Crime

Jack Grimwood / Nightfall Berlin

   'Note-perfect, multi-layered, rugged as a T-34 tank. Grimwood is about to become your new favourite thriller writer' IndependentA tense, atmospheric and breathtaking thriller that drops you deep into the icy heart of the Cold War - fans of...

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 photos seized with surprising violence. It...

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 when she falls pregnant, everything threatens...

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 Chevalier.`Crime novel or literary...

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 Ramotswe's newest client is the big-shot...

Jilliane Hoffman / The Cutting Room

 The chilling new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Retribution and Pretty Little ThingsTHEY WATCH.The body of a student who went missing from a Florida nightclub is found in a dumpster. A horrifying scene, but nothing compared...

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. Thrust into the national spotlight, 'The Six'...

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 wedding celebrations of Sophia Magdalena, the fair maid...

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, despite opposition from her superiors. When two...

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, London's East End.Kitty Peck, a spirited but...

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 Jane Hughes . . .Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a...

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 and DI Carter.Cornwall, 2000. Jenna wakes up...

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 murders of Hispanic immigrants in New York brings...

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 named Mutt. Resourceful, strong-willed, defiant, Kate...

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 the prequel to the BBC's epic series Luther,...

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 whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still,...

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 our books are second hand, and while you...

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 murder and did nothing: the terrified Vietnam...

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 Liar's Chair is Rebecca Whitney's stunning...

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 the reasons for Mark's apparent suicide...

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 war, and the prison falls into the hands of its...

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 from the low-life company she's fallen in with,...

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 bought a million soaring Provident shares -...

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 procedural thriller by the author of "Eleven...

Ruth Ware / In a Dark, Dark Wood

   THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICESHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS' BOOK OF THE YEAR'This year's hottest crime novel'IndependentNora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

   As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains and the resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Not only is Mr J. L. B. Matekoni attempting to reform himself into a...

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 by her daughter's aggressive behaviour. Lily...

Kristen Lepionka / The Last Place You Look

   'Seriously this is a must read. I loved it!' MARTINA COLE'Utterly superb ... pure reading pleasure.' SOPHIE HANNAHOne of VAL MCDERMID'S New Blood choices for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate 2017What really...

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 her mother two years previously and she had a...

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 Francis It should have been the start of the...

Peter May / Extraordinary People ( An Enzo Files Novel )

   **#1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR: OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD****THE ENZO FILES: PETER MAY'S ADDICTIVE COLD-CASE SERIES****'Action-packed' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY****'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met' BOOKBROWSE**In...

Rebecca Chance / Killer Diamonds

   After decades in the spotlight as an Oscar-winning film star and famous beauty, Vivienne Winter is one of the most recognizable women on the planet. When she decides to auction her multimillion dollar jewellery collection for charity,...

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 lagoon, nothing is what it seems...

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 is also haunted by something he witnessed at...

Nuala Ellwood / The Day of the Accident

   WHAT DID YOU SEE? WHAT DID YOU DO? 'Gripping, poignant...I read it in one sitting' ROSAMUND LUPTON'Brilliantly compulsive and with one hell of a twist!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS____________________________Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma,...

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 be blown apart by the unexpected news that,...

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.You left me no choice, Clarissa.I just...

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 resurrects half-formed memories of her childhood...

William Gibson / Spook Country

   What happens when old spies come out to play one last game?In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the...

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 put the past behind her and move on with her...

Reginald Hill / Death's Jest-Book

   Reginald Hill's best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: 'Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world' -- Independent In T.L...

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 M.J. Arlidge and Angela Marsons.By now he...

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 into the skulls of their victims with hammers ....

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 it does, and that it lies hidden -...

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 mesmerising crime narrative' IndependentONE CELLA...

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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

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 take any more stress in their lives and...

Tom Wood / Better Off Dead

   Victor, a hitman without a conscience protects a human rights lawyer in Better Off Dead, he bestselling BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club pick.A hitman must be anonymous, amoral... and aloneVictor is the face in the crowd you don't see, a...

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 crime writers in history, death and mayhem take...

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.Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime...

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 Carroll, strongly suspects that he knows the...

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 True Detective comes a powerful, gleaming-dark...