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The streets are frozen, the days are short, and Constable Tyler Neish is entirely out of his depth.

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

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

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...

When a young woman’s body is found at a cave entrance by the pretty fishing village of Robin Hood’s Bay, DCI Tom Raven is called to investigate. But the killer’s identity is far from clear as the picturesque façade of Robin Hood’s Bay conceals more than it reveals.

Christmas in Wensleydale is just around the corner, and a beautiful blanket of snow covers the fells. But then a blizzard hits, and everyone knows that a white Christmas in the Dales spells danger for farmers and remote communities.

The national best-selling author of Royal Blood whisks her heroine away to the French Riviera for fun - and danger....

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....

Firefighters race to put out a blaze at a remote farmhouse. They discover two young girls alone in the house. Their mother is gone, and in her place is the dead body of a man, frozen naked in the fetal position. Two chess pieces made of ice have been left on the doorstep....

When DCI Freya Bloom and DI Ben Savage are called to an abandoned farmhouse in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, they expect the worst. The caller to emergency services had reported finding a man’s body.

Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth....

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

When a revered sports legend falls victim to a brutal home invasion, a nation is shaken to its core. Outrage swells and the press and powers that be demand answers.

Private investigator Dan Armstrong can't believe his luck when he's invited to the luxury villa of none other than Alice Graceland, movie legend and queen of the silver screen. Could this be his big break - a chance to schmooze with stars and pitch his own murder mystery series?

‘A cracker of a page-turner… Highly recommended’ – Neil Lancaster, bestselling author of Dead Man’s Grave His biggest mistake was trusting someone he shouldn’t have… When a body is found abandoned under a bridge, teeth and fingerprints removed, DCI Warren Jones and his team have...

The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway.

The poison was cyanide, slipped into the sacred wine of ecstasy just before it was presented to Miss Cara Quayne at the House of the Sacred Flame. The victim was a deeply religious initiate who had trained for a month for her last ceremony. She was also a very beautiful woman.... The suspects...

Sister Fidelma returns in BLOOD IN EDEN, the thirtieth Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of BLOODMOON, PENANCE OF THE DAMNED and NIGHT OF THE LIGHTBRINGER. If you love Ellis Peters, you'll be gripped by BLOOD IN EDEN and the Sister Fidelma series. Ireland. AD 672. The hamlet of...

When a long-serving Master at one of England's most prestigious public schools drowns in Bassenthwaite Lake, Detective Inspector Skelgill is summoned to investigate his apparent suicide....

Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room....

The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk countryside....

DCI Robert Kett’s efforts to return to a normal life are dashed after he receives a phone call from his mother, Mary—a woman he hasn’t spoken to in almost two decades....

September, 1940. The sun is shining, and in the midst of the good weather Londoners could be mistaken for forgetting their country was at war - until the familiar wail of the air-raid sirens heralds an enemy attack....

Brought to you by Penguin. The clock is ticking… Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferred out of uniform and assigned to Oldcastle’s biggest ongoing murder investigation: Operation Telegram, hunting the “Fortnight Killer”. Every two weeks another...

Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie....

Omicidi e misteri nascosti tra le colline e le coste del Devon e della Cornovaglia sono al centro di questa antologia con i migliori racconti di Agatha Christie ambientati in campagna. Cresciuta a Torquay, nel Devonshire, la celebre giallista ha sempre amato quei luoghi, tanto che molte delle sue storie più belle sono ambientate nelle brughiere e sulle scogliere che circondano la sua città natale. Questa raccolta ne comprende dodici, con un cast di personaggi tra i più iconici della scrittrice: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Parker Pyne, Tommy e Tuppence.

Agatha Christie è riconosciuta come autrice di straordinari gialli ambientati in fascinose dimore di campagna o in paesi lontani. Eppure molti dei suoi romanzi e racconti hanno come sfondo la città che per anni ha chiamato casa: Londra. Dall'appartamento di Poirot a Scotland Yard, dall'Old Bailey alle linee della metropolitana, la scrittrice conosceva e amava la capitale britannica e ne sfruttava le ricche opportunità narrative. Questa raccolta include dodici gialli londinesi con tutti gli amatissimi detective: Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Harley Quin, Parker Pyne e Ariadne Oliver.

