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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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