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Hodgkiss and the Mayoral Stakes / Hodgkiss Hits the Sales / Hodgkiss and the Two Musketeers - Hodgkiss is back. The cranky old sod is still sniping at the conniving,...

Bertha Schippan, beautiful but headstrong daughter of a Wendish-German family, is murdered on New Year's Day, 1902. A posse of Adelaide police arrive at the family's lonely Murray Flats farm...

'A cracking read' BBC Radio 4 A good cop in a bad city . . . Can you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? In...

She couldn't paint to save her life - so someone's given her a lesson by taking it! Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh - usually boredom, dampness and...

Charlie Howard - mystery writer and professional thief - is flush with the success of his Paris book reading when he agrees to show a novice the basics of the...

In the late autumn, down windy streets raining yellow oak and elm leaves, I went to George Armit's funeral. It was a small affair. Almost everyone George had known was...

Driving home from a late meeting, a businessman loses concentration, crashes off the road and is flung through the windscreen of his car. His dying view is of what he...

Vince Conte was a New York cop until he punched the senior officer having an affair with his wife. Forced to resign, he's bored by his work for a private...

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme- he doesn t search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis;...

Having reached a dead end in Boston, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs a change. When she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who is moving to rural Pennsylvania, Leah...

An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods. It's week one...

It all begins with a call to the police. A sixteen-year-old boy, Roger Eriksson, has gone missing. A search is organised and a group of young scouts makes an awful...

The Victoria Police Armed Robbery Squad has long been considered the hardest and most feared group of Victorian detectives. They operate without fear or favour. Newspaper journalist Ian Malone, new...

Would you risk your life for a woman you'd never met? Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. But the first time...

The world's biggest and most expensive aircraft is about to make its maiden flight, and CF Wong has been called in to ensure the plane's feng shui is up to...

Deadly Harvest Heather Graham When a young woman is found dead in a field, dressed up as a scarecrow with a slashed grin and a broken neck, the residents of...

THE STOLEN Jason Pinter Five years ago the boy vanished without a trace. Today he came back. Five years after he disappeared, young Daniel Linwood returned to his suburban home...

Detective Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch. This time his job is to nail the killer of hot...

Superintendent Brahim Llob is bored. Nothing seems to need his attention in an unusually quiet Algiers. Then suddenly peace is shattered in ways Llob could never have imagined. His subordinate,...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again Murder in Paradise is the third mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves,...

'The best thing you'll read this year' KILEY REID 'So beautiful' SARAH JESSICA PARKER 'One of those books I will read again and again' JOJO MOYES 'Very funny, very touching...

Just as Alex Cross is beginning to feel that life is good and he is finally coming out of the depression he's been in since the death of his wife,...

THE RICHEST PRIZE IN RACING. THE PERFECT MOTIVE TO KILL. Jeff Hinkley, a British Horseracing Authority investigator, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where...

Declan Cleary's body has never been found, but everyone believes he was killed for informing on a friend over thirty years ago. Now the Commission for Location of Victims' Remains...

Sweden, 1855. ' Worst thing I ever saw... ' The Minister of Justice receives a disturbing message. A massacre on one of Lapland's mountains - a priest, a law enforcement...

Private Eye V.I. Warshawski is roused one morning by an SOS from a woman on a farm south of Chicago. When V.I. gets there, she finds no woman - but...

When an unidentified body is discovered in the harbour town of Axmouth, twenty miles from Exeter, Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner is called to investigate. The manner of...

Is it the end of the line for Harry Bosch? When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell, the case should be watertight....

James Lee Burke's legendary detective Dave Robicheaux returns to try to save his daughter from a sadistic killer. When Detective Dave Robicheaux's daughter, Alafair, declares her intention to interview a...

STUART TURTON'S INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD NOW IS OUT NOW 'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this...

Toronto, November 1895. When the body of Constable Oliver Wicken is found in an abandoned house on his beat, first appearances suggest suicide, but Detective William Murdoch is not convinced....

Two classic Alex Cross novels in one fantastic new package. In CAT AND MOUSE, Alex Cross is called to Union Station train terminal a man is on the loose, firing...

October 1940. The London borough of West Ham is in the grip of yet another night of bombing, and undertaker Francis Hancock is in the grip of yet another night...

A naked teenage girl is found dead near the beautiful Byzantine Yoros Castle in Turkey. She has stabbed herself through the heart but there is evidence of bizarre sexual practice....

On a storm-driven night, wreckers drive a merchant ship onto a rocky shore in Ireland. An abbess is slaughtered and six religieuse abducted. An ageing scholar is murdered in the...

'His novels are playing a significant part in redefining Scotland's image of itself in literature' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY In REBUS'S SCOTLAND Ian Rankin uncovers the Scotland that the tourist never...

Many years ago, Ellen Mosley became Eve Michaels. She left her husband, her adored children and her safe life for a life on the run, a new lover and $500,000....

Grandmaster and Edgar award-winning author Lawrence Block had brought together 71 of his best stories featuring his most popular series characters. From Matt Scudder in The Merciful Angel of Death...

A blistering Matt Scudder novel. Matt Scudder is well and truly off the booze, but he still spends time with some of his old drinking pals including Mick Ballou -...

Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of...

Can you ever truly know the one you love? Fran Hall and her husband Nathan live in a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens with their two children. One...

When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife's cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him, but in the face of the...

For him, death was a vocation. He was a maestro in the art of death. The keeper of time. The bringer of destiny. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is as tough as...

'Killing was too good for him. She wanted him to beg and plead like the gutter rat he wasshe wanted him to bleed and screamonly then the bastard could die....

'She was still three feet away when she'd smelled it. She'd walked with death too many times to mistake it.' After a tip from a reporter, Eve Dallas finds the...

'She stood in Purgatory and studied death. The blood and the gore of it, the ferocity of its glee. It had come to this place with the wilful temper of...

There was always an audience for murder. Opening night at New Yorks New Globe Theatre turns from stage scene to crime scene when the leading man is stabbed to death...

It was always a shock, not the hard one Bowers had hoped for. Eve had seen too much for that. But what one human could do to another was never...