Crime

Lexie Elliott / The French Girl

  It was meant to be the perfect holiday for six British gradates. But then she arrived, lithe and tanned, by the pool one hot afternoon. Severine - the girl next door. As her beauty captivates each of them, tensions begin to boil over, and years...

Patricia Duncker / Hallucinating Foucault

  A tale of a writer, the glamorous, scandalous Paul Michel, enfant terrible of French letters, and of a student who sets out to find him. When he does find Michel, it is in a French asylum where he has languished for years. The student arranges...

Samantha Harvey / The Western Wind

 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019**15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found:...

Ellis Peters / Death and the Joyful Woman

  One of the George Felse mysteries. Det Sgt Felse is called in to investigate a murder at a new roadhouse, once a beautiful old inn known as "The Joyful Woman". There is no shortage of suspects, but the arrest of Kitty Norris leads Felse's young...

Jostein Gaarder / The Castle in the Pyrenees

  Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in...

M. J. Lee / When the Past Kills

  The past is never over. It's just waiting for an opportunity to return...When the notorious serial killer the Beast of Manchester was captured, the streets should have been safe. Except the police got the wrong man. An innocent person was...

Robert Goddard / The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

 The no. 1 ebook from the Sunday Times bestseller'He's the high priest of plot ... deftly woven, but also beautifully written ... I loved it.' Mel Giedroyc'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily MailUmiko Wada has recently had...

Becky Masterman / Rage Against the Dying

 Old Case. New Rules... An utterly compelling crime debut, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and longlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger 2013After a long and murky career with the FBI, Brigid Quinn is trying to move on. She's got a nice house...

Paraic ODonnell / The House on Vesper Sands

 'Tremendously good' Observer'The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White' Sarah Perry'Part Wilkie Collins, part Conan Doyle' Guardian'Huge fun' Daily Mail'Has everything you could want in a...

Lisa Hartley / Tell No Lies

 Now they're coming after Caelan's team...A tortured body is found in a basement. Drug dealing and people smuggling is on the rise. Then police start going missing.There seems to be no connection between the crimes, but Detective Caelan Small senses...

Tami Hoag / Cold Cold Heart

 In COLD COLD HEART, Tami Hoag - the Sunday Times bestselling author of A THIN DARK LINE - with the gripping follow-up to THE 9TH GIRL.Dana Nolan has escaped from notorious serial killer Doc Holliday. But can she ever be safe?She was the only one to...

Julie Hyzy / Grace Takes Off

 A trip to Italy's Tuscan countryside is a dream come true for curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, Grace Wheaton. At least until her boss--and benefactor of this whirlwind excursion--becomes the target of a murderer...When Grace and her boss,...

Julie Hyzy / Grace Interrupted

  On the grounds of Marshfield Manor, Civil War re-enactors have set up camp. And what a dedicated troupe! One of them has really been killed...       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Zhou Haohui / Death Notice

 'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This extraordinary novel is the first in a trilogy, and it is already China's bestselling crime series to...

Simon Scarrow / Playing With Death

 HOW WAS A MAN KILLED WHILE ALONE IN A LOCKED ROOM? IS IT THE PERFECT MURDER?It's a case for FBI Special Agent Rose Blake. Still raw after a notorious serial killer slipped through her net, Rose will do whatever it takes - including putting her own...

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg / The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!

 The little old lady is back! This time, Martha Andersson and her friends - the League of Pensioners - have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and are enjoying the bright lights of Las Vegas.This is their opportunity for a new lease of...

Lisa Ballantyne / Little Liar

 THE TOP-TEN BESTSELLER!'Thought-provoking and clever' Gilly Macmillan'A tense and moving story that I will remember for a long time' Rachel Abbott'This tense psychological thriller focuses relentlessly on the way its characters cope as stress piles...

Amanda Craig / The Golden Rule

 A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick'A highly enjoyable story about female resilience and finding fulfilment on your own terms' Sunday Times'An irresistible summer read' Guardian Book of the Day'A...