A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict Cumberbatch In the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and...

Trouble is brewing for the Hoggetts and their friend Chief Inspector Macdonald in Lunesdale, deep in the Lancashire fell country. By the jagged cliffs and chilling depths of a secluded quarry pool, strange noises disturb the night, and after an architect surveying the area is nearly hoisted into the cold waters by an unseen assailant, suspicions of a cold current of crime running through the area become a matter for the police.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden kurzfristig von einer böhmischen Adelsfamilie engagiert, um einem seltsamen Diebstahl auf den Grund zu gehen. In der Kirche der fürstlichen Residenzstadt wurde eine Grabstelle zerstört, wobei auch zwei mumifizierte Herzen aus ihren Urnen verschwunden sind.

Un misterioso personaggio, nascosto in un gomito d'ombra, confonde il commissario con una giostra di furti architettati geometricamente, secondo uno schema d'ordine di pedante e accanita astuzia. Quale sia la posta in gioco è da scoprire. La vicenda è ingrovigliata e ha punte d'asprezza. Montalbano è stato folgorato dalla bellezza, sensualmente sporca di vita, della giovane Angelica. E intanto Montalbano si vede in sogno, costretto in un'armatura di cavaliere, e buttato dentro un torneo.

A priceless royal treasure. A desperate father. A broken coronet with three missing beryls. In The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, Sherlock Holmes is drawn into one of the most emotionally charged and high-stakes cases of his career. When a distinguished gentleman seeks Holmes’s help after a glittering coronet is mysteriously damaged in his own home, suspicion falls on his own son — but nothing is as simple as it seems.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a new signature sexy suspense about a detective seeking justice for his murdered wife with the help of a psychotherapist … while fighting an undeniable attraction to her. Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a...

Una nuova indagine per Rocco Schiavone costretto ad indagare da un letto di un ospedale per un caso di malasanità. E intanto il vicequesto ha quasi cinquant'anni, certe durezze si attenuano, forse un amore si affaccia. Sullo sfondo prendono più rilievo le vicende private della squadra. E immancabilmente un'ombra, di quell'oscurità che mai lo lascia, osserva da un angolo della strada lì fuori.

Step into the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle—a timeless collection of twelve masterfully crafted mysteries that first captivated readers in 1892. Narrated by the loyal and observant Dr. Watson, these iconic short stories introduce the world to the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, whose razor-sharp logic and unconventional methods forever changed crime fiction.

When a violent summer storm hits the Lincolnshire Wolds, the tiny village of Bag Enderby falls foul of the devastating deluge. Homes are flooded, fallen trees lie across the winding lanes, and in one picturesque valley, a terrible secret is unearthed – a woman’s body is discovered floating among the debris.

On a culinary tour of the British Isles, retired Detective Superintendent Albert Smith and snarky former police dog Rex Harrison find something quite unexpected waiting for them at their B&B... it’s the almost-dead body of their landlady.

On the southeast coast of England, three wines growers have just gone missing and a fourth was found dead at the scene. Could this be the work of the master criminal Albert Smith has been chasing all over the country? You'd better believe it. Rushing back to his home county, Albert hopes to pick up the trail once more. With trusted former police dog, Rex Harrison, at his side, the duo begins to snoop …… but they have no idea the perpetrators are still there. Worse yet, the criminals know who Albert is and they’re not about to let him spoil their plans again.

Jim Grant is in Boston on temporary assignment from England and his instructions are simple: don’t get involved and keep out of trouble. But for Grant, keeping out of trouble isn’t an option. Never was and never will be.

Hercule Poirot se rend en France car il a reçu un SOS pressant d'un certain M. Renauld. Lorsqu'il arrive sur place, flanqué du fidèle Hastings, c'est pour apprendre l'assassinat de son client. Son corps, lardé de coups de couteau, a été retrouvé au fond d'un trou creusé sur un terrain de golf.

