Crime Fiction

In the Scottish Highlands where secrets settle like mist in the glens, Detective Inspector James Corstorphine is summoned to a macabre scene–a gamekeeper hanging from an ancient oak, ensnared by an intricate trap of wire and bone.

The summit was just a few more minutes’ climb as the bottle slipped from his weakening grip. He was aware that he was dying. Not here. Not now. Not alone. Through the pain, his mind screamed a silent final eulogy.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a propulsive novel following a young father grappling with unbearable...

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....

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....

Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women’s underwear and Hirsch knows enough about that kind of crime - how it can escalate - not to take it lightly....

On the moor, not all the beasts walk on four legs.

She breathes deeply, trying to quell the rising sense of panic. A detective came to her home, drugged her and kidnapped her. She tries to make sense of it, to imagine alternatives, but only one conclusion is possible: it's the past, come to claim her....

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.

Golden sunlight bathes the rugged cliffs casting long shadows across Porthcurno’s sandy beach. Within a cove, lying on a blanket, are two bodies.

It is the first murder that the remote Highland village has ever seen. It will not be the last. Someone is targeting the elderly and vulnerable in their homes. Someone they know. Someone they trust....

Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home....

After 20 years on the force, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan thinks he has seen it all. He is wrong....

Taut and crackling with character, these gritty, raw and sometimes very funny stories from Australian great Bryan Brown are Aussie noir at its best. Crime doesn't discriminate...it can happen to anyone...it could happen to you...in any ordinary suburb, at any time....

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....

When the body of a talented photographer is found on the rocks beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, DCI Ryan and his team of detectives immediately suspect the worst. But, since none of their potential suspects seems to have a motive, the case runs cold.

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....

Christmas in Wensleydale is just around the corner, and a beautiful blanket of snow covers the fells. But then a blizzard hits, and everyone knows that a white Christmas in the Dales spells danger for farmers and remote communities.

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....

When washed-up 80s rock legend Johnny Freestone is found dead in a cave off Scotland's North Coast 500 tourist route, it looks like a tragic accident–another celebrity lost to a reckless lifestyle.

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....

‘A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader’s appetite’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries A PINCH OF PARANOIA It’s three days before Christmas, and detective-turned-chef Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is drafted in to cater a charity event...

When she arrived in New York on her 18th birthday, carrying nothing but $600 cash and a stolen camera, Alice Lee was looking for a fresh start. Now, just one month later, she is the city’s latest Jane Doe, an unidentified murder victim....

In this “skillfully penned tale of murder and cover-up that will keep readers enthralled until the powerful finish” (Fresh Fiction), family secrets and a serial killer from the past converge in this electrifying thriller. In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher...

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.

Eco -architect Olivia Wells returns from her successful life in New York to the Cornish village of Penbartha intent on fulfilling her god-father’s bequest to expand and oversee a co-working community of eco and creative entrepreneurs in a converted railway building.

Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are sweltering in their stuffy basement office on the hottest day of the year when they are handed an impossible case. Fifteen years ago, Imelda Phelps was battered to death in the hallway of her home. The brutal crime shocked the residents of the pretty market town of Chipping Norton. The killer was never caught. The motive for the murder remains a mystery. Could the happily married mother-of-two’s stunning good looks have played a part in her death?

My son Cam is going to be a baseball star. He’s only thirteen but this trip is a huge opportunity for him. There are scouts from all the major baseball teams at this tournament. He is the one to watch. The night before the tournament starts, Cam’s bed is found empty. Everyone is a suspect. People are always jealous of him — other kids, other parents. Even his own father. Anyone could have taken him. The police start digging into every corner of our lives. They want to know everything about us. Everything about our relationship. Every secret we’ve kept from each other.

On a windswept moor, a child emerges from the mist with a story no one wants to believe. The farmer who finds her assumes she’s simply lost. But when she utters a chilling phrase—“We went to see the old ones”—he realises something is terribly wrong. As Detective Evan Warlow battles his own demons, he and the team are pulled into a case of ritualistic secrets, long-buried crimes, and the whispers of something darker lurking in the mist.

Snow dusts the cobbled streets of York as tourists flock to its famous Christmas markets. But for DCI Oldroyd, what starts as a peaceful evening on a ghost tour quickly turns deadly. The tour guide’s grim discovery is no theatrical performance—he finds the body of Henry Marlow, a notorious local landlord, in the doorway of a derelict building. Oldroyd soon has no shortage of suspects: a resentful ex-wife, angry tenants, and even the guide who knows every secret passage of the old city.

Two years ago, a series of daring highway robberies terrorised London's financial elite. Now, When Treasury Minister Adrian Carmody is held up by a masked highwayman on a black motorcycle—the start of several such robberies, torn from the story books—history is repeating itself; but this time, there's a body count.

