Comic Crime

Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip-club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest - just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the most-wanted terrorists....

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.” —Carl Hiassen “[Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.” —Washington Post “If there’s a funnier writer out...

Eleven vigilante justice thrillers. One terminal diagnosis. One man’s final list. Chris Seely is not a cop. He’s not a lawyer. He’s not a hero. He’s a man who has just been handed the kind of diagnosis that changes everything. When the shock wears off, Chris does not make the usual kind of bucket list. No dream vacation. No peaceful farewell tour. No sentimental final act. He makes a list of names. Predators. Liars. Users. Lowlifes. Criminals. People who hurt others and somehow slipped through the cracks. At first, the list is just a private fantasy. A way to blow off steam. A dark ...

Abbott Elementary, but make it magical: from the beloved Tanya Huff comes a new cozy fantasy novel perfect for fans of The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association At the High School for Magical Arts, the teachers are dismayed at the rise of a Hero…because it means a Villain isn’t...

From the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the hit MrBallen Podcast and YouTube channel comes a spine-chilling novel featuring nine gripping stories based on real events—including four all-new, never-before-shared tales—of the terrors that hide inside us all Have you ever...

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* 'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times 'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the...

From the New York Times bestselling author and creator of the hit MrBallen Podcast and YouTube channel, a vividly illustrated graphic novel, adapted for audio, featuring nine spine-chilling stories—based on real events—of the horror that lurks within the unknown In MrBallen Presents: Where...

“You know Slow Horses—now meet the Sheepdogs.” —The Sunday Times (London) Two Misfits. One Mission. Zero Back-Up. When a high-stakes heist goes wrong, an ex-CIA operative and a special operations pilot find themselves in the middle of a game of espionage and survival as they navigate...

Adapting what may be the most popular of graphic novels, by the edgy Hard Case Crime author, adding layers and exploring the nature of morality. Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in...

Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author—and actual Florida Man—Dave Barry returns with a “hilariously funny” (Steve Martin) caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator. Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in...

A New York Times bestseller From Graham Norton—the BAFTA Award–winning and hugely popular BBC America television host—comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime...

A narrative history of the popular television show Batman: The Animated Series, including exclusive interviews and never-before-shared stories from the making of the series. At a time when televised cartoons―especially within the superhero genre―were often over-looked, Batman: The Animated...

The Mystery at Skeleton Point: When Grandfather’s friend bought Skeleton Point, she invited the Alden children to help her fix it up. But this empty mansion is even spookier than it looks. The man who used to live there studied bones — but the house is filled with skeletons! Then, the...

Now reimagined in audio, the world of KINGDOM COME, originally published to critical acclaim by DC Comics in 1996 as a four-issue comic book series, comes alive in a dynamic production featuring a full cast, sound effects, and music. In the near-future world of KINGDOM COME, superheroes are...

She could forgive the affair. She could forgive the hidden millions. But one-star reviews were personal. Jennifer Flanders is a prolific self-published mystery author and an amateur detective of extraordinary confidence. She has exposed a murder at a Napa vineyard, investigated a suspicious death on a weight-loss cruise, and hunted a vegetarian stalker through an Aspen ski resort. The police may dispute every conclusion, but Jennifer knows what she knows. Her greatest enemy is Magnolia, the anonymous reviewer methodically awarding one star to everything Jennifer publishes. Then Jennifer ...

THE ABSURD CRIME FICTION PARODY BY FICTIONAL AUTHOR 'MARTIN FISHBACK' - AS SEEN ON BBC TWO 'What's better than a good crime novel? I'll tell you - a spoof crime novel, by the absurdly funny and clever Fergus Craig' MIRANDA HART 'We all need more laughs like this' AISLING BEA Exeter: a city in...

Brought to you by Penguin. STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Some comebacks can be murder . . . Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in...

THE MANOR HOUSE MURDER MYSTERY AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT 'What's better than a good crime novel? I'll tell you - a spoof crime novel, by the absurdly funny and clever Fergus Craig' MIRANDA HART 'We all need more laughs like this' AISLING BEA Detective Roger LeCarre. Scourge of crime. Guardian of...

They Were Supposed to Keep Him Safe. That Was Their First Mistake. Jeffery and Jerald Hardigan are identical twins, former professional wrestlers with a shared talent for mayhem. One's got a temper. The other’s got a stutter and a PhD-level obsession with nineteenth-century literature. Together, they’re the last two guys you want as your bodyguards, unless your life is already an unfixable mess. Enter Ricky DeLuca, a sleazy private eye juggling a jealous husband, an affair with the husband’s wife, a stripper ex who wants her money, and a blackmail scheme targeting a family-values ...

"A lush letter to '60s-era Hollywood." — Forbes "Revealing... brimming with costumes, props and set photos, new interviews with Tarantino and the cast... all woven together with 170,000 words of accompanying text by Jay Glennie, who has gained an international reputation as the Cecil B...