The Best Criminal Erotic Novels to Make Your Pulse Race

The Raven Room is a decadent and highly exclusive sex club hidden in the shadows of Chicago’s Chinatown. For the right price, the elite of the city can fulfill their most passionate desires. 

Journalism student Meredith Dalton thinks an exposé of the club could launch her career. When she uncovers evidence that the recent murders of two women are connected to The Raven Room, she becomes more driven to reveal the truth. But she’s driven by more than her ambition. 

Julian Reeve, a card-carrying member of the club, haunts her dreams and greatest fantasies. She wants the pleasures he can offer her, but can she trust him when everyone at the Raven Room is a suspect in these murders? 

Beth lives next door to a recluse, a mysterious man who everyone in the neighborhood is suspicious of. He never leaves his house. After her dog goes missing, Beth plucks up the courage to knock on his door and ask for help. What she doesn't expect is for this reclusive oddball to be so beautiful. 

Noah Gideon Grant is clearly troubled. Once an expert profiler, he's been left scarred by the violence he was exposed to, trying to track down serial killers. Being inside these murderers' heads left him with dark thoughts he couldn't escape. Beth is fascinated by him, but she wants more than pleasure from Noah: she wants to get to know the real him, no matter how tormented and broken he may be.

Shy American student Alexandra Beckmann, known as X to her friends, has journeyed to Naples to find herself. She wants a life more thrilling and colorful than the sheltered one she currently has, and maybe she can find it amid the picturesque ancient city. 

But she's also here as a student, to study the Camorra, an infamous Italian crime organization. Her research leads her towards Lord Marcus Roscarrick, an Italian aristocrat with a mysterious past. He's gorgeous, sophisticated, and has a lust for danger. Soon, X and Marcus fall into bed and she is drawn into his dark world. Does she want to sink further into Roscarrick's secrets or escape before it's too late?

Three years ago, Lyla Dalton fled from the glittering lights of Las Vegas and the ruthless man who rules the criminal underworld, Gavin Pyre. She gave up everything from her old life, including her name, to create a new identity and life in peace, away from the endless carnage of her past. 

But then Gavin finds her, and he's determined to bring her back to her home. "Come to me, Lyla, and I’ll let your father live," he says—and how can she refuse? She must navigate the darkness she tried to run away from, all while the man who won't take no for an answer tries to claim her as his.

Callum Griffin is the heir to the Irish Mafia. He’s ruthless, arrogant, and utterly without mercy. He also hates Aida Galo, the daughter of a rival family. Their clans have decided that marriage pact is the only thing that will prevent all-out warfare, but that'll only work if Aida and Callum don't murder one another first. 

Forced into marriage, they must maintain the peace, and avoid confronting their growing desire. Can they even trust one another when there's so much hate in their hearts?

Tristan Caine is known in the criminal underworld as The Predator. He's totally fearless, but when he meets Morana Vitalio, he finds himself utterly unprepared for his emotional response. After spending his entire life with a vow he broke on a rainy night, he finds himself torn in a battle between his past and a future he cannot predict. 

Morana's past is just as dark as his, and for over 20 years, their fates have been intertwined. A mysterious figure known as the Reaper is the taskmaster of the chaos that has engulfed both of their lives, and they need to unmask him as quickly as possible, especially as a trail of missing girls grows larger and anyone could be next.

Born into one of the leading mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi is a mafia princess beloved for her beauty and feared for her bloodline. As a mafia heiress, she's forced to marry Luca Vitiello to bring peace between two warring dynasties of the criminal underworld. 

Luca is the future Capo of the New York Famiglia, a man known for his brutality and total lack of mercy. Aria is terrified of marrying a monster like him. He's an apex predator who once crushed his own cousin's throat with his bare hands. Yet, there’s no escaping the arranged bond, much less a man like Luca. When he sees something he wants, he gets it, and that includes Aria.

Tabitha Allen grew up in the middle of the Chaos Motorcycle Club, a ruthless organization that her father was the leader of. The club was always in her corner when she needed them, even when she was a wild teenager who listened to nobody. When tragedy tore her life apart, it was the club that kept her together, one rider in particular: Shy Cage. 

Tabby is everything Shy's ever wanted, but everything he thinks he can't have. He's the boss's kid, and as the club leader's best friend, he knows that she is off limits in every way possible. Shy never expected more than friendship, so when Tabby indicates she wants more, how can he resist? Their world is dangerous and their love could crash and burn at any minute.