Traditional Detectives

DI Tom Janssen is currently suspended pending the outcome of the events at the close of his previous case. Using the time away from the office to consider his future, and how this will impact on his family life, Tom is invited to attend a school reunion which he reluctantly agrees to.

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Deadly Games, Fatal Justice, and Death Track....

The windswept shores of Norfolk may look peaceful, but dark secrets fester beneath the surface. As the seasons turn, so too does the tide of crime, and DI Tom Janssen must face new and chilling investigations.

Hillary Greene returns to Thames Valley Police HQ, acting as a consultant for the Crime Review Team, looking into murders which the police have never been able to solve. She wasn't sure she wanted to go back. But solving crimes is irresistible for Hillary Greene.

Change is afoot at Kings Lake Central police station. A most unexpected new detective inspector takes up his post this Monday, and the oldest detective in the place takes a momentous decision....

A cozy crime series set in gorgeous Tuscany. It's murder in paradise....

Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement....

Ruth Galloway receives a phone call that bears shocking news....

Book 1: The Icehouse A Murderer on the Loose. A Detective Haunted by the Past. A Race Against Time. DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective for the Lancashire Constabulary in North West England. He’s haunted by events of the past and hell bent on redemption.

DCI Jane Tennison came through the ranks the hard way, opposed and resented at every step by her male colleagues....

In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action....

Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....

Early one morning, DI Clare Mackay receives a message from her boss, DCI Alastair Gibson, telling her to meet him in secret. She does as he asks and is taken to a secure location in the remote Scottish hills....

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent....

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series....

The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history....

When a man's dismembered body is discovered at an abandoned quarry on the north Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must wade through his secretive life to figure out how he met his end....

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself...

It is the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay when Alison Reid admits a caller to her home. When her death is later reported, DI Clare Mackay attends the scene....

North Yorkshire, England. Detective Chief Inspector Harry Grimm is reluctantly easing into life in the dales. As he gradually acclimatizes to the slower pace of the countryside while he awaits a return to the city, he’s called out to inspect a farmer’s crushed body....

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks, fighting every step of the way to break through Scotland Yard's glass ceiling. Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, a high-profile case threatens to destroy everything she has worked for....

When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, there seem to be just two possible explanations - it was a tragic accident or a suicide....

A coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of a historic convent - inside is the body of a young nun....

When another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening, no one is very surprised - not until the results of a routine post-mortem....

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the South American Andes....

Poirot’s peace is disturbed when a local gentleman, Roger Ackroyd, is found murdered in his study. Clues include a vanished letter, a scrap of cambric cloth, a goose quill, and an elaborately tooled Tunisian dagger. We follow Poirot, aided by the village doctor, James Sheppard, as he traces his way through a tangle of suspects that include Ackroyd’s sister-in-law, niece, secretary, adopted son, and housemaids—all of whom appear to have motives for killing him.

The DS Tomek Bowen Series are fast-paced crime fiction stories featuring DS Tomek Bowen. The first three full-length books in this gripping series are brought together for the first time in this great value boxset.

Kaptajn Hastings opholder sig på godset Styles, da Emily Inglethorp, godsets stenrige ejer, bliver forgivet med stryknin. Heldigvis er Hastings' ven mesterdetektiven Hercule Poirot på besøg i landsbyen, og der bliver straks sendt bud efter ham. Det kommer hurtigt frem, at Emily efter et skænderi med et familiemedlem har tegnet et nyt testamente – et testamente, som ingen kan finde. For at løse mordgåden må Poirot først og fremmest få fat det forsvundne testamente… Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot er Agatha Christies belgiske privatdetektiv, der er lige så genial, som han er sær.

Den pensionerede politimand Luke Fitzwilliam falder i snak med den ældre dame Lavinia Pinkerton i toget til London. Han tager det ikke alvorligt, da miss Pinkerton fortæller ham, at hun er på vej til Scotland Yard for at anmelde en seriemorder, som allerede har dræbt tre mennesker og snart også vil myrde dr. John Humbleby. Det er først, da han nogle dage senere læser i avisen, at ikke blot miss Pinkerton men også dr. Humbleby er blevet dræbt, at han fatter interesse for sagen og giver sig til at grave i den.

'There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday, July 31st, at 5 p.m. Precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested.' The note was delivered to New Scotland Yard, its words evoking a cold murder case and its unsolved mystery of the ten teacups found beside the body. Scrambling to prevent a second killing, the police set up a watertight cordon at Berwick Terrace. But gunfire rings out from the top floor at 5 p.m.

