Crime Fiction

1664. Four years after Charles II is restored to the throne, Mercia Blakewood stands to lose everything: her father to the executioner's axe, her freedom to her treacherous uncle, her...

1894, Wigan. Miss Dorothea Gadsworth is interviewed for a teaching vacancy at George Street Elementary, but is ultimately dismissed as a candidate. The following Monday morning, her body is discovered...

'A daring concept executed to perfection, a hypnotic and authentic voice, and questions for us to answer as readers and people' LEE CHILDAn unnamed defendant stands accused of murder. Just...

In his quiet Vermont home, a man named Taft sits and wonders what's missing from his life. He's at a loss until a strange voice startles him from the rocking...

A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer...

'Compelling from first to last page.' DENISE MINAMeet Juniper Song, an under employed, twenty-something, Raymond-Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA.When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on...

If you're on the list you're marked for death.The envelope is unremarkable. There is no return address. It contains a single, folded, sheet of white paper.The envelope drops through the...

If you enjoyed UNORTHODOX, you will be riveted by Rebekah Roberts . . .'Chilling.' Sunday TimesAviva Kagan was just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn...

Eira Sjoedin is just old enough to remember the summer when 16-year-old Lina Stavren went missing. The entire community was haunted by the disappearance - especially when Olof Hagstroem, just...

'A gritty, politically charged mystery.' LA TimesJuniper Song - private detective - has a talent for surveillance, and for knowing when a client isn't telling her the whole story.Rubina Gasparian,...

'Gripping.' Observer'A one-sitting read.' Jane Casey'Compulsively readable.' Mail on SundayShe doesn't remember. He won't let her forget.From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: the famous family, the trust fund,...

London. A city where no-one feels safe and one man's crime is another man's justice. A paedophile is brutally murdered in his own home, and to protect other known offenders...

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**"This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of...

GET READY FOR THE MOST EXCITING COUNT-DOWN OF YOUR LIFEHOUR SIXTY-ONE Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack...

'A high-testosterone adventure . . . a page turner. Thrilling.' ObserverFrom Hope to Despair.Between two small towns in Colorado, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. All Jack Reacher wants...

The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher.INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW OF BETTER OFF DEAD, THE NEXT JACK REACHER.Jack Reacher...

The chilling Sunday Times bestseller perfect for fans of Knives Out.'In this fast-paced, twisted family saga, Shari Lapena keeps you guessing until the very last page...' PAULA HAWKINSThe new unputdownable...

*THE OBSERVER THRILLER BOOK OF THE MONTH**A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK*----------------------------------------The perfect couple. The perfect house. . . . The perfect crime.Londoners Jack and Syd moved into the...

Acclaimed author David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman and the explosive events that come to unite them. When his addict...

Sheriff Joanna Brady's best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down...

She'd cycled this way hundreds of times before, every twist and turn familiar. She didn't know this would be the last. When the body of architect James McCallum is found...

In the dead of night, madness lies... Emma can't sleep. CHECK THE WINDOWS It's been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer. LOCK THE DOORS Her mother stopped...

Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It's seven in the...

'If you like your thrillers darkly comic and outrageous this ticks all the boxes' The Sun The last person who called me 'Sweetpea' ended up dead... I haven't killed anyone...

How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone's playing a role? 'FABULOUS!' Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 'Scintillating' Observer 'Vibrant and atmospheric' Daily...

A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra... Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A...

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home... Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she...

Agatha Christie's ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot...

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a...

It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South.In an Arkansas jail cell...

Agatha Christie's classic mystery reissued with a new cover to tie in with Hugh Laurie's highly anticipated 2022 TV adaptation. While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices...

Private Investigator and Second World War veteran, Aloysius Archer, returns to solve a new case in Hollywood in this riveting thriller from international number one bestselling author David Baldacci.All that...

Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive . . . Pre-order the gripping new stand-alone mystery from 'world-class crime writer' Ragnar JonassonIn a deadly Icelandic snowstorm, four...

A standalone crime thriller featuring Jack McEvoy, hero of The Poet, from the global bestselling author of THE LINCOLN LAWYER and BRASS VERDICT.Jack McEvoy is at the end of the...

'Breathtaking' JEREMY CLARKSON'Winslow's masterpiece (so far) ... should have a place on every crime freak's bookshelf. Superb' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY_______________________A brilliant page-turning thriller of power and revenge on the front...

'A powerful, stirring read.' The Times'Typically brilliant . I loved it.' Adrian McKinty'The most stone-cold crime novel of 2021.' CrimeReadsTokyo, July 1949. President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of...

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated film adaptation. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is...

THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE OF HIS LIFE.ONLY THIS TIME THE DEFENDANT IS HIMSELF."The law of innocence is unwritten. It will not be found in a leather-bound code book. It will...

Winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 Crime Fiction Book of the YearA Book of the Year for 2021 in the New York Times, the Washington Post and...

Reacher never backs down from a problem.And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles...

'I tore through it' Erin Kelly 'Perfect storytelling' Victoria Selman 'A wicked plot' The Times Eleven guests. Three nights. One murderer.In a stately mansion in the Hertfordshire countryside, sisters Lois...

The second book in China's bestselling crime series to date. THE LAW IS WEAK Last week, the vigilante killer who terrified and thrilled the city of Chengdu with his 'death...

If she'd turned off her phone, instead of listening in, perhaps no one would have died...When Cressida Howard catches her entrepreneur husband playing away from home, she hires security expert...

An enemy is dangerous. A traitor is lethal.They call them the Taskforce. Designed to operate outside the bounds of law, trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability,...

In the sixth white-knuckle thriller from bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash hunts an assassin - if he suceeds in catching him, Peter's own record will be wiped clean... With...