Crime Fiction

Everyone thinks my husband is dead. Just like we planned. Eleven years ago, my husband disappeared. Eleven long hard years I waited, my heart breaking for our son, who didn’t know his father was coming back. Today, my hands shake as I try to understand what I’ve just learned: my husband has a new wife. This wasn’t part of our plan. Eleven years ago, my husband made a terrible mistake. I sacrificed everything to help him fix it. But now he’s put our son and me in danger again. We had a plan. He broke the rules. But who will pay the price?

A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers and listeners would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge.

Gerry Wade is known to his houseguests as a man who can sleep the day away, so a practical joke is devised at his expense. Eight alarm clocks are set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrives, one clock is not where they left it, and the joke has unfolded with tragic consequences.

When Victoria escapes her broken home for university in London, she is determined to reinvent herself and make a fresh start. She falls in love with Nick, who welcomes her into his privileged circle of friends, opening her eyes to a world she only ever dreamt of. But things don’t go to plan and life takes a darker turn. Twenty-five years later, the circle is reunited alongside a host of glittering guests to celebrate the wedding of Hollywood darling Ingrid Olsson to well-connected Julian Draper. Victoria has spent years trying to forget Nick and put the horror of what happened behind her.

There's not much that scares Annie Graham. Not even the horrors she has witnessed during her years on the police force. When she agrees to look after her brother's farmhouse, she finds herself drawn to the crumbling old mansion in the woods nearby. But an innocent exploration of the empty ruin and the discovery of the diary of former resident Alice leaves her more than a little spooked. She knows it holds the secrets to a dark past, and she has to find out more.

A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered. . . in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death? The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen - top salesperson and the victim's potential successor at Steam Devil. And as if hitting middle age, being in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work weren't enough, Anni realises that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all - before it's too late. .

Christmas is all about lists. To do lists. Shopping lists. Lists to bloody Santa. And doesn’t Anna Johnson know it. Waking up on Christmas Eve after the annual Johnson party, she's hungover, exhausted and really sick and tired of Christmas already. All she wants is to tick the last things off her endless list and sit down with the world’s biggest glass of wine. ​A mysterious death in her home really is the last thing she has time for right now, but with police officers and a husband and two kids intent on watching Christmas films, it looks like it’s up to her.

The Crooked Man, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Crooked Man 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes calls on Watson late one evening to tell him about a case that he has been working on, and also to invite him to be a witness to the final stage of the investigation. Colonel James Barclay, of The Royal Mallows based at Aldershot Camp, is dead, apparently by violence, and his wife, Nancy, is the prime suspect.

It's Christmas Eve at the Merry Monarch. Nestled amongst the Yorkshire Dales, the pub is preparing to host its annual festive games night for its rabble of regulars. But this year, they are interrupted by a knock at the door from a stranger, stranded by the snow storm that's closing in on the village. And this won't be the only surprise of the night. When the power is cut off and darkness descends, the games turn deadly . . . It seems one of the group would kill to win.

He makes me lose all control. Ex-Special Forces and current CEO of Sinro Enterprises, I sacrifice my personal life and health to lead mercenary teams dedicated to wiping out high-profile criminals. My working hours are endless. My schedule is rigid. I leave no room for normal things like relationships. Until a pretty little thief breaks into my high-rise and shatters what I'd come to believe was peace. I find myself hesitating to pull the trigger for the first time.

Three years ago, Alice Kelly was found dead in a lake near the house where she was staying with friends for the weekend. Mia was there, and so was her now-husband Tom, yet they have never spoken about what really happened. But now Mia’s in therapy, she’s having flashbacks. She remembers new details about Alice’s final hours–how they argued, how she threatened to expose Alice’s darkest secret, and how Alice’s lifeless body floated in the inky blue water… Was Mia the one who killed her beloved best friend? And how has she lived with this lie for so long?

Ty Draker is a marked man with no idea why.Chased by ruthless operatives, Draker’s sole ally is Beau—just a mysterious voice on the phone. In exchange for Beau’s help clearing his name, Draker agrees to work as a fixer, crisscrossing the country to right wrongs.

It was just an ordinary Wednesday lunchtime when Detective Martha Munro's life changed forever. Her sergeant is speaking, but she barely hears what he's telling her. Your mother has been shot dead. Your four-year-old daughter has been taken. There are no leads. Who would want to hurt her family? Martha realizes it's time to ask herself some hard questions about her late father. He led the anti-corruption squad at Scotland Yard. It's rumored he kept a list of everyone who worked for him, from coppers to criminals. And just being on the list was a sure-fire way to lower your life expectancy.

La sera del 3 settembre 1992, sul battello che solca le placide acque del lago d'Iseo, Pietro Rota rivede il profilo imponente di Montisola dopo dodici anni di assenza. Fuggito a Milano con l'ambizione di diventare un grande giornalista, le cose non sono andate come sperava e lui si ritrova a collaborare con una scalcinata rivista scandalistica specializzata in cronaca nera. Quello non è il trionfale ritorno a casa che aveva sempre sognato, ma la richiesta d'aiuto del padre non gli ha lasciato scelta.

