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If you’re a fan of just about any genre of crime fiction you’re sure to find something to your liking amongst our continuously growing list of titles. Enjoy browsing!

The gingerbread houses
Charlie Bars is back in London and has taken on a missing persons case....

The Monsoon Ghost Image...
In the wake of 9/11, Detective Maier finds himself in Thailand, thrust into the heart of the...

Three hours past midnight
His last job a disaster, a professional thief teams with an old partner eager for one last score – a safe in the home of a wealthy Philadelphia...

Riding shotgun...
A unique collection of quirky, Tarantinoesque crime novellas. In the first story, "Easy-Peezy," a band of elderly Old West bank robbers...

Return to Hiroshima
1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. In a confrontation with dramatic consequences...

The Devil's Brew
Take a break, they said. Get out in the fresh air, they said. Get away from it all, they said....

The Curious Corpse
When the body of a foreign woman is discovered at his busy temple in Bangkok during a monsoon downpour...

The Man with the Golden Mind
Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché...

Shank, Tool's Law I
David "Tool" Roney is a dangerous man with a moral code. Stuck in brutal Parchman Maximum Security Prison in Mississippi...

A Straits settlement
In the third instalment of the Le Fanu Mystery series, the intrepid superintendent is promoted to Inspector-General of Police...

The German Messenger
Late 1916. Europe is tearing itself apart in the Great War. Harry Draffen, part Greek, part Scottish, British secret agent, cosmopolitan...

Heist, Tool's law II
Every outlaw has a dream – the last job, the one heist that will put an end to a life of crime. David "Tool" Roney has the perfect plan...

The Kolkata Condumdrum
The mysterious and alluring Pramila, resident of Avantika Heights, is brutally murdered. Sudhir Das, the security guard from the Golden...

Dead Men do Come Back
Why would someone kill a miner, freeze his body solid on a glacier and then drop it alongside the Juneau wharf...

The Murder Boys
"It will stay with you for life boy. Either way you'll pay for it in your soul, but it's up to you if you want to pay for it with your time too." ...

Into the Fire
Ray Ellis is a Hollywood screenwriter on a roll. In his latest screenplay, he uses personal experience...

Death Sentences
Peter “Pop” Popovich is a 24-year-old unemployed glazier, anti-Semite and white supremacist...


Ghost Money
Cambodia, 1996, the long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency is fragmenting, competing factions of the unstable governm...

Gaijin Cowgirl
Working Tokyo nightclubs is easy money for beautiful and troubled American Val Benson...


The Devil's road to kathmandu
In 1976, four friends, Dan, Fred, Tim and Thierry, drive a bus along...


Killer Karma
Father Ananda, Buddhist monk and reluctant sleuth, is called to the temple of a small Thai fishing...


The Gwousz affair
A genre-bender (think Animal Farm blended with The Big Sleep, spiced with a dash of...


a Madras Miasma
Madras in the 1920s. The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end...


Pennies for Charon
Welcome to London - where the ferryman always has to be paid and the price is two shiny pennies...

Sister Suicide
A nun is torn apart by crocodiles in a Buddhist theme park. Is it a case of suicide...


Salaryman unbound
Iwasaki Shiro, a 46 year old salaryman in Tokyo is having a midlife crisis. Unexceptional...


The Blind Rooster
When con-man Ralph does a runner on the check at a shabby diner in an unfamiliar town...


Skewered and other London Cruelties
Benedict J Jones’ novella Skewered takes us onto the mean streets of...


Happy Hour
and other Philadelphia Cruelties
A young grifter steals an overcoat and discovers forty-thousand dollars in its inside pocket...

A nose for trouble
Chicago PI Scanner Grant teams up with the charismatic Max Zwoelstra to travel to Hong Kong in search of Max’s adoptive father

The Cambodian Book of the Dead
Cambodia 2001 - a country re-emerges from a half century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. German Detective Maier...