Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Harold Monkhouse is usually such an uncomplaining patient so when his brother Amos calls in one night, what he doesn’t expect is to see him at Death’s door. Suspicions aroused, he demands an urgent second opinion. And when Harold is later found dead from arsenic poisoning, Amos is left in no doubt...

Sub-inspector Max Romero is asked to help investigate the death of Leila, a beautiful Muslim postgraduate student, researching the impacts of the Spanish Civil War on Max's home village in the Sierra Nevada. The prime suspect, Hassan, has links to a supposed terrorist group but the police's insensitive...

Le président du groupe coopératif des Vignerons du Narbonnais est retrouvé assassiné dans un bac de récupération de sa machine à vendanger.Entre jalousies multiples, spéculations de tous bords, luttes pour le pouvoir, règlements de comptes et adultère, Jepe Llense, le Maigret catalan, a fort...

A body washes up on the banks of the Maribyrnong River in flood. Caught in the act of taking his own life, and surrounded by the bloodstained clothes of his wife, Oleg Kransky is a shoe-in for number one suspect. But he's not talking. To anyone. Oleg's former psychologist, Decca Brand,...

Dans un ruisseau souterrain flotte le cadavre d'une femme... Quel est le point commun entre la recherche médicale et le syndrome de Diogène ? Un chat ! Un banal matou qui fausse compagnie à sa maîtresse, et trace une diagonale qui mène tout droit à un ruisseau souterrain dans lequel flotte...

In this explosive follow-up to This is a Dreadful Sentence, featuring Gina Gray and DCI Scott, a twelve-year-old girl is killed, pushed down the stairs at her home and beaten over the head with a golf club. Scott leads the investigation and finds himself crossing paths again with Gina, a university...

The third instalment of the brilliant William Dougal series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. There's unfinished business between William Dougal and his widowed father. Part of it has to do with Celia Prentisse, William's ex-girlfriend. When her historian...

When Brigitte and her family moved from the city, they were supposed to be happier. And safer. But soon her crime-writer ex-boyfriend turns up in town to promote his new novel, in which a woman is found dead — murdered — in a country lake. Hours later, Brigitte watches the police pull a body from...

The third book in the Jasmine Sharp series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. One crime brought them together . . . Private investigator Jasmine Sharp should have wanted him dead. Yet somehow, Jasmine bonded with Glen Fallan, the man who killed her father before she was born....

From the pen of New York Times best selling novelist GP Taylor comes a new detective. London - 1923 - the first serial killer since the Whitechapel murders is on the loose. Jack D'Arc, a former London copper, young war veteran of the Somme and now private detective, is brought in to investigate. Little...

A brain-teasing conspiracy thriller and an action-packed ride through the centuries. In late 2012 a cryptic invitation leads a crime novelist to Venice's Island of the Dead. Once there he is captivated by his host's tale, which spans the centuries - but seemingly begins and ends in the dark...

'Dark and delicious with plenty of edge-of-the-seat moments' LIZ LOVES BOOKS During a Communion service, the teenage son of the vicar brutally attacks his father with an axe in full view of the congregation. A frantic police search for the boy follows as rumours circulate that he was involved...

“Don’t panic, Cait. This death will not spoil our wedding. I promise.” It’s Cait and Bud’s wedding weekend and nothing is going as planned. The weather in Wales is terrible, the “romantic” castle they chose for their destination wedding feels creepy, and now there’s a dead man...

'Intricately plotted and expertly paced, Nothing Else Remains is British crime writing at its finest' M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show When Max Brennan’s estranged father and then his own girlfriend go missing in quick succession, he turns to his old friend Detective Jake Porter for...