Mystery

Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind's two most enduring questions - and the earth-shaking discovery that will answer them....

The murdered body of lesbian publisher Rosemary Finney is found on a remote hiking path south of San Francisco....

Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind....

William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force....

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2008.
The city is a revelation. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realizes the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master....

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved poisoned her brutal first husband...

When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her....

The Mahabharata is one of the greatest stories ever told. Though the basic plot is widely known, there is much more to the epic than the dispute between the Kouravas and Pandavas that led to the battle in Kurukshetra....

Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn't exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence....

What begins as a routine journey on the luxurious Orient Express soon unfurls into Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery....

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor....

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society....

Ein neuer Fall für Kriminalhauptkommissar Sörensen: Es ist kurz vor Weihnachten. Und ausgerechnet jetzt passiert etwas Schlimmes im sonst so beschaulichen Katenbüll. Dem jungen Ole Kellinghusen läuft mitten in der Nacht eine junge Frau vors Auto: blind, abgemagert, trotz der eisigen Kälte im viel zu dünnen Nachthemd. Jette sagt nicht, wo sie herkommt, sie nennt keinen Nachnamen. Als Kriminalhauptkommissar Sörensen endlich die Adresse herausfindet, eröffnet sich ihm ein Geflecht aus Mord, religiösem Wahn und gut gehüteten Geheimnissen.

Chefinspektor Ian Moore lässt sich auf eigenen Wunsch in das beschauliche Winston upon Glen, in den schottischen Highlands, versetzen, nachdem der dortige Chefinspektor unerwartet das zeitliche gesegnet hatte. Hier verbrachte er seine Jugend und möchte nach der Hektik der Londoner Großstadt, die nächsten Jahre in Ruhe und Abgeschiedenheit verbringen. Doch die Rückkehr in seinen Geburtsort fordert von ihm mehr als nur seine kriminalistischen Fähigkeiten als Polizist zur Lösung der Fälle.

Dans la Venise du XVIIIe siècle qui agonise lentement en s'oubliant dans de splendides fêtes, des pendus se balancent sous les ponts comme autant de fleurs au vent. Volnay, répondant à l'appel de son ancien amour, mène l'enquête dans les eaux troubles de la Sérénissime tandis que le moine fait face à ses démons.

A mystery story featuring an elixir that can restore a dead man to life by the creator of the gentleman-thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.

The naked corpses of Aylmer and Mary Younis are discovered in their home. The only clues are a note written in blood and an eerie report of two spectral figures departing the crime scene. Officer Jill Ferriter is charged with investigating the murders while her colleague, Alex Cupidi, is on leave, recovering from post-traumatic stress.

When the police are called to the report of a late-night shooting, they expect it to be drugs or gang-related. They don’t expect to find a young student executed on his way home. Jordan Radley was an aspiring journalist: hard working, well-liked, dedicated. His first major story - looking at the fallout following the closure of a major local factory - had run recently and looked to be the first step in his longed-for career. Even after the story ran, Jordan continued to stay in contact with those he interviewed: he was on his way back from their social club the night he was murdered.