Crime Fiction

She blows things up to keep people safe

Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very ...

Hailed as Britain&s Queen of Crime, Val McDermid&s award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for more than thirty years. Now, in 1979, she returns to the past with the story of Allie Burns, an investigative journalist whose stories lead her into world of corruption, terror, ...

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestselling author Val McDermid delivers a propulsive new thriller that finds journalist Allie Burns has become an editor, and as the Cold War and AIDS crisis deliver a nonstop tide of news, most of it bad, a ...

An eerie and unsettling novel, Bird Spotting in a Small Town perfectly encapsulates the intensity of rural claustrophobia when you don't know who you can trust....

Wallis Stoneman was born in Russia and adopted by a wealthy family in New York City. Beautiful and rebellious, she trades a life of privilege for the gritty streets of Manhattan. She knows nothing of her childhood in Russia. Those years are lost forever.
Now Wally is sixteen and hardened, and she has ...

The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant......

The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths.

"He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely. very dead. The safe door was wide open.
A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now.
There may have been money in it ance.
Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, ...

The sixteenth Inspector Rebus novel from 'Britain's best crime novelist' DAILY EXPRESS and No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'Rankin just gets better. The topicality and eye for detail are awesome' Jilly Cooper

Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie: when a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball, a young lady takes on the decidedly improper role of detective in this action-packed debut comedy of manners and murder.

The second Terra Alta Investigation - a new crime series by one of Europe's leading writers

Happily retired, Quarry turns down a million dollars to asassinate a presidential candidate. But it's not the sort of job you can just walk away from...

DI Amy Winter knows evil. She's lived through it.

Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She's been ...

In the eighth instalment of the Birder Murder Mysteries, DCI Domenic Jejeune must decide where his loyalty lies before deadly consequences occur...

A searing, gritty debut crime novel with an unforgettable heroine who must make her way in a man's world

Tells the story of two young men from very different sides of an Indian society: one cast adrift in a world of fashion parties, media moguls and designer labels, the other who reveals to him the city's hidden and squalid underbelly.

Will Dean's most terrifying Tuva Moodyson mystery yet

Evocative post-World War II crime novel set in LA, starring ex-movie-star and now debt-collector, John Ray Horn

A spellbinding thriller about wealth, power and one woman’s all-consuming ambition to achieve her wildest dreams.
When Lenore Hamlyn is taken in by her sympathetic landlady, she’s shocked to eventually learn the source of Nan’s wealth.

Yet that life-changing revelation fires a relentless, burning ...