Crime

Detective Dave Robicheaux is drawn into a situation with chilling consequences when a convicted murderer on the way to the electric chair reveals to him that he's on someone's hit list.

'My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just a probationary constable in the Metropolitan Police Service. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last...

Peter Grant is not just a lowly detective constable: he's also apprenticed to the last wizard in Britain! Policing will never be the same again!

Peter Grant is a Detective Constable in the Metropolitan Police. He is also the first trainee wizard in the Met for 50 years. In the tunnels of London's Underground, the buried rivers, the Victorian sewers, he is hearing whispers of ancient arts and tortured, vengeful spirits.

1894, Sir Montague Fowler, warden of St Michael's College, Oxford, dies from apparent natural causes. Before long vicious rumours begin to circulate about the actual cause of his death, and an autopsy reveals Sir Montague's body was full of deadly poison mercuric chloride. Detective Atrobus of th...

Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, but Sophie Jenkins is never found. 30 years later, Sophie's mother commits suicide. Rachel has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her life, but news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and she realises th...

Amid Iceland's rugged landscape, rumours swirl of an ancient manuscript containing a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. The ring exists - but is it worth killing for? It's up to homicide detective Magnus Jonson to find out why.

Just before dawn one late-summer morning, Bruno is pulled from sleep by the wail of the town siren atop the Mairie, summoning the volunteer firemen of St Denis. A large barn and the fields surrounding it are ablaze. When Bruno arrives at the scene, the smell of petrol leaves no doubt - it was arson.

Two teachers discover the body of the school's unpopular games mistress, shot through the heart from point-blank range. The school is thrown into chaos when the 'cat' strikes again, and Julia Upjohn knows that without Poirot's help she could be next.

When making routine enquiries into a possible bribery case that could embarrass the mayor - an embarrassment Vice-Questore Patta is very keen to avoid - Commissario Brunetti receives a call from his wife, Paola, who is evidently very upset. The middle-aged deaf mute with the mental age of a child...