Crime

In the village of Road in Wiltshire during the summer of 1860, a family awakes to discover that a gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Wilcher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, has the unenviable task of conduct...

In this novel in 16 parts by some of today's most prestigious crime writers, each writer picks up the story in their usual locale and each tells a gripping story of murder, betrayal and intrigue. Running through the stories is a charm bracelet which brings bad luck wherever it's found.

Amid the foggy streets of sinister London, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 'Speckled Band', 'The Engineer's Thumb' and ten other stories, Holmes grapples with the very extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous end.

Because Secret Service agents are sworn to secrecy, the American public rarely knows what presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, and Cabinet officers and their families are really like. If they did, says a former Secret Service agent, 'They would scream.'

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in 'Faceless Killers', he was a senior police officer, just turned 40, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him, he ate badly and drank alone at night. 'The Pyramid' chronicles the events that led him to such a place.

Leading crime critic Maxim Jakubowski presents this year's must-have collection of British mystery fiction.

In this unprecedented collaboration, 23 of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters.

This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause c.ư̐el.ư̐ebre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds, and trials.

NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer.

Larry Newton, one of the most notorious inmates in the prison's supermax, was trying to break out. But Laura Bates, one of the most persistent teachers the prison had ever seen, was trying to break in. Their meeting triggered a relationship that has lasted more than a decade. This is a starkly en...