Amateur Sleuth

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

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson....

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must stop a killer lurking among a young family in the newest installment of the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mysteries....

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

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

Beth Rivers is on the run - she’s doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic’s obsession....

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....

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.....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

Dark secrets, an unexplained death and an old country house lie at the heart of Georgette Heyer's classic murder mystery....

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....

England's prestigious Plumtree Press is about to release a shocking book that exposes coded messages in a famous novel - codes alleged to be printer's errors....

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 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....

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....

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....

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....

They were destined to be best friends. The four girls – all born that same hot summer. They predicted a safe and happy life for them all…More than thirty years later, it’s more than an unbreakable friendship – it’s more like a sisterhood. It’s the girls who Jess reaches out to because she’s worried about her grandparents who’ve raised her since her mother disappeared, who Erin tells about her new business idea, who Melissa calls to say she’s desperate to escape her toxic job. But then Chantelle messages saying she’s discovered her husband is having an affair.

Borkum nach einem heftigen Sturm. Die ganze Insel ist auf den Beinen, um die Schäden zu beseitigen. Auch Caro Falk und Jan Akkermann gehören zu den Freiwilligen - und finden unter dem zerstörten Loopdeelenweg Teile eines menschlichen Körpers. Wer ist der namenlose Tote, der im frisch gepflügten Sandboden liegt? Die beiden Hobbydetektive beginnen zu ermitteln. Schnell wird ihnen klar, dass der Bau des Weges von Intrigen und Sabotageakten begleitet wurde. Und sie stoßen auf eine mysteriöse Spur, die ausgerechnet in die Lungenklinik führt, in der Caros Vater zur Kur ist.

Mateusz Pater wraca w rodzinne strony. Na miejscu dowiaduje się o tajemniczym zaginięciu dawnego przyjaciela. Rozpoczynając poszukiwania, natrafia na wzmiankę o organizacji, na której czele stoi wpływowy i bardzo niebezpieczny człowiek. Gdy jego krewny zostaje postrzelony, już wie, że ma do czynienia z ludźmi, którzy nie cofną się przed niczym. Zastraszenia, korupcja, znikanie niewygodnych świadków – to codzienność sennego miasteczka, w którym nikt nie chce niczego wyjawić.

Per l'avvocato David Ransom è solo l'ennesimo caso di negligenza, un'anestesista che ha sbagliato nel somministrare un farmaco letale. Per Kate Chesne, invece, quel caso potrebbe essere la fine della carriera, un sospetto e un'accusa infamante a cui non si rassegna. Per questo irrompe nell'ufficio - e nella vita privata - di David, determinata a convincerlo della propria innocenza.

In Barbara Ross's award-winning series featuring sleuth Julia Snowden and her family's coastal Maine clambake business, Morrow Island is a perfect spot for a wedding—and a Snowden Family Clambake. Julia Snowden is busy organizing both—until a mysterious wedding crasher drops dead amid the festivities . . .

When local college student, Jaden Pierce, disappears one night playing "Manhunt in the Woods" with his fraternity brothers, Nicole, an empathetic stay-at-home mom living a blissful life, joins the search party. Combing through the wooded area, Nicole unearths her son Kyle's license and withholds this potential piece of evidence. She trusts him, but a sliver of doubt festers below the surface, thanks to one unresolved incident from middle school and his shady pastime.

When a server is found with a stake through her heart onstage at Nightmare Saloon, everyone at Nightmare Sanctuary Haunted House worries a vampire hunter is in town. After all, the murder happened just before the curtain rose for Allie Nunes, a vampire singer traveling through Nightmare.

When twenty-five-year-old Danika Delaney, black sheep of the Delaney clan, returns home to Long Island to take over Jimmie's, her eccentric uncle's old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island, she's not exactly thrilled. But things start to look up when her uncle tells her she can do whatever she'd like with the shop, and it seems she might realize her dream of a small trendy cafe. That is, until she discovers the body of her ex-boyfriend's estranged wife in a melted puddle of rocky road in the malt shop basement.

In between spring break and summer is usually a downtime for Corrie and the campground, even with Bike Rally Weekend on the horizon. This April, however, peace and quiet are not an option. A disconcertingly attractive biker arrives, who arouses the suspicions of Corrie's childhood friend and one-time ex, Sheriff Rick Sutton. Then, one of Corrie's favorite guests is shot dead in his own RV, leaving his wheelchair-bound wife in the care of a son whom no one knew existed.

With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate’s treasure—and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. It’s unusual that a skilled fisherman would vanish along with the gold doubloon he inherited from his grandfather.

Sarah Malloy has just helped with the delivery of a bouncing baby girl at her women's clinic, when she receives a visit from an engaging and determined young woman writing an article for New Century Magazine. Louisa Rodgers explains that she is researching the dangers of patent remedies. Sarah is only too happy to tell Louisa exactly what she thinks of the so-called medicines. A few days later, Sarah receives a visit from a bereft Bernard Rodgers, who explains that his daughter, Louisa, has been found strangled in the lobby of the building where New Century has its offices.

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.

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?

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.