Crime

James Lee Burke / Jolie Blon's Bounce (Large Paperback)

   Small-time black hustler Tee Bobby Hulin is partly redeemed, in Robicheaux's eyes, by a rare musical gift. Three men are present when Amanda Boudreau is raped and murdered, and Tee Bobby's prints are found at the crime scene. Dave reckons...

Neil Jordan / The Drowned Detective (Large Paperback)

   Jonathan is a private investigator in a decaying eastern European city, consumed by his work and his failing marriage. Approached one day by an elderly couple, he is presented with a faded photograph of their daughter, missing for nearly...

Nelson DeMille / The Cuban Affair (Large Paperback)

   'Nelson DeMille is a true master'Dan BrownStrap in for the ride of a lifetime with the blistering new novel from America's greatest living thriller writer, Nelson DeMille.Daniel 'Mac' MacCormick has a good life. Aged thirty-five and a...

Thomas H. Cook / Master of the Delta (Large Paperback)

    They call Eddie Miller 'The Coed Killer's Son', because when Eddie was five years old, his father killed a local college girl, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in the woods. Where Eddie's family name has brought only infamy,...

M. O. Walsh / My Sunshine Away (Large Paperback)

   One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing and the...

Don Winslow / Savages

     Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. In the past when their turf was challenged, Chon...

Henning Mankell / A Treacherous Paradise (Large Paperback)

   From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alone novel set in early-twentieth-century Sweden and Mozambique, whose vividly drawn female protagonist is awoken from her naivete by her...

R. J. Ellory / Mockingbird Songs (Large Paperback)

    Prison changes a man. Sometimes in ways you can see. Usually in ways you can't. The only reason Henry Quinn survived three years inside was because of Evan Riggs, a one-time country singer, one-time killer, now serving a life sentence...

Charles Palliser / The Unburied

   Dr Courtine, an unworldly academic is visiting an old friend in the Cathedral town of Thurchester in the late 1870s. On his first night he is told the story of the town ghost, a legend deeply mired in the medieval intrigues of the Cathedral...

David Baldacci / Long Road to Mercy (Large Paperback) ( Atlee Pine Series - Book 1 )

   The Number One Bestseller.Long Road to Mercy is the heart-pounding first novel in the FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine series by bestselling author David Baldacci.`Eeny, meeny, miny, moe . . .'It is thirty years since FBI special agent Atlee...

Jane Ryan / 47 Seconds (Large Paperback)

    I HEREBY SOLEMNLY AND SINCERELY DECLARE BEFORE GOD THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF A MEMBER OF THE GARDA SÍOCHÁNA . . .Detective Garda Bridget Harney's obsession with Séan Flannery began when he...

Andrea Camilleri / The Age of Doubt

   As seen on TV: now a major BBC4 television series.A chance encounter with a strange young woman leads Inspector Montalbano to Vigata harbour - and into a puzzling new mystery. The crew of a mysterious yacht - the Vanna - due to dock in the...

Bea Davenport / In Too Deep

      All of our b'A tense and suspenseful debut.' --Margaret Murphy...The window's so small I can't see what happens next. But what I do know is that Kim is dead. And I know this, too that I helped to kill her. Kim, my lovely, only,...

Cormac O'Keeffe / Black Water (Large Paperback)

    I killed the boy . . .Jig loves football and his dog, hates school, misses his dead granda and knows to lie low when his ma's blitzed on the vodka.He's just an ordinary boy on the brutal streets alongside Dublin's Grand Canal. Streets...

Linda Fairstein / Death Angel (Large Paperback)

   In New York's Central Park, Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman race to track down a serial killer before yet another young woman is found dead. Is the body found in the Ramble the first victim of a deranged psychopath, or...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Careful Use Of Compliments (Large Paperback)

    For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship...

John Hart / Redemption Road

     Elizabeth Black is a hero. She is a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot two brutal kidnappers dead. But she's also a cop with a history, a woman with a secret. And she's not the only one.Adrian...

Reginald Hill / Under World

    'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own...

Lisa Scottoline / Courting Trouble

   From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, a new novel featuring the all-female ass-kicking wise-cracking Philadelphia law firm Rosato and AssociatesHow many people get to solve their own murder?A quiet Fourth of July weekend...

