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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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