Fiction - Crime

BUY CALIFORNIA HUSTLE NOW"A gripping tale." "Entertaining and Hilarious." California Hustle is a high stakes con, a stunning Southern California caper filled with exquisite playas, astonishing twists and a set of criminals you can't help but love. Grigsby adores The Con. There's nothing better...

Chet Harbison appears to be "off his mark" following escapee Dr. Michael Bryant's unsuccessful attempt to kill members of the lawman's family and friends at a Christmas gathering. Now, the Jefferson County, Missouri, Sheriff has his hands full with the first two murders of...

From the author of the acclaimed The Hollow Man and Deep Shelter, comes the third installment featuring the shrewd, cynical, and brilliant London detective, Nick Belsey, whose investigation into a child's disappearance pulls him into the hedonistic orbit of a young, hot celebrity actress/musician...

From Lauren Kelly, "a writer of formidable talent" (Scott Turow), comes the page-turning story of Merilee Graf, whose past and present mysteries converge in a revelation too painful, and too shocking, for her to accept. Sixteen years ago, a vivacious fifth-grade classmate of Merilee...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fifth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'.THE PUZZLE OF THE PURPLE SICKLEThe suicide of a sales clerk at the box office of a London cinema leaves another girl...

It's a perfect Wednesday evening on the banks of the Ohio River, and Councilman Dylan Webb is riding high. Recently elected, both powerful and popular, Webb's gearing up for a rare dinner date amid his busy schedule.In a matter of minutes, it all turns...

Two mob enforcers from the Barzetti crime family, Michel Santoro, and Salvatore Carducci, who have a long-standing dislike for one another, have a serious physical disagreement while working together on an assignment.Michel is ordered to pay restitution to Salvatore but instead, sets his mobster...

Two mob enforcers from the Barzetti crime family, Michel Santoro, and Salvatore Carducci, who have a long-standing dislike for one another, have a serious physical disagreement while working together on an assignment.Michel is ordered to pay restitution to Salvatore but instead, sets his mobster...

"Once you enter the library, there's no turning back." --Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of the Finlay Donovan mysteriesFrom critically acclaimed librarian and author Eva Jurczyk comes That Night in the Library, a chilling literary mystery that transports readers to a world...

When Detroit's most-feared street executioner, a deaf thug known as Silence, is assigned the unsavory task of protecting a controversial Black conservative, brutal opposing factions, his own personal feelings of revulsion, and a flourishing opioid addiction threaten to bring him to his knees once...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts--one animal, one human--in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box. A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the fiancee of Joe's daughter. At...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war.Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in...

In Noche Triste ("Sad Night"), Robert Radin explores his struggles with anorexia in the 1980s. He also examines the history of self-starvation -- its roots in rituals of religious purification, its development into an entertainment craze, its use as a tool of resistance --...

On the night that Patty Hearst was kidnapped in 1974, journalist Roger D. Rapoport, was a short drive away in his El Cerrito home. He quickly became one of the primary reporters covering the saga as it unfolded in real time. His reporting gave...

Life would be very different without coffee.This page-turner will make you smile - or maybe even laugh a bit. Decaf-A-Nation is about a massive shortage in the nation's coffee supply that disrupts the status quo with respect to offshore drilling plans for the Atlantic....

No place left to run...After the shocking events of last Christmas, Jess Croft is determined this festive season will be the one to remember, for all the right reasons.But when a stranger turns up on her doorstep claiming to be her estranged father, Jess...

One wrong choice...Every time Kate Duggan looks in a mirror she's reminded of the night her life changed forever. Kate managed to walk away from the car accident that ruined the lives of her siblings, but questions still remain about what really happened on...

When a woman's mutilated body is discovered in a remote countryside property, Detective Kay Hunter is faced with one of the most challenging investigations of her career.There is nothing in the victim's past to explain her brutal slaying, and no clues as to how...

Josh is an eminent professional in the world of finance, managing ultra-wealthy clients at a hedge fund in Mayfair, London. The stakes are always high. His savvy clients invest millions with his firm in the expectation of lucrative returns. However, a business meeting with...

Dark circumstances arrive in Peter Blauner's New York Times bestselling blockbuster novel, The Intruder, with a foreword by the author exclusive to this new hardcover edition. What would a good man do to protect his family? How far will he go and how far...

A delightfully twisted crime novel with an unreliable narrator, Confessions of an Antichrist tells the tale of the rise and fall of a Norwegian band of wannabe-Satanists embarking on a mission to burn the world down with black metal. Marta Ska is on a...

Some see outsized beauty where others only see bleakness, like the sweeping landscape of Hecla Island, situated two hours north of Winnipeg, Canada. Death at the Point is largely set in this real-life area with Icelandic roots that originally lured Henry Trevellyn and his...

Matt Wild is an ordinary south London driving instructor with an extraordinary plan to win back his estranged wife and child. During a routine driving lesson with a talkative bank clerk, a brilliant idea strikes him like lightning: to orchestrate a daring bank heist,...

In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself in the LAPD's crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality. An atmospheric dive into a city on the brink that's brimming with remarkable historical detail, Ash...

