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John Bude / Saul Reichlin Available 14th August 2025

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







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Lee Child / Jeff Harding

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Roger Brown has it all. He's the country's most successful headhunter. He has a beautiful wife and a..




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Michael Gilbert / Gordon Griffin

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

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Lynn Florkiewicz / David Thorpe

Lord James Harrington and his wife Beth are taking a well-earned holiday with Stephen and Anne in Po..




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Robert Galbraith / Robert Glenister Available 26th August 2025

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

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Ann Cleeves / Ann Cleeves

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Martin Edwards / Julia Franklin

In the peaceful Lake District village of Old Sawrey a murderer strikes. Warren Howe a husband and fa..







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Stephen Leather / Paul Thornley

A friend in need is a friend indeed. And no one is a better friend than hitman-for-hire Lex Harper. ..

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Andrea Frazer / Gordon Griffin

The villagers of Stoney Cross are busily preparing for their first Arts Festival and enlist the help..







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Tim Sebastian / Richard Attlee

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Bernard J. Farmer / Nick Rawlinson

An honest policeman Sergeant Wigan escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and..




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Marco Vichi / Tim Bruce Available 5th August 2025

Florence summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen left in the deserted city. He s..










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Jim Kelly / Peter Wickham

Cambridge 1939. The opening weeks of the Second World War and the first blackout - The Great Darknes..

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Peter Turnbull / Gordon Griffin Available 29th August 2025

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










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George Bellairs / Gordon Griffin

“For the most part the dead man received public sympathy. A decent hardworking chap with not an en..

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Andy McNab / Paul Thornley

Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a dev..




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Jane Isaac / Katherine Press

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

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Helen Cox / Colleen Prendergast

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







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Simon Brett / Simon Brett Available 9th August 2025

When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen Curtis to ask her to help sort out..

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Rebecca Tope / Caroline Lennon

Thea reconnects with her friend Emmy while on a visit to the church in Baunton near Cirencester with..




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Simon Brett / Simon Brett Available 2nd August 2025

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

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Martin Edwards / Julia Franklin Available 5th August 2025

Twenty years after her brother Callum mysteriously vanished Orla Payne is still haunted by his disap..




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Jonothan Cullinane / Paul Haley

1951 Auckland: A man overboard a murder and a lot of loose ends... The workers and the government ar..

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Peter Lovesey / Peter Wickham

Of all the weird characters Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has met in Bath this one is the m..




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Lesley Kelly / Angus King Available 7th August 2025

Joseph Staines left town with a stolen tallybook but two suspicious deaths and a surprise inheritanc..










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Andrew Wilson / Joan Walker Jonathan Oliver Available 8th August 2025

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




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Eva Björg Ægisdóttir / Diana Croft

Iceland November 1967. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal - a boy who lives on the other si..




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Rebecca Tope / Caroline Lennon Available 29th July 2025

Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden but Thea ..




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John Connolly / Jeff Harding Available 15th August 2025

It is deep winter. The darkness is unending. The private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished ..




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Martin Edwards / John Telfer Julia Franklin Jeff Harding Ben Onwukwe David Thorpe

A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher recounts a mu..




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Rebecca Tope / Caroline Lennon

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










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Peter Robinson / Mark Meadows Available 11th September 2025

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










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Simon Brett / Simon Brett Available 13th August 2025

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




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Henning Mankell / Seán Barrett

Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is..










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Rebecca Tope / Caroline Lennon

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




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Simon Brett / Simon Brett

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










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Peter Turnbull / Gordon Griffin Available 6th August 2025

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




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Mick Herron / Seán Barrett Available 2nd August 2025

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




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James Patterson; Maxine Paetro / Antonia Beamish Available 9th August 2025

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that push..




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James Henry / Stephen Thorne

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




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Roger Silverwood / Gordon Griffin

When a man is found dead and his carer a good-time girl is suspected of his murder Detective Inspect..

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Ann Cleeves / Simon Mattacks

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







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Chris Carter / George Newburn

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



















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Mick Herron / Julia Franklin

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
















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Robert Gold / George Weightman Available 28th July 2025

Ben Harper's life changed for ever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. It..










