Crime

Paul Mendelson / The History of Blood

 When the South African Police Service receive a panicked call for help from the wayward daughter of a former Apartheid-era politician, they discover only her body but, within it, a message which will take Colonel Vaughn de Vries and Don February of...

Sam Eastland / The Red Coffin

 It is 1939. The world stands on the brink of Armageddon. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have left the country unprepared to face the onslaught of Nazi Germany. For the coming battles, Stalin has placed his hopes on a...

Chris Freeman / Streetwise : A Joseph Soyinka Mystery

  This is a Joseph Soyinka mystery.Murder on the city streets - Police detective Joseph Soyinka made many enemies fighting police corruption in Nigeria but he refused to be intimidated - until his wife was killed and his life destroyed by unknown...

Elizabeth Haynes / Human Remains

  Elizabeth Haynes' chilling new psychological thriller preys on our darkest fears - and shows how easily ordinary lives can fall apart when no one is watching. Police analyst Annabel wouldn't describe herself as lonely. Her work keeps her busy...

Liza Marklund / Last Will

 A frosty December night in Stockholm.A thousand guests attend the prestigious Nobel Prizewinners' dinner.The evening is one of prestige and glamour.Until wo shots are fired on the dance floor.Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon is there, covering the...

Ann B. Ross / Miss Julia Renews Her Vows

  Start with the first book and read straight on through...[or] grab the latest and devour it as a stand-alone. -Charleston City Paper. Don't miss the newest, Miss Julia Raises the Roof, coming April 2018 from Viking. Every one loves the...

Emma Healey / Whistle in the Dark

 Jen has finally got her daughter home.But why does fifteen-year-old Lana still feel lost?When Lana goes missing for four desperate days and returns refusing to speak of what happened, Jen fears the very worst. She thinks she's failed as a mother,...

Jack OConnell / Box Nine

  A stunningly original dystopic novel about the impact of new synthetic drug Lingo on a depressed New England factory town. Besides offering a potent high, Lingo delivers a shot to the brain cells governing linguistic comprehension and verbal...

Neil White / Lost Souls

 Sometimes the worst nightmares happen in broad daylight! An utterly gripping novel for fans of Peter James and Mark Billingham, from a rising star in the crime genre. A woman is found brutally murdered on a quiet housing estate, her tongue and eyes...

Anne Perry / Death of a Stranger

  Every night Hester Monk tends to women of the streets who have been injured as a result of their trade. But the injuries are becoming more serious, and now a body has been discovered in one of the area's brothels. The dead man is the respected...

Rebecca Tope / Fear in the Cotswolds

  Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments, and an equally troubled personal life, Thea Osborne is understandably apprehensive about her latest commission: a wintry month in an isolated house with only an assortment of animals,...

Mari Lisa / Veritas

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Sara Paretsky / Bitter Medicine

  In this novel, Vic Warshawski, heroine of "Indemnity Only", "Deadlock" and "Killing Orders", investigates Chicago's private hospital system. Through her friend Lotty Herschel, a top obstetrician who runs a clinic in a poor neighbourhood, Vic...

David Hunt / Trick Shot

 Kay Farrow is devastated at the death of her mentor Maddy Yamada, apparently the victim of a hit and run driver. But what looks like an accident turns out to be brutal murder. As she investigates, Kay is drawn into a decadent world of wealth and...

Rosie Walsh / The Man Who Didn't Call

 *Over a million copies sold worldwide*______________'I absolutely loved this book and didn't want it to end' Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers.The Man Who Didn't Call by Rosie Walsh is the perfect novel for anyone...

Katherine John / Black Daffodil

  Detective Trevor Joseph has his work cut out with the advent of a new Welsh synthetically produced drug - black daffodil and its impact on the criminal fraternities operating in and around Cardiff Bay and the Welsh...

Claire Kendal / I Spy

 'Tense, gripping and packed with twists' Lucy ClarkeSomeone is watching your every move...Holly Lawrence always wanted to be a spy, but the experience proved more dangerous than anything she imagined.Now, Holly lives in hiding under an assumed name...

Minna Lindgren / Escape from Sunset Grove

 It's not easy sharing a flat. Especially when you're 95 years old.Change is afoot at Sunset Grove retirement home, and its residents aren't impressed.Under threat from falling masonry, best friends Irma and Siiri are forced out of their home to...

Janet Evanovich / Turbo Twenty-Three

  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the heart of Trenton, N.J., a killer is out to make sure someone gets his just desserts. Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium...

Michael Robotham / The Wreckage

 Baghdad. Billions of dollars slipping into thin air.London. A girl on the run. What was that thing she said before everything went black?Was it 'goodbye'? Or was it 'sorry'?In London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent...

Mary Paulson-Ellis / The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing

 From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing.Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A...

Susanna Gregory / A Plague On Both Your Houses

  In the tradition of Ellis Peters, A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew, whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations of heresy from his more traditional colleagues...

Angela Marsons / Silent Scream

 DISCOVER THE MILLION COPY PHENOMENON - the world's bestselling new crime author:Even the darkest secrets can't stay buried forever...Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult-sized hole would have taken...

Jonathan Holt / The Abomination

 A superb conspiracy thriller set in Venice, from a Sunday Times bestseller. ********They found the woman's body on the steps of a church, washed up by Venice's winter tides. A tattoo on her wrist matched graffiti in an abandoned hospital, not used...

J. D. Robb / Fantasy In Death : 30

  They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed...

Jennifer Clement / Prayers for the Stolen

 'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on...

Sharon Bolton / Dead Scared : Lacey Flint Series, Book 2

 'Bolton is hot property in crime fiction right now' Stylist Magazine'Mesmerising' The TimesA series of suicides. Each one a female university student. Each one more horrifying than the last.The police know it cannot be coincidence. But they can't...

