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

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

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

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

His native Scotland stands on the cusp of a new era of international expansion under its charismatic..

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

A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat. There are no obvious clues apart from a cryptic note ..

Judy Carrier hotshot lawyer at Rosato & Associates has always championed the underdog. When her aunt..

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

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

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

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

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

1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days o..

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

It is spring and the body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is cle..

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

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

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

Aldis is working in a juvenile detention centre in rural Iceland. She witnesses something deeply dis..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After thirty years of service former Chief Constable Bob Skinner faces the possible end of his polic..

There's a killer on the loose in the Lake District and the calm of an English summer is shattered. F..

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

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

A man wearing his daughter's wedding ring is found in front of his fireplace shot in the chest. A fu..

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

A man lies dying in a hospital in upstate Vermont. The nurses know only that he is an academic at a ..

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

DS Wesley Peterson newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth has his hands full when a chi..

A young man with Down's Syndrome has been convicted of burning down his care home and killing five p..

When a letter arrives at Tradmouth police station addressed to a DCI Norbert it causes quite a stir...

In the village of Spire murder is afoot. Wealthy landowner Alexander Earl of Greengrass is caught wi..

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

Still devastated after the loss of his wife Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy vi..

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

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

George Surridge director of the Birmington Zoo is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsin..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A potentially deadly mutant strain of flu has hit the UK. It's up to the North Edinburgh Health Enfo..

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

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

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

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

Christine Steinmeyer knows the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve has nothing to..

After a stressful winter DSI William Lorimer is enjoying some time away from Glasgow. He and his new..

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

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but she has more tolerance for her hippy neighbou..

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

A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house sw..

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

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

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

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

Criminal lawyer Robbie Munro is back home living with his dad and his new-found daughter. Life as a ..

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

Archaeologist Neil Watson did not expect to find the body of American veteran Norman Openheim in the..

Stopping to use a cash machine late one evening a man inexplicably falls to the ground dead. Then a ..

A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her terminally ill patient brutally mur..

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

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

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the sheriff's department to arrest a man for a possible doub..

Arriving at her school reunion Jennie Whitmore immediately regrets her decision. Why would she choos..

The girl emerged from the woods barely alive. Her story was beyond belief. But it was true. Every dr..

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

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

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

Denton 1984. After a morning’s betting at the races bookmaker George Price is found in his car bar..

Tom Thorne has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks Thorne has good friends by his side. He f..

Brexit looms and Charles Thoroughgood Chief of MI6 is forbidden for political reasons from spying on..

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

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