Topic: Investigation

The young and beautiful Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her African lover has vanished, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener, sets out in pursuit of the killers and their motive.

In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded, reclusive 20-year-old, was convicted - on disputed evidence and a retracted confession - of brutally murdering his grandmother. Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, determines to re-examine this case.

New Year's day, 1990. Jack Reacher is the Military Police duty officer on a base in North Carolina when he takes a call reporting a dead soldier. The dead man turns out to be a two-star general on a secret mission.

Having arrived in Avignon to organise a classical music concert for the Winter Festival, Gregory Crowne, along with his girlfriend Liz Blair, is drawn into the search for a missing investigative reporter.

A private museum near Hampstead Heath has been inherited by three siblings, all of whom are required by a trust to sign any new lease. Without the lease the museum will have to close. One brother, Neville Dupayne, is adamant he won't sign. Then his body is discovered in his still blazing car.

Five years after the horrific crash of TWA flight 800 over Long Island which killed 230 people, John Corey is inadvertently caught up in the now closed case by his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, who believes the government's findings of mechanical failure are wrong.

Roger the Chapman has sold most of his wares and is resting in an alehouse in a tiny village. Upon hearing of a missing girl his investigative instincts are aroused. Soon he realises that the welcoming village harbours dark secrets that the villagers will do anything to prevent being discovered.

Investigative reporter Riley Gavin, abetted by laid-back ex-military cop, Frank Palmer, set out to discover why two ageing, long-forgotten gangland members have been executed on England's south coast.

In the early hours of the morning a man reports a fire on two old canal boats. A firefighter notices accelerant has been used but by the time Banks arrives only the wreckage remains. A body has been found on each vessel and all the evidence points to a deliberate arson attack.

When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called upon to investigate. The mystery deepens and suspicion falls more widely as it emerges that the dead woman was at the centre of a tangled web of relationships.

In 'Some Dames Don't' a private detective takes the job of tracing the missing wife of an ex-movie actor. The trail takes him to a cheap motel, where he suddenly finds his own life in danger.

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has become the most unpopular woman in Trenton, New Jersey, by taking on the job of tracking down one of the most harmless men in town.

A lonely woman of 53 vanishes in fog. Experienced policemen know that most missing persons either turn up or go missing on purpose. But fresh young D.S. Freya Graffham refuses to drop the case.

When a young Asian entrepreneur dies in a fall and an Indian kindergarten teacher is gunned down, it's clear to DS Lou Perlman that he's dealing with racially motivated murders. And when a group called White Rage emerges to claim more victims, the city of Glasgow is trapped in an atmosphere of fear.

To the good folk of late-Victorian Ancaster, the ancient figures of angels carved on the cathedral tower are benevolent guardians. However, the stubborn, autocratic Dean Girdlestone sees them as idols and orders their destruction.

A man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The dead man was working as a vu cumpra, one of many Black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours without permits. Commissario Brunetti must find out who is to blame.

It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four year old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.

The young and beautiful Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her African lover has vanished, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener, sets out in pursuit of the killers and their motive.

In 1906, Special Branch Officer Seymour is sent to Trieste to solve the disappearance of the British consul.