Crime Fiction

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

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

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.

A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career.

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....

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....

When a landslip on Pembrokeshire’s stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of two bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow’s quiet retirement is shattered....

For most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of The Stranger Times. While a book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn’t unprecedented, it is at least noteworthy.

When campaigner Heather McGill forces Police Scotland to reopen the cold case murder of a local sex worker at Scott's View, a beauty spot in the Scottish Borders, she sets off a chain reaction that threatens to unravel decades of secrets.

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search....

A missing schoolgirl. A tormented cop. A family mystery. Meet PC Craig Hunter of Edinburgh's Local Policing Unit. Ex-Army. Ex-CID. Back in uniform.

When Daryl Brackstone approaches private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda "Birdie" Bird about her mother's decades-old murder, she's hoping to finally uncover the truth. Her father died in prison for the crime, but Daryl has never believed in his guilt.

Five years ago I buried my husband. Today I saw him with his new wife. ‘Thank you for agreeing to be our wedding planner. Theo is on his way,’ Madison says as we meet to plan her dream wedding.

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process....

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....

I've spent years hidden away to protect my father from the shame of having a defective daughter. The head of the Bratva can't be associated with weakness—and to him, that's all I am. That is until a marriage alliance gives him the opportunity to finally be rid of me.

The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong....

She’s my mission. My prize. My obsession. Ivy Kingston is the most wanted woman in the world for reasons she is completely oblivious to, reasons I intend to capitalize on. She needs a husband to receive her inheritance, so I’m on the hunt for a wife. As long as it’s her.

When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Christmas night out gone tragically wrong....

Just when he thought he was out.... Burdened by guilt over the trauma recently inflicted on his friends and colleagues, former-Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan has spent the past nine months living in self-imposed exile....

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.

How far would you go to bury the truth? While searching for a missing hill walker, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team uncovers a body - just not the one they were looking for....

Called in to investigate, DCI Evan Warlow’s team are faced with finding out how and why the body of a struck-off doctor ended up on a lonely beach within sight of Laugharne’s famous boathouse....

Holly Fenwick thought she had left her nightmare behind. Twelve years ago, she narrowly escaped the clutches of a brutal serial killer.

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....

Fresh out of prison, after taking the fall for their insurance fraud scheme, Jessica has only one thing on her mind. As she masterminds her elaborate plan for justice, Jessica must come face to face with the ghosts of her past. But while some people are beyond redemption, there is only one person who can satisfy her revenge.

You are invited to the most glamorous event of the year. But this dream wedding is about to turn into a nightmare. I should have known a fairy-tale ending was too much to hope for. Marrying Suraj Sharma — billionaire, golden boy and the man who plucked me from obscurity — was meant to be my fresh start. A new life. A clean slate. But as I stand on the edge of the most extravagant wedding imaginable, the past I thought I'd buried begins to claw its way back.

Comme beaucoup de femmes célibataires de New York, Sydney a beaucoup de mal à faire des rencontres. Elle a tout vu : des hommes qui mentent sur eux-mêmes, d'autres qui lui font payer l'addition du dîner et, pire encore, des hommes qui n'arrêtent pas de parler de leur mère ! Mais elle vient de décrocher le jackpot. Son nouveau petit ami est tout simplement parfait. Il est charmant, beau et travaille comme médecin dans un hôpital. Sydney est éblouie. Jusqu'au jour où elle entend parler du meurtre d'une jeune femme - le dernier d'une série.

Carmine Barone is a monster no one sees but me. A beautiful villain with a cold, black heart and a body honed for violence. But when I stumble into a world I was never meant to see, the ruthless mafia heir becomes something else, too: my husband.

We find the doll shattered on the floor, its broken pieces scattered like a warning. That's when everything starts to fall apart. Now the power is out. A storm has trapped us here. And someone is dead. Things haven't been normal since the first day, when someone moved the dolls. I told them not to — never move the dolls before the tenth day of Navaratri, the Hindu Festival of Dolls. They're not toys. They're part of a sacred tradition.

