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

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June 1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the edge of the moor physician Gabriel T..

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Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. Having spent his life ta..

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

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

In Unamurra - a drought-scarred one-pub town deep in the outback - two men are savagely murdered a m..

A group of old university friends travel to Unst to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends t..

Deep beneath the English Channel a small army of vicious terrorists has seized control of the Eurost..

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

When a schoolgirl is found dead in a North London park DI Charlie George is not short of suspects. I..

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When Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables - to meet an unusual new client and his owner Sonia D..

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

Fredrik Welin is a 70-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago whe..

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

Three young women have gone missing. They're all pretty mid-twenties - someone clearly has a type. B..

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

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

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

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

As the villagers of Three Pines prepare for a special celebration Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvo..

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

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

Alexander Blix is a broken man. Convicted for avenging his daughter's death he is being held in one ..

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

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When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott she is horrified to discover that it contai..

Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taki..

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

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

When a horrified bridesmaid finds the body of a young woman at a wedding reception it makes the brid..

On New Year's Eve Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests._x000D_His lakeside holiday homes are a succ..

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

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

Iceland 2017: When a young Italian tourist is found brutally murdered at a sacred church in northern..

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

Winter has arrived in the town of Windermere and has bought with it the death of Frances Henderson t..

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

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

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

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

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

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Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle...

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

World War Two has ended but the peace is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex..

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

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Oslo New Year’s Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion and the city is put..

In an orphanage outside Oslo twelve-year-old Olav is causing havoc. The institution's ageing directo..

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

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

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

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

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

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