Fiction - Crime

A new translation of Georges Simenon's sensational tale of deceit and back-stabbing in an isolated community, part of the new Maigret series. She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like...

Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, part of the new Maigret series. There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quivering nervously at the slightest word, were...

The classic Danish thriller dubbed 'The First Crime Novel.' The trial of Pastor S ren Jensen Quist of Vejlby took place at Aarhus in 1626. The trial centered around the unexplained disappearance in 1607 of a farm laborer named Jesper Hovgaard who was employed...

Fugitive financier John Rudiger has lived a lush life in Antigua for eleven years, but now the local officials are demanding ever more exorbitant payouts to maintain his cover. And since his ex-girlfriend Katie Dolan swindled him out of his last $30 million, Rudiger...

The third exciting crime thriller in Michael Pearces Dead Man series. Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to somewhere so exotic as North Africa? Isn't the death of a Frenchman there something for the local police? Well, yes and no. The local police...

A Man with Nothing LeftFormer detective Landon Rowe has lost everything-his child, his wife, his career. He's a man without purpose, but he's always believed in doing what's right, even helping his ex's husband.A Cop with Something to ProveRowe's ex-wife has fled with her...

The Robin Hood Virus is a computer and cellphone virus that is totally undetectable. Weuse the Robin Hood Virus to infect thecomputers of hackers and large corporationswho are breaking the law. We donate the proceeds to well-deserving charities such ashomeless shelters, food banks, and...

From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER For American radiologist Peter Ross, it sounded like the perfect vacation: deliver one study in Spain and then spend the rest of his time on a Mediterranean beach. But he wasn't planning on meeting Angela Locke,...

"One of Australia's most interesting next-gen crime writers."SYDNEY MORNING HERALD"Iain Ryan has learned the lessons of the modern maestros James Ellroy, Ken Bruen and James Sallis, but his poetry and cadence is completely Australian."PETER DOYLEAn ex-con circles back to L.A. and knows it is...

Aria Taylor has always been told she wasn't good enough. After one horrible night, Aria has had enough. She's determined to lose the weight that people find so ugly. Grant has proven himself time and time again, but his brother has placed his ass...

At last, the incredible account of Sherlock Holmes' investigation into the brutal murder of Canon Alfred Lilly and the secrets of the Jericho Manuscript can finally be published. Although Holmes' faithful friend, Dr. John Watson, gave strict instructions that his account should not be...

Featuring established and new literary voices comes the eigth issue of Thriller Magazine!---This issue features short stories that will leave readers on the edge of their seat. Showcasing a wide range of tales, everything from psychological thrillers, to brutal tales of murder, to political...

A body locked in a car is recovered from Jordan River, Salt Lake City. The find sparks an investigation by homicide Detective Harriet Sullivan that will endanger her life. She is drawn into a web of corrupt police, corporate bosses and US Government officials...

The mystery that launched Gary Phillips's career: Black private eye Ivan Monk investigates the murder of a Korean shop owner in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. This reissued edition features an introduction by Walter Mosley. In 1992, Los Angeles burned. In...

The troubles of two desperate families--one white, one Mexican American--converge in the ruthless underworld of an Arkansas chicken processing plant in this new thriller from the award-winning author of DON'T KNOW TOUGH Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer...

Book 2 deals with heightened insurrection in Cape Town in 1985-1986 during an intense period of police brutality, adding to the dangers of those living in the Cape Flats segregated townships. The action results in several deaths during the Pollsmoor march to release Mandela,...

BRAND NEW FROM DANIELLE RAMSAYFive women; pretty, privileged, perfect, and ultimately protected... but not for long...It was 'their' dark secret. For twenty-two-years 'they' kept it buried. Time hasn't healed my wounds. Instead, they've festered. Their actions went unpunished. Until now...Shamed, scarred, and shunned, I...

There are snakes in the post office.Ambitious young reporter Kate Brennan thought she had found a tranquil paradise. Instead, a fateful meeting with Lena Clarke, the spinster postmistress of West Palm Beach, Florida, entangles Kate in Lena's mysterious and delusional life. Clarke's obsession with...

Deadrise House Preceded by a disturbing nightmare, stage actor and former Tangier Island, Virginia resident Holdon Haynes begins a few weeks of down time in Annapolis, Maryland. Soon into his trip, he's informed fellow actor D.H. Walt has disappeared from a movie set in...

AS THE TEMPERATURE DROPS, THE BODY COUNT RISES.Firefighters race to put out a blaze at a remote farmhouse. They discover two young girls alone in the house.Their mother is gone - and in her place is the dead body of a man, frozen naked...

"I want you to solve my murder," said the woman in white.Rachel Savernake gave a sardonic smile. "Quite a challenge."The woman in white--surreal artist Damaris Gethin--has invited a select group to the opening of her exhibit "Artist in Crime," held in the eerie subterranean...

Growing up in a town run by organized crime, with a father involved in organized crime, "the life" was all Sal ever knew. Well, that, plus what he learned watching '80s sitcoms and movies. But sometimes life throws changes at you that force you...

Detective Daniel Lawson is a man with a singular focus - catching the Red Parchment Killer. The city is in the grip of a series of gruesome murders marked by red parchment paper, and the killer's cryptic messages become increasingly personal, referencing Daniel's past...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame. 'Beautifully written and a fascinating insight...

Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains...

