When an MP shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of ..

Essex July 1983. A boy playing sees a fox tugging at something up on a railway embankment. He approa..

Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her..

Twenty-five years ago Maggie Holt and her parents moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Bane..

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England the body of a young woman is discovered near the site o..

When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen Curtis to ask her to help sort out..

Seven days after being abducted the body of a 20-year-old woman is found on a green patch of grass b..

Maurice Mundy recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police has returned to join S..

Emily Radley's Christmas plans are shattered when she learns that her aunt Susannah is dying. Althou..

In Slough House memories are stirring all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again Loui..

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

In the Welsh borders isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw cut off from telephone access..

In June 1916 a young woman is found dead in a cinema. Harvey Marmion and Joe Keedy are assigned the ..

It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second sleuthing case. But exposing the ..

When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages te..

As Autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö on the Stockholm archipelago the island is plunged into ..

The discovery of two teenage girls’ bodies and a video of a snuff movie showing the death of one o..

Thirteen Torland Place was the scene of five terrible murders back in the 19th century and was also ..

The words Banks hears at the briefing for his first big case after gaining promotion: 'I assume you'..

1926: Joe Sandilands is back from India enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. But post-..

Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. It’s no surprise therefore when she i..

On their first night in Paris the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather the bi..

July 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College the school for e..

With her Curiosity Shop open for business Alice Carroll is finally settling into life in the picture..

After the Puritan ban on Christmas festivities Restoration London is awash with excess between Chris..

Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a..

When Victor is arrested for a murder that for once he didn't commit escape must surely be inevitable..

The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Sûreté du Québec for his first day o..

Located off the coast of South Australia Kangaroo Island lies surrounded by violent seas harbouring ..

Jennifer MacKenzie being hit by a car was a tragic accident. Or so it seemed. Until Connor Fraser is..

There’s a new killer on the streets. A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks l..

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

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

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

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

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

In a celebrity-obsessed society baby Muffin’s death is big news. Was it cot death or something mor..

Events that took place on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1910 are resurrected for Joe Sandiland..

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

A body is discovered in an empty Atlanta warehouse. It's the body of an ex-cop and from the moment S..

The White House Chief of Staff is dead discovered collapsed in his home. Paramedics say it was a hea..

DI Annie Delamere and her colleague DS Zoe Everett are off duty and enjoying a walk on the Peak Dist..

Carole Seddon hates Christmas - it all seems rather a waste of time. So when her best friend Jude dr..

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

On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house Bragley Court. Amon..

When the engine of a 737 tears itself apart at Los Angeles Airport Tom Patrick is in the wrong place..

There’s more than one way to get to Faery. It’s getting back that’s the problem… DI Adams is..

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

Private investigator Kitt Hartley and her twin sister Rebecca are preparing for a holiday in Scotlan..

From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas comes a collect..

When a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon it seems like a case of mistaken identity...

The La Fleur restaurant has a slew of unusual phenomena. Bonnet-clad apparitions pass through walls ..

As the scorching summer sun covers the small Scilly island of St Mary's DI Ben Kitto and his team ar..

SPRING 1940. GERMANY IS AT WAR. HITLER IS PREPARING TO UNLEASH THE BLITZKRIEG. IN BERLIN WHERE EVIL ..

The murder of a man on London Bridge is the first indication that the Earl of Clarendon's fears of a..

September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace...

Former lawyer Merrin McKenzie has returned to her hometown of St Ives the stunning coastal town in C..

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

Apothecary John Rawlings is intrigued when a letter arrives asking him to investigate an impostor cl..

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

A sunny Sunday afternoon a family barbecue and Naomi Baxter and her boyfriend Alex celebrate good ne..

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

When a civil servant at the newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts is found crushed beneath a monstrous ..

Boothgate House is a recently converted apartment building with a sinister past. Once an asylum for ..

When a violent murder shatters the otherwise peaceful idyll of Andaby near Hebden Bridge DS Charlott..

When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle ..

“And death shall come on soft wings to him that touches the tomb of the Pharaoh.” The wings that..

Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope ..

Sam Wylde is a Close Protection Officer to the rich and powerful. In a world dominated by men being ..

Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites a recluse in..

The most wanted man in the world is dead. Now those loyal to him seek revenge. When Navy Seals track..

He's a detective a dancer he has no respect for authority - and he's the best hope Blackpool has for..

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

A chilling conspiracy leads NYPD Red into extreme danger. Hunter Alden Jr. has it all: a beautiful w..

It's almost Christmas and Gwinny Tuffel's thoughts are on what she'll buy for DI Birch and whether s..

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

A young woman is found dead at a local beach. Sergeant Bill Granger the local policeman is called in..

When a young child goes missing on the Isles of Scilly the community rushes to help DI Ben Kitto and..

Late November 1980. Student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police off..

Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-l..

Meet the cast of Jubilee Terrace one of the most popular soap operas on British television. Recently..

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

Julia left London years ago but now she's back - and so are the ghosts of her past. Angel Glover was..

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

Dara Tailor has had to grow up fast. With a mother addicted to cocaine Dara must look after her six ..

Halloween 1899. A satanic aristocrat a missing village girl and a fire that scorches Black Abbey Tow..

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