Crime

With her brother being beaten in jail, Eve needs to organise protection for him, and fast. The intimidating and powerful con Cavelli seems the perfect solution, but how high a price is he going to exact? She may as well be forming a pact with the Devil.

An anonymous phone call was all it took to alert the police to a body at The Palace. Now, 18 years later, Johnny Frank is coming out of jail with only one thing on his mind - to kill the man who put him there. But first he's going to make him suffer.

We follow Edinburgh's latest fictional detective Alice Rice as she races against time and an implacable killer to solve a series of grisly murders amongst Edinburgh's professional elite in the well-to-do New Town.

On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, as the murderer is one of its 142 passe...

Derby Day at Epsom Downs. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train at Crewe; the first in a murky course of events that takes in murder, fraud and race-fixing. Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are ass...

Super-salesman Tony Silkstone wreaks a terrible revenge when he comes home to discover his wife dead, strangled by her lover. The evidence supports Silkstone's confession and for Heckley police the case is closed - manslaughter. But DI Charlie Priest isn't convinced.

'Dragon's Lair' is the third novel in Sharon Penman's medieval mystery series about Justin de Quincy.

Dandy Gilver is bored to a whimper in the spring of 1922 and a little light snooping seems like harmless fun. Before long though, the puzzle of what really happened to the Duffy diamonds after the Armistice Ball has been swept aside by a sudden, unexpected death in a lonely seaside cottage in Gal...

Following the success of Penman's first medieval mystery, The Queen's Men, de Quincey rides in the service of Queen Eleanor again. This time he not only has to uncover political schemes but also to solve a murder at his lady's request.

Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched & untroubled by the modern world. When the battered body of a young woman is found at the foot of a cliff, the local police are quick to close the case. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to lo...