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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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