Crime Fiction

December 1917. Ada Hobbes arrives on a frosty morning to clean the house ow ned by Dr Tindall, a surgeon at the Edmonton Military Hospital. She is shocked to find...

Temporarily forsaking the Cunard Line to work as private detectives aboard the Minnesota, a combination freighter and passenger ship owned by the Great Northern Steamship Company, the pair of shipboard...

November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool on the maiden voyage of the Mauretania. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired...

September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line....

1897, London. The capital is shocked to learn that the body of a woman has been found at the National Gallery, eviscerated in a manner that recalls all too strongly...

December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside,an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confrontedby a blockage on the line ahead....

The Savoy Hotel boasts London's strongest air raid shelter with all the luxury expected from one of the capital's most prestigious hotels. It prompts the arrival of a disgruntled crowd...

Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive in Archenfield for what should be a straightforward assignment. But they are shocked to discover that a principal witness has been murdered, burned alive...

In the wake of a series of unfortunate experiences in the Cotswolds, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her spaniel Hepzibah, is perhaps over-optimistic about the English summertime and the possibilities of...

1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen's convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give...

Thea and Drew have been married for a year and are settled in the village of Broad Campden, but Thea is chafing at the domestic routines she is expected to...

1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has...

June, 1917. While German Gotha bombers raid London from above, a man's body is fished from the Thames below. The man had been garrotted and his tongue cut out before...

Thea Slocombe is trying to settle into normal family domestic life with Drew and his two children in Broad Campden. But any sense of cosy domesticity is shattered when Thea...

Nestled in the fertile hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret: beautiful, timeless and quintessentially English. When recently widowed Thea Osborne arrives to house-sit...

London, Autumn 1916. When he slips out of a house in the early hours of the morning, Simon Wilder is too preoccupied to realise that he is being stalked. As...

A set of symbols scratched on the wall of a crypt in southern France. A flag bearing a red cross on a castle fortress high on a stone ledge. And...

One suspicious death. Two amateur sleuths. And an utterly impossible crime... The NUMBER ONE ebook bestseller! 'Amuses and intrigues in equal measure... a splendid start to what promises to be...

* SHARPE'S COMMAND , the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Richard Sharpe returns to England to save the regiment. Major Sharpe's men...

It only takes one spark It's the biggest case of her career and Eliza Carmody is on the 'wrong' side. She is defending a large corporation that people believe was...

The truth is never black and white 'This is about three deaths. Actually more, if you go back far enough. I say deaths but perhaps all of them were murders....

Agatha Christie's sensational mystery thriller set in her Devonshire homeland. On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot meets a pretty young woman with an unusual name, 'Nick' Buckley. Upon discovering a bullet-hole...

'Another on point mix of humour, chaos and quirky fun' Katy Brent, How to Kill Men and Get Away With It The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of...

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Introducing a truly unforgettable, surprising and original new detective, D.S. Lucy McVeigh. The ambitious new crime novel from number one Sunday Times bestselling author Stuart MacBride. THE CHILLING AND COMPULSIVE...

You did what any mother would do . . . and now someone else's son is dead Sarah always thought of herself and her husband, Tom, as good people. But...

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London. 'A gripping story of revenge, guilt and redemption, sweetened by love.' Daisy Wood, author of...

Don't miss the next Donna 'Deadly' Nightshade cosy mystery! Welcome to The Edge of the World Detective Agency 'Here we go again...' Amateur sleuth Donna Nightshade should really be used...

Learn the secret - or die trying Has ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope finally got out of his depth? That's the question Ben faces when the hunt for a missing girl...

'Written with an incredible eye for detail of the historical setting, this wonderful romantic tale will earn your respect and keep you entertained' Adele Parks 'If you loved Her Heart...

Now published in the Discworld Collectors Library hardback, the penultimate adult Discworld novel from the master, Terry Pratchett, sees Sam Vimes investigating a country house murder. It is a truth...

The thirty-fourth Discworld novel, now available in hardback as part of the Discworld Collector's Library. 'Some people would be asking- whose side are you on? If you're not for us,...

The 27th Discworld novel, now available in hardback as part of the Discworld Collector's Library. A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Commander Sam Vimes of the...

Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run When Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a...

A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Nobody mentioned the victims, or the terror that had gripped...

A gripping new translation of Simenon's cinematic tale of greed, guilt and the cruel workings of fate 'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at...

An extraordinary tale of betrayal from the celebrated author of the Maigret series On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city...

A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenon's celebrated literary detective 'The truth was, Maigret knew nothing! Maigret felt. Maigret was sure he was right, would...

A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a...

Martin Arkenhout, a seventeen-year-old Dutchman travelling across the States, kills his young American travelling companion, Seth Goodman, and adopts his identity. Some months later he takes - and takes on...

Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win...

The eighth novel in the best-selling Dr Kay Scarpetta series. A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles -...

The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she's being framed and she no longer knows who she...