Inspector Javier Falcón of the Seville homicide squad is called to the scene of a man found dead in front of a painting of Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son — eyes burnt out, posed with deliberate horror. The investigation pulls Falcón into his own family history, specifically the life of his celebrated father, the painter Francisco Falcón. Set against Seville's streets and its Moorish architecture, the first Falcón novel establishes one of crime fiction's most psychologically complex detectives.
A New Year's Eve death on a military base in 1990 pulls Major Jack Reacher into a murder investigation as the Cold War ends. Lee Child rewinds the clock to Reacher's army days, delivering a tense, procedural prequel and a rare look at the man in uniform.
Quincy Miller has spent twenty-two years on death row for the murder of a small-town Florida lawyer, a crime he insists he did not commit. When a handwritten letter reaches a small innocence organisation, its director takes on the case — knowing that the real killer is still out there and still dangerous.
Suspended from the LAPD and ordered into therapy after assaulting his commanding officer, Harry Bosch turns his enforced downtime toward the one case he could never close: the unsolved murder of his own mother, a prostitute killed when he was a boy. The investigation forces him to confront the wound that made him.
A glamorous film star buys a grand house in St. Mary Mead, and at her welcome party a starstruck local woman is poisoned. The intended victim seems obvious — yet the truth lies in a frozen look on the actress's face and a single line of poetry that Miss Marple cannot forget.
When the universally disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the vicarage study, the quiet English village of St. Mary Mead erupts with suspects, false confessions and gossip — and an elderly spinster proves the sharpest mind for miles around.
When Emily Inglethorp is found dead at Styles Court, her stepson calls in his Belgian refugee friend Hercule Poirot to investigate. Christie's debut novel introduces one of fiction's most beloved detectives and establishes the country-house mystery template.
Crime reporter Jack McEvoy refuses to believe his twin brother, a homicide detective, killed himself. Digging into the death, McEvoy uncovers a pattern: detectives across the country dying in staged suicides, each marked with a line of Edgar Allan Poe. He has stumbled onto a serial killer — and a story that could destroy him.
A broke, freshly minted law graduate takes on a billion-dollar insurance company over a denied claim that cost a young man his life. With nothing but nerve and a paralegal sidekick, Rudy Baylor walks into his first-ever trial against a battalion of corporate lawyers.
From the window of a parallel train, elderly Elspeth McGillicuddy watches a man strangle a woman — then the other train is gone and no body is ever found. Only her friend Miss Marple believes her, and only Miss Marple will prove it.
Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find a missing government worker who stole documents from a state senator. What begins as a routine job draws them into Dorchester's gang wars, racial politics, and the violence that underlies South Boston's civic surface.
A wealthy financier dies of poisoning with a curious handful of rye in his jacket pocket. When two more deaths follow a pattern straight out of a nursery rhyme, Miss Marple arrives with a personal stake and a chilling theory about who is keeping the rhyme.
A killer is torturing and murdering victims with terrible precision, and the clues suggest he is enacting the fantasies of three of the most notorious serial killers ever locked away in a Minnesota security hospital. To catch him, Lucas Davenport must consult the very monsters whose dreams the killer is making real.
When two small skeletons are unearthed beneath a demolished Minneapolis house, the bones reopen a case that has haunted Lucas Davenport since he was a young patrol cop — the disappearance of two girls he could never forget. Now, decades later, he gets a second chance to catch a killer he was sure got away.
Gary Soneji, the kidnapper from Along Came a Spider, escapes prison and launches a final campaign of revenge against Alex Cross — while across the Atlantic, FBI agent Thomas Pierce hunts a mutilation killer known only as Mr. Smith. Two manhunts converge in one of Patterson's most audacious thrillers.
A cold, brilliant professional killer takes a job for an obsessed lawyer who wants a rival dead — and when the hit spirals into a string of bodies, Lucas Davenport finds himself matched against one of the most formidable assassins he has ever faced. Clara Rinker kills without passion and without mistakes, and she does not intend to be caught.
The second Harlem Shuffle novel — Ray Carney navigates 1970s Harlem through three interlinked stories spanning 1971, 1973, and 1976, as the neighbourhood burns, rebuilds, and transforms around him.
Libby Day survived the massacre of her family when she was seven years old and testified that her teenage brother Ben was responsible. Twenty-five years later, a true crime enthusiast group called the Kill Club convinces her to reinvestigate — and what she uncovers suggests the conviction was built on a child's traumatized misremembering.
Vic Van Allen is the model suburban husband — except that he allows his wife Melinda to carry on a series of affairs openly, to prevent her from leaving him. When one of her lovers is found dead, Vic lets it be known that he killed him. He didn't — but the bluff establishes something. A portrait of suburban American life as a theatre of controlled violence, and one of Highsmith's most chilling studies in the psychology of a particular kind of man.
A brilliant, drug-addled pathologist and a charming, sociopathic actor strike a murderous bargain. As bodies turn up with their eyes destroyed, Lucas Davenport — himself sunk in a deep depression — must climb out of his own darkness to outthink a pair of killers as theatrical as they are deadly.
A obsessed fan murders a reclusive novelist for his unpublished notebooks, then buries the loot — until, decades later, a teenage boy unearths it, and a paroled killer comes hunting. Stephen King's literary-obsession thriller and the second Bill Hodges novel.
A wealthy family needs its long-lost black sheep found before a fortune can be divided. Kinsey Millhone traces Guy Malek — vanished eighteen years ago, now a gentle, born-again man — and reunites him with the brothers who never wanted him back. Then Guy is murdered, and the family's old wounds turn lethal.
Professional assassin Clara Rinker has retired to a quiet life in Mexico — until a hit meant for her kills her lover instead. Bent on vengeance against the people who tried to kill her, she returns to the United States on a one-woman war, and the FBI recruits Lucas Davenport, the one cop who truly understands her, to stop her.
A humble charwoman is beaten to death and her lodger is sentenced to hang for it. But the policeman who built the case cannot shake his doubts and begs Hercule Poirot to look again. Buried in an old newspaper, Poirot finds a clue that links a long-dead scandal to a quiet English village.
