Crime category: 24427 books
Royal Heist
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
From Lynda La Plante, one of the world’s greatest crime writers, Royal Heist is a big, dashing novel of deception, passion, and international suspense, in which a man with a dangerous double life masterminds the greatest robbery of all time.
With a beautiful family and a magnificent fortune,...
All the Hidden Truths
one shocking crime: three women need answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE SCOTTISH CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY DEBUT PRIZE
'(a) meticulous and compelling novel about the aftermath of a major crime and its effect on the affected families and investigating officers both.' Ian Rankin
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The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Professor Moriarty
37 Short Stories about the Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes?s Nemesis
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The hidden life of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous adversary is reimagined and revealed by the finest crime writers today.
Some of literature’s greatest supervillains have also become its most intriguing antiheroes-Dracula, Hannibal Lecter, Lord Voldemort, and Norman Bates-figures that capture...
The Crime Coast
A Benvenuto Brown Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A tragic discovery was made at Bishop’s Hotel last evening when a maid, on entering the suite of Signora da Costa, a rich Argentine guest at the hotel, found her dead body on the bed wrapped in an eiderdown.Paul Ashby is excited to be heading off on holiday to the South of France. But on...
by Vamba Sherif
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
William Mawolo arrives in a small Liberian town with a secret mission: to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the police chief. The locals, however - police force and citizens alike - are far from happy about his presence, and their hostility is increasing daily, threatening to boil over....
by R. Barri Flowers
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014
From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of Murder of the Banker’s Daughter and Murder at the Pencil Factory comes a riveting new historical true crime short, The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family’s Nightmare.In the wee hours of the morning on November...
by Arthur B. Reeve
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Marking 100 years since publication, The Adventuress was the first full-length novel to feature ‘scientific detective’ Craig Kennedy, who was dubbed ‘the American Sherlock Holmes’ and the first fictional detective to use forensic science. Who killed Marshall Maddox of Maddox Munitions, Inc.,...
Fiend
The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Seria
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend"...
Crime, Violence, and the Crisis in Guatemala
A Case Study in the Erosion of the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In numerous Latin American countries, organized crime and violence are corroding governance and imperiling democratic legitimacy. This phenomenon is most severe in Guatemala, which is currently experiencing a full-blown crisis of the democratic state.
An unholy trinity of criminal elements—international...
by Hania Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Set in Dundee, this fast-paced crime novel is the first to feature Polish Detective Sergeant Dania Gorska.
Volatile times in the city of discovery . . .
DS Dania Gorska is a stranger in a foreign land. Born in Poland and transferred from London to Dundee's specialist crime division,...
Gun Smoke
A Neo-Noir Crime Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
GUN SMOKE, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLER
Jovan 'Joe' Stojkovich is just out of the can, and he's got some catching up to do - twenty years' worth. After returning to his old neighbourhood in Metropolisville, there are only two things on his mind: rekindle the relationship with his younger brother...
Fat Cat
A Neo-Noir Crime Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
FAT CAT, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLER
Johnny Calypso, broke gambler and small-time crook, has got himself in trouble after the money he borrowed off Hugo Copperpot, a Metropolisville gangster, gets stolen from an associate. Along with his new girl, Hot Rhonda, Calypso has to find a way of getting...
Butcher Boy
A Neo-Noir Crime Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
BUTCHER BOY, A NEO-NOIR CRIME THRILLER
The murders of innocent women have put fear into the citizens of Metropolisville. One cop, Detective Leo Lyons, has been put on the case after his predecessor wasn't up for the job. Now, it's his turn to find the killer, called the 'Butcher Boy' by the...
A Taste of Noir -- Volume 3
A Collection of Four Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
A Taste of Noir includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 3 include:
'A Berlin Story'
This story first appeared in the SHOW BUSINESS IS MURDER anthology, edited by the late,...