Top Crime Fiction books based in London
The best of crime fiction from top crime authors
If your after some best crime fiction books from top crime authors , We have scoured around to find some of the best London based crime fiction books, and we are proud to present the following gripping crime books. We are constantly updating and reviewing to keep an eye out for some great new additions! We show mainly the paperback versions but follow the links and you will see the availability for kindle too! So if you want to jump aboard for a thrilling ride through some of the best fiction books set in and around the great City of London, you have come to the right place! You may not have heard of some of the authors below, but don't let that put you off! We find that there are plenty of new authors that are sometimes better than thier professional counterparts Treat yourself to some top crime books,
Ben Trebilcook
My Name Is Not Jacob Ramsay Paperback
Michael Thompson is a counsellor to some of the most disaffected and challenging teenagers in South London, with pupils ranging from gang members......
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Down & Under Paperback
Australian private investigator, Joe Bookbinder, had been living in London for too long. The arthritis in his hands pained him. Joe yearned to......
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Deadly Acquaintance
A premeditated murder, and forensically aware killer with the edge. Isabella Beaumont died from horrific injuries. DCI Ash Kennedy and his team are....
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Field Of Glass
Marcus Cusack is about to be released from prison. He is a psychotic, dangerous man with an obsession in the name of Jessie Harris.Jessie had escaped....
Read MoreCaroline Mitchell
Death Note
Twenty years ago you were forced to give your daughter up. Now she’s back. Or is she?......
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Sleep Tight
A killer stalks the streets of East London. All over the area, murdered young women are .......
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Murder Game
A serial killer is playing a terrifying game of life or death with his victims. After he ......
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Never Look Back (Detective Jane Bennett and Mike Lockyer series book 1) Paperback
Three women have been found brutally murdered in south London, the victims only feet away from help during each......
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No Place to Die (Detective Jane Bennett and Mike Lockyer series book 2) Paperback
DS Jane Bennett takes charge of South London's Lewisham murder squad following the temporary suspension of her ......
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Trust No One (Detective Jane Bennett and Mike Lockyer series Book 3) Paperback
Marriage is complicated. It doesn't always work out. Sometimes there are things you discover about yourself ......
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The Night Stalker (Detective Jane Bennett and Mike Lockyer seriesbbook 4) Paperback
This book is NOT London based crime. But as a continuation of the series of the other books here, it deserves......
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time Paperback
A London estate agent found himself on the wrong side of the law one night, leading to the loss of his driving licence, his job, his home and......
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Write to Kill, Paperback
Write To Kill MOTIVE. MONEY. MURDER. YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP.An aspiring author, cursed with writer's block and ridden with debt, is offered a ....
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Write to Survive
A DEADLINE BECOMES A LIFELINE. The aspiring author and his girlfriend Lisa, struggle to cope with the fallout from his actions. As Mad Dog Maddox ...
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The Theseus Paradox Volume 1 Paperback
Thriller. London..July 2005: in the midst of Operation Theseus, the largest police investigation that.....
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The Detriment Volume 2 Paperback
Thriller. A cold, dead body stares skyward from a rose garden in the grounds of a luxury London apartment. What secrets does the dead man hold?......
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STANDPOINT
Thomas Bladen has been living a double-life for two years. He's a Civil Service photographer in London, but the Surveillance....
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Line Of Sight
When Amy Johanson is killed during a weapon test, Thomas Bladen and Karl McNeill are determined to expose the truth. To do that, they must protect Jess, their.....
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Cause & Effect
Two unconnected events - an attack on a child and a clinical assassination - confront Thomas with moral dilemmas. When his investigations converge and his day job encroaches into his freelance.....
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SHADOW STATE
Thomas Bladen faces hard choices when a Shadow State agent orders him to expose a defector or risk the lives of others. A stakeout becomes a rescue, an intervention leads to murder, and dark secrets.....
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Flashpoint
As the security services scramble in the aftermath of a coordinated terror attack on London, undercover operative Thomas Bladen is in deep trouble. His department is taken over by MI5, his girlfriend's.....
Donna Siggers
Broken: Volume 1 (The Warwick Cooper Thrillers) Paperback
Broken is the first in a series of thrillers featuring Katie-Ann Warwick and Sam Cooper. We join this dynamic duo as their relationship heats up and......
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Betrayal: Book Two of the Warwick Cooper Thrillers
Betrayal is the second in a series of thrillers featuring Katie-Ann Warwick and Sam Cooper, who are still in pursuit of escaped prisoner, Carl Ashbeck.