Kate Bradley / To Keep You Safe

 For fans of What You Did and The Dilemma comes a nail-biting suspense thriller that asks: how far would you go to save a child that isn't yours?You don't know who they are. You don't know why they're hunting her. But you know she's in danger.What...

Charles McCarry / The Shanghai Factor

 An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper.He's meant to be laying low, polishing his Mandarin and awaiting further instructions from Washington. But Shanghai is a difficult city to sleep in, especially when his nights are taken over...

Jane Isaac / The Truth Will Out

 'The criminal world is always closer than you think... Tense and cop-savvy.' Phil RickmanEverything's going to be okay.What if it's not?Suddenly, she turned. For a split second she halted, her head inclined.Naomi, what is it?She whisked back to...

Darcey Bell / A Simple Favour

  A Simple Favour is a twisting free-fall ride filled with betrayal, reversal, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty. Darcey Bell ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling, and completely absorbing thriller that holds you in its grip until...

Max Allan Collins / Bones: Buried Deep

 Dr. Temperance Brennan, a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in a victim's bones. Law enforcement calls upon her to...

Jo Nesbo / The Kingdom

 *Watch out for The Jealousy Man, the dark and twisted new collection of crime stories from Jo Nesbo, coming September 2021*'Suspenseful, original...special in every way' Stephen KingTWO BROTHERS. BOUND BY BLOOD...AND A LIFETIME OF SECRETS.When Roy...

John Fairfax / Summary Justice : An all-action court drama Sunday Times

 The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He'd said he was innocent. She'd believed him.Sixteen...

S. A. Lelchuk / Save Me from Dangerous Men

 'Action-packed and razor sharp' LEE CHILDThis SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB STAR PICK is for fans of gritty, darkly funny thrillers like Killing Eve and anyone who loves Kimberley Chambers, Jessie Keane, Marnie Riches, Emma Tallon or Kerry Barnes...

Neil Jordan / The Drowned Detective

 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 two...

Denise Mina / The Red Road

 Power, abuse, love gone horribly wrong - and a crime that stretches back two decades...From the two-time THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD-winning author.A girl who has seen more darkness than most.A Scottish lawyer waiting to...

Louise O'Neill / After the Silence

 'Chillingly good' Elizabeth Day'Her best book to date and that's really saying something' Marian Keyes'A powerfully atmospheric, darkly compelling mystery' Lucy Foley'A superior psychological thriller' Liz NugentNessa Crowley's murderer has been...

Nora Roberts / Hideaway

 A powerful new novel from global bestseller Nora Roberts about finding what matters most in the least expected places.If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'The GuardianOne day, she thought,...

Charlie Williams / Fags and Lager

  Royston Blake recounts another tough tale from the crap town of Mangel. Still Head Doorman at Hoppers, Blake begins to notice a change in general punter behaviour. The norm of beery violence and lechery has given way to trance-like stares and...

Janie Bolitho / Killed in Cornwall

  DI Jack Pearce is investigating a series of burglaries and brutal attacks on young women which has broken out in Cornwall. Once again his on-off girlfriend Rose Trevelyan finds herself at the heart of the investigation. With her intimate...

James Patterson / The Shadow

 Only two people know Lamont Cranston's secret identity as the Shadow, a vigilante of justice: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. Then Khan ambushes the couple, who find the slimmest chance of survival . . . in the...

James Patterson / Private Princess : (Private 14)

 We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.We are Private. And we're the best.____________________________________Now available to preorder: PRIVATE ROGUE____________________________________Jack Morgan receives an offer he cannot...

Ann Cleeves / The Darkest Evening ( Vera Stanhope Series - Book 9 )

 DCI Vera Stanhope returns in The Darkest Evening, the ninth novel in No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's phenomenally popular series.The darkest nights can hide the deadliest secrets . . .Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera...

