Crime & Mystery

Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking. How is twelve-year-old Nandita's disappearance connected to the murder of...

"Nair writes big, brave descriptions of one brutal murder after the next, relentlessly describing each death even as sub-inspector Santosh loses his breakfast over them."—Time Out It's the first day...

Jia Khan must fight to stay on top when secrets from the past are revealed. The brilliant, tension-filled follow-up to the bestselling Times and Guardian Crime Novel of the Year. ‘Thrilling.’ The Times ‘Unputdownable.’ Erin Kelly...

From the bestselling author of Devil's Breath, Jill Johnson is back with another gripping Professor Eustacia Rose Mystery...Betrayal is a bitter poison . . .After a nerve-racking investigation, Professor Eustacia Rose's life is...

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secret in this gripping dual-timeline gothic thriller.  Shanice Pierce knows better than to heed bad...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk “With a pinch of John Dickson Carr and a dash of Agatha Christie, solver of impossible crimes” Kosuke Kindaichi returns for another murder mystery (The New...

Spies meet romance meet popstars in this thrilling follow up to Stars and Smoke by bestselling author Marie Lu.New sparks. Old Flames. A mission that's playing with fire.A year has passed since...

An endlessly ingenious battle across Japan between dogged detective Akechi Kogoro and the many-faced thief Gold MaskA frenzied test of wits between ace detective Akechi Kogoro and the seemingly superhuman...

When Medeleine d'Leon conjures Ned McGinnity as the hero in her latest crime novel, she makes him a serious writer simply because the iropny of a protagonist who'd never lower...

Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in #1 New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon's first adult novel. When Jasmyn Williams and her husband King realise they're expecting their second...

WHO REALLY KILLED THE PRIMROSE FAMILY? The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation. The family's young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, was swiftly charged with murder and...

Ordinary New Yorkers are brought together in a story of betrayal, race, what connects us to each other - and what sets us apart***A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUB 2024 SELECTION***'A...

From Abir Mukherjee, the award-winning author of the Wyndham and Banerjee series, comes a blistering contemporary thriller with a real message for our polarised times. Your kids are missing, accused...

A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express. Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is...

Tattooed from her neck to her toes and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. She's committed both to...

Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE certificate III in Investigative Services. It took her thirty hours to complete online. Now, she has set up her own private...

The fourth instalment of the Kamil Rahman murder mystery series, THE SPY sees Kamil and his amateur-sleuth restaurant manager partner, Anjoli thrown into the midst of a terrorist plot ONE...

Strange things are happening in the Chizurui mansion...At night, a figure clad in a Hannya mask is spotted wandering around the house. The amateur crime fiction writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is...

The book leaps out at her in the bookstore: a diamond-studded Puerto Rico constellation gracing a black vellum cover, with an enigmatic name - M. Dominguez - in the lower...

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in...

'Begins as a compelling psychological mystery (and) turns to the supernatural... A well-plotted, original, nightmare blend of madness and monsters.' Guardian The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of lush...

Sam is a war photographer famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment, she checks into an expensive hotel. Unfortunately she has chosen the...

Scott Snyder’s Dark Spaces anthology line returns with an all-new story surrounding a deadly conspiracy from a creative team of rising stars! In search of a fresh start, teenager Cheyenne...

Tokyo, 1933. Tall, broodingly handsome, Victor Stepper is a consummate ladies' man, a brilliant journalist... and spy. As the world descends into war, Stepper collects information and sends it on...

The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel. Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions,...

Two murders. Two decades apart.One chance to get justice. Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants...

From the New York Times bestselling author comes an evocative family drama and riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women. 'I will find my daughter. No...

A disappearance and a tangled knot of sex and politics involving a stripper and Singapore’s former chief minister The year is 1966. The world is at a tipping point. The...

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries...

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter. When...

Trapped in a mansion with a murderer and a family of liars - how would you survive? A mind-blowing thriller from the author of THIS BOOK KILLS, perfect for fans...

The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties, winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 It’s Chinese New Year, a time to celebrate…...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk A classic Japanese mystery —a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century Tokyo Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the...

A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death in this mesmerising novel from the New York Times-bestselling author Who gets to...

In this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh, a remote estate in New Zealand’s Southern Alps hosts a reunion no one will ever forget. Seven friends.One...

‘A sultry, immersive exploration of 30s New York with a taut plot and a vivid soundtrack. The perfect escape – evocative, smooth prose’ Harriet Tyce, Sunday Times bestselling author ‘[A]...

She needs to write the ending ... before she meets hers. Theo has one dream—to become a bestselling author. Determined to make her mark in the literary world, she heads...

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that...

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction, from the author of instant crime classic The Woman in the Library It's an author's job to create a new...

A teenage sorcerer's apprentice must solve her boss's murder in order to prove her innocence in this twisty, magic-infused murder mystery perfect for fans of Knives Out and The Inheritance Games.Being an apprentice...

**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM****THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE-BESTSELLER**'A coming-of-age-story to be loved everywhere in the world' FREDRIK BACKMAN, author of A MAN CALLED OVE The international sensation- the story...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire saga comes the beginning of a twisty tale of obsession and rage, as a trinity of women protect what...

'We know you know. Talk and you're next.' Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, pastor of a Nigerian megachurch, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Folasade, the 'First...

'There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham.' -THE OBSERVERWhen Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a...

From award-winning actor, producer, and director Eriq La Salle comes the final installment of the Martyr Maker series where an FBI agent battling a terminal illness, alongside two NYPD detectives,...

THE WAGES OF CYNICISM A battle-tested project leader at PR firm Cyberplan and a slippery bachelor, Sakuma is smug self-regard personified. But when his idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed...

Sometimes work can be murder... The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates simple, elegant, effective solutions for… restructuring. Nothing obvious or messy. Certainly nothing anyone would ever...

NAMED ONE OF CRIMEREADS' MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME NOVELS OF 2022 It lurks in the shadows. It lives in your worst nightmares. It feeds on your deepest fears. And it’s coming...

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from 'a born storyteller' (Michael Robotham). Weeks from Christmas in the sweltering...

Bestselling author Armando Lucas Correa strikes out in a bold new direction with a psychological thriller about a young woman afflicted with ‘motion blindness’, who becomes convinced that her next-door...