Crime Fiction

No one told mob princess Hope Whitmore how boring witness protection would be. So when her boss sets her up on a blind date, Hope throws caution to the wind. A girl’s gotta live a little, right? Wrong. Turns out her well-meaning boss secretly put her picture on a dating app, and Hope finds herself face-to-face with the father of the teenager she accused of murder.

READ BY ARDAL O'HANLON. ‘This is delicate storytelling with wit and charm: quite wonderful’ DAILY MAIL The first in a warm, witty and wonderfully twisty new mystery series from much-loved Irish actor, writer and comedian Ardal O’Hanlon - perfect for fans of Graham Norton, Richard Osman and...

After Nancy Richards is sent to prison, her daughter Jeanie is placed in the care of Edna Baker, a respected figure in London’s East End. Under Edna’s roof, Jeanie should be safe. That changes when a corrupt copper threatens to send her to Laxville Children’s Home.

Former DCI Dan Armstrong has been living and working in Florence for nearly three years—yet somehow, Rome has always eluded him. That is, until glamorous TV celebrity Tamsin Goodfaith turns up with a request he can't refuse: investigate her uncle's suspicious death in the Eternal City. Philip Hastings was a billionaire financier, found dead at his magnificent—if slightly spooky—medieval castle in the Roman hills. Dan and his faithful canine companion, Oscar, soon find themselves surrounded by luxury, secrets and more suspects than sightseeing opportunities.

It’s the annual Locharran Highland Games and Ally McKinley has never seen her little village so busy or excited. Everyone’s enjoying the Scottish dancing, the bagpipes, and cheering the competitors on. But there’s a hitch in the proceedings when champion challenger Archie Armstrong drops dead in the middle of tossing the caber. Rushing to the scene, Ally is the first to spot that Archie’s death was no accident–this was murder!

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The brand-new murder mystery in the Sunday Times bestselling series. *** An impossible death. A seaside town on the brink. Stay tuned for murder… Sidmouth is gearing up for summer – but murder is all year round… When a doctor is found dead in the woods, shot through the heart with a...

In Venice, the beauty hides secrets that are steeped in darkness. It's August, and the city is melting under the heat. As locals flee for Ferragosto, retired archivist Arnold Clover plans to enjoy the rare silence – until his friend in the Carabinieri asks him to check on an elderly English...

Nesta Griffiths had been hoping for a quiet retirement. But when she stumbles on the body of a former school pupil whilst walking her dog, the retired teacher just can't resist getting involved. Aided by her loyal Jack Russell and an unlikely teenage assistant, Nesta is determined to solve the case before her unwanted meddling infuriates the local police.

Jude Gray is delighted to hear that her friend Kerry is setting up a wellness retreat with her new boyfriend. But the appearance of charismatic keynote speaker Inigo Sage sets Jude's instincts on edge. When a fatal accident shatters the peace, the weekend of relaxation descends into anything but tranquility. And Jude learns that Inigo's connections to many of those at the retreat go back decades, and their shared secrets have been deeply buried. As tensions flare and old resentments bubble to the surface, can Jude find the truth before someone else gets hurt?

Diana Flynn never asked to be an object of affection; not from her asshole boss, not from her pervert stalker, not from her ex-husband; but for some reason creeps can’t seem to get enough of her. When faced with a dark admiration that goes too far, Diana realizes it is going to end with her in a body bag. But she’s not going to cower and beg for mercy because deep down Diana is more predator than prey and she knows that some problems can only be solved with a very sharp knife.

The family that slays together, stays together... Renowned statesman Jack Ellis spent his life building an empire: a family so influential and powerful that nothing could stand against it, not even the law. But nearly a century later everything Jack built is being obliterated by an enemy he never could have planned for. Sian Ellis’s family members have just been brutally murdered, and she’s next. As she and her last remaining brother Gavin fight for their lives and search for answers, it soon becomes horribly clear that Gavin knows more than he’s saying.

A holy island. A haunted detective. A shocking murder. When the body of a young woman is found on the altar of the abbey church on Caldey Island, Detective Inspector Carys Morgan is plunged into a world where evil lurks in holy places. On this small island, reached only by boat, everyone is a suspect. Carys must navigate a closed world of islanders, monks, and pilgrims, each hiding a secret behind walls of silence and faith. When a second body surfaces in the monastery fishpond, it’s clear the murders follow a chilling religious pattern.

