Crime Fiction

In a small town in Sweden it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely and you'll see a mysterious masked figure approaching a bank.....

Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N. Owen....

Hi, I'm Keshav, and my life is screwed. I hate my job and my girlfriend left me. Ah, the beautiful Zara. Zara is from Kashmir. She is a Muslim...

You don't know her. But she knows you. Rear Window meets Gone Girl in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller....

In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again....

Keshav has set up an investigation agency with his best friend, Saurabh. Can the two amateur detectives successfully solve another murder case that affects them personally? And where will it leave their friendship? Find out....

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart....

The 6:20 Man is a heart-racing thriller set in the world of high finance in New York, from the number one best-selling author David Baldacci....

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations....

June Whitfield stars as Miss Marple in seven full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. The stories included are: 'The Moving Finger', 'They Do It with Mirrors', 'Nemesis', 'Sleeping Murder', 'Tape-Measure Murder', 'The Case of the Perfect Maid' and 'Sanctuary'....

What begins as a routine journey on the luxurious Orient Express soon unfurls into Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery....

There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet....

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved poisoned her brutal first husband...

Passion, deception, an unexplained death and a detective with quite a lot to hide lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant new murder mystery, the second in the best-selling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne....

Agatha Christie’s classic thriller.Features the recurring character Colonel Race from Death on the Nile, Cards on the Table and The Man in the Brown Suit....

Presenting an American voice for this legendary Agatha Christie mystery with one of her best denouements....

With floods threatening his home, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing ....

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt.....

What was once a friendly rivalry with the neighbouring town is beginning to turn sinister and Beartown braces itself for another tragic blow....

Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous....

Frances Celane has good reason to pout. Thanks to a provision in her late father's will administered by her uncle, she's caught in the middle of a family feud between matrimony and money....

Ellery's never been to Echo Ridge, but she's heard all about it. It's where her aunt went missing at age 16, never to return. Where a homecoming queen's murder five years ago made national news....

A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she's arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own....

 The survivors of The Other Side of Midnight come back for one last round of play in this compelling sequel set in post-war Europe. Catherine Douglas, victim of tragedy and amnesia, is taken in by the world's richest man, Greek shipping tycoon Constantin Demiris....

Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge....

Roberto Cherchi è stato con­dannato all'ergastolo per quattro omicidi ed è ricercato dalle forze dell'ordine. Quando, durante la sua latitanza, scopre che l'avvocato Antonella Deme­las è in coma in seguito a un ag­guato, decide di trovare il responsabile. Un sentimento di profonda gratitudine, infatti, lega il fuggiasco alla donna e il deside­rio di vendetta è più forte di qua­lunque rischio.

La Historia de Mayanín relata la misteriosa desaparición de una bellísima estudiante de preparatoria en Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, hace treinta y nueve años. El autor nos cuenta el desarrollo de la investigación, la cual involucra a su familia, a las autoridades y a los habitantes del atractivo poblado del sureste mexicano, así como su inesperado desenlace.

Jacques Lamontagne Il s'appelle Yannick Bérubé, il a vingt-trois ans, il est séquestré au 5150, rue des Ormes, dans la ville de Montcharles, et c'est pourquoi il a décidé d'écrire son histoire. Or, si son récit débute par une banale chute à bicyclette, la suite bascule rapidement dans l'horreur, car la famille qui le retient prisonnier est loin d'être normale : Jacques Beaulieu, le père, est un psychopathe qui ne jure que par le jeu d'échecs et qui se prend pour le dernier des Justes ; Michelle, l'adolescente, semble encore plus dangereuse que son père.

Zwei vermisste kleine Mädchen. Ein Mann, den das ganze Dorf für den Schuldigen hält. Und ein wütender Mob, der zu allem bereit ist. Wie weit würdest du gehen, um dein Kind vor dem Schlimmsten zu bewahren? Hermansverk in Norwegen – ein beschauliches Fleckchen Erde und ein sicherer Ort, um Kinder großzuziehen. Noch nie ist in der friedlichen Gemeinde ein Verbrechen geschehen, geschweige denn, ein Mensch gewaltsam zu Tode gekommen. Doch dann verschwinden zwei kleine Mädchen spurlos und in der kleinen Stadt herrscht eine allgemeine Schockstarre.

When a stranger gives Black a book and tells him the book holds the key to the mystery surrounding his wife’s murder, Black dismisses the event as nothing more than the ramblings of a mad man. Then Black is called to a meeting with a Hollywood movie star, Victor Cromwell, who is shooting a new film in Glasgow. At the meeting Victor, makes a very strange request that will throw Black’s life into turmoil. Meanwhile a killer who was dormant for 20 years has returned and is murdering young women in the most gruesome way.

