Crime Mystery category: 11599 books

Fifteen-year-old Shelby Torrent dreamed of becoming an actress. In the privacy of her bedroom, she enacted roles, performed musicals, and practiced her craft. Little did she know that someone was watching her every move. A killer, insidious as a spider, watched young Shelby through the lens of her laptop....

When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding, DS Wesley Peterson, a keen amateur archaeologist, is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse, buried in keeping with ancient traditions. But he has a rather more urgent crime to solve- the disappearance of a Danish tourist. Wesley...

“Steph Post is a great new discovery. Her stories carry a dark pulse that keeps the perfect beat in a world where people put everything they’ve got on the line. Walk In The Fire is going to put Steph Post on the map.” —Michael Connelly Life hasn’t gotten any easier for Judah Cannon. He may...

This is a story of obsession, revenge and justice. James Hamilton meets and falls in love with Lynne Burrows, whose ex-husband Nick is a violent, drug-dealing control freak who will not accept that their marriage is over and continually harasses her, and questions their eight-year-old son Georgie...

When a brothel madam is shot on a Perth golf course in 1975 it should be a routine murder enquiry. But it isn't. In fact there's barely an investigation at all, and Superintendent Swann thinks he knows why. Heroin is the new drug in town and the money is finding its way into some very respectable...

On the plane from New York to London, Dr. Morelle chances to meet Edwin Gale, a smooth-tongued swindler. Inexplicably, Gale finds himself drawn to the famous psychiatrist-detective, and so begins one of Dr. Morelle's most intriguing cases. Back in London, the Doctor encounters Edwin Gale again, and,...

A "tautly plotted psychological thriller" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Germany’s most successful female author. Carla Roberts lives alone in the top of a high rise building, frightened by the sound of the lift stopping and opening on her floor, with nobody getting out....

New varieties of crime are popping up everywhere in Inspector Pel’s beloved Burgundy. Raids on a historical chateau and surrounding churches have led to the plunder of priceless treasures. But when theft becomes murder, Pel is called to uncover the true nature of who’s behind the crime wave. The...

Her child is missing but someone out there knows the truth... THE KNOW, by the 'undisputed queen of crime writing' (Guardian) and Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole features the fearless Joanie Brewer who knows exactly what she wants. But her need for revenge threatens to destroy even...

Libby Myers and the Residue Class are an international bunch of mathematicians famous for their crime-solving prowess. They work by analyzing the patterns underlying a crime, but now they are faced with a killer who brags that there is no pattern to his/her murders. The brazen murder of the...

Courtier en valeurs mobilières, Vincent Morin est un homme paisible, rationnel. Il n’empêche : lorsque, de retour d’un voyage d’affaires à New York, il trouve sa femme avec deux hommes dans le lit conjugal, son sang ne fait qu’un tour et il commet l’irréparable.    D’abord pris...

The lives of two hitmen, two con men, and a millionaire collide in this British thriller from the acclaimed author of House 23.   A millionaire businessman and his loving family; two young conmen and an unspoken bond; and a pair of hardened hit men—these three groups are from different worlds,...

Detective Superintendent Jeff Barton is back and investigating a series of brutal murders of men who are out on stag nights in the centre of Manchester. But is this the work of a psychopath or, as Jeff comes to expect, an even more chilling story of someone who'll do anything for anyone just to belong? During...

Ben the tramp is back at sea, a stowaway bound for Spain in the company of a wanted man – the Hammersmith murderer. Ben, wandering hungry through the foggy back alleys of Limehouse, is spooked by news of an old man murdered in Hammersmith – and runs! He crosses a plank, slips through an iron door,...