Picador is quickly establishing itself as a publisher of top-shelf literary crime. Here are our outstanding mysteries and crime novels, showcasing award-winners, critical favorites and bestsellers.
An honest lawyer, a Czech hand model, and a box of mysterious Christmas ornaments--each plays a part in Colin Harrison's compelling new intrigue
George...
"...An honest lawyer, a Czech hand model, and a box of mysterious Christmas ornaments, each play their part in Harrison's intricate mystery George Young....
An honest lawyer, a Czech hand model, and a box of mysterious Christmas ornaments, each play their part in Harrison's intricate mystery George Young never thought of himself as a detective, but that's pretty much his vocation--an attorney..."
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE CRIME BOOK
Patrick Rush is a single father, unhappy with his career, devoted to his young son but haunted by the loss of his wife,...
"...and thoroughly unnerving."--The New York Times Book Review "Darkly lyrical and atmospheric, it’s as haunting..."
Inspector Erlendur returns in this international Bestseller
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a...
"..., revealing a skeleton. Inspector Erlendur's investigation takes him back to the Cold War era, when bright..."
With no witnesses and no weapon, it seems like the case of the one-legged homeless man found lying in a cul-de-sac on São João Hill, shot through the heart,...
"...on the rainy night of the murder, Espinosa interrogates his way into the lives of his suspects, exposing lies, cover-ups--and another murder..
"If Gabriel García Márquez wrote crime fiction, he might create a detective like Inspector Espinosa."--The Baltimore Sun Praise for the Inspector Espinosa..."
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land...
"...With the country in the grip of economic malaise, MaisieDobbs is relieved to accept an apparently..."
A National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Lush Life is a tale of two Lower East Sides: one a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to...
"...Chabon, The New York Review of Books "Richard Price knows how crime sounds and smells, and he knows..."
It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke....
"...Falls" (Entertainment Weekly)..
"Grippingly propulsive . . . Christine Falls was the most artful noirmystery in years; The Silver Swan is better."--Los Angeles Times "[Black] proved he could walk the crime-fiction walk with the Edgar®-nominated Christine Falls, and now his luminous prose gets an even better infrastructure in the sequel, a faster-paced, further melancholic slice of the noir life of Dublin pathologist Quirke."--Baltimore Sun "If you like your <..."
Jin Li is a beautiful, driven young woman running a dangerous little operation. Manhattan corporations hire her for a simple but delicate task: to shred and...
"...Harrison's masterful new thriller is a "brilliantly executed novel" (The Baltimore Sun..."
After half his body was burned in a forest fire, Miles McEwan left his life behind and moved to the most remote place he could find, a little village in the...
"...narrative urgency . . . A fierce morality tale."--The New York Times Book Review "A thriller no reader can..."
Edgar® Award Winner for Best Novel and Winner of the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year
"As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have been written by...
"...Edgar® AwardWinner for Best Novel and Winner of the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year "As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have been written by....
Edgar® AwardWinner for Best Novel and Winner of the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year "As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have..."
The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been...
"...The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been....
Inspector Erlendur Returns In this Award-winning International Bestseller. The Christmas rush is at its peak in a grand Reykjavík hotel when Inspector Erlendur is called in to investigate a murder. The hotel Santa has been stabbed..."
Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman...
"...Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end of the Ottoman....
Detective, polyglot, chef, eunuch--Investigator Yashim returns in this evocative Edgar® Award–winning series set in Istanbul at the end..."
Peter Scattergood is a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney, a relentless and clever prosecutor who has just landed the biggest case of his career--a...
"...thriller about the thresholds we must cross in order to get at the truth..
"Suspenseful and unpredictable..."
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 DaggerAward 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 DaggerAward A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective..."
Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's...
"...Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Lin's....
Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Set against the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie..."
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/MacavityAward for Best Historical MysteryAward Nominee London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated....
Sue Feder/MacavityAward 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..."
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
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 MaryRussell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. MaryRussell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the....
The third book in the MaryRussell–Sherlock Holmes series. It is 1923. MaryRussell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes..."
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and 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, MaryRussell, from her studies at Oxford..."