Real Tigers

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper. But when one of these fallen spies is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents must breach the defenses of Regent's Park to steal valuable intel in...Read more

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The City of Blood

When a major Parisian modern art event gets unexpected attention on live TV, Chief of Police Nico Sirsky and his team of elite crime fighters rush to La Villette park and museum complex. On the site of the French capital's former slaughterhouses, the blood is just starting to flow, and...Read more

Katipo Joe: Wolf's Lair

Katipo Joe: Wolf’s Lair is the harrowing and thrilling story of Joseph St George (codename: Katipo) in Germany during World War II.

On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler is preparing to move from Bavaria to the ‘Wolf’s Lair’, his top secret...Read more

For the Love of Mary

A stalker that will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

Sometimes, lying is easier than telling the truth, but it can lead down a dangerous road.

Terrance Tiller is on a quest to prove Mark Wentworth's innocence. He thinks he knows who framed Mark for the...Read more

Tree Pose

The Devil’s Island is living up to its name, serving up the ghosts of its dark past, while Ric is haunted by his own demons. The truth is unravelling, and death is closing in from all sides. And now, it's stalking Elaina.

Ric's past is catching up to him, with a vengeful man...Read more

The Burial Place

A beautiful landscape…

It began as the project of a lifetime – a group of archaeologists, uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement on a beautiful hill in the glorious English countryside.

A looming threat…

But, the...Read more

Blurline

Australian journo Peter Clancy is in London this time, working for a notorious scandal sheet. While writing salacious stories on celebrities, Clancy poses as a biographer to dig the dirt on drug- and alcohol-raddled Olivia Michaels, once a star of the screen.

But the more he...Read more

Big Stake

Life's a gamble.

It certainly is for former jockey, Roy Gilbert as he takes the wrong line to the finishing post. His premature death comes to the attention of D.I. John Mahoney and the Serious Crimes Squad. The subsequent investigation very soon becomes intertwined with the...Read more

Death Comes Looking

It sounded like a murder that grew out of events, but Inspector Giovanni ‘Rex’ Matsuko was sure the events had been shaped to fit the murder. A body had been washed up. Drowning wasn’t a possibility, neither was suicide, the body didn’t have a head. Matsuko’s superior wanted it to be cut...Read more

Base Nature

HOW FAR CAN YOU PUSH A MAN BEFORE HE REVEALS HIS BASE NATURE?

BILL MURDOCH IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT IN HIS DARKEST CASE YET...

Murdoch takes on two cases in as many days. First he is hired to find local man, Scott Patterson, the victim of a mysterious abduction. Then...Read more

Murder in Doubt

No sooner has Oliver Atkinson dropped off the previous ghost hitchhiker than the next one reveals her presence. To make matters worse she’s the spirit of a nine-year-old, with a relaxed attitude towards the truth.

What starts out as a simple task quickly turns into an...Read more

The Coffinmaker’s Garden

A village on the edge…
As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith’s home is falling into the North Sea. But the crumbling headland has revealed what he’s got buried in his garden: human remains.

A house full of secrets…...Read more

A Virtuous Lie

Hidden in the dense bush of the Manawatu, a tiny skeleton lies overgrown with weeds. DSS Archie Baldrick and DC Ben Travers discover that the victim is a young child who went missing from a rural skate park twenty years earlier. Who could possibly have abducted Lukas Branson and kept him...Read more

The Jaded Widow

The final episode of The Jaded Kiwi Trilogy is an interwoven twisted tale of spying, policing, art curating, and the marijuana growing underworld, all set in an authentic mid-1970’s backdrop. Prepare for high tension, breathless action, and to truly root for the good guys (and even the not-...Read more

Knitting Needles and Knives

97 year old Alice Atkinson has many ghosts in her past, but she never expected to see this one walk past her in the street.

