As Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner takes an evening stroll with Louise Banks an old flame and now..

It’s August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. The world of books is ..

The heat is on for DCC Bob Skinner. His career hangs by a thread as a recent illness has given his e..

Spider Shepherd is up against the most violent enemies he's ever encountered. Somali pirates have ki..

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

Bank Holiday Monday and beautiful Zellah Wilding straight-A student at St Margaret's prefect and fut..

Responding to a call at a mansion in an East Bay neighbourhood Deputy Coroner Clay Edison comes upon..

Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it inti..

There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dom..

One frozen January morning Inspector Wallander responds to a seemingly routine call out. But when he..

When two young female artists are murdered in what looks like ritualistic killings the pressure is o..

The last time that Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris she was nursing a couple of broken ribs and reek..

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border a man murders a young woman. At the same time..

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

A young mother and her child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage o..

Famous killers have fan clubs. Hamish Wolfe is no different. Locked up for the rest of his life for ..

Strathbran Scotland. A village steeped in folklore and impenetrable mists and a horrifying mystery. ..

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

It was nearing the end of the road for The Merrymakers. Such companies of entertainers touring the t..

Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick finds herself standing over a dead body in the Shady Oaks retireme..

A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to..

Survival. It's all down to who you trust. Aiden O'Hara has been head of the family since he was kid ..

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

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague Skinner's men are about to discove..

“Small hostilities were growing; vague jealousies were gaining strength; and far off wasn't there ..

Twenty-five years ago Stella Guzzo beat her daughter to death and then walked up the street to play ..

Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter Lindsay ..

When his cousin is accused of an unthinkable crime Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown..

Atlanta 1974. As a brutal killing and a furious manhunt rock the city Kate Murphy wonders if her fir..

Usually sharp-witted editor Sam Clair stumbles through her post-launch-party morning with the hangov..

It’s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob Howard Hughes and J. Edgar Hoove..

Western Australia 1928. Out on the Tolhurst farmstead Detective Constable Hartley is working on his ..

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

1895 and a violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Inspector Thomas Pitt kn..

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

January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris an army officer Georges Picquart witnesses..

Currently on leave Patrick Gillard is considering whether to carry on in his hazardous job as “adv..

Posing as an escaping Nazi war criminal Bernie Gunther Berlin?s hardest-boiled private eye arrives i..

August 1983. Denton is preparing for a wedding. DS Waters should be on top of the world with less th..

Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work not pleasure. The Norwegian am..

May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remain..

Behind the closed doors of San Francisco’s mansions beautiful people party the nights away. But so..

The horrific suicide of a successful Lithuanian entrepreneur shocks newly appointed Chief Constable ..

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel one hundred and eighteen cardinals f..

After a tip-off a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely yet he died..

May 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves an..

With a healthy disregard for rules he attracts trouble like a magnet. He has a newly assigned appren..

1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days o..

Alex Cross passes the family tale of his great-uncle Abraham along to his own children in a novel he..

A string of fatal arson attacks has broken out in San Francisco. The targets have one thing in commo..

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

When Alex Cross is called to investigate the scene of a massacre he is shocked to find that one of t..

Change is coming to Wendlebury Barrow - and not everyone is happy about it . . . When the local bus ..

What's an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning's pile of manuscript submi..

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

When a colleague becomes seriously ill Chief Superintendent Frances Harman delays her retirement to ..

With his boss recovering from a heart attack Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner is filling his shoes..

Following a string of disastrous house-sitting assignments and with recent troubles in her personal ..

Homicide detective Adam Kimble is no stranger to battling demons. But Meredith Fallon is a different..

Detective Alex Cross and Bree’s wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of ..

During his final days at Aidensfield Nick has much to consider. There are duties to complete as he s..

DCC Bob Skinner has a failed marriage on his hands and a death on his conscience but little time to ..

Detective Lindsay Boxer’s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is ca..

Alex Cross’s whole world is crashing down around him. He has been hunted stalked like prey his pre..

On an ordinary spring day Special Agent Faith Mitchell of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation return..

As Constable Nick awaits news of his future he reminisces about times gone by in Aidensfield and rec..

George Surridge director of the Birmington Zoo is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsin..

The discovery of two teenage girls’ bodies and a video of a snuff movie showing the death of one o..

Three killers are on the rampage in the capital and dead bodies are piling up almost as fast as the ..

Former detective Lacey Flint quit the force for a safer quieter life. Or that’s what she thought. ..

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that push..

When a young trooper is shot in the head at the Regiment’s renowned Killing House Nick Stone is pe..

When supermodel Annette Bordeaux is found battered and strangled in her Edinburgh flat former Chief ..

Maureen O'Donnell is a psychiatric patient stuck in an affair with Douglas a shady therapist. She’..

Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn’t slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz S..

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

?I couldn't wait to turn the next page - brilliant and what an amazing twist!? - Donna MaguireYears ..

Denton 1981. Britain is in recession the IRA is becoming increasingly active and the country’s on ..

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

Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chi..

Magnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now he is a m..

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

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

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

Blue Shoes and Happiness brings more adventures for Precious Ramotswe and her fine assistant Mma Mak..

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion Police Scotland has a tough c..

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard t..