Sorted on book title (not in series order)

England

A Perfect Match

A young woman is found murdered in a small English town, while the main suspect has spent the night drinking, and denies any involvement. It looks like an easily solved case for Detective Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Judy Hill, but it soon proves more complex than they originally thought...Read more

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A Perfect Spy

Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend—and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father’s death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms....Read more

Perfectly Pure And Good

Sent by her London law firm to the seaside town of Merton to sort out the complexities of the Pardoe family estate, Sarah Fortune finds herself drawn into the lives of members of the Pardoe family and confronting malevolent "ghosts" from her own past.Read more

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Peril at End House

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.

Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has...Read more

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Petrified

Summer in Istanbul is hot. The kind of heat that can drive even the sanest of people to act a little strangely and, for Cetin Ikmen, this summer is no different...

An elderly woman is found dead in a flat with the perfectly preserved body of a young man. In an ancient part of...Read more

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The Petticoat Men

The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young widow Mattie Stacey, they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. It is Mattie who admires their sparkling gowns, makes their extravagant hats and laughs at their stories of attending society balls dressed up as...Read more

Philby: KGB Master Spy

Philby, the agent, double agent, traitor, enigma revealed all to Knightley just before his death. Few knew the real man behind the impenetrable facade that for years fooled British Intelligence, the CIA and the FBI. After he defected to Russia in 1963, he maintained a code of silence for 25...Read more

Picture of Innocence

East Midlands farmer Bernard Bailey, a violent man with a brutal temper, stands to pocket a hefty inheritance if he fathers a male child. After destroying one wife to achieve this end, Bailey turns his next marriage into a twisted business arrangement. If his new spouse produces a son, she...Read more

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Pictures Of Perfection

High in the Mid-Yorkshire dales stand the pretty village of Enscombe, proud survivor of all that history has thrown at it. But now market forces mass at the gates and the old way of life seems to be changing fast. The Law can do little to stop the ever-growing crimes against tradition, but...Read more

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Piece Of My Heart

At first, she appeared to be a remnant of the Festival: a beautiful girl with a painted cornflower blooming on her cheek, sleeping off the excess of the night before. It's the summer of 1969 but it seems not all the revellers had peace and love on their minds.

Four decades on,...Read more

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The Pigeon Tunnel

"Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now."

From his years serving in British Intelligence during...Read more

A Pinch Of Snuff

Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club -- once the Residents' Association and the local Women's Group had given them some free publicity. But when Peter Pascoe's dentist suggests that one film in particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the...Read more

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A Place of Execution

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George...Read more

A Place Of Safety

Charlie Leathers was not the most popular man in the charming English village of Ferne Basset, but few people seemed to hate him enough to murder him. Still, that was his fate one night, and it brings Inspector Barnaby to the scene to investigate. What Barnaby doesn't know is that before...Read more

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Plaster Sinners

Sergeant Love is a sucker for a picturesque country cottage.

But he finds himself quite literally knocked out by the little bas-relief plaster cottage that’s on display at Flaxborough’s antiques auction. This pretty but rather crudely painted trinket...Read more

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Play Dead

The girl stared unseeing up to the blue sky. Her mouth was open, as if she was about to speak, to cry for help… but her voice had been silenced forever.

When Detective Kim Stone and her team are sent to Westerley, a forensic research facility,...Read more

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Play To The End

Actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton with the other cast members of the Joe Orton play Lodger in the Throat. They have been on tour since September, but hopes of a West End transfer have been abandoned and they are all looking...Read more

The Players

The much-anticipated sequel to The Swift and The Harrier

England, 1685. Decades after the end of the civil war, the country is once again divided when Charles II's illegitimate son, the Protestant Duke of Monmouth,...Read more

Playing Nice

Pete Riley stays at home; his partner, Maddie, is the breadwinner. He spends his days browsing parenting blogs, where no concern is too trivial, and pacifying their rambunctious son, Theo.

Then, one day, a knock at the door. Miles and Lucy, a posh and near-perfect couple, tell...Read more

Playing With Fire

FIRE--It consumes futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in the ashes.

The night sky is ablaze as flames engulf two barges moored side by side on an otherwise empty canal. On board are the blackened remains of...Read more

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A Pocket Full of Rye

A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman!

Let us explain. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' office when he suffered a sudden and agonising death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were...Read more

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A Pocketful of Happiness

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in Withnail and I in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set him a challenge: to...Read more

Poet In The Gutter

Sam Turner is trying to turn his life around. Newly divorced, he's kicked the habit of his wife and now he's working on the booze. Introducing himself at a group meeting one night, he succumbs to a sudden impulse to say he's a private detective, and the Sam Turner Detective Agency is born....Read more

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Poirot Investigates

The Mystery of Hunter’s Lodge
In a shooting box on the bleak Derbyshire Moors a man is killed, and Poirot solves the crime—150 miles away!
The Kidnapped Prime Minister
First an attempted assassination, then the kidnapping—and Scotland Yard had to call in Poirot...Read more

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Poirot And Me

In Poirot and Me, David Suchet tells the story of how he secured the part, with the blessing of Agatha Christie's daughter, and set himself the task of presenting the most authentic Poirot that had ever been filmed.

David Suchet is uniquely placed to write the ultimate companion...Read more

Poison in the Pen

A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribeIt is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being...Read more

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The Poison Oracle

Take a medieval Arab kingdom, add a ruler who wants to update the kingdom’s educational facilities, include a somewhat reserved English research psycholinguist (an Oxford classmate of the ruler) invited to pursue his work on animal communication, and then add a touch of chaos in the person...Read more

Pop Goes the Weasel

DI Helen Grace returns in Pop Goes the Weasel, the electrifying new thriller from M. J. Arlidge.

The body of a middle-aged man is discovered in Southampton's red-light district - horrifically mutilated, with his heart removed.

Hours later - and barely cold - the...Read more

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A Portion for Foxes

A sinister link between the disappearance of a young college girl and a series of murders of vagrants poses a daunting challenge in this fourth mystery featuring Chief Inspector Morrissey and the Malminster CID. On Pel's Copse, near the college of Brindley, two foxes court - and they are...Read more

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Portrait in Shadows

At fifteen, he brags, I was the youngest person to deliberately kill a grown man!' For twenty years, the assassin works his way up a bloody ladder of success - his marks are increasingly prominent public figures. Through the killers own eyes, we see him gaining status in his field of murder...Read more

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