Home Before Dark
Cambridge 1939. The opening weeks of the Second World War and the first blackout - The Great Darknes..
It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished ..
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that push..
Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is..
A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher recounts a mu..
A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from nov..
When Jack Haines reports a break-in at his greenhouse the motive of the intruder is unclear. Other t..
It’s Christmas and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea’s daughter Jessica has co..
Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth are taking a well-earned holiday with Stephen and Anne in Po..
Florence summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen left in the deserted city. He s..
When the mutilated body of a police officer is found in a derelict factory the Hamptonshire police f..
A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey an..
Of all the weird characters Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has met in Bath this one is the m..
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woma..
It is 5:30 am on Clio's forty-fifth birthday and her hated ex is lying dead on her doorstep. Even wo..
Iceland November 1967. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal - a boy who lives on the other si..
Twenty years after her brother Callum mysteriously vanished Orla Payne is still haunted by his disap..
A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the sheriff's department to arrest a man for a possible doub..
Nebraska - and Jack Reacher huge hulking and with a freshly busted nose is still trying to hitch a r..
The twentieth century is drawing to a close and the Russians are up to all sorts of dirty tricks in ..
Joseph Staines left town with a stolen tallybook but two suspicious deaths and a surprise inheritanc..
An honest policeman Sergeant Wigan escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and..
After an eventful year Persimmon “Simmy” Brown is adjusting to life in Windermere running her fl..
When a fortune in uncut diamonds is nicked by a group of soldiers Inspector Carlyle teams up with Ca..
MI6 has a dark side that needs men like Elliot Kane. He's spent fifteen years effectively managing d..
In this thrilling selection of short stories a young porter is found dead in a coal tub; Colbeck dev..
August 1983. Denton is preparing for a wedding. DS Waters should be on top of the world with less th..
August 1958. DI Stratton has just been posted to Notting Hill. Stratton's new manor is rife with rac..
When struggling journalist Cecily Wong is invited to join an expedition to climb one of the world's ..
The discovery of a dead banker sends shock waves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. And it's up..
Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the sudden l..
Strangefields Farm is notorious for its sinister history ever since serial killer Jackson Temples lu..
Roger Brown has it all. He's the country's most successful headhunter. He has a beautiful wife and a..
Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a dev..
Two of John Bude's finest Golden Age mysteries return to the limelight. In Death in White Pyjamas a ..
Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library successful author Burton St Clair invites his..
Having decided to redecorate Woodside Cottage Jude has engaged the services of local man Pete who ha..
When 15-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has li..
Drawn in by the reputation of the islands a new English family move to the area eager to give their ..
Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden but Thea ..
Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered..
Private investigator Kitt Hartley and her twin sister Rebecca are preparing for a holiday in Scotlan..
In an upscale Bel Air property two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy ..
Suffolk 1955. Rosy Gilchrist is asked by her friend Lady Fawcett to join her on a trip to Southwold ..
At the Central Criminal Court an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine an active partic..
It’s with mixed motives that Karen Slocombe’s cousin Penn pays her a visit. Not only does Penn w..
“For the most part the dead man received public sympathy. A decent hardworking chap with not an en..
Ben Harper's life changed for ever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. It..
A governmental think-tank whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service has lo..
Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Llwll. His aunt thinks Llwll an idyll..
When a man is found dead and his carer a good-time girl is suspected of his murder Detective Inspect..
When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice centre each with the word “murd..
When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen Curtis to ask her to help sort out..
Having landed a small part in a new West End play The Habit of Faith Charles Paris is dismayed to di..
Agatha Christie in London to visit her agent boards a train preoccupied in the knowledge that her hu..
Late November 1980. Student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police off..
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son Will has gone to join a..
Lestrade’s detectives at Scotland Yard have promised him that 1910 is going to be a peaceful year...
When Carole goes for a trim at Connie’s Clip Joint she doesn’t expect to find herself at the sc..
Alex Reeve was Operative 66. A former special ops soldier and one of the UK's deadliest weapons he w..
In Slough House memories are stirring all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again Loui..
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath Sarah Tu..
May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remain..
In the peaceful Lake District village of Old Sawrey a murderer strikes. Warren Howe a husband and fa..
December 1940. Christmas is coming but the season of goodwill is overshadowed by the death and destr..
Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in the nation's capital with her second h..
When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatic Society’s produc..
When librarian and budding private investigator Kitt Hartley visits her ex-assistant Grace Edwards i..
As the villagers of Three Pines prepare for a special celebration Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvo..
If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything it's to keep his head down. Es..
The summers spent at Roseland the sprawling ancestral home of her best friend Eloise were among the ..
It is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals that finds Mrs Pargeter supporti..
The villagers of Stoney Cross are busily preparing for their first Arts Festival and enlist the help..
Denton 1984. After a morning’s betting at the races bookmaker George Price is found in his car bar..
Thea reconnects with her friend Emmy while on a visit to the church in Baunton near Cirencester with..
A friend in need is a friend indeed. And no one is a better friend than hitman-for-hire Lex Harper. ..
When historian Suzan Tan is asked to examine the contents of a derelict villa on the Bosphorus she i..
On a hot summer morning Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York on his w..
Summer. A boy is lying on the floor of an Oslo appartment. He is bleeding to death. Outside the chur..
Umiko Wada has had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mot..
Thea is tired of having to entertain Drew's children during the summer holidays so she accepts a com..
When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages te..
Teenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a discovery which excit..
When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion Police Scotland has a tough c..
1951 Auckland: A man overboard a murder and a lot of loose ends... The workers and the government ar..
Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service but he's never far from a case. ..
