Sorted on book title (not in series order)
When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in front of an underground train, Thorne inexplicably senses something...Read more
Two girls go to a party, only one returns alive
Toni, the surviving teenager, is found deliriously wandering the muddy fields of the fens. She has been drugged and it’s uncertain whether she’ll survive. She says she saw her friend Emily being dragged away from...Read more
A superb collection of short stories from Reginald Hill, the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels and ‘the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ (Independent)In suburban Luton, a private detective on his first case discovers that curiosity can kill...Read more
Stunning Belrive Priory, consisting of a mansion, park and medieval ruins, is surrounded by the noise and neon signs of its gaudy neighbours - a cotton-mill, a brewey and a main road. Nevertheless, Arthur Ferryman is pleased to return for a family Christmas, but is shocked to discover that...Read more
She fell head over heels for the charming young man one afternoon. And by nightfall, Victoria Jones had conspired to follow him to Baghdad.
But no daydream of love could match the real life adventure that unfolded: a stranger was stabbed in her bed, someone issued a hushed...Read more
A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home - but someone else dies ...
Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the...Read more
It is the morning after wealthy Silas Kane's sixtieth birthday party - a celebration that brings to light a number of familial controversies. When Kane he is found dead at the foot of a cliff, the assumption is that he simply lost his way in the fog and fell by accident. But the subsequent...Read more
The Monks of History live in a Tibetan sort of area known as "enlightenment country." Their job: "to see that tomorrow happens at all." A mysterious Lady wants time-obsessed Jeremy Clockson to build a totally accurate glass clock. It will trap time and stop it, eliminating humanity's...Read more
Tam Buchanan and Fizz are trying to find a four-year-old boy, Robin, who has been kidnapped, apparently by his own father. There seems to be no way they can see justice done without putting Robin in unacceptable danger, unless FRead more
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast confessing that she is a murderer—and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third...Read more
The death of Professor Goodman is officially recorded as a tragic accident, but at the inquest, no mention is made of his latest discovery - a miraculous new formula for manufacturing flawless diamonds at negligible cost, which strikes Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond as rather strange. His...Read more
The story revolves around a mysterious third volume of a book that holds significant importance to the plot. The narrative typically involves a complex web of intrigue, secrets, and suspense, centering on the discovery and implications of this elusive volume.
The protagonist,...Read more
The Tuesday Night Club is the name for a varied group of guests who challenge each other to solve recent, and not so recent, crimes. It begins one evening when the group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes. Over the weeks, we learn about the case of...Read more
Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix Cellini is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice.
Mix's...Read more
When Effie Coulston drops dead on the floor of her bar in a small Spanish town mid-business meeting, her daughter Daniella feels it’s her duty to return for the funeral. But Daniella has been estranged from her mother for over twenty years, and Effie’s life in Spain harbours many secrets ....Read more
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.
Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt...Read more
All actions have consequences. This is how life goes.
Patrick is a loner, an intelligent but disturbed young man struggling to find his place in the world. He ventures out on his own, and, as he begins to find happiness, he commits an act of violence that sends his life horribly...Read more
This Is How You Disappear is the second major work by Amazon best-selling author Allen Miles. This ferocious set of stories and prose takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through rain-soaked gutters and shadowy back streets, meeting a grotesque cast of drunks, drop-outs, and lost souls...Read more
Roddy Gaskell, grandson of deceased shipping magnate Roderick “The Pirate King” Gaskell, believed in “finders keepers”. His family were finders—of a priceless Old Master discovered behind a secret panel, and probably purloined by old Roderick himself. Locked in combat with his puritanical...Read more
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
Derek and Christine Cartwright live in a lovely house in the Suffolk village of Wyveling. When Christine's mother, Enid, arrives for a visit, Derek welcomes her warmly, but when an accident makes her a permanent resident, Derek's nightmare begins -- horrible dreams of strangling Enid to...Read more
Mrs Rainger hires John Goss to discover if her husband is cheating on her. Goss soon realises that his subject's secret life has nothing to do with women. Rainger is involved in a much more dangerous game than infidelity.Read more
Lowland Way is the epitome of the suburban dream. Every house and yard is carefully maintained for maximum curb appeal, and everyone knows one another and gets along. One homeowner, Sissy Watkins, runs a successful B and B from her house. Two brothers and their families live next door to...Read more
Nigel Strangeways is off to a Christmas houseparty hosted by Fergus O’Brien, a legendary World War I flying ace now retired from private life, who has received a series of mocking letters predicting that he will be murdered on Boxing Day.
His guest list includes everyone who...Read more
London, 1961: George Preston is in control of crime in West London, and Rina Walker is his favored contract killer. Now 21, she is living next door to her lover Lizzie, now a fearsome dominatrix whose clients include a senior member of the government. Rina is approached by Tony Farina, one...Read more
Who wouldn't be pleased to attend a small dinner party being held by Sir Charles Cartwright, once the leading star of the London stage? At his "Crow's Nest" home in Loomouth, Cornwall.
Unfortunately, thirteen guests arrived at the actor's house, most unlucky. One of them was a...Read more
The feature of this nine short story collection is "Three Blind Mice" which is actually a novella.
The famous story opens with a blinding snowstorm trapping a small group of owners and guests in an isolated estate, recently re-purposed as a country inn. Although not aware of it,...Read more
After a stretch of knocking about the world, Harry Miles returns to England, where his new life as farm manager at Breakthorn Priory is imperiled by his being dragged into deadly crime.Read more
Dan Taylor has survived two attempts on his life. The rest of his team are missing, and now a terrorist group has stolen a radioactive isotope from a top secret government project.
Can Dan survive long enough to prevent a nuclear disaster on British soil?
With the...Read more
Dorothy L. Sayers began writing Thrones, Dominations, her thirteenth Lord Peter Wimsey novel, in 1936, then set it aside. When a fragment, forgotten for many years, was found in her agent’s safe, the trustees of the Sayers estate decided to ask the distinguished novelist Jill Paton Walsh to...Read more