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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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