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

In the autumn of 1944 George Starling prepares to exact revenge on the person he hates most in the w..

World War Two has ended but the peace is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex..

1979: four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a classmate - and film the att..

Sam Wylde is hot on the heels of her ex-husband who has snatched her only daughter Jess. A former Pe..

Summer 1381. The Great Revolt has been crushed. Brother Athelstan meanwhile is preparing for a pilgr..

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

Christmas 1951 Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners a..

Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor hoping to lay to rest the ghost of his uncle who disappeared aged 1..

Kate Shugak is determined to convict the odious Louis Deem who has been arrested and tried for sever..

In Alaska somebody disappears every day. Hunters who head into the wilderness? Fishermen who brave t..

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

At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each..

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

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

In 1664 four years after Charles II is restored to the throne Mercia Blakewood stands to lose everyt..

When a year after she went missing the body of 19-year-old student Elizabeth Williams is discovered ..

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

Salt water lifts blood. Only salt water. Loch Lomond is a mile deep but the woman's body surfaced an..

Young Tom French was found dead lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast with his head bashed in and hi..

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

Clairmont Texas is home to some of the South's wealthiest families. When Emily Page and her husband ..

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

Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune hopes an overseas birding trip will hold some clues to solving his f..

May 1381. The Great Revolt draws ever nearer. The Upright Men openly roam the streets of London wait..

?The dead can't speak to us? Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. Sometimes only an outside..

Twenty-five years ago Stella Guzzo beat her daughter to death and then walked up the street to play ..

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

A few weeks after her father's death Tommie McCloud receives a letter from Rosalina Marchetti in Chi..

Dieter Hess an aged spy is dead and John Bachelor his MI5 handler is in deep deep trouble. Death has..

Why would a killer ignore expensive jewellery and take a pair of turtledoves as the only bounty? Thi..

1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days o..

Horniman Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients reaching to the highest in ..

The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear ..

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

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

What's an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning's pile of manuscript submi..

It was a deal to die for. And somebody will. Paul Murray is an ex-Olympic runner so his training is ..

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

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straigh..

Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an el..

When a body is discovered locked inside a church crypt its throat torn out the victim is quickly ide..

In the village of Spire murder is afoot. Wealthy landowner Alexander Earl of Greengrass is caught wi..

Dallas November 2nd 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6000. He finds hims..

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female le..

A group of young Irish migrants leave a man called Hopper for dead on an outback road in Australia. ..

A dead body in the prayer hall of a mosque isn't the best start to the day for anyone. But for Detec..

Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie?s Cottage on the North Pennines to compl..

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

Forty years ago Exeter's Cathedral Close was the scene of a vicious ambush. Afterwards the bodies le..

Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent decades trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by ..

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

February 1381. London lies frozen in the grip of one of the bitterest winters on record. The ever-ri..

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

1949. An unsigned letter arrives on the desk of Chief Inspector Derry of the Canterbury police. Encl..

When his most celebrated case is suddenly reopened Detective Chief Inspector Jejeune's long-buried s..

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

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

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

June 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London determined to overturn both crown and church. ..

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

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

Already an international hit a sly sizzling mystery set in the Italian Alps the first in a sensation..

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

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

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

Jack Taylor has again hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead the other has stopped speakin..

Who is stalking Seffi Callard the world?s most fashionable spiritualist medium - now a paranoid recl..

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

Los Angeles 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieuten..

1943: The newly formed Homicide division of the Victoria Police has been struggling to counter littl..

A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy. Los Angeles 15th January 1947..

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950 Los Angeles..

Usually sharp-witted editor Sam Clair stumbles through her post-launch-party morning with the hangov..

THE RICHARD & JUDY PICK 'Deliciously dark and utterly addictive ? my favourite Ruth Ware yet? LUCY F..

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

For the past ten years David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for the murder of Della Harrin..

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

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

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

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

Small towns can hide big secrets but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into th..

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

Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terr..

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

Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered..

February 1381. A ruthless killer known as the Ignifer - Fire Bringer - is rampaging through London. ..