Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Writer Will Adams’ peaceful life is interrupted by the sudden and not entirely welcome arrival on his doorstep of his young niece, Marisa, and her best friend Nick. Marisa has learned from her parents, film director Jack Adams and his actress wife, Ruth, that Jack is not her real father and she...

Who is behind Emperor's clothing debacle? Why did Jill push Jack down the hill? Who is killing the ladies of the night in Pippen Hill? And what is going on at Old MacDonald's organic farm? Follow Goose City's detectives Jackson "Jack" Horner and Dick Whittington as they attempt to solve...

“Ma come si fa? Come si fa a scrivere così bene una storia che ispirandosi a Wetryk, famoso illusionista livornese degli anni Venti del secolo scorso, ha il pregevole merito di affascinare il lettore fin dalle prime righe? Il mago delineato storicamente, in funzione del superbo plot narrativo dell'autore,...

Tingwick, 2011. Dans une érablière de Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, on découvre les ossements d’une femme. À qui appartiennent ces restes humains qu’aucun parent ne réclame ? Le lendemain, Lucas Blondin, cinq ans, est porté disparu. Fugue ou enlèvement ? En pleine canicule de juillet, Judith...

« Tu sais, Max, c'est dur de s'avouer qu'on est mort de son vivant. » Ainsi s'exprime Clovis, ancien journaliste rock devenu le bras droit de Max le Gitan, seul patron avant Dieu de la « Casse Rentchler ». Mais depuis la mort de sa Consuela, Max aussi file un mauvais coton. Quand un tireur...

Lucien Dubuc habite le Kavongo depuis une dizaine d'années. Québécois d'origine, il a fondé dans ce tranquille pays d'Afrique une agence de détectives : Kavongo Investigations. Secondé par Mamadou, son exubérant et pas toujours fiable associé, Dubuc, qui est le principal détective de la boîte,...

Jasmine Frame was scared of knives when she was a policeman. Now she finds herself on the trail of a knife killer. But it’s not just her skin that is in danger, her identity as a woman is under threat. Short of work, Private Investigator Jasmine Frame eagerly responds to a request to help identify...

The second book to feature DS Bene Douglas of the Levensbridge Police Force. In 1944 an astonishing secret is discovered by German soldiers in Northern France. The secret is never revealed and goes with them to their graves. In 2010 two bodies are exhumed from the woods and a deadly chase begins to...

PRE-ORDER THE PAGE-TURNING NEW INSTALLMENT OF THE WORKING GIRLS SERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF URBAN CRIME. THE STRONGER SEX. Ruby has always been strong. Growing up with a feeble mother and an absent father, she is forced to fight the battles of her younger siblings. And when a childhood experience leaves...

PRE-ORDER THE PAGE-TURNING NEW INSTALLMENT OF THE WORKING GIRLS SERIES FROM THE QUEEN OF URBAN CRIME. THE PIMP. When Crystal's pimp, protector and former lover, Gilly, dies of a drugs overdose Crystal is bereft. She refuses the paid protection of a rival pimp, determined to go it alone. But a vicious...

'An exciting new voice in crime fiction' Clare Mackintosh, author of I LET YOU GO. Kitty Sweet isn’t like anyone you’ve ever met before. She’s an infamous porn star, imprisoned for double murder. As damaged as she is charismatic, as dangerous as she is charming. But once...

Watson begrudgingly visits relatives in Oxford only to find a case he did not know existed. He learns his dear friend was never at liberty to share the tale. Years have passed since the affair and with Holmes's passing Watson feels obliged to know the story. Watson is taken back to 1873 when Holmes...

Holmes is summoned by his elder brother Mycroft to the Diogenes Club in Pall Mall where he is greeted by his brother and three other recognizable government diplomacy officials. The men require Holmes's expertise immediately, stating that they are working for an unnamed noble client of the highest...

Blood Ties is the second murder mystery which features Detective Inspector Charlie Moon. Like the first, The Silent Passage (Matador, 2014), it is set in Birmingham at the time of the millennium. It follows Moon two years after his suspension from duty for not following house rules; he is back on...