Ted Bailey thought his days as an Intelligence Operative were long gone. He certainly wasn't expecti..

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

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak artist and pet portraitist ..

The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman’s flesh and the beak ..

The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is prisoner in a notorious POW camp. With the Allied blockad..

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

Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en Party? Almost ever..

1895 and a violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Inspector Thomas Pitt kn..

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

Currently on leave Patrick Gillard is considering whether to carry on in his hazardous job as “adv..

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

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

After cracking their first case as a private investigation team Oz Blackstone and Primavera Philips ..

When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight Freda Simonson the only witness to ..

US exchange student Hieronymus Beck is Professor Jack Griffen's biggest fan. Why else would he invei..

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

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

Maggie Malone runs a private detective agency specialising in catching those who cheat. Helene is a ..

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

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

Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor hoping to lay to rest the ghost of his uncle who disappeared aged 1..

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

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

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

When the body of a herdsman is discovered in a farm building Detective Sergeant Den Cooper is more t..

A suspicious funeral a fatal encounter at a garden centre of all places and a country walk marred by..

Young Tom French was found dead lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast with his head bashed in and hi..

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

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

Usually sharp-witted editor Sam Clair stumbles through her post-launch-party morning with the hangov..

Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodi..

Prior to assuming his new role with a different constabulary Danny Maik has taken a holiday in Singa..

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

When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its..

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

The Skelf women live in the face of death every day running a funeral directors and private investig..

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

Shortly before Christmas Chief Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is called to the scene of multiple murders..

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow icy roads a tired driver. A bus crashes and is stranded in a ga..

Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taki..

Having landed a small part in a new West End play The Habit of Faith Charles Paris is dismayed to di..

Brothers Ugur and Lokman Bulut locked in an inheritance battle need a sample of their mother's DNA t..

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

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

The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in Devon in 1985 shocked the country a..

When historian Suzan Tan is asked to examine the contents of a derelict villa on the Bosphorus she i..

In the small Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett vicar’s wife Monica Noble throws a party for the ..

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

Following an argument with her British boyfriend Chinese student Min Li is abducted whilst walking t..

Clare Riordan and her son Mikey are abducted from Clapham Common early one morning. Hours later the ..

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

When a chemical explosion rips through quiet fields in the North of England it destroys much more th..

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

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

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

Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around the world aid worker Úrsula has ret..

Trapped in a burning cabin on a freezing snow-covered mountain Selma Falck has no idea where she is ..

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

London 1870: A Hungarian immigrant is found dead with a bayonet through his heart his fingers broken..

The twentieth century is drawing to a close and the Russians are up to all sorts of dirty tricks in ..

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

It’s Christmas and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea’s daughter Jessica has co..

May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remain..

Agatha Christie in London to visit her agent boards a train preoccupied in the knowledge that her hu..

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

Ever since the death of her husband Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage high up on th..

Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole on the other hand thinks that th..

When a fortune in uncut diamonds is nicked by a group of soldiers Inspector Carlyle teams up with Ca..

If the assassin known only as Victor once had a moral compass it is long since buried. Yet some men ..

After losing her mum in a tragic accident when she was young Chrissy Moss had to find out the hard w..

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

When a body is discovered in a burnt-out barn in the Warwickshire countryside DI Will Jackman is cal..

Arriving home from a routine day at work Anna Cottrell has no idea that her life is about to change ..

Primavera Blackstone has found contentment in a small Spanish village by the sea. A fiercely protect..

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

Former investment banker Johan Golding - Joe - is the newest member of the Hartley and Edwards Inves..

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen appearing on the front pages of every news..

Karen Slocombe isn’t sure why she visited SuperFare that day - as a committed member of the Food C..

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

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

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

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

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

It’s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob Howard Hughes and J. Edgar Hoove..

Meet the Skelfs: well-known Edinburgh family proprietors of a long-established funeral-home business..

Greenwich south-east London. Five bodies have been found all young women all ritualistically murdere..

DI Jack Brady is riding high after the successful outcome of his previous case but his world is abou..