Crime

John Maddox Roberts / Oracle of the Dead (SPQR) (Hardback)

Enjoying the good life in southern Italy, Decius Caecilius Metellus, Roman magistrate for cases involving foreigners, becomes caught in the middle of a bitter rivalray between the priests of Apollo...

Richard Mason / The Drowning People (Hardback)

James Farrell murdered Sarah, his wife of thirty years, yesterday. He killed her at Seton Castle, her ancestral home - which should have passed to her cousin, half American, bewitching, mysterious...

Minette Walters / The Scold's Bridle (Hardback)

An old woman is found dead in her bath, her wrists slashed: an apparent suicide. But she is wearing a scold's bridle on her head, adorned with a crown of nettles. What could have driven her to such a...

Layne Fargo / They Never Learn (Hardback)

From the author of the &;raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless&; (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly...

Mary Maher / The Devil's Card (Hardback)

One May morning in 1889, the inky, already-bustling offices of the Chicago Tribune are electrified by the story of the year: the disappearance of prominent Irish doctor P. H. Cronin - and the...

Vicky Halls / Cat Detective (Hardback)

Does your cat scratch your carpets? Or soil in the house? Or perhaps your cat's behaviour has changed recently - becoming withdrawn or aggressive towards you or another member of your family? Or...

James Ellroy / Perfidia (Hardback)

Nominated for the Folio Prize It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a...

Mark Pryor / The Dark Edge of Night (Hardback)

  Winter 1940: With soldiers parading down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Nazi flags dangling from the Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower defaced with German propaganda, Parisians have little to...

Angela Gallop / How to Solve a Crime (Hardback)

Pre-order now: The gripping new book by the UK's most eminent forensic scientists, Angela Gallop__________CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by...

Laura Joh Rowland / Black Lotus (Hardback)

Ichiro Sano's investigation of a triple murder at the Black Lotus Temple in 17th century Japan leads him to suspect an orphan girl. His wife, Reiko, believes the girl is innocent and starts her own...

James Patterson / The 6th Target (Hardback)

The next thrilling novel in the Women's Murder Club series. After a dramatic shoot out at a ferry dock, Detective Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene to find that three people have been killed, and...

Philip Kerr / Field Grey (Hardback)

It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence. He secretly buys a boat and sails to Florida, where he's arrested, sent back to Cuba...

Claudia Rowe / The Spider and the Fly (Hardback)

Winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir “Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching. . . . A must-read.”—Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl In...

Walter Mosley / Trouble Is What I Do (Hardback)

From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P.I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society's...

Walter Mosley / Known to Evil (Hardback)

A Leonid McGill Mystery   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

Anne Perry / Corridors of the Night (Hardback)

One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and...

Walter Mosley / When the Thrill is Gone (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Leonardo Padura / Havana Black

A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade, once an official...

Patty O'Furniture / The Vacant Casualty A Parody (Hardback)

The Vacant Casualty is not prepared, authorized, licensed, approved, or endorsed by the author or the publishers of The Casual Vacancy. Nothing ever seems to happen in the sleepy English town of...

Jessie Keane / Never Go Back

BEHIND EVERY EPIC STORY IS A STRONG WOMAN. Never Go Back is the glamorous and gritty new gangland thriller from acclaimed bestseller Jessie Keane     This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Faye Kellerman / The Lost Boys

Faye Kellerman returns with an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery set in bucolic upstate New York, full of unexpected twists and turns that build to a shocking and surprising end--the latest thrilling...

Katherine Pancol / The slow waltz of turtles

In this mega-bestseller from France and the follow-up to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles , a woman contends with divorce, family trouble, and even murder in her journey to discover who she really is...

Stevyn Colgan / One Step Ahead

'A model of smart storytelling and pure inspiration' Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics Stevyn Colgan spent thirty years in the police service, ten of them as part of the Problem Solving...

Kevin Brooks / Johnny Delgado

Johnny Delgado returns in the new edition second instalment from Kevin Brooks about the teenage detective. When Johnny got wrapped up in gang business by accident, he had no idea he'd be given the...