Shannon Wells is a private investigator who helps women with nowhere else to go. Last year, a woman named Faith Selby came to Shannon with a strange request: Find out who I really am. Shannon soon discovered that Faith was hiding a whole other life, but was unable to penetrate the web of mystery the woman had built around her past. Now Faith is dead. The only clue to who she was and why she was murdered is an old photograph of a little girl in the rain outside a Midwestern motel.

Brad Hanson’s life in his suburban Atlanta subdivision is unremarkable. He investigates insurance fraud, which is as dull as it sounds, though if he’s able to get a good bonus this year, his wife, Rhonda, will finally get to have her new kitchen. His highest achievement in life is being secretary and de facto parliamentarian on the homeowners association board, which is the center of all the neighborhood drama.

On the Fourth of July, a teenager dies at an exclusive country club. Twenty years later, her cousin returns to her hometown, seeking answers behind closed gates in this rich, atmospheric thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Liz Moore and Ruth Ware.

Advent 1926: Ernestine wird zu einer Ausstellung am Semmering eingeladen. Da sie und Anton dort ihr erstes gemeinsames Abenteuer erlebt haben, beschließen sie, einige Tage im Südbahnhotel zu verbringen. Höhepunkt des Wochenendes ist eine Versteigerung von Kunstgegenständen – doch das wertvollste Bild fehlt.

Delve into a labyrinth of moral ambiguity and psychological tension where the pursuit of power and justice collides with the darker impulses of betrayal and manipulation. Curated and edited by Jeff Circle, the creator of The Writer’s Dossier, a revered multimedia showcase featuring both established and emerging talent in the crime and thriller genres, this anthology brings together an impressive collection of stories from some of the best modern crime thriller writers working today.

Un serial killer è in azione nella città di Richmond: già tre donne sono morte, violentate e strangolate nelle loro camere da letto. I delitti avvengono sempre di sabato, prima dell'alba. Kay Scarpetta sa che il sanguinario killer può tornare a colpire in qualunque momento e non può escludere alcuna ipotesi. Nemmeno quella di essere la prossima vittima.

Follow Paul Cutler on his next adventure as he fights the cocaine gold rush. Assuming his new identity as Paul O’Keefe, Paul is tasked with finding the supplier of a surge of Mexican cartel meth flooding Australian streets. Assigned to infiltrate a newly appointed security company at Fremantle Port, he discovers a clandestine world of off-the-books operations, and a business front that goes far beyond mere security. There’s a dangerous game afoot for who gets control of the port’s smuggling operations, and O’Keefe is caught in the crossfire.

All Olivia wanted was one last miserable Christmas with her husband’s awful family before moving to Australia. She didn’t expect a murder. Or another. Or another. Now the snow has cut them off and she’s stuck in a crumbling country house, with ten increasingly deranged relatives and the rising suspicion that someone is picking them off one by one. As the bodies pile up and the festive façade starts to crack, Olivia must survive the season, clear her name and uncover the killer – Or, at the very least, get through lunch without anyone else choking on a sprout.

One hot August night in 1993, a young couple go to a party. When their car breaks down, they are picked up by a truck driver who attacks the man and abducts the woman. She is never seen again. That woman was Fiona Green’s mother. When the trucker, Eddie Ward, is caught, a mass grave of bodies is discovered in his backyard but Fiona’s mother isn’t there. Thirty years later, on his prison deathbed, Ward insists that he didn’t kill her, so Fiona finds herself back in the small town where her mother disappeared.

London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong places, at all the wrong suspects. But three women refuse to stay silent. Emma, the chief detective’s sharp-witted wife, sees the investigation failing. Maggie, a private investigator, exposes men’s darkest secrets. Bet, a police station cleaner, overhears what others ignore. Together, they form an alliance to hunt down the killer dubbed Jack the Ripper.

On the verge of unseating a powerful incumbent, crusading congressional candidate Marcus Blanchard is framed for murder. As the final votes are counted, he’s discovered at the scene of a brutal election-night homicide—accused of killing the very woman hired to assassinate him. Now, three powerful forces want him eliminated: A corrupt political boss driven by hatred, a violent drug lord protecting his empire, and a sitting congressman desperate to keep his seat. To survive, Marcus turns to the only man he can trust.

