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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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