Picador Crime

Alexei Volkovoy--known to the underworld as Volk--is a hardened veteran of the conflict in Chechnya, a gun-for-hire now living in a lawless Russia, serving two...

"...a mystery man known only as "The General." When Volk and his lover, a wild-eyed, white-haired young..."

A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York should be...

"...A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York should be.... A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York..."

Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective Joe...

"...Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective Joe.... Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award   A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year   Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective..."

Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel. A noirish tale about family, fraternity, conscience, and...

"...Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's audacious debut novel. A noirish tale about family, fraternity, conscience, and.... Set against the Taiwanese criminal..."

The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue...

"...thriller.. "A page-turner told in prose so beautiful you'll want to read some passages repeatedly..."

Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair"...

"...Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair".... Novelist and Academy Award–nominated..."

Sue Feder/Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery Award Nominee London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated...

"...Sue Feder/Macavity Award for Best Historical Mystery Award Nominee London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated.... Sue Feder/Macavity Award for Best Historical..."

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home,...

"...Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder..."

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in...

"...Times Book Review   "Montero exploits true crime, romance, family drama, cabaret, and even danzón..."

The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the...

"...The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the.... The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series.   It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes..."

In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of...

"...Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of.... In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford..."

Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is...

"...Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is.... Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award   It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree..."

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From New...

"...An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From New.... An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee   Named One..."

Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech...

"...Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor, Streech.... Winner of the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award   It's been ten years since Phoebe Marbury's husband disappeared from their country manor..."

Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of...

"...Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of.... Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel   In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman..."

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the...

"...Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies at home in the.... Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award   Dr. Sarah Blakeney is one of very few mourners when her grumpy old patient, Mathilda Gillespie, dies..."

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a...

"...Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a.... Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award   Inspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavík, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime..."

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces...

"...Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces.... Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel..."

Charlie Ravich is an international corporate tycoon, a husband and father on the hard side of fifty, and a restless soul in search of immortality. When...

"...thriller that extends far beyond the typecast confines of the genre."--GQ   "Afterburn [is] not just..."

Bill Wyeth is a rising real estate attorney living the lofty heights of success. Then a tragic accident claims everything he has: his family, his fortune, his...

"..., deception, and murder--and to a secret place at the back of her restaurant, the Havana Room, where a man might find both evil and redemption. The Havana Room is a great New York thriller from a modern..."

Blackburn is a serial killer. But, like the rest of us, he confronts the same hypocrisies and frustrations of the world and, unable to help himself, or at the...

"..., and other liars. And each crime reveals another side of his psyche . . . and his disturbing rationale for murder.. "An absolutely mesmerizing novel that will leave you stunned and conflicted..."

In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate took a cross-country bike trip. As they lay sleeping in the central Oregon desert, a man in a pickup...

"...Book Review   "Powerful . . . [Jentz] moves with great skill back and forth between the year of the attack and the years of her investigation."--Los Angeles Times Book Review   "Strange Piece of Paradise..."

A Picador Paperback Original From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George...

"...of the thrill of detection; one finishes fascinated by his deft probing of the mysteries of character..."

From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur When a lonely old man is found dead in...

"...From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur When a lonely old man is found dead in.... From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur   When a lonely old..."