Crime & mystery

Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in THE HAUNTED ABBOT, the twelfth historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of SMOKE IN THE WIND, ...

'Intelligent and clever' AJ Finn 'Impossible to put down' Samantha Downing 'Sultry, salacious and utterly unpredictable' Riley Sager Obsession So...

Review Evoking landscape and mores in writing that is spare, rich and cruelly beautiful, he both satisfies the requirements of the [detective ...

***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series*** Whether you've read them all or whether this i...

Product Description 'Gripping and grisly, with plenty of twists and turns that race along with black humour.' Craig Robertson St. Andrews, Scotla...

Book Description In Powder Smoke we see the return of Jim Stringer, Martin's Railway Detective, back by popular demand, and Corsair's first book i...

Review A slow-burn thriller... horrifying and touching but also manages touches of humour. Compelling -- Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet E...

Just when Hamish most needs him - the dentist turns up dead...In Scotland, where thrift and a 'nice set of dentures' are generally admired, dental ...

The shocking standalone psychological thriller from number one New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag. She was the only one to make it out al...

'Hurricane Katrina ripped the soul out of Burke's beloved New Orleans and inspired him to write what has to be his most gripping thriller to date.'...

Review Stunning ... Scrublands is that rare combination, a page-turner that stays long in the memory -- Joan Smith ― Sunday Times (Crime Book of t...

Product Description The people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charl...

Product Description There can be no question that the contents of this book will prove extremely controversial. Many people will be deeply shocked...

'Calling to mind the best of Harlan Coben, Johnstone shows us how quickly an ordinary life can take one dark turn and nothing is ever the same agai...

Peter Diamond, the Bath detective brilliant at rooting out murder, is peeved at being diverted to Professional Standards to enquire into a police c...

Review Harris has a terrific sense of place, hurtling between the wealthiest and most-run-down areas of London... The plot unfolds in a chilling a...

Review Crime fiction's next big thing ― Sunday Telegraph Oswald's writing is in a class above most ― Daily Express Creepy, gritty and gruesome ―...

Review Echo of the Dead is Alex Gray at her finest. Beloved characters tackle a murky tale against the stark beauty of Glencoe, where murderous pa...

'Every new Agatha Raisin escapade is a total joy' ASHLEY JENSEN 'No wonder she's been crowned Queen of Cosy Crime' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A Beaton novel...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Drama Series. Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight...

Review [A] compelling psychological thriller- a terrifyingly plausible story of how everyday failures of empathy, compassion and, most of all, tru...

YOU'VE NEVER MET A DETECTIVE LIKE IQ...The latest instalment in the adventures of LA's coolest new detective, IQ.

Review '...This is the type of rule-breaking that separates the good from the great. Proof of Life places Campbell firmly in the latter camp. Ambi...

Review A gripping, grisly read . . . Mark Billingham is a terrific crime writer ― Anthony Horowitz The sense of mounting dread would be unbearabl...

Review The plot is wonderful, the characterisation of a family in crisis is both sharp and sympathetic, and the author does not shy away from exam...

They took her identity - they wanted her life - but they couldn't take her spirit.Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club.

Review James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed. ― Michael...

P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a short story for Christmas, and four of the best have been drawn from...

A gripping, gritty thriller introducing Rosie Gilmour, investigative reporter.

Review Yrsa is one of the most exciting new voices in the crime thriller world. -- Peter JamesHenning Mankell and Stieg Larsson have helped to...

Review Gruesome and gripping...a taut psychological thriller ― The Times More than delivers on its ghoulish promise...you might not want to read ...

With their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her companion dwarf Bucino escape the sack of Rome. It'...

1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tr...

Zack Walker is a writer with an overactive imagination and two teenage children. After a murder on their street, he uproots his family from the cit...

'I devoured The Poison Garden . . . Gripping and utterly convincing, it's Alex Marwood at the top of her (already impressive) game' JOJO MOYES ____...

Product Description IN THE RED-HOT FINALE TO PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, ENZO MACLEOD WILL FACE HIS MOST CHALLENGING COLD CA...

'Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Ian Rankin evokes Edinburgh' Daily Mail New Year's Eve should be a time for celebrating. A chance to spend...

'Brian McGilloway's command of plot and assurance of language make it difficult to believe that Borderlands is his debut' The Times 'A mystery of...

'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times In the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign, Nick Revill, an aspiring young actor, comes to London seeking fame a...

Des Connors has got problems with his son. Not only has he lent him all his savings, now he's missing. And Des isn't just worried for his money. Ja...

Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and th...

1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence. Suspended from the Irish ...

Dexter Morgan has burned the candle at both ends for many years. Blood spatter analyst ...husband ...father ...serial killer. And now, for the firs...

Product Description On the gulf of Thailand, the Juree family are managing their run-down beach resort for the second year - still stalked by ...

Murder and puppetry come to the village of Bishop's Lacey...Second novel in the highly acclaimed Flavia de Luce mystery series. 'I was lying dead i...

A missing doctor with a long list of aggrieved patients leads to a complicated case for DI Faraday. DI Joe Faraday's Management Assistant, Vanessa...

DI Charlie Lager returns to investigate a long-buried disappearance in this 'atmospheric', 'evocative' and 'arresting' page-turner of a procedural ...