Crime Fiction

1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns.

Catch up on the latest from Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi and other favourites in the latest instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

A sharp psychological thriller exposing the dark underbelly of provincial society in Austria.

Covers the life in the badlands of modern Britain. From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East Anglia, this title focuses on a world of broken families and run-down estates, revenge killings and prostitution, drugs, guns and corruption.

* Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters

The eighteenth installment from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken ...

Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when...

The tenth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design

The Saint is back - the thirty-five original books starring the debonair classic crime hero are being republished in print and ebook with new introductions and extra content.

The Saint is back - the thirty-five original books starring the debonair classic crime hero are being republished in print and ebook with new introductions and extra content.

Crime doesn't come better than Connelly: the brand new blockbuster from the crime-thriller powerhouse.'Michael Connelly is the greatest American crime writer of his generation' THE TIMES

Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked, in the new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

A blockbuster crime thriller from a #1 bestselling powerhouse at the top of his game.

The Health Enforcement Team is struggling with the aftermath of IT specialist Bryce's sabotage of government systems. As Bryce threatens to shoot a civil servant every day until his demands are met, the civil service is in melt-down. It's getting dangerous - and not just for the team.

Murder often comes with an easy scapegoat...

Not all murder victims are mourned...

George Pelecanos's new novel is a page-turning story of rebellion, greed, and the high price of a second chance.

'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real. When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night ...

Serpents in Eden celebrates the rural British mystery by bringing together an eclectic mix of short crime stories written over, very roughly, half a century. Conan Doyle is represented, as are such major figures as G.K. Chesterton and Margery Allingham. Famous in their day were such authors as J.S. Fletcher, ...