Sorted on book title (not in series order)
"There's no easy way to say this, Kubu. Your father's dead. I'm afraid he's been murdered."
Faced with the violent death of his own father, Assistant Superintendent David 'Kubu' Bengu, the smartest detective in the Botswana police, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man...Read more
It's a glorious spring morning in the village of Ashthorpe. Birds are singing, and sunlight is dancing on the river, where Mary Gedge's dress drifts lazily in the shallows and flowers mingle in her hair. The scene is so altogether lovely that some locals think dreamily of Ophelia, drowned...Read more
Since his retirement from King’s University, life has been rather quiet for Professor Daly…
In fact, a peaceful retirement, even when that retirement has been punctuated by helping the police to solve the odd crime, may be slightly over-rated: at least in Daly’s...Read more
Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy - dynamic, well-connected - was the magnetic head of a humanitarian organisation which looked after the area's...Read more
When Tessa Crichton goes down to the rotunda theatre in Dorset, she is not only looking forward to acting in one of the most successful repetory companies in the country but also to meeting it's inspiring owner, Elfrieda Henshaw, who is confined to a wheelchair. She finds, however, that the...Read more
The moonlight shone on the quiet village green when an English bobbie returning from night patrol finds on a man's two motionless feet stuck through the holes of a pair of stocks. He identifies the corpse in evening dress immediately. Wealthy Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and...Read more
In Banon, a small, peaceful village in upper Provençe, the local community's principal source of income is the cultivation and sale of truffles. Tourists rarely venture into this remote region, but a small group of outsiders have chosen to set up home on the outskirts of the village....Read more
It was a fatal mistake for Nigel Playford to bring his beautiful sister Cynthia to the magicians’ convention at the small seaside hotel in Wales. She had no talent at all for sleight of hand, and an absolute genius for making enemies. Before the curtain could rise on the main event, she...Read more
Magnus McFall is no stranger to trouble, but he never expected a life sentence. He is arrested just as a pandemic called ‘The Sweats’ hits London. Growing public disorder results in emergency powers and he finds himself imprisoned without trial. An unlikely alliance with long-termer Jeb and...Read more
When his high-school sweetheart calls him out of the blue, Rebus agrees to track down her missing son, who was last seen at a bar owned by some shady mob-linked gangsters. His pursuit takes him through an Edinburgh beyond the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, a...Read more
Why would a sniper shoot suburban physiotherapist Rachel James as she sips her morning coffee? Inspector Morse's hunt for answers kicks off with a tabloid journalist, winds through the strip clubs of Soho, then returns to Oxford, where two senior dons and their wives battle for a plum...Read more
Crime novelist Matt Wells has more fantasies of revenge than most. Dumped by his agent, his publisher and his wife, he is crippled by writer's block. Then a fan e-mails him. Calling himself the White Devil, he is a serial killer who has chosen Matt to tell his story. Then the killing begins...Read more
Paddy Power, a banker and major Irish politician, is found dead in his countryside resort. Did he swallow the wrong heart medicine? Or did one of the four people closest to him commit a terrible crime? McGarr is drawn into a complex web of professional jealousies and romantic misalliances...Read more
When the victim of a violent gang rape accuses five premier sportsmen of being her attackers, she has no idea that her suffering has only just begun. It's a scandal that rocks a nation of sports fans. But, in spite of a huge amount of evidence, no one seems to believe the girl.Read more
Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death -- but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most foul when he smells it. Particularly in...Read more
Was Mrs. Sibley, the fat, elderly lady found dead tangled up with a broomstick on the East Anglian marshes, really a witch? The small Norfolk town was agog with the mystery, but Inspector Lovick was not convinced that witch-like flying had caused her death. There was a bruise on her head...Read more
Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the island’s most important families has died, on a troop transport ship bringing him back home after the Second World War. But Kindaichi has not come merely as a messenger – with his last words,...Read more
The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.
Who is also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot is on...Read more
The Radwick Rangers seem destined for a championship season. Until one of the players is found dead. The mysterious murder turns the dream of victory into a terrifying nightmare.
Soon the rest of the team is being stalked by the killer. . .no one is safe. Stu and his girlfriend,...Read more
From the winner of the Feminino Lumen Prize for best female writer in Spain, a new book in the Petra Delicado mystery series.
Inspector Petra Delicado has been chained to a tiresome desk job in the documentation department of the Barcelona police force for months. But...Read more
A murder committed on paper, safely within the confines of a novel, is one thing. To see that same crime in the real world, is something else entirely...Frank Fons is a very successful crime writer. His novels, famed for their visceral descriptions of violent death, have made him a...Read more
Australian poet and academic Rick Harding has a good life, until he discovers someone is stealing his poems and publishing them under another name. Who is Jason Schwartze and why has he selected Rick as his victim? Unable to get anyone to take his distress seriously, Rick determines to...Read more
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
The party's over when murder makes an entrance...
With the notion of bringing together the most bitter of enemies for his own amusement, a bored, mischievous millionaire throws a house party. As a brutal snowstorm strands the unhappy guests, the party receives a most unwelcome...Read more
In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution’s steely director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav’s eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk, stabbed in the back with an Ikea kitchen knife—with Olav nowhere to be...Read more
When Darina Lisle is asked to write a cookery book sponsored by Finer Foods, a firm that imports exotic gourmet delicacies, she sees it as an exciting challenge. But Darina soon discovers that Finer Foods' profits are plummeting and the finances are in a shambles. To add to all of this, she...Read more
Alfred Armiger had laid his clever, vulgar hands on a beautiful old Tudor house and turned it into The Jolly Barmaid—the latest addition to his chain of super Road-houses. Then someone lays their hands on Armiger: he is found brutally beaten to death.
And there is no shortage...Read more
Dawn on a cold February morning and a mist hangs over Oxford, shrouding spires and domes. Feisty novelist Kate Ivory enjoys her early morning run with the (mainly) women's jogging group. It gets her away from her word processor and she hears all the local gossip on the hoof. This morning,...Read more
A severed finger found in a portion of french fries leads Detective Inspector Bill Slider on a hunt for a murderer, an investigation thwarted by the disappearance of several key witnesses.Read more
Fifteen months ago Cliff Summers was brutally assaulted.
Recovered, although still suffering from memory loss, Cliff returns to his hometown with no job, no home and no prospects.
Also newly returned is Tony Clayton, a local garage owner who’s just been released from...Read more