Item category 1: Thrillers & Crime

In one of the most luxurious cities on earth, a billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. Thousands of miles away, in the leafy Berkshire countryside, Lord Hartley, the latest in a l...

Most probationary constables would baulk at chasing a drug dealer into a train tunnel in the dead of night -- not Lexi. But when she emerges, injured but alive, to face the wrath of her boss it's clear that while Lexi may now be in uniform, she has as much trouble with authority as ever. Just to ...

2022: Former spy Simon Sharman is eking out a living in the private sector. When a commission to delve into the financial dealings of a mysterious Russian oligarch comes across his desk, he jumps at the chance. But as Simon investigates, worrying patterns begin to emerge. His subject made regular...

Russia is struggling to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield. But can it win the war for influence? Simon Sharman is out for revenge, pursuing the assassin of his former colleague across war-torn Ukraine. Back in London, a Russian spy ring at the heart of the British Establishment remains active and...

A young couple with a baby on the way moves to an old Victorian house in rural, upstate New York. Strange happenings contribute to their disintegrating marriage -- and to their terrifying descent into the darker side of human nature.

In the depths of the bleak New Zealand winter comes the rising of Matariki - a sacred constellation in Māori culture, heralding a time of new beginnings. For former Detective Senior Sergeant Hana Westerman, life is good: her work in her hometown of Tātā Bay is going well, the community is thrivin...

Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain for his final tour, he's anxious to dispense with his mission - uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency. But then he meets Almaisa, an enigmatic artist, and his eyes are opened to a side of Bahrain...

Met Jack Widow? In order to solve a personal murder, elite NCIS Agent Jack Widow is forced to return home from a covert undercover assignment. He goes home to a place that he hasn't been in sixteen years. Taken-to-be a worthless drifter and forgotten by the people he grew up around, Widow goes un...

Jack Widow is unlucky enough to end up in the hospital after an accidental train crash. Wrong place. Wrong time. But his luck goes from bad to worse when CIA Agent Benico Teller, forgotten, walks out of Widow's past and into back into his life with classified intel that Widow must hear and an off...

When innkeeper Dorthe Hyllested is found murdered, the police are surprised to discover a concealed nursery in her upstairs apartment of her quaint woodside bed-and-breakfast. The recently widowed Dorthe was childless—so who lived in this secret toy-strewn room? Detective Louise Rick has just tak...

Anna Ogilvy hasn't opened her eyes for four years. Not since that night at The Farm when she was found asleep with a kitchen knife in her hand, her clothes bloodstained, the bodies of her two best friends lying close. She'd committed the crime of the century - but nothing and no-one could wake he...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, an everyman hero with a penchant for stepping into trouble, works with his resourceful wife and three daughters, and an outlaw falconer to protect Twelve Sleep country from hunters, ecoterrorists, cowboy hitmen, and rogue federal agents, among others.

Nate knows too much about Special Forces Black Ops'' activities in Afghanistan, and his former comrades know the time has come to end the threat he poses once and for all. Their plan incorporates a key tactic that served their secret unit so well overseas: recruiting locals. Nate can trust no one...

In this town, everyone has a secret they'd kill to keep. Oak Hill, North Carolina is a sleepy community where nothing exciting ever happens, a town so tiny it has no room for secrets. So when a stranger is found murdered in a cornfield, Detective Grace Bingham is forced to partner with Jack Sawye...

Carole Seddon, a very respectable retired woman living in the English seaside village of Fethering, doesn't care for the theatre. But her neighbour Jude counts the job of actress among her many and varied past careers. So when Jude attends the closing night of a new play based on a classic TV sit...

In the private-detective business, you get on the wrong side of some dangerous people. For Galway investigator Jack Taylor, that meant a violent assault that left him comatose. Waking up during the Covid pandemic, Jack struggles to cope with the radical changes the world has seen during his absen...

Clete Purcel - private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots - is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete leaves his car at the local car wash, only ...

In the quiet seaside town of Blaine, Washington, the most serious police work involves dealing with stray coyotes or ticketing speeders along the I-5. But on Ethan Brand's first day as the town's chief of police, he finds a threat on his porch, along with a gruesome souvenir, a bloody animal hear...

Detective Kamil Rahman is working for the Met Police when he gets the call from MI5. They've received intelligence of a terrorist plot, and it's Kamil they need. Posing as a disaffected cop and working in his friend Anjoli's restaurant on Brick Lane, Kamil attempts to infiltrate the cell. What he...

Hercule Poirot has beaten thieves and murderers. But has he finally met his match with Bob the dog? A simple accident? Or attempted murder? Everyone blamed the dog. When a wealthy spinster trips on the stairs, it seems only natural to assume it was an accident - a rubber ball left there by her li...

Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia's ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. With all-out war only seconds away, the superpowers race across the ocean on the most desperate mission of a lifetime. The m...

The final book in the Inspector Ramsay series. Marilyn Howes and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn't come home... Fifteen-year-old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep, so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal...

Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn't know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts - and then he runs. Twenty-two years late...

Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn't know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts - and then he runs. Twenty-two years late...

Detective Stilwell of the Los Angeles County Sherriff's department has been exiled. Once he manned a mainland homicide desk; now internal politics have relegated him to a low-key post, policing rustic Catalina Island. He's beginning to think he could get used to it. It's all business as usual in ...

Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, respons...

Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: run. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has be...

The location: West Africa The player: 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite The target: A war criminal on the run The objective: Kill or capture Kite's mission should be straightforward, but it soon turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse along the beaches and backstreets of Senegal. Now, nearly thi...

Una has always been more comfortable working with numbers than people. As an actuary for an insurance company, her job is to spot patterns that other people might miss. When the data for her latest project - into the predicted number of deaths in seaside resorts - shows a blip in her forecasts, U...