Fiction - Crime

HORROR COMES IN ALL FORMSWichita Falls rookie homicide detective Horace Brown is brand new on the job. His partner, Big Bill Baughman, has been at it for thirty years and seen it all. Until today. What the two of them find inside a lavish...

Turning the key in the lock of the lakeside cabin, Ally puts her finger to her lips as her boyfriend laughs softly. Tonight it's just the two of them. Later that night their broken bodies lie in the grass by the boathouse, the moonlight...

A captivating tale of love, loss, and second chances. Paul Daniels has mourned the loss of his wife for four and a half years. Balancing the demands of his career as a detective and raising his young daughter, Chloe, isn't always easy, but he's...

Two couples, a kung fu gynecologist and a theoretical physicist meet a classical violinist and an actress in a pub in Ponsonby, one Friday night. They stumble upon a Maori activist and help him escape a Police dragnet only to become engulfed in a...

Thomas Fool is a detective from Hell--literally. Having survived the wrath of both angel and demon, and still without memory of his life on earth, Fool is currently spending his damnation as a bureaucrat heading up the Information Office of Hell. But when mysterious...

A tour de force about three friends affected by a campus murder, for readers of Donna Tartt, Meg Wolitzer, and Jeffrey Eugenides Georgia, Charlie and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation,...

An hour and a half after three-year-old Danielle Gaston is kidnapped from the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, a new Web site pops up on the World Wide Web--featuring Danielle Gaston. She's isolated in a room with no food and only water to drink....

The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection is a series of "double features" reprinting the best work of underground literary legend Will Viharo in definitive editions. Volume Two: Lavender Blonde (a novel in dialogue) and the satirical crime thriller Down a Dark Alley present a dual...

The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres--an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies. In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the exhilarating Silver Light, David Thomson delivered unprecedented fictions in which the characters were...

"Terminal Hitman: Never Too Late For Revenge," pulsates with dark humor, treacherous criminals, a resolute detective, and the enigmatic anti-hero, Tom Hitsman, whose mastery of hacking blurs the line between justice and retribution. When Tom reluctantly returns to his high school reunion, he's unexpectedly...

You read them every day.In bestselling books, on social media, in national headlines.You read them every day and believe every word: The Lies People Publish. The same night that Detective Kate Baxter's brother shows up on her doorstep, running from marital troubles, one of...

They plan the perfect heist-until the trailer park girls get involved.Burt, Al and Jack are fresh out of the army, living in a trailer park on the cheap. Jack sells insurance, Al races cars and Burt tends bar. But they're all restless for something...

In Overdose or Murder, a seasoned spy, long retired, is abruptly pulled back into the shadows. His former superior needs a discreet favor, one that treads the fine line between murder and suicide. As he delves into the mystery, every clue raises more questions....

The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now! THE UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER 'Only someone like Jeffrey Archer . . . could have written a compelling story like this. Every page...

From the creator of Jurassic Park and ERLeagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed...

An Unforgettable Anime Odyssey: Dive into a World Where Friendship Clashes with Fear. Who Will Survive the Shadow's Grasp?In the bustling heart of Japan, a tale like no other unfolds. For fans of anime and heart-pounding thrillers, comes a story that fuses the best...

'A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES'Gripping' GUARDIANS. R. White is the real deal.' CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects.In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

Avery Byrne is bent on revenge and desperate for love.Young tattoo artist Avery Byrne refuses to accept that her friend's death was an accident. Armed with determination and a thirst for justice, Avery dives into Phoenix, Arizona's adrenaline-fueled world of street racing and vintage...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal. For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief...

Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, are back in this brilliant new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.Author: Robert CraisISBN-10: 0525535764ISBN-13: 9780525535768Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2025Pages: 400Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

The secrets that Bind FamilyThe twins Nicky and Cole grow up realizing they are bound by love and trust. Their strong connection protects them later. As private investigators for some of the most convoluted of cases, they learn that there are other ways brother...

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...

A young apprentice is framed for the murder of her mentor, a wealthy woman who had a serious penchant for spiritualism, theatrics and staged seances. When the woman is suddenly killed all signs point to her longstanding partner. Madame Dauvray was captivated by the...

After losing his wife, Evan Francart is depressed. He has an axe to grind with the pharmaceutical company that jacked up the price of her medications, but feels powerless against a billion-dollar corporation. Then he meets Cassandra. She shows Evan a way to both...

64 new traditional Holmes adventures in three simultaneously published volumesIn 2018, MX Publishing presented Parts XI and XII of this acclaimed and ongoing series, Some Untold Cases. Now that theme is revisited with 64 new Sherlock Holmes adventures that explore those many tantalizing references...

Gabriella Guerrero has been independent ever since she was a little kid doing her best to care for her drug-addicted single mom. Her world changes when her mother dies, and her aunt takes her in. She has to learn everything all over again, especially...

