New Crime

Sometimes crime does pay, but at what price? **The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller** Some people are made for a life of crime Dragged up on a council estate, Jason Rampling was determined to change his lot. Jason’s a chancer, shameless with his good looks and his gift for earning a few quid. Life...

Brought to you by Penguin. The sensational new crime novel from the bestselling author of SNAP IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MURDER . . . Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it’s never too late . . . for life to go horribly wrong. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane...

Running from a world which wants him dead, ex-detective Sergeant Jake Pettman journeys to the isolated town of Blue Falls, Maine, home of his infamous murderous ancestors. But Jake struggles to hide from who he is, and when a child disappears, he finds himself drawn into an investigation that shares no parallels to anything he has ever seen before.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR ‘A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘This isn't just a mystery novel: it's a window into a vanished world’ TANA FRENCH Some stories demand to be told. They keep...

Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet returns in the new book in Kate Ellis's gripping crime series set in Yorkshire. The quaint Yorkshire village of Eaglethorpe was a sanctuary for famous TV personality, Lexi Verity, away from prying eyes and camera flashes. But a life led in the spotlight can...

*Winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger 2023* 'A heart-wrenching mystery' – Jane Harper, author of The Dry Twelve year-old Esther Bianchi disappears on her way home from school in the small town of Durton – and the truth will not come easily. Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor is an atmospheric crime...

'Murder has no right to be this funny. Imagine Hannibal Lecter as written by Victoria Wood. Perfect for fans of Caroline Kepnes and CJ Skuse' ERIN KELLY 'A wickedly funny and darkly compelling debut' JOANNA WALLACE Julie Tudor is NOT a Psychopath. Julie Tudor is 49 and has it all: a fantastic...

Ideal for fans of Chris Brookmyre, Colin Bateman and Caimh McDonnell. Belfast 1989. The Troubles. Harry Burnard joins a police force confronted with threats on every side. His team, ‘The Squad’, a bunch of abandoned oddballs, are only allowed to work criminal cases. But there is no crime. Only terrorism. So, do they really have nothing to do?

A woman’s body lies in the heather, her neck broken. Her horse watches nervously from a few paces away. Despite looking like an accident, it doesn’t take long for DI Callum MacLean, newly arrived in Hampshire from Glasgow, to establish she was murdered. Nor does it take DS Daisy Donaldson, appearing soon after on horseback, long to identify the victim. Mary-Ellen Mitchell was a well-known and seemingly well-liked businesswoman, married to a respected local artist, and part of the close-knit community.

15 years after the Painter case had been closed someone wants the case re-examined, history changed, and Wexford proved wrong 15 years after the Painter case had been closed someone wants the case re-examined, history changed, and Wexford proved...

Brought to you by Penguin. Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his...

Martin Scarsden returns in the jaw-dropping and unmissable new blockbuster crime novel from Chris Hammer, the award-winning, million copy bestselling author of SCRUBLANDS. 'A beguiling read' - THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Savage and unpredictable' - THE SUN 'Exciting, touching and even heart-breaking' -...

Brought to you by Penguin. You’ve heard of the men who kill, but what about the women who loved them? It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. From the outside, Beverley, Elsie and Margot lead idyllic lives, but behind the false smiles...

'Haunting, heartbreaking, quietly terrifying. Unforgettable' CHRIS WHITAKER Three of them adrift on the narrowboat. Mother, son, and wickedness. Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they...

Brought to you by Penguin. An unforgettable collaboration between an award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and the and #1 international bestselling writer Harlan Coben. Maggie McCabe is on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned army combat surgeon, she has always lived life on the edge. But...

'The legendary Quintin Jardine . . . such a fine writer' DENZIL MEYRICK The gripping new mystery in the bestselling Bob Skinner series from the acclaimed Quintin Jardine. His native Scotland stands on the cusp of a new era of international expansion under its charismatic new leader, but former...

Bringing together ground-breaking forensic discoveries – including vital DNA evidence – and gripping historical detective work, Naming Jack the Ripper constructs the first truly convincing case for identifying the world's most notorious serial killer. In 2007, Russell Edwards, fuelled by...

Brought to you by Penguin. This family lived a life before me. And now I wonder if it was what happened in that life – all those secrets – that tore this family apart . . . not me. The warring Browne sisters. Lucy. Susannah. Tara. Each is haunted – by disgrace (Lucy), vanity (Susannah) and...

Bloomsbury presents The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale, read by Nicola Walker. FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman 'I loved...

Audie Awards 2022 Finalist in the Mystery category A THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER CAROLINE MITCHELL 'Twisty, tense and creepy as hell... I loved it!' - K.L. SLATER 'Will keep you on the edge of your seat' - ALICE HUNTER _______ 'I remember the day I died quite clearly.'...