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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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 ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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