Sorted on book title (not in series order)

Police Procedural

For Reasons of their Own

Robbie Gray, a talented but troubled Detective Inspector stationed in Melbourne, who has fallen foul of police bureaucracy, is called to a investigate a dead body found in a rural wetland swamp. Under-resourced, with a corpse that cannot be identified and no apparent motive for the murder,...Read more

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Grey and Mac
No in Series: 
1

For Reasons Unknown

Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more…

DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness...Read more

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DCI Matilda Darke
No in Series: 
1

For the Dignified Dead

A woman’s body is pulled from the frozen Danube in Bratislava. Police Commander Jana Matinova recognizes the killer’s calling card. She had him in her grasp once before …and he slipped away. But not this time. Determined to end the bloody killing spree, Matinova’s investigation plunges her...Read more

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Commander Jana Matinova
No in Series: 
5

For Want of a Shilling

The mysterious Russian invasion hoax
that shook colonial New Zealand.

In January 1873, New Zealand, in a sparsely populated coastal community on Wellington’s south coast, the peaceful lives of Owhiro Bay residents are shattered with the discovery of two brutal and...Read more

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Moana Rangitira
No in Series: 
2

Force of Nature

Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along a muddy track.

Only four come out on the other side.

The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges is meant to take the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and encourage...Read more

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Aaron Falk
No in Series: 
2

Forty Words For Sorrow

When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up, except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Then the...Read more

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John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery
No in Series: 
1

Foxtrot Oscar

It's 1976 and England is sweating its nuts off. As an unrelenting heat wave beats down on the nation, the residents of Horse's Arse - aka Handstead New Town, north Manchester - are reaching melting point. The Park Royal Mafia, having recovered from the loss of its senior members, is under...Read more

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Handstead New Town Mystery
No in Series: 
2

The Frailty of Flesh

Constables Hart and Tain embark on their strangest and most disturbing case yet when a four-year-old boy is found beaten death in the park and his older brother, claiming that he witnessed the whole thing, accuses their sister, who is now missing.Read more

Series Name: 
Craig Nolan
No in Series: 
2

Frantic

In one terrible moment, paramedic Sophie Phillips’ life is ripped apart – her police officer husband, Chris, is shot on their doorstep and their ten-month-old son, Lachlan, is abducted from his bed. Suspicion surrounds Chris as he is tainted with police corruption, but Sophie believes the...Read more

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1

Franz Josef

DS Nick Chester returns with a new case that will test his limits.

The tiny South Island town of Franz Josef is perched precariously on New Zealand’s Alpine Fault. It already faces devastating earthquakes, floods and landslides. And now it harbours a killer.

When a...Read more

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Nick Chester
No in Series: 
3

Friend Of The Devil

One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a woman named Karen Drew is found in her wheelchair with her throat slit. Back in Eastvale on that same morning, in a tangle of narrow alleys behind a market square, the body of Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled....Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Banks
No in Series: 
17

Friends in High Places

When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government...Read more

Series Name: 
Commissario Brunetti
No in Series: 
9

From Doon With Death

When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when...Read more

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Inspector Wexford
No in Series: 
1

From the Dead

It has been a decade since Alan Langford’s charred remains were discovered in his burnt-out car. His wife Donna was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband and served ten years in prison.

But just before she is released, Donna receives a nasty shock: an anonymous letter...Read more

Series Name: 
Tom Thorne
No in Series: 
9

Frost At Christmas

Ten days to Christmas and Tracey Uphill, aged eight, hasn't come home from Sunday school. Her mother, a young prostitute, is desperate. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, sloppy, scruffy and insubordinate. To help him investigate the case of the missing child, Frost has been assigned a...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Frost
No in Series: 
1

Frozen Moment

When Ake Melkersson's car breaks down, he goes to a nearby garage. However, as he approaches it he realises something is wrong. The owner of the garage lies dead, sprawled on the ground, his lower body crushed where a car has repeatedly driven over him. The murder investigation is led by...Read more

Series Name: 
Christian Tell
No in Series: 
1

Frozen Tracks

The autumn gloom comes quickly on the Swedish city of Gothenburg, and for Detective Inspector Erik Winter the days seem even shorter, the nights bleaker, when he is faced with two seemingly unrelated sets of perplexing crimes. The investigation of a series of assaults and a string of child...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Winter
No in Series: 
5

Gallery of the Dead

`Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what's inside that room would be it.'

