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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reykjavík August 1941. When a travelling salesman is found murdered killed by a bullet from a Colt ..

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

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

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

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

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

Cleo knows she should be happy for her brother Mark. He's found someone new after the sudden death o..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One cold autumn night a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight it..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

Special Agent Gideon Reynolds has tried hard to put his past behind him. But when a petite blonde wo..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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