Amateur Sleuth

When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed him as a despicable predator who manipulated and abused young and vulnerable girls....

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story....

Poirot is astonished to receive a call from Chief Inspector Japp, informing him that Mr Morley has shot himself. There was no reason for him to commit suicide, and Poirot believes he was murdered.....

Poppy never planned on speaking to her old acting rival Serena Saunders again, let alone accepting her as a client. But familiar drama barges back into her life when Serena requests an urgent background check on Ned Boyce, her fiance, before tying the knot....

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

Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he's also racked by guilt—he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle, arrives with a desperate plea....

Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside....

June Whitfield returns as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth in three full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisations. Specially broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth....

Eight BBC Radio crime dramas feature Golden Age detective Gideon Fell, starring Donald Sinden....

Intrigued by a legend concerning a hollow needle that supposedly holds a secret connected to the French monarchy–a secret that could potentially change the course of history–Lupin embarks on a quest to find the needle and unravel its mystery....

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....

Paris is aghast at the news that of one of Lupin’s victims was discovered murdered. As the bodies continue to pile up, Lupin demonstrates his indefatigable tenacity - on a mission to clear his name and discover the shattering secret of 813....

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....

It's almost summer in Southbourne, and the ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are ready for another season of sun, sea, and... murder....

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

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s deceptively mild spinster sleuth, is being treated to a few days holiday....

One thing about me: I HATE flying. It’s my worst nightmare. That’s why I book seat 2A every time I fly. Since my big win, I've been booking seats 2B and 2C as well. They’re my comfort seats, they cushion the claustrophobia, and at last I can afford them....

The yearly visit to the remote castle-like Water Mill House, home to the reclusive disfigured Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, is disrupted by an impossible disappearance, the theft of a painting, and a series of baffling murders....

Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved....

Murder in a conservatory of carnivorous plants. Bewitching topiary terrors. A sabotaged tea shop. The seventh installment in the Accidental Alchemist Mystery series finds Zoe and Dorian battling carnivorous plants and a killer hiding in the wicked weeds of this closed circle whodunit....

A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and a priceless cache of rubies becomes destined for his beloved daughter Rachel. Two days later Rachel is dead....

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....

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the...

Vauhdikkaan rikossarjan aloitusosa. On juhannusaaton aatto. Hämeenlinnan maineikas puhaltaja Jarkka Nurminen on jälleen vapaalla jalalla...

 Kuuluisan muotikuvaajan ylelliset uudenvuodenjuhlat päättyvät karmivalla tavalla, kun huippumalli Viveka Blomgård putoaa parvekkeelta ja...

Liv mieszka w Sandefjord w Norwegii. Jest zwyczajną, samotną matką, która próbuje wiązać koniec z końcem. Nigdy nie powiedziała synowi o sekretach, które w sobie nosi ani o życiu, jakie wiodła przed tym, jak go urodziła. Zrobi wszystko, by zapewnić mu bezpieczeństwo. Gdy Anastasia przeprowadza się z Rosji do Mediolanu, by pracować jako modelka, jej życie ulega całkowitej zmianie. Jest bogata. Ludzie jej pożądają.

Als Philipp Greenbush an einem Sommerabend die anonyme Nachricht erreicht, dass seine Ehefrau und seine kleine Tochter entführt wurden, beginnt für ihn ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Den Entführer kennt Philipp ganz genau: Es ist der schwarze Jerome Williams, sein ehemals bester Freund, der für den brutalen Akt, der sich damals in den Sümpfen Louisianas abgespielt hat, zu einer 25-jährigen Haftstrafe verurteilt worden war. All die Jahre hat Philipp geglaubt, ruhig leben und endlich vergessen zu können, muss nun aber, um die Forderungen des Entführers zu erfüllen, an jenen grausamen Ort zurückkehren, den er niemals wieder betreten wollte.

Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way. Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florrie is suspicious. Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer? The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day. And Florrie - cheerfully independent but often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth.

Lena just moved to Mandalay Close. She needed a new start, since her boyfriend cheated her out of the happy-ever-after she’d believed they were always going to share. But on the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours. Letters that promise to expose everyone’s deepest, darkest secrets. Every house has received one - except for Lena’s. Someone clearly wants to implicate her, to ruin her new life and turn everyone against her. She’s made an enemy, but who, and why?

