Crime Thrillers

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one....

The Honjin Murders is Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time....

From Jeffery Deaver's tale of terrorism to Lisa Jackson's dysfunctional family in wine country to Ridley Pearson's horrifying serial killer, this collection has something for everyone....

When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her....

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being...

Mum passed recently. It was sudden and unexpected. On the cusp of adulthood, my twin sister, Skye, and I are left with decisions to make that will change our lives forever....

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

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....

Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation....

June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth....

Ekantika Pakrashi has just lost the love of her life. Preliminary reports suggest it was no accident. Her boyfriend was murdered in cold blood and the modus operandi resembles that of India's most notorious serial killer of the 1990s: the Cellotape Killer....

Aagayathil Aarambam, an audiobook narrated in Tamil....

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson....

Ten years after her boyfriend Mitch’s mysterious disappearance, Rebecca finally learns the truth about what happened. When he finally returns, a happy ending appears within their grasp but there is no escape from the past....

It’s a normal sunny day when Mia sees her ex-boyfriend on the street where she lives. But she knows that’s crazy. She knows it can’t possibly be him. She knows…because she killed him....

1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement cottage....

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L. Sayers' best-selling novels....

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. This collection includes Web of Lies, Speak No Evil, and Never Too Late....

Two full-cast dramatisations of Jeffrey Archer's thrillers with narration by Jeffrey Archer himself....

Mead House was once our childhood home. Despite my fears, I always knew we would have to return to face the demons of our past....

Il secondo capitolo della saga Millennium. Mikael Blomkvist ha una nuova storia tra le mani. Due giornalisti, Dag e Mia, intendono pubblicare un libro che svela nomi e retroscena di un losco e vasto traffico di prostituzione tra Svezia e paesi dell’Est. Sono coinvolti personaggi di rilievo, poliziotti, giudici e politici. Nel corso dell’inchiesta, un triplice brutale omicidio scatena una vera e propria caccia all'uomo: l’attenzione di polizia e media nazionali si concentra proprio su Lisbeth Salander.

In Europa la guerra è cominciata, eppure da noi qualcuno si illude ancora che sia possibile tenerla fuori della porta. E poi sta arrivando la piú bella delle feste, quella dove si mangia, si beve, ci si abbraccia, quella in cui ci si scambiano doni con le persone care. Erminia Cascetta era diversa, a modo suo. Aveva troppa voglia di vivere, perciò l’hanno uccisa. In questo tempo che accelera verso l’abisso, spetta al commissario Ricciardi e al brigadiere Maione scoprire chi è stato. La chiave di tutto, però, è sempre la solitudine.

Godolphin ist alles andere als ein umgänglicher Zeitgenosse und berüchtigt für seinen Narzissmus. Um seine ins Stocken geratene Fernsehkarriere zu befeuern, plant der »Duke« die Inszenierung einer sensationellen historischen Entdeckung rund um zwei Morde an Mitgliedern der Medici-Familie im 16. Jahrhundert. Auch ehemalige Schüler:innen und Weggefährt:innen aus seiner Zeit in Cambridge hat er dazu nach Venedig eingeladen. Doch bevor es zur Enthüllung kommt, wird Godolphin tot in einem canale aufgefunden. Ermittlerin Valentina Fabbri hat Verdächtige genug.

Ella les arruinó la vida. Ahora quieren destruir la suya. "Alguien está recreando cada punto traumático de tu vida. Lo hace para provocarte sufrimiento, para hacerte daño, y el único final posible es la muerte. Tu muerte". En la cuarta planta del edificio Chaucer, dos adolescentes aparecen encadenados a un radiador. El chico está muerto, pero la chica está viva. Para la detective Kim Stone, cada detalle de la escena es un reflejo de su propia experiencia aterradora con su hermano Mikey, cuando vivían en el mismo edificio, treinta años atrás.

This cold call is murder. Detective Bethany Smith is called out to 21 Bladen Avenue, the home of Jason and Georgia Holt. It's one of the worst murder scenes she's ever seen.

In den neufundländischen Tablelands gibt es viel zu sehen: Malerische Natur, beeindruckende Gesteinsschichten und – eine Leiche. Sebastian Synard, der sich nach seiner ersten unfreiwilligen Mordermittlung eine offizielle Zulassung als Privatdetektiv besorgt hat, stolpert buchstäblich über seinen nächsten Fall. Schnell wird klar, dass es sich bei dem toten Studenten um ein Mordopfer handelt. Doch Synard ist nicht der Einzige, der an der Aufklärung des Falles interessiert ist: Die Tante des Opfers kommt mitsamt einer heißen Spur aus Mexiko angereist.

Jakey escaped with his life and moved to an Essex seaside town. His rescue was a miracle but his parents know that the Collector is still out there, watching, waiting . . . Clara, the girl he left behind, dreams of being found. Her mother is falling apart but she will not give up hope. The Collector has found an apprentice to take over his family’s legacy. But he can’t forget the one that got away and the detective who destroyed his dreams. DS Etta Fitzroy must hunt him down before his obsession destroys them all.

For as long as they can remember, Claudia, Margo and Jackie have been told how lucky they are. Rescued from their own family tragedies, they were raised by a loving foster mother on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance for a happy family life. But the girls’ childhood wasn’t quite the fairy tale everyone thinks it was. And when a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the three foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses.

My name is Al. I live in wealthy people's second homes while their real owners are away. I don’t rob them, I don’t damage anything… I’m more an unofficial house-sitter than an actual criminal. Life is good. Or it was - until last night, when my friends and I broke into the wrong place, on the wrong day, and someone wound up dead. And now…now we’re in a great deal of trouble.

When Jack Morgan is invited to the decadent Monaco coast, he thinks it's the perfect location for a new Private office. But the holiday is cut short after his partner, Justine, is kidnapped. Willing to do anything to get Justine back, it's not long before Jack discovers an insidious plot involving death, deception and a traitor at the height of US government, all coming to a head at the Monaco Grand Prix in just two days' time. With hours to prevent international disaster, Jack Morgan must solve this impossible mystery if he is to save himself and the people he loves most.

Oblations is a mystery and suspense novel that tells the story of a young man who moves from his university in Alexandria to Cairo, where he encounters his twin brother after 20 years. They embark on an exciting research journey full of dangers and crimes to discover a strange secret. What are the offerings and to whom did they come?

Ludovica Baroni era una commessa. Poi un matrimonio che sembra quello giusto e la sua vita cambia. Quanto e come non l'avrebbe mai immaginato. Da un giorno all'altro l'uomo che ha sposato, uno dei piú importanti commercialisti di Lecco, sparisce. Né la polizia né lei stessa - che fra lo sconcerto generale se ne va in vacanza sulla riviera romagnola - paiono molto interessati a cercarlo.

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators.

Seventeen-year-old Mariana Villalobos's mystic gift creates a sensation in northern Mexico as hundreds of people undergo a personal religious epiphany. Even gangsters reject crime. Seeing revenues tumble in the drug trade, the Liones cartel issues a hit order on the girl.

After a body is found gutted in the road, Sheriff Elven Hallie discovers the murder was collateral damage to an abduction. One that leads out of his jurisdiction. And one that pushes the boundaries of everything he stands for. Madds is missing. Monacan County is rooted in criminal activity, corrupt law enforcement, and most of all, superstition. Elven will do whatever it takes to find Madds, even if it means forming a partnership with the man he despises most. Hollis Starcher.