It is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals that finds Mrs Pargeter supporti..

The second in the series featuring a madcap pair of amateur sleuths and a delightful outpouring of u..

For Miss Cordell principal of Persephone College there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike ..

V.I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August a young film-maker..

Homicide detective Adam Kimble is no stranger to battling demons. But Meredith Fallon is a different..

New York has seen more than its fair share of horrific attacks but the city is about to be shaken in..

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Then a local college stude..

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police now he's a drifter of no f..

On the hunt for two missing persons Laurel Bowman and Frank Diamond find they have another complex a..

“Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shoc..

Kate Thompson - glamorous housewife-turned-MP - surprises everyone with her meteoric rise at Westmin..

“The dead can't speak to us” Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. Sometimes only an out..

Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of Carey’s Circus. Their trainer is the fearless Anton..

In America to escape the violence that nearly killed him forensics expert David Hunter has returned ..

In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Ler..

1979: four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a classmate - and film the att..

Dr. Alex Delaware first meets actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son..

Each girl survived an unthinkable horror. Now someone wants them dead...They were the victims of sep..

The discovery of two teenage girls’ bodies and a video of a snuff movie showing the death of one o..

Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodi..

He's dead. So says his own newspaper the Glasgow Gazette: Douglas Brodie 25 January 1912 - 20 July 1..

Christmas 1951 Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners a..

A head teacher's work is never done especially if like Jane Cowan you're a victim of your own succes..

Behind the closed doors of San Francisco’s mansions beautiful people party the nights away. But so..

London Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours Simon Wilder is too preoccupied ..

“Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murd..

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing Mississippi. Just down the ro..

When Douglas B. Douglas - leading light of the London theatre - premiers his new musical extravaganz..

Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in o..

Glasgow’s melting. The temperature is rising and so is the murder rate. Douglas Brodie ex-policema..

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten h..

The body of an unknown woman is found in an Edinburgh close and the police are quick to label it as ..

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher’s drifter lifestyle. In addition to his folding toothbrush..

Simon Darcourt an inventive killer with a sense of humour is creating his own celebrity talent show ..

We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther a wealthy retired manufacturer is found dead in his seat on th..

A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse. It's the body of an ex-cop and from the moment S..

Miss Ethel Tither has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilar..

1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its so..

Elizabeth Hampton has not spoken to her mother in weeks when she gets the phone call. Her mother has..

Who does Andrew Clayton turn to when his wife has been murdered his child is in danger and the polic..

'The horror on the train great though it may turn out to be will not compare with the horror that ex..

After Constable Nick of Aidensfield's retirement he helped create a small private police force of mo..

Warring staff. 'Accidental' poisonings. Topiary of dubious intent. Throw in the full complement of t..

When members of Vigata's elite are targeted in a series of perfectly executed burglaries Inspector M..

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota Jack Reacher has fi..

A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan “Spider” Shepherd can gather enough evidenc..

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

Jack Morgan head of Private Investigations the global PI agency of the rich and famous is being push..

What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support?..

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat young Detective In..

1913. John Farringdale with his cousin Eric Foster visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen Reisby. At..

The Reverend Dodd vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen spends his evenings reading detecti..

When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera Detective Inspector Meredith..

Responding to a call at a mansion in an East Bay neighbourhood Deputy Coroner Clay Edison comes upon..

Kit Philipson has always felt like something of a stranger in his family. Growing up as an only chil..

Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a dev..

Greenwich south-east London. Five bodies have been found all young women all ritualistically murdere..

A threat has been made. An ultimatum delivered. Innocent people are in mortal danger. 8am: an explos..

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow icy roads a tired driver. A bus crashes and is stranded in a ga..

When FBI Special Agent Griffin “Decker” Davenport wakes from a coma he is determined to bring do..

The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman’s flesh and the beak ..

In December 1909 the Reverend Joshia Martins expires in a dish of mutton and onions leaving his fami..

Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the Nanking Massacre in which i..

A sunny Sunday afternoon a family barbecue and Naomi Baxter and her boyfriend Alex celebrate good ne..

There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dom..

Ex-copper Sam 'Mad' Carew is bored so when a beautiful woman asks for his help he can't help but be ..

When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club he has ev..

When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the British Museum Reading Room it looks like deat..

1934. When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station her fellow-boarder..

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor s..

“He could feel it in the blackness a difference in atmosphere a sense of evil of things hidden.”..

After a long period of “resting” life is looking up for Charles Paris who has been cast as the G..

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle...

Following a personal tragedy florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to b..

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings. So when Si..

When Alex Cross is called to investigate the scene of a massacre he is shocked to find that one of t..

The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the w..

Bea Abbot is asked to find the man or woman who laid a booby trap for Sir Lucas Ossett the powerful ..

In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff rail..

Twenty years ago Malcolm Whiteley discovers his wife Lysette is having an affair. The Whiteleys are ..

After battling for justice in his first recorded case Sergeant Caleb Cluff makes a swift return to d..

It’s 1963. A new band called the Rolling Stones is beginning to make its mark and the mini-skirt i..

When the body of pretty Fenella Tremaine is found in a skip with a distinctive oriental-patterned kn..

An archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains. Is it an ancient fi..

When a fortune in uncut diamonds is nicked by a group of soldiers Inspector Carlyle teams up with Ca..

The premiere of the play ‘The Merry Devils’ written by two of the company’s actors gives the p..

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back a ridge in the North D..