Immer dann, wenn ein Geldverleiher gewaltsam zu Tode kommt, gibt es eine Vielzahl an Verdächtigen. Für den ermittelnden Sergeant ist die naheliegende Lösung allerdings nicht die richtige, denn der Einzige, der kein Alibi hat, scheint es nicht gewesen zu sein. Als ein Grundstücksmakler immer wieder starke Magenschmerzen hat, keimt in ihm ein böser Verdacht: Ist seine Köchin die gesuchte Mörderin?

From Cornish devils, to Welsh witches, from Ghazi genies, to Covent Garden mediums, from pagan sacrifices, to mummies' curses, The Infinitely Stranger Cases of Sherlock Holmes collects six canonical tales which test Holmes's ability to unravel the conspiracies, the misdirections, the strange, and the curious. The game is afoot.

Het is 1799. Als rekruut van het Britse leger belandt Sharpe in India, waar hij het moet opnemen tegen een lokale potentaat, de Tippoo van Mysore, een man die zich steeds laat omringen door tijgers. Maar het gevaar schuilt niet alleen in vijandige rangen. Sharpe's gevaarlijkste tegenstander is sergeant Hakeswill, zijn meerdere.

Gereon Rath, en ung, desillusioneret kriminalassistent fra Køln, bliver overflyttet til Berlin, efter at han i selvforsvar har dræbt en psykopatisk massemorder. I Berlin opdager han liget af en mand i en bil i floden Spree. Offeret, en russer, er helt tydeligt blevet både tortureret og myrdet, før han blev kørt i vandet. Inden Rath når at se sig om, er han dybt involveret i at optrevle en kontrarevolutionær plan om at smugle guld for en værdi af 80 millioner rigsmark fra det kommunistiske Rusland til Berlin.

Frankrijk, Gascogne, de 14de eeuw. Thomas van Hookton is een uitzonderlijk begaafde boogschutter in het leger van de Engelse koning Edward. Thomas redt een jonge vrouw van de brandstapel en wordt daardoor beschuldigd van de misdaad die voor haar tot de doodstraf leidde: ketterij. Thomas en Vrouwe Geneviève slaan op de vlucht. Heel ver wegvluchten wil Thomas echter níet, want in Gascogne hoopt hij de moordenaar van zijn vader te vinden.

Der sker mærkelige ting på plejehjemmet Ömheten: Et mystisk indbrud efterfulgt af et dødsfald vækker mistanke hos den pensionerede politimand Tore Lindahl. På Norrtelje Dagblad keder ferieafløseren, journalist Veronika Wiklund, sig, så da Tore kontakter hende om sin mistanke, begynder de straks at efterforske sagen sammen. Dødsfaldet på Ömheten fører dem ind i et virvar af forbrydelser. Spørgsmålene vokser i takt med, at de graver dybere i sagen.

Карр заманивает читателя в сети ловко расставленных ловушек, ложных подсказок, обманных ходов и тонких намеков и предлагает принять участие в решении хитроумной головоломки. Роман «Убийства единорога» продолжает серию о великолепном сэре Генри Мерривейле — обаятельном, эксцентричном, взбалмошном толстяке, ставшем, по признанию критиков, одним из самых неординарных сыщиков в детективной литературе.

Карр заманивает читателя в сети ловко расставленных ловушек, ложных подсказок, обманных ходов и тонких намеков и предлагает принять участие в решении хитроумной головоломки. В настоящем сборнике представлены романы «Убийства единорога», Убийства в стиле Джуди и Панча и «Десять чайных чашек, или Убийство павлиньими перьями», которые продолжают серию о великолепном сэре Генри Мерривейле — обаятельном, эксцентричном, взбалмошном толстяке, ставшем, по признанию критиков, одним из самых неординарных сыщиков в детективной литературе.

Когда Джорджа Эббершоу приглашают на уик-энд в Блэк-Дадли, он видит в этом шанс сделать предложение Мегги Олифант. Но безобидное развлечение гостей превращается в смертельную игру, и поиск преступника теперь занимает Джорджа больше, чем будущая помолвка.

The Ryukyu Islands, a center of diverse cultures, have absorbed martial arts techniques from various nations, giving birth to the distinctive and deadly Okinawan martial arts. This fusion, a product of centuries of trade and cultural exchange, has created a unique style forbidden for use except in self-defense. However, the question arises as to whether this tradition still holds relevance in Japan's current occupation of the island, especially in light of the Meiji Restoration.