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Bound
The final book in the Warwick Cooper trilogy. We join the team as Sam Cooper fights for his life, leaving Kate-Ann Warwick and Liam Prittle no choice but.....
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The Crew
APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE - as As Paul Jarvis of the National Soccer Intelligence Unit is only too well aware. He knows that Billy Evans is no ordinary.....
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Top Dog
GANG LEADER Billy Evans has ruled his turf in London for more years than he can care to remember. So long in fact, that even he realizes that things have....
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In the know
It's been over a decade since gang leader Billy Evans stepped away from his life on the wrong side of the law to mourn the murder of his beloved wife. Yet....
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Georgie Logan
The Hat
Callie Lewis, AKA Calista Constantinou, once a young thief and hustler, she became a ruthless businesswoman; pulling her firm up from the gutter of the criminal world and...
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The Lie
Nate Lawson, was a privileged young man, raised in South London and the son of a wealthy Nightclub owner. Then one day his .....
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The List
Renos Markides and Eddie Melane, two good men, both resentful of the hand fate has dealt them. Follow them as they strive to turn the tables on life: joining forces to punish...
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Dangerous Games
Annette Lambrianu is young, blonde, beautiful and bored. Life on the family vineyard with her husband and young son, Antonias, is not what she had expected....
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Nasty Business
Tony Lambrianu is bold, daring and ruthless, qualities that have propelled him and Jake Sinclair up the ladder in London’s sleazy but lucrative...
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Francesca
Single mother Francesca is struggling to get by when an act of desperation leads to her owing a debt to notorious gangland boss...
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London Large - Blood on the Streets:
Blood on the Streets is the first in the London Large crime thriller series, featuring the exploits of Detective Inspector......
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London Large: Bound by Blood: Volume 2 Paperback
Mass murder stalks the land. A damaged, hurting cop at war with his son. One last shot at redemption. Bound by Blood is ......
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London Large: Bloody Liberties: Volume 3 Paperback
A nation under attack. Treason stalks the corridors of power. Can a renegade people’s army turn the tide? Bloody Liberties is....
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London Large: American Lockdown
A vacation he couldn't refuse. A murder he didn't commit. A hellhole he needs to escape. Harry Hawkins, a tough and experienced former London cop....
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London Large: Way Past Evil, Paperback
A killer on the loose. A city cowed by fear. Who can stop the slaughter? The worst serial killer in British history has started up again...
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Jaime Raven
The Mother Paperback
South London detective Sarah Mason is a single mother. It’s a tough life, but Sarah gets by. She and her......
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The Rebel Paperback
DI Laura Jefferson will do whatever it takes to bring down London’s most notorious crime boss. When her team receive......
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The Alibi Paperback
A perfect crime needs a perfect alibi…Crime reporter Beth Chambers is committed to uncovering the truth – and she’s not afraid of bending the rules to get there.
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The Fourth Victim
Three parks, three deaths, four victims, two grieving families, one murder enquiry team and an unknown number of killers. Can an answer be found?.....
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Geraldine
Hatred is such a nasty thing - we all deplore it in others but do not necessarily recognise it in ourselves. At what point...
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The Weight of Shadows
When you have spent your life in the shadows, what would you do at the dying of the light? Three years ago the best......
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The Wait for Shadows
An assassin wants revenge but doesn’t know who to kill. A drug dealer wants revenge without.....
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The Water's Shadow
Far beneath in the sickly light, dark secrets sleep in the depths.Do you stay in the shallows,or
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Barking Boy Paperback
Against his parent’s wishes, east London's nineteen-year-old Tommy Carter throws away a promising career as a professional boxer to work for local.....
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Top Dog
Once you're in you're in. There is only one way out. Danny McKay wants out, his boss Freddie Smith on the other hand has different ideas.....
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Scorned
Spiteful, twisted, and out for revenge, Bethany Johnson is the ultimate woman scorned. After spending the past twenty years abroad she is about to....
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The Price
For most of his life Fletch has looked out for his younger brother Spencer and he will do anything and everything he can to protect....
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The Reprisal
Cathy Townsend has it all, a loving husband, two handsome sons, and a lifestyle that many people would be envious of...
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Lewis Hastings
Seventh: Volume 1 (The Seventh Wave) Paperback
Thriller. NEW ZEALAND. John "Jack" Cade has left his life, an eager and overly-playful wife and......
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Seven Degrees: Volume 2 (The Seventh Wave) Paperback
Thriller. An Eastern European crime syndicate has appeared on the radar of the British authorities......
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Seven of Swords: Volume 3 (The Seventh Wave) Paperback
Thriller. The final chapter in the Seventh Wave trilogy finds Jack Cade and his London-based team battling their old nemesis, known simply as the Jackdaw...
