As the daughter of a London crime boss PC Philomena McCarthy walks a thin blue line keeping the two ..

When journalist Ben Harper is asked to help re-examine an unsolved murder case from thirty years ago..

Twenty years retired David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. And he's not ..

When widow Mrs Pargeter has her morning coffee her intention is to admire her beautiful garden in pe..

For Mrs Pargeter it is a matter of principle that she should complete any of her late husband's unfi..

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

The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama; and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Ser..

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

Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick finds herself standing over a dead body in the Shady Oaks retireme..

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

When a man is shot dead on Bonfire Night DI Wesley Peterson realises this will not be the quiet mont..

Gardner’s Hill in Western Australia is a sleepy remote town. It is home to Police Sergeant Chandle..

The Darke family and their associates are under attack. Ruby's club has been razed to the ground. He..

Three killers are on the rampage in the capital and dead bodies are piling up almost as fast as the ..

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

Bruno Courr?ges is chief of police of the lovely Dordogne town of St Denis. One autumn morning he co..

Fethering residents Jude and Carole get more than they bargained for when a meal in their local pub ..

Umiko Wada has had quite enough excitement in her life. With her husband recently murdered and a mot..

In the pitch dark nine feet under water police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a ..

Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service w..

It is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals that finds Mrs Pargeter supporti..

Precious Ramotswe that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build' is well-known ..

Having given up a high-powered job Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when she..

Anarchy hits Dunedin when a cargo ship runs aground on Aramoana Beach amid a crowd of onlookers. One..

Brought to you by Penguin.Vivvy Bouchet respected scientist and reluctant psychic saved a boy's life..

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

On a sunny seaside August morning a woman on maternity leave spots a body wedged in rocks on a Scott..

West Country Wildlife's birdwatching package to America has presented tour guide Rob Earl with the p..

The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away ever since she was held prisoner as..

The targeted murder of four officers is only the first in a series of attacks that leaves police sca..

Simmy is four months pregnant working partly from home and partly from her Windermere florist shop w..

A murder on stage. A cast full of suspects. Can dresser to the stars Jayne unravel the mystery? It i..

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

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

In post-war Flanders Adelais de Wolf's family is slowly inexplicably falling apart: her mother everm..

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them: nothing but twelve miles of empty road...

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

Jack Morgan head of Private Investigations the global PI agency of the rich and famous is being push..

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

Profiler and therapist Kez Lanyon is slowly getting used to her new job working in a behavioural sci..

Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan is enjoying a vacation evening at a cosy Yorkshire pub ..

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

DC Sam Shephard is stationed in Dunedin CIB a newbie at the bottom of the pecking order. When a youn..

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

Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wif..

During a broiling heatwave the inner circle of a high-profile charity attend a critical meeting at W..

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

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

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

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

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

Was it a case of murder by committee at The Gillibry Island Bird Obsevatory Trust? The members of th..

Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery..

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female le..

London is under siege. Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in nine different l..

In 1942 six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Twelve years later she's ready for retribution...

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

A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to..

A senior civil servant dies in suspicious circumstances. A sensitive file in his possession and evid..

Meet Major Bricket an infrequent resident of Highfield House in Stunston Peveril Suffolk. His work a..

After a long period of “resting” life is looking up for Charles Paris who has been cast as the G..

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

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

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

Nurse Florence Shaw is worried about her patient and friend elderly widow Nora Selleck. When she enc..

As the snow falls thickly Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the crow..

Things have been difficult for Annie since her husband left. Her teenage daughter Isla has become a ..

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

As Christmas draws nearer Simmy Henderson is invited to a party in Glenridding at the heart of the L..

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

Umiko Wada never set out to be a private detective let alone become the one-woman operation behind t..

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

A classic collection of Agatha Christie short stories taken from Poirot’s Early Cases and read by ..

DSI William Lorimer first meets Meredith St Claire when he is giving a careers talk at his goddaught..

Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne’s Christmas production of Cinderella Charles..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but she has more tolerance for her hippy neighbou..

London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-..

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Then a local college stude..

It's Christmas 1952. Blizzards come to Elderby a remote village high on the North York Moors. Is the..

When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatic Society’s produc..

'Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions..

When the owner of Polly’s Cake Shop announces her retirement the Fethering residents start to worr..

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. S..

1988: Thirteen-year-old Andy Miller and his friends - Carl Brian Johnny and Gavin - become witnesses..

November and evening is closing in as DI Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a stolen ca..

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

Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new man Piers Targett who's keen to get her invol..