Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Everybody at Butchers’ Row in Southwark has something to hide... Described as ‘London noir’, Night Shelter, the 9th novel from thriller writer Gil Hogg, delves deep into the seedy underground world of drugs, prostitution and corruption in Britain’s capital. Jimmy Morton, a supervisor at the...

Juillet 1981... Pendant que Daniel Duval et son collègue Louis Harel participent aux Jeux mondiaux des policiers à Mexico, Gilles Hébert part en vacances avec ses petits-fils Sébastien, six ans, et Vincent, treize ans. Le vieil homme étrenne sa roulotte et il a la ferme intention de trouver un...

Winter in Sydney. The city is brimming with foreign students. Sophie Sandilands takes a job teaching at an English language school. When one of her students leaps to her death it becomes clear that lurking within the psyche of this community is a deep sense of despair and alienation. When it is revealed...

Pearl receives a surprise present from her mother, Dolly - an early summer break at a riverside manor house that has been recently transformed into an exclusive hotel - the newly named Villa Pellegrini. Pellegrini - the Italian word for pilgrims - reflects the fact that the building lies on...

'The perfect deckchair companion' Daily Mail The Whitstable Pearl restaurant has been busy all summer while Pearl's detective agency has brought few interesting cases - until a prospective client calls... Christina Scott confides that seven years ago she had the perfect life with a seaside...

A fantastic crime novel by American writer and orthodontics and root canal therapy specialist (!) Rodrigues Ottolengui.Bacteriology and hypnotism are woven into this narrative, with the first part of the book centering upon the possible inoculation of one of the characters with the cultures of the microbe of diphtheria, and the following chapters leading to the bacillus of insanity!

Dans l'exercice de ses fonctions, l'inspecteur d'état-major Charlie Salter a souvent contemplé la mort de près. Pourtant, quand il se présente à l'urgence où son père, transporté en ambulance à la suite d'une chute, gît inconscient sur son lit d'hôpital, il se sent complètement désarmé....

A young boy drowns in a tragic accident in a lake in upstate New York. Fourteen-year-old year old Tommy and his two friends are sure they know who drove him to take his own life: the boy's father is also convinced and pressurises the local Sheriff, Tommy's father, to make an arrest. But there is not...

Ixora Ishikawa and James Anthony Nicholas Taylor III are detectives in the small, quiet town of Tylerville, Texas. Humdrum country life comes to a screeching halt when a teenager is found stabbed to death with a Scottish Claymore. It is up to Ishikawa and Taylor to find out who is responsible... But what other things will they uncover in the process?

'Provincial detective Christian Tell is more sensitive than Henning Mankell's Wallender, while an extraordinary twist offers a women's take on Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. This is a terrific debut.' Joan Smith, SUNDAY TIMES One cold morning in December, in a small rural town on the Swedish...

Susan Cabot opens her eyes in the hospital. She has practically no memory of what happened to her and Colton Pidcock in that hotel room, where they must have been attacked by her best friend Kate. But Susan still can’t believe it, though she struggles to remember the tragedy, she can’t get out...

**FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION OF DEATH ON THE RIVE NORD Praise for Adrian Magson: "… a classic crime star in the making." Daily Mail "A gripping police procedural." Eurocrime Picardie, 1963.** A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in...

Only politics are more crooked than crime. When it’s election time in Bell County, Texas, the highly-coveted position of the jurisdiction’s top cop brings opponents out swinging. Sheriff Reggie Coil has become a citizen favorite, but the people used to getting away with their own vices...

C’è un momento nella vita, in cui bisogna prendere una decisione. Definitiva! Sono più importanti le persone che ami… o l’inquietudine che ti spinge a cercare sempre nuovi stimoli? Una delle prime regole che ho imparato è: mai abbassare la guardia, mai dare nulla per scontato! Io ho...