Steph Cha / Your House Will Pay

Two families. One desperate to remember, the other to forget. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize, Best Mystery/Thriller Winner of the California Book Awards' Gold Medal for Fiction Shortlisted for the...

Elizabeth Fremantle / Poison Bed

Autumn, 1615. Frances Carr is imprisoned in a cold, lightless room. She is accused of murder. In a cell nearby is her co-accused - her husband Robert. Kept apart, Frances can only tell her side of...

Ausma Zehanat Khan / Among the Ruins

The murder of renowned political filmmaker, Zahra Sobhani, brings Esa Khattak's cultural holiday in Iran to a sudden halt. Dissidents are being silenced and Khattak's mere presence in Iran is a risk...

Anna Jaquiery / The Lying Down Room

At night Armand lay in bed with a sadness in his heart that ballooned until there was room for nothing else. He thought with horror of the lying-down room . . . Paris; in the stifling August heat,...

Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead - HB SIGNED NUMBERED 2OTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - 2020

Hardcover, a handsome hardcover red cloth edition from Sphere UK, with printed text to page block ends ( NIGHT NIGHT), SIGNED AND NUMBERED (this being copy 868 of the numbered 1000) signed by the...

Louise Penny / The Grey Wolf

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is...

Helen McCloy - He Never Came Back - (Vintage Penguin Crime PB 1961)

Pubished by Penguin Crime UK, 1961. Originally 1954.  Small ghostmark from an old sticker on front cover, some uneven darkening to spine and adjacent areas.  The tagline is ' a shortsighted girl buys...

Gerald Heard (H.F Heard) - A Taste For Honey - Vintage Penguin Crime - 1961

First published in 1942, this is the first Penguin UK CRIME PAPERBACK EDITION, 1961.  Three horizontal green and white bands, Penguin number 1624, Small areas of edgewear to head and tail of spine...

Walter Mosley / Blonde Faith (Hardback)

Easy Rawlins #11

Lisa Lutz / Heads You Lose (Large Paperback)

Stef Penney / The Beasts of Paris (Large Paperback)

In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.Anne is a former patient from a women's asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that...

Stuart MacBride / A Song for the Dying (Hardback)

  Ash Henderson Novels - Book 2 - A Song for the Dying

Nicci French / Saturday Requiem (Hardback)

Frieda Klein #6

George P. Pelecanos / Drama City (Hardback)

In DRAMA

David Rosenfelt / Dead Center (Hardback)

Andy Carpenter #5

Dick Francis / Odds Against. (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Dick Francis / Whip Hand (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Adam Kay / A Particularly Nasty Case (Large Paperback)

Moving, outrageous and outrageously funny' Dawn French When a toxic hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. Nobody else does though, including some...

Val McDermid / Silent Bones (Large Paperback) (Karen Pirie Series)

The truth is buried just beneath the surface . . . When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before...

Patricia Gibney / Three Widows (Large Paperback)

When a young widow vanishes, Detective Lottie Parker is drawn into a chilling case that quickly turns deadly. As more bodies surface and a tight-knit widows’ group closes ranks, Lottie must uncover...

Richard Price / Lush Life (Large Paperback)

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Walter Mosley / Fortunate Son (Large Paperback)

In spite

Walter Mosley / Fearless Jones (Large Paperback)

Fearless Jones #1

Patricia Cornwell / From Potter's Field (Large Paperback)

The sixth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Christmas had never been a particularly good...

Graham Hurley / Angels Passing (Large Paperback)

DI Joe Faraday - BOOK 3 Focused around two investigations - the hunt for a ten year old boy who may be linked to the death of a teenage girl and a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body...

Robert Williams / Love and Vengeance (Large Paperback)

This is

Ann Cleeves / The Killing Stones (Large Paperback) (Shetland Novels)

Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves #1

Cormac Quinn - Murder on Lough Derg - PB - BRAND NEW

All journalist Jack Myers wants is a relaxing Irish holiday. Retreating from his demanding job as a foreign correspondent, he thinks he's found the perfect escape - the stately St Peter's Manor,...