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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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