It is 5:30 am on Clio's forty-fifth birthday and her hated ex is lying dead on her doorstep. Even wo..

Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a mur..

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything it's to keep his head down. Es..

MI6 has a dark side that needs men like Elliot Kane. He's spent fifteen years effectively managing d..

August 1958. DI Stratton has just been posted to Notting Hill. Stratton's new manor is rife with rac..

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

The murder of a promising footballer who is the son of the Brighton's Chief Superintendent means Det..

On a hot summer morning Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York on his w..

In a gloomy flat off Islington High Street Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes fi..

Late November 1980. Student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police off..

British doctor Raj Patel puts his own life on the line to treat the injured in war-torn Syria. His m..

Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling him tha..

In the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton Tracey Walsh drives herself and h..

A lone gunman hides in a parking garage and shoots into a crowd. Five random people die in a sensele..

It is 1921 and a terrible discovery has been made at a manor house in Surrey - the bloodied bodies o..

In Slough House memories are stirring all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again Loui..

At nearly 100 years old Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients Alex Delaware normally treats. Bu..

Denton 1984. After a morning’s betting at the races bookmaker George Price is found in his car bar..

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

In June 1916 a young woman is found dead in a cinema. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are assigned the ..

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

DI Owen Sheen vowed to his father never to return to Ireland. But years have passed and Sheen needs ..

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job V.I. Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase th..

'The horror on the train great though it may turn out to be will not compare with the horror that ex..

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

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

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

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

The summers spent at Roseland the sprawling ancestral home of her best friend Eloise were among the ..

Diana Davies has been head of the family business since the death of her husband an infamous bank ro..

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is pl..

1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen’s convenience cubicle at the British ..

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

Drawn in by the reputation of the islands a new English family move to the area eager to give their ..

Flirtatious American blonde Miss Hailey Duke should never have accepted a summer weekend invitation ..

Death has come twice to Ravenbank a remote community in England's Lake District each time on Hallowe..

Auntie Poldi is annoyed: first they shut off her water then someone offs her friend's dog. For cryin..

Life seems perfect in Valley Farm a quiet community in Northumberland. Until a shocking discovery. T..

August 1983. Denton is preparing for a wedding. DS Waters should be on top of the world with less th..

Lolly Bruce is back in London's East End. Her guardian Mal Fury is doing time so Lolly is working on..

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

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

A disappearance. A sudden death. A betrayal of the worst kind... Ella longs for a child but a grueso..

When an unidentified female body is discovered laid out on a slab in an abandoned butcher's shop the..

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

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath Sarah Tu..

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woma..

It is 1932 and John Madden former Scotland Yard Inspector is now a farmer in the peaceful Surrey cou..

It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home Fr..

One night two senseless murders.. DI Lorraine Hunt and her team are no strangers to serious cases - ..

It is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals that finds Mrs Pargeter supporti..

V.I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August a young film-maker..

As the snow falls thickly Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the crow..

With a ruthless criminal loose on the Suffolk coast life is anything but peaceful for the Anglian De..

Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work concea..

Bruno Courrèges is Chief of Police of the lovely town of St Denis in the Dordogne. His main wish is..

A rich American art student is found dead at the bottom of a well in an ancient hilltop castle. The ..

When Dr Clive Jordan's dazzling career is brought to an abrupt end by a fatal bullet his colleagues ..

Strangefields Farm is notorious for its sinister history ever since serial killer Jackson Temples lu..

Iceland 2017: When a young Italian tourist is found brutally murdered at a sacred church in northern..

After an eventful year Persimmon “Simmy” Brown is adjusting to life in Windermere running her fl..

Colton Driscoll is a compulsive liar. But his psychologist Sam Reeves fears he is telling the truth ..

A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. The character that made Bailey’s nam..

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

On the day they are born each Swift is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. hey are given a ..

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

When 15-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has li..

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is juggling a new baby who won’t sleep with working the graveyard shift..

Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of friends he has. And he'd still..

Harry Hole drunkard loner and brilliant detective is reassigned to surveillance after a high profile..

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

Rob fears for her daughters. For Callie who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. F..

Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has just restored order in his life as well as in the adventu..

Following a mysterious explosion the offices of Excelsior Joinery Company are no more; the three dir..

Dara Tailor has had to grow up fast. With a mother addicted to cocaine Dara must look after her six ..

A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from nov..

When workmen converting former girls' boarding school Chadleigh Hall into a luxury hotel discover a ..

Sally Page is an MI5 'footie' a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities..

When a prominent MSP goes missing DSI William Lorimer wastes no time in investigating. Robert Truesd..

1817. Upon receiving a letter from an old family friend Clemency van Emden returns from Holland to f..

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

When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages te..

London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-..

Once a busy hospital St Jude’s now stands derelict awaiting demolition. When a partially mummified..

Amateur thief Ted Lyte has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven Ho..

When a letter arrives at Tradmouth police station addressed to a DCI Norbert it causes quite a stir...

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