Crime

James Patterson / Texas Ranger

   From the author of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller, The President is MissingOfficer Rory Yates is called home to settle deadly scores.His skill and commitment to the badge have seen him rise through the ranks in the Texas Ranger division, but...

David Baldacci / Split Second (Hardback) ( King & Maxwell series - Book 1 )

 Michelle Maxwell has just blown her future with the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she led a presidential candidate out of her sight to comfort a grieving widow. Then, behind closed doors, the politician whose safety was her responsibility...

Sarah Vaughan / Anatomy of a Scandal : The Sunday Times bestseller everyone is talking about (Large Paperback)

 'People are calling this the new Apple Tree Yard, but I'd beg to differ - fast, pacy and with enough twists and turns to keep you gripped right to the end, I'd argue its infinitely better' The Pool `Well-written, pacy and full of twists and turns'...

Mick Finlay / Arrowood

   `Crackles with energy and wit' - The TimesLondon Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood.1895: London's scared. A killer haunts the city's streets. The poor are hungry; crime bosses are taking...

Lauren Beukes / Broken Monsters

   In the city that's become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during...

Sophie Hannah / A Game for All the Family

   'One of the great unmissables of this genre - intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully Gothic imagination' - The Times He's not your son. It's not up to you to save him. But you have to try.After escaping London and a career that...

Ruth Ware / The Woman in Cabin 10

   THE SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Richard and Judy pick In A Dark, Dark Wood comes Ruth Ware's new compulsive page-turner.'Agatha Christie meets The Girl on the Train'The SunThis was meant to be...

Edward Marston / Steps to the Gallows

    A scurrilous newspaper has built up a large following by publishing details of political and sexual scandals. It is remarkably well-informed and has therefore created a whole host of enemies. When the editor is killed and the printing...

Tom Rob Smith - The Secret Speech - BRAND NEW PB

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing...

Santiago Roncagliolo / Red April

    The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred and mutilated body is discovered during Carnival, the people of the small town of Ayacucho understand that death has once more returned to their land. Only now the terror...

Karin Slaughter / Pieces of Her (Large Paperback) ( Andrea Oliver Series )

 The gripping standalone thriler from No. 1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter, soon to be a Netflix series You've known her your whole life... Andrea Oliver knows everything about her mother Laura. She knows she's always lived in...

Julian Clary / Murder Most Fab

   Hello, I'm Johnny Debonair and this is my book - Murder Most Fab. Buy it. You won't regret it. Everything that has happened so publicly is explained. Of course, I'd prefer it if you remember me as I was at my height, before the past caught...

Williams Lashner / Veritas

    The sequel to "Hostile Witness". Victor Carl has been hired to wrap up the affairs of suicidal heiress, Jacqueline Shawl. He soon discovers it wasn't suicide but murder. Thrown into a web of deceit and danger by his discovery, Carl...

Bruen, Ken - A Galway Epiphany - PB BRAND NEW

A Galway Epiphany Jack Taylor has finally traded in his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country.But on a day trip back into the city, Jack is hit by a truck and left in a coma, mysteriously without a scratch on him.When he...

Stephen Leather / Pay Off

    Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA? Jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East end underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a...

Caz Frear / Sweet Little Lies

   WINNER OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION'A blistering debut from a major new voice. I couldn't put it down. Authentic, compelling, unflinching and tender and written with real verve and assurance' ERIN KELLY'Debut...

Felix Riley / The Set Up

   Framed for murder. Three days to clear his name.New York City - present day.Mike Byrne wants to know who framed him for murder. The N.Y.P.D want Byrne locked up. The U.S Secret Service want Byrne dead. Detective Jenni...

J. P. Delaney / The Girl Before

   IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THE GIRL BEFORE...'An outstanding debut that is more than a match for Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train' Sunday TimesTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR...

Linwood Barclay / The Twenty-Three

   BOOK 3 OF 3The final book in the Promise Falls trilogy, The Twenty-Three is a pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller.The day begins like any other Saturday - a shower, coffee, breakfast. But suddenly, all hell breaks loose in the town...

Max Allan Collins / CSI Killing Game

    Another complex case tests all the skill and experience of the unsung heroes of the Las Vegas police force: the Crime Scene Investigation team. Veteran Gil Grissom and his colleagues on the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift...

Nicci French / Catch Me When I Fall

   Be careful who you trust. It might just be the death of you. . .Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. A successful young businesswoman with a stable home life, she is loved and admired by all who meet her. But that's only one side of...

Nora Roberts / Hidden Riches

    When Dora rents out the empty apartment above her thriving antiques shop to Jed Skimmerhorn, she gets more than she bargained for, and finds herself swept into a dangerous mystery.      All of our books are second...

Charlotte Lamb / In the Still of the Night

    Annie Lang is a famous TV actress and star of the police drama, "The Force". She has everything except love, which she has had to sacrifice for her career. A card from a secret admirer seems to answer her prayers, but the truth is far...

Erica Spindler / See Jane Die

    Seventeen years ago, Jane Killian was nearly killed by a reckless boater. Now she has everything to live for - a successful career, loving husband, and a baby on the way. But when two women with ties to Jane's husband are found dead, he...

Joyce Carol Oates / Little Bird of Heaven

   `A writer of extraordinary strengths' GuardianSet in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America...

Steve Martini / The Judge

   When Judge Armando 'The Coconut' Acosta is caught with a prostitute, few are sympathetic. Lawyer Paul Madriani has a long history of enmity with the judge and considers Acosta's arrest to be the consequence of a lifetime of corruption. Even...

Ruth Rendell / The Saint Zita Society

   When millionaire banker, Preston Still, kills his wife's lover by pushing him down the stairs, he looks to the family au-pair to help him dispose of the body. But the au pair belongs to the Saint Zita Society, a self-formed group of...

Ingrid Black / The Dead

    Five years ago Ed Fagan, the serial killer known as the Night Hunter, disappeared. Since then nothing has been heard from him. But now a Dublin newspaper has received a letter claiming to be from Fagan with a chilling message: he's...

Caroline England / Beneath the Skin

   `I was gripped immediately' KATERINA DIAMOND, author of THE TEACHER`I didn't want this book to end.' ELISABETH CARPENTER, author of 99 RED BALLOONSThree women. Three secrets.Antonia is beautiful and happily married. Her life is perfect. So...

R. S. Pateman / The Second Life of Amy Archer

   Every mother's nightmare just got worse... A tense, gripping psychological suspense novel for fans of S.J. Watson and Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL.Ten years ago she disappeared without a trace... now she's back.On 31st December 1999,...

Julie Compton / Tell No Lies

   Jack Hilliard is a 35-year-old assistant DA who appears to have it all: intelligence, good looks, a great job, and a solid marriage with his wife, Claire. But Jack finds himself at a crossroads in his life when, on the same night his boss...

Susan Wilkins / The Informant

   Set in London and Essex, The Informant is a story of ruthless criminals, corrupt cops, obsessive love and the villainy that operates on both sides of the law. As a drug-fuelled teenage tearaway, Kaz Phelps took the rap for her little...

Jeffery Deaver / The Steel Kiss

   The twelfth chilling Lincoln Rhyme thriller which will leave you looking over your shoulder. How do you catch a killer who can reach you anywhere - without going near you? Detective Amelia Sachs is in pursuit when she hears the...

Fiona Neill / The Betrayals

   THE DEVASTATINGLY EXPLOSIVE RICHARD & JUDY PICK AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNone of them would forget that week on the wild Norfolk coast.Best friends Rosie and Lisa's families had always been inseparable.But that summer, Lisa had an...

Edward Marston / Railway to the Grave

 Yorkshire 1855. When Colonel Aubrey Tarleton walks into the path of a speeding train, he is crushed to death on the track. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, is immediately put on the case to determine why such a well-respected...

Elly Griffiths / The Dark Angel ( Ruth Galloway Novels - Book 11)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'My favourite current crime series' Val McDermidDr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He's discovered a group of bones in a tiny...

Edward Marston / Peril on the Royal Train

   Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. The Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his trusty Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from London to investigate,...

A.J. Finn / The Woman in the Window

   THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD!`Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing' Gillian Flynn`One of those rare books that really is unputdownable' Stephen King'Twisted to the power of max' Val McDermid`A dark, twisty...

Jude Deveraux / The Mulberry Tree

 Lillian Manville, the devoted wife of business titan Jimmie Manville, had always taken the blessings of her life for granted - until the devastating news of Jimmie's death turns everything upside down. Lillian is bewildered to learn that Jimmie has...

Sarah Vaughan / Anatomy of a Scandal

 Deftly plotted and superbly well researched, with an eerie relevance to the current debate surrounding the attitudes to and experiences of women in Westminster, Hollywood and beyond. An intelligent, absorbing page-turner that avoids all knee-jerk...

Mary Higgins Clark / Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories

 Collected together for the first time are 25 of Mary Higgins Clark's most acclaimed short stories. Featuring her trademark wit, style and razor-sharp plotting, this is must-have for every fan. And her most famous story, 'Death Wears a Beauty Mask',...

Michael Connelly / The Late Show ( Ballard & Bosch Series - Book 1 )

 CRIME NEVER SLEEPS.'CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR' Daily Mail* * * * *Detective Renee Ballard works 'The Late Show', the notorious graveyard shift at the LAPD. It's thankless work for a once-promising detective, keeping strange hours in a twilight...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / A Study in Scarlet

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, introduced by Iain Sinclair with notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics.Convalescing in London after a disastrous...

R.J. Ellory / A Simple Act of Violence

 Washington has a new menace... a serial killer whose victims don't exist... Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the...

Clare Mackintosh / Let Me Lie

 Don't miss the powerful and page-turning new novel from Clare Mackintosh - AFTER THE END is out now____________________Read the addictive thriller and number one bestseller Let Me Lie - from the award-winning author of breakout sensations I See You...

Mary Higgins Clark / Dashing Through the Snow

 In the picturesque village of Branscombe, New Hampshire, the townsfolk are preparing for the annual Festival of Joy. With preparations in full swing, a group of employees at the local market, recently cheated out of their Christmas bonus by their...

Minette Walters / The Last Hours

 England, 1348: as the Black Death spreads through the country, people start to die by the thousands. In Dorset, young Lady Anne takes control of her lands, with her trusted steward, Thaddeus, at her side. Compassionate and resourceful, she...

Ann Cleeves / The Sleeping and the Dead

 The Sleeping and the Dead is a tense psychological crime thriller from CWA Gold Dagger award-winning writer, Ann Cleeves. Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling...

Stephen Booth / The Corpse Bridge

 The old Corpse Bridge is the route taken for centuries by mourners from villages on the western fringes of Derbyshire to a burial ground across the River Dove, now absorbed into the landscaped parkland of a stately home. When Earl Manby, the...

Tana French / The Trespasser

 The case that will make Detective Antoinette Conway's murder squad career. Or break it. There's the murder squad you set your sights on, back at the beginning of your career: the one where you're playing knife-edge mind-games with psychopathic...

Felix Francis / Triple Crown

   THE RICHEST PRIZE IN RACING. THE PERFECT MOTIVE TO KILL.Jeff Hinkley, a British Horseracing Authority investigator, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their...

James Patterson / Murder in Paradise

 From the world's bestselling thriller writer - three pulse-pounding stories in one book!THE LAWYER LIFEGUARD with Doug Allyn: Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancee. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a...