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

The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing ..

It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel. N..

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

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

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

When Constable Nick leads the long-established procession of villagers around Aidensfield's ancient ..

It is May 1971 and Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna a..

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

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman?s watchful eye. A jewel heist is plan..

?Small hostilities were growing; vague jealousies were gaining strength; and far off wasn't there a ..

?Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock ..

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

London 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout and mystery abounds in the park..

Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sy..

The body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred y..

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

Responding to reports of deadly screams in the Ironbridge Gorge Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan is f..

A most controversial wedding is about to take place in Bath's gorgeous Abbey. The daughter of career..

When unexpected disaster strikes Lord Westfield's Men during a packed performance Nicholas Bracewell..

When an actor is brutally murdered in a tavern brawl Nicholas Bracewell manager of Lord Westfield?s ..

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

Sally Page is an MI5 'footie' a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities..

Summer in Frantham had been long and lazy and DI MacGregor had enjoyed the peace after a traumatic y..

1817. Dawn breaks on a summer?s day in Chalk Farm London and the scene is set for a duel between a l..

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

We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther a wealthy retired manufacturer is found dead in his seat on th..

When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera Detective Inspector Meredith..

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

Thea is tired of having to entertain Drew's children during the summer holidays so she accepts a com..

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

It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German..

'The horror on the train great though it may turn out to be will not compare with the horror that ex..

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

Strangefields Farm is notorious for its sinister history ever since serial killer Jackson Temples lu..

Jack Reacher has no place to go and all the time in the world to get there so a remote railroad stop..

The sixth and final unputdownable mystery in the thrilling and bestselling SCARLET AND IVY series pe..

After a tough week Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in but as she steps out of h..

Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer she..

Having been booked to give a talk at Fethering Library successful author Burton St Clair invites his..

Diana Davies has been head of the family business since the death of her husband an infamous bank ro..

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten h..

As Constable Nick awaits news of his future he reminisces about times gone by in Aidensfield and rec..

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

Brexit looms and Charles Thoroughgood Chief of MI6 is forbidden for political reasons from spying on..

It's the summer of love in late 1960s England. Astronauts are preparing to land on the moon the war ..

Nicholas Bracewell befriends a young beggar who is trying to eke out a living as a counterfeit crank..

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

In the morning they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon they sent him back to school. Night ..

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

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

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota Jack Reacher has fi..

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

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police now he's a drifter of no f..

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

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

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd's career path has always put a strain on his family. So he is far from happy t..

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

It's a perfectly normal day for Kitt Hartley at her job at the at the Vale of York University Librar..

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

?Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder..

Much against her better judgement Rina Martin accepts an invitation to join her prot?g? Tim and his ..

The Female Detective was published in 1864 and introduces the first professional female detective in..

When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decad..

Returning from a much-needed holiday Persimmon ?Simmy? Brown discovers that life in the Lake Distric..

The captain of the Newhaven to Dieppe steamer spots a small pleasure yacht lying motionless in the w..

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

DI Horton of Portsmouth CID is assigned the case of a missing person: Jasper Kenton a private invest..

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

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

Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel this story is narrated by insurance investigator Ra..

A young disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith unable to help herself or find her way ho..

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

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

When the sleepy village of Steeple Martin announces its first beer festival the locals are excited. ..

Thea Osborne's latest house-sitting assignment is a little different to the rest. Along with her spa..

1818 Carluke Lancashire. Mathew Fleming returns home to Scotland following heroic service at the Bat..

A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her terminally ill patient brutally mur..

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

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

The Reverend Dodd vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen spends his evenings reading detecti..

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

Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world a ..

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

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

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

East Anglia 1861. Alone in a first-class carriage the Swarbricks are robbed at gunpoint. But when th..