Im Tresorraum eines Silberhändlers wird eine verstümmelte Leiche gefunden. Die Polizei geht davon aus, dass es sich um einen verurteilten Einbrecher handelt. Doch Decima Mullins, die Privatdetektiv Comoran Strike um Hilfe bittet, ist überzeugt davon, dass es sich bei der Leiche um ihren Freund handelt, der unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwand. Je tiefer Strike und seine Geschäftspartnerin Robin Ellacott in den Fall eintauchen, desto undurchsichtiger wird er.

L'anticonformista detective Declan Miller è tornato al lavoro dopo che sua moglie, anche lei detective (e compagna di ballo amatoriale) è stata assassinata. Alla coppia viene affidata l'indagine su un doppio omicidio: il rampollo della famiglia malavitosa Adrian Cutler e il consulente informatico Barry Shepherd sono stati entrambi uccisi al Sands Hotel, in due stanze a pochi metri l'una dall'altra.

Sono passati due anni da quando l'ex detective Cal Hooper si è trasferito nella contea irlandese di Ardnakelty in cerca di tranquillità. Ha trovato qualcosa che ci va molto vicino: una casa che è diventata un rifugio e una relazione con una donna del posto, Lena, che lo fa stare bene. Poi c'è il suo legame con Trey, l'adolescente ruvida e selvaggia che sta cercando di proteggere. Ma adesso che dopo anni di silenzio è ricomparso suo padre, Trey non vuole nessuna protezione. Vuole solo vendetta.

Rose has news for Celia – she is due to have a baby by Celia's husband, Humphrey. Soon after, the seeds of scandal bear a criminal fruit when a body is discovered in Little Venice along with Rose's handbag. Celia drafts in an old flame, Will, to root out the truth from suspicions of murder and blackmail, as the evidence starts to converge on the patrons and strange goings-on of the seedy The Odd Flamingo.

Emmit “Chicago” Haskins is lost and directionless following his discharge from the 75th Ranger Regiment. While he is staying with his sister in Minneapolis, she suggests that he invite some of his guys over to the house for a barbecue. They could never know what political firestorm awaits. The Minneapolis police changed to become more community-focused following George Floyd’s death. After an ambush that leads police to accidentally shoot innocent bystanders, Landon Tayson and his dedicated group of “reformers” set up an occupied zone that the mayor refuses to dismantle.

From USA Today & WSJ Bestselling Author Bink Cummings comes Dark & Deceitful—a dark, found-family biker romance with mature characters, fierce loyalty, and secrets that could tear them apart. Eight years ago, my husband came home with a surprise that shattered our lives. I hate him for what he's done to me and the damage he’s caused our family. Moving on seems impossible—Dark still won't let me go, and my ties to the club run deep. Some days, I feel like I’m barely holding on. Without my father-in-law, the only constant in my life, I would have lost my sanity years ago.

Et si le présent apportait enfin des réponses ? Plongez dans le nouveau roman policier d'Harlan Coben, un thriller captivant qui nous plonge dans une intrigue mystérieuse, où Simon Kierce, vit dans l'ombre d'un passé tragique alors qu'il croise la jeune femme qu'il pensait avoir laissée pour morte 20 ans plus tôt, ce mystère le pousse à élucider la vérité sur cette nuit fatale, avec l'aide de ses apprentis détectives.

Scarlett is a university graduate with a master’s in biophysics. Artie is a retired professor of art history. They’ve been hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a cache of paintings discovered under the floorboards of an Italian townhouse. The two women take an instant dislike to each other. The calculus shifts when they stumble on something unexpected—a manuscript written by Leonardo da Vinci’s last pupil. It’s an astonishing firsthand account of the great master as he grapples with a murder at the prestigious Aldine Press.

In a snow-covered manor with views of the icy loch, the Weyman family gather for Christmas. A fire is roaring, presents are wrapped and carols play on the radio. And the Weyman brothers each have a fake smile on their faces. Because George, Ken, and Ralph are united by a terrible secret. And they are all desperate to know why their grandmother has summoned them. Playing happy families at Christmas has never been a Weyman tradition…especially after what happened twenty years ago.