Snoozing on the train ride into Dundee, a horrified scream tears both Albert and Rex from their dreams and back to reality …… where they discover a woman has just witnessed a murder. It would be easy to dismiss her claim; she saw something in the window of a house as the train went by, but when there are dangerous men waiting for her at Dundee station, Albert has to accept she might be onto something.

Every journey might start with a single step, but where does it end? Albert Smith and his faithful dog, Rex Harrison, have been on the road for far longer than they ever expected, but they can’t go home yet. Not until they solve one final case. Following a near-invisible breadcrumb trail of clues to find a character they know only as ‘The Gastrothief’, the man and dog duo find themselves in a remote village on the Welsh coast. Miles from home and without a friend in sight, do they really stand a chance against this invisible enemy and his merciless agents? Of course they don’t.

Baking. It can get a guy killed. When the chef tipped to win this year’s annual Eton Mess competition falls to his death in mysterious circumstances, Albert races to investigate — surely this is the work of the Gastrothief again. However, Albert barely makes it out of the train station before his detective’s brain sees something most other people would never spot – a crime is about to take place and there’s no way he can ignore it. Instantly shackled with a new problem, Albert attempts to solve both cases simultaneously, but is he up to the task?

Baking. It can get a guy killed. And this time it does. A murder staged to look like a suicide fools everyone except Albert Smith. He knows better. In Lyme Regis with his faithful dog, the victim invited him to visit the seaside resort. Now he’s dead and Albert wants to know why. But when the trail of clues leads Albert into a darkened courtyard, Rex finds himself left to investigate alone and all too soon a second body is discovered. Is there a killer out there? Or are the suicides just poorly timed?

Following a trail of clues to a sleepy seaside village in the southwest corner of England, retired police detective, Albert Smith, aims to prove his theory of a master criminal by catching the ‘Gastrothief’s’ agents red-handed. With trusted former police dog, Rex Harrison at his side, the crime-busting duo know precisely who and what to look for. However, beneath the narrow streets of the picturesque resort a far more sinister plot is being hatched and if Albert were to look over his shoulder, he might notice a set of eyes lurking in his shadow.

Saving a senator’s daughter from LA’s porn industry is one gig that needs serious discretion. But discretion is not Jim Grant’s specialty. Los Angeles, CaliforniaIt’s not long before Grant finds himself on live television busting an armed robbery, spreading his arms wide to show he’s unarmed—the same pose that earned him the nickname “Resurrection Man” in Boston. The spotlight may be good for Grant’s profile, but it’s bad for his health. The Dominguez drug cartel is looking for him, and his work for the senator has uncovered a ring of dirty cops who want him out of the way.

Step into the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London with The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the most intriguing mysteries in the legendary Sherlock Holmes canon. When a newly married bride vanishes without explanation on her wedding night, suspicion falls upon deception, scandal, and secrets hidden behind aristocratic respectability.

When a terrified young woman seeks help after her sister’s mysterious death, Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a dark country estate filled with strange whistles in the night, bolted shutters, and a sinister stepfather with a violent temper. What begins as a puzzling locked-room mystery quickly becomes a race against time as Holmes uncovers a method of murder so cunning it has shocked people for generations.

The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb is one of the most chilling and fast-paced cases in the Sherlock Holmes canon. When a terrified engineer arrives at 221B Baker Street with a gruesome injury and an unbelievable story, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a shadowy conspiracy involving counterfeiters, secret machinery, and a deadly trap hidden behind locked doors.

Baking. It can get a guy killed. In the small Bedfordshire town of Biggleswade, retired detective Albert, and former police dog, Rex, are enjoying a peaceful break from the murder and mayhem of the last week. Until the waitress serving him is arrested for murder …… and he discovers she killed the café’s owner three days ago. But Albert saw her eyes when the police came for her – she is innocent! With evidence stacked against her, no alibi, and both motive and opportunity, she will carry the blame unless someone can prove otherwise.