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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..