Police Procedurals

Terror stalks the streets of London. When a bomb explodes on Oxford Street on Good Friday, the force of the blast brings down a building, trapping dozens under the rubble. The whole capital grinds to a halt. Teamed with her new explosive detection dog, Otto, PC Lucy Halliday is against the clock...

Some rules are meant to be broken. Some secrets are meant to stay buried. On a military barracks on the outskirts of Glasgow, the body of a vulnerable young soldier is found following a routine training exercise. The upper brass is quick to rule it a tragic accident. But DCI John Lomond is...

DI Laura Warburton. The foul-mouthed, wine-guzzling, cigarette-smoking redhead with a cat named Bagpipe is back in this white-knuckle thrill ride of a case.A sadistic serial killer known as The Midnight Butcher is stalking the streets of Wigtown, leaving a trail of mutilated women in his wake...

It’s autumn in Redwood Grove, and Annie and Fletcher have their hands full running the Secret Bookcase and handling their growing caseload at the Novel Detectives. To add to the excitement, a popular ghost hunter has set his sights on the old English estate to feature on his hit TV...

There's no place like home. No place so deadly. With the team still reeling after a vicious attack on one of their own, it falls to DI Haskell to put the pieces back together. Drew misses the old days when he worked with Harriet, before everything became so complicated. Returning from Ireland...

When the police receive a desperate call from a frightened nine-year-old girl, they know every second counts. "He has a knife. He killed her." Before help can arrive, the line goes dead. When Detectives Tanzy and Byrd arrive at the house, they are met with a gruesome crime scene and a mystery that only grows darker with every clue they uncover. As they race to find a ruthless killer, hidden secrets, shocking twists, and deadly lies threaten to derail the investigation.

A decade of deaths. A fateful number. A countdown to chaos.Some cases are just cases, but this one resonates from Nora Sommer's past and follows her all the way to the present — a pattern hidden in plain sight across ten years, ten countries, and ten unsolved deaths, uncovered with just six...

Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble. Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion.

Four gripping full-cast crime dramas from the BAFTA-winning writer of Z-Cars Listen now to these four thrilling police dramas featuring Yorkshire-based detective duo Inspector Savage and Sergeant Eaves. Written and set in the 1980s, these stories are packed with all the intrigue, suspense and...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Ian Rankin is an all-time, solid-gold UK crime fiction great - read The Heights and find out why' LEE CHILD ***** MURDER COMES TO LONDON'S MOST LUXURIOUS HIGH-RISE: AND EVERY RESIDENT IS A SUSPECT. The Heights: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde...

'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood ____________ When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn, he...

The past was buried. Now someone's digging it up. A quiet North Yorkshire market town wakes to a brutal murder. DI Kumar and DS Stoker are thrust into a case that feels random—until a second body appears, bearing the same chilling signature. This wasn’t impulse. It was patience. The victims...

A FESTIVE MURDER MYSTERY NOVELLA FEATURING ALI DAWSON 'Most writers of popular fiction would love to invoke the spirit of Dickens at Christmas but Elly Griffiths does this like literally no one else' Rev. Richard Coles 'Mulled Wine Crime - warming and intoxicating' Ian Moore 'Dickens and Dawson...

The gripping new mystery in the Hidden Norfolk series, from multi-million-copy bestselling author J M Dalgliesh. A family estate with a deadly secret… When a young man’s body is discovered on a remote stretch of farmland in Norfolk, DI Tom Jannsen’s quiet morning is shattered. He is...

'Everything Ann Cleeves writes is incredible' – Richard Osman The deadliest truths are those in the shadows . . . Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death. The body of a young woman has been found in the swimming pool of Tide House, a luxurious holiday home in North...