Fiction - Crime

Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Carter has been a committed lawman for over thirty years. A decorated Vietnam veteran, he was highly regarded as a patriot and a man of indisputable principles. And now, a tragic event has caused him to question his own moral...

"A thrilling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages. Well worth a read." Bestselling author T.A. Williams.The high society wedding...Social media influencer Crystabel Hughes is determined her wedding to Giles Preston Smythe will be the talk of the town. No matter the cost...

Sometimes the job can be peaceful. Sometimes it can be downright violent! Hanna Posner is a woman living off the grid, taking delivery jobs that no one else would dare to do. When she takes a job to deliver a package across the country...

Hate crimes. Missing people. Dark secrets.Vigilante heiress Gia Santella is facing her most dangerous enemy yet.First a hate group infiltrates Gia's San Francisco neighborhood, then a U.C. Berkeley student journalist who is covering the story disappears.Gia's search for the missing student unveils dark secrets...

From the bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive Thriller about a family man with a deadly secret lifeKabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him....

Love has a brother ... and his name is hate.Life was never easy for Marcus, even before his parents' murder/suicide in a seedy trailer park in Florida. Now he's landed in Vegas with his older brother, Mac, hoping to start over. But plans usually...

The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy concludes. We've traversed the interlocked conspiracies of the decade and are there for the wind-up and swan songs. Blood's A Rover takes us into the seventies. MLK and RFK are dead. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago has spawned chaos....

For seven months a serial killer stalked the streets of Lake Side City. He struck at random, targeting victims of all ages and sexes. Because of his mercurial M.O. and use of a scythe, the media dubbed him The Mad Reaper. Too cunning and...

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late...

When a prisoner is shot to death in a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician...

Gail Bowen, winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel for her last Joanne Kilbourn mystery, A Colder Kind of Death, is back - with her most daring mystery to date. In the horrifying opening paragraph of A Killing Spring, Reed...

Is there a killer on the Cornish coast?One high-profile case. No leads. No witnesses... And no body.D.I. Rachel Morrison is overworked and under pressure. She needs to get results.Local people have been reported missing and the public, and her bosses, want answers...In an idyllic...

Luke loves his Nana, his girlfriend Sylvia, and his cool new job at Eliminator Sanitation. But when his roommate gets a grown-up job in Vancouver, and his parents move to Peachland, he is forced to face the harsh realities of adulthood. And to make...

Loyalty means nothing in the lawless fight for control. Can a kid with plenty to prove survive in a brutal gangland? Box set: 1,000+ pages of a hard-hitting, gritty descent into the most dangerous corners of crime. Leeds, England, 1997. Lamont Jones is tired...

'Suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric rural crime; a riveting debut.' - Michaela Lobb, Sisters in Crime AustraliaWhat will they risk for answers?Picturesque Daylesford has a darker side. Melbourne writer Georgie Harvey heads to the mineral springs region in central Victoria to look for a missing farmer,...

Two dead teens. A case gone cold. A twisted tangle of clues and dead ends.One Dark Night... Geeze, was that ever a doozy of a case? See? It was April first, 1998 when the bodies of two teenagers, a young fella and his girlfriend,...

A poignant and quirky insight into the lives of three lifelong friends and their unbreakable loyalty in the face of lifes challenges and the inevitable fate of one of them. There is one thing they have left to do for their friend, which requires...

** The Craig Crime Novels can be read out of sequence or as standalone novels.Location briefs and character biographies are included at the back of each book. ** About the book When a body is found in an unusual location near Belfast's Cave Hill,...

The body of a young woman is found in the marshes of L.A.'s Ballona Creek. As with most murders Detectives John Testarossa and Alex Ortiz are asked to solve, this one makes no sense.When a second body is found, and then a third, the...

Author E. W. Hornung is perhaps best remembered for creating the unforgettably raffish criminal mastermind, Raffles. In the novel The Crime Doctor, Hornung flips the script and takes a hard look at crime from the other side of the equation. Doctor John Dollar is...

"There's a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he's one to watch . . . Urban libraries have to get Got." --Library Journal, Starred ReviewThere's a young man living in the infamous Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. He is an orphaned college...

Harry Rigby is right there, an eye-witness when Finn Hamilton walks out into the big nothing nine stories up, but no one wants to believe Finn is just the latest statistic in Ireland's silent epidemic. Not Finn's mother, Saoirse Hamilton, whose property empire is...

March, 1919. DI Hardcastle must find Lily, the missing daughter of Austen Musgrave MP. Hardcastle, aided by DS Marriott, discovers that Lily provides risqué entertainment for ex-officers. When she returns home of her own accord, Hardcastle assumes the case is closed. But Lily goes...

One late evening in the year 1 AD, Senior Constable Gidon of the Bethlehem Town Watch begins what should be a routine crime investigation. Three chests of treasure given by visiting scholars to a newborn boy they believe is the long-awaited Messiah are stolen...

When violence sweeps through their town, the Men of Hell must figure out who's after their club. Someone is watching Romeo Barrigan's every move. Chloe Matsumoto's favorite pastime is studying the Men of Hell Motorcycle Club's president. Ever since he helped rescue her deaf...

