Crime Fiction

Three cases of overnight kidnapping baffle the Vigatan police force in Andrea Camilleri's twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery.

Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the missing persons files, he deduces that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in the early seventies. ...

The new Botswana book from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, this is Mma Ramotswe's sixteenth wonderful adventure.

Leo Selver, a middle-aged antiques dealer, is stunned when the beautiful and desirable Judy Latimer shows an interest in him. Soon they are lying in each other's arms, unaware that this embrace will be their last. This exhilarating and innovative thriller was first published in 1976.

From the author of the bestselling The Oxford Murders comes a stylish and gripping new crime story that will be loved by readers of Umberto Eco.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin.

1969. A veteran secret agent. A single mission. A licence to kill. James Bond returns.

Catch up on the latest from Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi and other favourites in the latest instalment of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

Gun molls, speakeasies, bank robbers and murder ... Another fantastic thriller from the grandmaster of US crime fiction.

A sharp psychological thriller exposing the dark underbelly of provincial society in Austria.

Covers the life in the badlands of modern Britain. From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East Anglia, this title focuses on a world of broken families and run-down estates, revenge killings and prostitution, drugs, guns and corruption.

The seventh book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)

* Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters

The eighteenth installment from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when...

Number 13 in the bestselling Agatha Raisin murder mystery series

The tenth in the Agatha Raisin murder mysteries complete with brand new cover design

The Saint is back - the thirty-five original books starring the debonair classic crime hero are being republished in print and ebook with new introductions and extra content.

The Saint is back - the thirty-five original books starring the debonair classic crime hero are being republished in print and ebook with new introductions and extra content.

Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked, in the new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.