Crime

Nicolas Obregon / Blue Light Yokohama

   Inspired by a blistering real-life murder, Blue Light Yokohama's INSPECTOR IWATA is perfect for FANS OF JO NESBO'S HARRY HOLE.THE MURDERER'S IN YOUR HOUSE . . . A family of four are found...

Thomas H. Cook / Mortal Memory

    'What did my father do? He killed my mother, my sister, and my brother, then waited to kill me...' Steve Farris is an architect who lives with his wife and son in the suburbs. His world...

Belinda Bauer / Blacklands

   VOTED CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR when it was first released, and still the most gripping, powerful thriller debut you will read this year*SPECIAL EDITION* FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM...

James M. Cain / The Postman Always Rings Twice

   'Nobody has ever quite pulled it off the way Cain does, not Hemingway, and not even Raymond Chandler' Tom Wolfe The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and...

C.J. Box / The Disappeared

   No motive, no suspect, no trace. Who doesn't want her found? Joe Pickett is 300 miles from home, enduring the worst weather January in Wyoming can throw at you. He's in the small mountain town of...

Henning Mankell / Kennedy's Brain

   When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister...

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...

Jasper Fforde / The Well Of Lost Plots

   The third book in the phenomenal Thursday Next series from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.'Leaving Swindon behind her to hide...

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...

Mark Pearson / Blood Work

   The first victim is a young woman found on Hampstead Heath. Her throat has been slashed and her body mutilated. This horrifying discovery marks the beginning of Detective Inspector Jack Delaney's...

J.D. Robb / Creation In Death

    When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve Dallas is catapulted back to nine years ago. A man the media tagged The...

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...

Peter James / Love You Dead ( DSI Roy Grace Series - Book 12)

An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life - to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the...

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...

Michel Bussi / Don't Let Go

   'Michel Bussi is one of France's most ingenious crime writers... has plenty of twists and turns in store in this fast-moving novel about a long-planned act of revenge' Joan Smith, SUNDAY...

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

C. J. Sansom / Dark Fire ( Shardlake Series - Book 2 )

   Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Dark Fire is the second thrilling historical crime novel from C. J. Sansom.It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew...

Georgette Heyer / Venetia

   In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one...

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...

Ruth Rendell / The Veiled One

   The fourteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet, looking like a heap of rags, the woman's dead body lay...

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...

Keith Baker / Inheritance

    When retired RUC officer Bob McCallan is blown up in a gas explosion, his son Jack inherits an unexpected fortune. He also inherits a key to the past. The violence in Northern Ireland have...

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...

James Patterson / Cross the Line ( Alex Cross Series - Book 22)

What's more dangerous than a killer? For Detective Alex Cross, it's a killer who thinks he's the good guy...  Shots ring out in suburban Washington D.C. in the early hours. When the smoke clears, a...

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...

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...

James Patterson / Bloody Valentine ( Quick Reads)

   This year Valentine's Day isn't for romance. It's for murder. Mega rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine's Day are...

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...

Mary Higgins Clark / Santa Cruise

    Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband Willy, private detective Regan Reilly, her new husband Jack, and Regan's parents are all guests on the Royal...

Baverly Barton / Close Enough to Kill

   He's their secret admirer, wooing them with phone calls, love letters and special gifts.From a distance, he admires them. Desires them. Despises them. And when he gets close enough, he kills them...

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...

Michael Dibdin / Blood Rain

    The discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the 3000-year-old city of...

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...

Peter James / Dead If You Don't (Large Paperback) ( DSI Roy Grace Series - Book 14)

Amy Lloyd / The Innocent Wife (Large Paperback)

Karin Slaughter / Unseen (Large Paperback) ( A Will Trent Novel)

Mary Higgins Clark / All By Myself, Alone

   The thrilling new novel from the multi-million copy global bestselling author, 'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark.A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly...Fleeing the...

Jess Kidd / The Hoarder

   FEATURED ON SIMON MAYO'S BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD Unintentional psychic Maud Drennan arrives to look after Cathal Flood, a belligerent...

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...

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,...

Parker Bilal / The Golden Scales : A Makana Investigation

   Former police inspector Makana, in exile from his native Sudan, lives on a rickety Nile houseboat in Cairo, scratching out a living as a private investigator. When he receives a call from 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...

Jonathan Kellerman / Guilt ((Alex Delaware Series - Book 28)

 Gruesome secrets from the past turn into a dark and complex current case for psychologist Alex Delaware. GUILT is a compelling and high-octane thriller from bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman,...

Jonathan Kellerman / Breakdown (Alex Delaware Series - Book 31)

 Criminal psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware is pushed to his limit like never before in Breakdown by New York Times No.1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman. Fans of Michael Connelly and Harlan Coben will...

Michael Dibdin / Thanksgiving

 Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he...

Michael Didbin / Dirty Tricks

 Karen and I on the sofa, Karen and I in the back seat of the BMW, Karen and I at the river, up the alley, down the garden, round the corner, in the pub. Our movements are furtive, frantic and...

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...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe

 Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma...

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,...

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...

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...

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...