Detective Fiction & Crime
All you armchair detectives and amateur sleuths need look no further; our booksellers have been hot on the trail in search of the best Detective Fiction & Crime novels - and we've lined up the suspects for you to interrogate.
Fans of Poirot, Marple and Morse will love the classics in our Detective Fiction section, with a range of newly-published stories featuring the iconic characters as well as all-time bookseller favourites. We also bring you some criminally good modern novels, from Scandi-Noir to spy Thrillers...
No time to waste - the game is afoot!
The Killing Stones
Ann Cleeves
Signed first edition
Exit Strategy
Lee Child and Andrew Child
Signed first edition
The Death of Shame
Ambrose Parry
Signed first edition
Silent Bones
Val McDermid
Signed first edition
Benbecula
Graeme Macrae Burnet
A Killer in Paradise
Tom Hindle
End Game
Jeffrey Archer
HOT WAX
M. L. Rio
Signed first edition
Bluff
Francine Toon
The Burning Grounds
Abir Mukherjee
Signed first edition
The Hawk Is Dead
Peter James
Signed first edition
The Secret Christmas Library
Jenny Colgan
Circle of Days
Ken Follett
Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Good Liar
Denise Mina
Signed first edition
The Cut
Richard Armitage
Gunner
Alan Parks
The Dead and the Dying
Lin Anderson
Marble Hall Murders
Anthony Horowitz
A Particularly Nasty Case
Adam Kay
Signed first edition
A Theory of Dreaming
Ava Reid
Signed first edition
The Last Death of the Year
Sophie Hannah
Penance
Eliza Clark
ITCH!
Gemma Amor
Signed first edition
The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman
The Society of Unknowable Objects
Gareth Brown
A Death in Berlin
Simon Scarrow
The Killer Question
Janice Hallett
Signed first edition
Evil in High Places
Rory Clements
Signed first edition
The Murder at World’s End
Ross Montgomery
Signed first edition
Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson
Death At The White Hart
Chris Chibnall
Marple: Twelve New Stories
Agatha Christie, Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Ruth Ware
Quantum of Menace
Vaseem Khan
Independent edition
Wolf Hour
Jo Nesbo
Signed first edition
A Case of the Claws
Catherine Aird, Edmund Crispin, Patricia Highsmith and Ellis Peters
Quantum of Menace
Vaseem Khan
The Four Spent the Day Together
Chris Kraus
Signed first edition
Actually, I'm A Murderer
Terry Deary
The Christmas Cracker Killer
Alexandra Benedict
The Last Grave
T.F. Muir
Signed first edition
Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
Martin Edwards
Stone and Sky
Ben Aaronovitch
Signed first edition
The Sunshine Man
Emma Stonex
The Good Father
Liam McIlvanney
The Art of a Lie
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Proving Ground
Michael Connelly
Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
The Widow
John Grisham
Signed first edition
You Are The Detective
Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper
Dark Horse
Felix Francis
Paperboy
Callum McSorley
Signed first edition
The Cat and the Christmas Kidnapper
L T Shearer
Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories
Lee Child
Signed first edition
Shy Trans Banshee
Tony Santorella
The Waterfall
Gareth Rubin
The Woman in Suite 11
Ruth Ware
The Cut Throat Trial
The Secret Barrister
Snowblind: 10th Anniversary Edition
Ragnar Jónasson
Speak to Me of Home
Jeanine Cummins
Signed first edition
Dusk
Robbie Arnott and Susan Gates
Signed bookplate
The Midnight King
Tariq Ashkanani
The Protest
Rob Rinder
Signed first edition
The Hallmarked Man
Robert Galbraith
The Burial Place
Stig Abell
Deadline
Steph McGovern
Death and Boules
Ian Moore
A Death on Location
Richard Coles
Signed first edition
The Frozen People
Elly Griffiths
Signed first edition
The Girl with Ice in her Veins
Karin Smirnoff
The Life of Chuck
Stephen King
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
Ragnar Jónasson
A Slowly Dying Cause
Elizabeth George
This is the Day They Dream Of
Robert Goddard
V is for Venom
Kathryn Harkup
The Black Wolf
Louise Penny
Medlock
S. G. Hartnell
Secrets in the Snow & Other Christmas Crime Stories
Matthew Booth
The Christmas Magpie
Mark Edwards
A Fortune Most Fatal
Jessica Bull
The Ghosts Of Rome
Joseph O'Connor
The Girl In Cell A
Vaseem Khan
House of Splinters
Laura Purcell
The Man on the Endless Stair
Chris Barkley
My Grandfather, the Master Detective
Masateru Konishi
The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown
Signed first edition
The Spies of Hartlake Hall
R. L. Graham
The Vipers
Katy Hays
The Compound
Aisling Rawle
The Death of Us
Abigail Dean
The Sittaford Mystery
Agatha Christie
The Break-In
Katherine Faulkner
Circle of Shadows
Marisa Linton
Don’t Let Him In
Lisa Jewell
The House at Devil's Neck
Tom Mead
The Impossible Thing
Belinda Bauer
Murder at Christmas: You Solve the Crime
G. B. Rubin
Murder at Gulls Nest
Jess Kidd
Nightshade
Michael Connelly
Nobody’s Fool
Harlan Coben
When We Were Killers
C.F. Barrington
Signed by the author
The Frozen People
Elly Griffiths
Queen Macbeth
Val McDermid
The Malt Whisky Murders
Natalie Jayne Clark
Signed by the author
Midnight and Blue
Ian Rankin
The Christmas Stocking Murders
Denzil Meyrick
Do Not Disturb
Freida McFadden
Butter
Asako Yuzuki
Down Cemetery Road
Mick Herron
Marble Hall Murders
Anthony Horowitz
Safe Enough
Lee Child
The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins
Dead Man's Shoes
