Item category 1: Crime

Irene Adler, the one woman who outsmarted Sherlock Holmes, finds herself a widow at 32. At the same time, Sherlock Holmes finds himself unable to return to England after faking his death at Reichenbach Falls and is drawn into a new investigation.

When a brutally tortured body is discovered in Edinburgh during the Festival, Rebus suspects sectarian activists. The idea of a terrorist atrocity in a city full of tourists is unthinkable. Then the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are trying to find Mina Murray's fiancee. But the unforeseen confrontation with Count Dracula threatens Holme's health, his sanity and his life. Will Holme's survive his battle with Dracula.

The discovery of the Reverend Cecil Willard's murdered body at the foot of the altar steps in the church shocks the whole community of Castle Wyvering. DCI Gil Mayo investigates.

The post-mortem reveals that freelance journalist Rupert Fleming's death was not suicide. But, delving deeper into Fleming's life, DCI Gil Mayo grows increasingly puzzled.

When Harry Bosch finds the body of a female journalist executed in an alley, he can't accept that he'll never bring her killer to justice. 20 years later, Harry finds himself working in the Open Unsolved Unit, & suddenly the past comes back to haunt him.

Death and danger stalk undercover investigator DJ Smith when she is seconded to the Portuguese Drug Enforcement Agency on Madeira. After Luis Gomes's body is found floating in Funchal harbour, Comandante Figueira blames her for a security lapse.

Autumn 1933 and Soho looks an increasingly dangerous place to be. Struggling writer James Ross finds himself coerced into undercover work by the mysterious Inspector Haversham.

Bayswater, 1931. James Ross, an aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy, is reduced to door-to-door selling. He meets glamorous Suzi, but their relationship turns out to be a source of bafflement.

In Berlin an Abwehr officer, Wolfgang Stahl, fakes his death - he has been spying for the Americans - and flees to England before he is unmasked.