Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Jack Shook is a young felony prosecutor in Palm Beach County in the late 1970s who thinks he understands what justice is all about. He confidently, if not arrogantly, charges through life mowing down drug dealers, thieves, thugs, and other assorted malefactors and miscreants, thinking that he is the...

Texas cowboys Billy Birthday (aka Shortcut) and Wallace F. Fidgle (aka Tapes) are touring Florida to see the lighthouses there. In the midst of a storm, they give a ride to a jogger who turns out to be the governor of Florida. And as soon as they drop him off, he's murdered. Stuck in a hotel on remote...

Ever since The Burglar on the Prowl climbed the bestseller lists in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a new book featuring the lighthearted and lightfingered Bernie Rhodenbarr. Now everybody's favorite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser...

A murder takes place on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta...the next day two CIA agents arrive on the island. Superintendent Thea Spiteri is confused and can't understand why they are there. When she finds out it is because of a link in her case to her boyfriend....and the assassination of JFK..... she is even more confused.....and angry.

Un crime vient d’être commis dans le quartier des Batignolles. Anthénor Pigoreau, un vieil homme riche, est retrouvé assassiné, allongé dans son sang. Sur le plancher, près de lui, est écrit à la pointe de son doigt ensanglanté « MONIS ». La police n'a pas beaucoup à réfléchir...

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Fallow is a tense, thrilling literary novel combining elements of dark comedy and surrealism. At its heart is the relationship between two brothers bound by a terrible crime. Paul and Mikey are on the run, apparently from the press surrounding their house after Mikey’s release from prison. His crime,...

“This assured crime novel from Leonard opens on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City . . . the plot twists and turns” (Publishers Weekly). Jack McCann is a high-stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out...

When does a little black dress become a lethal black dress?  When it becomes unexpectedly weaponized at the most security-conscious event in Washington, D.C.—the fabled White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is delighted to finally take her place at the...

Read a preview extract from Hurt before it's published in November 2013 Danger Hides in Plain Sight ... Brian McGilloway's Little Girl Lost was a runaway bestseller, now DS Lucy Black returns in Hurt, a tense crime thriller about the abuse of power and how the young and vulnerable can...

Animal is set in and around a beautiful Welsh seaside town. Money is tight and the residents are fed up with their crime-infested community, so a group of renegade martial artists decide to take the law into their own hands and become hired vigilantes. In the centre of this all is Will Thomas, a martial...

Three young women are murdered in as many weekends after being picked up at Newcastle nightclubs. Each is killed in a motiveless, copycat attack leaving police with no clues and no leads. For local newspaper crime reporter, Mick Rogers, it is the story of a lifetime but for the detective leading the...

Brandon Boader has developed the unique ability to transform himself into a different person, at will, through self-hypnosis. He could temporarily become a killer to take revenge on the men who murdered his parents. But then, how could he ever live with himself? And besides, if he “goes under”...

A novel of two halves, this story opens with Dr James Oldfield who finds himself caught one night in a police hunt. When he stumbles upon a policeman, struck dead by an unknown assailant, Oldfield determines to piece together what happened, and who Mr Kempster, (a man who turns up at the scene of...