Item category 1: Crime

The rains are coming, but not just yet. When they do, there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana. Pumpkins will flourish - particularly those of Mma Potokwani, matron of a children's home and old friend of Precious Ramotswe. Mma Potokwani and Mma Ramotswe have many other things to t...

At midsummer the Cornish villagers of Trevennick dance around bonfires and make offerings to the river. It's not the sort of thing that appeals to Audrey Delaney, who is very much a city mouse. But when her (sort of) boyfriend Noah whisks her away on a surprise trip to the West Country, she's det...

Isabella Rose is living in Cairo. She's found work as a contractor - removing people for money, but only if they meet her very exacting set of criteria. She's given the details of a pilot suspected of helping corrupt regimes evade sanctions and told to eliminate him. She's also volunteering at a ...

Gwinny is at a stately home in the Yorkshire Dales, filming a small part in a gender-swapped remake of Dracula while looking after the dog of an elderly friend who lives nearby. During filming, an actor is found dead inside a locked trailer - with a stake through their heart! The film's star, an ...

A brutal attack at Fakenham Racecourse plunges DI Ashley Knight into the competitive world of horse racing, where fortunes are won and lost in the blink of an eye. As the investigation unfolds, a chilling discovery reveals a darker side to this glamorous sport. In these high-stakes arenas, where ...

Moving to the countryside with Patrick was supposed to be my fresh start. But from the moment we arrived, something felt. off. The locals are strange, and I feel like I'm being watched. The constantly moving shadows outside our window can't just be from the trees, can they? And when someone break...

The most dangerous people are those with nothing to lose. Who don't care if they live or die. Simon Peake does care - he just isn't sure about what right now. The ex-soldier's life is as close to rock bottom as it gets. He needs a job and he needs a quiet life. What he gets is a whole load of mes...

Maggie has started venturing out of her house at last. Years of being held as a virtual prisoner by her controlling husband, Frank, she's now free. She's just taking little walks in the village, braving smiling at strangers, feeling delighted when they smile back. Then, on one of her walks, she f...

Thomas Caine has finally tracked down the corrupt CIA director who framed him and had his partner killed. But the cost of revenge may prove too high. His target reveals that Caine's partner had a son, now a young man named Sean. And Sean is in terrible danger. To save him, Caine must travel to th...

The body in the closet was going to be a problem. Kathryn Hu knew it. Yes, Tucker Jones was a cheating scumbag, and yes, she'd agreed to meet Olivia and Elle - Tucker's other girlfriends - to exact revenge for all he'd put them through. But then they found him. Dead. Do they look guilty? Yes. Do ...