That's what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the Ultra Violent Crimes Unit as they arrive at one of the most...Read more

Series Name: 
Robert Hunter
No in Series: 
9

Gallows Lane

When a young woman is found beaten to death on a building site, in what appears to be a sexually-motivated killing, Inspector Benedict Devlin's enquiries soon point to a local body-builder and steroid addict.Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Devlin
No in Series: 
2

Gallows View

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of the metropolis. But he soon finds that life in the country is not quite as idyllic as he had imagined ...

A peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale. Two...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Banks
No in Series: 
1

Game of Mirrors

When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbour, Liliana Lombardo, after the engine of her car is interfered with, the inspector can little imagine where this innocuous event will lead. It soon transpires that the young woman - beautiful, intelligent and rather vague about the...Read more

Series Name: 
Commissario Montalbano
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18

Georges Simenon: Ten Maigret Novels

A collaboration between William Heinemann, Secker & Warburg and Octopus Books to create a series of omnibus editions of certain authors which would be available at low prices. The works of Simenon, and especially with an emphasis on the Maigret stories, were an obvious choice for...Read more

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Inspector Maigret

Get Even

The Witness Protection Unit’s Luke Dunlop has one job - to make people disappear. And that’s not easy when there’s no margin for error and each case is a matter of life and death. Ex-cop David Scanlon is about to deliver red-hot evidence about his former colleagues to the Sate Counter...Read more

Series Name: 
Luke Dunlop
No in Series: 
3

Getting Warmer

Cato Kwong is back. Back in Boom Town and back on a real case – the unsolved mystery of a missing fifteen-year-old girl. But it’s midsummer in the city of millionaires and it’s not just the heat that stinks. A pig corpse, peppered with nails, is uncovered in a shallow grave and a body, with...Read more

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2

A Ghost in the Machine

When a bloody, pulverized body is found lying beneath the rustic timbers of an authentic torture device so vicious and complicated as to be blood-curdling, there's sufficient unrest in tiny Forbes Abbot to call in Chief Inspector Barnaby. Was Dennis Brinkley done in by crooked business...Read more

Series Name: 
Chief Inspector Barnaby
No in Series: 
7

Ghost in the Machine

Detective Constable Scott Cullen of Lothian and Borders has only been three months in CID as a full DC. He is assigned a Missing Persons case which has stretched his uniform colleagues. Caroline Adamson - a young, recently divorced mother from Edinburgh - has disappeared whilst on a date....Read more

Series Name: 
Scott Cullen
No in Series: 
1

Girl Gone Missing

Chepstow Castle, Gloucestershire.

A woman makes a gruesome discovery whilst out walking her dog.

The body of a teenage girl has been washed up on the banks of the River Wye, after weeks spent decomposing in the water.

But this is no suicide.

...Read more

Series Name: 
Lambert and Hook
No in Series: 
11

The Girl Without Skin

They were near the edge of the glacier. The sea beneath the helicopter was dense with pack ice. In front of them, the endless whiteness stretched as far as the light could reach. It hurt his eyes. Millions of white crystals. Except in one place. One spot. Right where the mummified...Read more

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Grønland - Greenland
No in Series: 
1

Girls Who Lie

When a depressed, alcoholic single mother disappears, everything suggests suicide, but when her body is found, Icelandic Detective Elma and her team are thrust into a perplexing, chilling investigation.

PAPERBACK STAR PICK in THE TIMES CRIME CLUB

When...Read more

Series Name: 
Forbidden Iceland
No in Series: 
2

Glasgow Kiss

Eric Chalmers is one of the most popular teachers at Muirpark Secondary School in Glasgow. Gentle and kind, he is the person the students come to when they want to confide in someone. So when precocious teenager Julie Donaldson accuses Chalmers of rape, the school goes into shock. How could...Read more

Series Name: 
DCI Lorimer
No in Series: 
6

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