Crime
A Walk in the Dark (Guido Guerrieri 2)
By: Gianrico Carofiglio
"Carofiglio writes crisp, ironical novels that are as much love stories and philosophical treatises as they are legal thrillers."—The New Yorker"Part legal thriller, part insight into a man fighting his own demons. Every...
Published: Aug 2006
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 218
Flyaway/Windfall
By: Desmond Bagley
Well-known and acclaimed for their fast pace and rich local color, adventure thrillers by the classic action writer are presented here in double doses, each volume including special bonus materials
Published: Dec 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 704
Running Blind/The Freedom Trap
By: Desmond Bagley
Well-known and acclaimed for their fast pace and rich local color, adventure thrillers by the classic action writer are presented here in double doses, each volume including special bonus materials Running Blind: The assignment begins with a...
Published: Oct 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 576
The Cold Room
By: J. T. Ellison
He can truly love her only once her heart stops.Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks she's seen it all in Nashville—from the Southern Strangler to the Snow White Killer. But she's never seen anything as perverse as The Conductor. Once his...
Published: Mar 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 416
Fun and Games
By: Duane Swierczynski
The first of three explosive pulp thrillers arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation and Marvel Comics scribe Duane Swierczynski. Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner's...
Published: Jun 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 256
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Crime Classics)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
"Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" -Arthur Conan Doyle In The Murders in the Rue Morgue, all of Paris is in shock following the ghastly murder of two women-but with all witnesses...
Published: May 2006
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 132
Taken (An Elvis Cole Novel)
By: Robert Crais
When Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are hired to find her missing girl, the investigation derails into a nightmare. Cole himself disappears and it's left to Pike to burn through the deadly world of human traffickers to find his friend. But he may already be...
Published: Dec 2012
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 432
Halfhead
By: Stuart MacBride
A terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the author of the Logan McRae series
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 384
Playing with Bones: A Joe Plantagenet Murder Mystery (The Joe Plantagenet Murder Mysteries)
By: Kate Ellis
Three seemingly separate cases quickly become entangled, and DI Joe Plantagenet must sort them out before more lives are lost.
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 320
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do
By: Daniel Woodrell
A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels from an author about whom New York magazine has written, "What people say about Cormac McCarthy ... goes double for [Woodrell]. Possibly more." In the...
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 512
The Plague Court Murders
By: John Dickson Carr
THE FIRST SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERY. When Dean Halliday becomes convinced that the malevolent ghost of Louis Playge is haunting his family estate in London, he invites Ken Bates and Detective-Inspector Masters along to Plague Court to investigate....
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 230
The Front
By: Patricia D. Cornwell
When Patricia Cornwell introduced a quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters in At Risk, the result was electrifying. Now, America's #1 bestselling crime writer returns with an audacious new adventure.
Published: May 2009
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 320
The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction
By: Mike Ashley
Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans crime from the Bronze Age to World War II, and...
Published: Sep 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 512
A Choice of Nightmares
By: Lynn Kostoff
Robert Staples is on the verge of finally making it as a second-rate actor when his agent asks him to deliver a package. Staples promptly loses the package, forcing him into the heart of a bloody and highly lucrative drug-running operation. Pulled in...
Published: Mar 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 294
A Soldier Reborn
By: Dan McCarty
A murder in a small Colorado town prompts an investigation unlike any other. The young detective, Colt Sullivan, is left with few clues and only one cryptic lead. Before he can solve the murder he must learn about a past he never knew existed. He...
Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 303
A Winter Kill (Rapid Reads)
By: Vicki Delany
Nicole Patterson is a young, green and very eager probationary constable with the Ontario Provincial Police. Although she spends much of her time breaking up bar fights, giving out traffic tickets and finding lost kids, she dreams of one day...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 111
Alamo North Dakota - A Dan Neumann Myster
By: Phil Rustad
Semi-retired Minneapolis homicide detective Dan Neumann is happy to hear his best friend's voice until he hears Pete's words: ''I need your help, buddy. Grams is dead.'' Dan's shock turns to outrage when he learns surrogate grandmother was...
Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 400
An Unhallowed Grave: A Wesley Peterson Murder Mystery (The Wesley Peterson Murder Mysteries)
By: Kate Ellis
In this reissue of the third book in the series, Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson is determined to discover the truth about a murdered woman with a carefully hidden past, and, once again, it is history that provides him with a clue
Published: Aug 2009
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 240
And Everything Nice (Rapid Reads)
By: Kim Moritsugu
Twenty-four-year-old Stephanie manages a clothing store and lives with her mother in the townhouse where she grew up. Her life isn't in a rut exactly, but it's not headed where she'd like it to be. At her mother's suggestion, she joins a community...
Published: Mar 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 128
And So to Murder
By: John Dickson Carr
A SIR HENRY MERRIVALE MYSTERY. No one expected a clergyman's daughter from East Roystead to author a scandalous bestseller, but when Monica Stanton published Desire she quickly got hired at Albion Films. Expecting to adapt her own work, she is...
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 180
As I Was Cutting and Other Nastinesses
By: L. V. Rautenbaumgrabner
From a sociopath with superhuman hearing to a town under siege by anvils, L.V Rautenbaumgrabner's collection of short stories are both hilarious and downright disturbing. With hints of Jim Thompson, William Faulkner, and Gabriel García Márquez,...
Published: Jan 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 188
Beyond Reach (DI Joe Faraday)
By: Graham Hurley
A brutal hit-and-run killing opens the path to another 25-year-old crime A young couple are mown down in a hit-and-run incident. The girl is badly injured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. According to the sole witness the boy was in the middle...
Published: Mar 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 352
Black Ice (Detective Jill Jackson Mysteries)
By: Leah Giarratano
Detective Jackson is eBngaged in a dangerous sting operation in/B a taut, suspenseful read from one of Australia's new breed of crime writers/BDIV/B/B Working undercover in Sydney's murky drug world, living in a run-down apartment, and making...
Published: Oct 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 320
Blood Red (Primavera Blackstone Mystery series)
By: Quintin Jardine
Primavera Blackstone herself becomes the prime suspect in the second breathtaking installment in crime writer Quintin Jardine's brilliant newest series Primavera is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. The...
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 416
Borrowed Light (DI Joe Faraday)
By: Graham Hurley
The 11th entry in the series known for its realistic look at police work A car accident during a holiday in the Middle East lands Faraday in a hospital packed with the maimed from Gaza, where he embarks on a wild scheme to adopt a horribly...
Published: Apr 2012
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 342
Bulldog Drummond (Crime Classics)
By: Sapper
In the first of the Bulldog Drummond stories, the wealthy former WWI officer looks for adventure as a private detective "Demobilized officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if...
Published: Apr 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 260
California Scheming: A Todd Gleason Crime Novel
By: Joseph Pittman
Todd Gleason just can't catch a break. Even when he's enjoying leisure time on the island of Bermuda—in the capable hands of the lovely Lana Davies—he cannot escape his questionable past. Said past arrives in the seductive shape of Cindy...
Published: Feb 2012
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 336
Cold Shot to the Heart
By: Wallace Stroby
"Just when you think that you can't be surprised anymore, a writer like Wallace Stroby ups the ante."---Laura Lippman, author of I'd Know You AnywhereCrissa Stone is a career criminal. A complete pro, she never works too...
Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 304
Crime Scene: Singapore: The Best of Singapore Crime Fiction
By: Stephen Leather
The first ever multi-author anthology of crime fiction set in Singapore. Featuring stories from veteran UK crime writer Stephen Leather, Singapore Literature Prize winner Ng Yi-Sheng, and popular Singapore-based authors Richard Lord, Chris...
Published: Feb 2011
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 288
Crimespotting: An Edinburgh Crime Collection
By: Lin Anderson
All the short stories in "Crimespotting" are brand new and specially commissioned. The brief was deceptively simple - each story must be set in Edinburgh and feature a crime. The results range from hard-boiled police procedural to...
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Crime
Pages: 223