British Crime

What the Night Brings by Mark Billingham is the latest mystery in the bestselling Tom Thorne series, and this time, a killer is targeting the police. Is it payback? And is it justified? “Three dead coppers, Tom, maybe four by lunchtime…” The targeted murder of four officers is only the...

Published in the UK as Caedmon’s Song, this is a gripping standalone thriller from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked. When she awakens in...

It's a perfectly normal day for Kitt Hartley at her job at the University of the Vale of York library, until Detective Inspector Halloran arrives at her desk to tell her that her best friend, Evie Bowes, is under suspicion of murder. Evie's ex-boyfriend Owen has been found dead - with a fountain pen stabbed through his heart - and all the evidence points to her. Kitt knows there is no way Evie could murder anyone - let alone Owen, whom she adored.

A major new psychological serial killer thriller featuring homicide detective Carson Ryder, hero of the bestsellers The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors. It looked like an abattoir when they found the mutilated body of the young journalist inside her car. And if Carson Ryder and his...

What happens when a police officer goes outside the law? When wealthy housewife Ella Watson is brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight it sends shockwaves through the Lake District community. Later that day, Keira Bradley meets the same fate but on the notoriously rough Beacon Estate. DI...

Pru Parke takes on the most serious challenge of her life: cooking an entire Christmas feast alone. But she is distracted by a mysterious plant vendor at a local holiday market, who appears and disappears into the night. He seems familiar, and yet... Join Pru and Christopher as they suss out this stranger while Pru contends with cooking a turkey fit for a crowd. Just how many potatoes and sprouts can two people eat?

Julia Chapman’s sixth Dales Detective Agency novel, Date with Deceit, sees Delilah going undercover at a shoot involving dangerous criminals. An enthralling cosy crime mystery, perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club and M.C. Beaton. A woman in tears in the Dales...

It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday. Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the series that LOUISE PENNY calls ""fabulous, unsettling, and riveting"" — and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in summer 2018. Lover of London, gifted psychologist, frequent police...

The epic second novel from the author of the acclaimed Anthrax Island. 'Black Run grabs the attention like a fire alarm and never lets up' The Times John Tyler has a new mission: capture a heavily protected target from a ski resort in the Alps and smuggle him back to the UK. The abduction was a...

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Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off, 14 Company prevent 12. The selection process is the most physically, intellectually, and emotionally demanding anywhere in the world. This is the true story of one operator and of some of the most hair-raising military operations ever conducted on the streets of Britain.

Poisoned pooches and a missing teenager bring our detective duo back together in Date with Poison the fourth cosy crime novel in Julia Chapman's Dales Detective Agency series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin series. Spring is in the...

"[Narrator William] Hope's portrayal is pure perfection." —AudioFile on Fearless “If you haven’t read any M. W. Craven yet, fix that immediately.” —S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed A man who can't feel fear is in a race against time to find a...

'My heart was in my throat' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 'Engrossed from page one' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review 'This is Mari Hannah at her best' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Reader Review 'More twists and turns than a fairground ride' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review **** LIES COST LIVES THE BRAND NEW KATE...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Inspector Thomas Lynley travels to Scotland to solve the untimely demise of a renowned playwright in the second novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series. Don’t miss the upcoming BritBox streaming series Lynley! “George writes like Agatha...

‘Sensational new book’ – MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Bombshell book’ – THE SUN ‘Tell-all book’ – MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Explosive new book' – DAILY MAIL 'Kervin is a master storyteller' – THE LONDON STANDARD AN UNFLINCHING EXPOSÉ OF MOHAMED AL-FAYED'S 25-YEAR REIGN OF TERROR AT HARRODS...

“Think of a darker, more aggressive version of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. . . . Filled with wicked mischief and dark dares.” — Kansas City Star From Clive Barker, the great master of horror and the macabre, comes a brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the...

In December 1795, on the midnight stroke of her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris’s notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents’ brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, “A captivating mystery: beautifully written, with a rich sense of place, a cast of memorable characters, and lots of deep, dark secrets.”—Kate Morton, New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter “Extraordinary…Absolutely her best yet...

DS Lucas Walker is off duty. He's supposed to be showing his little sister Grace the Australian outback, on her visit from Boston, but instead they're headed out bush- where Walker's cousin has been mining for boulder opal. Something seemed off when Walker heard that Blair wanted to get out of Kanpara, so he and Grace are en route to bring him home to Caloodie. But Kanpara is in Channel Country, and a major flood is on the way.