Topic: Investigation

When a whole block is torn down in central Minneapolis to make way for a new housing development, an unpleasant surprise is unearthed. The bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic, are discovered underneath an old house. It looks like they've been down there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exac...

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. He did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay. Now somebody has discovered the truth and he is being tormented by anonymous messages. He hires private detective Charlie...

As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the most unusual case of his career. A man has been murdered in a library where the English citizens safeguard their history. The death opens a door into the past, exposing a mystery that has lain dormant fo...

"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obs...

This series offers older readers subjects they love, edgy, cool designs that will appeal to teenagers, dramatic imagery, and fact-packed, accessible text expertly levelled for older readers with reading ages of between seven and eight years.

Kaye Whiting went to buy a birthday present and didn't come back. She isn't dead, or injured. But she is alone and very, very scared. 50 miles away in Cambridge town centre a deeply disturbed young woman is standing by a payphone. She knows she often feels compelled to do harmful things and is dr...

Stephen Lawrence was murdered at a bus-stop in London, by a gang of white youths, because he was black. The police investigation has been severely criticised, and this book describes the incident, events surrounding it and the police investigation.

Stephen Lawrence was murdered at a bus-stop in London, by a gang of white youths, because he was black. The police investigation has been severely criticised, and this book describes the incident, events surrounding it and the police investigation.

Robin Pagham is dead - drowned in a sailing accident. The reaction of everyone in the village on hearing this tragic news is that Robin must have been drunk. After all, that was what he did best - that and drug dealing and breaking his former girlfriend's nose, with a bit of TV acting on the side...

In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, 'Caught' tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can't trust her own instincts about this case or the motives of the people around her.

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the most infamous crimes in American history: carelessness from police, misconduct by prosecutors, and even potential surveillance by intelligence agents.

The world isn't ready for what Matt's about to discover. An ancient secret that could rewrite history books. A secret that could blow open the greatest mystery of all: Atlantis. This is a thrilling action-adventure from the author of 'The Death Collector', 'The Invisible Detective' series and 'Dr...

Based on the true story of the 'chicken farm murder' which took place in Blackness, Crowborough, East Sussex in December, 1924. Norman Thorne was found guilty of the murder of Elsie Cameron, but even at the time of his execution there were doubts about his guilt. Still swearing his innocence, Nor...

A festive story of hope and redemption emerging from the depths of Victorian society. 1864, and on a bitter December night in Victorian London, one man longs for a Christmas miracle. The city is preparing for the holidays yet James Wentworth is unable to focus on anything other than the disappear...

After taking a serious beating whilst engaged in unofficial undercover work in London's 19th century slums, Constable Tom Churchyard takes himself to Cornwall. Here, in spite of his injuries he becomes right-hand man to Amos Hawke, now a senior Cornish policeman.

Landing a minor part in the Empire Theatre Eastbourne's Christmas production of Cinderella, Charles Paris soon discovers that his main role is to gently introduce his baffled American co-star, famous sitcom actor Kenny Polizzi, to the strange customs of English pantomime. During their convivial s...

July, 1868. On receiving a commission from Matthew's cousin Luther to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective Police, private investigators Matthew Grand and his business partner James Batchelor leave London for Washington DC. They find a country still...

When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Besźel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger and more dea...

Harry Bosch investigates the 20-year-old murder of a 12-year-old boy whose bones are unearthed in the Hollywood hills. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten.

Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing...