Fiction - Crime

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...

For fans of Harper Lee and Rita Mae Brown, Roy Hoffman's new novel is steeped in a sense of place--coastal Alabama--with its rich tapestry of characters caught in a web of justice not for all. Early Praise for The Promise of the Pelican: "Roy...

Grief is the price we pay for love... My name is Lorenzo Moretti. Born to be head of the Cosa Nostra, except that I chose love over my birthright. On our wedding day, my father cursed our union, swearing on his own blood that...

Glasgow 1492. Gil Cunningham remarked later that if he had known he would find a corpse in the university coal house, he would never have gone to the Arts Faculty feast.In this mysterious adventure, Gil Cunningham returns to his old university for the Nicholas...

Book 11 in the Gabriel Hawke SeriesA church fire.An unconscious woman on Starvation Ridge.Gabriel Hawke, fish and wildlife officer with the Oregon State Police, helps with a fire at the Lighted Path church before heading out to check turkey hunters. He discovers a car...

"The Pinned Butterfly is noir of a higher order. Taut, fast-moving, emotional, and filled with surprises. Johnny Mack is a modern-day Robert Stone and this novel is an essential piece of crime fiction." NY Times-bestseller Tod Goldberg, Gangsters Don't Die An anniversary trip to...

New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current Tim Johnston returns with an absorbing new crime novel set in a small Wisconsin town haunted by the unsolved disappearance of three boys in the 1970s. What if? What if Sean Courtland's old Chevy...

When you fly high, you fall hard.A sleazy playboy's private plane crashes in Brooklyn without a pilot, but with six kilos of cocaine on board. The playboy's body washes up on the beach a few days later. Why did he jump out of his...

"Lauren Biel's creation is an exquisite, dark, and twisted masterpiece, crafting a sadistic world that is both captivating and deliciously intense."-Ann-Marie Davis, author of The Harbinger Along for the Ride is a DARK GRAY hitchhiker romance Love is a foreign language for all of...

A NAIL-BITING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WITH ONE OF THE BIGGEST TWISTS YOU'LL READ THIS YEAR.After choir practice for midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead.The last thing she...

From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel...

COMING IN JUNE AS AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL From #1 New York Times bestselling author and hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, this story brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary...

Set against the backdrop of 1930s England, Miss Quinn and Miss Abbott arrive on a perfect little holiday spot, but when one of their hosts is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, they have to ask themselves, was it suicide or murder?...

The prank pact was meant to be fun. Now they just want to live through it.Tulsa, 2006. Jon Ryan and his three best friends spend the final days of their senior year goofing off and taking mushrooms at casino concerts, keeping adulthood at arms'...

On a winter's night, in a grubby alleyway, in a northern town, Josh, a 17-year-old A Level student, is found stabbed to death. The police investigation soon focuses on the four people who were in the alleyway with him that night - Josh's girlfriend,...

On a winter's night, in a grubby alleyway, in a northern town, Josh, a 17-year-old A Level student, is found stabbed to death. The police investigation soon focuses on the four people who were in the alleyway with him that night - Josh's girlfriend,...

In the summer of 1874, a beloved schoolteacher mysteriously goes missing upon closing up school. After a frantic search, the young woman is discovered horribly mutilated in the woods, and authorities question everyone in the small railroad village of St. Albans, Vermont. With the...

Lloyd Stollman is retired from the Dept. of Motor Vehicles. He lives in almost total social isolation in a bungalow of the edge of South Central Los Angeles. His isolation and his sense of being contained by forces beyond his control are so relentless...

The arrival of a meteorite in a small Finnish town causes chaos and crime in this poignant, chilling and hilarious new thriller from the King of Helsinki Noir ***The Times BOOK OF THE YEAR*** ***Shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award*** ***Shortlisted for the...

'A wonderfully entertaining mystery with great characters, setting and period detail.' Ian Moore, bestselling author of Death and Croissants 'A complete joy' Miranda Dickinson 'Best read of the year' Quintin Jardine A village of secretsIt's December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found...

Revenge and murder define Ximena Godoy's story. Her lifetime spans the first half of the 20th century, a transformative time of revolution, economic depression, uprooting and migration. During that time, she witnesses and participates in an era of revolution, bootlegging, dance halls, as well...

When you fly high, you fall hard.A sleazy playboy's private plane crashes in Brooklyn without a pilot, but with six kilos of cocaine on board. The playboy's body washes up on the beach a few days later. Why did he jump out of his...

Shawn Deloro, an outlaw biker from Mexico at 19 returns to his Mother's home town of Louisiana, Missouri in hopes of a new beginning. It's there he meets Maria who takes his breath away with the very sight of her beauty. Their relationship moves...

Comprised of ten thrilling tales, Bunny recounts stories from various times in he and Raffles' lives. In Out of Paradise, Bunny is heartbroken over his ended engagement, which he called off after his fall from social grace to save his fiancé from the shame....

Nick Daniels, intrepid reporter and writer for the Calumet News Service, returns to complete the investigations into the murders of his friend and three of his foes that occurred two years before during five days and nights of bloody chaos on Chicago's southeast side....

