Crime & Mystery

An incisive workplace satire and twisty murder mystery featuring a young executive assistant who realizes the peril in being diligently attentive to her boss's whims. As the assistant of the...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk Tokyo, 1947.The Pink Labyrinth is one of the bomb-scarred city's most shady neighbourhoods. There, in the dead of night a patrolling policeman catches a young Buddhist...

Professor Eustacia Rose is trying to get her old life back. But as always, things get more complicated when poisonous plants - and people - start to disappear . ....

Translated by Gene Png A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at...

In this laugh-out-loud murder mystery, three women dating the same man band together to get revenge, but when they discover his body, they’ll need to solve his murder before they...

A rediscovered classic - a Japanese cosy crime novel in translation set at the foot of Mount Fuji, first published in 1982, and now reissued for a 21st century readership...

A twisty and ingenious stand-alone classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House Murders Can the brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada solve the mystery of this bizarre house before...

Detective Kamil and restaurant owner Anjoli go to Mumbai to solve the ritualistic killing of a British construction worker found with eighteen arrows embedded in his body. For readers of...

Five shocking murders Twenty-five years ago, DCI Harry Rhimes arrested Andrew Streeter for the brutal murders of five young people. Streeter’s ‘kill list’ of victims was found in his home,...

 From the bestselling author of This Book Kills comes a deadly new YA thriller of murder, mystery and mind-blowing twists. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen M. McManus....

Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder... Get ready for a claustrophobic, roller-coaster ride in 2025. Lucy Foley meets Succession in this tense and atmospheric...

WINNER OF THE JAPANESE DETECTIVE WRITERS CLUB PRIZE This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seichō Matsumoto. Early one...

'The Japanese Stieg Larsson' The Times Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and impossible crime, are linked by...

One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men...

Ben and Corinthia spent years abducting college coeds, until one night they took the wrong victim. No one knew witnessing their first murder at seven would propel Ben and his...

A BESTSELLING AND INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED MASTERPIECE An amateur detective races to solve a decades-old murder mystery in this “bloody and bizarre” Japanese crime novel with a twist hailed as “one of...

A twisty and ingenious stand-alone classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House Murders Can the brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada solve the mystery of this bizarre house before...

A BREATHTAKING THRILLER FROM THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF CHAI TIME AT CINNAMON GARDENS Sri Lanka, 2009. Decades of civil war and bloodshed are being brought to an end at...

White Lotus meets The Guest List in international bestselling author S. C. Lalli’s next thrilling novel, where two business moguls were set to be married in the biggest event of the year—until they’re...

"The definitive African book of the twentieth century" (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets...

John Tucker Must Die meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in this tongue-in-cheek mystery about three feuding exes of a social media prank star who are forced to work...

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...

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...

 'Seriously good' DERVLA McTIERNAN 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 brought...

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 plotONE BOY...

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...

'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...

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,...

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...

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 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]...

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...

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...

Translated by An Seon Jae SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2024 Sometimes work can be murder...The Consultant is very good at his job. He creates...

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...

In Song Dynasty China, a young servant of a magistrate searches for the killers of a mentally-disabled boy shunned by the community China, during the Song Dynasty: In a small...

A young woman in Hong Kong investigates her teenage sister's death. Gossip. Rumour. Revenge. Wun Wah Tower. Kwun Tong district, Hong Kong. When Siu-Man jumped from her window on the...

What happens when an innocent prank goes horribly wrong? Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college — each different from the other yet inseparable — until that...

The monster is not always who you expect it to be... a reimagining of the Raja Bersiong legend; a coming-of-age story of an angst-ridden young man turning into a vampire,...

Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana,...

Murder. Migrants. Mafia. A small-town girl from Malaysia goes to London's Chinatown to uncover the truth behind the tragedy that befell her childhood sweetheart. The shooting of her childhood friend...

A dead woman’s cherished trinkets become pieces to a terrifying puzzle. Mickie Lambert creates 'digital scrapbooks' for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren’t forgotten or lost. When her latest client,...

When Yuko Moriguchi's four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches, everyone thought it was a tragic accident. It's the last day of term, and Yuko's last day...

Based on one of China's most famous online crime serials, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the police. For fans of Jo...

In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes you into the twisted world of an exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of...

*A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH* Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that might just change his life...for better...