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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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