Crime

Rob Kitchin / The Rule Book

    A young woman is found dead. Accompanying her body is Chapter One of "The Rule Book" - a self-help guide for serial killers. The case is assigned to Detective Superintendent Colm McEvoy. With...

Daniel Cole / Ragdoll

   THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Superb thriller writing.' Peter Robinson'A brilliant, breathless thriller' M.J. Arlidge'A high concept solution to a mystery' Sophie HannahA body is discovered with...

Kathy Reichs / Exposure

   Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet.Morris Island has barely had a chance to return to normality after the high...

Philip Kerr / Gridiron

   Los Angeles, 1988Ray Richardson, a brilliant architechnologist, has created a dazzling new building: 'The Gridiron', in the heart of L. A.The Gridiron represents the state-of-the-art in smart...

Elizabeth Corley / Grave Doubts

    'He was only a pupil, learning from a master who was uncompromising about the rules of the game he had invented. Normally he obeyed them, but with her the temptation had been too strong...

Arnaldur Indridason / The Shadow District

   OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCESTHE PASTIn wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled behind the National Theatre, a rough and dangerous area of the city known as `the shadow district'. An...

Reginald Hill / An Advancement of Learning

   All is not well at Holm Coultram College.All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.Detective Superintendent...

Alan Glynn / Graveland

   A Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Later that night, one of the savviest hedge-fund managers in the city is gunned down outside a fancy Upper West Side...

Martha Long / Run, Lily, Run

   Lilly and Ceily Carney are only seven and twelve when their mother is cruelly taken from them, leaving them at the mercy of the Church and the authorities.This is a terrifying prospect in 1950s...

Michaels Russell / The City of Strangers ( Stefan Gillespie Novels - Book 2 )

   The SUNDAY TIMES top 20 bestseller!Shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger AwardNew York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets ...A brutal murder in...

Tania Carver / Truth or Dare

   Darren Richards opened his eyes to find himself duct-taped to a chair with a crossbow pointing at him. Behind the crossbow is a hooded figure wearing a black-faced, round-eyed gas mask. The...

Owen Laukkanen / The Professionals

   Four friends, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise works like a charm - until...

Lionel Shiver / The New Republic

   A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin.`A superbly witty political satire' THE TIMESEdgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular...

Conor Fitzgerald / The Namesake : An Alec Blume Novel

   When it comes to murder it's all in a nameWhen magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzale Clodio, it's a coded...

Maggie Gibson / First Holy Chameleon

    Cash Ryan's life is a mess. A property developer has made her homeless, her boyfriend has decided to lead the celibate life, and her big acting break in a TV soap has just fizzled out like a...

Reginald Hill / Ruling Passion

    'One of the modern masters of the police procedural' Sunday Telegraph Peter Pascoe is in shock. A weekend in the country with old friends turns into a nightmare when he finds three of them...

B M Carroll / The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy

   'Intriguing, compelling. Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' Liane MoriartyShe's the victim.But is she so innocent?Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and...

Brian McGilloway / The Rising

   When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he finds inside the charred remains of a man who is quickly identified as a local drug dealer, Martin Kielty. It soon becomes...

Alafair Burke / The Wife

   In our age of accusations, blurred lines, and shifting allegiances, what would you do?When Angela meets Jason Powell, a brilliant university professor, she assumes their romance to be a fling...

Luke Jennings / Codename Villanelle

   The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh'Gloriously exciting' MetroShe is the perfect assassin.A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal...

Edward Falco / The Family Corleone

   New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is...

Chris Ewan / Dark Tides

   From the number one bestselling author of SAFE HOUSE comes a story about friendship, family, secrets, lies, and the things we do for love.When Claire Cooper was eight, her mother disappeared...

Vikas Swarup / Six Suspects

   Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters...

Arnaldur Indridason / Outrage

 Reykjavik, Saturday nightHe offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give...

Donald James / Vadim

 In this, the third appearance of Inspector Constantin Vadim leaves his native Russia for New York. Vadim finds himself caught up in the middle of a presidential election where the victory of the...

Evelyn Anthony / No Enemy But Time

   A thriller about a girl who returns to Ireland and is besieged by memories as she contends with the fact that her brother, her dearest and closest friend, has gone missing, possibly kidnapped and...

Mary Willis Walker / All the Dead Lie Down

 Tremendous new thriller from the award-winning author of UNDER THE BEETLE'S CELLAR and THE RED SCREAM, and once again featuring indomitable Molly Cates as the feisty, funny, flawed heroine.Chilling,...

