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The SAS are used to deaths during combat - it goes with the turf. But when one of their own is said ..

When Alexandra Richards approaches professional declutterer Ellen Curtis to ask her to help sort out..

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England the body of a young woman is discovered near the site o..

Two days before an auction of the contents of High Gates House in Borrowdale Christopher Henderson b..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but when one of her neighbours goes missing she f..

A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. A bruta..

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Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woma..

Callie Devereux has it all - a successful career a beautiful home and an attentive loving partner. U..

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A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group..

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Ben Harper's life changed for ever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. It..

Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate N..

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A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a l..

Dara Tailor has had to grow up fast. With a mother addicted to cocaine Dara must look after her six ..

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son Will has gone to join a..

When Roy and Carl's parents die suddenly 16-year-old Roy is left as protector to his impulsive young..

Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren‘t on speaking terms bu..

The second book in the Euphemia Martins Mysteries finds Euphemia temporarily promoted to housekeeper..

1996. Northern Israel. Lola leaves an unhappy home life in England for the fabled utopian life of a ..

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath Sarah Tu..

Events that took place on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1910 are resurrected for Joe Sandiland..

PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab but his new composure and resolution ar..

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..

Harry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him he’s working cold cases and notorious rapist and murde..

Mystery-lover Libby is excited but nervous when she's sent to live with her aunt while her mother is..

A woman vanishes from a forest near Oslo. Days later her body is found seemingly mauled and maimed b..

Retired police chief Piet Pieterse has been murdered necklaced in fact. A tyre placed round his neck..

Two of John Bude's finest Golden Age mysteries return to the limelight. In Death in White Pyjamas a ..

Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service but he's never far from a case. ..

Sir Robert Skinner's stock is rising - after retiring from the police service he's been promoted to ..

Responding to a call at a mansion in an East Bay neighbourhood Deputy Coroner Clay Edison comes upon..

A family lies slaughtered in an isolated house in North East Fife. Morag Weatherly and her two young..

It is 1879 and the young Detective Sergeant Sholto Lestrade has his work cut out for him as he inves..

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Jack Colby car detective takes a seemingly routine commission that precipitates him into a dangerous..

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When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident Shetland detective Jimmy Perez..

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Set in the picturesque town of Askham near Ullswater the story opens with the funeral of Humphrey Cr..

Instructed to guide in a speed boat crossing from Russia in the Bering Strait special forces Major R..

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When ex-copper Terry Coats was discovered in bed with an air hostess his excuse that he was 'going u..

When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera Detective Inspector Meredith..

When an old man makes a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son English detective Dan..

After a stressful winter DSI William Lorimer is enjoying some time away from Glasgow. He and his new..

Libby Sarjeant is deep into rehearsals for the annual pantomime when a body is found in a doorway tw..

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It's been a few months since murder tore the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tr..

It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. Then the call comes in the mi..

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When an old television rival Deirdre Shaw is found dead at the Cotswolds manor house where she was c..

Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner has uncovered his fair share of crime scenes over his thirty-year..

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