Crime

1931. Maisie Dobbs' new case takes her into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson and theft in the town of Heronsdene have gone suspiciously unreported. Maisie's employer wants her to uncover the truth behind the crimes before he can buy any part of the Sandermere estate adjac...

'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She has been standing in blazing sunshine for more than an hour, and refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in...

Alastair Bing's guests gather around his dining table at Chaynings, a charming country manor. But one seat, belonging to the legendary explorer Everard Mountjoy, remains empty. When the other guests search the house, a body is discovered in a bath, drowned. The body is that of a woman, but could ...

Another helping of murder, mayhem and mouthwatering mystery from the acclaimed author of 'Strawberry Shortcake Murder' and 'Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder'. In this story, a celebrity lifestyle expert is found murdered at Hannah Swensen's bakery.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has become the most unpopular woman in Trenton, New Jersey, by taking on the job of tracking down one of the most harmless men in town.

When a claimant to the title of Lord Darlymple comes to an unexpected sticky end, the cry goes up: 'Was it murder?' This title evokes the life and times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy.

While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbour Nick spot a young, half-drowned Indian man floating in the water. Delirious and concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man is whisked away to a hospita...

Will DCI Andy Gilchrist end up like the others - dead, beheaded on a beach? The middle of winter in St Andrews. When a young woman's half-naked body is found on Fife's Coastal Path, frozen and with remnants of a rope manacle around her wrist, DCI Andy Gilchrist is given the case. Gilchrist's inve...

20 years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case. But what Archer finds - a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde - reveals a game whose stakes are s...

While holidaying in a country cottage, Meredith Mitchell and Superintendent Markby are drawn to the obituary in the local paper of Olivia Smeaton. While Alan is more interested in buying the dead woman's house, Meredith suspects foul play.