Secondhand Crime Fiction Books

'A gripping and smart thriller that kept me guessing .Sensitive but not sensationalist, a page turner with an important message, I was hooked.' MARISA BATEWhen Rob decides the family needs...

Edgy, twisted and disturbing, the first Crime Writers' Association Daggers Award retrospective anthology featuring 19 visceral and thrilling stories. Featuring bestselling authors Ian Rankin, Jeffery Deaver, John Connolly, Denise Mina,...

It's 1971 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up...

A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cult WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE? Green and Blue are sisters. Foxlowe is home. Outside is Bad....

'A twisty and engrossing thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.' Karin Slaughter, International Bestselling Author Humiliated by a man who held her career in his hands,...

When a lone gunman goes on a shooting spree aboard a packed San Francisco ferry, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is called in to investigate. At the scene she finds three people...

LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I'm so impressed I want to tell everyone... Police procedural...

'Utterly addictive. Compulsive, twisty, tense.' CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Local Girl Missing Just how far is a mother willing to go? When a mysterious note arrives for seven months pregnant...

**NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!** **The new thriller from the Amazon bestseller** 'AMAZING!' Marian Keyes 'Powerful' C.L. Taylor Every family has it's secrets... Joe McKee - pillar of the Derry...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2020! 'You should read ELEVATOR PITCH by Linwood Barclay as soon as possible. It's one hell of a suspense novel' STEPHEN KING 'Moves as...

Now a major film on Netflix starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman and Julianne Moore OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD! THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing' Gillian Flynn...

'A hugely promising debut' Irish Independent 'Gripping and pacy' Steve Cavanagh, Sunday Times bestselling author of Fifty Fifty 'They're dead. They're all dead. It's my fault. I killed them.' Those...

Two women. Twenty years of secrets. And a man who doesn't remember anything.Or does he?_____________________'Fresh and intriguing, with characters so real I ached for them. I loved I Found You'Clare...

'I couldn't wait to turn the next page - brilliant and what an amazing twist!' - Donna Maguire Years ago there was a silent witness to an act of evil....

She thought she'd seen the back of the Delaneys. How wrong could she be . . .Ruthless is the fifth book in the compelling Annie Carter series by hit crime...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick...

Dublin, 1841. On a cold December morning, a small boy is enticed away from his mother and his throat savagely cut. This could be just one more small, sad death...

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

'Haunting... extraordinary.' STEPHEN KINGA stunning, multi-voiced, period piece - tackling race, gender politics, and the volatility of mid '60s America - from the author of SUNBURNCleo Sherwood disappeared eight months...

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Fiendish good fun' ANTHONY HOROWITZIf you want to get away with murder, play by the rules Years ago Malcolm Kershaw wrote a list of...

'A superb, highly original thriller with a terrific premise. I loved it.' PETER JAMESFormer Broadway star Tommy Jump isn't getting the roles he once did; as his final run as...

She thought the murders had stopped. She was wrong. 'A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you'll never see coming' Karin Slaughter 'Spectacular' Daily Mail 'Tense, twisty and threatening, A...

PERFECT HUSBAND. PERFECT FATHER. PERFECT LIAR?'You'll devour this terrific debut like the rest of us, skipping lunch, losing sleep, turning pages until the end.' JOHN GRISHAM'Hold on tight! What a...

Winter has arrived in the town of Windermere, and has bought with it the death of Frances Henderson, the best friend of Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown's mother. Having known the Henderson...

Juno Browne is a self-appointed Domestic Goddess. From cleaning to dog-walking to caring for the elderly, she flits around the picturesque town of Ashburton in her trusty van ready to...

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A life-long devotee of vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to a heart attack. His...

The summer had been long hot and bloody. Fall, with its cooler temperatures was coming. Maybe people wouldn't be as inclined to kill each other. But she doubted it.' Eve...

I killed my best friend. I didn't mean to, but I did. This is my story.'Miles Kendrick is in a witness protection programme, hiding from the mob and constantly haunted...

Shocking, tense and sharply written, The Poison Garden is the gripping new novel from the international bestseller and Edgar award-winning Alex Marwood.Where Romy grew up, if someone died you never...

The next thrilling novel in the Women's Murder Club series. After a dramatic shoot out at a ferry dock, Detective Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene to find that...

Who guards the guardian angel?New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the trail of a con-man in Notorious Nineteenth, the nineteenth sizzling adventure in the hilarious Stephanie Plum series...

'A tantalising mystery, executed with perfection.' THOMAS ENGERHe was locked inside an abandoned house. But he's not the only one . . .When a dead man is found locked in...

A collection of three gripping new stories from the world's bestselling thriller writer3 DAYS TO LIVEA CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned...

The new action-packed thriller from Richard & Judy and Zoe Ball Book Club pick, TONY KENT.

A retreat doesn't always mean safety...Following the death of her husband, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by friends and fellow Oxford peers at the rustic Chalet des Anglais...

The Accidental Medium is the first book in a hilarious series from Tracy Whitwell featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, is about to become...

A man wakes in a cell.He doesn't know who he is or how long he has been here.He doesn't even know his name.All he knows is that someone has left...

Dan Raglan, former Foreign Legion fighter, alias The Englishman, returns in Resurrection, the new high-octane, high-stakes international thriller from David Gilman.Somewhere in the Sahara, on the desolate border between Sudan...

Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a tragic accident. However, when Detective Superintendent Konrad Simonsen...

What would you do to protect your daughter . . .? From the million-copy bestselling author of NO TIME FOR GOODBYE and FIND YOU FIRSTSeven years ago, Terry Archer and...

It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as...

Brigid Quinn has been shot at, stabbed in the spleen with a nail file and used as serial-killer bait. But she's always been able to trust her instincts and her...

Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer.Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser.David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate.Together, this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims, quickie...

A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.'A must for mystery fans . . . great customer reviews' The Bookseller Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus is the huge international...

'The Bone Keeper will corrupt your days and shatter your nights' Val McDermid 'A dark and brilliant thriller from a writer who just gets better and better. The Bone Keeper...

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES** 'Timely and compelling' Shari Lapena, Books of the Year, Sunday Times Crime Club 'People are calling this the new Apple Tree Yard, but...

The second novel from the acclaimed author of Kill the Father, which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and a Richard & Judy Bookclub 2017 pick, this thriller is...