David Ellis / Line of Vision

    Investment banker Marty Kalish is a man with something to hide. But what exactly? When Marty arrives at the house of his married lover only to see her being brutally beaten by her husband, he breaks into the house, and the next thing he...

Ann Granger / Running Scared

   When a stranger is stabbed to death, Fran's own life is put in danger...Amateur sleuth Fran Varady has to stay ahead of a killer in Running Scared, the third exciting mystery in Ann Granger's Fran Varady series. The perfect read for fans of...

Scott Frost / Never Fear

   Set in the suburbs of simmering Los Angeles, NEVER FEAR is a fast-paced thriller featuring Alex Delillo, detective and single mother, which proves that Scott Frost is an exciting new addition to the crime arena.Seventeen years ago, three...

Malcolm Mackay / How a Gunman Says Goodbye

   Winner of the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year AwardHow does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But is he still the best?A new job. A target. But something is about to go...

Rob Kitchin / Stiffed

    Tadhg Maguire wakes to find himself spooning a dead man. The stiff is Tony Marino, lieutenant to mobster Aldo Pirelli. It doesn't matter how the local enforcer ended up between Tadhg's sheets, Pirelli is liable to leap to the wrong...

G. M. Ford / Fury

    Monday 10:07 AM - Day 1 of 6 Leanne Samples admits that she lied at the trial of Walter Leroy Himes. In 6 days time, he goes to the chair. But no-one will listen. The FBI wants their pound of flesh. Monday 2.16 PM - Day 1 of 6 Natalie...

John Baker / Death Minus Zero

    When murderous psychopath Norman Bunce breaks out of jail, he heads for York in search of his ex-lover, Snow White. The unexpected presence of his favourite lust object, prison psychiatrist Jennie Cosgrove, is a bonus. This is the...

Jodi Compton / Sympathy Between Humans

    On the streets of Minneapolis, Sarah has worked everything from vice to missing persons. But six months after the death of a small-time criminal in rural Minnesota, Sarah is still protecting the identity of a killer. And now, a zealous...

Mark T. Sullivan / The Purification Ceremony

    Whilst on a deer-hunting trip in the wild landscape of British Columbia, Diana Jackman and her party find themselves the prey of a diabolical killer. Trapped deep in the snow and completely cut off from the outside world, they set out...

J. K. Mayo / The Hunting Season

    A story in which the hero, Harry Seddall, must deal with his ambiguous loyalties as well as the conspiracies and intrigues of the political superpowers. This he must do to prove he is capable of controlling the violent and cynical world...

Carol O'Connell / Flight of the Stone Angel

    The young stranger came to town just past twelve noon. Within an hour, the idiot had been assaulted, hands bloodied and broken; Deputy Travis suffered a major stroke at the wheel of his patrol car; and Babe Laurie was found murdered...

Michelle Sacks / The Dark Path

   `A chilling, gut-wrenching thriller' Helen Fields'Extremely scary scandi-noir...first class' Daily MailThe perfect wife.The perfect mother.The perfect lie.A gripping page-turner for fans of The Couple Next Door, Michelle Sacks's You Were...

John Ramsey Miller / The Last Family

    Paul Masterson is the DEA's most successful agent, but one of his busts goes wrong, leaving agents and drug runners dead. The leader of the drug runners escapes, only to find his wife and baby dead. He swears to kill the families of all...

Charlie Newton / Calumet City

   Patti Black is the most decorated cop in Chicago; a ghetto street officer, she redefines the word badass. But the steel-plated exterior she shows to the world - solitary, friendless, loveless - hides the hideous traumas of her past. As an...

Carla Norton / The Edge of Normal

   Reeve LeClaire was abducted when she was twelve years old and held in captivity for four years. Now, in her twenties, she has a fragile stability. With the help of her psychiatrist, she has started to build a life of independence. But she...

Paul Eddy / Flint

    Undercover cop Grace Flint is cool, quick-thinking and fearless under pressure. Until an operation to trap international money-launderer Frank Harling goes wrong - and Grace is almost beaten to death. After reconstructive surgery, Grace...

