Crime

Charles Lambert / Any Human Face

   When Andrew -- a second-hand-book dealer -- comes across a pile of photographs from police archives, he decides to exhibit them. But then the gallery is raided the day before the opening, and the...

Michelle Frances / The Temp

   You have a successful career, a loving husband and a baby on the way . . . no-one can replace you, can they?Carrie is a successful TV producer with the perfect husband and the perfect life. But...

Joanne Harris / Different Class

   The gripping new psychological thriller from Joanne Harris, to follow her bestselling Gentlemen & Players and Blueeyedboy. Perfect for fans of Claire Mackintosh, BA Paris, Paula Hawkins and Tracy...

Alexander McCall Smith / Tea Time For The Traditionally Built

   It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma...

Dick Wolf / The Intercept

 Four days before the dedication of the new Freedom Tower at ground zero in New York City, five passengers and a flight attendant bravely foil the hijacking of a commercial jet en route to the city...

Edward Marston / The Fair Maid of Bohemia

 Murder turns the journey of a lifetime into a deadly nightmareThe plague has struck London once again but so has opportunity for theatre company Lord Westfield's Men. Invited to perform at the...

Erik Axl Sund / The Crow Girl

 The international thriller sensationIt starts with just one body - the hands bound, the skin covered in marks.Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible,...

Kate Griffin / Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune

 A fast-paced historical mystery with breath-taking twists and turns that takes us from the bohemian world of late 19th-Century Paris to a deadly secret at the heart of the British Empire.March 1881,...

C.L. Taylor / The Lie

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis was no accident...Haunting, compelling, this psychological thriller will have you hooked. Perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Daughter.I know your name's not really...

Lee Weeks / Cold Justice

 GRIPPING AND FAST-PACED CRIME FICTION FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FROZEN GRAVE AND COLD KILLERS.A killer seeking revenge. A community protecting its own. The most explosive case yet for DC Willis...

Daina Graziunas / Thinning The Predators

 Ira Levitt, an FBI veteran, has been chasing one man for 15 years, a vigilante who has murdered over two dozen serial killers whom the police have failed to convict. Then one particular series of...

Dana Stabenow / Dead in the Water

 KATE SHUGAK is a native Aleut working as a private investigator in Alaska. She's 5 foot 1 inch tall, carries a scar that runs from ear to ear across her throat and owns half-wolf, half-husky dog...

Neil Cross / The Calling : A John Luther Novel

 Neil Cross, the creator of the series, is a seasoned novelist and it shows - the writing is economical, taut and evocative. This is, quite literally, bloody brilliant' MetroMeet DCI John Luther in...

James Sallis / Drive

 I drive. That's what I do. All I do'. Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder...

Lawrence Block / When the Sacred Ginmill Closes

 Scudder is a witness to a heist in an illegal drinking den, and the owners would like him to find the culprits, while another witness wants him to investigate the muder of his wife.     All of...

Ryan David Jahn / Acts of Violence

 Katrina Marino is about to become America's most infamous murder victim.This is Katrina's story, and the story of her killer.It is also the story of Katrina's neighbours, those who witnessed her...

Rebecca Whitney / The Liar's Chair

 As featured on Loose Women's Loose Books as their November book club pick'Shocking . . . You go through every emotion with it' - Coleen Nolan'You can't help but be drawn into her world' - JameliaThe...

P.D. James / An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

 Sir Ronald Callender's son Mark is found hanged in mysterious circumstances. Cordelia Gray, now the sole proprietor of the Pryde Detective Agency, has been hired by Sir Ronald to shed some light on...

Tim Willocks / Green River Rising

 After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal...

John Creed / The Day of the Dead

   Just when he thinks he's done with the covert life, Jack Valentine hears from his old friend Paulo Cassegrande. Embarking on a seemingly straightforward mission to return his friend's daughter...

Paul Kilduff / The Dealer

    When the multi-billion-pound takeover of Provident Bank is sensationally announced, life will never again be the same for many influential players in the City. A star equities dealer has just...

Donald Harstad / The Known Dead

    A routine surveillance of a marijuana patch in a state park in Nation County, Iowa, suddenly turns into a shoot-out, resulting in one police officer and an old doper dead. The second police...

Tess Gerritsen / Playing with Fire

   What if your child wanted you dead?'I defy you to read the first chapter and not singe your fingers reading all the rest. It's that compelling. It's that good.' David BaldacciJulia is terrified...

Alnaldur Indridason / Hypothermia

   One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; Maria had never recovered from the death of...

Reg Gadney / Mother, Son and Holy Ghost

   December 1999. London is poised on the brink of a new Millennium as the Trinity Chapter religious cult prepares for the Resurrection of its leader, Trinity the Divine, in the first minute of the...