When DCI Lesley Clarke suffers an injury and is told to relocate from Birmingham to rural Dorset, she's expecting some peace and quiet. But before she even starts her new job, she witnesses a murder at the iconic Corfe Castle. Lesley must get to know her new team, learn a new patch, and solve the mystery. What's more, team are mourning the loss of her predecessor, DCI Tim Mackie, who allegedly committed suicide. But was Mackie's death suspicious? And did it involve someone in her team?

Tre persone. Un matrimonio. Un omicidio. Qualcuno è un bugiardo. Qualcuno è in pericolo. Qualcuno è un assassino. Potresti pensare di sapere cosa sta succedendo nel mio matrimonio, ma ti sbaglieresti.

Faccio un respiro profondo mentre mi avvicino al lodge con le pareti di vetro che la mia ex suocera, Angela, ha prenotato per il suo compleanno. Non avevo alcuna voglia di andare in vacanza con il mio ex marito e la sua nuova moglie, ma lei ha insistito perché io e i miei figli facessimo finta di essere una famiglia felice. Poi arriva una telefonata dalla polizia. Qualcuno è stato ucciso. E pensano che noi sappiamo qualcosa. Il cuore mi batte all'impazzata mentre osservo la neve alta accumulata alla finestra. Siamo intrappolati in questa casa. C'è un assassino tra noi.

It's almost Christmas, and Gwinny Tuffel's thoughts are on what she'll buy for DI Birch and whether she can adopt another furry friend. But sorting through her late father's papers leads her into his mysterious past, pointing to an enigmatic liaison with someone now living in a Somerset commune. Gwinny and DI Birch find themselves unexpectedly snowed in with a group of retired spies, along with an energetic Cocker Spaniel, and embroiled in a murder case. Will they uncover the culprit and escape in time for Christmas?

Sydney Shaw hatte immer Pech mit ihren Dates. Bis sie Tom traf. Tom scheint perfekt: Er ist charmant, attraktiv und arbeitet als Arzt in einem Krankenhaus. Dann erschüttert der brutale Mord an einer Frau die Stadt. Die Polizei vermutet einen Serientäter dahinter, der sich mit seinen Opfern zu einem Date verabredet, bevor er zuschlägt. Sydney sollte sich sicher fühlen. Schließlich hat sie Tom. Aber sie wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass etwas mit ihm nicht stimmt. Jemand beobachtet sie auf Schritt und Tritt. Wenn sie der Wahrheit nicht schnell auf die Spur kommt, könnte sie das nächste Opfer sein.

Sydney Shaw hatte immer Pech mit ihren Dates. Bis sie Tom traf. Tom scheint perfekt: Er ist charmant, attraktiv und arbeitet als Arzt in einem Krankenhaus. Dann erschüttert der brutale Mord an einer Frau die Stadt. Die Polizei vermutet einen Serientäter dahinter, der sich mit seinen Opfern zu einem Date verabredet, bevor er zuschlägt. Sydney sollte sich sicher fühlen. Schließlich hat sie Tom. Aber sie wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass etwas mit ihm nicht stimmt. Jemand beobachtet sie auf Schritt und Tritt. Wenn sie der Wahrheit nicht schnell auf die Spur kommt, könnte sie das nächste Opfer sein.

Christmas in Wensleydale is just around the corner, and a beautiful blanket of snow covers the fells. But then a blizzard hits, and everyone knows that a white Christmas in the Dales spells danger for farmers and remote communities. In the town of Hawes there is little festive cheer as the snow closes in, the Christmas fair is cancelled, and the generator goes missing from the market hall. Then the local food bank is broken into.

Caroline Crow ist spurlos verschwunden. Als der Chirurg Simon Banks und Carolines Ehemann Adrian jeweils eine abgetrennte, verbrannte Hand erhalten, wächst bei allen Beteiligten die Sorge, dass hinter Carolines Verschwinden viel mehr, viel Bedrohlicheres steckt. Der Kriminelle Gabriel Howard ist kürzlich aus dem Gefängnis entlassen worden und sinnt auf Rache. Detective Sheridan Hollers kriminalistischer Instinkt sagt ihr, dass diese Fälle zusammenhängen.

Montecatini, ein malerisches Dorf inmitten der toskanischen Hügellandschaft. Ein halbes Leben war Francesco Scotti nicht mehr hier, ermittelt er doch schon lange als Eliteagent in Neapel gegen die Mafia. Solange nicht klar ist, ob er bei einer Razzia aufgeflogen ist, muss er in seiner Heimat untertauchen und sich als kleiner Provinzermittler ausgeben. Dann wird die Leiche des 80-jährigen Orlando Palmieri gefunden.

