Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they’..

Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business afloat her father’s faili..

It's almost Christmas and Gwinny Tuffel's thoughts are on what she'll buy for DI Birch and whether s..

1916. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case when the body of a young conscie..

DI Geraldine Steel is called to investigate the murder of a man who has been battered to death. His ..

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

When Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night she intends to have fun to behav..

Lolly Bruce is back in London's East End. Her guardian Mal Fury is doing time so Lolly is working on..

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. Having spent his life ta..

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950 Los Angeles..

Suffolk 1955. Rosy Gilchrist is asked by her friend Lady Fawcett to join her on a trip to Southwold ..

When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang night club he has ev..

You think you know him. Until he's dead... When Cameron Swift is gunned down outside his family home..

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

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing Mississippi. Just down the ro..

Following a string of successful performances along the west coast the Moscardi Circus is travelling..

Thirteen Torland Place was the scene of five terrible murders back in the 19th century and was also ..

Oz Blackstone didn't go looking for fame - it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fistfu..

The son of one of New York’s wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage but t..

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

Dan “Spider” Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you’..

When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard it seems like an acci..

When a gentleman arrives at Montalbano's station to report an armed robbery on his wife that ended w..

In Edinburgh’s old Parliament House an armed robbery trial is about to take a macabre turn. While ..

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything it's to keep his head down. Es..

Kit Philipson has always felt like something of a stranger in his family. Growing up as an only chil..

A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd. Five random people die in a sensele..

London is under siege. Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in nine different l..

Summer 1381. The Great Revolt has been crushed. Brother Athelstan meanwhile is preparing for a pilgr..

After eighteen years inside Johnny Frank is coming out of jail with just one thing on his mind to ki..

After an eventful year Persimmon “Simmy” Brown is adjusting to life in Windermere running her fl..

Returning from a much-needed holiday Persimmon “Simmy” Brown discovers that life in the Lake Dis..

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

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher’s drifter lifestyle. In addition to his folding toothbrush..

When Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables - to meet an unusual new client and his owner Sonia D..

A string of fatal arson attacks has broken out in San Francisco. The targets have one thing in commo..

It is 1997 and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County Arkansas. But no one wants..

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

At the Central Criminal Court an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine an active partic..

Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson a collector of precious s..

The murder of a man on London Bridge is the first indication that the Earl of Clarendon's fears of a..

61 Hours ended with Jack Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossibl..

When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard DS Wesley Peter..

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

Los Angeles 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieuten..

It starts innocently enough at the intimate revue “absolutely everyone is talking about” Light a..

Nebraska - and Jack Reacher huge hulking and with a freshly busted nose is still trying to hitch a r..

A mutilated body is found dumped at Cowane's Hospital in the heart of historic Stirling. For DCI Mal..

What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support?..

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

Investigating how a severed hand ends up on the third green of a Cumbrian golf course is not how Det..

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

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them: nothing but twelve miles of empty road...

Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying a vacation evening at a cosy Yorkshire pub ..

Kitt Hartley wakes to the news that a murder has been committed in Irendale a village high on the wi..

When Carole goes for a trim at Connie’s Clip Joint she doesn’t expect to find herself at the sc..

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague Skinner's men are about to discove..

It's a perfectly normal day for Kitt Hartley at her job at the at the Vale of York University Librar..

An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovere..

As international terrorism stalks the city of Edinburgh DCC Bob Skinner confronts his darkest demons..

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woma..

1860 Wimborne Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge miserably married to her callous husband is having an affair ..

The horrific suicide of a successful Lithuanian entrepreneur shocks newly appointed Chief Constable ..

With Peaceful Repose Cemetery Drew Slocombe is determined to revolutionise the entire death industry..

Captain Sam Wyndham is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experi..

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

When members of Vigata's elite are targeted in a series of perfectly executed burglaries Inspector M..

For Bennie Rosato founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm failure has never been an option. Thirte..

When DCI Lorimer's old friend and colleague is shot dead he is devastated by the loss. But things go..

Inspector Alvarez is rudely awakened from his afternoon siesta by a phone call reporting the death o..

Jack Nightingale found it hard enough to save lives when he was a cop. Now he needs to save a soul -..

As a detective working for an elite undercover squad Dan 'Spider' Shepherd has lied cheated and conn..

Former lawyer Merrin McKenzie has returned to her hometown of St Ives the stunning coastal town in C..

The discovery of a human skeleton and a red rucksack amongst the roots of a fallen tree jolts memori..

Primavera is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. The attrac..

Reacher orders coffee in a foam cup not china - that way he can move on at a moment’s notice. He o..

The route of the Caledonian Railway through the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. ..

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

When the mutilated body of a police officer is found in a derelict factory the Hamptonshire police f..

The British Secret Service working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious ..

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

In the eyes of solicitor Eric Ward there was something odd about Arthur Egan's life and death. Egan'..

DI Ben Kitto needs a second chance. After ten years working for the murder squad in London a traumat..

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves ..

The village of Mere Barton is facing a time of upheaval with traditional lifestyles being forced out..

A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. Narrated in the first person by Robert..