DCI Bill Slider and his team are plunged into a city-wide manhunt when the body of a police officer is found dumped in a canal. Colleagues say PC Peter Bentley was a quiet bloke who kept himself to himself. But as Slider and Atherton dig deeper, it becomes clear that this likeable bobby had secrets. Was he involved in something that got out of control or had something from his past come back to bite him? Soon, the hardships of 'the Job' and the office politics at play make for an intriguing mystery that, this time, feels too close to home...

May 1942. Thousands of American GIs are stationed across eastern England building airfields to bomb Germany. Cambridge is a 'liberty town' - a hot spot for 'Yanks' on leave. DI Eden Brooke is called to the aerodrome five miles east of the city when the remains of an airman, identified by his dog...

The twenty-eighth mystery featuring Çetin İkmen and Mehmet Süleyman, stars of BBC Two's gripping crime drama series The Turkish Detective, available to watch on BBC iPlayer. When two women are found dead in Istanbul - one bitten by a snake in the slum quarter of Kuştepe, the other killed by...

When a powerful tidal surge churns up a set of bones deep in the marshes of South Essex, DS Tomek Bowen’s hopes for a quiet winter are quickly washed away. Forensic examination reveals the remains belonged to a young child who died more than thirty years before. Who was the victim? Why was he killed? And why does his death bear such striking resemblance to Tomek’s brother’s? This Christmas, Tomek could get one or two more presents than he bargained for. Death’s Past is the enthralling tenth book in the DS Tomek Bowen Essex Murder Mystery series by Jack Probyn.

She seemed peaceful, as if in her last moments her young body hadn’t agonized, desperately trying to live, to survive. Her lips were parted slightly, as if she were breathing gently while dreaming of something only she knew. Whatever her secret, she’d taken it with her.

I should never have taken that DNA test. Then maybe things wouldn't have gone so wrong… Lily thought she was an ordinary woman with an ordinary life. But when a DNA test seems to reveal she carries the 'serial killer gene', she is terrified by the thought of passing it onto her future children...

Come sempre nei gialli di Camilleri due storie si rincorrono, si incrociano, si separano e poi tornano a intrecciarsi. E Montalbano questa volta, alle prese con uno strano furto ad un supermercato e con l'omicidio di una ragazza, si trova a giocare duro: stretto da un lato dai superiori che dicono e non dicono, dall'altro dal giudice che non la vede come lui, infine dall'opinione pubblica guidata da Televigàta, decide di intervenire in prima persona gettando a mare problemi di coscienza e sensi di colpa.

Detective Inspector Andy Horton is handed a troubling new case on the Isle of Wight — the disappearance of private investigator Jasper Kenton. Kenton had been tailing a man whose wife suspected him of an affair. But when his naked body is found wrapped in sailcloth on a private beach, a simple surveillance job becomes a chilling murder investigation. The post-mortem reveals a brutal execution: Kenton was shot at close range with a crossbow. Now Horton must navigate a web of secrets, lies and betrayal. The deeper he digs, the more he realises this case has devastating personal consequences.

The war for immortality has only just begun. In the aftermath of Book 1, the protagonists suffer a setback: the sacred manuscript of Mrit Sanjeevani has been stolen and fallen into enemy hands. Nagendra, the charismatic and ruthless antagonist, emerges as a figure not content with mere eternal life. His true goal is far larger: to assemble a hidden verse of immense cosmic power.

Detective Jacqueline “Jack” O’Hara has spent her career chasing killers —but nothing prepared her for Bunny. A masked vigilante targeting men the justice system failed to stop, Bunny isn’t chaos. She’s calculated. Intentional. And she wants Jack to understand exactly why she kills. Bodies fall and the line between hunter and accomplice blurs, Jack finds herself pulled into Bunny’s orbit —drawn by shared rage, dangerous desire, and a truth neither of them can outrun: some monsters are protected by the law.

Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old seeker, is drawn into a mystery when he learns that Om Shastri, a reclusive middle-aged Aghori, has eluded time for centuries. Captured and imprisoned on a remote, high-tech island lab, Om is interrogated under heavy sedation.

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