Crime Fiction

A gripping debut crime thriller from renowned Observer journalist Jamie Doward

It's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder...

The second installment in Owen Laukkanen's finger-burning series, which will appeal to fans of Lee Child and Jeffery Deaver.

A pulse-pounding mystery of one man's undoing. You just might not know which man . . .

A crime story. A love story. A worldwide phenomenon. More than 2 million copies sold

A young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead on the floor. A heart attack seems the likely cause, but Commissario Brunetti is not so sure and decides to take a closer look. Soon he discovers that she was part of an organization that cares for abused women and that her apartment ...

Two heroines. Two Southern towns. Two blistering crime novels.

It s the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor s wife and son die suddenly and the doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. But when further, apparently unconnected, murders occur, Porfiry Petrovich is forced to reassess his assumptions. Delving into the hidden, squalid ...

A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run for office.

A novel in which a tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and three years later a young journalist is warned off the story; a private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences; and, an ex-prime minister struggles to contain a dark secret from his time in office.

Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution.

Some crimes strike too close to home...Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative - and personal - case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD.

She died the way the universe will Lori Barrow was a Wunderkind, the youngest student ever to enroll at America's most exclusive science university. Now, twenty years later, she's a lonely, socially awkward Luddite whose career is all over the map because she refuses to grow up.. Her alma mater has brought ...

Clay Redmond, a Miami real estate broker living the good life, was all set for early retirement until his business partner "screws" him out of his interest in a choice piece of real estate. Clay's golden years nest-egg issue goes to court but even his own attorney and the presiding judge side against ...

Maddie Frank is a successfull blogger about frugal shopping, but when she becomes a prime suspect in the death of store manager Laila DeSimone, she starts her own investigation to find the killer.

A man stands accused of murdering his wife. But did he do it? From the master of the psychological thriller, this is GONE GIRL for grownups.

It's only eleven months before the US general election and an unusual number of candidates are already dropping out - and dropping dead. But when an idealistic young politician suddenly dies from an apparent heart attack in Hawaii, Lieutenant Lisa Higashiguchi of the Honolulu Police Department is on the case.

`Recalls Harlan Coben - though for my money Jackson is the better writer' Guardian