

Embark on an electrifying journey through the realms of the living and the dead in "Sometimes Things Break," a heart-pounding paranormal time travel thriller that will shatter your perceptions of life, death, and everything in between.Meet Buck, a man caught between two worlds -...

With only months to live because of terminal lung cancer, Marcus Gostin is ready to confess his secret to the entire world. He is the person responsible for the frightening and unsolved disappearances of local women - known informally as the "Lake Tahoe Ten"...

Ted Darling was about to kill a man. For the first time in his life...You've never met a copper like Ted Darling. He's small, quiet. He doesn't smoke. He's packed in the booze. But he's a Specialist Firearms Officer. With black belts in four...

When he acts in the name of God, his victims' faith could be their demise.When a young woman is found dead on her bed, dressed in an old-fashioned nightgown with her hands clasped in a prayer position, Detective Kate Murphy is called to investigate...

Organising a fete ought to be a piece of cake...Pippa Parker is desperate to take charge of the Much Gadding summer fete at Higginbotham Hall. When she gets the nod, she's delighted. However, when things start going wrong, a missing celebrity is just the...

Rutherford's New Science businesses are being targeting in a string of office break-ins and threatening notes left by an environmental group. But curiosity turns to alarm when a lead scientist is found dead at his desk. Is the professor's death really to do with...

Good music, fine dining and comfortable surroundings - that's how the Hotel Continental is advertised. Fraud, blackmail, torture and murder - that's what it becomes famous for. The popular hotel on the English coast built its reputation on its Viennese cuisine and Austrian style...

When Maigret's .45 revolver is stolen from his home, he becomes embroiled in a murder in which the gun may have played a deadly role. Maigret is the victim of a burglary in which the .45 revolver he had received as a gift from...

For decades, a string of grisly, unsolved murders has devastated the Florida Keys. Sailors whisper tales of a pitiless seafarer known only as The Man of the Sea who prowls the nearby waters, carving his hostages into fishing bait before ebbing back into the...

Maigret is cajoled out of retirement by a case involving an old classmate in book 26 of the new Penguin Maigret series. All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that...

Author: Clifton AdamsISBN-10: 1515426270ISBN-13: 9781515426271Publisher: Black Curtain PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 150Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

An Amazon Charts bestseller.It takes more than a lie to hide the dark secrets of this picture-perfect family.When the granddaughter of one of Florida's most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own...

The brand new action-packed gangland thriller from Kerry Kaya!An eye for an eye...Once the top dog, Danny Mckay has walked away from his old gangland life. He's on the straight and narrow now, looking forward to settling down and living a quiet life.But trouble...

A locked room in a castle contains a dead body. Or does it?Trapped in a medieval wine ch穰eau, a fierce snowstorm raging outside. This is not how I imagined celebrating the Beaujolais Nouveau. A sparkling extravaganza had seemed the perfect escape from ordinary life...

"A cleverly plotted and thoroughly enjoyable book about dark deeds in beautiful places."--Elly GriffithsWelcome to the coastal paradise of Porthpella, where murder lurks among the dunes...Late one night, a distraught young man knocks on the door of retired and recently widowed Ally Bright's remote...

An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. The Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines the meaning of murder in the twenty-first century. When...

BIG ISLAND, L.A. In Big Island, L.A., a unique successor to the cult crime classic by Boston Teran, Never Count Out the Dead, a former combat Marine and a crime columnist embark on a suicide mission on the battlefield of L.A. --a city of...

Collected here for the first time are Davidson's remarkable mystery tales, including: the 1840s murder investigations of New York's chief constable, Jacob Hays; a sinister lesson in New England thrift; a bride who disappears on her wedding day; a slavetrader and a deal gone...

From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark RideSometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare...

In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father--who was taken into witness protection years ago--before his enemies can get to him.Your dad's...

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy--and an entertaining national obsession--in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crimeSara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick,...

Killing the Taxman is a thrilling sequel to 'Dead Girl Found' and 'I Know It Was You, ' continuing the interlinked stories of DCI Grace Swan and Chloe Macbeth.Grace now faces a new threat: a ruthless serial killer who also has Grace in his...

ONE MISSING BOY. Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the...

