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

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

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

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

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

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 ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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