Item category 1: Crime

No one likes to come home to a mess, least of all Adrian Monk and Natalie. But when they return to San Francisco from an extended stay working as cops in New Jersey, Natalie discovers somebody has been sleeping in her bed.

When Meg Jeacock let the cottage next door she found her new tenant rather sinister. And when the stranger showed an interest in Shandon Priory, the house nearby whose owner had recently died, it became clear that there was trouble brewing.

Hap Collins, chicken plant guard, accompanied by his best friend Leonard, sets out for Mexico to investigate the murder of a young woman who had once saved their lives. Lansdale is the author of the acclaimed The Bottoms.

Investigative journalist Emma Boylan explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of young women. When one of her articles, on the release of a sex offender, is published, it incites a vigilante-style protest in his neighbourhood.

This is the fifteenth Victorian murder mystery featuring husband and wife team, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. Thomas and Charlotte risk their lives to stop a traitor at work in the Colonial Office.

Two actresses, Trixie and Evangeline, have always accepted that they may have to suffer for their art, but they draw the line at dying for it. They do not suspect that, whilst they are stalking a likely playwright, a merciless killer is stalking them.

A vicar is shot in the forest and a suspect vagrant is similarly blasted - is this the work of a serial killer? Superintendent Lambert and Sergeant Bert Hook have to try and find out the motive behind the murders and whether the two deaths are linked. By the author of "Dead on Course".

"The Chaste Apprentice" is a play on the programme of the Ketterick arts festival, as is an unknown opera. But the murder that takes place was not scheduled, and a member of one of the casts must be responsible. Robert Barnard is the author of "Death of a Salesperson".

Hercule Poirot is intrigued with the details surrounding the murder of wealthy Mrs Inglethorp, mistress of Styles Court. This is the 75th anniversary edition of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie's first ever thriller.

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies in a shallow grave on a golf course. Then another body is found, and Poirot has an intriguing case to solve.