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The Angel Of Whitehall, Paperback
A young African woman’s body is found slumped in a London side street. Her stomach slashed open, a single diamond...
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Hanging Tough (Hanging Tough trilogy series) Paperback
From a tender young age, Tony had to learn to fend for himself. Growing up on a rough East London estate shaped an innocent......
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An Eye For An Eye: Volume 2 (Hanging Tough) Paperback
Having seen Tony survive the tempestuous teenage years and stand his ground in court, he seems untouchable. With the world......
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Cut The Mustard: The Final Cut Paperback
Some stories just don’t cut the mustard - But this one does... More gruelling life challenges seem to slap Tony hard across......
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Cut the mustard (3 Book Series) Kindle
Why not buy all 3 books for Kindle? Buy the whole trilogy!
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Wicked Game (Robert Finlay series book 1) Matt Johnson
2001. Age is catching up with Robert Finlay, a police officer on the Royalty Protection team based in London......
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Deadly Game
Reeling from the attempts on his life and that of his family, Police Inspector Robert Finlay returns to work to......
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End Game
Robert Finlay seems to have finally left his SAS past behind him and is settled into his new career as a detective. But......
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The Failsafe Query Paperback
Thriller. This is being included as a lot of the book is based in London England. The Failsafe Query is a gripping thriller set in the contemporary .......
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The Kompromat Kill Paperback
'They were preparing for decades - now it's time to take them down......' A DIPLOMAT VANISHESA BOMB DISPOSAL EXPERT GOES ROGUE, THE RACE TO UNCOVER....
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The Moscow Whisper
‘Sometimes you have to enter the death zone to save the innocent.’..A top-secret clique of former spies meet for dinner to hatch a plan to murder a...
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Interview With A Contract Killer
Francis ""Frankie"" Cole is a convicted London gangland killer who will never again see the outside of Broadmoor secure psychiatric hospital having...
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Divided Loyalties
'London Ganglands' Book two. Ascot, and Danny Slade is home for a funeral – His brother Jimmy was found dead in his flat in Richmond after committing...
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Crossing the Whitewash
Talented 13-year-old sportsman Gary Marshall experiences the realities of living in a poor suburb when....
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Spark Out
Hard man Big Mo rules family and friends with a rod of iron. From his base in a rundown area of London,...
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Dying Seconds
Killer, rapist, drug dealer and all-round bad boy Arnie Dolan is back – and this time he’s in a wheelchair.,...
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Concrete Roots: inspired by true events (Concrete Series Book 1) paperback
Can a dark and deeply troubled boy embrace the disturbing allure of his family’s ruthless criminal empire with their code of loyalty and respect......
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Trickster
Georgina Garrett was born to be ruthless and she's about to earn her reputation. As World War One is announced.....
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Rivals
The streets of Battersea are about to get a new leader, one who will rule with an iron fist. It's the 1930s and....
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Vixen
While World War Two rages on around them, the gangs of London are fighting for their turf, there might be a war on, but....
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Dangerous
5th November 1971 Brutal gangland king Bobby Taylor is dead, leaving a void in both the East End underworld and his..
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Diamond Geezer
It's been 20 years since East End kingpin Bobby Taylor was murdered, and now the Taylors are dealing with another..
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Mickey's War
It’s been fifteen years since Mickey Taylor – known as “Dangerous” in the seedy East End – was released from prison..
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Risking it all. Paperback
Gemma is about to risk it all for the man she loves. Will she survive entering into a life of crime?....
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THEIR LAST WORDS. Paperback
A VICTIM. A MUTILATED BODY. A SINGLE WORD.
A young woman is found dead on the streets of London. Her throat slashed, her body mutilated, and one word carved into her.....
THE LOST CHILDREN
An elderly African man is found dead in the street, shot through the head. The killing has the.....
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The Burning Men
A MAN IS BURNT AT THE STAKE IN A LONDON PARK. HIS SMOULDERING CORPSE IS A MESSAGE OF THE MOST VIOLENT KIND....
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Child Behind The Wall
Paterson and Clocks are back in a thriller full of shocking twists. By one of the most exciting new authors you’ll read this year.
Vanessa Streete
Like China
"Dobson, just one of those names anyone who's anyone in London knows.
Elizabeth and her brother James have it all - the clubs, the money, the high life, but after the sudden death..."
Vicki Newham
Turn A Blind Eye
A headmistress is found strangled in an East London school, the victim of a ritualistic act of violence..
Read MoreVictoria Selman
Blood for Blood
Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special...
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