Sorted on book title (not in series order)
A chief inspector in a British country village probes the murder of a dowdy gossip who drank poison perhaps intended for her sexy employer, who was having a well-publicized affair with a married manRead more
Charlie Resnick had lots to deal with providing police protection for a celebrity at the annual crime convention — an author with some very unpleasant ‘fan’ mail and at the same time being brought in to investigate a series of vicious attacks on men in the mean-streets of Nottingham’s red-...Read more
On a cold, snowy winter's night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together, in a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, they imagine they will remain so forever.
The next morning, each is a key suspect in a murder. Each has something they want to...Read more
On the lonian island of Hyos, where James Pibble has been sent to protect millionaire Thanassi Thanatos, it is difficult to know what is true. Is there really a lizard that will poison you if it drowns in your milk? Is the man from the Home Office there to kill? Or to save? Or just to play...Read more
In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck believes otherwise, and solving the mystery acquires the utmost...Read more
Ryan and Sophie are a golden couple in Melbourne, the charming, salt-of-the-earth country boy and the charismatic, gorgeous social butterfly. When Ryan’s father dies, leaving them the family farm, it seems like a chance for Ryan to get back to his roots and for Sophie to embrace the bucolic...Read more
A trauma doctor takes her own life after having a traditional Hawaiian lomilomi session. It’s a baffling suicide murder that has Detectives Reef Kahili and Kalani Rogers running around in circles. Did Hawaiian and western medicine clash?
Or is it just another thing that's out...Read more
With treason epidemic in London Central, a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior agent, and each falls helplessly into Moscow Centre's brilliant, complex trap. As LONDON MATCH rushes toward its amazing climax, the ultimate, decisive confrontation is about to take place--between Samson...Read more
London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one.
Cover your arse.
Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from...Read more
Neve Ayres has always been so careful. Since her mother’s death when Neve was seven, she’s learned to look after herself and to keep her cards close. But now her deliberately constructed world has collapsed: her partner’s left her when she was eight months pregnant. And so, alone with her...Read more
When Denham decides to stay the night at the creepy Fen Inn, he is surprised to find his old friend Francis Briarfield a fellow-guest. He is even more surprised, upon waking the following day, to find the inn deserted and Briarfield murdered. The mystery deepens when Denham rushes to inform...Read more
Hookers and hawkers.
Mosques and mosquitos.
Paul has had enough of Southeast Asia.
He's only here ‘cos it's cheap.
And he's on the run from police after leaving Australia.
No, that place wasn't much better either. ...Read more
During the long walk to visit an old friend in the cathedral town of Moncaster, Eric Baker passes through the deserted village of Old Dexleigh. Investigating the abandoned church, he overhears a plot to kidnap a man named Harding. Baker is determined to foil this villainous enterprise - but...Read more
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city.
Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he's just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put...Read more
Supersleuth Gilbert Larose has 'the ability to imagine exactly what the criminal would do under any given condition. And what is more exciting, Larose does not wait for slow justice, he tracks down the murderers and kills them himself.'Read more
Rich, successful Eddie Bevelacqua has it all, or so it seems to his poor second cousin and gardener, Romeo. But while Eddie is intent on a strange psychological odyssey to purge himself of 'the tapestry of sins' in his past, there is only one thing the romantic Romeo really covets: Eddie's...Read more
A prominent politician’s son dies after eating poisonous mushrooms and an obviously mad black servant is convicted. But prison psychiatrist Yudel Gordon refuses to accept the official case – with good reasonIn a dangerous move to prove the innocence of the terrified man he travels to a...Read more
Whatever can have happened to Lil?
Flaxborough butcher Arthur Spain is worried that his sister-in-law hasn’t been in touch lately, so he pays her a visit. But Lil’s not at home, and by her porch door are a dozen bottles of curdling milk… Alarmed, he calls in...Read more
Xavier (Xavi) Aislado is a gentle giant, half Spanish and half Scot, brought up in Edinburgh by his grandmother Paloma Puig, a ferocious old lady whose grim brand of care sees him into his teens, until his father moves back to Spain, leaving him to grow up fast. His emergence into manhood...Read more
Every year beautiful Rachel Treherne must rewrite her will--and decide who will inherit her late father's vast wealth...But this year, things are just a little bit different:
Somebody clearly wants her to die.
"You have had that money long enough," said the anonymous...Read more
If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest.
It was impossible to truly...Read more
In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too....Read more
Frank Cousins is a knockabout bloke; an ex-Queensland cop turned private eye who - it has to be said - is his own worst enemy. Owner and sole employee of the Tasmanian Private Investigation Agency in Hobart, Frank takes on three simple cases and soon finds himself up to his neck in bad guys...Read more
In The Long Count, the first book of JM Gulvin's masterful new crime series, we meet Ranger John Quarrie as he is called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although the local police want the case shut down, John Q is convinced that events aren't quite so...Read more
Gervase Fen investigates a murder that was preceded by the same kind of anonymous and malicious letter others in the village of Cotten Abbas have receivedRead more
A summer of relentless heat. A local surfer named Ray Carlson is found dead in a house not far from Portsea back beach. There’s a silver-handled kitchen knife deep in his chest, and blood everywhere.
Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer is scarcely back from extended leave, and still...Read more
'There are some concepts that are alien to the Glaswegian mind. Salad. Dentistry. Forgiveness.'
Glasgow in the 1950's - not somewhere you'd choose to be unless you were born to it. Yet Lennox, a private investigator of Canadian descent, finds it oddly...Read more
Where better for a hitman to retire than in the Lake District, where the air is healthy and the scenery spectacular? And when Jaymith meets attractive young widow, Anya Wilson, he can’t believe his luck.
But Jaysmith soon discovers that settling down to the quiet life is not as...Read more
Barney Thomson — awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber — lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty-year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next.
However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by...Read more
