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

The Skelf women live in the face of death every day running a funeral directors and private investig..

The heirs of a Périgordian sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited and their father's e..

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

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

Dawn Prentice was already known to the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit. The previous summer she had lo..

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that push..

The affluent seaside resort of Smalting is unaccustomed to crime. So when human remains are found be..

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

Iceland 1934: Two boys playing see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them a..

Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his wife Detective Inspector Gemma James h..

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen appearing on the front pages of every news..

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

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

Newly estranged from his girlfriend Lindy Hey Inspector Domenic Jejeune returns to Southern Ontario ..

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

December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive Works is an army of men pourin..

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

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

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

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

A handsome if slightly shabby stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as h..

Primavera Blackstone has found contentment in a small Spanish village by the sea. A fiercely protect..

As the villagers of Three Pines prepare for a special celebration Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvo..

Former investment banker Johan Golding - Joe - is the newest member of the Hartley and Edwards Inves..

1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its so..

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

It's been six years since 14-year-old Marvel Trustrom went missing - six long years for Marvel's ser..

US exchange student Hieronymus Beck is Professor Jack Griffen's biggest fan. Why else would he invei..

When Private Enquiry Agent Oz Blackstone opens the door of the flat in Ebeneezer Street the sight th..

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

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

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak artist and pet portraitist ..

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

Selma Falck's personal life and career as a lawyer have hit rock bottom. That is until Hege Chin Mor..

A serial killer is loose in Yorkshire and has claimed three victims in three months. Eleven days bef..

Adam and Colin are aboard The Elysian cruising towards Italy to see Adam get hitched and are determi..

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

When the body of a herdsman is discovered in a farm building Detective Sergeant Den Cooper is more t..

Primavera is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. The attrac..

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

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

Prior to assuming his new role with a different constabulary Danny Maik has taken a holiday in Singa..

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

When Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night she intends to have fun to behav..

Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn’t slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz S..

When DS Charlotte Banks is suspended from the police on suspicion of assaulting a suspect in the bur..

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

Kurt Wallander's life looks like it has taken a turn for the better when his offer on a new house is..

Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around the world aid worker Úrsula has ret..

The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in Devon in 1985 shocked the country a..

Judy Carrier hotshot lawyer at Rosato & Associates has always championed the underdog. When her aunt..

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

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

Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter Lindsay ..

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

When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard DS Wesley Peter..

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

The event of the Périgord tourist season is to be the re-enactment of the liberation of the histori..

A suspicious funeral a fatal encounter at a garden centre of all places and a country walk marred by..

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

The traditional Appleby Horse Fair hosts the largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe. ..

Trapped in a burning cabin on a freezing snow-covered mountain Selma Falck has no idea where she is ..

Oz Blackstone didn't go looking for fame - it jumped out of an alleyway and mugged him with a fistfu..

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

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

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

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

Fiona Gardner was murdered six years ago in what appeared to be an open-and-shut case. The man conde..

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

When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard it seems like an acci..

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

Thea reconnects with her friend Emmy while on a visit to the church in Baunton near Cirencester with..

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

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his t..

After cracking their first case as a private investigation team Oz Blackstone and Primavera Philips ..

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

Ten years ago Oz Blackstone movie icon died tragically while filming in remote Guatemala; mourned by..

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

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

On suspension and unable to work DCI Domenic Jejeune finds his attention snared by an unexplained de..

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

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..

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

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

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