Collection: Adult Fiction - Crime

A few days before Christmas, with Parma gripped by frost and fog, Ghitta Tagliavini, the elderly owner of a guesthouse in the old town centre, is found murdered in her apartment. The case is assigned to Commissario Soneri, but the investigation holds a painful, personal element that sends waves o...

An exhilarating tale of one remarkable woman's journey find her purpose, and herself, in post-war America. New York, 1954. A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but. As a single girl...

A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. Tate Kinsella, a single out-of-work actor who's been temping at the bank, is arrested for her murder. Tate confesses to having been alone with the victim minutes before she died, but insists she had nothing to do wit...

"Merida Falcon is a world-class beauty, a trophy wife who seems to have it all--except she has no voice. For nine bitter years, Merida lived to serve her wealthy elderly husband, never leaving his side, always doing his bidding-- On his death, Merida vanishes--and reappears in Virtue Falls with a...

"December, 1948. Officer Kitty Wheeler is a member of the Women Police, responsible for 'upholding the moral virtue' of Adelaide's at times unruly and amorous citizens. Patrolling Somerton beach one night, Kitty and her partner spot a man leaning against the sea wall, apparently drunk. It's late,...

Emilia Ward is just an ordinary mum living happily in suburban London with her husband and two children. She's also a bestselling crime author. But when Emilia starts her tenth novel, life takes a disturbing turn: an incident straight out of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just a coinciden...

The best-selling author of detective novels, Emilia Ward is plunged into a nightmare when someone starts mimicking the plot of one of her books in real life, again and again, leading to the murder of someone she knows who dies the same way as a victim in the book she's currently writing.

Mma Ramotswe, the proprietress of the No 1. Ladies' Detective Agency, is not one to sit about. Her busy life gives her little time for relaxation (apart from the drinking of tea, of course). Nonetheless, she is convinced by co-director Mma Makutsi to take a holiday. But Mma Ramotswe finds it impo...

"There's a lot from Tess's childhood that she would rather forget. The family who moved next door and brought chaos to their quiet lives. The two local girls who were murdered, their killer never found. In fact, the only thing she can't remember is the one thing she wishes she could. Ten years ag...