Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

'Complex, intriguing, clever, twisty, beautifully put together'MARI HANNAH, author of WITHOUT A TRACE* * * * * * *How do you find a killer when you can't recognise a face?Last...

The gripping top ten Sunday Times bestselling thriller from Jeffery Deaver - featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw Say goodbye to your problemsIn pursuit of two armed fugitives in the wilderness...

When a disgraced TV presenter takes up the role of housekeeper on an isolated Norwegian fjord, she develops a chilling, obsessive relationship with her employer ... an award-winning, simply stunning...

Tom Valle, a smalltown Californian journalist, is reporting on a car crash when he senses that something about the incident is not quite right - this is no ordinary accident....

A chilling thriller and a classic from the internationally bestselling Sidney Sheldon, author of The Other Side of Midnight and If Tomorrow Comes. In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin,...

BEWARE THE EYE OF A HURRICANE... For a few precious seconds, the shrieking wind dies down and the colossal waves lie flat. Airbourne in the heart of the storm, TV...

Somebody is intent on murdering Hollywood's A-list. A well-known actress has been shot outside her Beverly Hills home. Shortly afterwards, the Los Angeles Times receives an email describing the murder...

I loved writing murder mysteries, until I was thrust into the centre of one ... It's Christmas in Riddleton and crime novelist turned amateur sleuth, Jen, is in desperate need...

Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith.Why? Because she's the best criminal defence attorney in the Hamptons - the elite world of New...

A sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to...

'Bold, addictive and brilliant.' Stylist, best fiction 2021A Times BestsellerA Times & Sunday Times Best Crime Books of 2021A Waterstones Thriller of The Month Be twice as good as men...

Her dream escape is about to become a nightmare... Kimberley King has spent the last five years trying to outrun the reason she left the police force. Her life is...

A thriller writer of phenomenal talent comes to Michael Joseph with her exceptional new novel. Last year Lucy lost her baby son. Frozen by the loss, she has barely recovered...

A Greek billionaire is in the final stages of planning the greatest and most audacious robbery of modern times - the theft of the Elgin Marbles, known as the Parthenon...

It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address - a tape recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic...

A deliciously creepy horror novel with a story line inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion...Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life...

Minty Mehta (aka MM) likes to play dangerously - he is making a documentary about the Indian army's conflict with the Pakistanis, but drug-fuelled parachute jumping with Major Rodrigues is...

'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' Ian Rankin'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' Patricia Cornwell'A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting.' Mark Lawson, Guardian__________________________________The third...

'Smart characters, shocking twists' Lisa Gardner'Lots of clever links in the breakneck plot' Cork Evening Echo'This crime drama races along in short, action-packed chapters' My Weekly______________The Sunday Times bestsellerA city...

Jack Ryan defends the USA against economic sabotage from the East that escalates into war in Tom Clancy's record-breaking Sunday Times No 1 bestseller - now reissued in a new...

'Smart characters, shocking twists' Lisa Gardner'Lots of clever links in the breakneck plot' Cork Evening Echo'This crime drama races along in short, action-packed chapters' My Weekly______________The Sunday Times bestsellerA city...

Where were you the night Lina Stavred went missing? 'A terrific twisting roller-coaster of a thriller.' PETER JAMES'Intensely gripping.' CHRIS WHITAKERThe case was closed.Lina Stavred went missing 20 years ago....

From the outside, the house was unremarkable. Just one of many on an ordinary, suburban estate. But inside was a different matter. With pink ribbons and pink walls, stuffed toy...

The American Civil War is in full flame, and tobacco plantation slave Cassius Howard finds he must risk everything to learn the brutal truth concerning the murder of Emoline Justice,...

During one of the hottest summers on record, Dr Temperance Brennan is haunted by a string of horrifying events.First, the bones of a newborn baby are discovered in a wood...

Britain is in the depths of recession.A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua.By seeming chance they bump into...

Cindy Decker's decision to follow in the footsteps of her police lieutenant father was never an easy one. For Pete Decker is, to say the least, overprotective of his only...

Alex Barclay is back with another stunning Ren Bryce FBI thriller NOWHERE TO RUN FBI agent Ren Bryce's hunt for some of the country's most dangerous killers is about to...

The brilliantly chilling seventh crime thriller from the queen of psychological suspense - a must-read for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins.'Utterly chilling' Observer'Truly hair-raising' Independent on Sunday Some...

He will stop at nothing to uncover the truth.When James Blake discovers his wife murdered in their London home, he is determined to avenge her, and bring her killer to...

No one can escape from the past.James Blake and his family were safe and secure - until he received a phone call that could mean only one thing: their enemies...

It starts with the girl. How it ends is up to DC Aidan Waits. Isabelle Rossiter has run away again.When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her...

'All the stuff in the papers was lies. We were never The Ice Cream Girls'Serena and Poppy were teenagers when they were branded as the Ice Cream Girls. When they...

When the body of Tulane professor Henry Youngblood is discovered in the burned-out ruins of his New Orleans office, alarm bells go off at Langley. During the Seventies and Eighties,...

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was...

Emily Howard is nineteen years old, slim and petite with a pale complexion and a red rose tattoo. She is also missing. She disappeared three days ago, and now her...

A strange sensation runs through me, a feeling that I don't know this person in front of me, even though he matters more to me than anyone ever has, than...

An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he...

A Fallen Angel. A Devil on the Loose. When a young girl is discovered dead on an isolated Irish country road, it seems at first glance to be a simple...

'Kept me guessing right until the end. I devoured it.' Claire Douglas, author of LOCAL GIRL MISSING'A terrific page turner' Guardian*********A doting mother or a pushy parent?Karen Bloom expects perfection....