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*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* *THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* ***WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022*** 'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin **** Slough House - the crumbling office building to...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the bestselling book everyone is talking about from the author of His & Hers, now a #1 Netflix show! This breathtaking audiobook includes an all star cast with Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Fool Me Once), Bel Powley (The Morning Show) and Henry Rowley...

A bomb at Holyrood. A dead socialite. A cover-up with bodies at every turn.When a car bomb detonates at the Scottish Parliament, a far-right group is quick to claim they're acting to save the Union. It's the biggest story in a generation. Reporter Doug McGregor was there. Now he can't let it go...

A young woman. A bath full of chlorine. A killer who knew exactly what they were doing. When Brooke Trotter is found dead in her family home in Jedburgh, DCI Rob Marshall arrives to find a crime scene that has been methodically erased. No prints. No DNA. No obvious motive. Just a twenty-year-old student who worked at the local museum, a town full of festival strangers and a killer who understood forensics well enough to almost disappear completely. Almost.

A man on the edge. A woman hell-bent on revenge. A cheating husband. A desperate wife. A property empire on the brink of collapse.

From the moment I meet my son’s new girlfriend, I know she’s going to be trouble. Haven isn’t the kind of partner I imagined for my darling boy. Joel is sensitive and kind, whereas Haven is so loud and full of confidence. Her sun-kissed locks and gleaming smile are perfect… too perfect. She doesn’t belong here. And I’ll do whatever it takes to get rid of her…

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' classic crime novels Aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey was the master creation of Dorothy L Sayers, widely acknowledged as one of the four original ‘Queens of Crime’. These...

When DCI Lesley Clarke suffers an injury and is told to relocate from Birmingham to rural Dorset, she's expecting some peace and quiet. But before she even starts her new job, she witnesses a murder at the iconic Corfe Castle. Lesley must get to know her new team, learn a new patch, and solve the mystery. What's more, team are mourning the loss of her predecessor, DCI Tim Mackie, who allegedly committed suicide. But was Mackie's death suspicious? And did it involve someone in her team?

Darlington is a small Northern town where everyone knows everyone. And Detectives Tanzy and Byrd know there’s a twisted serial killer in their midst... They find Julia Porter’s body tied to a chair in her quiet family home in the outskirts of Darlington. She’s covered in blood, and someone has cut out her eyes. Next to her is a message written in red crayon: She didn’t see it coming. Detectives Tanzy and Byrd have never seen the like of this in their town before. Then a few days later a woman is handed a package on the high street. It contains Julia Porter’s eyes ... It’s a warning.

'There's a body in Lost Nation.' But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Armand Gamache can question the caller. The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. What he does...

Oihane swore she'd never return to Urrun. But when her father is shot in a supposed hunting accident, she has no choice but to go back to the remote rural hamlet she once fled. The place hasn't changed: the people are hostile, violent, and bound by silence. Neither has her father been the only victim. As Oihane digs into what really happened that day in the woods, she's met with a wall of secrets. No one will talk. Everyone has something to hide. And the deeper she probes, the more she realizes the shooting was no accident at all.

Twenty years ago at summer camp, Paul Copeland's sister died in the woods, the alleged victim of a serial killer. Her body was never found. Now, Paul is the prosecutor for Essex County, New Jersey, immersed in one of the biggest cases of his career - a case that will change everything he believes about the past...and the truth.

Based on the real-life memoirs of the 19th Century investigator who inspired Sherlock Holmes, Inspector James McLevy, this atmospheric mystery series features the fictional casebook of Edinburgh's finest thief-taker. Accompanied by his loyal partner, Constable Mulholland, McLevy prowls the murky streets of 1840s Leith bringing criminals to justice—assisted by the madam of Edinburgh's finest bawdy-house, the deliciously immoral Jean Brash.

From the bestselling author of The Family Next Door comes a new domestic page-turner about that trickiest of relationships and what happens when it all goes wrong 'Fiction at its finest' Liane Moriarty, Number One bestselling author 'Perfect for fans of BIG LITTLE LIES' - Library Journal She has...

An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre. Autumn is the season of misty mornings and cosy nights in, but as the leaves begin to fall the nights get longer and the shadows grow darker… Secluded cottages, eerie manors and ghostly hauntings and cursed tombs...

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. The stories in this volume are: Evil Under the Sun, Sad Cypress, Murder in Mesopotamia, Lord Edgware Dies, Halloween Party, Murder on the Links and Five Little Pigs. Based on the original novels by Agatha Christie, these superb adaptations feature a cast of outstanding actors playing an array of likely suspects.

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden* 'A terrific spy novel' Ian Rankin 'A modern masterpiece' Irish Times **** Twenty years retired from the Intelligence Service, David Cartwright still knows where all the bones are buried. But when...

Twenty years ago, a young girl was brutally murdered, her body left in an abandoned shed in the Scottish Highlands. Her killer was never caught. Now, another girl has vanished from the same remote village of Kinloch Rannoch, and DCI Ross Fraser and his team are sent to find her. A dogged, methodical investigator with no taste for theatrics, Fraser builds his cases piece by piece. But with no sightings, no suspects, and the clock relentlessly ticking, he begins to fear the same killer has struck again—and that it’s only a matter of time before another body is found.

The cottage sits pretty with ornate, stone walls and embers still glowing cozy in the fireplace within, the remnants of a happy, sheltered life. But a woman's body lies still on the floor, her frozen face smeared with blood-red lipstick. Detective Morgan Brookes thinks she’s seen it all, but goosebumps prickle her flesh as she walks inside a beautiful limestone cottage in Rydal Falls to find an innocent young woman strangled to death. The killer has applied lipstick to Rachel Hart and pressed her lips to a letter to seal it with a kiss.

The next verdict could be her last…When a crushing courtroom defeat shatters her dreams of making partner, corporate attorney Rebecca Mason retreats to Widmere Island to settle her late mother’s estate. But instead of finding peace, she’s drawn into the fight of her life.A county judge has...