Marion Todd
Death At The White Hart
Chris Chibnall
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe
Seishi Yokomizo
Second Skin
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
The Rest is Death
James Oswald
Strange Houses
Uketsu
Strange Pictures
Uketsu
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer
The Bookseller
Tim Sullivan
Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret
Benjamin Stevenson
The Judas Window
Carter Dickson and John Dickson Carr
The Last Word Is Death
Faith Martin
Murder Under the Mistletoe
Richard Coles
The Samurai Detectives: Volume 1
Shotaro Ikenami
Blood Ties
Jo Nesbo
In Too Deep
Lee Child and Andrew Child
Murder at the Castle
David Safier
The New Year's Party
Jenna Satterthwaite
Trouble in the Alps
Vivian Conroy
The Black Loch
Peter May
Dead Behind the Eyes
Ian Moore
The Intruder
Freida McFadden
The Last Voice You Hear
Mick Herron
Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare
Michelle Sloan
The Silent House of Sleep
Allan Gaw
The Drowned
John Banville
Ink Ribbon Red
Alex Pavesi
Murder in Wintertime
Beautiful Ugly
Alice Feeney
By Horror Haunted
Celia Fremlin
The Cracked Mirror
Chris Brookmyre
The Dark Wives
Ann Cleeves
Dead Cold
T.F. Muir
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
Alexander McCall Smith
Murder at the Beach
The Alaska Sanders Affair
Joël Dicker
A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering
Andrew Hunter Murray
The Clock House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
Death in a Lonely Place
Stig Abell
The Midnight Feast
Lucy Foley
Murder on the Marlow Belle
Robert Thorogood
The Odd Flamingo
Nina Bawden
A Quiet Place
Seicho Matsumoto
The Shadow of the Northern Lights
Satu Rämö
The Waiting
Michael Connelly
Whispers of the Dead
Lin Anderson
A Case of Matricide
Graeme Macrae Burnet
The Skeleton Puzzle (Goldfish Boy 3)
Lisa Thompson
The Broken River
Chris Hammer
City of Destruction
Vaseem Khan
The End of Summer
Charlotte Philby
Juice
Tim Winton
Leave No Trace
Jo Callaghan
Line of Sight
Claire Askew
Murder at Mount Fuji
Shizuko Natsuki
Murder at the Christmas Emporium
Andreina Cordani
The Note
Alafair Burke
Out of the Dark
Caro Ramsay
Sisters in the Wind
Angeline Boulley
Someone is Lying
Heidi Perks
When Shadows Fall
Neil Lancaster
The Antique Hunter's: Death on the Red Sea
C L Miller
As If By Magic
Martin Edwards
The Avon Rogue
Dan Rafferty
Dead Ends
Jeffery Deaver
Death in Ambush
Susan Gilruth
Death in the Arctic
Tom Hindle
I Died at Fallow Hall
Bonnie Burke-Patel
Karma Doll
Jonathan Ames
Locked In
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Mistress Koharu
Noboru Tsujihara
Murder as a Fine Art
Carol Carnac and E. C. R. Lorac
Murder Takes a Vacation
Laura Lippman
The Examiner
Janice Hallett
We Solve Murders
Richard Osman
The Beholders
Hester Musson
Best Crime Stories of the Year Volume 4
Otto Penzler and Anthony Horowitz
The Betrayal of Thomas True
A. J. West
The Book of Doors
Gareth Brown
The Burial Plot
Elizabeth Macneal
Can You Solve the Murder?
Antony Johnston
CrimeFest
Adrian Muller and Lee Child
A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder
Gay Marris
Death at the Sanatorium
Ragnar Jónasson
Eat Slay Love
Julie Mae Cohen
An Ethical Guide To Murder
Jenny Morris
Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister
The Axeman's Jazz
Ray Celestin
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
Colin Dexter
March Violets
Philip Kerr
Death of a Bookseller
Bernard J Farmer
The Snow Was Dirty
Georges Simenon
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Kate Summerscale
Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Eight Detectives
Alex Pavesi
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
A Heart Full of Headstones
Ian Rankin
Signed first edition
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Janice Hallett
Signed first edition
A Winter Grave
Peter May
Signed first edition
A Song for the Dark Times
Ian Rankin
Signed first edition
The Dead of Winter
Stuart MacBride
Signed first edition
1989
Val McDermid
Signed first edition
The Twist of a Knife
Anthony Horowitz
Signed first edition
The Last Remains
Elly Griffiths
Signed first edition
The Dark Remains
Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney
Signed first edition
Moonflower Murders
Anthony Horowitz
Signed first edition
The Long Knives
Irvine Welsh
Signed first edition
Transient Desires
Donna Leon
Signed first edition
Bleeding Heart Yard
Elly Griffiths
Signed first edition
Give Unto Others
Donna Leon
Signed first edition
The Second Cut
Louise Welsh
Signed first edition
The Midnight Hour
Elly Griffiths
Signed first edition
Past Tense
Lee Child
Signed first edition
1979
Val McDermid
Signed first edition
Westwind
Ian Rankin
Signed first edition
In a House of Lies
Ian Rankin
Signed first edition
Nowhere to Run
James Oswald
Signed first edition
The Murder List
T.F. Muir
Signed first edition
The Sentinel
Lee Child and Andrew Child
Signed first edition
A Silent Death
Peter May
Signed first edition
The Jealousy Man
Jo Nesbo
Signed first edition
To the Dogs
Louise Welsh
Signed first edition
Dead Still
T.F. Muir
Signed first edition
Bury Them Deep
James Oswald
Signed first edition
How the Dead Speak
Val McDermid
Signed first edition
Three Fires
Denise Mina
Signed first edition
The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton
Signed first edition