She doesn't have much time to think about the past though as her friend Teresa asks her for help. She thinks someone is breaking into her apartment and...Read more

The Night Belongs to Her

A cold-blooded murder in a small town has Dylan Harper scrambling for answers in a chilling case where the killer keeps leaving coded messages for detectives.

Dylan Harper has been demoted and banished to the small town of Westport. Now the sergeant in charge of the local...Read more

Lethal Sky

A ship carries a deadly cargo that should never have seen the light of day ... as an enemy is bent on a revenge that will lay waste to major cities across the world. Defending home soil for the first time, intelligence agent Marika Hartmann makes a life and death choice in the skies over...Read more

Holy Death

Murder. Arson. Revenge. 

Detective Inspector West investigates the grisly deaths of two elderly priests: one in a suspicious fire; the other obviously murdered. 

The inspector is not the only one hunting the priest killer. 

If you like murder mixed...Read more

Death at Valley View Cottage

Meet Madeleine Brooks. Ex-probation officer. Ex-wife.

Finally free of her failed marriage, Maddie has transformed herself into a successful estate agent in her delightful but not-so-sleepy English village in Oxfordshire.

Maddie’s most recent listing is a renovated...Read more

Dead Silent

Female students are going missing but nobody’s noticed yet

A body is found in a car crash, but the victim was already dead . . .
Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to catch a vicious serial killer. The first two victims are American...Read more

How to Kill Friends and Implicate People

Fergus Fletcher is a hit man. For five thousand pounds, he’ll kill anyone you want. For seven, he’ll frame someone else. Pretending to kill someone is a first, but Alex Pennan has stolen from the mob and needs to fake his own death.

Fergus is looking for love. So is Sam...Read more

The Jaded Spy

Alexander, the curator, is sent to Auckland to escort Captain James Cook to the Auckland Art Gallery. On opening night, the priceless portrait is stolen. Alexander has to find the painting to save his career but he also has to deal with a Soviet spy whom he has been clandestinely...Read more

Dead Lemons

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU CAN’T PROVE ANYTHING?

In the far south a young girl goes missing, lost without trace in the wilderness beyond her remote family cottage. A year later her father disappears in the exact same place . . .

Then nothing. At all. Eventually the years...Read more

To Kill A Conman

Everyone falls prey to the conman. One victim seeks revenge.

Stuart Baker makes a lot of dough from conning people. He always has a scheme or a scam on the go. His enemies outnumber his friends, but Baker doesn’t care about that. Crime pays too well.

His new girlfriend...Read more

Trouble Brewing in Harrogate

This beer festival’s going off with a bang …

A call from an old colleague has DI Adams off her patch and out of her depth, investigating a mysterious new beer with unexpected side effects. Side effects far more dangerous than a simple hangover.

Deadly brewers...Read more

The Mistake

Everybody Makes Mistakes!

A mutilated body is found on a lonely street in Reykjavík.

Detective Grímur intends to see that justice is done.

Kjartan Jónsson vows that his daughter’s killer will be punished. And that the punishment will fit the crime....Read more

Dead Man's Shadow

1890, Stoke Newington

A new church is being built…

Although quite beautiful, it does not sit well with older members of the community, whoare all members of the Church of England.

The pastor, Tristan King, insists on calling the lord, ‘my...Read more

Class Act

Can a man who’s lived a life of crime ever escape his past? The world’s most reluctant private investigator is about to find out.

Former bad boy turned local hero, Bill Murdoch, should be happy with his little piece of paradise. After all, he’s got the fancy...Read more

Child of the State

"He’s first, you're next." 

That's the message someone scribbled on a photo of Stacy May Charms' six-year-old son, two days before her release from prison. 

Stacy knows why. She doesn't know who. 

And she's not waiting around to find out. Her plan is...Read more

Deep Leads

Deep leads (mining) — veins of ore buried dangerously far underground
Deep leads (criminal investigation) — clues hidden under layers of misdirection

A young detective is exiled to a mining town and faces a ruthless killer

...Read more

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