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

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

US exchange student Hieronymus Beck is Professor Jack Griffen's biggest fan. Why else would he invei..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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..

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

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

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

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

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

The words Banks hears at the briefing for his first big case after gaining promotion: 'I assume you'..

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

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

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

With a missing girl in the news Claire Scott can’t help but be reminded of her sister who disappea..

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

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

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

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

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

Drawn in by the reputation of the islands a new English family move to the area eager to give their ..

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

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

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Iceland 1934: Two boys playing see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them a..

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

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A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a l..

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

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

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

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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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J D Robb aka New York Times best-selling author Nora Roberts maintains a high level of suspense as h..

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

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

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