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From the globally bestselling author of Marble Hall Murders and A Deadly Episode comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne series set during a murder trial. Anthony has been called for jury service. On trial is the troubled son of a retired High Court judge. Lawrence Gascoyne stands...

Sherlock’s elder - and still more brilliant - brother, Mycroft (read by Rory Kinnear), is too busy to grieve this apparent loss. Working as an agent for the British government, Mycroft is tasked with the politics of maintaining an empire on the verge of collapse. But on the streets of London, a killer is on the loose. A sequence of bloody bodies litter the East End, murders which echo those of Jack the Ripper four years before. Against his better judgement, Mycroft is forced to step out from the shadow of his brother, and join the hunt for the truth.

Daniel De Luca left behind a career in the Marines to become the problem solver at the luxurious Hotel Villa Costiera in Positano. His life revolves around cases to crack and guests to protect, until he meets Denise Miller. She's about to marry a powerful Russian tycoon in what promises to be the wedding of the year. But nothing is as it seems. When Denise is found dead the morning after her bachelorette party, all evidence points to Daniel. But what really happened that night?

The next BRAND NEW instalment in the page-turning Armstrong & Oscar cozy mystery series from bestselling author T.A. Williams Bologna, Italy's happiest city - or is it? A grieving father asks Dan to uncover the truth behind the death of his gifted son, a student at Bologna's prestigious Art...

Murder is the latest must-read in the sleepy village of Fethering. The local bookshop, Shelf Determination, has a new crime section. Its name – The Blood Shed – is, Carole Seddon thinks, rather vulgar. Then someone takes the theme a little too literally. After a tedious evening with a...

A crossword that’s tricky to crack, a hot cup of coffee… and hidden clues? Can Jane Treen work this mystery out?England, 1942. Jane Treen is hot-footing it to Devon, having received an urgent message from her colleague and fellow sleuth, Arthur Cilento. He had been deeply worried for his...

It's Christmas, and Figgy Edmunds is celebrating by taking the festive special steam train from Swanage to Corfe Castle. When she bumps into her friends from the Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club, there's a moment of awkwardness. But then they're all stumped when the train steams through Corfe...

A buried fossil, a birthday party and… a murder? June, 1913. Lady Hardcastle and her intrepid lady’s maid, Florence, are looking forward to attending wealthy quarry owner Josiah McRory’s seventy-fifth birthday celebration. But the festivities come to an abrupt end when Josiah is found dead...

A body in the begonias—and a tricksy killer who knows just how to disappear into the foliage. It sounds like a case for the Charity Shop Detective Agency! When word of Arthur Oliver's murder reaches Dogs Need Nice Homes Charity Shop, Fiona, Daisy and Partial Sue—the retired trio behind the...

Clem Vallins thought he'd seen the worst Watersmeet had to offer. He was wrong. When fifteen-year-old Fiona Crumb vanishes from her home in the dead of night, Clem and his tenacious young constable Effie Shorrock have just hours to find her. Fiona has been mute since birth — and someone is counting on that. Then a chilling phone call arrives at the station. It's a girl's voice, strange and otherworldly: "You've got one day to find her. Because tomorrow, she'll be dead."

Some monsters hide in the light… When a young woman is discovered crowned with burnt gorse in a disused quarry in rural Ayrshire, DCI Lomond is tasked with hunting a ritual killer. As his Major Investigations Team peel back the layers of the local communities, they find links to cold cases of...

It’s the case Detective Alec Farnham can’t forget. He was the one who found his friend and mentor, DI Lou Catterick, collapsed in a deserted alleyway, her shirt drenched in blood. He was too late. With her dying breath, Lou utters a single word. Ghost. A year on, the investigation has stalled. The trail is cold. The killer still walks free. But Alec refuses to let go. He knows one thing for certain: Lou would never have given up on him. If he can only work out what she was trying to tell him, he knows he’d have the key to cracking the case.

Joy Ellis presents Book 16 in the DI Nikki Galena series...

Anonymous letters, a years-old mystery and… a dead body? Ally McKinley is on the case! Ally McKinley might be the owner of the cosiest little guesthouse in the Scottish Highlands, but she also has a reputation as an amateur detective! So when a threatening note drops through her elderly...

THE FIRST GRIPPING INSTALMENT IN THE DARK, PARANORMAL CRIME SERIES FROM #1, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER VALERIE KEOGH!Perfect for fans of John Connolly's Charlie Parker series and Kay Hooper's Evil Trilogy Nicola Connolly is a nurse. She is also a serial killer. For fourteen years she has hidden her...

'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...

When Cherringham Pickleball Club Captain Carl Roper is found dead on the courts, it looks like just an unfortunate accident. But for Jack and Sarah, that story doesn't add up. As they investigate the club, the players, and a big pending deal, they find themselves in a race against time to find the real reason Carl Roper died - and the identity of his killer ...

Some secrets belong to the city. This one belongs to Harry Bosch. Growing up in MacLaren's Children's Center - a notorious care facility - Bosch had a friend. Together, they survived the dangers of that awful place. Until one night, when his friend was placed in the illegal confinement space...

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child Roy Grace is back in this gripping instalment from number one bestselling author Peter James. Brighton is celebrating. A killer is waiting. And Roy Grace is the target . . . Brighton Pride is the biggest date on the city’s calendar with...

Sea swims, sleuthing and a very badly behaved seagull. Welcome to Lyme Regis.Annie Abbott and her friends from the Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club can't seem to go for a swim without stumbling into a crime. Her daughter, DC Tina Abbott of Dorset Police, would much rather they left it to the...