Ottenuto l'affidamento della piccola Paola, la vita di Teresa Maritano sembra finalmente aver preso la svolta tanto desiderata. Il suo passato nella polizia è finito, e ora gestisce un bar nella tranquilla provincia ligure. Eppure, come già successo in precedenza, l'arrivo del commissario Ardini rimescolerà di nuovo le carte in tavola. Tormentato da un trauma della sua infanzia, riflesso in un oggetto rinvenuto sulla scena del crimine del falegname Remo Valsi, Ardini è incapace di continuare le indagini.

Una mattina estiva del 1920 la giovane Lucy perde il padre improvvisamente ritrovandosi sola e disperata, senza speranze. È uno sconosciuto a risvegliarla dal torpore che il lutto le ha causato: il legame con Everard Wemyss, quarantenne rimasto vedovo da poco, è immediato, e la condivisa sofferenza per la recente perdita dà origine a una confortante intimità. Ma il matrimonio con Wemyss sarà diverso da come Lucy aveva sognato: le mura di casa diverranno quelle di una tetra prigione dove i giorni sono scanditi da rituali irrazionali.

Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice. Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But as the number of victims increases, the connection between them wears thin. Is it really a broken heart holding the crossbow? And if it's not some crazed Cupid, who has their finger on the trigger? Plucky Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy doesn't think they are looking in the right places. Yet without evidence, her theory won't hold water.

DI Jack Knox's Edinburgh team are busy dealing with a series of violent rapes when a man is found murdered on a residential street. The detective splits the under-resourced squad and follows up the murder himself, quickly establishing that there is no shortage of individuals who would have wanted the man dead. The victim had secured private investments for NewTech, a video games company that fell foul of copyright law. A lot of serious people lost serious money. Whilst Knox treads on eggshells and traces the finances, the rest of the team focus on the rape.

Una novela negra que sigue los pasos de Zoilo Pollès, un hombre egoísta, aprovechado y sin ética alguna. Cuando un inspector de policía franquista le ofrece trabajo como ayudante de detective, Zoilo acepta sin dudar: al fin y al cabo, le encantan las armas y es una mejora a su puesto de guardia de seguridad. Pero al poco tiempo, el hombre aparece asesinado. Zoilo va a desalojar el despacho, pero antes de irse, investiga la mesa del inspector. Lo que descubrirá ahí le cambiará la vida.

El implacable empresario de éxito Ennis Fultz ha muerto asesinado en su hogar. Conforme avanza la investigación, los inspectores P. T. Marsh y Remy Morgan descubren que la lista de sospechosos es más larga de lo que imaginaban. Demasiado para una pequeña ciudad de Georgia como Mason Falls. Sin embargo, Fultz puede ser tan solo el menor de los problemas de Marsh, que ve cómo una tragedia de su pasado vuelve a emerger con fuerza, al estar relacionada con una serie de crímenes. Marsh nunca hubiera imaginado que cruzaría ciertas líneas rojas.

Il sogno di gloria di Caterina la Grande. La musica di Mozart e Cimarosa. La storia d’Europa è una profezia scritta col sangue. Vienna, 1792. Sull’Europa illuminata dalle idee della rivoluzione francese si allunga l’ombra di una donna diabolica, sublime e dal carisma irresistibile: Caterina II di Russia, la potente zarina che insieme all’imperatore Giuseppe II d’Austria sogna di riportare alla luce l’Impero romano d’Oriente.

Rainer Waßmer ist tot. Er war der Anführer einer Nazi-Rocker-Bande, mit denen die Clan-Familien in Düsseldorf bisher in friedlicher Ko-Existenz lebten. Bis jetzt. In der Nacht hatten sich Clans und Rocker ein kleines Gefecht geliefert. Nichts Ernstes. Nur mal klarstellen, wo jeder steht. Doch nun ist Waßmer tot, und Faruk Maliki, Thronfolger einer bedeutenden Clan-Familie, wird des Mordes beschuldigt. Er braucht dringend einen Anwalt. Oder eine Anwältin. Oder am besten gleich beide. Pirlo und Sophie suchen fieberhaft nach Beweisen, die ihren Mandanten entlasten könnten.

A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences—half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Having just returned from a grueling job in Mexico, Stahl is reluctant to accept the offer, but senior technicians he had trained were among those killed.

In Sankt Peter-Ording verschwindet mitten im Gewühl der Hauptsaison der sechsjährige Timo. Kommissar Knud Petersen ist alarmiert. Gibt es einen Zusammenhang mit dem Fall, der bereits fünf Jahre zurückliegt und bei dem dreizehn Kinder entführt wurden? Kommissarin Charlotte Wiesinger fordert den Profiler und Kinderpsychologen Martin Goldblum an, womit sie ihren Kollegen Knud nicht nur überrumpelt, sondern auch verärgert. Gelingt es den unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten, Timo zu finden und das Schicksal der kleinen Nele aufzuklären?