The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel one hundred and eighteen cardinals f..

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

The honeymoon was over . . . and Jim and his English bride Sarah had come home to Kinness to settle ..

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

Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspapers. His paren..

Twenty years ago Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair. The Whi..

Simon Darcourt an inventive killer with a sense of humour is creating his own celebrity talent show ..

With a healthy disregard for rules he attracts trouble like a magnet. He has a newly assigned appren..

August 1958. DI Stratton has just been posted to Notting Hill. Stratton's new manor is rife with rac..

Private investigator Harry Lind doesn't believe in ghosts and so doesn't think twice about the rambl..

Pathologist Quirke is back working in the city morgue watching over Dublin's dead. When a body is fo..

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

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

There's a killer on the loose in the Lake District and the calm of an English summer is shattered. F..

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

While making merry at the York Christmas Book Fair Kitt Hartley finds herself drawn into a murder my..

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

Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodi..

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

Greenwich south-east London. Five bodies have been found all young women all ritualistically murdere..

What does a man do when he discovers a process like Omega Minus? He wishes he hadn't. Scientist Jame..

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything it's to keep his head down. Es..

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

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

It is 1997 and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County Arkansas. But no one wants..

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne Sarah Tucker heads North for a closer look. She identifies..

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

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

Every cop wants to be part of NYPD Red. It is the elite team in New York’s police department handl..

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

George Furnace flight instructor at Baston Aero Club dies instantly when his plane crashes into the ..

With Valentine's Day fast approaching Persimmon “Simmy” Brown's flower shop near Lake Windermere..

On a bird-watching trip aboard the Jessie Ellen George Palmer-Jones and the other avid crew members ..

When autumn storms blast Hereford centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a blown dow..

Amory Ames is investigating the disappearance of valuable jewellery snatched at a dinner party and l..

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

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their sp..

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

Following a personal tragedy florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to b..

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

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

When a woman confesses to Father Will one of the monk-constables at Maddleskirk Abbey that she has c..

During a blackout on the streets of London in late 1944 a young Polish land girl Rosa Nowak is sudde..

Brought up by his hard-nosed father and ferocious Spanish grandmother Xavier Aislado is a gentle gia..

Sairey Ellis's father is writing his memoirs. As an ex-security man whose life work has been in Afri..

Behind the closed doors of San Francisco’s mansions beautiful people party the nights away. But so..

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

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

At the Central Criminal Court an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine an active partic..

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion Police Scotland has a tough c..

When the fate of Áróra's missing sister Isafold is discovered Áróra is relieved that she can hal..

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

Ruth Lennox beloved mother of three is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Psychothera..

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

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved c..

Meg Morrissey will not believe that her husband James committed suicide. A famous naturalist James w..

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

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woma..

After losing her mum in a tragic accident when she was young Chrissy Moss had to find out the hard w..

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

A vigilante killer is playing judge jury and executioner in New York City. Suspects who have escaped..

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

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is kno..

In an unassuming house on a quiet residential street in south London a husband and wife are discover..

Flora Maguire a young governess is on her way home on the SS Minneapolis after the wedding of her em..

Someone is scraping the scum off the streets of Galway and they want Jack Taylor to get involved. A ..

A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a l..

The Secretary of Homeland Security has been shot dead at his home in Washington. The last man to see..

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

Recovering from a near-fatal shooting and tormented by memories of a world beyond this one Parker ha..

“For the most part the dead man received public sympathy. A decent hardworking chap with not an en..

London June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings the ..

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

When Sarah Finch was a little girl her older brother went out to play and never came back…Not know..

The discovery of a human skeleton and a red rucksack amongst the roots of a fallen tree jolts memori..

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor s..

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

When the bodies of missing schoolgirls start turning up former DCI Kate Burrows is dragged out of re..

It is spring and the body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is cle..

His native Scotland stands on the cusp of a new era of international expansion under its charismatic..

When Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the ..

New York’s Lombardo Steak House is famous for three reasons - the menu the clientele and now the g..

Last Writes is a mischievously clever compendium of twenty-two short stories from the pen of classic..

Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-..

A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from nov..

After almost five years of conflict London's exhausted inhabitants are living in a world of derelict..

When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney’s jewellery shop she certai..