Crime & mystery

Review Colson Whitehead's dazzling new thriller...In Harlem Shuffle,Whitehead flexes his literary muscles further, extending the boundaries and ex...

ONCE, SHE SAVED HIS LIFE... NOW, HE'LL TAKE HERS. When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer La...

***THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DETECTIVE SERIES*** Don't miss the thrilling new Lorimer novel from Alex Gray. WHEN SHADOWS FALL is available to p...

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail Yorkshire, 1922 Bridgestead is a quiet village. Pretty and remote, nothin...

Brutal acts of firestarting have ravaged the Peak District, and now a new wave of moorland infernos sweeps across the national park. For DS Ben Coo...

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself fo...

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Si...

A grotesquely burned corpse. A troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. The first of the critically acclaimed China novels. Li Yan, a devote...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land... England, 1348: as the Black Death spreads through the country, people start to die by the thousand...

Review Short, clever and puzzling murder tales which test the brains of the most avid crime reader ... delectable ― On Magazine With Cecily Gayfo...

After three years as a PI, Harry Bosch returns to the LAPD. The superb page-turning 11th Bosch novel from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author...

Twenty years ago, a man was murdered. His killer is about to be released from prison. The sixth book in Peter May's gripping Enzo Files series. Twe...

The gripping new psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of breakout hit He said/She said.  'I heard the swish of falling paper. I...

Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he...

In dark, wintry Lochdubh, Christmas Cheer is about as welcome as a flat tyre on a deserted road. The Calvinist element in town has always resisted ...

Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defense Attorney Mickey Haller to sue the department ...

THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING ADAM DALGLIESH SERIES FROM THE 'QUEEN OF ENGLISH CRIME' (Guardian) 'A legend.' VAL MCDERMID 'P. D. James took th...

"Spectacular . . . drops the reader through one trapdoor into another" A.J. FINN It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbie...

Inspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his family home in Cornwall so she can recover from the traumatic events depicted in "An Exp...

'An absolute treat of a read with all the ingredients of a vintage murder mystery: a country house, mysterious dead bodies and three actresses all ...

Product Description 'A great yarn - Shrager knows her food and she's cooked up a storm. . . Rosie can write and Prudence Bulstrode is here to stay...

1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, is having an affair with a railway officer, who she finds dead ...

A superb, atmospheric thriller from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growin...

PART OF BBC TWO'S BOOK CLUB BETWEEN THE COVERS TWO SISTERS ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. THEY ACCUSE EACH OTHER. WHO DO YOU BELIEVE? '911 what's your emer...

It's Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across ...

Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all for...

Review "The book is a mashup of rite of passage and road trip, with the four main characters at odds not only with each other, but also with a...

THE THIRD CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CHINA THRILLER, FROM THE MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER THE BLACKHOUSE. THE NEW CASE Wh...

A series of seemingly random disappearances - stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to ...

It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing...A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean stre...

A MURDER HE CAN'T FORGET. A CASE ONLY SHE CAN SOLVE. 'OUTSTANDING' IAN RANKIN Amazon Best 100 Books of The Year Barnes & Noble Best Books of...

OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. UNTIL NOW... 'Emily' is a devoted single mother. 'Jack' starts a new job in a new town. ...

The ninth Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. Harry Bosch has left the LAPD - but the discovery of a startling unsolved mu...

When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit, the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack. DNA samples l...

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the...

Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him wit...

'Satisfyingly intriguing' Faith Martin 'J.M. Hall has mastered the warmth of a perfect modern cosy crime with all the twists and turns that go with...

The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author is back with a brand new, breath-taking thriller. Whether you loved TWELVE SECRETS or whether you're discoveri...

She's accused of four murders. She's only guilty of three... When Ruby was a child growing up in Miami, she saw a boy from her school struggling a...

'Deliciously ingenious.' Daily Mail 'Keeps you guessing right to the end.' PETER MAY 'Smartly entertaining.' Washington Post 'So beautifully writte...

WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE SAFE, WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE ALL ALONE, THAT'S WHEN HE'LL COME FOR YOU... A silent killer stalks the city, targeting those ho...

Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the Ne...

What do you do when your child disappears? 'A hugely compelling story of loss, grief and vengeance, The Empty Room is probably the best novel yet ...

'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James 'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter 'What? You mean the earl does it for money? T...

Review What's better than a good crime novel? I'll tell you - a spoof crime novel, by the absurdly funny and clever Fergus Craig ― Miranda Hart F...

Review Few have matched the sustained high quality of [Alex Gray's] output over twelve novels... What she delivers is sound characterisation, conv...

Don't miss the electrifying new Karen Pirie thriller - STILL LIFE is available to preorder now ___________________ The eleventh book in the Tony H...

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller 'Pure gold indeed' Heat magazine 'JD Robb is a fantastic storyteller who knows how to keep the pages flying by...