Crime Fiction

Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.

It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. Amy's boss wants to make an example out of Melanie, who the local media quickly christens 'Coke Mom'.

What really happened to Sarah Cook? A beautiful blonde teenager, Sarah Cook disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and sits on death row, though he always maintained his innocence.

Winner of the Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover novel 2019

Shaken by the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. Certain - and scared - that things aren't so straightforward, Roxane starts to follow a paper trail that gets more dangerous the farther it goes.

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award 2015

Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn't mind ruffling a few feathers to flush out suspects in the brutal murder of a renowned ecological activist

Book 3 in Steve Burrows' fabulous 'Birder Murder' mystery series

When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations.

The dramatic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Vicki Pettersson's critically acclaimed Celestial Blues series-an inventive blend of paranormal romance, noir mystery, and urban fantasy-involving a fallen angel and a flesh-and-blood rockabilly reporter. After learning his wife survived the ...

The second Susie Mahl Mystery. If only death came with a warning...

Peony Red tells a story of how the flames of political conflict are fanned and kept alive behind the scenes because Serbs and Kosovars profit from that conflict.

A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.

Darkly comic, fast-paced and full of twists Viva la Madness is packed with sex, scams, drugs and enough dirty money to fill a few offshore bank accounts.

Poe and Dupin return for another addictive historical mystery

'Deliciously morbid...full of shuddersome gothic effects' Ripperologist magazine

Philadelphia, early 1844. As violent tensions escalate between 'nativists' and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe's fears for the safety of his wife Virginia ...

The third novel in Camilleri's savagely witty, brilliantly evocative Sicilian mystery series featuring Inspector Montalbano

Book one in the compelling Tuva Moodyson mystery series

Journalist Rebekah Roberts works at New York City's sleaziest tabloid, but dreams of bigger things.

The bestselling Belgian crime novel about an English rock 'n' roll band

Book one in the compelling Tuva Moodyson mystery series

The worlds of business, politics and crime collide when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night - one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. But then a family member, Gina Rafferty, starts asking questions. Devastated by her loss, Gina's grief is tempered, and fuelled, by anger.

The sixth novel in the Detective Johnny (One Eye) Hawke series.

Two laser-sharp detectives, two thought-provoking cases and two skilful plots.

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.