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Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. ...

The classic first novel from Mark Billingham introduces DI Tom Thorne in a unforgettable and terrifying case that changed crime fiction forever.'A terrifically stylish debut novel' Independent on SundayAlison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately...

The ninth book in the Tom Thorne series, from bestselling author Mark Billingham.It has been a decade since Alan Langford's charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and...

Stabbed in the backA pieced of lead piping nearbyIt should be a simple case... Poirot is summoned to France, but arrives too late to save his client, whose body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course. Why...

'A fascinating, swaggeringly confident performance' Sunday TimesWhen you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose - it isn't easy to hitch a ride in Nebraska. At last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men...

From the winner of the Genre-Busting Book of the Year 2024 comes the second fantastically original and twisty crime thriller. A fortune teller predicts her own murder.Will a detective see his coming?Former CID detective Scott Jericho is done with murder...

* Pre-order LOYALTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2023. *Has DI Kate Burrows met her match?Sequel to THE LADYKILLER, BROKEN is the second book in the DI Kate Burrows series: the only time the 'undisputed queen of crime writing'...

Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair's perfect placement turns deadly ... The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden...

BEFORE PRIME SUSPECT THERE WAS TENNISON.Every legend has a beginning . . . During 1974 and 1975 the IRA subjected London to a terrifying bombing campaign. In one day alone, they planted seven bombs at locations across central London. Some were defused -...

WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE SAFE,WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE ALL ALONE,THAT'S WHEN HE'LL COME FOR YOU...A silent killer stalks the city, targeting those home alone at night, playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with the victims.As panic spreads, Detective...

All they want for Christmas is you . . . 'This should be on every crime reader's Christmas wish list' CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of We Begin at the End *THIS WINTER'S MOST CHILLING KINDLE TOP 20...

24 hours to stop the crime of the centuryThe race against time is about to begin... THE TOWER OF LONDON... Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, the Metropolitan Police...

THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER'[Philip Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian RankinThe first three in the Bernie Gunther series, March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem are true crime classics that...

***The Sunday Times 'Thriller of the Month', Mail on Sunday 'Thriller of the Week' and Sun 'Best for Mystery-Lovers'***Someone is about to make a killingThe most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep...

*The No.1 Irish bestseller* The gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author Every mother's worst nightmare ... When...

'Dark, sharp and compelling' PETER JAMES'Fantastic' MARTINA COLE'Britain's answer to Harry Bosch' MATT HILTON'If you haven't read M W Craven yet, now is the time to start' Abir Mukherjee______________________It's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving...

***THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DETECTIVE SERIES***Don't miss the thrilling new Lorimer novel from Alex Gray. WHEN SHADOWS FALL is available to pre-order now'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' Alexander McCall Smith A murder on their doorstepA case...

A BRAND NEW KING OLIVER NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEAJoe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up...When friend of the family and...

Twelve years. Twelve dead girls. Thirteen will be unlucky for some. The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. A bloody, brilliant and brutal story of murder, kidnap and revenge. ...

Lincoln Rhyme is back, and this time he's in danger, in the brand new crime thriller from Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Final Twist 'The master-plotter Deaver cranks up the tension to fever...

The outstanding first book in the ever-popular Dave Robicheaux series.Introducing the New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux.Johnny Massina, a convicted murderer bound for the electric chair, has warned Dave Robicheaux that he's on somebody's hit list,...

THE PULSE-RAISING NEW WISTING NOVEL FROM 10 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER JORN LIER HORST, NOW A MAJOR BBC 4 TV SHOW'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES'One of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' SUNDAY...

Meet Davie McCall - not your average henchman. Abused and tormented by his father for fifteen years, there is a darkness in him searching for a way out. Under the wing of Glasgow's Godfather, Joe 'the Tailor' Klein, he flourishes. Joe the Tailor may be a...

They'll all be crow bait by the time I'm finished...Jail was hell for Davie McCall. Ten years down the line, freedom's no picnic either. It's 1990, there are new kings in the West of Scotland underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drugs. Davie can handle...

Los Angeles, 15th January 1947. A beautiful young woman walks into the night and meets a horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body is found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers call her 'The Black Dahlia'. For two cops, what begins...

The chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jorn Lier Horst THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING 'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES'Tense, fast-paced, compelling' SUNDAY TIMES________ Five...

Killer twists. Heroes to believe in. Trust Baldacci.Private Investigator and WWII veteran, Aloysius Archer, returns to solve a new case in Hollywood in Dream Town, a riveting thriller from international number 1 bestselling author, David Baldacci.All...

'Horst is brilliant on the day-to-day details of investigation, while keeping tension to the end' SUNDAY TIMES'Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas' NEW YORK...

'This is high quality crime writing' A A DhandThe second dark and twisted thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show.Investigating how a severed hand ends up on the third green of a Cumbrian golf course...

"Outback noir has a new star" The TimesBurnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Manolis flies from Australia to Greece for a holiday. Recently divorced and mourning the death of his father, who emigrated from the turbulent Prespes region...

Buy Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, 1989, now!'No-one can plot or tell a story like she can. The hairs on my neck literally stood up' Daily Express'So gripping it puts your life on hold' The Times'You should have been a detective. If there's one...

* Pre-order LOYALTY, the brand new novel from Martina Cole. Coming October 2023. *Keep everything in the family. Even betrayal... BETRAYAL by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole is a gripping...

One of the Scotsman's Books of 2018 When Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists find the remains of three women on a remote Kintyre hillside - a site rumoured to have been the base of Viking warlord Somerled - their delight soon turns to...

'He'd almost walked right over it when he finally saw it for what it was: a stain of red blood, churned into the white blanket of snow...' After getting on the wrong side of the wrong people in Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone is...

'Deeply layered, fiendishly clever and absorbing' Matt Hilton, author of the Joe Hunter seriesThe first gritty thriller in the Avison Fluke series by M. W. Craven, the acclaimed author of The Puppet Show.Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the...

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP A STALKER IS TO BECOME ONE YOURSELF... 'Exceptional! A breathless, chilling one-sitting read with twist after brilliant twist. Clever, original and filled with tension. A story I won't ever forget...

Eve wasn't sure what it said about her that she was more comfortable in the morgue than a baby boutique. And she didn't care. The scent of death was the familiar.Rushing to the murder scenes of a tortured young woman, Eve is far more at home than when...

If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone . . .FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR M.J. ARLIDGE_________The last thing Tom Campbell remembers is camping in the New Forest with his girlfriend, Melissa.Now he is helpless, alone, and...

Discover the addictive crime thriller from bestseller Wes MarkinA murdered child. A case from the past. A detective inspector with nothing to lose...DI Paul Riddick is a man tormented by his own actions and determined to right the wrongs of his past any...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH'Imaginative, unusual, clever and fun' Sunday Times'A twisty, exciting read' Sabine Durrant'A dark, sexy mystery' Metro**********Claire Wright isn't who she seems.A British drama student, in...