Amateur Sleuth

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings....

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

Schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot's help, she will be the next victim of a mysterious killer....

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own family....

An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home....

Dr Nell Ward is an ecologist, not a detective. But when she's the prime suspect in a murder, only her unique set of skills could help to clear her name....

It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster and a very real threat to his life....

Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted road in Arizona, where a car has crashed into the only tree for miles around....

Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary....

I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort. The thing is, us Cunninghams don't really get along. We've only got one thing in common: we've all killed someone....

London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire....

The Honjin Murders is Japan's greatest classic murder mystery, translated into English for the first time....

Abby Cooper's next mission may truly be impossible....

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders....

Everyone blamed Emily's accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier....

Mrs Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious....

Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. He is about to disappear, leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths....

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life....

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house party when the festivities lead to murder....

The Inugami Curse is a fiendish, intricately plotted classic mystery starring the legendary Detective Kosuke Kindaichi. In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will....

Upon finding a mysterious note at the scene of an accident, spunky Ann Beddingfeld throws caution to the wind and sets sail for an adventure to South Africa. She gets more thrills than she bargained for....

Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman....

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim....

The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings. He was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer....

It’s a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best friend has been found dead in her apartment....

Who killed Stuart Burlington? Earlsraven is shaken by the news that its renowned antiques dealer has been slain with a samurai sword from his own collection. A web of secrets surrounds the case, and Nathalie and Louise - the owner of the Black Feather inn and her formidable cook - are determined to unravel it. They have an unexpected ally in the form of Hector Peroux, a celebrated private detective from Belgium. Together they are soon able to track down a suspect.

Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld. After successfully executing multiple missions for the various crime syndicates that run New York City, he has come to earn the trust and respect of the city's most dangerous denizens. Which is why his newest task—retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn—has Joe puzzled ... until he learns that the bird is valued at close to a million dollars.

Ein Geschäft mit dem Teufel? Über diesen Aberglauben kann Sergio Guerri, der berühmteste Religionskritiker Italiens, nur lachen. Darum lässt er sich auch amüsiert auf das Angebot eines Fremden ein: eine Million Euro in bar – im Tausch für seine Seele? Dabei kann es sich schließlich nur um einen Scherz handeln! Doch das Geld ist echt, die Tage vergehen... und niemand fordert es zurück. Stattdessen beschleicht Sergio mehr und mehr das Gefühl, verfolgt zu werden, und kalte Angst kriecht in sein Herz.

Lizard Village, 1903. It's the beginning of a new century, and wireless telegraph companies around the world are scrambling to develop the new communications technology. But Italian prodigy Guglielmo Marconi beats them to the punch by sending the first wireless signal across the Atlantic from his station on the Lizard. Naturally, his feat has bruised some egos, but no one expects sabotage—much less murder. After two apparently deaths at the Marconi transmission station, Charles, Lord Sheridan, an amateur forensic detective and avid wireless enthusiast, is asked to head an investigation.

Advent, Advent - der Räuber rennt ... So hat sich Kati Blum die Adventszeit nicht vorgestellt! Statt mit ihrer besten Freundin Nina Glühwein zu trinken, schuftet sie als Verkäuferin am Bayreuther Christkindlmarkt. Bei dem heißen Kriminalkommissar Lars schrillen sofort die Alarmglocken, denn wo Kati sich herumtreibt, ist das Verbrechen meist nicht weit.

Beneath a sky of limpid sapphire blue, the research ship Gorgon rolls gently on the scintillating waters of the Caribbean Sea. Below, two men in a bathysphere, lowered more than a 150 fathoms into the crushing depths. But when the sphere is raised, there is only one man inside … and he has a knife in his back! Now Sexton Blake must answer an impossible question: How did the killer escape?

Madrid, Berta Kerrigan es una escritora de éxito de novelas policiacas que está atravesando el peor momento de su vida. Tras la llegada de Marisa, la asistente enviada por su editora Laura, parece que la escritora comienza a levantar cabeza, pero una pista le informa de que su hija y su esposo puede que no estén muertos. La publicación de su último libro sobre el caso de la niña desaparecida le ha devuelto su fama como escritora. Mientras, en un pueblo cercano se han encontrado los cuerpos de dos adolescentes, una pareja que era la más popular de sus instituto.