Karin Slaughter / The Silent Wife

She runsA woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she's safe.He watchesBut a predator is watching from the shadows. Waiting for the perfect moment to attack.He waitsThey thought they caught him. But another victim has just been found.The...

Hannelore Cayre / The Godmother

  WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZEWINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux - 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen... and soon to become The Godmother...

David Young / Stasi Winter

 IN EAST GERMANY, SOLVING A MURDER CAN GET YOU KILLED . . .A gripping and intelligent thriller set in East Germany, during the worst winter in one-hundred years. Perfect for fans of Tom Rob Smith, Phillip Kerr and Joseph Kanon...

F. H. Batacan / Smaller And Smaller Circles

  This harrowing mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt through Manila for a brutal serial killer Payatas, a 50-acre dump northeast of Manila's Quezon City, is home to thousands of people...

Patricia Ferguson / Aren't We Sisters?

 Longlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Aren't We Sisters? is a gripping novel about buried secrets and unlikely friendship.Norah Thornby can no longer afford to live in her grand family home in the centre of Silkhampton. Unless,...

Roz Watkins / Dead Man's Daughter

 A chilling and powerful thriller set in the atmospheric Peak District that will have you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of Val McDermid, Susie Steiner and Broadchurch.***She was racing towards the gorge. The place the locals knew as...

Jeffery Deaver / The Goodbye Man

 The gripping top ten Sunday Times bestselling thriller from Jeffery Deaver - featuring enigmatic investigator Colter ShawSay goodbye to your problemsIn pursuit of two armed fugitives in the wilderness of Washington State, unique investigator Colter...

Chandler Baker / Whisper Network

 Honest, timely and completely thrilling' REESE WITHERSPOON'Furious and relevant... I loved it so much' CLARE MACKINTOSH***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***Don't miss Chandler Baker's utterly addictive new novel. THE HUSBANDS is available to...

Ethan Cross / I Am Fear

 'THE SURPRISES ARE FAST AND FURIOUS AND WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS TO READ MORE' LISA GARDNERThey say face your fears. Here I am. OLD ENEMIES...Francis Ackerman Jr. is one of America's most prolifific serial killers. Scarred from their past battles,...

Ashley Weaver / A Dangerous Engagement

 Amory Ames is travelling to New York, excited to be a bridesmaid at her friend Tabitha's wedding, but with Prohibition in full swing, her husband Milo is less than enthused. When a member of the wedding party is found murdered on the front steps of...

Julia Chapman / Date with Mystery

 Date with Mystery is the third cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective series, perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M.C. Beaton.The Dales Detective Agency's latest assignment appears to be an open and shut...

Graham Moore / The Holdout

 'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah'One of the best legal thrillers ... as elegant and gripping as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent' Daily Mail'Quite the tour de force! Twelve Angry Men meets...

Julie Kramer / Missing Mark : Number 2 in series

  When Riley Spartz sees a want ad reading 'Wedding Dress for Sale: Never Worn', her news instincts tell her that the backstory might make an intriguing television sweeps piece. The groom, Mark, last seen at the rehearsal dinner, never showed up...

Robert Bryndza / Nine Elms

 'The perfect book for Erika Foster fans. It has all the same vibes - but MORE. I actually think this is Robert Bryndza's best book yet''A gripping read that I could not put down''What an absolutely stunning start to what promises to be a brilliant...

Laurien Berenson / Chow Down

  When Melanie receives a letter telling her that her Standard Poodle, Faith, is one of five finalists competing to be spokesdog for Chow Down dog food, she's mystified--until her nine-year-old son Davey admits to entering the contest. Melanie and...

Amanda Robson / Envy

 She wants your life - and she'll do anything to get it...Erica has always wanted to be exactly like her neighbour, Faye: beautiful, thin, and a mother. But Faye's life isn't as perfect as it seems - she has a terrible secret, and slowly but surely,...

Graham Masterton / Living Death

  The girl who teetered out of the doorway was exactly who they were looking for... DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorising Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all time high. Now they have a...