Robbery Thriller

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?

Robbery Under Arms, together with Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life, is considered to be one of the seminal Australian novels of the nineteenth century. It is a barnstorming yarn, delivered in the first person by one Dick Marston, a vigorous and basically honourable young man, who is lured into crime due to unfavourable circumstances.

Fall has hit Hawaii, which means it’s the slow season for tourism, but the crime season is as hot as ever. One of the world’s most famous diamonds is doing a world tour, and its next stop is Maui. But someone intends to make that its last stop when the diamond disappears from the resort where it was on display. Charlie is immediately hired to find the thief— and the diamond—and quickly discovers that the diamond is supposedly cursed, and anyone who desires it too badly is in danger.

Before everything fell apart, Ruby Foster had been enjoying a completely normal day. Then again, normal was relative in Tempest, Texas. As a supernatural safe haven where paranormal beings lived together in the open, normal meant expecting the unexpected. But she didn't think anyone could have imagined a rogue, lunch-hour robbery at the local diner. Attacking a room full of supernaturals should have been a death sentence but somehow the thieves managed to incapacitate them all and steal more than just the money in the till.

Melbourne, 1976. A crew of precision-minded criminals walks into the fortified Victoria Club and disappears with millions in cash. No weapons. No alarms. No arrests. What they pulled off would go down as one of the boldest and most mysterious heists in Australian history. But this story isn’t just about the robbery—it’s about the silence that followed… and the cost of keeping it.

It's fair to say that Freddy Pilkington-Soames is not having a good day. His grandmother is threatening to marry a lounge lizard, his old friend has lost her lover, a racehorse has been kidnapped, a priceless diamond has gone missing, and everybody seems to think he should sort it all out.

There’s something fishy about this food truck… Stoneybrook’s popular food truck lot has a new addition, and it’s serving up trouble. Beckett, the owner of Salty’s fish and chips, may fry a mean fish, but he’s been just plain mean to locals. His toxicity reaches a new level when he finds money missing from his truck and accuses a thief, caught robbing people on the river path, of that crime as well. Without evidence that the money the thief was carrying is Beckett’s, the young man is let go with a warning. Beckett is furious, and he publicly vows to take matters into his own hands.

From the world's #1 bestselling author, the Women’s Murder Club goes searching for 26 Beauties—young women missing in San Francisco. SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder...

A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD Wingfield Well known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be...

Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her...

Four men gather in Stockholm. Each has existed on the fringes of Stockholm society. Each has a past that just won't let him go. Then a plan falls into their laps. A plan to steal millions from the largest cash facility in Sweden. At first the scheme seems foolproof, every contingency covered, every detail planned perfectly. But is everyone involved who they say they are? Can they ever really hope to pull off such an extraordinary crime?

When road construction by West Virginia's highway department uncovers human remains near the small town of Barkley, everyone involved stops dead in their tracks. Everyone seems to have a theory on the skeleton's identity. But when another dead body is discovered - this one a lot fresher - the simple forensic investigation turns into something much deeper.

In a neighborhood where Golden Crusts are mysteriously disappearing, the residents are left wondering who or what could be behind the vanishing act. From missing pies to golden-brown cookies, nothing is safe from the thief's grasp. But as the community reels from the loss of their beloved baked goods, a new twist emerges – everyday items with a golden-brown hue are also going missing. Is it a petty thief with a peculiar taste or something more sinister at play?

For Richer, For Poorer is the tenth novel from the million-copy bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson, read aloud by Becky Hindley. Three houses have been burgled in five weeks. The robbers barge in through the back, disable any way to contact the outside world, and then ransack everything - before...

The Symphony Magnifico is the flagship of the cruise line's fleet. Their prize ship has just come out of dry dock and is entertaining over 5000 passengers who are spending a record amount in the casino. But at the end of the voyage, when it is time to collect the cash from the machines, all the money is gone!

It was May of 1777, the beginning of the third year of the American War for Independence, on territory controlled by the British. In the back of a general store, Tim (age 17) had just found the body, when the proprietor burst in, accusing him of murder. Tim got away, went to a judge, and claimed the dead man was a rebel spy.

The Christmas season is in full swing on board the cruise ship, Siren of the Seas, thanks to Andy Walker, the ship’s cruise director who is all in on his new holiday theme, “The Reindeer Games".

With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other. With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things...

A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers.

A crime would bring them together, grief would bind them and love would make them famous. Parish “Pain” Wells is a man freshly reintroduced to society, after serving time in state prison. Prior to his fall, Pain had been a heist man who showed the promise of someone who could go on to be a...