Sorted on book title (not in series order)
Jack Havoc, jail-breaker and knife artist, is on the loose. It falls to Albert Campion to pit his wits against the killer and hunt him down through the city's November smog before it is too late.Read more
Time Of Death…
The Missing
Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up and from which she long ago escaped....Read more
DCI Anderson had met Lisa Allan socially only two days before her untimely death. Autopsy reports pose more questions than answers. As Anderson struggles to untangle the complex relationships of the dysfunctional Allan family, he becomes involved in a dangerous liaison with Lisa's husband...Read more
This is almost a love story.
Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of an overbearing father. And then...Read more
Political ideology and personal revenge clash when politician Leslie Titmuss is forced to stand on the proposed development of Greensward Country Town in Rapstone ValleyRead more
December in vicar and exorcist Merrily Watkins' village of Ledwardine, and the river is rising. The village has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one...Read more
He was young, arrogant, wealthy and in the bloom of health—or was he?
Like any small community, Linchester has its love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages. But the gossip is elevated to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the very night of his beautiful wife’s...Read more
When a young strikingly handsome photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Grant to discover whether he accidentally drowned, committed suicide, or met his death at the hands of one of his many female admirers.Read more
'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story. The names mentioned are merely temptations. Amuse-bouches for the mind, if you like. How I would have loved to...Read more
On August 15, 1946—the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender—the partially decomposed, raped, and strangled bodies of two women are found in Shiba Park. More murders will soon be uncovered: women killed in the same way, and, it becomes clear, by the same hand.
Narrated by...Read more
You’d never guess Lottie Jones had skeletons in her closet.
She’s lived in town for decades now. She’s getting older. She lives for the simple pleasures of weekly bingo games at church, and gossiping with her friends about their children’s love lives....Read more
Carl Whittley is at home. He's twenty-two and charged with caring for his crippled father. It's not much of a life but he has plenty of distractions. He's just tortured a sexy, young TV presenter to death and he's planning to blow an anonymous commuter to pieces.
DCI Mark...Read more
"Possibly she even realized, or half-realized, that there was something wrong with her life.... She wondered whether what had happened to the park had happened to a dark, rushed change that would never change back."
This is England's mystery treasure Bill James describing a 13...Read more
Matthew Prior looks up from lunch to see the Queen Mother and Gorbachev descending the staircase at Brooks Hotel....Read more
Jack Frost is disheveled, disorganised and disrespectful. His superiors don't like him. He has a habit of doing things his way – and getting results. But when Denton CID is faced with a spate of major crimes, Frost finds himself under pressure.
A young woman becomes the sixth...Read more
When Sally Caswell persuaded her scientist husband Liam to move from London to the quiet of rural Oxfordshire it was in the hope of a more peaceful existence. But so far the move has led to nothing but discord. Liam's sabbatical book project is not going well so, frustrated and isolated, he...Read more
Frank Barry, terrorist of the highest order. His ideology is money and his track record is flawless. When the Russians want review copies of the latest NATO missile system, Barry is the man to deliver them.
Martin Brosnan, poet, scholar and killer. Trained in Vietnam then...Read more
An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house...What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers...Read more
Selina March has lived in the remote Scottish hamlet of Inchcape for nearly 50 years. When she reluctantly takes in a paying guest, her secluded life changes forever. Crime writer Joanna Savile has come to interview the inmates at nearby Moy, the asylum for the criminally insane. Her secret...Read more
Tragedy at Law follows a very important High Court judge, Judge Barber, as he moves from place to place presiding over cases in the Southern England area. When an anonymous letter arrives for the judge with a warning.Read more
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after...Read more
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to their eight-year-old son has been abducted. But when the body is found and forensic evidence turns the case on its...Read more
Artist, connoisseur and private detective Philip Trent features in this collection comprising eleven short stories. Including "The Genuine Tabard," in which a clergyman and unique objets d'art are involved in a neat confidence trick; "The Foolproof Lift,in which a blackmailing valet is...Read more
The author of A Question of Guilt returns with another heart-rending mystery featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West and Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey. Thekely place for a crime of passion, but what else could account for the naked body of a woman found in the woods?Read more
