Crime

Simon Toyne / The Key

 Conspiracy thrillers don't come any bigger or better than THE KEY - from the author of the bestselling thriller debut of 2011, SANCTUS: `Plenty of action, plenty of intrigue and wonderfully imaginative. The sort of novel to devour in one sitting'...

Ashley Weaver / Death Wears a Mask

 Amory Ames is looking forward to a tranquil period of reconnecting with reformed playboy husband Milo after an unexpected reconciliation following the murderous events at the Brightwell Hotel. Amory hopes a quiet stay at their London flat will help...

S. J. Watson / Second Life

 She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger. She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything. She knows what she's doing. She's out of control. She's innocent. She's guilty as sin. She's living two lives. She might lose both...

Graham Masterton / Dead Girls Dancing

   In the middle of winter, a fire blazes through a dance studio. Seventeen young dancers die. Their promising careers cut short by a tragic accident. But where others see tragedy, DCI Katie Maguire sees murder. This is not the first...

Michael Clifford / The Deal

 Karen Riney is a young woman desperate to put bad memories behind her and get back on her feet when she hits upon an idea to make fast money. In the depths of a recession, there's no business like the grow house business. But getting her venture...

Linwood Barclay / A Tap on the Window

 On a rainy night, a man gives a teenage girl a lift home, but the girl he picks up isn't the same one he drops off . . . Bestseller Linwood Barclay hooks the reader from page one with this suspense masterpieceWhen Cal Weaver stops at a red light on...

Chris Culver / The Outsider

 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SENSATIONTHE MOST FASCINATING DETECTIVE IN THE HISTORY OF CRIME FICTIONAsh Rashid is a detective with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and one of the few Muslims on the force. Never one to play by the...

Alex Connor / Isle of the Dead

 VENICE, ITALY. CITY OF SPLENDOUR. In October 1555 the Italian master Titian painted the portrait of Angelico Vespucci - a Venetian merchant whose cruelty words could not capture. CITY OF SECRETS. When Vespucci was revealed to be the elusive monster...

William Boyd / Armadillo

 One winter morning Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period for Lorimer as he realizes that he's being set up at work and cast adrift outside the...

Ruth Rendell / A New Lease Of Death

   The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home. Even more so when it's your first murder case. Wexford...

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg / Abuse of Power

   Rachel Simmons joins the police department of her small California city expecting to serve her community. But no one prepares her for the kind of service she will be called on to perform - or the price she will have to pay for her values and...

David Hanna / The Capri Affair

 Police lieutenant Frank Lamark investigates the murder of Richard Winston IV, a wealthy tycoon whose body was discovered in his Manhattan penthouse apartment      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

Mary Higgins Clark / All Around The Town

 When Professor Allan Grant is found stabbed to death, all the evidence points to an obsessed student, 21-year-old Laurie Kenyon. She sent him passionate letters, stalked him, watched him through his study window. And after the murder, she wakes up...

John Lescroat / Guilt

 Successful lawyer Mark Dooher has killed his wife of 20 years in order to marry a beautiful young female colleague. But suspicions of his guilt begin to tear his life apart, as the homicide chief gets closer to the truth.      All of...

R. J. Ellory / Saints of New York

 Most cops are trying to right grievous wrongs. Few, however, have to deal with the horrific crimes of their own father... Frank Parrish had a famous father: a Saint of New York, an NYPD detective who helped rid the city of Mafia control in the...

Janie Bolitho / Betrayed in Cornwall

 Rose Trevelyan is not concerned when her friend Etta does not turn up at the opening of her exhibition. When she hears the following day that a young man fell of a cliff in suspicious circumstances, Rose starts to makes connections and things start...

Tom Clancy / Command Authority

 INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN . . . Command Authority sees the return of Tom Clancy's greatest hero, Jack Ryan.Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed...

Sophie Hannah / Closed Casket ( New Hercule Poirot Mysteries - Book 2 )

 Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his `little grey cells'.`What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .'Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house...

James Crumley / The Last Good Kiss

 'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George PelecanosMeet Private Detective...

Helen Fields / Perfect Prey

 `Without doubt, this is one of the best detective series I have read.' Woman's Way MagazineYour new addiction starts here: get hooked on the #1 bestselling series. Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and M.J. Arlidge.Welcome to Edinburgh. Murder...

Stephen W. Frey / The Vulture Fund

 Walker Pryce & Company is one of the most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street. After four years, Mace McLain is set to become the youngest managing director of the firm, with successful, lucrative deals to his name. When senior partner...

Scott Frost / Point of No Return

 In Scott Frost's outstanding third novel for Headline, Lieutenant Alex Delillo is embroiled in the sinister disappearance of an ex-LAPD officer last seen in war-ravaged Iraq. Cathy Salem is desperate for Lieutenant Alex Delillo's help. Her...

David Lagercrantz / The Girl in the Spider's Web

 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERLisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in...

Karin Slaughter / The Kept Woman ( Will Trent Series )

 The latest novel in the Will Trent series from No. 1 bestselling author, Karin Slaughter.A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse. It's the body of an ex-cop, and from the moment Special Agent Will Trent walks in he knows this could be...

Robert Crais / Lullaby Town

 Reissue of the third Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE WATCHMAN. Peter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants now is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on...

James Sheehan / The Mayor of Lexington Avenue

 Jack Tobin is a trial lawyer with a searing-hot reputation in Miami, far removed from his scrappy youth on the streets of New York. But when a young Florida man is railroaded into a murder conviction in the tiny Florida backwater of Bass Creek,...

