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?A leading light in the field of Mancunian noir? The Guardian?Gritty and gripping? Kimberley Chamber..

There's nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep. Here in remotest Wyoming, wher..

1861. When the body of an unknown woman is found in an Edinburgh close, Detective Constable Faro ass..

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

Much against her better judgement Rina Martin accepts an invitation to join her prot?g? Tim and his ..

In the house of a Roman Catholic bishop a man lies in a pool of blood. Out in the bishop’s diocese..

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

November and evening is closing in as DI Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a stolen ca..

Nine years ago divorcee Marcia Brown took her own life. A pillar of the community she had been accus..

Welcome to fifth-century Britain: the Romans have left, the Saxons have invaded, the towns are decay..

After a tough week Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in but as she steps out of h..

Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him..

'You've killed before, I fancy,' he said. 'It's my trade.' Theatre troupe Westfield's Men take on ..

After battling for justice in his first recorded case Sergeant Caleb Cluff makes a swift return to d..

When Jack Colby hears a rumour that Old Herne?s the club for aviation and classic car veterans is cl..

'Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.' As she wrote sh..

The papers call it suicide. The deceased?s father doesn?t. And when Superintendent Lestrade investig..

The late Mr Lionel Bygood who looks to all intents and purposes like an old-fashioned sort of gentle..

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat young Detective In..

Kate Shugak is determined to convict the odious Louis Deem who has been arrested and tried for sever..

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1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its so..

Boxing Day. A dead body has been found in the chemistry department of Queen's University in West Lon..

A man lies dying in a hospital in upstate Vermont. The nurses know only that he is an academic at a ..

Greenwich south-east London. Five bodies have been found all young women all ritualistically murdere..

The year is 1999 and Internet companies are springing up everywhere. Anything seems possible for tho..

Lights. Camera. Action! The Earl of Burford can't believe his luck; the famous actor Rex Ransom want..

Just back from honeymoon the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants to deal with is nuis..

The theft of the diamond necklace and the antique pistols might all be explained, but the body in th..

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

About to turn 40 there’s no doubt in her mind that suburban wife and mother-of-two Claire Taylor h..

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

With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently s..

1963. A badly mutilated corpse is discovered on the site of the new Centre Point Tower currently und..

1665 and the capital is awash with rumours of conspiracy. Thomas Chaloner knows that there are few g..

Apothecary John Rawlings is intrigued when a letter arrives asking him to investigate an impostor cl..

Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that ..

In an effort to rejuvenate his flagging career, crime novelist Ethelred Tressider decides to set his..

It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German..

Summer in Frantham had been long and lazy and DI MacGregor had enjoyed the peace after a traumatic y..

In the pitch dark nine feet under water police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a ..

Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor hoping to lay to rest the ghost of his uncle who disappeared aged 1..

The discovery of a dead banker sends shock waves through the sleepy coastal town of Ayr. And it's up..

‘Utterly addictive. Compulsive twisty tense.’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS author of Local Girl MissingJust ho..

London June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on railings the ..

A culinary mystery to tease your literary taste buds. Monsieur Pamplemousse and his trusty dog, Pomm..

And then there were eight! Understandably, Lord Burford had some misgivings about hosting another ho..

?An immensely talented new author? John MarrsHe?s watching. She?s waiting.The unmissable new thrille..

FreeFlow is a group of activists dedicated to freedom of information. They have evidence of a milita..

The affluent seaside resort of Smalting is unaccustomed to crime. So when human remains are found be..

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

At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each..

When the decomposed body of a woman is found by railway tracks outside Bristol all indications are t..

Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne’s Christmas production of Cinderella Charles..

Ten years ago Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn't kill..

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In the middle of the night two young infants start screaming in their bedroom as the temperature dro..

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What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support?..

A black ops program operates from deep within the Pentagon. The objective: to stop devastating terro..

April 1865. Having been an eyewitness to the assassination of President Lincoln Matthew Grand a form..

“The dead can't speak to us” Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. Sometimes only an out..

Joe Rizzo, a veteran of the NYPD, passes on the knowledge of his years of experience to his ambitiou..

A cryptic prophecy, threatening Armageddon Adam Sabir has discovered the missing quatrains of Nostra..

Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service w..

30th July, 1763. Two striking figures part the heaving crowd at London Bridge. Peddlers cease their ..

Joshua Tree.Brutal killings started to pop up in Oakland at the Mormon Temple. By the time Body #4 w..

After almost five years of conflict London's exhausted inhabitants are living in a world of derelict..

What goes around comes around. Jack Nightingale learned that as a cop and discovered that it was jus..

Children are killing themselves across the State of Tennessee. Is it a horrible coincidence or are d..

In the late 1970s, a pyromaniac runs amok in a close-knit community in rural Norway. Homes are burnt..

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

When Calvino is hired by a retired Thai general to deal with a corrupt and deadbeat tenant, he almos..

'It was amazing, really, what murder had done for my marriage.' Amory Ames is looking forward to a t..

When a murdered young girl miraculously returns to life saying she's spoken to God it's clear that s..

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

London November 1956. DI Ted Stratton is investigating the murder of Jeremy Lloyd a young man with a..

Thea Osborne is thanking her lucky stars. After two disastrous housesitting incidents in which she u..

Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an el..

Leeds, 1954: When enquiry agent Dan Markham takes on a case for Joanna Hart, she simply wants to kno..

Twin Lakes is a complex of holiday homes in a scenic part of England. ?Rest Assured? says the sign a..

Welcome to fifth-century Britain: the Romans have left, the Saxons have invaded, the towns are decay..

The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth...

THE THIRD INSTALMENT IN THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES 'This receptacle was found in the wall beside the..

Jack Solomon is a messenger of death. Working in the fractured remains of Yugoslavia his task is to ..

When several shots are fired into the bistro where husband and wife crime-fighting duo Patrick Gilla..