Crime category: 24427 books

Crime fiction writer George Pelecanos introduces Spero Lucas, an anti-hero making his place in the world one battle at a time. Includes a bonus work of short fiction focusing on Spero's early life. Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home to Washington, D.C. after serving...

***WINNER*** Western Writers of America 2019 Golden Spur award for Best Short Fiction "Buck's Last Ride" One of Canada’s great unsung crime writers, Therese Greenwood is a two-time finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story...

“He had his tea as usual; when I knocked at the door with the tray (he always had afternoon tea), I found him—like this.” Dr Roger Lavington is dreading his debut performance with the village amateur dramatic society. But real-world drama takes over when Lavington’s neighbour, a reclusive...

The bodies of three young children, abandoned on a bleak hillside, are discovered by Lieutenant O'Connor's Afghan hound, and so begins another long and tough investigation for the Glendale Police Department. Vic Varallo, O'Connor and team are also tasked with a serial rapist, the murder of...

"Timeless collection of 20 selected true crime short stories. The stories have variety in style and subject, but are all masterpieces with enduring quality of writing. Finding time for reading can often be a difficult task for many people with hectic and busy schedules. Committing oneself...

More well known for her family life fiction, here are four true crime novels written at the beginning of Karen Kingsbury’s. They include a special reader's letter from Karen explaining how the darkness in these stories became more than she could bear and prompted a dramatic career change to write...

The UK is gripped by the threat of gang violence - the media is building on that hysteria, convincing us that knife crime is rife and the streets are flooded with guns and drugs. So when a member of a notorious girl gang is charged with a brutal murder, sympathy is in short supply. Enter Lilly Valentine,...

**The first 3 novels of the bestselling Moroad Motorcycle Club series covers the mind-blowing romance of Cam...president and career felon controlling the prison system. ** Wrapped Around Him: Empathy is an emotion that has always evaded Cam Farrell, president of the Moroad Motorcycle...

The man they call Shovel is a neutral instrument. He's buried more than his fair share of men. And built his boss, August Alexander, a criminal empire. But when August suddenly becomes obsessed with a tiny wooden doll, even Shovel can't remain neutral for long. Or escape the doll's spell. A...

A woman is brutally murdered and buried in the woods. Suspicion falls on her husband—the former mayor of a small town south of Berlin. They had been married almost fifty years and were considered the perfect couple. Award-winning journalist Anja Reich-Osang covered the trial. She spoke with...

It's Christmas, but there isn't much Christmas spirit in the Glendale Police Department. Delia Riordan's father has just died, Detective Jim Harvey's family have left for the holidays, there are power blackouts, and of course no let-up in murders, muggings, burglaries and a perplexing triple murder/suicide. The...

In his final novel George V. Higgins provides us with yet another searing and enthralling dissection of the Boston underworld.   Arthur McKeach and Nick Cistaro are notorious, especially to the Boston police department. Their reputations precede them as orchestrators of extortion, theft, fraud, bribery,...

'Nothing is as it seems in this sleek and cunning thriller' Evening Standard The first novel in the Oslo Crime Files, a tense and dark quartet of thrillers for fans of Camilla Lackberg and Jo Nesbo. A woman vanishes from a forest near Oslo. Days later her body is found, seemingly...

Looking for a new absolutely unputdownable crime series that will have you hooked in a heartbeat? Look no further than the first three crime thrillers from Amazon, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Lisa Regan, introducing you to the unforgettable Detective Jose Quinn....