Blue Shoes and Happiness brings more adventures for Precious Ramotswe and her fine assistant Mma Mak..

A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged in ..

Once a busy hospital St Jude’s now stands derelict awaiting demolition. When a partially mummified..

Gwyn Weaver is as resilient as anyone could be. Having survived an attempted murder she has rebuilt ..

It was supposed to be a final celebration for six British graduates the perfect French getaway - unt..

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion Police Scotland has a tough c..

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

In Herefordshire’s hop-growing country a converted kiln is the scene of a savage murder. When the ..

When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding DS Wesley Peterson a keen amateur archaeologis..

When teenager Jennifer Maidment’s murdered and mutilated body is discovered it is clear that there..

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

World-famous archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband ex-SAS solder Eddie Chase think they have left..

Keeping on top of the family funeral directors' and private-investigation businesses is no easy task..

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

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years living at the Rectory ..

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border a man murders a young woman. At the same time..

A dead man walks into a police station. He tells a tale - bizarre as it is grotesque - of kidnap and..

When his most celebrated case is suddenly reopened Detective Chief Inspector Jejeune's long-buried s..

A young woman walks into the frozen fjords of Iceland never to be seen again. But in her wake Matthi..

'Expertly plotted and mesmerising' - Mick Herron A local myth. A deadly threat. Vera Stanhope star o..

When the owner of Polly’s Cake Shop announces her retirement the Fethering residents start to worr..

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

December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive Works is an army of men pourin..

The body of a middle-aged man is discovered in Southampton's red light district - horrifically mutil..

A woman swims in a remote milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears a body is r..

Over three years ago a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Missing pr..

Old spies grow ridiculous River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright us..

Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service but he's never far from a case. ..

When DS Charlotte Banks is suspended from the police on suspicion of assaulting a suspect in the bur..

Every cop wants to be part of NYPD Red. It is the elite team in New York’s police department handl..

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

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

At Police Scotland HQ Grace Macallan has pitched up in Counter Corruption. But the demons of her pas..

The body of a woman has been discovered in Castle Farthing Woods and it appears that although she ha..

At a star-studded opening night for the Royal Academy's celebration of renowned artist Max Bruce som..

A young disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith unable to help herself or find her way ho..

The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. The beat on the streets ..

The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth...

Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an el..

A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to..

Detective Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows in the grey areas where demons and mons..

A woman wakes up and opens her eyes. And she knows immediately that she's not in the bed she went to..

Four generations of the Black family have farmed Blackpeak Station in the high country of New Zealan..

When DI Bob Valentine returns to duty after a narrow escape with death he is faced with the discover..

Nine years ago divorcee Marcia Brown took her own life. A pillar of the community she had been accus..

When a disused church is bought by a young pagan couple who intend to use it for their own rituals t..

Teenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a discovery which excit..

When workmen converting former girls' boarding school Chadleigh Hall into a luxury hotel discover a ..

Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view f..

In London 26-year-old Venetia Stanley - aristocratic clever bored reckless - is having a love affair..

Famous killers have fan clubs. Hamish Wolfe is no different. Locked up for the rest of his life for ..

A Glasgow post office. Martin Pavel cowers on the floor his eyes locked on those of a terrified chil..

When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the old oak tree in front of his ..

After a fire devastates the top floor of a tower block on the Maudling Estate Maeve Kerrigan and her..

When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident Shetland detective Jimmy Perez..

No. 7 Ocean Drive is a multimillion-dollar beachfront house in the Hamptons but its beautiful exteri..

Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library successful author Burton St Clair invites his..

When supermodel Annette Bordeaux is found battered and strangled in her Edinburgh flat former Chief ..

1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen’s convenience cubicle at the British ..

It’s just a normal morning for Anna McDonald until she opens the front door to her best friend Est..

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. A bruta..

A dead body in the prayer hall of a mosque isn't the best start to the day for anyone. But for Detec..

Precious Ramotswe is continuing to run her detective agency from the garage of her fiancé Mr J. L. ..

Salt water lifts blood. Only salt water. Loch Lomond is a mile deep but the woman's body surfaced an..

Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job - transferred out of uniform and as..

When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given ..

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. S..

They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored treated cared for. But now ..

Once one of the country’s most respected forensics experts Dr David Hunter is facing an uncertain ..

31st August 1997. Rose Wilson is 14 but looks 16. Pimped out by her “boyfriend” she has seen mor..

When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages te..

With his near-fatal stabbing almost a memory DI Bob Valentine is settling back onto the force until ..

When the bloated body of a leading anarchist is discovered floating in one of Bologna's hidden canal..

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

Maurice Mundy recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police has returned to join S..

Precious Ramotswe that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build' is well-known ..

It’s the case that could make DS Alex Morrow’s career. A suburban home invaded in the dead of ni..

When Desiré Rosenkvist of Stockholm Police receives a letter two things are immediately clear: the ..

He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists codenamed Saladin. Ten years ago he blew a plane o..

Prague 1599. Christian Stern a young doctor has just arrived in the city. On his first evening he fi..

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..

On a hot summer morning Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York on his w..

A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to..

A paradise parish of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses and a huge haunted vicarage were not w..

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

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and ..

Joseph Staines left town with a stolen tallybook but two suspicious deaths and a surprise inheritanc..