MEET DETECTIVE ALICE ROSSI IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW BRITISH CRIME SERIES FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS.A brand-new mystery from #1 bestselling author Helen H. Durrant that will have you gripped from start to explosive finish.Day 1. A young woman's body is found in a shallow...

In a world where serial killers are usually isolated and disconnected, The Snuff Syndicate provides an online forum made for them, by them. For members, social media is a tool to share pure, murder-filled ecstasy. Killing is a business of painstaking details, and every...

Candy, a multi-talented young prostitute, and her best friend, Gina, create a triangle of sex, drugs and dollars while seducing a wealthy dentist. Meanwhile, Candy's violent, abusive father and his partners wreak havoc through murder, grand theft and blackmail. Ultimately, these two worlds collide...

Having recently joined the snooty Birch Lane Tennis Club, DS Clyde Northcott - DCI Peach's tall, black, powerful protégé - finds that his rusty tennis skills are the least of his concerns. For when a distinguished club member is murdered, how can Northcott and...

The latest intriguing mystery featuring feisty antiques dealer Lina Townend. It's a busy weekend for Lina: she wins a dance competition, annoys a valuable client and has to play gooseberry when Griff, her business partner, meets an old flame. Killing time, she drives across...

A BRAND-NEW CRIME THRILLER SET ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND. A box of treasure. A burned body and an old flame. Detective Inspector Andy Horton arrives at Portsmouth CID to find a rusty, old metal box on his desk. It was found in...

Matt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn't guarantee a quiet life. An abandoned carpet bag full of mysterious handwritten notes. A body in a marshy lagoon. Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag...

A brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war.On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with...

Another ideal tale for listeners trying to outthink primary investigator, Fleming Stone, who uses logical deductions to nab greatly unexpected murderers. This follows The Clue: Fleming Stone Mystery #1; The Gold Bag: Fleming Stone Mystery #2; A Chain of Evidence: Fleming Stone Mystery #3;...

Return to the Daniel Byrd Adventures in the third installment, Self-Rescue.As a GBI agent, Daniel Byrd works all kinds of cases north of Atlanta, Georgia-drugs, corrupt officials, and murder to name a few. But what he doesn't expect is to find himself tangled in...

The Dance of Death, is the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who is confined in a brothel called Noorgunj. The psychopath who runs this brothel is no less than a devil. It is also the story of a young boy, Sri, who was mocked...

"A thrilling murder mystery that kept me turning the pages. Well worth a read." Bestselling author T.A. Williams.A failing hotel...With its reputation in tatters, Alexi Ellis is determined to save her beloved Hopgood Hall from any more bad press. A writing course for wannbe...

Hard-up dressmakers' assistant Chloe Dane yearns for a new life. But when her mysterious relative Mitchell Dane dies, leaving her the ancestral home of her family, and the secret combination to the safe hidden behind the Chinese black lacquer cabinet in the drawing room,...

Hard-up dressmakers' assistant Chloe Dane yearns for a new life. But when her mysterious relative Mitchell Dane dies, leaving her the ancestral home of her family, and the secret combination to the safe hidden behind the Chinese black lacquer cabinet in the drawing room,...

'The Norwegian Chandler' Jo Nesb 'One of my very favourite Scandinavian authors' Ian Rankin'Staalesen's most striking novel' IndependentMORE THAN FIVE MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE September 1995. A phone call takes Verg Veum back 25 years to a case from when he was a working...

Pre-order the BRAND NEW story from Gillian GoddenThe Lambrianus are back, and they are badder than ever.Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Adam Lambrianu understands only too well the fearsome family legacy he's inherited. He only wants to make his family proud,...

Another ideal tale for listeners trying to outthink primary investigator, Fleming Stone, who uses logical deductions to nab greatly unexpected murderers. This follows The Clue: Fleming Stone Mystery #1; The Gold Bag: Fleming Stone Mystery #2; A Chain of Evidence: Fleming Stone Mystery #3;...

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...

Welcome to Shepherds Pass A new town. An alley with multiple dead bodies and partner that needs a babysitter more than anything else. Still Detective Lavon Tyler's biggest fear was whether he could leave behind what caused him to run to this town.Author: Alex...

Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he's meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony...

"Seraphim is a thrilling page-turner, as well as a deeply humane investigation into the many forms of justice. It will make you look at the world differently---as much as a book could hope to do." - Jonathan Safran Foer, author, Everything is Illuminated From...

A fateful encounter of two strangers--a man and a woman--twists the direction of their lives and leads to deadly consequences. The man, Eddie Bracchio, is a ruthless killer from a present-day criminal organization out of Brooklyn, New York. He returns to his hometown of...

"Beneath a Buried House is a wonderful book, full of twists and turns and surprises." -Crime-Spree MagazineThings aren't always what they seem. Tulsa Police Detective, Kenny Elliot's quest to uncover the truth behind the death of a transient, makes him a target-from whom or...

Porter, Oklahoma holds a dark secret, and troublesome dreams plague Tulsa Police Detective, Kenny Elliot, who grew up in the small town. When a bizarre murder catapults Elliot into his past, he's brought face-to-face with the fabric of his nightmares. A shiny necklace dangles...

In 1952, John Taverner, recently discharged from the British army, meets Felix Mole by chance on platform three of the Swindon railway station.Mole is the owner of Sam's, a saloon and gaming establishment in Tangier. Over a British railways breakfast, Felix offers John a...