The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman’s flesh and the beak ..

How much did she just say the salary was? When Ruth Miller returns a dropped scarf to Elena Shilkov ..

In Slough House memories are stirring all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again Loui..

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

A governmental think-tank whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service has lo..

On their first night in Paris the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather the bi..

Was it a case of murder by committee at The Gillibry Island Bird Obsevatory Trust? The members of th..

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

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his t..

When a letter arrives at Tradmouth police station addressed to a DCI Norbert it causes quite a stir...

Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taki..

Detective Inspector jack Frost knelt down beside the tiny body. Who did this to you sonny? he asked ..

In Amsterdam four people are butchered in a canal house their remains arranged around the crucified ..

London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-..

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their sp..

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

Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter but she knows when she's being played..

When a priest is found crucified in a derelict North London chapel it makes a dramatic change for DI..

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

Florence winter 1967. A year has passed since the historic devastating flood of the Arno. The annive..

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

Newlyweds Lina and Cain don’t make it out to their vacation home on gorgeous Lake Tarawera as ofte..

In the small Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett vicar’s wife Monica Noble throws a party for the ..

When a gentleman arrives at Montalbano's station to report an armed robbery on his wife that ended w..

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

Bea Abbot's plans are disrupted by the unexpected arrival of one of her clients bearing a brown leat..

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

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

A man wearing his daughter's wedding ring is found in front of his fireplace shot in the chest. A fu..

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

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

When Georgie is persuaded to join two old friends for Ladies' Night she intends to have fun to behav..

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

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat young Detective In..

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

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

Ever since the death of her husband Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage high up on th..

They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored treated cared for. But now ..

In a small town in the Deep South Flora Dane is part of a task force committed to hunting down every..

When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scene of an attempted murder all she can do is try to sav..

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

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

Staying alive becomes a precarious task for Inspector Kurt Wallander as he plays both hunter and hun..

Drawn in by the reputation of the islands a new English family move to the area eager to give their ..

Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope ..

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England the body of a young woman is discovered near the site o..

Consuelo is 16 heavily pregnant and married to an unemployed gangster. The last thing she needs is a..

Dieter Hess an aged spy is dead and John Bachelor his MI5 handler is in deep deep trouble. Death has..

Russian troops are preparing to cross the border into Belarus threatening its independence. The only..

One wild party. Four counts of murder. A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wil..

The discovery of two teenage girls’ bodies and a video of a snuff movie showing the death of one o..

A Hidden Clue. A victim reaches out from the grave to the SIO who will investigate her death. This i..

London Rules might not be written down but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's Park's..

Teenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a discovery which excit..

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

When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight Freda Simonson the only witness to ..

Nothing ever happens in August and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a break. Heading off fo..

The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in Devon in 1985 shocked the country a..

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

When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbour Liliana Lombardo after her car is interfered w..

Lieutenant Eve Dallas hasn't even arrived at work when her first call of the day comes in. Alva Quir..

When Roy and Carl's parents die suddenly 16-year-old Roy is left as protector to his impulsive young..

It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks up her second sleuthing case. But exposing the ..

Murderous jihadists have been crossing the English Channel passing themselves off as asylum seekers...

Shy dyslexic and small for his age ten-year-old Patrick O'Brien is a natural target at school. But w..

South London gangster Perry Smith doesn’t scare easy but when four of his associates are brutally ..

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

A man is dead shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times and w..

With a healthy disregard for rules he attracts trouble like a magnet. He has a newly assigned appren..

When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given ..

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

For Bennie Rosato founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm failure has never been an option. Thirte..

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

Selma Falck's personal life and career as a lawyer have hit rock bottom. That is until Hege Chin Mor..

V.I. Warshawski's impossible god-daughter Bernie convinces her to look for August a young film-maker..

The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Sûreté du Québec for his first day o..

As the snow falls thickly Detective Joe Ashworth and his daughter Jessie are swept along in the crow..

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

Travelling cook Jenny Starling lands a summer job catering for the conference trade at a prestigious..

If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything it's to keep his head down. Es..

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straigh..

On Doogort East Bog Achill Island a body is found. The close community is stunned to learn that it's..

A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from nov..

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

Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service w..

'We have your son.' CIA analyst Jill Bailey has her life turned upside down by the voice at the end ..

Maya Barton has just embarked on her dream job as a scene of crime officer. When she attends her fir..