Carol Smith / Unfinished Business

 The brutal murder of Jinx McLennan in her Kensington home, shocks the neighbours and triggers a police inquiry that delves into her colourful past. The trail goes cold until, shockingly, the murder turns out to be a case of mistaken identity...

Karin Fossum / Black Seconds

 Ida, a good-natured, happy girl, is looking forward to her tenth birthday when she gets on her brand new bike and sets off to buy sweets. She should be back within half an hour but she never returns. Her mother, frantic with worry, calls the shop,...

John Mortimer / The Second Rumpole Omnibus

 Horace Rumpole turns down yet another invitation to exchange the joys and sorrows of life as an Old Bailey hack for the delights of the sunshine state, where Senior Citizens loll on beaches and the sarcastic tones of the Mad Bull (Judge Roger...

P. D. James / The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

 P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a short story for Christmas, and four of the best have been drawn from the archives and published here together for the first time. From the title story about a strained...

Sarah Dunnakey / The Companion

 How do you solve a mystery when the clues are hidden in the past?'Utterly charming, wonderfully creepy and rich with mystery. The Companion is a rare treat.' C.L. TaylorThe Companion is a beautiful and powerfully-told story of buried secrets, set...

M. R. Hall / The Coroner

 The Coroner is the first gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series, from the creator of BBC One's Keeping Faith.When those in power hide the truth, she risks everything to reveal it.When...

James Oswald / The Book of Souls

 The Book of Souls is James Oswald's second electrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector McLean series.Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. Ten...

Patricia Cornwell / Chaos

 No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Someone is following you...One summer evening in New England, two young...

James Ellroy / American Tabloid

 1958 -America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency. Three man move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant...

Graeme Cameron / Normal

 "Hypnotic and chilling - you won't forget this in a hurry." - Lee Child, Sunday Times #1 bestselling authorNOMINATED FOR THE STRAND CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF 2015He lives on your street, in a nice house with a tidy garden. He shops at...

Abbie Taylor / Emma's Baby

 A young mother's nightmare comes true...the tube doors close with her baby still on the train. Struggling as a single mother, Emma sometimes wishes that her thirteen-month-old son Ritchie would just disappear. But when, one quiet Sunday evening,...

Jens Lapidus / Easy Money

 EASY MONEY - the Swedish bestselling sensation, a dark and brutal account of the Stockholm underworld. Jorge knows one thing - he's never going back inside. Mrado knows one thing - he's not going to kill for cash anymore. JW knows nothing -...

Jody Shields / The Fig Eater

 'He watches her eating one fig, then two more, grinding the seeds between her teeth, the sound echoing in her head, perhaps the last sound Dora heard before there was the thunder of blood in her ears...' Vienna, 1910. On a warm August night,...

Louis de Bernieres / Senor Vivo and the Coco Lord

 Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear:...

Michael Jecks / A Moorland Hanging

 In fourteenth-century Devon, runaway villeins were brutally punished if apprehended by their masters. But when Peter Bruther flees the home of Sir William Beauscyr, he puts himself in the protection of the king by setting up as a tin miner on the...

Tony Strong / The Poison Tree

 In the wake of a failed marriage and a misguided love affair, feisty academic Terry Williams moves to Oxford to resume her abandoned doctorate in detective fiction. But her new home was previously the scene of a savage sexual murder, and Terry soon...

Sue Grafton / H is for Homicide

 It was one of those occasions when I suddenly realised how happy I was. I was female, single, with money in my pocket . . . I had nobody to answer to and no ties to speak of. As usual I'd forgotten how surges of goodwill merely presage bad news...

Andrea Camilleri / The Shape of Water

  The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local...

Dick Francis / Trial Run

 A royally connected candidate is going for gold at the Moscow Olympic Games. But a mysterious 'Aloysha' has threatened to turn it into an international incident. Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew knows more about horses than Russians - and more about...

Janet Laurence / Appetite for Death

 Darina Lisle's old school friend asks her to help find the father of Rory Earlham, whose mother died in childbirth. As Darina begins to dig into the murky history of the Earlham family, the killing of a security guard finds Rory's millionaire...

Peter Cheyney / They Never Say When

 This story features the further adventures of the detective Slim Callaghan. In this tale he is hired by a woman who claims that she is being blackmailed by the thief of the priceless Denys Coronet. But he soon finds out that she is not at all what...

Adam Baron / Shut Eye

 A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat. Video cameras have filmed him and another leaving the Heathrow concourse. Ex-copper turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case which leads to a lonely trail through the city - until...

Sue Rann / Looking for Mr Nobody

 Wolf is a vagrant pavement artist on the streets of Amsterdam. He remembers nothing before the hospital, where he was treated for gunshot wounds. The police want to talk to him and sinister men are on his trailhe has to find a way into his...

David Lindsey / Mercy

 Carmen Palma is a Homicide Detective in Houston, a strong female in a world that is still amost exclusively male. When two women are found murdered in an identical, bizarre fashion, Palma suspects the worst: a sexually motivated serial killer. When...

W.J. Burley / Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist

 Classic crime featuring the ever-popular Chief Superintendent Wycliffe - 'Another must for collectors' Sunday Times.On the peaceful and secluded estate of Lord and Lady Bottrell, the body of amateur flautist Tony Mills has been found, shot by his...

Jack Curtis / Sons of the Morning

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