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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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