Lisa Hall / The Party

 'Compelling, addictive...brilliant' B A ParisIt was just a party. But it turned into a nightmare.When Rachel wakes up in a strange room, the morning after a neighbour's party, she has no memory of what happened the night before. Why did her husband...

Frances Fyfield / Casting the First Stone

 A year after her husband's death, young widow and art collector Diana Porteous listlessly roams the beach near her home. Her friend and agent Saul takes action, introducing her to his stylish, anarchic sister, Sarah, to pep her up.They plan that Di...

Andrew Martin / The Blackpool Highflyer

 'Genuinely gripping ... A brilliant evocation of Edwardian working-class life - the sort of thing DH Lawrence might have written had he been less verbose or been blessed with a sense of humour.' Peter Parker, Evening StandardThe second Jim Stringer...

Anja De Jager / A Cold Case in Amsterdam Central

 Detective Lotte Meerman is convinced the death of Frank Stapel, a painter and decorator, isn't an accident after she and his widow Tessa find a skeleton in a sports bag in his left luggage locker at Amsterdam Central train station.The remains date...

Amanda Kyle Williams / The Stranger You Seek

  In Atlanta, Georgia, a vicious serial killer is at loose, luring victims with ease, killing them with a combination of precision and twisted brutality. Keye Street is not happy. Formally a rising FBI star, with two university degrees and a...

Mandy Morton / The Ghost of Christmas Paws

 It's a week before Christmas and Hettie and Tilly set out on a very dangerous case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. Lady Eloise Crabstock-Singe has summoned them to Crabstock Manor in the village of Porthladle on the Cornish Coast to solve...

John Mortimer / Rumpole and the Angel of Death

  In the title story of this collection Rumpole is defending a pro-euthanasia doctor on a charge of murdering his old colleague Chippy.       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in...

S. G. MacLean / Crucible

 A gripping historical thriller from the CWA award-winning author of The Seeker - a must-read for fans of CJ Sansom and Rory Clements'One of the best writers of historical crime' The TimesAberdeen, 1631. University librarian Robert Sim takes receipt...

James Hazel / The Ash Doll

 The past had been buried. But now someone has remembered . . .Prolific lawyer Charlie Priest has bet his career on one case, but when his star witness turns up brutally murdered on the first morning of the trial, things start to fall apart.Priest...

Steve Burrows / A Siege of Bitterns

 Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers. Indeed his success has elevated him into a poster boy for the police. The problem is Jejeune doesn't really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

 THE SIXTEENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE SERIESThe one with Mma Ramotswe's summer holiday . . .Mma Ramotswe is taking a break, leaving important tasks in the capable hands of Mma Makutsi, co-director of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective...

George Pelecanos / The Cut

  Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked...

Dan James / Unsinkable

 A DOOMED VOYAGEApril 14th 1912. The maiden voyage of the world's most luxurious passenger liner, Titanic.A DARK PASTEach passenger has their own reason to make the crossing, but for former Special Branch police officer Arthur Beck it is the only...

Jo Spain / Beneath the Surface

 THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD AND JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER COMPETITION'A writer to watch out for . . . exceeded all expectations' Amazon reviewerDid I know it would come to this? There is no shot at redemption. I am going to...

Anders Roslund / Three Seconds

 WINNER OF THE 2011 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER. AND SOON TO BE A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER - SCANDINAVIAN CRIME DOES NOT GET MORE EXPLOSIVE.'Extraordinarily compelling' Daily Mail'Three Seconds is just about how long it...

Jo Spain / Dirty Little Secrets

 FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CONFESSIONSix neighbours, six secrets, six reasons to want Olive Collins dead.In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns...

Arturo Perez-Reverte / The Flanders Panel

 The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess.In a 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are pictured playing chess. Yet two years before he could sit for the portrait, one...

J.P Delaney / The Perfect Wife

 'Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant'CJ Tudor, author of The Chalk Man'A chilling and uniquely disturbing 21st-century twist on the unreliable narrator makes for a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking psychological thriller'Cara Hunter,...

Gerald Seymour / Battle Sight Zero

 'Seymour produces the most intelligent writing in the thriller genre' Financial Times***From the author of Harry's Game - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickThe Kalashnikov AK47. A weapon with a unique image. A...

Graham Masterton / Begging to Die

 AN ABANDONED CHILDA young girl has been found in a deserted cemetery. She speaks a foreign language, and she cries for her mother. But nobody claims her. Nobody knows who she is.A MURDERED BEGGAROn the streets of Cork, homeless men and women are...

James Runcie / The Colour of Heaven

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Anna Dean / A Gentleman of Fortune

 Richmond, 1806. Miss Dido Kent has developed rather a taste for mysteries. Having solved the riddle of her niece's missing fiance and the body in the bushes at Belsfield Hall, she is finding her quiet holiday at her cousin Flora's home rather...

Sara Shepard / Follow Me

 'A classic whodunit with a contemporary edge' Cecily Von Ziegesar, praise for The AmateursEveryone knows Chelsea Dawson. Day and night, her tens of thousands of followers on Instagram watch her every move. So when she goes missing from the sunny...

Danuta Reah / The Forest of Souls

 A gripping psychological thriller, taking the reader from 21st century Britain to the darkest days of war-torn Eastern Europe.The cries of the innocent echo through the years...Her obsession with history has cost Helen Kovacs her life. Helen's...

Conor Fitzgerald / Bitter Remedy

 There's no cure for murder...Commissario Alec Blume, on health leave and fleeing his partner Caterina, has retreated from Rome to central Italy. At the Villa Romanelli he enrolls on a natural remedies course conducted by a young woman named Silvana...