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

London 1869: The body of a middle-aged man is found tangled in a mass of rope and wooden wreckage ne..

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

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

The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. The beat on the streets ..

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

When historian Suzan Tan is asked to examine the contents of a derelict villa on the Bosphorus she i..

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

Looking back it all started on the day of the fair and the terrible accident. When twelve-year-old E..

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

London 1870: A Hungarian immigrant is found dead with a bayonet through his heart his fingers broken..

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

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

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

Prague 1599. Christian Stern a young doctor has just arrived in the city. On his first evening he fi..

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

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

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

A man wearing his daughter's wedding ring is found in front of his fireplace shot in the chest. A fu..

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

When a young trooper is shot in the head at the Regiment’s renowned Killing House Nick Stone is pe..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

When New York psychologist Will Hardy's wife is killed he and his teenage daughter Bernadette move i..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cleo knows she should be happy for her brother Mark. He's found someone new after the sudden death o..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Returning from a much-needed holiday Persimmon “Simmy” Brown discovers that life in the Lake Dis..

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

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

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

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

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

It's a snowy Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. Just as ..

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

When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbour Liliana Lombardo after her car is interfered w..

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

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

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

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

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

Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn sitting on his porch when his attention is caught by a seagull..

Detective D. D. Warren and Flora Dane are in a race against time to save a young girl's life - or br..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MI6 has a dark side that needs men like Elliot Kane. He's spent fifteen years effectively managing d..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight Freda Simonson the only witness to ..

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

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

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