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

London Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away fears of the Mil..

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

Agatha Raisin can think of nothing duller than a lecture on birdwatching. . . but events take a thri..

Thea Osborne is thanking her lucky stars. After two disastrous housesitting incidents in which she u..

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

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

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

Hazel and Fox are an ordinary married couple with a baby. Except for one small thing: they're ex-ser..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of burglaries which take a ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the fate of Áróra's missing sister Isafold is discovered Áróra is relieved that she can hal..

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

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

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

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

Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-l..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laurel Nightingale wants to start again. However after discovering a dead body shortly after arrivin..

Old spies grow ridiculous River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright us..

Winter storms lash the Isles of Scilly when DI Ben Kitto ferries the islands' priest to St Helen's. ..

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

His native Scotland stands on the cusp of a new era of international expansion under its charismatic..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Tait finds his wife and son missing when he returns from a business trip to his home in a peace..

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

Monica Noble and her husband Graham, the local vicar, are invited to participate in a high-flying ec..

A body hangs from a wind turbine, a bullet hole in his chest: Earl Alden, millionaire property devel..

"Tell Sherry April called." A simple phone message that shakes Joe Pickett's oldest daughter Sherida..

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

Professional declutterer Ellen Curtis doesn’t do house clearances. So when Tamara Nicklin owner of..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction: 'ACTUALLY I'M A MURDERER.' Set in the north-eas..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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