Thomas Perry / Silence

    Six years ago Wendy Harper was running for her life. Jack Till, an ex-cop turned private eye, helped her disappear. He did a very good job of it and even Jack has no idea where she might be. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business...

Jasmine Cresswell / The Refuge

    Left penniless, with a young son to support, following the deaths of her father and cruel husband, Marisa Joubert finds employment at a Colorado ranch that houses unwed mothers, where she and Jimmy, a janitor at the ranch, join forces...

Gavin Esler / The Blood Brother

    The first time David Kerr hears that he has a brother is when he hears that he is dead. Resolving to find out why his brother died, David's search brings him across corrupt media tycoons, New Age healers, sinister Mormon hackers and...

Jean-Christophe Grange / Blood Red River

    Pierre Niemans is the ex-golden boy of the Parisian police commando squad but his brutal methods of dealing with suspects are being investigated by his superiors. Under a cloud, he is sent to the university town of Guernon in the French...

J. K. Mayo / Wolf's Head

    A story in which the hero, Harry Seddall, must deal with his ambiguous loyalties as well as the conspiracies and intrigues of the political superpowers. This he must do to prove he is capable of controlling the violent and cynical world...

Dylan Jones / Outside The Rules

    Locked in the mind of Thomas Meredith are terrible visions of how a serial killer tortured and murdered his girlfriend, in front of his very eyes, a year earlier. Meredith is now practically a recluse; his life has crumbled around him...

Yvonne Antrobus / True to Form

    When Sukie Buckley finds the body of one of the racing fraternity in compromising circumstances, she is forced to become a participant in the race to find a killer. The lives of those linked by a valuable horse, Triumvirate, come under...

Saul Black / Lovemurder

   'Black delivers a powerhouse of a thriller.' Lisa Gardner The second spine-chilling serial-killer thriller featuring homicide detective Valerie Hart from the author of the critically-acclaimed THE KILLING LESSONS. REMEMBER HER FACE. IT WILL...

Lynn S. Hightower / Flashpoint

    A crime novel about a gutsy female cop on the trail of a sadistic female serial killer.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very...

Mark Greaney / The Gray Man

   'Hard, fast, and unflinching-exactly what a thriller should be.' Lee ChildThe first in the Court Gentry all-action thriller series, from Tom Clancy's co-writer Mark Greaney.To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is...

Davies / Nest of Vipers

    Undercover agent Sarah Jensen is sent to investigate a billion dollar conspiracywhose chief suspects are a government banker,the Mafia & a merchant bank.She is hurled into a vortex of deceit,betrayal & murder....

Carol Smith / Double Exposure

    What you see is not quite what it seems...Jo Lydhurst is a junior doctor, newly qualified at a London hospital. Desperate for a break, she escapes to the Caribbean for a well-earned ten days of rest. On the beautiful island of Antigua,...

Mari Strachan / The Earth Hums in B Flat

   Gwenni Morgan is not like any other girl in this small Welsh town. Inquisitive, bookish and full of spirit, she can fly in her sleep and loves playing detective. So when a neighbour mysteriously vanishes, and no one seems to be asking the...

Rob McCarthy / The Hollow Men

   A new must-read crime series for fans of Mark Billingham and Sarah Hilary: introducing Harry Kent, a police surgeon working with the Met, determined to help those the world would rather brush aside.Dr Harry Kent: former Army medic, hospital...

David Hunt / The Magician's Tale

   Photographer Kay Farrow sees the world in black and white - literally: she has a rare eye condition that makes her unable to discern colours.The brutal murder of street hustler Tim, the beautiful boy who is the subject of Kay's latest book...

Mary Willis Walker / Under the Beetle's Cellar

    A chilling, only-too-topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE RED SCREAM and ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN. Eleven Texan schoolchildren and their bus driver are captured by a fundamentalist cult, taken to a fortified compound and...

Thomas H. Cook / Breakheart Hill

    'This is the darkest story that I ever heard ' It is a story that began with love and led to the destruction of a young woman's life. It is a story that has not ended, even thirty years after the afternoon Kelli Troy's battered body was...