Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Immensely gripping.

Would you kill, to save a life?

You've got one shot at life.

A serial killer is setting the most devious traps.

Oz Blackstone didn t go looking for fame: it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fist full of high denomination notes.

Murder is rarely cut and dried.

THE FIRST IN A THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE NO.

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Buy Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, 1989, now!

The incredible new novel from C.

'Frankly superb.

Gazing out into the glowing curtain of evening summer rain, his body floods with fear as a cold hand clamps over his mouth.

'Wow just incredible.

'A thrilling new talent' PETER JAMESA KILLER SO CLEVER, NOBODY HEARS THE SCREAMS .

Holiday in DeathShe smelled it, fresh death.

*LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2021*'Poetic, human and gripping.

WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023'The most joyously exciting novel I've read in years .

The Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Irish Independent crime fiction book of the year!

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR 'Incredibly moving and haunting' Roxane Gay'I read this book cover to cover and it stunned me' Jia Tolentino 'Powerful, honest and necessary' Marian Keyes'To girls everywhere, I am with you.

A top ten Sunday Times bestselling authorFrom award-winning author Jane Casey comes a powerful crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page.

THE PULSE-RAISING NEW WISTING NOVEL FROM 10 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER J RN 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 TIMESA BODY IN THE LAKE.

'Claustrophobic and compelling' KARIN SLAUGHTER'A rollercoaster with multiple twists' DAILY MAIL'A million dollar new story from a million selling author' SARAH PINBOROUGHSometimes your first love won't let you go.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of THE EDGE OF NEVER, J.

Blackly humorous first novel in Magnus Mills mode.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

The first three crime thrillers from worldwide 10 million-copy bestseller Camilla Lackberg, 'the hottest female writer in Sweden'(Independent).

A gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.

The ninth Logan McRae thriller from the No.

The twenty-first book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanA call from the Homicide desk shatters LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker's hopes of a peaceful evening.

Time to leap into the Cortina as Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt roar back into action in a brand new installment of Life on Mars.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season - from the No.

The twentieth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanWhen fifteen-year-old Gregory Hesse is found dead, a single gunshot to his head, it appears to be a tragic suicide.

A shocking crimeA mansion filled with suspectsRuth Van Rydock can't shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen to her sister at Stonygates house.

A sun-drenched story of desire and murder with a conclusion you'll never see coming.

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict.

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players.

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace.

'About as noir as it can be.

Reginald Hill's best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: 'Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world' - IndependentEx-convict and aspiring academic, Franny Roote, has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe who immediately smells a rat.

A moody slice of Cuban noir from the acclaimed author of Outcast: 'A masterful book .

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' Marcel Berlins, The Times '[Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of one's wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller' Sunday TimesWhen a four-year-old child is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, Detective Inspector Dog Cicero soon realizes that this is no routine investigation.

'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of crime fiction' ObserverWhen Geraldine Lomas dies, her huge fortune is left to an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund.

'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayYears ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe.

All is not well at Holm Coultram College.

'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayIf you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in for a treat.

Another excellent Dalziel and Pascoe story from the master of the British crime novelThree old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause.

'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayFifteen years ago they moved everyone out of Dendale.

'Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder' ObserverLife is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.