Dark Crime Thrillers

When movie producer Cody Ziegler goes missing from The Homestead’s Millionaires’ Row, his wife, retired actress Olivia, immediately claims there’s foul play afoot. A million-dollar ransom demand soon follows, with clear instructions not to involve the cops. In desperation she enlists the help of Moira, Rick, Philip and Lizzie, aka the Retired Detectives Club. Racing against the clock, the four retirees set to work.

An atmospheric noir thriller from the shadows of 1930s London. In a city gripped by secrets, former war hero turned disillusioned private eye Nick Valentine is trying to drown his demons in whisky and shadows. But when a beautiful nightclub singer turns up dead with compromising photographs in her possession, Nick is dragged into a world of espionage, betrayal and murder. As Europe edges towards war, Nick races to uncover the truth behind a series of stolen military documents, navigating the murky underworld of Soho, the corruption of Whitehall, and the ghosts of his own violent past. ...

Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors - accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik - with a past that he’s unable to leave behind.

May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.

Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams.

Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion - it's been a decade since she graduated, and this visit is special because she will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi. But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Maya's worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on. As Maya pieces together what happened in the months leading up to her sister's death, she begins to realise how much Naomi hid from her.

David Rivers killed the man who betrayed his team. Now, he’s after the faceless mastermind who gave the order. To the criminal world, this man is known only as the Handler. And for the first time, he is within David’s reach. But in order to get close to the Handler, David must first serve him. This time, the task is new: not to kill a target, but to protect one. As David negotiates a labyrinth of twisted loyalties in the violent slums of Rio de Janeiro, he realizes that the betrayal of his former teammates was just the beginning.

Fear, the darkest of evils, and love, the strongest of emotions, have come together to whip up a horrific potion of love & fear. This compilation of stories is not about sweet dreams vs nightmares. Horrifying though they might be, it is about the paranormal, which is experienced by some as a reality; the sort of world where a logical explanation doesn’t exist; there is no reprieve from the tempest of the worst of your imaginations. Fear is the oldest of most primate emotions, which plays upon the person more from within the mind than by external forces. The worst of fears is the fear of ...

Some predators wear masks. Some wear power. FBI Special Agent Maggie Lawson doesn’t ask for backup. She doesn’t need permission. But when her case gets shut down and her badge is stripped away, she knows she is getting close. When a young woman is found dead—staged, scrubbed, erased—Maggie senses the work of something organized. The deeper she digs, the tighter the net pulls around her. Her investigation unearths a trafficking network hidden behind corporate shells and government complicity. But inside her own agency, allies are scarce. Colleagues whisper. And Maggie? She feels eyes...

How long would you wait to take revenge? 'Now,’ Granny said quietly. ‘We shall hold hands in the dark. Then we will know we aren’t on our own.’ When Sergeant Sam Sharpe of the Virginia P.D. contacts Dani Bevan about the murder of one of his officers, the Glasgow DCI doesn’t see how she can help. But as Sam explains further, Dani finds herself entangled in a case which transports her team back to the murky world of the industrial conflicts of the 1970s. Hold Hands in the Dark is the seventh novel in the DCI Dani Bevan series of police procedurals.

"One hell of a rollercoaster ride that slowly descends into the dark abyss of insanity... the modern Epstein Scandal meets Mulholland Falls in this bizarre and brutal tale!" A dark fantasy noir/mystery suspense thriller, set in Seth Hobbs' massive alternate universe, with diverse characters and reminiscent of a 1940s/50s World War Two Era! Intrigue, secrets, violence, romance, spice, and epic worldbuilding abound! Randal Gladenmoore had it all: fame, fortune, respect, and a directorial career to die for-- until people actually did. Now, the former celebrity spends his retirement years in ...

The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District – but behind the scenes, relationships are as tense as on-screen. The director’s reputation proceeds him, the two lead stars are feuding and rumours swirl. Meanwhile the locals are enjoying the filming. But when on-screen slaughter gets swapped for real-life murder at the concert hall where the TV drama is based, and the genuine police are as baffled as the TV detectives, it falls to the locals to search for the truth.

Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life. At the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a little brother she protected fiercely. Until the day a violent stranger changed the fate of her family forever. Years later, still unable to live down the guilt surrounding what happened to her brother, Chris, and now with a child of her own to protect, Katie struggles to separate the real threats from the imagined. Then she gets the phone call: Chris has gone missing and needs his big sister once more.

Bishop Rider Lives! And for a dead man, he’s been busy. His story and the parts of it yet to be told being what populates Brand New Dark.

Cuckoos on the Mersey Books 1-3 In the shadows of Merseyside, a relentless battle rages for the soul of the city’s most vulnerable. Cuckoos on the Mersey plunges readers into the harrowing world of child protection teams and the Protecting Vulnerable People Unit (PVPU) of Merseyside Police. At the heart of the chaos is Leo, a sixteen-year-old ensnared by a violent organized crime group, struggling to escape the clutches of his ketamine addiction. When social services visit Angela, a neighbor in crisis, the situation spirals out of control. Deceptively quiet, her home hides a terrifying ...

In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson.

Tras alcanzar un éxito sensacional entre la crítica y el público con Empezamos por el final, Chris Whitaker vuelve a conquistarnos con Todos los colores de la oscuridad, una ambiciosa novela que combina el misterio, el thriller y una arrebatadora historia de amor. Esta incisiva exploración del alma humana a través de la fina línea que separa el triunfo de la tragedia se ha convertido desde su aparición en un fenómeno internacional.

"Noirish, hard-edged, and memorable Las Vegas procedural." -Booklife.com "An emotionally charged, brilliantly-written debut crime thriller." - BestThrillers.com Complex characters. Shocking twists. A debut crime thriller readers can't put down. When Maria Varela first made detective, more than a few cops called her a nepo-baby behind her back. Sure, having a legendary detective for a father hadn’t hurt her career, but he was retired, and the one closing cases was her, not him. Eventually all the arrests silenced even the loudest of the doubters. Then a long dormant serial killer murders ...

Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is (or who they think she is). After over 800 days without murdering anyone, the woman formerly known as the Sweetpea Killer thinks she might have finally turned over a new leaf. That is until her soon-to-be sister-in-law has a run in with her abusive ex, and Rhiannon rediscovers her taste for revenge.

The Island: A Beautiful Deception This is a Sci-Fi tale of murder, mystery, and horror. When Harrison Thomas accepts the position of Inspector in charge of the police force on the tropical island of San Lacruz, he leaves the United States for a new life. He also rejects the painful memories of a marriage that didn’t work and a world that seems increasingly cold and callous. Tropical paradise seems like a good place for a new start, and dealing with drunk tourists is much easier to handle than the daily tragedies he sees on the mainland. San Lacruz most certainly seems to offer that second...

In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the Internet we don't know. Beginning with the rise of the Internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes - and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.