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Police Procedural

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series.

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Maigret
No in Series: 
4

The Hanging

On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are...Read more

Series Name: 
Konrad Simonsen
No in Series: 
1

The Hanging Girl

In the middle of a hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive at first, but then he receives some shocking news.

Carl then has no...Read more

Series Name: 
Department Q
No in Series: 
6

The Hanging Valley

A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. When Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no-one is willing to talk. Banks' frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed. For it seems that his latest case may be...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Banks
No in Series: 
4

Hangman

How do you catch a killer who's already dead?

Eighteen months have passed, but the scars the Ragdoll murders left behind remain.

DCI Emily Baxter is summoned to a meeting with US Special Agents Elliot Curtis of the FBI and Damien Rouche of the CIA. There, she...Read more

Series Name: 
Fawkes and Baxter
No in Series: 
2

Hangman's Tide

When someone hangs a meddlesome ex-schoolteacher of an English coastal village and arranges her corpse in a macabre display, Inspector Kenworthy concocts an elaborate scheme to solve the near-perfect crimeRead more

Series Name: 
Inspector Kentworthy
No in Series: 
3

Happy Days

As ex-drug baron Bazza Mackenzie runs for parliament, ex-cop Paul Winter knows that his time with Bazza must, at whatever cost, come to an end, in the 12th in this highly acclaimed series of police procedurals

DI Faraday is gone and the police are left reeling...Read more

Series Name: 
DI Joe Faraday
No in Series: 
12

Hard Frost

Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Division,  is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's  something of a pain in the unkempt and unruly,  with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut  corners. They'd like nothing better than to bounce  him from the department. The only problem...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Frost
No in Series: 
4

Hardcastle's Mandarin

A DI Hardcastle Investigation - June 1917.   - Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall CID, is called to investigate the murder of Sir Nigel Strang, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Munitions. Given his work, Hardcastle wonders whether the Germans might be responsible. Then another...Read more

Series Name: 
Hardcastle
No in Series: 
7

Harem

The body of a teenage girl is discovered in a cistern deep below the city of Istanbul. For the Turkish police force's most talented officer, Inspector Çetin Ikmen, this is a difficult case. The girl was his daughter's friend and her attire, that of a nineteenth-century Ottoman, offers no...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Ikmen
No in Series: 
5

Harm Done

A young girl disappears, then another.

A notorious paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of the Muriel Campden Estate are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands...

Chief Inspector Wexford is not only...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Wexford
No in Series: 
18

Havana Black

The brutally mutilated body of Miguel Forcade is discovered washed up on a Havana beach. Head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Forcade was once responsible for the confiscation of art works from the bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution. Had he really returned...Read more

Series Name: 
Mario Conde
No in Series: 
4

Havana Blue

Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year’s Eve hangover. Though it’s the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their...Read more

Series Name: 
Mario Conde
No in Series: 
1

He Kills Coppers

August 1966 - the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. A bewilderingly senseless crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself and brings an end to the victory celebrations. Yet it also marks a...Read more

Series Name: 
The Long Firm Trilogy
No in Series: 
2

He Who Fears the Wolf

A boy arrives - breathless and aghast - at his police station, to report the discovery of a horribly maimed body outside an isolated house in the woods. Yet there was another person in the woods that day - standing nearby, hidden within the trees, was the mysterious figure of the local...Read more

Series Name: 
Konrad Sejer
No in Series: 
3

Head Shot

Gangland killings, drugs, corruption ...

You've read the newspapers, now read the book! -  a .22 calibre pistol. Good for a head shot. Nice and neat. Professional!

An acquitted cop-killer is executed in a St Kilda back-street. Another gangland killing, or a rogue...Read more

Series Name: 
Rubens McCauley
No in Series: 
1

The Healers

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US.

News of the murder came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday isolated farmer Ernie Bowles was...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Simon Ramsay
No in Series: 
5

Heart Of The Hunter

When Johnny K is kidnapped and held to ransom, his daughter turns to the only man she knows can help her - his old friend - Tiny. The kidnappers want a disk from her safe that contains extremely sensitive data, and she has seventy-two hours in which to deliver, or her father will die. But...Read more

Series Name: 
Thobela Mpayipheli
No in Series: 
1

Heaven Sent

Detective Sergeant Philip ‘Cato’ Kwong is light on sleep but high on happiness with his new wife Sharon Wang and their baby girl. But contentment is not compatible with life in the Job, and soon a series of murders of Fremantle’s homeless people gets in the way of Cato’s newfound bliss. As...Read more

Series Name: 
Cato Kwong
No in Series: 
4

Helga's Web

Set in Sydney, Australia, where a young girl is involved in blackmail, Detective-Sergeant Malone reaches Helga too late to warn her about her dangerous game. She has already received her final pay-off. The author also wrote "Gunscope" and "The Sundowners".Read more

Series Name: 
Scobie Malone
No in Series: 
2

Hell for Heather

Peter thinks he’s pulled off the perfect crime … but if Heather’s dead, where is her body?

Sydney, 1962

Peter Baxter can remember a time when he loved his wife, the beautiful, haughty Heather...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Swinton
No in Series: 
5

Hellfire

Inspector Konrad Sejer is called to investigate the double murder of a mother and her young son. They have been found, knifed repeatedly, in a worn-out caravan on a remote piece of land. A bloody footprint is discovered.

Meanwhile, another mother, dying of cancer, confesses to...Read more

Series Name: 
Konrad Sejer
No in Series: 
12

Hell's Fire

Outrage at the crime turns to horror when a charred corpse and satanic symbols are found in the smoking ruins.

Leading the investigation, DI Jon Spicer stumbles into a perverse underworld he had no idea existed. Further killings bring the realisation that those responsible are...Read more

Series Name: 
DI Jon Spicer
No in Series: 
4

Helsinki Homicide: Against The Wall

HELSINKI AGAINST THE WALL The 2009 Winner of the Best Finnish Crime An abandoned house in Northern Helsinki, a dead body in the garage. Detective Lieutenant Kari Takamäki's homicide team gets a case that looks like a professional hit but they are perplexed by the crime scene. Takamäki's...Read more

Series Name: 
Takamäki
No in Series: 
8

Hermit

After a puzzling death in the wild bushlands of Australia, detective Dana Russo has just hours to interrogate the prime suspect - a silent, inscrutable man found at the scene of the crime, who disappeared without trace 15 years earlier.

But where has he been? Why won't he talk...Read more

Series Name: 
Detective Dana Russo
No in Series: 
1

Hey You, Pretty Face

An abandoned infant. Three girls stolen in the night. Can one overworked detective find the Christmas connection to save them all?

London, 1999. Short-staffed during Christmas week, Detective Jack Rutherford can’t afford to spend time on the couch with his beloved wife. With a...Read more

Series Name: 
DC Jack Rutherford
No in Series: 
1

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

The Hidden

The Heads was once a small village on the NSW north coast. Now it's a large village with a lot of action below the surface. A shipment of coke, a crime squad investigation and a drug overdose keeps the local sergeant pretty busy.

Someone is preying on the women of The Heads. And...Read more

Series Name: 
Sergeant William Jarrett

The Hidden Assassins

As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody’s terrorist fears. Panic sweeps the city and the region...Read more

Series Name: 
Javier Falcon
No in Series: 
3

Hidden Depths

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers.

This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope intrigued. But then another body is discovered...Read more

Series Name: 
Vera Stanhope
No in Series: 
3

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