Crime

During a blackout on the streets of London on a freezing evening in late 1944, a young Polish land girl, Rosa Nowak, is suddenly and brutally killed. For police this is a shocking and seemingly random crime. No one can find any reason why someone would want to murder an innocent refugee.

When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone.

P.D. James masterfully recreates the world of 'Pride and Prejudice', and combines it with the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted detective story.

In an apartment on the 19th floor of a Madison Avenue skyscraper, six people have been slaughtered. Among the victims is the owner of the apartment: Rocco Fedeli, a Calabrian from San Pietro d'Aspromonte, a man with no criminal record, an ordinary citizen, one of the many immigrants who has made ...

When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Dr Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than the suspected suicide, 'Diamond Dick' has in fact been murdered.

October 1987: the morning after the Great Storm. 15-year-old Tania Mills walks out her front door and disappears. 27 years later her mother still prays for her return. DS Sarah Collins in the Met's Homicide Command is determined to find out what happened, but is soon pulled into a shocking new ca...

The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne has seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why?

Hamish's holiday at a health farm on Eileencraig isn't quite what he expected when Morag Todd is found at the foot of a cliff with a broken neck. He must enliven his distinctively sleepy style of policing in order to solve the death of a snob.

Thea Osborne is house-sitting for transatlantic reptile breeder Harriet Young. However, she soon discovers a dark side to the village of Cranham when she is thrust once more into the heart of a Cotswolds' mystery.

In June 1916, a young woman is found murdered in a cinema. Harvery Marmion and Joe Keedy set out to find the killer who so elusively fled in the dark. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead around the city. Meanwhile, miles from home, Marmi...