Crime Fiction

Cordon bleu cook Darina Lisle trades her kitchen for a country inn—only to find the menu includes murder. Professional caterer and amateur sleuth Darina Lisle decides to try her hand...

Private detective Lauren Laurano is pretty, funny, fashion-conscious - and gay. With the support of her beautiful psychotherapist lover, Kip, it is up to Lauren to solve the murder of...

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury a human hand. he body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried...

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Mark Hartmann, a consultant pathologist, has problems. Married to a barrister and the son-in-law of a judge, he should be enjoying a comfortable life, but his secret vice is gambling....

A dead art historian. Cold War skulduggery.A reluctant Danish sleuth. And an extremely hungry dog. Dame Charlotte Lazerton - eminent art historian and mentor of Danish academic Torben Helle -...

Dexter Morgan has burned the candle at both ends for many years. Blood spatter analyst . . . husband . . . father . . . serial killer. And now,...

'Been reading this on m'olidays. It's perfectly ridiculous & also v funny...' DAWN FRENCH ' Curtain Call To Murder positively explodes with the double-entendres and vicious wit that has become...

The Apportioner sees what's going on over there and she don't like it. When she gets mad enough, she'll send a punishment, like she did in the old days. Lot...

An ordinary day in Gloucestershire holds a half century of secrets and lies in this crafty and well-crafted mystery, when a skeleton turns up in a field outside the old...

When teenager Christine Booth meets Phillip Murphy, she knows he s her one chance to escape her controlling mother. Christine is soon enjoying the perks of being Philip Murphy s...

SERIAL opens with a haunting first person narrative. A middle-aged male describes picking up a lone girl hitchiker. Within pages however, her voice disappears from the scene and the man...

The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday to the centre...

Portsmouth's major drug dealer's time is up. For years Bazza McKenzie has made millions selling cocaine and heroin into the streets of Portsmouth. He's laundered the money and on the...

When Paul Monroe, poster boy for Freddy Parc briefs, discovers the body of a young woman in his cottage, he swears he has never seen her before. Michael Reo wants...

Charlie Fox makes a living of sorts teaching self-defence to women. It's a skill Charlie picked up of necessity having been kicked out of the army for reasons she prefers...

Sister Fidelma and her faithful companion Brother Eadulf are on their way to visit the new Archbishop of Canterbury, when their ship is blown off course and they land on...

When the body of a teenage girl is found in a bleak Yorkshire quarry, forensic evidence points overwhelmingly to the senile old farmer who discovered her. But DCI Ed Swift...

Actor Toby Flood is reaching the end of a tour acting in the play, Lodger in the Throat, when he is visited by his estranged wife, Jenny. Jenny tells him...

St-Cyr and Kohler are shipped hastily from Paris to Avignon to investigate the violent death of a young woman in the Palais des Papes. The victim is the scion of...

One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where...

When an elderly lady is found inside her own house with her lungs full of river water, London's Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to search for a logical solution....