Luna es la historia de tres mujeres. Es la historia de Luna, también la de Sara y la de Adoración, nieta, madre, abuela, abocadas a convivir en la misma casa llena de silencios, colmada de olvidos y habitada por una presencia del pasado, la del padre de Sara, el marido de Dora, el abuelo de Luna, que guarda un secreto.

Emilio es un profesor español que viaja a Asunción en un intento desesperado por huir cuanto antes de su pasado y comenzar una nueva vida. Allí conocerá a Mauri, una hermosa mujer que se enfrenta a los peligros de la noche y tiene los oídos manchados de escuchar mentiras en el sucio mercado del sexo. También se cruzará con Carlitos, un niño de la calle inmerso en una alocada carrera hacia la muerte.

En Gambuesa todos sus protagonistas han perdido o perderán algo mientras basculan entre la casualidad y la causalidad. Jorge es un inspector de trabajo que se esconde de sí mismo en una isla. Una inspección lo lleva hasta la finca ganadera de Perico, donde descubrirá un mundo primitivo de animales míticos y costumbres empujadas a desaparecer. Conchi trabaja en la finca y lucha por recuperarse de los daños infligidos por un sistema que aplasta a las personas para convertirlas en piezas mutiladas del gran engranaje que funciona solamente para unos pocos.

Mateo, el protagonista de esta vibrante y conmovedora novela de Diego Ameixeiras, intenta salir adelante vendiendo cocaína y dejándose llevar por los extraños negocios que le ofrece Silvio, su mejor cliente y viejo amigo con el que se siente en deuda. Al mismo tiempo, mientras se esfuerza en superar la muerte de sus padres en un accidente de tráfico, se ocupa de atender a Eulalia, una maestra jubilada que ya no puede llevarle flores a su hermano muerto.

El protagonista de esta novela negrísima, un periodista jubilado con un pasado glorioso como reportero de sucesos, escribe a toda velocidad El leñador, su última novela policiaca, mientras hace balance de su vida e investiga por su cuenta «el crimen de Raspai». En su novela, el inspector-jefe José Pulido debe enfrentarse a su peor caso: el asesinato, a golpes de hacha, del alcalde de una pequeña población mediterránea. Un crimen de una violencia feroz que le hará descender a los sótanos de su propio infierno cuando se tope con el muro de la verdad y del gran dinero.

Il professor Felix McClure, anziano professore universitario in pensione viene assassinato con un'unica violentissima pugnalata. La totale assenza di indizi non è un ostacolo per il bizzarro ispettore Morse che con il suo solito metodo inizia a congetturare astratte ipotesi una dopo l'altra finché, come sempre, non riuscirà a trovare la pista giusta.

Un matin comme les autres, Marc prépare le petit déjeuner en famille. L'instant d'après, il se réveille sur un lit d'hôpital après douze jours de coma. Ce qui s'est passé entre-temps, deux inspecteurs de police venus à son chevet le lui annoncent, le laissant sans voix. Que peut-il leur répondre ? Non, il ne sait pas qui lui a tiré dans le dos, tué sa femme et kidnappé Tara, sa fille de six mois. À bien y réfléchir, le plus dur n'est pas de perdre ce que l'on a de plus cher au monde, mais d'être le principal suspect...

Jago Trevithick KC has been busy in London with the complicated and lengthy trial of an underworld criminal. After a disastrous result, he returns to Penbartha to be with Olivia, seeking refuge and peace and to reassess his life choices. The morning after the long-awaited and eventful launch party Jago and Olivia discover a dead body and he immediately fears that his troubles in London have followed him home. As their professional lives collide, will Olivia and Jago be able to work together again to uncover the dark forces that are threatening the success of her latest venture...

Seit Jahren hat Thad Beaumont unter dem Pseudonym George Stark erfolgreich blutrünstige Thriller veröffentlicht. Als das Pseudonym aufgedeckt wird, beschließt er, sein Alter Ego »umzubringen«. Kurz darauf kommt es zu einer Mordserie in der Kleinstadt, unter den Opfern sind jene, die sich an dem symbolischen Begräbnis beteiligt haben. Ist George Stark wieder zum Leben erwacht?

Una mattina viene trovato nel porto di Vigàta un canotto, all'interno il cadavere sfigurato di un uomo. L'ha riportato a riva un'imbarcazione di lusso, 26 metri, abitata da una disinvolta cinquantenne e da un equipaggio con qualche ombra. Proprietaria e marinai devono trattenersi a Vigàta fino alla fine dell'inchiesta sul morto (ammazzato col veleno, stabilisce l'autopsia), ma intanto è proprio su di loro che Montalbano vuole indagare.