Lita and Carly were best friends in college and shared all their secrets. Now, Lita is single with a successful career, and Carly is a married stay-at-home mom. Despite their shared past, they're drifting apart. Carly is a gourmet cook and loves to feed...

The Croydon family reside in Hamilton, New Zealand. Their patriarch and matriarch, Winston and Sue Croydon, travel to Australia on holiday and Sue goes missing in mysterious circumstances. The Croydon siblings and their partners, also finish up in Australia to search for their precious...

The nightmares never cease. Ever since I was a child I have struggled to deal with them. Each night a different horror takes shape, and I see it as if I was there.I wake from these terrifying dreams of another world in which I...

After cardiologist John Brown is incarcerated in a private prison in Miami, he and his cellmates learn firsthand how the private prison system works in Florida.Meanwhile, Nicole Rodriguez and her team at the Miami Post start digging into the prison industry, and the leadership...

After pharmaceutical industry executives Martin Cardenas and Justin Palmer step forward to complain about the test results of a soon-to-be-released cancer drug, they are subsequently fired. Soon after, stalking and threats of violence follow.The two have no idea what they are up against. Aligor...

The first two installments of the Supernatural Serial Killer Crime Series includes Book I - Rise of the Serial Savior & Book II - Death of a Superhero. Under a sky gone black as sackcloth, poets wailed soliloquies while the Emerald City burned... In...

AN OFF-THE-WALL ROMP AND OTHER EXHILARATING CRIME STORIES. Recent almost-college-grad Fred Kitchen and his eccentric six-foot-four pal, Wheaty, pay off a poker debt with a prank - showing their stuff in the then-current fad of streaking. Soon they are under arrest and in jail,...

It is December 1891 and the East End of Glasgow is languishing beneath a thick, suffocating shroud of fog which is harbouring within its grasp, evil personified. A vicious murder has been discovered, a young woman the victim. DI Ben Pollock finds himself caught...

HOOSIER NOIR is the low-rent home of gritty Indiana Crime fiction. Our debut issues featured indie crime heavyweights: Alec Cizak and Preston Lang. That was just the beginning.Issue TWO features: Don StollMarianne HalbertSerena JayneStephen J. GoldsC.W. BlackwellMichael BrackenZakariah JohnsonJoseph S. Walker We aren't going...

2 lovers, 1 yacht, 12 killers...While Alexa and Clay have nothing but passion in mind, twelve cutthroat killers board her billionaire father's super yacht.Clay, an elite Delta Force captain, is home on leave and has no plans except to spend every minute with his...

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict was "death by accident." But Gladys Fleming...

All roads lead to Billy Carson in this american noir series of crime dramas set to a background of Boston's gritty neighborhood streets where loyalty and family ties are fuelled and tested by equal parts love and revenge. This Bundled set includes Books 1-4...

A drunken old farmer is murdered and Swansea police detective Harry Lambert is unable to discover a motive for what looks like the work of a professional killer. But before long the hunter becomes the hunted as an ex-SAS soldier escapes to remote, rural...

Weston and Turner, novice private detectives, are plunged into a nightmare world of murder when they are hired by a young millionairess to solve the triple murder of her family, a crime the police failed to solve more than eleven years ago. As they...

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984.Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with...

Organized crime still lives in Chicago. Did the love of one mob boss kill his whole family? How did the FBI get involved, who is killing them off, why did the two major families unite? Is it brother against brother? Did one murder lead...

She doesn't ski yet she was rescued from the notorious black run minutes before an avalanche. A blow to her head has caused retrograde amnesia.With her memory slowly returning, she recalls the untimely death of her cousin. As she begins to investigate the circumstances,...

"There's half a score of your ancestral halls," said Julius Rohscheimer, "that I could sell up to-morrow morning " Of the quartet that heard his words no two members seemed quite similarly impressed. The pale face of Adeler, the great financier's confidential secretary, expressed...

Author: Rebecca ForsterISBN-10: 061560708XISBN-13: 9780615607085Publisher: Silent C PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/22/2012Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.62d

If you love mystery stories and want to escape the gloomy winter weather for a few exciting hours, then Stephanie Ahlen's novel 'Windward Side' is the perfect book for you! This exciting murder mystery takes you to the exotic island paradise of Hawaii. Among...

One scorching Colorado summer day, Jonathan and Felix Forrester - twentysomething brothers from an affluent Denver family - invite a young woman up to their luxury apartment as a sort of prank. But the three connect quickly - and precariously - through their shared...

Luke Fischer doesn't think he's a detective, but he can't stop trying to find missing people. As a favor to his friend, and fueled by a steady diet of Pacifico beer and cholula peanuts, Luke goes on a quest to solve a murder that...

"A Beautiful Mind takes a life-and-death road trip in this battle of wits, maze of psychological suspense, and heartbreaking family drama." --Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of One Wrong WordA road trip to find closure... or a reckless chase that could turn...

TWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it's up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman's life and pick up its...

The Blotting Book is a gripping mystery novel about a murder investigation that uncovers dark secrets and hidden motives. Set in early 20th century England, it follows the exploits of two detectives as they piece together the clues and confront the suspects. With its...

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given...