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Recent Arrivals / Upcoming Releases (Other Places)
Region: England
Publication Date: Thu, 01/01/1998
Fully dramatised adaptations of all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, brought to life with a full cast of actors, sound effects and music Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his dear friend Dr Watson are among the most enduringly popular fictional characters ever created. Their adventures have been dramatised countless times on radio, TV and film, but until BBC Radio 4 took on the challenge in 1989, no one had ever attempted to adapt all sixty stories. Read more
Region: Sweden
Publication Date: Wed, 15/03/2017
ISBN: 9781912374069
Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror.
London, 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, and harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman’s body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims. With the man arrested for the Tower Hamlets crimes already locked up, do the new killings mean he has a dangerous...Read more
Series Name: Emily Roy & Alexis Castells / No in Series: 2
Region: Sweden
Publication Date: Fri, 19/07/2019
ISBN: 9781912374823
Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco's brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women's prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, Aliénor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK's Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked...Read more
Series Name: Emily Roy & Alexis Castells / No in Series: 3
Region: England
Publication Date: Thu, 02/05/2024
ISBN: 9781804367186
DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally. Documents found at her house indicate her name is Ruth Lyle. The name means nothing to the young PC who found her, but DI Talantire knows that this cannot be true. Fifty years earlier, sixteen-year-old Ruth Lyle was murdered stabbed by a crucifix, in exactly the same location. It is impossible for this to be the same woman, and yet all...Read more
Series Name: Detective Jan Talantire / No in Series: 1
Region: England
Publication Date: Wed, 01/10/2025
ISBN: 9781805500964
Meet Martin Maxwell: octogenarian, dog lover and amateur sleuth. For most residents at Twilight Lodge, a picture-perfect retirement home by the sea, their days are filled with jigsaws, endless cups of tea and afternoon karaoke. But when Martin discovers that three residents have died in less than two weeks, all with clean bills of health, he suspects foul play. Trouble is, no-one believes him. Read more
Series Name: The Armchair Detective Mysteries / No in Series: 1
Complete Series obtained so in order of that, rather than pub date:
Region: Scotland
Publication Date: Thu, 09/02/2012
ISBN: 9780953047345
When Edinburgh police find the killer of a prominent city elder less than twenty-four hours after the crime, they are justifiably pleased. So the murderer has killed himself; that just saves the time and cost of a trial. But a second murder days later bears haunting similarities to the first, even though once more the murderer swiftly confesses and kills himself. Detective Inspector Anthony McLean is investigating the discovery of a dead girl, walled up in the basement of an old Edinburgh mansion. She has been brutally murdered, her internal organs removed and placed around...Read more
Series Name: Inspector McLean / No in Series: 1
Region: Scotland
Publication Date: Thu, 09/02/2012
Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas naked, throat slit, body washed clean. Ten years, ten women. The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancée. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake. In a cellar under a shop, McLean found a torture chamber and put an end to the brutal killing spree. Twelve years later, and a fellow prisoner has just murdered the incarcerated Christmas Killer. But with the arrival of the festive season comes a body. A young naked, washed, her throat cut. Is...Read more
Series Name: Inspector McLean / No in Series: 2
Region: Scotland
Publication Date: Sun, 27/04/2014
A young man is found hanging by a rope in his Edinburgh home. A simple, sad suicide, yet Detective Inspector Tony McLean is puzzled by the curious suicide note. A second hanged man and another strange note hint at a sinister pattern. Investigating a brutal prostitution and human trafficking ring, McLean struggles to find time to link the two suicides. But the discovery of a third convinces him of malicious intent. Digging deeper, McLean finds answers much closer to home than he expects. Something terrifying stalks the city streets, and bringing it to justice may...Read more
Series Name: Inspector McLean / No in Series: 3
Region: Scotland
Publication Date: Sun, 27/04/2014
The body of a prominent Scottish MP is discovered outside his home, a remote house in North East Fife. In a horrifying attack, Andrew Weatherly has killed his wife and two young daughters, before turning his gun on himself. The question on everyone's lips is why would this successful and wealthy man commit such a gruesome crime? Inspector Tony McLean is surprised to find himself at the centre of this high profile investigation. The deeper he digs, the more McLean realizes he is being used in a game between shadowy factions from the world of power and privilege....Read more
Series Name: Inspector McLean / No in Series: 4
Region: Scotland
Publication Date: Mon, 27/04/2015
'Are you ready to be reborn?' The search for a missing journalist is called off as a body is found at the scene of a carefully staged murder. In a sealed chamber, deep in the heart of Gilmerton Cove, a mysterious network of caves and passages sprawling beneath Edinburgh, the victim has undergone a macabre ritual of purification. Inspector Tony McLean knew the dead man, and can't shake off the suspicion that there is far more to this case than meets the eye. The baffling lack of forensics at the crime scene seems impossible. But it is not...Read more
Series Name: Inspector McLean / No in Series: 5
Region: Scotland
Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2016
Inspector McLean must investigate the seedy goings on of an exclusive and secretive society, catering for the rich and powerful of the city. Somehow it is linked to a particularly gruesome cold case from twenty years ago, McLean's first case with the force.Read more
Series Name: Inspector McLean / No in Series: 6