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'One of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world' - Lee Child Peter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling author of the Grace series returns to finally reveal the events of Roy Grace’s tortured past – the truth behind his wife’s...

Evie Cormac was found at a murder scene six years ago, hiding in a secret room. She has never revealed her real name, why she was in that house, or what she saw. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven wants to help the traumatised teenager. He thinks unravelling Evie's secrets will free her from the past. But he has no idea what he's about to unleash....

In the race to stop a deadly attack, just pray she's not too late . . . March, 1976. The height of The Troubles. When detective constable Jane Tennison survives a deadly explosion, she finds herself in the middle of a media storm. Minutes before the blast, she caught sight of the bomber. Too...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I’m wrong’ – Stephen King When a body is found, Banks must confront his past. A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is identified, and the horrific discovery hits the headlines...

The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most of the night conducting his investigations...

THE TOP FIVE KINDLE BESTSELLER ‘AMAZING. I read it in one go. I was totally hooked.’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Utterly addictive. Compulsive, twisty, tense.’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Local Girl Missing Her name was Rose. You watched her die. And her death has created a vacancy. Rose Grahame had...

Nach einem schweren Hörsturz flieht die erfolgreiche Investigativjournalistin Merle Engels aus ihrem stressigen Stadtleben an die ostfriesische Küste. In einem alten Reetdachhaus direkt am Deich sucht sie Ruhe und Erholung. Doch die Idylle trügt: Bei Recherchen stößt sie auf einen fünfundzwanzig Jahre alten Fall. Damals wurde die 17-jährige Caroline brutal ermordet, wenig später nahm sich ihre Mutter das Leben.

Twenty years ago, Tatia was adopted into a well-off home where she seemed happy, settled. Then the youngest boy in the family dies in an accident, and she gets the blame. Did she do it? Tatia is cast out, away from her remaining adopted siblings Joel and Poppy. Now she yearns for a home to call her own. So when she see families going on holiday, leaving their beautiful homes empty, there seems no harm in living their lives while they are gone. But somehow, people keep ending up dead. Did she kill them?

Someone is killing London "black cab" taxi drivers. Seemingly unconnected, but all with the same MO, bodies are being found across the City of London, and only two clues connect them; an unknown killer with a crooked walking cane, and the title to a folk song placed on rolled paper inside their mouths. Now, DCI Walsh and his team, still reeling after the end of Harvest For The Reaper must hunt down the killer.

Net curtains twitch furiously, and neighbours have observations to make to Chief Inspector Purbright and Sergeant Love about the inhabitants of 14, Beatrice Avenue. Nice Gordon Periam, the mild-mannered tobacconist, and his rather less nice (in fact a bit of a bounder) lodger Brian Hopjoy had apparently shared the house amicably. But now neither man is to be found, and something very disagreeable seems to be lurking in the drains.... Then a couple of government spooks turn up, one with an eye for the ladies - the drama is acquiring overtones of a Bond movie!

Certain deaths are recorded not because they are understood, but because they are convenient. When Leonard Ashcombe dies in a charitable hospital, his passing is swiftly classified as natural. The paperwork is clean. The timeline is orderly. The case is closed.

Bloomsbury presents All I Said Was True by Imran Mahmood, read by Tanvi Virmani. Longlisted for the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 'A thoroughly compulsive ticking-clock thriller’ TM LOGAN 'The very definition of a compulsive page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER...

The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most of the night conducting his investigations...

Der neue Krimi von Elizabeth George: Ein brisanter Fall für Inspector Lynley und Barbara Havers. Als die Polizistin Teo Bontempi nach einer schweren Verletzung nicht mehr aus dem Koma erwacht, weist alles auf einen Mordanschlag hin. Weil Teo zuletzt vor allem in der nigerianischen Gemeinde Nord-Londons ermittelte, beginnt Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley auch genau dort mit der Suche nach dem Täter. Zusammen mit DS Barbara Havers taucht er in eine Welt ein, die scheinbar nichts mit dem privilegierten britisch-bürgerlichen Leben, wie es Lynley bisher kannte, gemein hat.

'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' Stephen King The Summer That Never Was is the thirteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Aftermath. A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is...

For 12-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover - movies and talking about boys. But when they decide to sneak out to go to the abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of town, little do they know that their innocent games will have dangerous consequences. Later that night, Cora Landry is discovered on the tracks, bloody and clinging to life, her friends nowhere to be found.

The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most of the night conducting his investigations...

'This is the one I’ve been waiting for. And it’s a masterpiece of suspense. I quite literally couldn’t put it down - even when I was supposed to be doing other things . . .' - Barbara Erskine, author of The Dream Weavers Peter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling author of...

The Jewel That Was Ours is the ninth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most of the night conducting his investigations...

Der zweite Fall der Polizeireporterin Gianna Pitti am malerisch-mörderischen Gardasee. Eine unbekannte Frauenleiche, ein Entführungsversuch und geheime Schriften Winston Churchills, die womöglich die Weltgeschichte verändern: Gianna und ihre Familie verstricken sich erneut in brisante Ermittlungen. Die junge Journalistin Gianna Pitti soll auf Bitten ihres Vaters Arnaldo, der zurück am See ist, einen Informanten am Ostufer treffen. Da scheint niemand zu sein. Doch dann sieht sie etwas im Wasser liegen. Eine Frauenleiche!