A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. She feels like she’s finally let go of most of her demons. She's even found her father, Eddy Rivers—or, rather, he found her—and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors venture to the area. But when the captain has to navigate to an island, a bloodied woman is found standing on the shore, waving for help. 

After deciding that life as a teacher wasn’t right for her, Priscilla found inspiration for her first children’s book in her three-year-old bloodhound’s nose for truth, and so The Adventures of Bailey the Bloodhound was born. After the book’s massively pawsitive response led Pris to move back to her hometown of Crosbyville, Indiana, to continue the series, she’s surprised by how things have changed in the town, but even more so how they haven’t.

When single mum Clio’s ex Gary turns up dead on the doorstep of her caravan – the one she’s been forced to live in ever since he stole every penny she had – there’s only one suspect. Her. What’s more, she doesn’t remember much about the night he was killed – not just because of the forgetfulness that’s been plaguing her along with the hot flushes – but because she definitely had one too many cocktails with her two best friends Amber and Jeanie. Clio does remember them talking about how much they all hated him though. 

Hettie and Tilly are invited to host a Christmas Eve murder mystery aboard the Santa Claws Express. No sooner has the train left the station at Mogbury-on-the-Tilt than our two feline detectives are caught up in a murderous family feud between the Shuttles and the Stokers. Is the ghost of Hornby Stoker haunting the line? Are there enough sausage rolls in the Biscuit Jar Buffet? Who will hit the buffers at Hissingford Holt? And will Hettie and Tilly's Christmas be derailed?

Miriam has never exactly seen eye-to-eye with her sister. But when a body's dumped on the doorstep of a Women's Institute meeting and all signs point to Rainbow, Miriam knows her sister's being framed. Going to the police would be the smart move, but Rainbow's got her own reasons for avoiding them. Before long she's on the run, trusting to Miriam and the W.I. to clear her name. The killer's left nothing to chance, though, and Rainbow's in more danger than she realises - and she's dragging the others right in with her.

Der Theaterregisseur Oscar Bydlinsky erleidet einen Nervenzusammenbruch, weil sein Skript auf seltsame Weise manipuliert wurde. Ioana, Putzfrau mit geheimer Agenda, wird von ihrer Agentur beauftragt, den scheinbar „durchgeknallten“ Regisseur zu durchleuchten. Doch anstatt der erhofft einfachen Lösung des Falls wird er immer mysteriöser. Und als wäre das nicht genug, muss sich Ioana privat auch noch mit alten Familiengeheimnissen und aufkeimenden Gefühlen für ihren Vorgesetzten herumschlagen.

Es ist Faschingszeit und ein frischer Wind weht durch Bayerisch Öd! Ein neues Kaffeehaus hat seine Türen geöffnet - und die Besitzerin ist eine Neu-Zugezogene aus Wien. Und dann schwirrt auch noch eine mobile Yogatrainerin im Dorf herum. Nach dem feucht-fröhlichen Faschingsmontag gibt es jedoch ein böses Erwachen: Denn es liegen nicht nur Schnapsleichen herum, sondern auch die tote Yogalehrerin! Sie wird ausgerechnet im neuen Kaffeehaus gefunden.

Es weihnachtet sehr in Sonntal am See. Doch während Pfarrer Heiland das feierliche Hochamt plant und der Frauenverein den ersten Sonntaler Weihnachtsmarkt aller Zeiten organisiert, kommt es zu einem bestürzenden Zwischenfall: Wer hat die Puppe des Jesu-Kinds aus dem Diorama vor dem Altar stibitzt? Und warum taucht der entführte Heiland - also die Puppe, nicht der Pfarrer - ausgerechnet auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt wieder auf, im Arm des ermordeten Glühwein-Verkäufers Werner Zeitinger? Die Ermittlungen führen den cleveren Dorfpfarrer und Polizist Kern hinter die Kulissen einer gewaltigen Intrige.