In un freddo febbraio milanese, nuovi crimini gettano luci impreviste su vecchi misteri... Un nuovo caso per il giornalista-hacker Enrico Radeschi. L’omicidio di una giovane donna si lega a filo doppio all’oscura vicenda dell’assalto a un furgone portavalori. Enrico Radeschi, a cavallo della sua inseparabile vespa, si ritrova ben presto a fare i conti con questo e altri misteri da risolvere. Fra cui la presunta morte della figlia del Danese.

A baker opens up a new pastry shop exclusively for pets—but has to do a sleuthing job on the side when a chef turns up dead....

Newly retired Jayne Marple and Arnolda "Arnie" Palmer met playing Scrabble, and it was love at first tile. While this is their second chance at love, they're also working together to make the Elsinore Detective Agency a success.

In this second Harrie McKinsey Mystery, Harrie goes out to retrieve her morning newspaper and she discovers a small child sitting next to her flower beds. The little girl's pajamas and teddy bear are smeared with blood, and Harrie's journey to find the child's parents involves her in a grisly murder investigation.

Die gebürtige Berlinerin Ulla Sonnenberg reist zur Reha auf die wunderschöne Ostseeinsel Usedom. Ihre Erholung wird allerdings jäh unterbrochen, als an ihrem ersten Tag eine junge Frau aus der Klinik verschwindet. Die Polizei geht davon aus, dass Leni einfach weggelaufen ist. Ulla glaubt keine Sekunde daran. Doch wenn sie von den eigenwilligen Ückeritzer Bewohnern Informationen bekommen will, braucht sie Unterstützung. Diese rennt sie am Strand in Form der riesigen, aber sanftmütigen Bernhardinerhündin Gundula geradewegs um.

»Finde mich!« Noemis Auftrag ist so absurd, dass Privatdetektiv Vijay Kumar ihn ablehnt. Stattdessen springt er im Cateringservice seiner Freundin Manju ein, als diese einen indisch aussehenden Kellner benötigt. Unverhofft trifft er auf der Party Noemi wieder. Erst jetzt versteht er das Problem des Mädchens: Es will unbedingt wissen, wer seine leiblichen Eltern sind.

Lambert Ramkin aka Imperium Dart, techno trickster and ambient music wizard of the 1990s, has gone walkabout, disappearing from his rather palatial home in Kent. This isn't the first time he's pulled a vanishing act, but he's never been gone so long before and his wife — wives, actually; it's complicated — are worried and hire the Vinyl Detective to find the old rascal. They theorize that wherever the missing man is, he won't be able to resist turning up at a record fair somewhere in search of 12-inch white label acid house singles, which he collects compulsively.

Famous songwriter Maeve O’Dare left the drama of Hollywood–and a broken heart–behind, eager for a fresh start in the small town of Wisteria Pines. As if by magic, she makes a new friend of the local town gossip, lands the perfect spot for her new café, Listen: It’s old Fashioned, and a stray dog named Wanda adopts her right off the bat.

Wat’n Vörloop... Hemelheergott, Neuharlingersiel! De Hell is explodert! Oh weh, so’n Schrick! Eine Rauchsäule auf Langeoog und das am frühen Morgen... Oma Pusch weiß sofort, dass das ein schlechtes Omen ist. Und sie soll recht behalten, denn nur kurze Zeit später muss sie am Hafen Erste Hilfe leisten. Dass es der Camper vom Stellplatz dann doch nicht schafft und seine Ehefrau verschollen bleibt, wundert die Hobbyermittlerin ebenso wenig wie die Leiche im Sieltief. Doch das ist nur der Anfang einer unglaublichen Geschichte, in der ihre Freundin Rita und sie alles geben, um den schrecklichen Ereignissen auf die Spur zu kommen.

Spirit Canyon's annual Spirit Spooktacular weekend is on, and for local amateur sleuth Zo Jones, it's boomtime for business at her Happy Camper gift shop...until a murderer drops in for a browse.

When eighty-year-old Eleanora Duncan is found dead on her kitchen floor, Sheriff Frank Biddle suspects it isn't from natural causes. Eleanora wasn't exactly your average senior citizen. She was a widow worth millions, although all her money couldn't buy her happiness-not after losing both her husband and son.