Murder at Broken Ridge

Welcome to Broken Ridge, NSW, a town with a past that nobody could be proud of.

This story of an unsolved murder in rural New South Wales is a perfect mystery that will keep you guessing all the way through and then drop your jaw with a truly shocking twist at the end....Read more

Back Story

David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb...Read more

Cult Killers

When Satanism began to penetrate popular culture in the 60s, in the lyrics of the Beatles and the Stones, it was intended as a harmless rebellion against society. Yet this encouraged radical extremes to follow, with Black Metal bands becoming widespread over the 70s. For some individuals...Read more

Bodyguard of Lies

The never-before-told story of allied espionage in World War II. The hidden war of spies, code-breakers and double-agents. The secrets of the greatest clandestine operation in history. The phantom army in Kent that fooled the Germans. How Churchill's cunning protected the Ultra Code. The...Read more

Heritage

Algeria, 1945

In the aftermath of World War II, soldier Robert Lombard returns to his wealthy family’s Algerian wine plantation hoping to build a peaceful and prosperous future for his country.

Mohamed, his Arab friend and comrade-in-arms against the Nazis, arrives...Read more

Funeral Sites

How slavishly Aidan Britton had seen to every detail of his wife’s funeral – starting with her murder.Fortunately for dear departed Phoebe, someone was on to him. Her sister Rosamund Sholto knows that Aidan, an ambitious politician, is regarded as Britain’s brightest hope.

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Murder by the Glass

A collection of crime and mystery stories on the subject of drink and drinking. The authors featured include Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Michael Gilbert, Geoffrey Household, Kingsley Amis, Somerset Maugham, Joan Aiken, A.A. Milne, Margery Allingham and Ruth Rendell.Read more

Death's Darkest Face

Geoffrey Elder begs Julian Symons to help clear the name of his father, who was accused of murdering poet Hugo Headley at a summer resort in the ThirtiesRead more

The Shape Of Snakes

“I could never decide whether ‘Mad Annie’ was murdered because she was mad or because she was black.” So begins Minette Walters’ gripping new story of one woman’s twenty-year quest for justice—or is it for revenge?

When Annie Butts dies in a rain-soaked gutter in 1978, almost...Read more

The Seventh Raven

In a bungled attempt to kidnap an ambassador's son, four revolutionaries make hostages of a hundred children rehearsing an opera.Read more

Miscarriage of Murder

Max Friteau stands to inherit a fortune one day from his late father — but only if he abides by the terms in his will.

Robert Friteau, a rich Belgian merchant living in the Friteau family home of Château Granbois, was violently anti-British.

Many years ago during the...Read more

Dear Fatty

Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career spanning nearly three decades and encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters that would eventually establish her as a national treasure.

She first appeared on the British entertainment scene...Read more

DREAD: The Art Of Serial Killing

Mr Madden, Dickens enthusiast, muses with his beautiful and bohemian prisoner on possible endings to the famous author’s unfinished final mystery.

Mr Madden, spy, infiltrates a far right nationalist group in order to set up the thugs for something far more serious than their...Read more

A Woman's Burden

"A Woman's Burden: A Novel" by Fergus Hume is a work of fiction likely written in the late 19th century. The novel opens with a dramatic scene on Waterloo Bridge, where various characters are thrust into a dark and gritty narrative marked by themes of poverty, desperation, and crime. The...Read more

Agent Running in the Field

Nat, a 47-year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The...Read more

This Much is True

From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is the outspoken great aunt (after two sherries) we all wish we had - this is (at last) her extraordinary life story, and it's well worth the wait.

Award-winning actor,...Read more

Bonkers

Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names.

But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is...Read more

We Solve Murders

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now...Read more

Endless Night

Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over...Read more

Hidden

A trail of blood winding through a squalid flat in Margate leads DCI Dave Gosworth to the body of Jacqui Jennings, her skull smashed with a chisel. For Dave it is just the start of a long and puzzling case...Forty miles away in South London a young single mother named Melanie Stenning is...Read more

Death and the Chaste Apprentice

An innkeeper is the object of universal dislike--and one murderer's weapon--on the set of a provincial festival production of a tepid Jacobean comedyRead more

A Man for All Seasons

The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII.Read more

Crooked House

The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young widow, fifty years his junior.Read more

Dragons at the Gate

Calder, a veteran CIA agent stationed in Tokyo, finds himself acting as the Agency's liaison between a shadowy businessman seeking a Japanese gold treasure lost since World War II.Read more

Deadfall

A terrifying novel of possession and a savage love that will not die... Agatha is an attractive, intelligent and lively woman, whose trouble-free life revolves around her musical career, friends and lovers. Suddenly a frighteningly real nightmare of a ghoulish visitation invades her...Read more

The Carpet People

In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet...

That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really believe it). But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, and there's a new story in the making. The...Read more

Cars & Girls

Bad things happen. Everybody dies. But the girl in the red dress kicks against the pricks. Four merciless and compelling stories by emerging writers from Canada, the UK, and USA.

From behind the wheel of her father's lovingly restored Barracuda, a waitress will protect her baby...Read more

A Midnight Mystery

When Rudolph Carrant falls to his death near his home on the Kent coastline, very few mourn his loss. But was his death accidental? Or was he pushed? Carrant’s cousin is convinced the young man was murdered, and when Inspector Dillock of the Yard is called in to investigate, he discovers...Read more

Tin Man

This is almost a love story.

Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of an overbearing father. And then...Read more

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