Twenty years after her brother Callum mysteriously vanished Orla Payne is still haunted by his disap..

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective..

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

Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery cla..

Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay - the ..

Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terr..

A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her o..

A boy has disappeared from his school. Heloise Kaldan heads over there to look into it. At the schoo..

Detective Inspector Sam Berger's life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and h..

When a homeless man from the old-fashioned seaside town of Nethergate appears to go missing - and th..

James Bennett nephew of Sir Henry Merrivale (the cantankerous yet genius sleuth) has been invited to..

Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has just restored order in his life as well as in the adventu..

US exchange student Hieronymus Beck is Professor Jack Griffen's biggest fan. Why else would he invei..

Summer 1995. On her tenth birthday July's teacher sets the class a project to find out about a relat..

Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she le..

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

The Skelf women live in the face of death every day running a funeral directors and private investig..

Jen is climbing in the mountains near Alajar Spain. And it's nothing to do with the fact that an old..

During an unprecedented heatwave the body of a young girl is found in a submerged suitcase in Loch A..

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

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

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..

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

Martha Parker runs a small private detective agency in Glasgow with her two sisters Helen and Geri s..

Ben Kitto made many enemies in his time working as an undercover officer for the Met police none mor..

A famous Hollywood director arrives in Bologna to remake a cult film and the city's renown cinema ar..

Preparing a midwinter's feast for all hundred residents of the little Yorkshire village of Scrafton ..

Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the sudden l..

Social worker Kit Goddard is convinced that Sandbeach Child Services have let an injured 17-year-old..

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

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

Since the start of the hit British TV show Swift its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune. ..

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

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950 Los Angeles..

A glittering event full of A-listers hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh a celebrity couple who?..

The SAS are used to deaths during combat - it goes with the turf. But when one of their own is said ..

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

When entrepreneur Flosi arrives home for dinner one night he discovers that his house has been ransa..

In a lonely village in the Peak District during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm Constab..

While building a pipeline near the Okavango Delta a contractor unearths the remains of a long-dead B..

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

The discovery of a dead banker sends shock waves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. And it's up..

It all began with sheep-stealing. A hateful act among the shepherds of the fells and yet not a matte..

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

A handsome if slightly shabby stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as h..

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

When a prominent MSP goes missing DSI William Lorimer wastes no time in investigating. Robert Truesd..

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

Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en Party? Almost ever..

Set in the picturesque town of Askham near Ullswater the story opens with the funeral of Humphrey Cr..

George Furnace flight instructor at Baston Aero Club dies instantly when his plane crashes into the ..

EVENTUALLY LEIGHTON STOPS LECTURING ME PROBABLY JUST TO CATCH HIS BREATH. AFTER OUR LAST ENCOUNTER I..

Don Colyear has begun his career in Edinburgh's CID but the transition has not been easy. The worklo..

Taking a break from his holiday visiting his nephew Jim Athelstan Digby agrees to look after the old..

Mina Rose Cabot age thirteen is a good girl from a good family. Walking home from soccer practice in..

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

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

George Surridge director of the Birmington Zoo is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsin..

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

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

It is May 1971 and Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna a..

Sadler's Wells 1933. Disciplined and dedicated Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how ha..

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

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

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

Lilith Benley and her mother rumoured to be witches were convicted of the brutal murder of two teena..

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

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

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

Isaac Hammer is under arrest. The police have proof that his company a private London intelligence a..

Las Vegas is known as Sin City. And what happens in Vegas usually stays in Vegas._x000D_But someone ..

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

On New Year's Eve Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests._x000D_His lakeside holiday homes are a succ..

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

A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey an..

Jane Cowan?s abusive ex-husband has always tracked her down whichever town she lives in whichever jo..

One should never meddle in the affairs of dragons but someone has been doing just that. They've been..

Death has come twice to Ravenbank a remote community in England's Lake District each time on Hallowe..

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

On suspension and unable to work DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained de..

Winter has come early to the tiny Siberian village of Roslazny but for Olga Pushkin aspiring writer ..

Lucia Gomez is a female police chief in a man's world and she's walked a fine line to succeed at the..

Prunella Pearce Bree and the other ladies of the Winterbottom Women's Institute are planning to spen..

The Lake District's cold case specialist DCI Hannah Scarlett is determined to uncover the truth behi..

An Iranian defector shows his true colours and returns to his own country - taking a vital piece of ..

August 1983. Denton is preparing for a wedding. DS Waters should be on top of the world with less th..

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