British Police

Meet maverick British detective DI Skelgill... "mad, bad and just a little bit cozy." WHEN A HIGH-FLYING ADMAN is stabbed to death on a company weekend in the English Lake District, local detective Daniel Skelgill finds himself wrenched from his rural Cumbrian comfort zone. As the investigation...

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* The police urgently need Harry Hole. A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media...

'I'm interested in one thing and one thing only, and that's catching bent coppers.' Line of Duty: The Real Story is an astonishing exposé from inside the secret world of police corruption, starring a cast of twisted cops more chilling than all four H's put together. These characters operate...

Detective Sara Hirst has moved from London to Norfolk Police's Serious Crimes Unit. She wants to know the truth about her father, who has connections to the area. Her mother won't tell her the real story. A new job. A new place. Same old problems. Sara's first call-out is to a decomposing body discovered in a ditch on a local farm. How does the murder relate to a recent spate of thefts? Who wanted the victim dead? Then the case grows very personal.

TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking. The British Police...

The return of a Brighton girl turned movie star spells nothing but trouble for Detective Superintendent Roy Grace in the gripping crime novel Not Dead Yet, by award winning author Peter James. Gaia Lafayette has a movie to shoot back home and Grace is in charge of her security. Yet when a...

A brutally murdered husband. An abused wife who wanted him gone for good...Did the wealthy widow arrange his death - and can a disgraced detective discover the truth? "Your husband is dead". Lorraine Rowe receives the news from an anonymous killer threatening her too - unless she pays an inflated fee for her estranged partner’s murder. Overwhelmed by fear and indecision, Lorraine struggles to survive as her carefully constructed life of lies begins to unravel.

Roy Grace is back in this gripping new instalment from number one bestselling author Peter James. Brighton is celebrating. A killer is waiting. And Roy Grace is the target . . . Brighton Pride is the biggest date on the city's calendar with half a million people lost in the party. But behind the...

'Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing' Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy A family shattered. A community divided. 1959. A group of boys from the mining village of Murton run out to play together. When a tragedy occurs, it changes the lives of these...

A new Pignon Scorbion mystery, perfect for fans of the Murdoch Mysteries and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. The year is 1910. Summer is fading, but in the quaint English market town of Haxford, something darker is taking root. When dead young women begin appearing on the barbershop...

‘Classic Lynda, a fabulous read’ MARTINA COLE ‘Lynda La Plante practically invented the thriller’ KARIN SLAUGHTER From the creator of the award-winning ITV series Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren, comes the fascinating back story of the iconic DCI Jane Tennison. In 1973 Jane Tennison...

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Can they also help Miss Olivia Gray solve a murder? London, 1920: Heiress Olivia Gray is bored out of her mind. After saving lives as an ambulance driver in the war, being trapped in her mother's palatial drawing room feels like a prison sentence she will never...

Shattered by the events of his last case, Scott Jericho has returned to the darkest shadows of his past. With Harry in a coma and critically ill, and the truth of his mother's mysterious death finally revealed, nothing and no one can rein in those violent impulses Jericho has striven for decades...

A mutilated body in a shop doorway. Someone on the force wants the case buried. Still recovering from the crash that nearly ended his career, Irish DCI Brendan Moran is called to the savage murder of a young man. But when a Catholic priest is found dead in his own confessional, the case veers...

Returning to work after an extended leave of absence, Detective Constable Hazel Best's first task is to shadow TV historian Oliver Ford, who has arrived in Norbold to open a new museum. What should have been a routine assignment takes a decidedly dramatic turn, however, when Hazel saves Ford from a murderous attack that would appear to be an act of jihad. But why would someone fly thousands of miles to firebomb an obscure little museum in a quiet English village? Hazel can't help but think that there's something more to this case than meets the eye.

“Dark, visceral and disturbing, this highly suspenseful and beautifully written thriller is totally gripping from start to finish. A hugely impressive debut.” —Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens "Louise Brealey's understated narration creates a dark atmosphere...

Norwell Roberts, the Met's first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the rest of the country did - from a Daily Telegraph headline that read 'MET TO HAVE FIRST COLOURED POLICEMAN'. From that day forward his face became a symbol - of acceptance, of a diverse...

A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America’s past and present, by one of the country’s leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration Between 1964 and 1972...