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A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and gives to his heartsick daughter, Ruth Kettering, the 'Heart of Fire', one of the world's legendary jewels that once adorned the crown of the Tsars. Legend has it that the possession of the jewel leads to death - but despite her...

I look at where the woman was sitting. There’s a scrap of paper tucked into the gap between the seats. With shaking hands, I pick it up. The note reads: Help me. At first glance, the couple on the train look normal. She’s dressed smartly, a floral patterned bag on her lap. But her hands are clenched, her fingers white. The man with her has his arm looped through hers, but not in a comforting way. He’s holding her too tightly.

Returning home from a police conference, DCI Boyd catches the last train back to Hastings from Brighton, unaware that he's about to play a central role in what will become a sensational news story.

A brand new Golden Age cosy crime mystery from the multi-million-copy bestseller Faith Martin. 'Hugely entertaining with an ingenious solution! I loved it!' Clare Chase 'A wonderful book with which to cosy up’ The Belfast Telegraph 'A masterfully constructed pageturner of a murder mystery...

When Ishmael Jones and his partner, Penny, are asked to escort a VIP on the late-night train to Bath, it would appear to be a routine case. The Organisation has acquired intelligence that an attempt is to be made on Sir Dennis Gregson’s life as he travels to Bath to take up his new position as Head of the British Psychic Weapons Division. Ishmael’s mission is to ensure that Sir Dennis arrives safely. How could anyone orchestrate a murder in a crowded railway carriage without being noticed and with no obvious means of escape?

In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive?

Brought to you by Penguin. A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene. Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naïve English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship develops, they find themselves caught up in...

Gary Nelson has a routine for the commute to his rather dull job in the city. Each day, he watches as a woman on the train applies her make up in a ritual he now knows by heart. He's never dared to strike up a conversation...but maybe one day. Then one evening, on the late train to Gipsy Hill, the woman invites him to take the empty seat beside her. Fiddling with her mascara, she holds up her mirror and Gary reads the words 'HELP ME' scrawled in sticky black letters on the glass.

Following a string of successful performances along the west coast, the Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Hexham on the Newcastle to Carlisle Railway for their next show. Yet a collision on the track causes pandemonium. When the headless body of a woman is discovered in nearby woodland, Inspector Colbeck is desperate to lend assistance, however a reluctant Superintendent Tallis forbids him from doing so.

Ivan Kendall died in a train station restroom eighty miles from home in March, 2014. Why did the quiet family man travel to Westbury from South Wales so late at night? The Crime Review Team, headed by formerly retired policeman Gus Freeman to investigate cold cases in Wiltshire, England, now must tackle another cold case besides that of Ivan Kendall. As the team closes in on an assassin, from the previous cold case involving Grant Burnside’s death, an old adversary stands in their way.

Young and beautiful mean diddly when you’re dead. But when Jillian finds herself paired with a heavenly hunk for a mentor, she quickly decides Heaven is just where she wants to be. And shocked as Jillian is to find herself in the hereafter, it in no way compares to the surprises left for her sister Nicole on Earth. The circumstances surrounding Jillian's murder leave Nicole with no choice but to follow-through with her dead sister's last good Samaritan endeavor.

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion...disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps.

Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Roman and Frank Lovejoy. As they travel together on a train, a psychotic stranger confronts a pro tennis star with his theory on how two complete strangers could commit murder for each other - a theory he plans to implement!! One of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone’s adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atlanta’s most notorious gentlemen's club and the woman committed to finding them. When Damaris “Charm” Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom...

Return to the worlds of The Craftsman and Lacey Flint in this first short-story collection from Sharon Bolton, International award-winning author of The Split. This collection is available exclusively in audio and features eight short stories, each with a new introduction written and read by the author.

Headstrong journalist Anna Rothman knows what suicide looks like - her own husband killed himself five years ago. When Elly Swift, an agitated passenger beside her on a train, leaves a locket in Anna's bag before jumping onto the tracks, Anna starts asking questions. But everything points to suicide and the police close the case. However, Anna believes that Elly's fears for Toby, her young nephew who was snatched from St. Stephen's church six months ago, fail to explain the true reason behind Elly's distress.

When Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are asked to escort a VIP on the late-night train to Bath, it would appear to be a routine case. The Organisation has acquired intelligence that an attempt is to be made on Sir Dennis Gregson’s life as he travels to Bath to take up his new position as Head of the British Psychic Weapons Division. Ishmael’s mission is to ensure that Sir Dennis arrives safely. How could anyone orchestrate a murder in a crowded railway carriage without being noticed and with no obvious means of escape?

This isn’t the West you know. Things have gotten weird. Prairie dogs as big as a calf, gilas longer than a dinner table, and beings scouring the plains and towns looking for souls. Since the barrier between the worlds of the living and dead were broken, danger and horrors awaited everyone. Anchor Kessel had left behind the cattle drives and long, hard trips across open ground to push cows to market for another man to rake in money.

Fen Churche arrives in Paris, determined to put the horrors of the war behind her. But the City of Lights has lost its spark, except inside the apartment of Fen’s godmother, Rose Coillard. Fen can’t wait to hear about Rose’s war work - under the nose of prominent Nazis, Rose created a secret list of the precious paintings they stole. Now Rose will be able to return them to their rightful Jewish owners. But after a few days reuniting with old friends, Fen finds Rose stabbed through the neck with one of her own paintbrushes. Fen is determined to solve her beloved friend’s murder.

Embark on the Coastal Express, where desire meets dread and darkness lurks in every compartment. Kurt and Emily seek to reignite the flames of their marriage amidst the debauchery of the hedonistic train, the Coastal Express. But when Kurt falls ill, Emily is thrust into a nightmare she never imagined. As US Marshal Robert Colton hunts the elusive Rail Car Cleaver, a serial killer hiding among the train's decadent passengers, Emily finds herself trapped in one terrible situation after another.