Who killed Gwendolyn Paddington?When an extra ticket becomes available to see the dress rehearsal of King Lear, Kellan tags along with Nana D and her buddies. But when one of them dies of an apparent heart attack in the middle of second act, Nana...

"Intense and captivating." -Readers' Favorite"Once again, AJ McCarthy has crafted a masterful mystery." -Mary Ellen Bramwell, author of The Apple of My Eye"[A] clever and engrossing serial-killer story." -Jeffrey James Higgins, author of Furious: Trapped in a Perfect Storm of Terror"Dark, innovative..." -Timothy Gene...

Margaret Dexxman is surprised when she receives a Wordsearch puzzle, but no clue to its contents. Careful examination however, reveals a woman's name, and within hours her body is discovered. Several other puzzles arrive over the next few weeks, and each time a body...

Author: James StewartISBN-10: 149990679XISBN-13: 9781499906790Publisher: Sharper Counsel LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2020Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Lucy Ramos is out for blood--she needs to kill a man, but she has no clue how. Lucy calls on the help of aged hit-man, Tito Garza--also known as El Perro of Pedro. Garza's signature method of killing? Using dogs to maul his targets...

In a region of Brazil that few would recognize lies an arid world of small cities, drought, vultures, rattlesnakes, scorpions, cowboys, rodeos, peasant farmers, university students, dope-heads, schemers, gossips, assassins, kidnappings, corruption and untold wealth. Three women and three men with nothing in common...

'Locked Away' is the first in the DCI Alice Candy series.When Ellie Braintree, a local young woman, goes missing, Detective Chief Inspector Alice Candy knows that she has been taken. And this is no ordinary abduction.Alice uses an uncanny knack she has to tune...

In 1995, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the 22-year-old woman never turned up, dead or alive. Now Bosch is in the Open-Unsolved Unit, where he still keeps the...

The Bodleian Murders is the third collection of short stories, all based around the university city of Oxford. These stories once again cover the range of emotional topics that are skilfully woven into the local landscape from murders motivated by ambition to romance and...

Rick Bolger, one sixteenth Crow Indian, had risen to the position of NYPD detective. He was known among his peers for his tenacity in stalking and bringing law violators to justice. Fellow NYPD detectives, aware of his family history, affectionately called him "The White...

A lost pawn ticket. An old charm bracelet. A secret key. In the hands of Alex Lomax, a wide-boy London market trader transplanted to Berlin, they lead to the greatest secret of WW2 - the order for the extermination of the Jews. Lomax wants...

You never can tell what a big, tough Polish boy will do when he finds a nude blonde in his bathroom. Especially if he is a heavyweight fighter who was born back of the yards, is married to a million dollars, and has a...

The car was hot, and so was the blonde who drove it. A smart shamus like Rusty Forbes should have known better than to hole up with her in a tourist cabin. By the time that little picnic was over, he found himself custodian...

The Confidence-Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence-Man was seen...

The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he...

Veteran officer of the New York City Police Aviation Unit, Richard Rosenthal takes readers into the clouds as he shares details on the nerve-racking and life-saving missions of high-flying cops as they take crime fighting and rescue heroics to a thrilling new level. With...

Scotland is not, like England and Wales, and many countries worldwide, a common law jurisdiction: the Scottish legal system is based in large part on Roman law. Criminal law in Scotland is administered by a Public Prosecutor. The prime holder of this office is...

Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for--with new tales by the best writers of today The fourth issue features the following lineup:...

Get home early tonight. I have a key I stole last time I was there. Don't keep me waiting.The note was lying on the front seat of my car. It was on an engraved card - scented. Deborah Huntington's.I got mad. Who did she...

Broke, recently divorced, and a total deadbeat, Bob Wells has spent his life as a psychiatrist only doing good in the world. When one of his patients with clear paranoid delusions starts to lose a grip, Bob has no choice but to intervene. Emile...

'A cracking thriller and a great female protagonist.' C.J. Tudor, author of Sunday Times Bestseller The Chalk Man 'I couldn't put I, Witness down, this is a 2018 must-read' Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House ************* They say I'm a murderer. Six years...

When a Soviet Ballet company visits LaSalle Harbor, North is given the task of providing security. As his own demons from WWII come to a head, he must solve the murder of one of the dance company's ballerinas before it blows into an International...

She left when she was 16... Lily Fontaine left the club when she was only sixteen after a traumatic event with her ex-boyfriend and club member, Liam "Spice" McCormick. She's always come second to the club as well as her cousin, Elliot, who her...

He's crazy with a heart of gold... Psycho is best known as the wild card of the Deranged Drifters motorcycle club. There are very few tasks that are deemed too crazy or too dangerous for him. Hell, he swam with the current in search...

WHERE EVERY MURDER IS A MASTERPIECE A double murder, a public spectacle, a killer toying with the police. And then, from nowhere, a mysterious woman with a story to tell, a suspect handed to DI Buchan on a plate. ______ It's been a bad...