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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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