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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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