"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its jagged edges." Herman Melville's Billy Budd is a work of fiction that delves into philosophical questions such as justice, law and destiny. It tells the story of an illegitimate orphan who grows into a charismatic and ambitious...

Leyendecker tells the story of Mr. December-a cynical man whose barren outlook on Redtown shrouds his life in misery-as he reflects on his life, both past and present. After a chance encounter at a local nightclub, he soon finds himself in the powerful embrace...

Switching jobs from federal agent to suburban deputy police chief should mean rubber chicken lunches and golf every Friday. But, when a judge and her daughter are gunned down, Harry Cork must hunt their killer...and his investigation leads from the quiet 'burbs to the...

The Golden Spoon was strictly for suckers. Located a block north of the river in a renovated three-story building, it sported a white-and-red striped canopy which stretched from plate-glass door to curb, a huge tri-colored neon sign which flashed Follies Parisienne-Twenty Beautiful Girls-No Cover...

J.D. Scrbacek has just won the biggest trial of his career, but even as he crows to the press, his entire life blows sky-high. Was the bomb meant for him, or for his mobster client? In this seaside casino town where the tables run...

In this "toughly courageous, unflinching, and unapologetic" (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, "takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even...

Grady Williams was on top of the world. Raised by middle class parents in a small town in Tennessee, he became a successful Wall Street investment banker. His picture was common, not only on the front page of the business section of the New...

The Kingdom of Killain -- that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the crossroads of the world. The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make -- all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his turf --...

One piece of mail brings his whole world crumbling down... When Brock Bradshaw receives the wedding invitation for Summer Griffin, he feels the stabbing pain of regret and despair. He gave up the love of his life years ago for her own good, and...

In this thrilling installment of the Clayton White series, the former Secret Service agent must sift through layers of deception to uncover the truth behind the FBI director's assassination and avert a global catastrophe.Fighting the fentanyl epidemic in the United States is a top...

The new compelling mystery featuring Anglophile Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired policeman Alan Nesbitt ...Dorothy Martin's husband, Alan Nesbitt, is heavily involved in the complex and lengthy process of choosing a new bishop for Sherebury Cathedral. The very day that the short list...

The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston's ruling families arranges to...

WILL A MISSING WOMAN BE FOUND BEFORE IT'S TOO LATESheriff Dell Hinton returns with a missing persons case that plagues his every waking hour. A young woman has disappeared in his rural county of Downeast Maine. She may have run away but the possibility...

The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling "cerebral, immersive" (The Washington Post) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm. For more than a year, Emil...

What would you do if you stumbled upon a conversation that could cost you your life? For Alberto Capuano, this is precisely what happens. After eavesdropping on a conversation that reveals a dark conspiracy involving the Mafia, the Catholic Church, and money laundering, Alberto...

Although murders can and do happen aboard U.S. Navy vessels, it is unheard of that a Skipper or Captain of a U.S. naval vessel would come up missing, let alone be murdered at the hands of the crew member. Three naval officers are charged...

When a killer dog and a toddler are found sitting precariously near I-65 in Kentucky, they are taken to what appears to be a working farm, or is it? To the neighboring town, the farm is business as usual, Hay and cattle, but something...

In the early morning hours of December 6, 2004, a killer fled an apartment complex in West Knoxville as a young woman bravely fought for her life. Her strength failed her at the bottom of the stairs of the apartment building after she'd banged...

A COZY MURDER MYSTERY SET IN A PICTURESQUE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE. Suzy Spencer is branching out - she's working with local retiree gardeners on a podcast about rewilding the graveyard garden in Norbridge. But a body is found in a wheelie bin and chaos begins...

The house is deathly silent as the summer sun starts to creep in through the dusty windows. The children should be waking up, the parents should be cooking breakfast. But they all lay still, their heads on their pillows, lifeless eyes staring at nothing,...

Spurred by her husband's infidelity, writer/college lecturer Valerie Hawthorne has a romantic encounter with a compelling stranger in a rustic river-side hotel. They agree it will be a one-time thing, but it becomes an extended nightmare when she discovers the meeting was not accidental....

This is the second book featuring our protagonist Cid Radley as he continues to transport a nuclear weapon back to its original owner. The bomb is being sailed home aboard an unsuspecting cruise ship. But word may have gotten out that a secret package...

Within the last year, acclaimed fashion designer, Carmen Davenport, has witnessed the ups and downs of being romantically linked to one of New York's most prominent men. On the heel of her engagement to Jay Santiago, a Puerto Rican businessman, she learns her oldest...

Leyland Denton must discover the cause of suspicious deaths among heirs of the ten million dollar Norton estate. Do fatalities on both sides of the lawsuit arise from the bitter family feud? And what's the Al Capone connection? To what lengths will Wisconsin Attorney...

High adventure in the sands of North Africa It is often claimed that Under Two Flags is the first-and possibly most famous-in a series of French Foreign Legion novels. It has been filmed and the images it conjures of sweating foot slogging legionnaires are...