Category: General Crime/Mystery
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-led noir anthology featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Steph Cha, Edwidge Danticat and more.
Category: General Crime/Mystery
Can Rook keep his criminal past a secret when facing the most dangerous case of his life? Thirteen men have died in a London prison. Barrister Elliot Rook QC, who risks losing everything if his secret criminal past is revealed, must defend Charli Meadows, the vulnerable single mother accused of smugglin ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery
Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children and a successful career. On a warm spring morning Margot approaches one of her clients on a busy train platform. He is looking down at his phone, with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared and is out of hiding and looking forward to the quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for doomsday by building a bolthole in the ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery
Family fights, suicides, sirens, death, and even a ghost. Everything happens here ... Attorney Sarah Fortune is dispatched to a small coastal town to straighten out the financial affairs of the eccentric Pardoe family. The three siblings and their mother, who is suffering from dementia, own most of Mert ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life o or his professional one? Dr Joshua Ainsworth worked at a ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery
For the first time in the US, this timeless cat-and-mouse classic from the Edgar Award-winning "genius" examines political tensions in an era of espionage (Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series). In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery
'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Cassie Dewell Ser.
The ties that bind can burn you ...Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is starting over with her own private investigation firm. She's her own boss answering to no one - and that's just the way she likes it. But it's all going to change when an old friend calls in a favour: she wants Cassie to h ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery
'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' Daily Express The Queen of Crime Val McDermid is a master of the dark and sinister story, and these powers are demonstrated in full force in Christmas is Murder, a festive collection of chilling tales. From an irresponsible baron whose body is discovered ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Pentecost and Parker Ser.
New York, 1946. Lillian Pentecost is the most successful private detective in the city, but her health is failing. She hires an assistant to help with the investigative legwork. Willowjean Parker is a circus runaway. Quick-witted and street-smart, she's a jack-of-all-trades with a unique skill-set. She ...Show more
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Mickey Haller Ser.
Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back in the heartstopping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbita ...Show more