Crime Fiction

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, ...

"Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures."- Dorothy L. SayersRichard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who had snored his way through the train ...

In the spring of 1946 Venice seems untouched by war, a haven of normality in a ravaged continent, but those who suffered under the fascists are determined to expose those who collaborated with them.

A thrilling, intricate and page-turning new novel from the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction. A Necessary Death is the second instalment in Anne Holt's new crime series featuring Selma Falck.

Black River is an electrifying return for relentless reporter Tuva Moodyson, from the author of Dark Pines and Red Snow.

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 ...

New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness.

Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time.

In these tales, a businessman boasts about ...

The fifth of the Sunday Times Bestselling series sees PC Grant looking for missing children. And missing London.

The Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller, which became a major motion picture, and introduced the world to Mickey Haller. It's time to meet The Lincoln Lawyer.

Acclaimed and bestselling regional crime from the author of The Stranger Diaries. 'My favourite current series' Val McDermid

Dr Ruth Galloway faces a battle with the past in more ways than one in her 11th gripping investigation

The past is catching up with Myron Bolitar... A gripping novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SIX YEARS.

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY.

The first Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery, which won five international awards when it was first published.

"Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: private investigator Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start ...

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the No.1 author.
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