Crime & Mystery

When a body is found in a hotel room, the press soon pick up on the case: it appears to be a missing LAPD narcotics officer, apparently gone to the...

The Innocent is another action-packed thriller from David Baldacci, one of the world's most popular writers. He could no longer remember the names...

Fresh, original, authentic and gritty' Lee Child The third and final gritty Newcastle-set crime thriller in this acclaimed trilogy about a PTSD-su...

A gritty urban crime thriller from one of the award-winning writers of THE WIRE. Like most of the trouble in Nick Stefanos' life, it started with ...

Revenge is a dish best served warm...High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She's off to make a n...

A classic crime novel from 'the best suspense writer going, bar none' New York Times

'Amazing. I'd give someone else's right arm to write so beautifully' Sarah Pinborough 'Superb! The Devil's Playground is imagination on steroids.....

Jacob Meaney makes so little money as a translator that his girlfriend has given up on him. Then Eloise, an Australian digital marketer, appears ou...

*** A BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *** 'A BLOOMING GOOD READ' - THE TIMES 'A MUST FOR LOVERS OF CRIME FICTION THAT'S JUST A BIT DIFFERE...

'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post 'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly t...

A woman's naked body is found floating in the weeds of a lake near Bath, by an elderly woman walking her Siamese cats. No-one comes forward to iden...

It wouldn't be a country house weekend without a little murder. . . Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of Lettice...

'Bruce is doing for Cambridge what Colin Dexter did for Oxford with Inspector Morse' Daily Mail A fresh start in a place you hate. Even tougher wi...

A dead witness. A forgotten crime. Hamish Macbeth never had it so hard as in this newest Highlands mystery! Morag Merrilea is working at the Sho...

'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK 'Brilliantly recounts the...

TOM THORNE IS BACK . . . AND SO IS HIS WORST NIGHTMARE A gripping, grisly read. Mark Billingham is a terrific crime writer' ----- ANTHONY HOROWITZ...

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail A theatre party Yorkshire, 1927. Eclipse fever grips the nation, and when...

'Taut, compelling and authentic ... an edge-of-your-seat thriller' Andrea Carter David Dunnigan just received the phone call he has spent eighteen...

The twelfth murder mystery in the enthralling Kate Shackleton series set in 1930s Yorkshire. When a dead body is discovered during a garden party a...

The riotous third novel in Charlie Owen's acclaimed seventies police series. Summer 1977: It's no holiday in the sun in Handstead New Town, a nort...

'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club 'An absolute delight' L C Tyler 'This intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychologica...

'I was seduced from John Grey's first scene' Ann Cleeves 1670. Eastwold, once one of the greatest ports in England, has been fighting a losing bat...

Book Description Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and grippi...

Rain falls relentlessly on the Po valley in northern Italy, and the river is swollen to its limits. A huge barge leaves its moorings, steering an e...

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...

'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.'...

'Sheridan's story builds to a chilling climax' Daily Mail on Indian Summer About to get married, Mirabelle and her fianc� retired Superintendent A...

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

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail A Maharajah on the Moors When the India Office seek help in finding Mahar...

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

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

Following a rash moment of insolence, Dr Siri Paiboun, Laos' reluctant national coroner, confused shaman and disheartened communist, is forced to g...

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...

'Davis's prose is a lively joy, and Flavia's Rome is sinister and gloriously real' The Times on Saturday Flavia Albia's day-old marriage is in tro...

Product Description Somebody in Laos is wooing and wedding country girls - and then killing them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to tree...

As a grey drizzle descends upon the damp errand boys and busy omnibuses of London, Daisy Dalrymple is feeling rather cheerful and excited to be sho...

Another runaway adventure with glamorous heroine Phryne Fisher! When Phryne Fisher arranges to go to Ballarat for a week, she eschews the excitemen...

Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes, Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobs...

One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is...

'Frances Brody has the knack of spinning a tale that has the charm of the period' Daily Mail Nothing ever happens in August, and tenacious sleuth ...