Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

A gripping and surprising thriller from bestselling author James Patterson. Tom Dunleavy has a law firm in the legendary East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. When an...

Set amid the beauty and darkness of modern Botswana, the second in the fantastic crime series featuring the opera-loving wine connoisseur Assistant Superintendant David 'Kubu' Bengu of the Botswana Police...

The year is 1740. George II is on the throne but England's remoter provinces remain largely a law unto themselves. In Lancashire a grim discovery has been made: a Squire's...

A heartbreaking story of friendship and betrayal - can we ever forgive the ones we love the most?'Prep meets The Secret History meets Mean Girls - a stunning debut novel'...

The police urgently need Harry HoleA killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders...

The thrilling new bestseller from acclaimed crime writer Louise Phillips. 'Intriguing and compelling ... will enthral you to the end' Liz Nugent 'Absolutely gripping ... an addictive page turner.' Patricia...

When Mitchell McDeere qualified third in his class at Harvard, offers poured in from every law firm in America. Bendini, Lambert and Locke were a small, well-respected firm, but their...

Within the walls of a cloistered convent, a scene of unspeakable carnage is discovered. On the snow lie two nuns, one dead, one critically injured - victims of a seemingly...

A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneVerity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending the memorial service in Westminster Abbey for Lord Benyon, killed a few months...

In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr Temperance Brennan must harden herself against the horrors she excavates.And then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City.When a skeleton is found...

'Dark, creepy and very clever, The Trap will lure you in and keep you captive until the very last page' - C L TAYLOR'Everything a thriller should be: clever, page-tearing,...

An aircraft carrier adrift with a crew the size of a small town. A murderer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who must track him down...'Sensationally good -...

The smallest betrayal can cause the greatest harm . . .When Eva discovers her husband's having an affair, grief and rage drive her to vengeful action. Then she meets Jonas,...

During Christmas week in 1995, a fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult. Bob Hightower, the girl's father and a small-town cop, embarks on a desperate mission to...

A policeman's death leads Inspector Celcius Daly across the Irish border and into a labyrinth of lies and corruption. Daly is in Dreesh, a desolate village where law and order...

In the forbidding climate of the Arctic Circle, metal cracks like glass, rubber shatters, plastic crumbles, and world famous scientists are dying horrific deaths - and no one knows why....

At age eighty-three and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret,...

A Manhattan ER doctor is in the local playground with his young son when someone ruthlessly guns him down. Now his young widow, a television producer, is raising their son...

`It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant.. It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his...

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what...

The BOURNE DECEPTION picks up where THE BOURNE SANCTION left off. Jason Bourne's nemesis, Arkadin, is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of...

'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. BoltonHidden away in a secure house outside Reykjavik, Detective Gunna and a high-profile stranger, a...

'Superior crime fiction set in Iceland' The Times'As chilling as an Icelandic winter' S. J. BoltonFollowing her promotion and working now from Reykjavik, Gunnhildur is given responsibility for two cases...

Celia lives and works in Florence as a tour guide and thinks the forthcoming birthday celebrations for the young wife of wealthy businessman Lucas Marsh, will bring the usual mix...

Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver with his wife and daughter when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to...

NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERThis is a life told back to front.This is a man who has lied all his life.Roy is a conman living in a leafy...

The worlds of business, politics and crime collide in contemporary Dublin when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night - one death...

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves around the financial world. Never before had such a large and prestigious organisation been allowed to fail, and to fail...

WHAT IF IT WAS SOMEONE YOU KNEW?'Utterly engrossing . . . I lived inside this book for two days - and I'm still thinking about it. Superb!' Shari Lapena, bestselling...

Alex Devereux, former cavalry Major and hardened mercenary takes on a mission to raise a private army and attack a diamond mine in Africa - and in doing so, comes...

'Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainYou think you know her...But look a little...

The car that ploughs into the bus stop early one morning leaves a trail of death and destruction behind it. DS Ferreira and DI Zigic are called in from the...

Trapped in her seventeeth-century past, a brilliant writer exacts an ancient revenge in the twentieth...A child wanders, lost and alone, in the maze of New York...A lottery ticket turns up...

Ten years ago, Owen Cassidy - eight years old, thick fair hair, bright blue eyes - disappeared. Everyone had thought that he was out playing with his best friend Luke....

When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old people die. But...