Crime & mystery

A Deadly Divide

A Deadly Divide

Ausma Zehanat Khan

In the aftermath of a mass shooting in a mosque, small town tensions run high. Clashes between the Muslim community and a local faction of radical white nationalists are escalating, but who would have motive and opportunity to commit such a devastating act of violence? Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty from Canada’s Community…

Plender

Plender

Ted Lewis

Two men share a common history. Growing up together in the small town of Barton-Upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, England, Peter Knott is everything that Brian Plender wishes he were. Knott is suave, good-looking, an exemplary student and popular. The friendship they maintain is as important to Plender as it is forgettable to Knott, and…

Robert B. Parker’s Angel Eyes

Robert B. Parker’s Angel Eyes

Ace Atkins

In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser heads to the City of Angels to meet old friends and new enemies in a baffling missing person case that might shake Tinseltown to its core. Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with big dreams of making it as a model/actress in Hollywood. Two years later,…

Deathly Affair

Deathly Affair

Leigh Russell

When a homeless man is murdered, Detective Sergeant Geraldine Steel is disturbed by the coldblooded nature of the crime. With the discovery of a second victim, the police hunt for a killer whose motive is as elusive as he is dangerous.

Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud

Robert B. Parker’s Blood Feud

Mike Lupica

Robert B. Parker’s iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband–and his Mafia family–from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival….

Robert B. Parker’s Colorblind

Robert B. Parker’s Colorblind

Reed Farrel Coleman

Police Chief Jesse Stone’s most recent case hits right at the heart of the Paradise Police force in the newest novel in Robert B. Parker’s New York Times Bestselling series. Jesse Stone is back on the job after a stint in rehab, and the road to recovery is immediately made bumpy by a series of disturbing and…

The Conviction of Cora Burns

The Conviction of Cora Burns

Carolyn Kirby

Birmingham, 1885. Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside her. Haunted by memories of a terrible crime, she seeks a new life working as a servant in the house of scientist Thomas Jerwood. Here, Cora befriends a young girl, Violet, who seems to be the…

Sarah Jane

Sarah Jane

James Sallis

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in…

Fade to Grey

Fade to Grey

John Lincoln

Gethin Grey is the man you call when there’s nowhere else to turn. His Last Resort Legals team investigates miscarriages of justice. Gethin is running out of options: his gambling is out of control, his marriage is falling apart and there’s no money left to pay the wages…Izma M was sent down years ago for the brutal murder of…

No Place of Refuge

No Place of Refuge

Ausma Zehanat Khan

The Syrian refugee crisis just became personal for Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty. NGO worker Audrey Clare, sister of Khattak’s childhood friend, is missing. In her wake, a French Interpol Agent and a young Syrian man are found dead at the Greek refugee camp where she worked. Khattak and Getty travel to…

Rogue Killer

Rogue Killer

Leigh Russell

As a confident killer terrorizes the city, Detective Sergeant Geraldine Steel races against time to uncover the truth, facing dismissive colleagues and a dangerous pursuit of justice.

More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Nick Rennison

Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 1890 and 1914 were the heyday of the English (and American) story magazines and their pages were filled with platoons of private detectives,…