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A body is found in a newly dug grave in a rural Somerset churchyard. The murder matches a series of brutal attacks blamed on a serial killer in Devon, and a DNA profile neatly points to the same suspect. Fresh from another bruising encounter with the Professional Standards Department, Acting Detective Superintendent Nick Dixon knows the scene is wrong and the evidence staged—someone else has engineered this killing to silence the victim.

From international bestselling author Anthony Horowitz (Midsummer murders, Foyles war, Alex Rider, Hawthorne) and Sarah Naughton, comes a trilogy featuring one of literatures most famous characters. Immerse yourself in the world of Sherlock Holmes, like you have never heard it before. The Red...

The first in a brand new series of Devon-set crime thrillers featuring DS Eden Driscoll 'Crime fiction at its very best, a knotty mystery' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Terrific … Perhaps his best yet' ANN CLEEVES ‘The undisputed king of seaside noir’ VASEEM KHAN ‘A gripping and wonderful thriller’...

An epic Wild West detective story as a group is hired to clean up a corrupt town. A model for many later Westerns & Detective stories.

When the body of a brutally murdered man is found floating in the River Idle, DI Loxley’s team is called into the Nottinghamshire Market Town of Retford to solve the case. But as they trawl through the clues and leads, it soon becomes clear there’s more happening here than a simple murder.

Con questo celebre romanzo, nel lontano 1887, nasceva il mito di Sherlock Holmes, il detective privato più famoso della storia della letteratura. Arthur Conan Doyle, all'epoca un semplice medico di periferia, presentava la sua creazione più geniale attraverso il diario del Dott. Watson, narratore dell'intera vicenda e suo vero e proprio alter ego nella storia.Sherlock Holmes incontra dunque per la prima volta quello che diventerà il suo inseparabile compagno, il Dott.

The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature’s most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers’ charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. When Sandy Campbell's body is found at the foot...

It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death, apparently...

After her parents' deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business, Antiquities & Artifacts Appraised, from the home office in Lilac Grove and a branch in Manhattan. Now living back at home with her younger sister Tilly and their newly moved-in, eccentric Aunt Midge and her Afghan hound, Avery's life is filled with jewels, tapestries, paintings, and rare finds. But their world is rocked when Avery learns that the theft of a priceless ruby may be connected to her parents' demise.

The Continental Detective Agency's Operative is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town "Poisonville," and the Op would soon find out why as the bodies start piling up. Dirty cops, gang wars, floozies, bootleggers, and hit men are all in Dashiell Hammett's first full-length novel featuring the Continental Op, the original hard-boiled private detective.

DI Henderson is settling into new offices and a new house, but the murder of a young man on a cross-channel ferry diverts his attention. He is soon drawn into the dark world of wine fraud. The DI isn’t allowed to travel to France where the victim once worked, but he's assisted by private investigator Harvey Miller. Miller stakes out the vineyard but receives a beating for his trouble. Henderson believes that Daniel Perry, an east London gangster, leads the gang.

It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death, apparently...

It's the time of year when the immortal army of the ancient king rides Watling Street and the dead become uneasy in their graves. Indeed, in the far north of Warwickshire, the villagers insist that one dead man returned to kill his only son. Now it's up to Sir Faucon de Ramis, the shire's new Crowner, to run the walking corpse to ground and put him back where he belongs. 

Red Bones marks the third in a stellar suspense series set on the Shetland Islands from bestselling author Ann Cleeves--the basis for the hit BBC show Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient...

In the summer of 1994, a workman at the historic mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, stumbles on a long-hidden wall safe. When experts arrive to open the safe and examine its contents, they make an astonishing discovery. There, inside, is a handwritten manuscript bearing the signature of John H. Watson, MD. The manuscript contains the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota to track a murderous arsonist - known only as the Red Demon - who is threatening both Hill and his Great Northern Railway.

Sally Meredith's young life has been full of adventure. As a suffragist, she fought for women's right to vote. She drove an ambulance in France during the war. And she's already had a proposal and a broken engagement. But the past few years have been deadly dull, taking care of a cranky relative and now living alone in a quiet village. So when her eccentric uncle Fritzi arrives with the tale of his most recent invention - a deadly gas that nations are striving to get hold of - she's intrigued.

Step into the darker, international side of Sherlock Holmes with The Adventure of the Red Circle, a suspenseful short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. When a worried landlady reports a mysterious tenant who pays double rent yet never shows himself, Holmes uncovers a far more dangerous truth: a woman hidden in terror, communicating through coded candle signals from behind a sealed room.

Wyatt Dixon, rodeo cowboy and 'the most dangerous, depraved, twisted and unpredictable human I ever knew' is certainly not one of Billy Bob Holland's favourite people. Sentenced to 60 years in jail for murder, Dixon is out after only a year, due to the DA's failure to disclose a piece of information. He swears he's a changed man and needs Billy Bob's help, but how can Billy Bob believe the man who tortured his wife? And then there's Johnny American Horse, who has been caught carrying a gun. He says he needs it for protection; in a dream he saw two men coming for him.

When pawnbroker Jabez Wilson, with his fiery red hair, joins an exclusive “league” offering generous pay for copying out encyclopedias, the opportunity seems too good to be true. But when the League suddenly vanishes without explanation, Wilson turns to Holmes and Watson for help. What begins as a bizarre curiosity soon unravels into a clever scheme with much higher stakes lurking beneath the streets of London.

“You frighten me,” the Gypsy said. “Never have I seen my crystal ball so filled with darkness.” For Flavia de Luce, the old gypsy's words open up old wounds and new possibilities. Is she a faker, or is there some truth to her powers? And when the village is rocked by another ghastly murder, how will a growing fascination with gypsy lore help Flavia to solve it?