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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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