Fiction - Crime

Spring, 1941. The Second World War has entered a dangerous phase, with British ships being torpedoed in the Atlantic and nightly bombing raids on major ports. At Bletchley Park, top secret home of the nation's code-breakers, the race is on to crack the German...

A young woman who has done nothing wrong gets successfully blackmailed by a nefarious couple.Excerpt: She pulls out a large manila envelope and hands it to me."What's this?""Our new hobby, Max and me, compromising photos. You definitely need to see them."Curious, I open it...

Roger Grimes was once a thief. Wanting out of that life, he is struggling to run his own investigation business in Daytona Beach, Florida. A local successful lawyer, named Willis Sanford, hires Grimes to help an old friend locate his missing daughter, a runaway...

THE FIRST THREE NOVELLAS IN A DETECTIVE WILLOUGHBY SERIES IN ONE VOLUME. THE FIRST MURDERAUTUMN REMAINSKILLER MEMORIES FOLLOW DETECTIVE RILEY WILLOUGHBY THROUGH HER FIRST THREE KILLER CASES. THE QUIET TOWN OF WOODLAKE HAS NEVER WITNESSED SUCH HORRORS. WITH HER PARTNER, JAKE MAXWELL, SHE WILL...

A holiday on the picturesque island of Alderney leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for American Anglophile Dorothy Martin.When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, decide to visit the beautiful island of Alderney in the English Channel, they hope...

The con is on.Prewitt Patry is an expert in European art and antiquities, and he used to be the best con artist in New York City. But fate has left him divorced and broke, with his glory days behind him.Then a golden opportunity falls...

The City of Reno is enjoying their once a year classic car event called KOOL KLASSIC NIGHTS. Reno City Officials are unaware that there is a group of terrorists who have been looking forward KOOL KLASSIC NIGHTS. They have a plan that not only...

There is no escape from murder for Gia Santella.All Gia ever wanted was to live a normal life...But destiny has other plans.From the moment a killer took her family away from her, Gia has fought tooth and nail against a looming destiny she's been...

Gia Santella and Rosalie have fallen into domestic life at an estate outside Mexico City, where the seemingly endless days are long, lazy, and luxurious.The sun-drenched days seem as if they will last forever. Even though Gia must return to San Francisco when Rosalie's...

Dr B. MacRannoch is in the Bahamas with her father who has moved there from Scotland because of asthma. She is a savvy and tough young woman who shows much independence of mind and spirit.However, when Sir Bart Edgecome, a British agent who has...

Rita, a small, tough Scottish make-up artist is on Madeira trying to find out who killed Kim-Jim, an American make-up supremo. Also anchored off the island is Dolly, the yacht of Johnson Johnson with whom Rita teams up to get to the bottom of...

A thought-provoking mystery about the intersection of faith and rationality. Walker, an emotionally frigid scientist, is propelled by the mysterious murder of his sister into an exploration of a world of alternative spiritual viewpoints-mingled with the grim reality of a brutal murder. In the...

Now that her boyfriend is in a Witness Protection program in San Diego, Gia has decided to spend a little more time enjoying perfect weather, endless sunshine, and gorgeous beaches.Her new tranquility is a stark contrast to her busy San Francisco life.But beneath the...

A killer stalks the night and two detectives are hoping to find them before they strike again. Author: A. a. MercerISBN-10: 8223312832ISBN-13: 9798223312833Publisher: A.A. MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/03/2023Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d

A knight's brutal death exposes political intrigue and romantic rivalries at a Renaissance fair. Detectives Sara and Ryker are worlds apart. She's a former wilderness adventure racer; he's overweight and never left the city. Both are dealing with their own past traumas and losses....

In 1969, a home-made bomb explodes in the sleazy heart of Brisbane's Fortitude Valley, killing eleven people, and igniting a controversy that could threaten the government itself. When small-time criminal Johnny Arnold is charged, his fight for justice sets two men - father, then...

MGySgt. Travis Tolbane, retired United States Marine Corps, started his thirty-year Marine Corps career in Parris Island, South Carolina, as most marines did. He worked hard, earned respect from all, and earned his promotions, some meritorious. While serving in Viet Nam, he became trusted...

A fast paced thriller by the author of Empire Man, this crime novel explores the Russian mob and its thieves.Author: Michael DirubioISBN-10: 0997086041ISBN-13: 9780997086041Publisher: Michael DirubioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2017Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.88d

BECAUSE HOMICIDE BEGINS AT HOME Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no...

Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been acclaimed as "ambitious . . . filled with brilliantly drawn characters, mesmerizingly readable, and disturbingly convincing" by the Sunday Telegraph. An electrifying thriller in the tradition...

The Wrong Road Home is a story of treachery and deceit inspired by true events. It's the larger-than-life story of a surgeon who successfully practiced for 20 years--first in Ireland and then the United States--girded with nothing more than a Chicago School System GED...

Bestseller Wambaugh's entertaining third Hollywood Station novel (after Hollywood Crows) provides lots of laughs and gasps from all of your favorite characters. There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast -- rather than the best -- in the...

The New York Times hails David Mark's work as "in the honorable tradition of Joseph Wambaugh and Ed McBain." DARK WINTER is the first book in the internationally acclaimed Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series. A series of suspicious deaths have rocked Hull, a port...

From USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe comes a spicy Anastasia story full of secrets and betrayal, set among the glittering streets of New York City's Gilded Age.In 1880 a baby was stolen from the wealthiest family in America. Though no ransom was ever...

Now it's personal... DCI Evan Warlow believes that murder is a cardinal sin. Even when the victim is a drug dealing, money-laundering criminal. But when a police officer is shot in the same incident at a tranquil beach near Tenby in South Pembrokeshire... Suddenly...

Longlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, bestselling author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series."John Marrs's creative, high-concept thrillers never fail to keep me furiously turning the pages."--Sarah Pearse"John Marrs...

A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder, and Jack Swyteck's client--a pop music icon--is the accused killer.Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack...

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....

When a genius pianist turned hunter of serial killers finds herself linked to her latest victim by a startling coincidence, her life enters a chilling vortex. Entangled in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with a tenacious FBI agent, she is also thrust into a dangerous...

WINNER OF SWEDEN'S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARD On the idyllic island of land, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of...

MEET DETECTIVE KATE HAMBLIN IN THIS BESTSELLING SERIES FROM A FORMER POLICE OFFICER.Six old friends. A weekend in a country hotel. A ruthless killer among them.Detective Kate and her husband Hayden are on their way home from a romantic mini-break when a ferocious storm...

"A gritty FBI Thriller with jaw-dropping twists. King's portrayal of the convoluted world of cross-border criminality, politics and business feels completely fresh." - BestThrillers.com A junior official with the Mexican Consulate in Houston is abducted, his $600,000 automobile left abandoned in a pharmacy parking...

"Omigosh! I've just found an author to put on my list of I've got to read everything they ever wrote! The Warden is a gem of the first order. Aelis is my hero."--Glen Cook, author of The Black Company A Recommended Reading List Pick...

Three men gathered in an up-class night club bar. Each has a chequered past that they can't escape from. They agreed to meet when released from prison. The plan was in front of them. A plan to steal millions from a holding bank, one...

Author: Katherine BlackISBN-10: 1504085183ISBN-13: 9781504085182Publisher: Bloodhound BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2023Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.58d

A bold new standalone thriller involving Swiss watch timing, nerves of steel, and ten million dollars in cold hard Wall Street cash, from the longtime James Patterson coauthor.It's summer in New York City and Faye Walker has it all. She's not only scored one...

Detective Inspector Ron Scott of K Division, Greenock, Police Scotland, and his team are investigating a series of murders committed by a killer they are calling 'The Gardener.' Curiously, the victims have been murdered by a perpetrator who uses common garden tools as his...

Carmella always knew she would find the love of her life in an exotic foreign country. But there's a deadly catch to it, in "Souvenir". Watching archaeologists unearth a mummified Iron Age corpse from a Danish bog gives a college professor an idea...how to...

Death in Colaba Bay is a thrilling tale of Victorian Bombay, a city where dreams are realized, and nightmares are lived. BOMBAY 1898. In the bustling and modern port city of Bombay-home to great wealth and great deprivation-crime is ever present. Three young girls...

Security chief for a private airport sounded like the perfect job for Ross Coe. Washed-out fighter pilot at 24, retired military cop at 30, and Private Investigator at 40, he has a chance to begin again on the home airfield he left twenty years...

This book is about the missing women of the West Mesa in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a fiction book written by Southwest author Todd Hemming. This book gives a possible scenario of what might have happened to these women and who were the...

At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March,...

When governments won't help, when the police are out of leads, and when people are out of answers, there's only one man left they can turn to. The Extractor.Luke Bridge is a former CIA agent and his clients current last hope. Whether the job...

Action, drama, unexpected twists and turns, murderers, assassins, bounty hunters, one world order government, a shocking past, and a future of uncertainty. A bounty hunter's story that will keep you reading. After the end of World War III. A bounty hunter while seeking vengeance...

Cozy crime stories set in and around libraries by the following authors: Aislinn Batsone, Albert Tucher, Amy Ballard, Anne-Marie Sutton, Barbara SchlichtingDB Critchley, Deborah Lacy & Pat Hernas, Edward Ahern, Gwenda R. JensenJacqueline Seewald, Janet Raye Stevens, Jennie MacDonald, Kate FellowesJosh Pachter & John...

Meet Justice, a half-black, half-Filipino goddess whose appetite for a quick dollar is insatiable. Having moved from Chi-town to Charlotte, North Carolina at an early age, Justice and her younger brother, Monk decide to take the streets of the Queen City by storm. All...

Crime pays. So barmaid Sandra thinks when she overhears details of a betting scam and wins herself and fat husband Mike eighty thousand pounds. But they've reckoned without mugger Lenny, lying in wait outside the betting shop door. And he's reckoned without a top-notch...

A woman witnesses a killer's handiwork in the most intimate way... a man finds out that playing with fire doesn't pay... and beware of the chair that you sit in Killing Time: Short Stories for the Midnight Hour is a book of twelve devilishly...

Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates--short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead.Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly...

Written by one of the most popular and widely acclaimed mystery novels writer in English - Agatha Christie, the present novel, The secret adversary, is a detective novel. It introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and...