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Bloomsbury presents The Tailor by Tim Sullivan, read by Finlay Robertson. The unfailingly shrewd and uniquely brilliant DS George Cross is back... 'One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century.' DAILY MAIL 'One of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Reaffirms...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller EVERY SECOND COUNTS. EVEN CENTURIES APART. A TIMELESS DETECTIVE. THE COLDEST CASES. MEET ALI DAWSON. 'Warm and engaging characters and a wildly brilliant story wittily told' Ann Cleeves 'Truly wonderful, wildly atmospheric' Marian Keyes 'A thriller that is...

Bloomsbury presents The Bookseller by Tim Sullivan, read by Finlay Robertson. SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO TURN THEIR LAST PAGE... 'One of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHS THE SETTING The body of a bookseller is discovered, lying in a pool of blood in his Bristol bookshop. Police have one question...

Change is afoot at Kings Lake Central police station. A most unexpected new detective inspector takes up his post this Monday morning, and the oldest detective in the place takes a momentous decision. Around them, other officers are considering their own situations, and even the building itself seems to be facing an uncertain future. But life and death go on, nevertheless, and by lunchtime someone will make a grim discovery on the Norfolk saltmarshes. A stranger seems to have suffered a slow and agonizing death out there.

The husband of a prominent and infamously ruthless barrister is found in horrific condition after a robbery and brutal assault. Now in a coma, a major investigation is launched using the newly formed, experimental Metropolitan Police Serious Crime Analysis Unit. Jessica Russell is an experienced...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 3 BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY PICK DAVID RAKER IS BACK WITH ANOTHER HEART-POUNDING MISSING PERSONS CASE CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes. When fire crews...

Book two in a stunning new crime series from 2m+ international bestseller Adam Croft. Each morning, the first train of the day leaves Oakham station and thunders through a tunnel under the village of Manton. But today the driver sees something that changes his life: A dead body hangs in the...

Brought to you Penguin. The Summer Guests is the exhilarating and gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast. THE MARTINI CLUB ISN’T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . . Maggie Bird’s ‘book group’ is an unusual one – a group of retired spies living an anonymous life...

Investigating the disappearance of local antiques dealer Harry Jones is not high on DI Ian Drake’s priority list. He has more important things to spend his time on than looking for a man who has probably just walked out on his wife. Until they find Harry’s dead body. Drake knows they are dealing with a cold-blooded killer. But the valleys of Snowdonia are an unlikely place for a murderer to hide out, and Harry an unlikely victim.

DI Sam Winter is pulled into the abduction of Barnaby and Marina Harkness, taken while their father—MSP Chris Harkness—sat in a Holyrood committee room, doing his best to shield a billionaire from a financial scandal that could bring them both down. Harkness wants the police kept close enough to look cooperative and far enough away to be useless. The press want access. And the powerful men circling the family want the whole thing to disappear quietly.

The murder of the young princes in the Tower of London in 1483 is the most notorious crime in English royal history. The prime suspect has long been Richard III, portrayed as a monster by everyone from early propagandists writing immediately after Richard’s death to Shakespeare himself. In this, the book repeatedly voted one of the best mystery novels of all time, queen of Golden Age crime Josephine Tey tackles the question of Richard’s guilt via her own celebrated detective.

The 13th chilling and adrenaline-packed Robert Hunter thriller and Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller. ‘Gruesome but utterly riveting – and all the more so for being at least partly true’ Daily Mail 'Dark, chilling and full of clever little plot kinks designed to send the reader off on a wild...

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult – why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be to anyone? With no apparent motive, DS George Cross canvases the community for potential...

Brought to you by Penguin. *As seen on The One Show* *A Times and Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year* A BRUTAL KILLING UNCOVERS A COLD CASE. HAS SOMEONE GOT AWAY WITH MURDER? On the verge of a four-billion-dollar deal, a tech entrepreneur is found dead on a construction site, which leads to the...

From one of the UK's biggest crime writers - the man brought you the bestselling Inspector McLean novels - comes a phenomenal new series guaranteed to have your heart in your mouth. Undercover ops are always dangerous, but DC Constance Fairchild never expected things to go this wrong. Returning...

Anna Cameron is a new sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day in the new job, she discovers she'll be working with her ex, Jamie. In at the deep end emotionally, she's also plunged headlong into the violent underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag – the haunt of working girls, drug dealers and sad, seedy men. When Cath attempts to get involved in a situation she is no longer equipped or entitled to tackle, the consequences for both women could be far-reaching.

When FBI forensic toxicologist Miles Sterling makes a harrowing discovery—that a dozen unsolved deaths over the past decade each correspond to an element on the periodic table—he must race to follow the trail and find the mastermind behind these murders—and stop him before he strikes again…

Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a post-war world. Now a Scotland Yard detective, Rutledge is called upon to probe a murder in the...

When a witness in an important trial of two vicious criminals is killed suspicion immediately falls on both men. Drake faces the challenges of unravelling the dead’s man family and discovers everything is not as it seems. As another witness in the important case is killed Drake’s superior office is convinced the known felons are to blame. But the discovery that other witnesses my exist changes everything. Can he find them before the killer?

When Devon and Cornwall Police begin to investigate the strangulation and skinning of a young man, they discover the remains of a missing child nearby. Having recently arrived from London, DCI Peter Moone is put in charge of the case alongside the tough talking local DS Mandy Butler. They soon find themselves sinking deep into a dark world of child abuse and murder.