Edmund Power / No Christian Grave

    A dark secret stemming from a moment of tragedy and violence haunts several lives in a gripping and highly charged psychological crime novel, in the tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Clare...

S.A. Dunphy / After She Vanished

   A cracking debut thriller packed with great characters that leaves the reader wanting more' Irish IndependentFive people living on Dublin's streets have gone missing and criminologist David...

James Patterson / The Store

   The Store doesn't just want your money - it wants your soul.The Store is history's most powerful retailer. It can deliver anything to your door, using your data to anticipate needs and desires...

Michael Dibdin / Dead Lagoon

    An Aurelio Zen mystery. Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy American resident, but soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the...

Alan Glynn / Paradime

   After a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New York. But nothing's easy. Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more than $30,000 in student loans. Danny...

Kitty Sewell / Ice Trap

    "Dear Dr Woodruff, I hope you don't mind me writing to you. I think I'm your daughter. My name is Miranda and I have a twin brother, Mark ...' Welsh surgeon Dafydd Woodruff's life is about to...

Claire Kendal / The Book of You

   Sunday Times top ten bestseller and Richard & Judy pick, The Book of You is a terrifying psychological thriller about obsession and power, perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train...

Alex Marwood / The Killer Next Door

   The electrifying, addictive thriller from the author of the Edgar-Award winning sensation The Wicked Girls'Scary as hell' Stephen KingNo. 23 has a secret. In this bedsit-riddled south London...

David Peace / Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three

   Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four,...

Nicola White / In The Rosary Garden

    Ali Hogan is leaving school, all the possibilities of adult life glistening before her, when her discovery of a murdered newborn in the convent garden in Ireland shatters her world and...

Arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes's Greatest Cases

   The greatest adventures of the greatest detective of them allThe most famous of all fictional detectives in a selection of his most challenging cases, including the stories A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA...

Sarah Ward / In Bitter Chill

   Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins's mother commits suicide.Rachel Jones has tried to...

Nigel McCrery / Tooth and Claw

   From the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, comes the gripping second instalment in the acclaimed Mark Lapslie series, sees the DCI come under attack from all sides. Perfect for fans of...

Nigel McCrery / Core of Evil

   A visceral thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, introducing synaesthetic detective DCI Mark Lapslie.I've looked into the eyes of women who have banged nine-inch nails...

Mo Hayder / The Devil of Nanking

   Tokyo, 1990 Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that...

Anders Roslund / Cell 8

   THE SUNDAY TIMES 60 BEST THRILLERS AND CRIME NOVELS OF THE PAST 6 YEARS PICK - A CAPITAL CRIME AND A CHILLING CONSPIRACY AWAIT DCI EWERT GRENS.'A powerful, multi-layered novel' Guardian'A...

Jim Thompson / The Killer Inside Me

    Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him...

Robert Parker / A Wanted Man

      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 good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Wendy Jean / Unstolen

    The thing about being the unstolen one is that you'd better be strong, you'd better stay safe, you'd better not rock any boats or surely they will sink. People depend on you, people who can't...

Cecily Gayford / Murder On Christmas Eve

   Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents await under the tree ... and murder is afoot. In this collection of ten classic murder mysteries from the best...

Helen Fitzgerald / The Cry

   Now a major BBC 1 drama starring Jenna Coleman (Victoria, Dr Who) and Ewen Leslie (Top of the Lake, Safe Harbour), The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald brings a parent's worst nightmare to vivid life...

Lawrence Goldstone / The Anatomy Of Deception

   Philadelphia, 1889In the morgue of the city hospital, physicians uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman. What they see takes their breath away.Within days, one of the surgeons, Ephraim...

Nic Pizzolatto / Galveston

   'Recalls only the finest examples of the form' Dennis Lehane'The elegance Pizzolatto brings to his heart-wrenching story makes it unforgettable' Daily MailFrom the creator of the hit HBO series...

Alan Glynn / Limitless

   A stunning international thriller and a wild, compulsive ride into the greedy vortex of modern life. Imagine a drug that made your brain function to its full potential. A drug that allowed you...

Jane Adams / The Greenway

    Cassie still has nightmares about that day in 1975 when she and her cousin Suzie took a short cut through The Greenway. For somewhere along this path Suzie simply vanished. Also haunted is...

W.J. Burley / Wycliffe and the House of Fear

   A troubling disappearance. A puzzling mystery. A new investigation for Detective Wycliffe. Detective Superintendent Wycliffe is holidaying in Cornwall when he meets the intriguing Kemp family...

Kevin Stevens / The Rizzoli Contract

    A tense and compelling story of mafia conspiracies - and murder With nothing to lose, and a legal safety net to protect all profits - Harry Donohue is on to a winner. By publishing the story...