Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-..

Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspapers. His paren..

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

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

George Furnace flight instructor at Baston Aero Club dies instantly when his plane crashes into the ..

A vigilante killer is playing judge jury and executioner in New York City. Suspects who have escaped..

Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A ..

Simon Darcourt an inventive killer with a sense of humour is creating his own celebrity talent show ..

During a blackout on the streets of London in late 1944 a young Polish land girl Rosa Nowak is sudde..

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings. So when Si..

After losing her mum in a tragic accident when she was young Chrissy Moss had to find out the hard w..

Private investigator Harry Lind doesn't believe in ghosts and so doesn't think twice about the rambl..

Karen Slocombe isn’t sure why she visited SuperFare that day - as a committed member of the Food C..

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

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

When a woman confesses to Father Will one of the monk-constables at Maddleskirk Abbey that she has c..

A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a l..

Following a personal tragedy florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to b..

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

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is kno..

A man falls to his death in western Scotland. From a distance another man watches. He approaches the..

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

When autumn storms blast Hereford centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a blown dow..

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

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor s..

There's a killer on the loose in the Lake District and the calm of an English summer is shattered. F..

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

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their sp..

When Sarah Finch was a little girl her older brother went out to play and never came back…Not know..

When members of Vigata's elite are targeted in a series of perfectly executed burglaries Inspector M..

When Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the ..

Brought up by his hard-nosed father and ferocious Spanish grandmother Xavier Aislado is a gentle gia..

Ruth Lennox beloved mother of three is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Psychothera..

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

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

His native Scotland stands on the cusp of a new era of international expansion under its charismatic..

A huge funeral for Windermere’s popular resident Barbara Dodge is taking place and florist Persimm..

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

Why did literary legend Wynn Staniland suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopp..

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow icy roads a tired driver. A bus crashes and is stranded in a ga..

Pathologist Quirke is back working in the city morgue watching over Dublin's dead. When a body is fo..

Sairey Ellis's father is writing his memoirs. As an ex-security man whose life work has been in Afri..

Every cop wants to be part of NYPD Red. It is the elite team in New York’s police department handl..

Beware of long-lost friends sleepy cats and Santa’s grotto. Think twice about gypsy curses squawki..

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

After almost five years of conflict London's exhausted inhabitants are living in a world of derelict..

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

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

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

While making merry at the York Christmas Book Fair Kitt Hartley finds herself drawn into a murder my..

A chilling conspiracy leads NYPD Red into extreme danger. Hunter Alden Jr. has it all: a beautiful w..

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

Twenty years ago Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair. The Whi..

The Secretary of Homeland Security has been shot dead at his home in Washington. The last man to see..

Although she hadn't known Leonard Mallett very well Carole Seddon feels duty bound to attend her fel..

Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her own home. No one believed her - ..

London June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings the ..

The discovery of a human skeleton and a red rucksack amongst the roots of a fallen tree jolts memori..

For Miss Cordell principal of Persephone College there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike ..

New York has seen more than its fair share of horrific attacks but the city is about to be shaken in..

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

Last Writes is a mischievously clever compendium of twenty-two short stories from the pen of classic..

Arriving at her school reunion Jennie Whitmore immediately regrets her decision. Why would she choos..

It’s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob Howard Hughes and J. Edgar Hoove..

Flora Maguire a young governess is on her way home on the SS Minneapolis after the wedding of her em..

1934. When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station her fellow-boarder..

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

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved c..

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne Sarah Tucker heads North for a closer look. She identifies..

When the bodies of missing schoolgirls start turning up former DCI Kate Burrows is dragged out of re..

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

Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one Parker ha..

It is 1997 and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County Arkansas. But no one wants..

September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace...

As the tiny community of St Agnes prepares for their annual Fifth-of-November festivities they are s..

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

It is spring and the body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is cle..

When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney’s jewellery shop she certai..

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

With a healthy disregard for rules he attracts trouble like a magnet. He has a newly assigned appren..

Amory Ames is investigating the disappearance of valuable jewellery snatched at a dinner party and l..

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

What does a man do when he discovers a process like Omega Minus? He wishes he hadn't. Scientist Jame..

With Valentine's Day fast approaching Persimmon “Simmy” Brown's flower shop near Lake Windermere..

Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodi..

Behind the closed doors of San Francisco’s mansions beautiful people party the nights away. But so..

New York’s Lombardo Steak House is famous for three reasons - the menu the clientele and now the g..