Criminal Mystery

What if Sherlock Holmes had turned to crime instead of detection? The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street by Rob Nunn investigates this very concept. Holmes famously said that "when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst of all." A sinister influence is at work in Victorian London with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson running a hidden criminal empire. The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street explores all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories through the lens of Holmes as a criminal while adding many new exciting tales of Holmes' daring to delight its listeners.

Mr. Govich returns to take you deeper, darker inside the dreadful places. The ones he said that he would never look back into them again. Forbidden zones you should never enter alone. It's treacherous there. You go inside, and you can’t tell where the grey ends and the black begins. Places where you can drift away and never even know you were gone. They were too unpleasant for him to recant.

1909. Kiel ist für Josef Rosenbaum lediglich eine Provinzstadt. Der Kriminalobersekretär wurde gerade von Berlin an die Ostsee versetzt. Sein erster Fall führt zu einem erschossenen Kranführer der Germaniawerft. In unmittelbarer Nähe des Tatortes werden Unterseeboote für die Kaiserliche Marine produziert, die das Deutsche Reich zu neuer Größe erstarken lassen sollen.

In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes successful crime fiction stories, but this doesn't pay enough for him to do the things he wants. Things change when he starts to put his knowledge of crime to a practical use... It gets him into serious trouble before long.

Questa volta Ray Carney sta rigando dritto. Dopo quattro anni, il suo passato da ricettatore è quasi un ricordo e il suo negozio di mobili in 125th Street macina affari onesti. Il contesto tuttavia non aiuta; è il 1971 ed è New York: la spazzatura si accumula per le strade e infuriano incendi dolosi, il livello di criminalità è ai massimi storici, la città scivola verso la bancarotta ed è guerra aperta tra la polizia e il Black Liberation Army.

From the outside Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, a pretty wife, two kids. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another. As the red flags start to go up, FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere hones in on Tomlin from one direction, while Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens picks up the trail from another. Because Carter Tomlin's decided he likes robbing banks.

Einen Geldautomaten klauen ist doch keine grosse Sache, denkt sich zumindest Stefan, ein kräftiger ehemaliger Matrose, und stiftet dabei noch andere an: Christoph, ein frisch geschiedener Druckereiarbeiter, der alleine mit seiner kranken Tochter Maria wohnt. James, der immer fröhliche eingewanderte Südafrikaner, sowie Anna, die bezaubernde Immobilienbewirtschafterin aus der Slowakei. Was haben alle gemeinsam? Sie brauchen dringend Geld, sonst wird ihre Zukunft bald sehr ungemütlich.

Kellerman delights with 17 short mysteries, including three all-new pieces featuring Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, a mystery introducing Faye's newest heroine Cindy Decker, and a story co-written by Faye and her son, budding novelist Jesse Kellerman.

Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed "cop for criminals", and the person the underworld calls when they can't call the police. For months now, she's built up a series of favors, all so she can set them off like dominos—proving that Nicky Simpson, YouTube sensation and wannabe gangster, was the man who destroyed her life—and killed the man she loved. And in return, Nicky has watched her carefully, waiting to see whether she's too much of a threat to keep alive. But when Nicky's life is threatened, he's forced to turn to Ellie and her team for help.

Steven Drury, a respectable barrister, is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Returning to his car after a late-night party, he is knocked to the ground. He catches a clear glimpse of his assailant’s face when the man opens his car door to flee. It is enough for him to identify his attacker, Daniel Fitch, in a police line-up. But, unluckily for Drury, Fitch was running from a robbery gone wrong, one in which he murdered a jeweller. Fitch isn’t going to go down without a fight.

Search and rescue volunteer Zach Gregory thought his sister had been killed years ago after testifying against notorious killers. But when she’s found murdered, FBI agent Shelby Dryden reveals Camille was actually in the WITSEC program. Shelby is convinced Zach is hiding something that’s made him a target. As threats against him escalate, Shelby must control her smoldering attraction to Zach while protecting his life.

From New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman comes an extraordinary anthology of her best short writing. Here the backdrop of contemporary California becomes fertile ground for Kellerman's riveting tales of murder, mystery, and family ties most sinister and deadly.

Realtor Chelsea O'Connell is found dead in a model home of the new development in Normal. She was not popular in the small tourist town located in the Daniel Boone National Park because the last thing this town wants is for more development to come in to take away anymore of the forest.

Solving murders come easy for Mae West and the Laundry Club Ladies. Trying to solve a cold case is proving a bit challenging. Mae has been having memories about the house fire that killed her family, leaving her orphaned. As a child she couldn't do much to prove the fire wasn't an accident, but as an adult and with a group of friends to help, Mae is on the case to put the clues of the past together to bring out the truth.

When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, there's bound to be controversy, and consequences. But murder crosses the line between committing a sin and committing a crime, turning a battle over faith into a battle for justice. And smack in the middle of the explosive case is Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid.

When forensic psychologist Claire Britten started working with lawyer Nick Markwood on his South Shores project, she had no idea it would endanger her life - and the life of her daughter. But when the little girl goes missing from her South Florida home and Nick insists his longtime nemesis is to blame, Claire frantically follows the trail to the Cayman Islands, desperate to save her daughter before it's too late.

Mae West is busy this Christmas season. She's running around Normal getting the town ready for the first Winter Festival, which she hopes will become an annual event for the tourist town. The freshly fallen snow sure does make the Daniel Boone National Park beautiful and ready for Santa's arrival, but it also makes the curvy roads through the forest very slick. Unfortunately, Mae finds out just how slick the roads are after her car slides off the road and hits a tree, putting Mae into a deep coma.

Mae West has spent the last few years bringing the rundown Happy Trails Campground and the small town of Normal, Kentucky, back to a thriving economic community. Mae's efforts haven't gone unnoticed. Not only is Happy Trails Campground in the running to be named Campground Hospitality of the Daniel Boone National Park, but she landed the coveted Paddle Fest kayak competition that secures the winner a spot on the Olympic team. When champion and Olympian kayaker Bryce Anderson turns over in his kayak dead, there's more than paddling going on, and his death has been ruled a homicide.

When a wedding party show up at Happy Trails Campground, Mae West is thrilled. She's all things girly and excited to assist the bride in all things southern, which is what the bride is hankering for. Mae recognizes the parents of the bride when they arrive. They are from her past. The past she's been desperately trying to escape...especially since it was the time she was married to Paul West. This just isn't any couple, it's the owners of the famous Moonbucks Coffee Company.

Welcome to Normal, Kentucky - where nothing is normal. Everyone in Normal is excited for the Hoe Down to celebrate the opening of the new Old Train Station motel grand opening. The evening comes to an abrupt end when a lightning storm knocks out all the power. At least, that's what appears to have knocked out the electricity. But things aren't always as they appear. Mae West has a way of sticking her nose where it doesn't belong and finds herself in a dangerous situation when she finds a treasure map that leads to more than just treasure...a dead body!