Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Detective Inspector Charlie Moon is no stranger to murder, but the case at 17 Gooch Terrace is particularly gruesome. There is no clear motive, but Moon uncovers a further four almost identical murders – years apart and spread across hundreds of miles. With the help of his friend and journalist...

The Piltdown Picasso is a fast-moving, well-plotted thriller, peopled by compelling characters shot through with a strong thread of humour. Matthew (Fax) Fairfax, a man with a past, arrives back in London after spending some years travelling and is quickly drawn into the capital’s fine art community....

A man`s ambition and love of his beautiful wife, lead him to murder and robbery with violence. Superintendent Roger West, Scotland Yard’s best, and most down to earth, detective is called in, although not without family complications.

NOW UPDATED WITH EXPLOSIVE COURTROOM DETAILS. . . . The riveting true-crime account of the heartbreaking murder that shook a Southern city to its corrupt foundation BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI: After the fatal shooting of one of the city’s most prominent couples—Vincent Sherry was a circuit...

His critically acclaimed debut, Cold Steel Rain, was "a complex, seductively dark story" (The Dallas Morning New’s) that proved Kenneth Abel "is more than able to write a gripping crime drama that will beguile readers" (Midwest Book Review). Now Big Easy lawyer Danny Chaisson....

There's something sexy about detectives - and it's time crime novels admitted it. Crime & Passion novels are fast-paced murder mysteries in the British tradition - but the detectives and their suspects have adult tastes and desires. Francesca Lyons is found dead in her art gallery. The...

There’s a fine line between fact and fiction… Following the publication of his latest crime novel, Barclay Curle receives a letter from a woman accusing him of writing about the murders she has committed. Is it just the wild ramblings of a crazed fan, or could there really be a violent murderess...

Pour Francis Pagliaro, l’affaire débute quand l’un de ses proches collègues, le policier expert en informatique Nicolas Turmel, est froidement assassiné chez lui d’une balle en pleine tête. Le jeune père de famille était assis devant son ordinateur, casque d’écoute sur la tête. Motif...

Un double meurtre a été commis à la galerie Arts Visuels Actuels. Outre Gaston « Faby » Lessard, le propriétaire des lieux, Frédéric Fortier, lieutenant de police à la Ville de Montréal, fait partie des victimes et c’est pourquoi le sergent-détective Francis Pagliaro, de la Sûreté...

Un double meurtre a été commis à la galerie Arts Visuels Actuels. Outre Gaston « Faby » Lessard, le propriétaire des lieux, Frédéric Fortier, lieutenant de police à la Ville de Montréal, fait partie des victimes et c’est pourquoi le sergent-détective Francis Pagliaro, de la Sûreté...

In Scars, the first novel in the Charley Anderson Crime Series, Charley's hard edges are honed by serious suffering--physical and emotional. Her twisted path takes her from luxury spa to deserted pueblos to nights in homeless shelters as she survives test after test and finally is finished with Texas.In...

On a misty November night in London, Dr Thorndyke comes across an abandoned handbag in an old church. From examining the contents an address is found and so begins a mysterious trail leading to the owner and a violent murder. Enter into the world of ‘Mr Ponting’s Alibi’ where threats are made...

Lalli, retired policewoman, intrepid detective, collects curiosities… that inevitably lead to murder. The curiosity of murder unfolds in seven acts. Since Kalpana Swaminathan’s first whodunit was published over ten years ago, Lalli—sixty and silver-haired and tough as nails—has...

Un retour vers le passé, où les fiacres côtoient les omnibus, où le gotique et Oscar Wilde sont à la mode, où les belles robes et les costumes saillants sont de sortie... Paris, début du siècle dernier... Rues encombrées, les galets, les roues, les quartiers, les accents, la vie citadine...