In the village of Spire murder is afoot. Wealthy landowner Alexander Earl of Greengrass is caught wi..

On a summer's evening Robert and Greta Gerdner are shot dead at their isolated home in the Devon cou..

It's been a few months since murder tore the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tr..

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

When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village DI Wesley Peterson is called in to in..

Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated su..

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

Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered..

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

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

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

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

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

When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field he is de..

London Rules might not be written down but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's Park's..

A handsome if slightly shabby stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as h..

Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown's wedding day to Christopher Henderson has arrived on a glorious summer's da..

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

DI Wesley Peterson has never witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. A man has been brutally murdered ..

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

When Desiré Rosenkvist of Stockholm Police receives a letter two things are immediately clear: the ..

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

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

When a man with a gun breaks into her school nursery teacher Louise Kennedy knows there’s not like..

For one week everything in Luke Miller's life is perfect. Surprised with a belated honeymoon by his ..

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

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

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

Each girl survived an unthinkable horror. Now someone wants them dead...They were the victims of sep..

After a lifetime of bad decisions PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He's in therapy his bu..

A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her o..

Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terr..

A suspicious funeral a fatal encounter at a garden centre of all places and a country walk marred by..

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony it is assumed that she ..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but when one of her neighbours goes missing she f..

When 15-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has li..

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

Set in the picturesque town of Askham near Ullswater the story opens with the funeral of Humphrey Cr..

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

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

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..

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

Serpent's Point in South Devon is the focus of local legends. The large house on the headland is shr..

He thinks the truth will set her free. She knows it will kill them. A heart-stopping psychological t..

When DI Wesley Peterson is summoned to investigate a killing he assumes that it is a routine case. B..

News of the murder first came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning. They found the st..

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

DS Wesley Peterson newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth has his hands full when a chi..

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

When a letter arrives at Tradmouth police station addressed to a DCI Norbert it causes quite a stir...

Archaeologist Neil Watson did not expect to find the body of American veteran Norman Openheim in the..

Mexico is famous for its rich culture ancient ruins dazzling beaches and spicy cuisine. But there is..

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

Brought to you by Penguin.Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: fir..

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

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

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

Little Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 and when he never returned home his grieving family as..

The decaying body of a woman is discovered in a suburban house in South Devon following an anonymous..

When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled on her wedding day DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming d..

Two young women are missing connected only by their attendance at the same party hosted by a notorio..

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

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

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

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

When Kent Abner - baby doctor model husband and father good neighbour - is found dead in his town ho..

From the bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps the writer Stephen King calls 'an absolute mast..

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

When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police hea..

Ellie Parker had everything. Perfect husband. Perfect apartment. Perfect friends and the perfect job..

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

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

When Dr James Dalcott is shot dead in his cottage it looks very much like an execution. And as DI We..

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

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

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. She think..

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

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

When Darren Hatman reports his daughter Leanne missing DI Wesley Peterson isn't too concerned. Howev..

On her way home from an all-night surveillance job V.I. Warshawski's dogs lead her on a mad chase th..

Lilith Benley and her mother rumoured to be witches were convicted of the brutal murder of two teena..

A teenage girl is strangled and left for dead on a lonely country lane in Devon. The police are baff..

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

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

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

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

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