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME - 20 UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHARLES ARDAI"A MASTER OF THE SHORT STORY." - STEPHEN KING Since debuting 20 years ago, Hard Case Crime has won acclaim for publishing the best in hardboiled crime...

It's no secret we need water to survive. But what if the water that's coming from your sink can kill you on the spot? When two men from very different Albany neighborhoods die identical gruesome deaths from drinking their own tap water, the APD...

Just learning of her gifts, a sensitive is visited by Norman, a man who went missing after a night at The Cabin Bottle Club on Dale Mabry Highway, in downtown Tampa, back in 1991. After his pleas for help, Isabella agrees to make the...

Can everyone s favourite insurance mathematician, Henri, combine the increasingly dangerous world of adventure parks with the unpredictability of blended-family life? He s about to find out in the final instalment of the hilarious, nail-biting Rabbit Factor Trilogy. A joyous, triumphant conclusion to Tuomainen...

Who killed the Woman in the Wine?It's a question that has haunted the village for over thirty years, but the woman's daughter is convinced I, Julie Belmain, can come up with an answer.No one cares that I have the worst cold ever. And no...

They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions. You know by now, my name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die....

Will Penelope's new beginning lead to her end? After living in a verbally abusive relationship for the past six years, twenty-seven-year-old Penelope Barlow has finally found the courage to leave. In the wee hours of night, she wakes her five-year-old daughter to play a...

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it"...

I watched her from afar ever since she was born. I knew from the moment my eyes spied her that she was the one: the one I needed, the one I had searched for so very long. My careful planning and sacrifices would all...

A series of perplexing murders leaves investigators puzzled. A man is shot in front of witnesses, but no one sees the gunman. When a similar murder occurs, fear of a serial killer grows. Private investigator Niki Dupre, a former student of one victim, joins...

Author: Gillian JacksonISBN-10: 150408344XISBN-13: 9781504083447Publisher: Bloodhound BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2023Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.62d

When Lauren Avery accepted a job at a restoration company, she never expected to be caught up in a deadly conspiracy. Her boss, Grant, had been framed for killing his wife. The evidence against him was strong, and he was facing serious jail time.Lauren...

After experiencing an unlikely run-in with death during the winter of 2003, in Louisiana, Travis and his uncle Alvin unknowingly pull very dangerous people into their lives. This experience follows them many years later into their futures, culminating in a meeting with an uncanny...

Former Manchester gang member, Alex Robateau, is now living the good life as groundsman at an exclusive Surrey sports club. The handsome 28-year-old enjoys the raunchy attentions of bored wealthy women, as well as the affections of young Carla, back from university. Set during...

Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Prof. James Moriarty - wily, snake- like, fiercely intelligent, unpredictable - and Colonel Sebastian 'Basher' Moran - violent, politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police...

In a hospital bed, small-time private detective Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium. But before the accident that landed him there, he'd been hired to find Rose Janko, the estranged daughter of a traveling Gypsy family, who went missing seven years earlier.Half Romany...

From the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit comes a chilling contemporary thriller about an enigmatic hunter on the trail of a Nazi who has secretly continued his devilish work here in America. Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They...

Early one morning in the seaside resort of Whitley Bay, the lifeless body of a young girl, Sophie Washington, is found brutally murdered - her face mutilated beyond recognition. Back on active duty after being shot, DI Jack Brady is struggling to deal with...

LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch's "white whale"--a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. Discover more thrilling Bosch mysteries in the original Freevee series Bosch: Legacy. A year has passed...

"A tour-de-force! The pace is relentless, the plot smart, his new lead character, Nick Ryan, is a hero for the times...Reed is a brilliant storyteller." -- Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling authorWhen you're in trouble, you call 911.When cops are in trouble,...

"Breakage is one of the year's best crime thrillers." - BestThrillers.com (2023 Best Thrillers Book Awards Finalist)"Forget trips to Vegas! Breakage takes you on a gambling adventure with horse racing, spine-chilling crime, and an intriguingly gifted and dysfunctional family. Readers who love crime, mystery,...

The gripping new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a...

Now I've killed another person. I'm a serial killer. Sure, two people is hardly serial, but it's a good start. I'm still young. Who knows where opportunities might lead me? Opportunity makes the thief, or the murderer, or even the pastry chef. It's well...