Thriller / suspense

Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby

Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby

Ace Atkins

Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this next installment in Robert B. Parker’s iconic New York Times bestselling series….

Fake Alibi

Fake Alibi

Leigh Russell

A wheelchair-using woman is strangled, her son Eddy is arrested, and doubts arise about his guilt. The case intensifies as bodies pile up, testing Geraldine’s limits.

Jack Carter’s Law

Jack Carter’s Law

Ted Lewis

The author of Get Carter returns to his greatest invention, a smooth-operating hardcase named Jack Carter, who is about to burn a city down in order to silence an informant……

Billy Rags

Billy Rags

Ted Lewis

A fascinating window in on life in a British maximum security prison, Billy Rags – by the author of Get Carter – is crime fiction at its best: lean, mean, and full of startling psychological depth….

Shoot the Moonlight Out : Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger

Shoot the Moonlight Out : Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger

William Boyle

An explosive crime drama, Shoot the Moonlight Out evokes a mystical Brooklyn where the sidewalks are cracked, where Virgin Mary statues tilt in fenced front yards, and where smudges of moonlight reflect in puddles even on the blackest nights….

Robert B. Parker’s Stone’s Throw

Robert B. Parker’s Stone’s Throw

Mike Lupica

The town of Paradise receives a tragic shock when the mayor is discovered dead, his body lying in an open grave on a property on the lake. It’s ostensibly suicide, but Jesse has his doubts… especially because the piece of land where the man was found is the subject of a contentious and dodgy land deal….

Guilt Edged

Guilt Edged

Leigh Russell

An inoffensive man is murdered in a seemingly motiveless attack. DI Geraldine Steel and her team are baffled, until DNA from an apparent stranger is discovered on the victim’s body. Someone is lying and the police must uncover the truth before anyone else is killed……

Robert B. Parker’s Payback

Robert B. Parker’s Payback

Mike Lupica

In her latest thrilling adventure, PI Sunny Randall takes on two serpentine cases that converge into one deadly mystery….

Where God Does Not Walk

Where God Does Not Walk

Luke McCallin

*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER* The Western Front, July 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front. One of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to investigate…

The Killing Hills

The Killing Hills

Chris Offutt

* LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER * A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt’s latest novel, The Killing Hills, is a compelling, propulsive thriller in which a suspicious death exposes the loyalties and rivalries of a deep-rooted and fiercely private community in the Kentucky backwoods….

Sergeant Salinger

Sergeant Salinger

Jerome Charyn

Grounded in biographical fact and reimagined as only Charyn could, Sergeant Salinger is an astonishing portrait of a devastated young man on his way to becoming the mythical figure behind The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has marked generations….

Deep Cover

Deep Cover

Leigh Russell

Detective Geraldine Steel investigates a sex worker’s death while dealing with her missing partner and the danger they both face from a criminal gang and a psychopath.