As the daughter of a London crime boss PC Philomena McCarthy walks a thin blue line keeping the two ..

Alberta Mansbridge sets the table with teacups mulling over the guests who will be arriving within t..

George Surridge director of the Birmington Zoo is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsin..

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer . . . On a hot August night Lt. Eve Dallas is called..

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back a ridge in the North D..

Brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they've had as much success as is p..

Night & Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters t..

Bestselling phenomenon Simon McCleave is back with another Anglesey-set gripping crime thriller full..

Four generations of the Black family have farmed Blackpeak Station in the high country of New Zealan..

Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist’s career wi..

When hordes of people descend on the picturesque village of Nasely for the annual celebration of its..

A murder on stage. A cast full of suspects. Can dresser to the stars Jayne unravel the mystery? It i..

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by..

The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman’s flesh and the beak ..

Meg Morrissey will not believe that her husband James committed suicide. A famous naturalist James w..

In a small town in the Deep South Flora Dane is part of a task force committed to hunting down every..

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle...

Carole Seddon doesn't care for the theatre. But her neighbour Jude counts the job of actress among h..

Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of burglaries which take a ..

London Rules might not be written down but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's Park's..

‘Utterly addictive. Compulsive twisty tense.’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS author of Local Girl MissingJust ho..

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find h..

Ex child star Posy Starling is finally filming her dream role - Dahlia Lively in The Lady Detective ..

This killer has a story. When a small-time crook is shot down in the streets of Minneapolis all sign..

The honeymoon was over . . . and Jim and his English bride Sarah had come home to Kinness to settle ..

One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves..

In a tranquil Kentish village Dr Sandys and his wife are preparing for Christmas with their guest Li..

Connie Winchester was once a celebrated music prodigy. . . but those days are long behind her. So wh..

Following an argument with her British boyfriend Chinese student Min Li is abducted whilst walking t..

Julia Sutherland isn't too sure about her new colleague. Ellis Kirkbride is friendly charismatic and..

When his former deputy Julie invites Detective Peter Diamond and his partner Paloma to spend a week ..

Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn sitting on his porch when his attention is caught by a seagull..

News of the murder first came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning. They found the st..

Antoinette Conway is still on the Murder squad but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran ..

A city on the brink. A mother on the edge. A nightmare that only DI Helen Grace can end. Sometimes t..

On a hot midsummer day in the Surrey countryside close friends Kristin Vee Bibi and Hailey are celeb..

Agatha Raisin can think of nothing duller than a lecture on birdwatching. . . but events take a thri..

In the spring of 1990 we return to Champton where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter..

Ever since the death of her husband Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage high up on th..

North of England. Cumbria. Salome Delaney didn't have a great start in life. But her abusive childho..

At a star-studded opening night for the Royal Academy's celebration of renowned artist Max Bruce som..

The distinguished industrialist the fair girl and the aggressive young man - although Superintendent..

Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother Steph runs a women's shelter for local prostitut..

A group of old university friends travel to Unst to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends t..

Wyatt Riggins the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau has gone missing leaving behind a ce..

His name is carefully guarded but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffm..

What brings people together often throws them apart especially when it involves family. Newly promot..

'Thirty-seven years in the force and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind..

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she ..

When a civil servant at the newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts is found crushed beneath a monstrous ..

When the decomposed body of a woman is found by railway tracks outside Bristol all indications are t..

On a bird-watching trip aboard the Jessie Ellen George Palmer-Jones and the other avid crew members ..

With her Curiosity Shop open for business Alice Carroll is finally settling into life in the picture..

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective..

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

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

Fredrik Welin is a 70-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago whe..

The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police sca..

When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbour Liliana Lombardo after her car is interfered w..

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..

His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago during the Urban Wars he was part of a small secre..

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wif..

In an unassuming house on a quiet residential street in south London a husband and wife are discover..

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returns in a case that will test her to her limit.OF ALL ..

The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away ever since she was held prisoner as..

When the fate of Áróra's missing sister Isafold is discovered Áróra is relieved that she can hal..

In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Ler..

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel one hundred and eighteen cardinals f..

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

When a gentleman arrives at Montalbano's station to report an armed robbery on his wife that ended w..

'Expertly plotted and mesmerising' - Mick Herron A local myth. A deadly threat. Vera Stanhope star o..

Despite many years living in South Devon DI Wesley Peterson has never visited the tiny island of St ..

Inspector Mehmet Süleyman is on holiday in Romania when his distant cousin calls. Nurettin Süleyma..

There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dom..

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

An expensive mobile home abandoned in a new housing development reveals a fearful secret when finall..

Twenty years retired David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. And he's not ..

On the anniversary of her mother's death CEO-in-waiting Robyn Sandoval goes for a morning run. Her f..

Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en Party? Almost ever..

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat young Detective In..

January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris an army officer Georges Picquart witnesses..

Greenwich south-east London. Five bodies have been found all young women all ritualistically murdere..

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

West Country Wildlife's birdwatching package to America has presented tour guide Rob Earl with the p..

Even though its famous opera house has shuttered its doors for the war Covent Garden remains one of ..

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