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

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back a ridge in the North D..

Ireland AD 671. The Great Fair of Bealtain is almost upon the fortress of Cashel and a line of paint..

Anthony Trollope finds the beautiful city of Barchester idyllic on visiting it for the first time. T..

1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its so..

Strangefields Farm is notorious for its sinister history ever since serial killer Jackson Temples lu..

June 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London determined to overturn both crown and church. ..

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

Thea is tired of having to entertain Drew's children during the summer holidays so she accepts a com..

A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. Smuggler Guy Lunt is missing his forme..

A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. James Pattinson was best known for his..

The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silen..

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

Jack Taylor traumatised bitter and hurting from his last case has resolved to give up the finding bu..

Every morning Håkan von Enke takes a walk in the forest. However one winter’s day he fails to com..