Staying alive becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and hun..

Two dead bodies: the first a local PI of suspect reputation - gunned down near the beach at Santa Te..

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

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When a man with a gun breaks into her school nursery teacher Louise Kennedy knows there’s not like..

The small community of Akranes is devastated after a young man dies in a mysterious house fire. When..

When single mother Maríanna disappears from her home leaving an apologetic note on the kitchen tabl..

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

This is a fact: Ryan Summers walked into Three Rivers College and killed 13 women then himself. But ..

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A string of fatal arson attacks has broken out in San Francisco. The targets have one thing in commo..

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

Mma Ramotswe is still engaged to Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni and wonders when a day for the wedding will b..

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

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

January 1381. As guests of the Regent John of Gaunt Brother Athelstan and Sir John Cranston are atte..

For Hannah Shapiro this particular nightmare began eight years ago when Jack Morgan owner of Private..

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

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

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

Paddy Meehan has just started work on the Scottish Daily News when a toddler is abducted. Two eleven..

When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate clutching a shotgun few se..

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

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago. On board was Lars Tobiasson..

P.I. Craig Gisto head of the latest branch of Private is enjoying the glamorous launch party with hi..

Pete never wanted another child. Before baby Erin was born they were happy. If Natalie hadn't got pr..

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

Atlanta 1974. As a brutal killing and a furious manhunt rock the city Kate Murphy wonders if her fir..

When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident Shetland detective Jimmy Perez..

Detective Lindsay Boxer’s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is ca..

He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists codenamed Saladin. Ten years ago he blew a plane o..

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

Called to a Southampton nightclub Detective Inspector Helen Grace cuts the duct tape from the asphyx..

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

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She even feels she knows the people who live i..

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Bruno now Chief of Police for the whole Vézère valley has an unusual challenge: teaching at his fr..

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

So many people had reason to hate her but did anyone have reason to kill her? Everyone dies famous i..

The wealthy powerful Snæberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set among..

Winter storms lash the Isles of Scilly when DI Ben Kitto ferries the islands' priest to St Helen's. ..

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

When Arora receives a call telling her that a child she's never met is claiming to be her missing si..

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

Somewhere out there in the darkness a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago Chief Inspector Arman..

Maureen O'Donnell is a psychiatric patient stuck in an affair with Douglas a shady therapist. She’..

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

Sicily 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigata the town's inhabitants immediately become unsettled. ..

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. S..

Responding to a call at a mansion in an East Bay neighbourhood Deputy Coroner Clay Edison comes upon..

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

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

Charismatic chef Jared Keaton is serving a life sentence for the murder of his daughter Elizabeth. H..

Detective Alex Cross and Bree’s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of ..

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

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

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . . Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he needs ..

It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. Then the call comes in the mi..

The last time that Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris she was nursing a couple of broken ribs and reek..

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Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter but she knows when she's being played..

With a missing girl in the news Claire Scott can’t help but be reminded of her sister who disappea..

Sara Linton moved to Atlanta trying to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor she..

Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private it has become the world’s most effective invest..

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

When the body of a young woman is discovered in Lake Grant a note left by the shore points to suicid..

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

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

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

July 2012. The Games have arrived in London. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years..

Meet Tommy Two-Shoes Ballroom Bev and their quirky troupe of dancers when the glamorous world of bal..

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out ..

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

At 1a.m. in a deserted Pennsylvania library Nat Turnbull's cell phone rings. His former mentor Profe..

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

At Timmins & Ross publishing house Samantha Clair knows she can rely on her star author Breda McManu..

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

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

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

An archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains. Is it an ancient fi..

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

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves ..

It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are t..

Seventeen-year-old Tessa dubbed a 'Black-Eyed Susan' by the media became famous for being the only v..

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

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