Miss Ethel Tither has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilar..

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

Shy dyslexic and small for his age ten-year-old Patrick O'Brien is a natural target at school. But w..

Having decided to redecorate Woodside Cottage Jude has engaged the services of local man Pete who ha..

Two of John Bude's finest Golden Age mysteries return to the limelight. In Death in White Pyjamas a ..

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

A governmental think-tank whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service has lo..

Maya Barton has just embarked on her dream job as a scene of crime officer. When she attends her fir..

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

A tranquil village. A poisoned cupcake. A murdered vicar. A simple case - or it should be. But all c..

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

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

The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans as watery graves claim u..

Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family livi..

Here are four stories by the most popular mystery writer of all time; stories told by Miss Marple an..

Physician Cathy Moreland needs time to heal having recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder whi..

Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an el..

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

A nameless victim. An unknown killer. An impossible case for Monika Paniatowski. Before she can even..

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

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

Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery cla..

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

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

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

When a man's wife leaves him under suspicious circumstances he sets off in search for her unprepared..

Kate Shugak is determined to convict the odious Louis Deem who has been arrested and tried for sever..

A collection of sleek and sinister stories from the creator of Chief Inspector Wexford. “Her range..

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

There's the law. Or there's justice.Most acts of violence are pretty random. But murdering someone a..

Two women are snatched off the streets of London in one weekend. DI Charlie George and his team get ..

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed. And no one is a better friend than hitman-for-hire Lex Harper. ..

A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an acciden..

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

When policewoman Eva Perry goes deep undercover to help bring a vicious local crime ring to justice ..

Gardner’s Hill in Western Australia is a sleepy remote town. It is home to Police Sergeant Chandle..

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

On their first night in Paris the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather the bi..

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

Nina Cattermole had an unusual death: headbutted by a horse as she protested against the local hunt...

Auntie Poldi’s idyll is rudely disrupted by John Owenya detective inspector with the Tanzanian Min..

She put her life on the line for her family. But now it’s time to pay the price. All Malee wanted ..

Three young women have gone missing. They're all pretty mid-twenties - someone clearly has a type. B..

When a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon it seems like a case of mistaken identity...

A telephone call from a frantic Sergeant Cantelli to say that his nephew Johnnie Oslow is missing cu..

Jen is climbing in the mountains near Alajar Spain. And it's nothing to do with the fact that an old..

V.I. Warshawski knows Chicago’s politics: 'Pay to Play'. Money changes hands then buildings and pa..

Was it a case of murder by committee at The Gillibry Island Bird Obsevatory Trust? The members of th..

Judi Westerholme has been through it. Brave and strong-willed she's just about coping in her new rol..

Necromancer-witch hybrid Ava Harper has accomplished many things in the year since moving back home ..

When his cousin is accused of an unthinkable crime Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown..

The traditional Appleby Horse Fair hosts the largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe. ..

Following a gruelling operation in Paris Liz Carlyle's bosses post her to MI5's counter-espionage de..

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

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

Martha Parker runs a small private detective agency in Glasgow with her two sisters Helen and Geri s..

A handsome if slightly shabby stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as h..

A thrilling new novel in the award-winning Dan Clement series.A violent death by crucifixion near a ..

A group of vigilantes are carrying out a campaign of harassment against the homeless hounding them t..

A nameless friar turns up at Halfwell Station at the same time that Ana the adopted daughter of the ..

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

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat young Detective In..

When a dead body is discovered in a house near the university Detective Chief Inspector Jack Hogan a..

In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff rail..

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

Anarchy hits Dunedin when a cargo ship runs aground on Aramoana Beach amid a crowd of onlookers. One..

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

She doesn't trust the police. She used to be one of them. Hardened by ten years on the murder squad ..

1865. A passenger train stands in York station. Jack Follis the guard patrols the platform to make s..

What's an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning's pile of manuscript submi..

When his former deputy Julie invites Detective Peter Diamond and his partner Paloma to spend a week ..

Mina Rose Cabot age thirteen is a good girl from a good family. Walking home from soccer practice in..

The target - The Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose. The onl..

When Lisa Lee a vulnerable young woman vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin fin..

Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick finds herself standing over a dead body in the Shady Oaks retireme..

When librarian and budding private investigator Kitt Hartley visits her ex-assistant Grace Edwards i..

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

In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Ler..

When builder Mark Poynter discovers a murder on his worksite all of his financial problems suddenly ..

There's a killer on the loose in the Lake District and the calm of an English summer is shattered. F..

Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren‘t on speaking terms bu..

Roach a bookseller and a loner is content to spend her days hoarding true crime proofs listening to ..

At 5a.m. in the upscale neighbourhood of Westwood Village two removal men are making a routine pick-..

Lena Szarka a Hungarian cleaner working in London is forced to brush up on her detective skills for ..

Summer 1962. A scorching heat wave is suffocating L.A. PI Jim Keegan is offered a small fortune to f..

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