Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives

Introducing maverick Chicago private investigator Sam Kelson in the first of a hardhitting new crime noir series.

Private detectives Grand & Batchelor embark for the Wild West - and headlong into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping Victorian mystery.

Wilkie Collins must prove his brother is innocent of murder in the second of the compelling new Gaslight mystery series.

Rayne is a fine writer, a sure-handed plotter and skillful character builder .

In this multi-layered psychological mystery, photographer Jason Poe is transfixed by a disturbing set of murals he encounters in the attic of an abandoned house, and resolves to uncover the secret behind them.

Private investigator Kate Weller knows her co-workers are in serious trouble when she is unable to reach them in the third enthralling Marked for Retribution mystery.

The latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half-brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter.

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn reluctant sleuth yet again in the fourth of this fast-paced, highly entertaining racing mystery series.

Government girl Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be posted to London, but her journey across the Atlantic proves to be anything but plain sailing.

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this captivating and riveting thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer.

Extraordinary crimes require extraordinary detectives.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light .

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'The most polished crime writer on the murder beat' Daily ExpressFive footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.

Another impeccable edge-of-your-seat thriller from bestselling author John D MacDonald that has inspired a generation of crime writers.

Let John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - take you on a ride with this high-octane, all-action thriller.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

As we've come to expect from John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - this thriller, with its vivid characterisation, masterful sense of suspense and sardonic take on life, is so gripping, you'll be hard pressed not to finish it in one sitting.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

Let John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - take you on a ride with this high-octane, all-action thriller.

'Fast, hard and knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue, tradecraft and suspense.

ESCAPE THE NIGHT -a powerful novel of suspense and scandal, of surveillance and threat, of amnesia and obsession, of parents and children - and the long buried secret that links them all in a deadly chain.

Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books.

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery.

Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben, has written a thriller jam-packed withaction, tension and twists and turns.

Private is going down under.

Jamie Saintclair embarks on another action-packed historical adventure, guaranteed to have you gripped from page one!

'If you like your crime medicine strong, this will keep you gripped.

Suspense as sharp as a scalpel's edge.

It s a brutal race to the finish line .

Private is the world s largest detective agency.

Showgirls.