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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Private investigator Kitt Hartley and her twin sister Rebecca are preparing for a holiday in Scotlan..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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