Spanning from 1936 to 2020, the interconnected stories crisscross back and forth across America and weave through the lives of average Americans with direct, and sometimes indirect, connections to crime. A college student interviews female killers as research for his thesis. A thief specializes...

Alex Keen has never felt anything. No sadness, no happiness, no anger, and certainly no love; that's the way Alex prefers it. One day, a chance encounter changes everything, and suddenly emotionless, empty Alex is developing painful, longing feelings for someone- and that just...

The eruption of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii tests Officer Jenny Freitas like nothing else in her young police career. It's not enough that she finds a murder victim in a doomed house just seconds before the lava overwhelms it. A second...

"From its very first gut-wrenching chapter, I was completely hooked" Howard Linskey A BRAND NEW DETECTIVE MYSTERY FEATURING DCI JACK LAMBERT Robert Norris. An eighteen-year-old petty criminal is brutally tortured and left in a farmer's field to die. DCI Jack Lambert and his team...

When the body of Lancelot Foley, a well-known actor, is discovered in an excavation in a fashionable Chelsea street one snowy February morning, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Brock is assigned the case - and he and his team soon discover that Foley's life was...

When a self-made man appeals to Maigret for protection at his lavish home, a years-old grudge from the past resurfaces and the inspector finds himself questioning his own motives. Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of 10 of the still magnificent...

When a man's headless body is discovered in Paris' Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip - or...

Pulp fiction. Usually when these words are uttered today, people immediately think of the Quentin Tarantino movie, which, my God, is already twenty years old. To my recollection, though, the movie did little if anything to remind people of, or help bring back, the...

Professional wrestling meets Empire in a trilogy that RollingStone.com called "a one-of a kind literary offering for die-hard wrestling fans." New York City, 1969. Danno Garland is a middling member of the National Wrestling Council, a secretive syndicate of pro-wrestling promoters. He's kept his...

A discovery in his mother's attic leads a painter into the dark world of underground art dealingsSince childhood, Ben Contini has been enchanted by nudes. The first painting ever to move him was a Modigliani, a portrait of a naked and beautiful reclining woman....

This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. In "The Secret of Sarek," the action takes place almost entirely on the fictional Island of Sarek in 1917, in which...

When Michael Decastro gets an email from Tuki, the lady of ten thousand mysteries, he doesn't hesitate a moment. He heads to Bangkok to find. . . what? He doesn't know. To face what dangers? He hasn't imagined. All he knows is that she's...

It was nearly midnight on a Saturday night in early June. Boone received a call from Mazie Tucker, the wife of New York State Police Detective George Tucker, a close personal friend of Boone's.Mazie had returned home from a night out with friends to...

"Silent Hoof: A Charlie Chan Mystery" is a gripping detective novel that follows the renowned detective Charlie Chan and his trusted sidekick, Jimmy, as they delve into the sinister world of horse racing. The story unfolds with a series of mysterious horse killings that...

Wracked with guilt over his failure to prevent the murder of his friend's widow, Mazie Tucker, and convinced it was dangerous for anyone to become close to him, Boone leaves Albany and everyone he knows behind, searching for anonymity and seclusion. He believes he...

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries. Now with a beautiful new series look.The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot...

'Dead Close' finds Boone and Marianne Bell, who is four months along in her pregnancy, settled in their new office space outside downtown Albany. Representing the owner of a vintage clothing shop accused of murder, Clive Townsend seeks Boone's help investigating his client's background...

In 'Calling Hours, ' attorney Clive Townsend, Boone's friend and source of business for the office, refers what looks like a garden variety case of insurance fraud. Burglars had raided a local warehouse, and the insurance company suspects inside involvement in the heist. As...

In 1946 Chicago, the Lido Club, a once-notorious speakeasy turned jazz hotspot, finds itself at the center of a dark mystery. The renowned showgirl, "The Canary," holds the club's elite secrets in a small canary-shaped locket. Her power to influence and manipulate the city's...

The endless Texas landscape hides all manner of sins...Special Agent Tucker Snow knows there's big money roaming the fields under the wide Texas sky--and the cattle rustlers committing large-scale thefts on remote ranches know it, too. But when a prominent local rancher dies unexpectedly...

An adrenaline-fueled journey into war-torn Yemen, this novel is the perfect read for fans of fast-paced fiction. Luke Archer, a British Egyptian doctor, runs from his problematic past in the UK and becomes a war surgeon. When he is taken hostage by Western security...

"The Jade Dragon's Curse" is a captivating mystery novel that delves into the dark secrets surrounding a cursed artifact and the sinister forces that seek to control it. Set in the vibrant streets of San Francisco's Chinatown, the story follows Detective Charlie Chan as...

A new novel from the "clever and inventive" (The Washington Post) internationally bestselling author of The Twyford Code and The Appeal about a true crime journalist who revives a long-buried case about a cult--and finds herself too close to the story. Everyone knows the...