1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made–the legendary Dalziel Double Proof–goes missing. 2023. Albie, youngest son of the wealthy Dalziel family, vanishes. His desperate mother turns to Robbie Gould, a disgraced reporter with a reputation as a 'psychic crimebuster'. Broke and unemployed, Gould is in no position to turn down the job. He throws himself into a twisted chain of criminals, bent cops and Japanese gangsters, but when someone fires a shotgun through his door, he realises he doesn't need supernatural powers to see how deadly the situation has become.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case.

Una joven muerta en los acantilados de Sancti Petri... Un matrimonio herido por la desconfianza... Y el hallazgo de una pieza arqueológica de extraordinario valor que despierta la avaricia de todos. A pesar de comenzar de cero en una nueva casa en Chiclana, Luz no logra dejar atrás sus sospechas. Rodrigo lleva un tiempo comportándose de un modo extraño. Ella conoce esa mirada esquiva, por eso teme que le esté siendo infiel otra vez. Desesperada, decide contratar a una joven detective privada que se convertirá en su sombra.

Die Bestsellerautorin von How to kill your family ist zurück! Mit jedem erdenklichen Pomp begeht Anthony Wistern – Self-Made-Millionär, Patriarch, Womanizer – seinen 60. Geburtstag. Doch zum Höhepunkt der Party findet er sich überraschend im Jenseits wieder. Von dort aus muss er beobachten, wie "seine Lieben" die eine oder andere Krokodilsträne angesichts seines Todes hervorpressen, sich de facto allerdings nur für eines interessieren: das Erbe.

En suivant la piste d’un tueur en série, l'enquêtrice Lacy Stoltz se rapproche d'un suspect choquant : un juge en exercice. Il a une liste, avec les noms de ses victimes et de ses cibles. Comment Lacy pourra-t-elle le poursuivre sans devenir le prochain nom sur sa liste ?

Morgan Murphy has always longed for a romance for the ages. And she’s found it with husband Kyle Murphy—until their spicy marriage suddenly starts to cool off. Is Kyle preoccupied and distant because of a problem with his development project? Or is it something worse? Could Kyle Murphy be...cheating? He’s hiding something, that’s for sure. And Morgan’s determined to find out what it is.

La Guadeloupe, une île paradisiaque... terre de tous les dangers. Sous le soleil des Caraïbes, trois touristes sont retrouvés assassinés, un harpon de plongée planté en plein cœur. Trois meurtres commis à l'aube, accompagnés d'une mise en scène macabre et glaçante. Pourtant, aucun lien n'unit les victimes qui séjournaient pour la première fois dans l'île. Plus étonnant encore, un étrange vieillard prédit à chaque fois les crimes dans leurs plus imprévisibles détails.

Ein atmosphärischer Frankreich-Krimi. Sainte-Valérie, ein idyllisches Dorf in der Provence inmitten von Weinbergen und Olivenhainen. Der ehemalige Pariser Kommissar Pierre Durand würde den Spätsommer in seiner Wahlheimat genießen, wenn ihn nicht gerade seine Freundin verlassen hätte. Doch auch mit der dörflichen Ruhe ist es plötzlich vorbei: Der Lokalcasanova wird ermordet in einem Weinkeller aufgefunden – neben einem Rezept für ein Coq au vin. War es ein makabrer Racheakt eines gehörnten Ehemanns? Die Dorfbewohner halten fest zusammen.

In the shadows of Jacobean London, a conspiracy far deeper than gunpowder and treason unfolds. As Guy Fawkes awaits his fate in the Tower, unseen forces pull at the threads of reality itself. The thirty pieces of silver that enticed the betrayal of Christ now scattered across the globe, each coin a power to destroy. Enter Investigator Thomas Blackwood, John Dee, the Queen's own magician, and Christopher Marlowe, playwright and spy, thrust into a quest that will challenge everything they believe.

Der Schatten des Todes ist näher als du denkst. In den sozialen Medien ist die hübsche Josefine eine Berühmtheit. Nur ein öffentlich ausgetragener Streit mit dem Fernsehstar Matze Birker trübt ihren Erfolg. Als sie nachts allein zu Hause ist, bricht ein Maskierter bei ihr ein, überwältigt sie im Schlafzimmer und ersticht die junge Frau nach langen Stunden der Qual. Wochen später stirbt eine zweite Influencerin auf ähnliche Weise. Das Team um Lukas Sommer und Robert Drosten übernimmt die Ermittlungen.

Ezekiel Tanner left his life as a government spy to become a criminal for hire. Wallace Constantine took a break from his accounting job for a nostalgic vacation. Their paths should never have crossed. But when Ezekiel turns up to a quiet village in Greece for an easy job, he finds Wallace instead of his targets. And later, when an explosion rocks the city of Athens, Ezekiel is nearly killed, and Wallace gets the blame. The unlikely pair need to work together to pick up the pieces.