The discovery of a human skeleton and a red rucksack amongst the roots of a fallen tree jolts memori..

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She ide..

The Reverend Dodd vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen spends his evenings reading detecti..

A friend in need is a friend indeed. And no one is a better friend than hitman-for-hire Lex Harper. ..

It's 1996. Detective Sergeant Tom Thorne is a haunted man. Haunted by the moment he ignored his inst..

Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en Party? Almost ever..

When Sir John Fairbrother head of one of the world's biggest private banks burns to death along with..

When librarian and budding private investigator Kitt Hartley visits her ex-assistant Grace Edwards i..

Strangefields Farm is notorious for its sinister history ever since serial killer Jackson Temples lu..

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female le..

Sally Page is an MI5 'footie' a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities..

When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera Detective Inspector Meredith..

When 15-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has li..

Kate Shugak is determined to convict the odious Louis Deem who has been arrested and tried for sever..

After losing her mum in a tragic accident when she was young Chrissy Moss had to find out the hard w..

Trauma surgeon Carrie Walker is taken aback when her estranged uncle a senior Russian naval officer ..

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find h..

1898. When Juan's father is killed while working as a photographer in Cuba the young man is left wit..

When the body of a herdsman is discovered in a farm building Detective Sergeant Den Cooper is more t..

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..

When Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the ..

When a beautiful red haired nurse’s body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning aft..

Jack Reacher has no place to go and all the time in the world to get there so a remote railroad stop..

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woma..

Responding to reports of deadly screams in the Ironbridge Gorge Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan is f..

Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but when one of her neighbours goes missing she f..

When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages te..

Returning from a much-needed holiday Persimmon “Simmy” Brown discovers that life in the Lake Dis..

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950 Los Angeles..

A boy’s body is found in bogland along the Irish border: a case as cold as the earth that has hidd..

With Peaceful Repose Cemetery Drew Slocombe is determined to revolutionise the entire death industry..

August 1983. Denton is preparing for a wedding. DS Waters should be on top of the world with less th..

The plague has struck London once again but so has opportunity for theatre company Lord Westfield’..

Inspector Witherspoon is perplexed. No one seems to know the identity of the dead man dressed like a..

The last thing psychotherapist Harry Hope expects on his walk home one evening is to be knifed. At f..

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota Jack Reacher has fi..

Investigative journalist Joe Oaks is on the trail of a strange creature caught on some amateur film ..

West Country Wildlife's birdwatching package to America has presented tour guide Rob Earl with the p..

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective..

Under pressure. Under threat. Undercover.When you’re working undercover the smallest mistake can c..

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police now he's a drifter of no f..

Haunted by their past the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral dire..

Twenty years retired David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. And he's not ..

Jane Ferguson suffers from horrific nightmares which she claims not to be able to explain. And when ..

Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer she..

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. Having spent his life ta..

Everyone knows Melissa Silk and her two best friends: a walking poster for friendship and community...

Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines to com..

The LAPD find a man dead at home. Nothing suggests foul-play but elements of the victim’s house sh..

After a tough week Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a relaxing night in but as she steps out of h..

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..

News of the murder first came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning. They found the st..

In the morning they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon they sent him back to school. Night ..

The body of Paul Shore toppled onto him a stream of blood pooling around them on the concrete. Berna..

When Hanlon is suspended from the force for assaulting a suspect she escapes to the remote Scottish ..

Kate Thompson - glamorous housewife-turned-MP - surprises everyone with her meteoric rise at Westmin..

When irascible farmer Guy Beardon meets a very dirty death in his own farmyard it seems like an acci..

Jack Nightingale and his companion Jenny McLean travel to Dorset to help Laura an old school friend ..

It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel. N..

As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home F..

It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home Fr..

The traditional Appleby Horse Fair hosts the largest gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in Europe. ..

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle...

Thirty-nine-year-old Enora Andresson is a successful actress and a woman in her prime. But tests hav..

In Alaska somebody disappears every day. Hunters who head into the wilderness… Fishermen who brave..

For James Mercer the financial ruin of his family by the institutions they trusted can never be undo..

Nina Cattermole had an unusual death: headbutted by a horse as she protested against the local hunt...

A family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on that child take..

Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around the world aid worker Úrsula has ret..

Nine years ago divorcee Marcia Brown took her own life. A pillar of the community she had been accus..

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath Sarah Tu..

Trapped in a burning cabin on a freezing snow-covered mountain Selma Falck has no idea where she is ..

A murder made to look like suicide. Another that appears an accident. DI Barton investigates the tra..

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

Simmy Brown had hoped that her autumn would be less frantic than usual to give her a chance to enjoy..

When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident Shetland detective Jimmy Perez..

Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen appearing on the front pages of every news..

Rachel Somers running... Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and his dog come..

There are thousands of jihadi brides in refugee camps in the Middle East. Spider Shepherd is about t..

Harry Lucas and Guy were best friends when they were kids. But then they made a terrible mistake and..

Diana Davies has been head of the family business since the death of her husband an infamous bank ro..

Karen Slocombe isn’t sure why she visited SuperFare that day - as a committed member of the Food C..

Whilst serving as an aide to the CID Detective Constable Rhea is kept busy in the seaside resort of ..

It’s Christmas and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea’s daughter Jessica has co..

Ten years ago Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn't kill..

Simmy Brown has a lot on her mind. Not just keeping her florist business afloat her father’s faili..