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Oliver Harris / Richard Coyle

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







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Kate Ellis / Gordon Griffin Available 29th July 2025

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







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Kate Ellis / Gordon Griffin

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




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Tony Black / Garth Cruickshank Available 9th August 2025

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




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Laura Wilson / Seán Barrett Available 8th August 2025

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




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Mick Herron / Julia Franklin Available 15th August 2025

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







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Simon Brett / Simon Brett

When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatic Society’s produc..




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Mike Hollow / Simon Mattacks

December 1940. Christmas is coming but the season of goodwill is overshadowed by the death and destr..










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Catherine Aird / Gordon Griffin

When Jack Haines reports a break-in at his greenhouse the motive of the intruder is unclear. Other t..

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Suzette A. Hill / Julia Franklin Available 5th August 2025

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




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Peter Turnbull / Gordon Griffin Available 7th August 2025

When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice centre each with the word “murd..

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Michael Ridpath / Seán Barrett

Conrad de Lancey has seen enough of evil: the shadow of fear on the faces of innocents; the sudden l..




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Robert Goddard / Naoko Mori

Umiko Wada has had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mot..
















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Stephen Leather / Paul Thornley

The twentieth century is drawing to a close and the Russians are up to all sorts of dirty tricks in ..




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Simon Brett / Simon Brett

Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library successful author Burton St Clair invites his..




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Rebecca Tope / Caroline Lennon

Thea is tired of having to entertain Drew's children during the summer holidays so she accepts a com..




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Andy McDermott / Simon Mattacks

Alex Reeve was Operative 66. A former special ops soldier and one of the UK's deadliest weapons he w..






















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Ann Cleeves / Kenny Blyth

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







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Quintin Jardine / James Bryce

Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service but he's never far from a case. ..







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Robert Galbraith / Robert Glenister Available 9th August 2025

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son Will has gone to join a..







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James Craig / Joe Jameson

When a fortune in uncut diamonds is nicked by a group of soldiers Inspector Carlyle teams up with Ca..

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Simon Brett / Simon Brett Available 28th July 2025

When Carole goes for a trim at Connie’s Clip Joint she doesn’t expect to find herself at the sc..




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Mick Herron / Seán Barrett Available 27th July 2025

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




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Jo Nesbo / Seán Barrett

Summer. A boy is lying on the floor of an Oslo appartment. He is bleeding to death. Outside the chur..




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Richard Hull / Gordon Griffin

Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Llwll. His aunt thinks Llwll an idyll..




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Rebecca Tope / Julia Franklin

It’s with mixed motives that Karen Slocombe’s cousin Penn pays her a visit. Not only does Penn w..




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Quintin Jardine / James Bryce Available 29th July 2025

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion Police Scotland has a tough c..




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Judy Finnigan / Jilly Bond

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

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Katie Marsh / Helen Keeley David Thorpe

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







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Jonathan Kellerman / Jeff Harding Available 4th August 2025

In an upscale Bel Air property two lovers are found dead in a swimming pool. The man is the playboy ..




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Helen Cox / Colleen Prendergast Available 2nd August 2025

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




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Mick Herron / Seán Barrett Available 17th August 2025

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




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Edward Marston / Nick McArdle Available 3rd August 2025

In this thrilling selection of short stories a young porter is found dead in a coal tub; Colbeck dev..




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Danny Miller / Crawford Logan Available 19th August 2025

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

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Louise Penny / Adam Sims Available 5th August 2025

As the villagers of Three Pines prepare for a special celebration Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvo..

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M. J. Trow / M. J. Trow

Lestrade’s detectives at Scotland Yard have promised him that 1910 is going to be a peaceful year...







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John Lawton / Nicola Bryant Lewis Hancock

Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in the nation's capital with her second h..










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Mick Herron / Seán Barrett

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










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Barbara Nadel / Sean Barrett

When historian Suzan Tan is asked to examine the contents of a derelict villa on the Bosphorus she i..




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Edward Marston / Gordon Griffin

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




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Amy McCulloch / Katie Leung

When struggling journalist Cecily Wong is invited to join an expedition to climb one of the world's ..