Rhys Bowen / In Like Flynn

 Molly's sixth sense is warning her - danger and death lie ahead!A woman private eye in a man's world, Molly Murphy is having a hard time succeeding in running her detective agency in New York...

Jefferson Parker / California Girl

 Stunning new thriller from the award-winning Jefferson Parker, author of The Blue Hour, Red Light, Black Water and Cold Pursuit.In 1968 Southern California was a tumultuous and at times seriously...

James Patterson / The Verdict : BookShots

 James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.A woman violently attacked in her bed.A billionaire businessman on trial at The Old Bailey.As the world's press gather...

Becky Masterman / Fear the Darkness

 Brigid Quinn has been shot at, stabbed in the spleen with a nail file and used as serial-killer bait. But she's always been able to trust her instincts and her FBI-training to help her out of danger...

Jack Curtis / The Confessor

 The caller has killed many times and now he wants to talk about it, and he'll only confess to DI Joe Morgan. And once he's started talking to Joe he can't stop...nor can he stop the killings. Every...

Susan Isaacs / Magic Hour

    The Hamptons is a film-maker's dream, a stretch of beach where deals are made and games are played all day long. When a cold, debonair movie mogul is murdered, Detective Steve Brady, former...

John Ralston Saul / Baraka

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Steven Saylor / The Venus Throw

   Steven Saylor's historical mysteries set in ancient Rome and featuring investigator Gordianus the Finder enjoy a widespread following in America. Robinson is publishing the whole series - five...

Phil Rickman / The Wine Of Angels

    The Revd Merrily Watkins had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she particularly wanted to walk straight into a local dispute over a...

John Gilstrap / Nathan's Run

    A high security Virginia juvenile detention centre is the scene of a savage killing. Twelve-year-old Natan Bailey is accused of murder and branded a cop-killer; orphaned, alone and with...

Jim Williams / Recherche

    Set in the south-west of France, this tale sees a lawyer and his young lover, Lucy, getting away from it all. Their new neighbour is Harry, a fabulous character who enchants them with tales...

Craig Russell / Brother Grimm

   A girl's body lies, posed, on the pale sand of a Hamburg beach, a message concealed in her hand. 'I have been underground, and now it is time for me to return home...'Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg...

Guillaume Musso / Where Would I be Without You?

    Parisian cop Martin Beaumont has never really got over his first love, Gabrielle. Their brief, intense affair in San Francisco and the pain of her rejection still haunt him years later. Now,...

Nelson Demille / The Cuban Affair

 Nelson DeMille is a true master'Dan BrownStrap in for the ride of a lifetime with the blistering new novel from America's greatest living thriller writer, Nelson DeMille.Daniel 'Mac' MacCormick has...

Elisabeth Herrmann / The Cleaner

 An unforgettable heroine. An unforgivable past.For fans of Child 44, The Lives of Others and Stasi Child, The Cleaner is a gripping thriller that will chill and intrigue as the sins of the past...

Liane Moriarty / Nine Perfect Strangers

 THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY SPRING BOOK CLUB PICK, FROM THE AUTHOR BEHIND AWARD WINNING TV SERIES BIG LITTLE LIES.'The suspense keeps building in an enjoyably zany thriller'...

Hakan Nesser / Hour of the Wolf

 A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . .Van Veeteren faces a chilling case in Hakan Nesser's Hour of the Wolf, the seventh book to feature Chief...

Peter May / Blowback ( An Enzo Files Novel )

 THE FIFTH ENZO THRILLER, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COFFIN ROAD, ENTRY ISLAND AND THE LEWIS TRILOGY. PUY-DE-DOME, FRANCE. A Silenced Man. Footprints in the snow lead to the murder scene of Marc...

Steven Saylor / The Judgement of Caesar

 It is 48 BC.For years now the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for world domination. Both now turn to Egypt, Pompey planning a last stand on the banks of the Nile,...

Laurence Shames / Sunburn

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Carolann Copland / Summer Triangle

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Donald James / Monstrum

    Russia in the early twenty-first century: a civil war has subsided into an uneasy peace; police inspector Constantin Vadim is transferred from Murmansk to head an investigation in a...

Tobias Jones / The Salati Case

   Castagnetti (informally known as 'Casta') is a private detective who doesn't do things by the book. When a pompous notary commissions him to verify that a missing person is "presumed dead" in...

James Runcie / Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death : Grantchester Mysteries 1

   Grantchester Mysteries 1Now a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester for ITVSidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional...

Lynda La Plante / Tennison

   From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren, comes the fascinating back story of the iconic DCI Jane Tennison.In 1973 Jane Tennison, aged 22, leaves the...