Crime & mystery fiction

Ten years ago, Jo Martin was released from prison after serving twelve years of a life sentence. She is now out on license - and she isn't Jo anymore. Given a new identity by the courts, and with a different appearance, a ready-made history and even a change of age, Jo can pretend to be anyone. '...

Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso's maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room - and no way in or out - the case makes no sense. Fearing a national panic over another Ripper, Scotland Yard se...

It's the most wonderful time of the year, except for the victims of these shocking and often elaborate murders. When there's magic in the air, sometimes even the facts don't quite add up and the impossible can happen - and its up to the detective's trained eye to unwrap the clues and put together...

Sydney, 1965. After a chance encounter with a stranger mild-mannered tea lady Hazel Bates becomes an accidental sleuth stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman she believes to be in danger. In the meantime Hazel's job at Empire Fashionwear is in jeopardy...

Then: Ellie Mack was many things. She was 15. She was the youngest of three. She was her mother's golden girl. She was heading towards a perfect post-exams summer holiday, with her whole life ahead of her. And then, she was gone. Now: Laurel Mack is living in the past. It's been 10 years since El...

In 1973, Myra Hindley, the most notorious woman in Britain, is serving a life sentence for the moors murders - a case that shocked the world. Behind bars she has fallen in love. When Hindley is refused parole she persuades a sympathetic prison officer and former nun to help her break out of Londo...

In 1973, Myra Hindley, the most notorious woman in Britain, is serving a life sentence for the moors murders - a case that shocked the world. Behind bars she has fallen in love. When Hindley is refused parole she persuades a sympathetic prison officer and former nun to help her break out of Londo...

Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish cliff top home of the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. The other visitors include keen amateur detective Mr Satterthwaite and distinguished Harley Street nerve specialist Sir Bartholomew Strange. Death visits the hou...

When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots on Scotland's Isle of Skye, a chance encounter in the woods behind a nearby activities centre leads her to what seems to be a crime scene, but without a victim. Could this be linked to a group of army medics, who visited the centre while ...

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod joins an investigation to apprehend a terrifying arsonist on the streets of Edinburgh.