Crime Fiction

Saffy is waiting to go into an important meeting when she receives a missed call and then a text message from her best friend, Leona: Please help...come now. Of course, she races to her friend’s house. But when she arrives, she notices something strange....

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....

According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer.

It’s the night shift worker who finds them. Huddled in a hospital store cupboard is elderly Edith Higgins. Knifed to death. Sitting behind her is Staff Nurse Lily Frampton, a scalpel clasped in her blood-soaked hand.

Newly minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder — a 'file and forget'. But this is no ordinary cold case, as the discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day.

Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to avoid him — and slams head-on into the crash barrier.

Get three absolutely gripping crime thrillers set on the UK's atmospheric north Norfolk coast from number one best-selling British author J M Dalgliesh in this great value collection....

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success.

Three women. Three smouldering secrets. Who will make it out alive?

A gripping stand-alone thriller from the Sunday Times number one best-selling author of the Logan McRae series....

Two years ago, he broke my heart when he left me to do his father’s bidding. After months of crying, I finally accepted he was gone. That maybe he’d never loved me at all. I never wanted to see Luca again. Now, a cruel twist of fate has signed me over to him in a heartless deal.

In this union, the lines between love and hate are blurred. So blurred. He's a cold-blooded monster with ice in his veins and frost in his heart. But in bed, Nico De Kysa burns like wildfire. And in the heat of the night, I begin to forget why I hate the mobster.

A man wanders lost on a filthy night in the Black mountains of Wales. Despite the valiant efforts of the rescue services, he does not survive. Is this an accident? Or malice aforethought? DCI Warlow and team are drawn into a mystery that soon spirals into more deaths and a poisonous trade.

Jack Widow lives by simple rules: keep moving, live and let live. But there’s one more rule—don’t cross him, and he won’t cross you. Deep in the Ozarks, the forgotten town of Iron Crossing harbors deadly secrets.

After a long year of crime-fighting, DCI Ryan and his team are looking forward to a peaceful Christmas filled with festive treats. But, when their dinner is interrupted by the untimely arrival of a dead body, they’re reminded that crime never sleeps.

Met cop DI Rob Marshall is hot on the trail of the serial killer known as the Chameleon, who has abducted, tortured and killed a series of young women in Northwest London....

Fear stalks familiar ground. Acting DCI Rob Marshall is back in the Borders with a permanent promotion dangled in front of him – but storm clouds are gathering, with his new boss eyeing cutting Marshall’s Major Investigation Team.

Nothing is fair in war. Jonathan King is every bit his last name. Powerful. Untouchable. Corrupted. He’s also my dead sister’s husband and way older than me....

Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social media influencers vanish without a trace, leaving their followers–and families–in a state of shock, and the police clueless as to their whereabouts.

When Detective Morgan Brookes is urgently called to her Aunt Ettie’s cottage, hidden in Covel Woods, she rushes to the scene. Panicked Ettie is shaken having discovered the chilling remains of a woman in the river, one skeletal hand reaching out from the deep water.

Now a detective inspector in Police Scotland’s Borders Major Investigation Team, Marshall is summoned to HMP Frankland in County Durham, a.k.a. the Monster Mansion. The Shadow Man promises to show them where one body lies, allowing a family to finally grieve. But he will only show Marshall....

I used to have big dreams: finish college, make beautiful art, all while taking over my dad’s business. He wanted a legacy, and I wanted to give it to him.

For Detective Chief Inspector Ryan, the stakes have never been higher. Most of the world thinks he’s dead, killed by an assasin's rifle in his own home. But another man took the bullet intended for him, and now Ryan’s living on borrowed time.

When a badly burned body is found near the remote Ardnamurchan Lighthouse on the west coast of Scotland, it feels like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team....

In the glorious sunshine of Oxford, on a day when everyone should be celebrating, tragedy strikes when a university student is found floating in the river, dead....

Inglaterra, 1914. O mundo está em guerra. O capitão Hastings, ferido e abalado, é convidado para ir à mansão Styles para se recuperar. Trata-se de uma grande e antiga casa de campo – propriedade da família de um velho amigo – e um refúgio perfeito. Pelo menos, à primeira vista. Mas, sob o calor escaldante do verão, os problemas vão aparecendo. Tensões latentes estão dividindo a família, e acabam chegando a um desfecho aterrador. Emily Inglethorp, a rica matriarca da família, é torpemente assassinada no meio da noite. E ninguém em Styles está acima de suspeita.

It’s complicated. Two years ago, he broke my heart when he left me to do his father’s bidding. After months of crying, I finally accepted he was gone and wasn’t going to look back. That maybe he’d never loved me at all. I never wanted to see Luca again. Now, a cruel twist of fate has signed me over to him in a heartless deal. I’m his. He thinks he did me a favor, but I feel like I’ve been given a death sentence. He doesn't want to get married because he still loves me. No, he did it for money. More power.

When the chief suspect in the notorious Peek-a-boo cop killer case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over. But when another PC is abducted and murdered in the same deranged Peek-a-boo fashion, Bone is persuaded to return to lead the new investigation. But as Bone and his team hunt a copycat killer, and with time running out before yet another cop is slain, Bone’s terrifying past returns to tear open old wounds and push him to very edge of the abyss.

To stop a brutal mafia war, I'm forced to marry a man I left tied up in a hotel room seven years ago. Griffin Quinlan, the new head of the Irish Mafia in Lower Manhattan, is as dangerous as he is gorgeous. Brutal and calculating, he’s the last person I ever expected to see again. Seven years ago, one night of passion brought us together, but I walked away without looking back. Or untying him. Now, he’s my husband and wants revenge. Our forced marriage is meant to seal the peace between the Irish and Greek mafia families—my brothers’ idea of a truce.

Il commissario Montalbano indaga tra l'immaginaria Vigàta e Tindari, il promontorio a picco sul mare "col piccolo, misterioso teatro greco e la spiaggia a forma di una mano con le dita rosa". Un triplice omicidio è avvenuto - un giovane dongiovanni che viveva al di sopra dei suoi mezzi apparenti, due anziani pensionati seppelliti in casa che improvvisamente decidono una gita a Tindari. Li collega, sembra, solo un condominio.

Per la prima volta insieme tre brevi gialli ambientati in Sicilia, tre storie da tempo introvabili, che confermano lo straordinario talento inventivo...

Chi non vorrebbe vivere a Brighton Hills? Questa esclusiva comunità sulla costa dell'Oregon è il mix perfetto di lusso e bellezza naturale. Splendide case si annidano sotto possenti abeti, rigogliosi giardini si estendono fino al lungolago. È il tipo di posto in cui i vicini si prendono cura l'uno dell'altro. A volte fin troppo... Cora pensa che suo marito Finn la stia tradendo: deve solo coglierlo sul fatto. È qui che entra in gioco Paige. Paige ha perso suo figlio in un incidente stradale l'anno prima, e il dolore la spinge a fare cose sconsiderate.

My heart is hammering furiously as the bedroom door creaks open. The second I see my husband’s lifeless body, I know I have to run. And no-one can ever find us. There are three things I know to be true.

In the early 1970s, Poe is living a nomadic life, hopping trains, sleeping rough, and juggling to feed himself. He eventually settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. When one of his fellow buskers presents him with an opportunity—a bank heist—he should have refused, an innocent bystander is killed, and he splits town a felon.

Mauro Assante è, prima di ogni altra cosa, un uomo serio: ha sempre lavorato con scrupolo estremo, guadagnandosi incarichi di crescente responsabilità nell'istituzione in cui presta servizio, l'authority preposta al controllo della trasparenza delle banche italiane. Si è sposato tardi, con la sola donna che sia riuscita ad aprire una breccia nel suo temperamento ombroso, e ha un figlio piccolo, che trascorre i mesi estivi con la madre, in montagna.

Christoph Maria Herbst ist nicht nur der König der Erdmännchen. Auch als felliger Geheimagent macht er eine Spitzenfigur. "Die Smoothies bitte geschüttelt, nicht gerührt!" Irgendwie ist bei Ray und Rufus der Schwung raus: im Liebesleben, im Erdmännchen-Alltag und überhaupt. Rufus will seinen rosa Klettgurt gerade an den Nagel hängen, als Phil im Brandenburger Wald aufschlägt und den einen Satz sagt, den Ray und Rufus am liebsten hören: Montgomery hat sich gemeldet!

Semyon Kopolov. Gorgeous and formidable. My childhood crush and brother’s best friend. They call him the Ice King—cold, ruthless, unforgiving. He’s the reason my mother’s dead. Now he’s my husband. Once he was my protector. The boy who carried me when I fell and swore to shield me from monsters. Until he became one.

¿Y si la esencia de un buen whisky fuera el secreto que guardan sus barricas? El patrimonio y la historia escocesas se convierten en un crimen sangriento. Cuando un negocio en ruinas sale a la venta en Campbeltown, que en su día fue la «Capital Mundial del Whisky», Eilidh y su esposa Morag aprovechan la oportunidad para hacerse con él y conver­tirse en las primeras mujeres en dirigir una destilería en Escocia. Sin embargo, en plena celebración descubren algo aterrador: dos cadáveres que parecen haberse conservado perfectamente en dos barricas durante varias décadas.

