Browsing: Crime Fiction and Mysteries

Daniel Woodrell’s modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence. …

This riveting page-turner from a New York Times bestselling author “will keep her readers wanting more” (Kirkus Reviews). When Seattle private eye J. P. Beaumont takes the case of a teen’s murder filmed on a smartphone, his investigation unearths a lethal web of corruption. With over 1,900 five-star Goodreads ratings!

A “rip-roaring… classic” tale (Publishers Weekly): In 1930s Los Angeles, Mildred strives for a better life — but her love for her selfish daughter could be her undoing. “Nobody has quite pulled it off the way Cain does” (Tom Wolfe).

From a New York Times bestselling author comes “one thriller that must be read… Perry has created his most complex and compelling protagonist” (San Francisco Examiner). If anyone wants to disappear, Jane Whitefield can make it happen. But when she takes on a risky new client, she’s drawn into a web of danger and deception.

For fans of Sherlock Holmes: When a young scholar is murdered in Victorian London, detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, must descend into the city’s dark underbelly in search of a cold-blooded killer. “An exciting page-turner… I look forward to their next adventure!” (Anne Perry).

Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They’re not such a big deal, you know. Even when the…

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes a suspense novel about a woman trapped in…

A #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers “pure pleasure from the very first page” (Kirkus Reviews): Elvis Cole hunts for the abandoned wife and son of a hotshot film director — only to become entangled in a case far deadlier than it seems. With nearly 4,000 five-star Goodreads ratings!

Near Mulholland Drive, Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot twice in the back of the head. It’s the case LAPD…

James M. Cain, virtuoso of the roman noir, gives us a tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful story in Double Indemnity, an X-ray…