It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second sleuthing case. But exposing the ..

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

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

When the party wall dividing the gardens of Bea Abbot and her fiancé Leon collapses amongst the ens..

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

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

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

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

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

Fredrik Welin is a 70-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago whe..

Three killers are on the rampage in the capital and dead bodies are piling up almost as fast as the ..

Primavera Blackstone has found contentment in a small Spanish village by the sea. A fiercely protect..

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

Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work not pleasure. The Norwegian am..

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

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

Oz Blackstone didn't go looking for fame - it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fistfu..

When his cousin is accused of an unthinkable crime Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown..

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

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England the body of a young woman is discovered near the site o..

In late 1980s London - the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney - Fitzroy Maclean Angel tries to be i..

Nothing ever happens in August and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a break. Heading off fo..

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

Nick Stone is suffering. The two people he cared for most are gone. Thousands of miles away five ex-..

When PI Sam Falconer is asked to investigate the disappearance of a talented young rower from Oxford..

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

It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished ..

Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned him..

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

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

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

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

Amory Ames is investigating the disappearance of valuable jewellery snatched at a dinner party and l..

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

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

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

During his final days at Aidensfield Nick has much to consider. There are duties to complete as he s..

When small-time gambler and petty crook Steinie Taylor turns up dead in a hopper of flour at a count..

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

The woman whose body was found down a South Wales coal mine was a stranger to those parts. She had ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A scorching August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath. Suicide is not a detectiv..

A serial killer is loose in Yorkshire and has claimed three victims in three months. Eleven days bef..

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

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

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

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

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

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard t..

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak artist and pet portraitist ..

Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is..

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

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

Alex Cross’s whole world is crashing down around him. He has been hunted stalked like prey his pre..

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

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

The second book in the Euphemia Martins Mysteries finds Euphemia temporarily promoted to housekeeper..

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

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

Emily Radley's Christmas plans are shattered when she learns that her aunt Susannah is dying. Althou..

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

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

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

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his t..

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

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

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

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

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that push..

Sister Agnes has taken her final vows and delighted to have escaped the oppressive confines of life ..

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

Constable 'Thorny' Deepbriar expects to enjoy a few days of peace and quiet as Minecliff prepares fo..

During a Christmas party Euphemia Martins - together with Bertram Stapleford and manservant Rory McL..

May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remain..

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

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

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

Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now he is a m..