Outside Denver, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow...an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. But this time, he can't. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling.

When Jess Pendle agrees to attend a support group to meet other women who have lived similar experiences, she doesn’t expect much. The group has been set up for like-minded women to come together, but when their therapist leaves, they close the blinds and find a new, and altogether more deadly way to support each other…

Hollywood, 1953. Young actress Ginny Watkins is turning heads. Even the legendary – and married – actor Max Whitman can’t resist the allure of the hottest new starlet. He promises Ginny the world, in return for the right favour. London, 1954. Stella Hope, once the most famous actress in Hollywood, has been ousted to Ealing Studios after her divorce from the powerful Max. Just as she accepts her fate, she receives a letter, blackmailing her for a mistake she made many years ago. Two women on either side of stardom find themselves in the orbit of the same beguiling man.

When the body of well-known and much hated politician Agnes Hunter is found on a gravestone in Wales' largest cemetery, with a gun and a note, her death is ruled suicide. However, Trevor Gwyn Jones, senior reporter for The Cardiff Sentinel, is skeptical of the verdict, as is his best friend and confidante Sergeant Gareth Roberts. Agnes had made many enemies, both personal and professional, in her relentless pursuit of the top political job in Cardiff and later, Wales.

Un concentré d'adrénaline, désormais une série Netflix. Une adolescente qui disparaît, une journaliste qui traque les prédateurs sexuels, une petite ville qui cache les secrets les plus inavouables... Pourriez-vous pardonner à ceux qui ont brisé votre vie ? Secrets, disparitions, complots, cabales sur le net, confréries malfaisantes, vengeance... Plus machiavélique que jamais, une plongée au cœur d'une effroyable machination.

Penelope Spada è stata un magistrato che non si piegava, che voleva la verità ad ogni costo. Poi qualcosa si è rotto ed è dovuta uscire dalla magistratura per un motivo che ancora non conosciamo. Ciò che sappiamo però è che adesso la sua vita è molto più complicata perché si è dovuta inventare una nuova professione, una nuova identità e… non sa neanche lei se è la cosa giusta. Un bar come ufficio, uno sbirro come confidente e un giornalista che le porta un caso di giustizia mancata innescano questo primo… "caso".

Five friends. One deadly obsession. The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. It is a place where privilege counts, and those from the right backgrounds can get away with murder. Finn is quickly seduced into a new circle of friends – four history scholars obsessed with the deepest roots of ancient Scotland – who sweep him away on wild adventures to forgotten castles and faerie lochs.

The thrills being with THE DEAD OF NIGHT, as DS Townsend arrives in Buckinghamshire after relocating from Merseyside with his family. Thrust into the Thames Valley Police's Specialist Crime Unit, he finds himself investigating the murder of a young woman. But when a second body is found, Townsend and the SCU realise they are hunting a serial killer.

Verónica Balda es periodista y conduce uno de los programas de radio más escuchados de la mañana. Cierto día, recibe una noticia que cambiará por completo el curso de su vida: una joven cayó de un quinto piso en el barrio de Recoleta. El departamento pertenece a un reconocido empresario agropecuario y la muerte de la mujer es mucho más que una noticia alarmante.

Imagine your best friend invites you on an all-expenses-paid trip. Luxury at its finest. A five-star resort, designer shopping sprees, fine dining, and balling out like there’s no tomorrow. She swears her new man is head over heels for her and doesn’t mind spending big. While she’s out on a date, you decide to unwind with a bubble bath. The warmth relaxes you, lulling you into comfort. You dip your head beneath the water, letting the silence consume you. But when you resurface, the silence is shattered. A man is standing there. Watching you. Before you can scream, darkness takes over.

Toda historia tiene un comienzo… Y toda historia debe tener un final… Él es el asesino en serie más peligroso con el que se ha encontrado nunca el FBI. Y acaba de escapar. Junto con el FBI, Robert Hunter, en el caso más personal y devastador al que se había enfrentado, destapó los crímenes de Lucien Folter, su antiguo amigo y compañero de la universidad, y el asesino más meticuloso y peligroso de la historia de Estados Unidos. Ahora, Lucien ha escapado y quiere hacer sufrir a la persona que lo llevó ante la justicia: su némesis, Robert Hunter.

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1903 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only a day earlier and asked him to draw up his will in legal language.