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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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