Private Investigator Alexandra Best has been hired for a missing persons case. The question is… is the victim even missing at all?

Thirty-something Caroline Price has been ‘missing’ for over two weeks. A reclusive freelancer, Caroline rarely has plans, rarely speaks to her family, and rarely leaves her home. But, surely, this doesn’t mean she’s been the...

Jane was fifteen, pregnant, and abandoned by her sweetheart and seducer, George Hudson, when she fled her small Yorkshire village in disgrace.

She makes her way in the world and raises her daughter Millie with love. All the while swearing to one day take revenge on the cruel man who deserted her.

Years later, Jane and Milly manage to find work together… work...

‘Of the four of them, only three remained. And there was no going backwards from there.’

Emily and Josephine have always shared everything. They’re sisters, flatmates, and best friends. It’s the two of them against the world.

When Emily has the perfect wedding, and Josephine finds the perfect man, they know things will change forever. But nothing can prepare...

Hope House, a New York boarding home for women, has led a rather sleepy existence in terms of emergencies. One wastepaper basket fire surely doesn’t count as a five-alarm fire. That is until new tenant Ruth Miller’s limp and lifeless body is found in the courtyard after plummeting to her death.

In a clandestine and hot-chocolate infused meeting, the heads of...

‘You may be an adventurer, but you strike me as a gentleman.’

After the French suffer a bloody defeat at the battle of Leipzig, the survivors of Napoleon’s army retreat through Germany. Plundering and pillaging along their way, a group of stragglers attack the Von Hugel estate. Hiding in the hayloft, Sonia von Hugel witnesses the massacre of her family...

‘Nobody is to know where we are. You must forget England. That part of your lives is over.’

Twins Ginny and Emily Holborn have everything they could ever need in their Wolverhampton home: a loving family, a garden to play in and a staff waiting to attend to their every need. Until, one summer day in 1926, they disappear without a trace.

Ten years later...

When a handsome stranger walks into Robin Pollards’s favorite secluded beach cove, he changes not only the landscape of her Cornish home, but the trajectory of her life.

After her father succumbs to big business realty tycoons and sells off the wild moors on his land, Robin’s life is turned upside down.

Fiery and headstrong, Robin won’t let her childhood home...

Another golden age mystery from the sardonic and sly Richard Hull. Master of the inverted mystery, here he weaves a true-to-style, classic whodunnit.

“Once I go, I’ll never come back here. I hate the place. Beyle! Do you know what its real name was? What the old people round here used to call it? The House in the Lepers’ Hollow. That’s what it was called. How right they were… the whole place seems unclean…diseased…rotten… I won’t stay another night here.”

Inspector Littlejohn is back in this eerie...

‘No policeman ever forgets those first faltering steps of nights. If there is a time when the public is at its most vulnerable, it is during the hours of darkness.'

PC Nick is still settling into his role at the Ashfordly Section police station, and he’s drawn the short stick of shifts: night duty.

A sleeping village doesn’t mean a simple shift, though...

‘An heiress, and a damned bad hat of an uncle. Look after her, George.’

And so George Ferris makes a vow to a dying soldier to wed his sister. Honour-bound, George resolves to keep his promise.

But Jennifer Purchas has other ideas. Desperate to get away from the money-hungry clutches of her Uncle Gurning, Jennifer refuses to marry a man she has never met...

From best-selling author, Beryl Kingston, A Stitch in Time follows Rose Boniface as she and her friends adapt to life in south-east London during WWI. Fraught with heartbreak and loss, resilience and hope, this sweeping saga provides a window into a time gone by.

A Stitch in Time was first published in 1995 as Alive and Kicking.

Perhaps it’ll start being Christmas now you’re here…

And who better to spend a cosy Christmas with than ingenious and affable investigator, Albert Campion. Featuring two classic Campion mysteries and two special holiday tales, this short story collection from Queen of Crime, Margery Allingham, is the perfect Christmas treat for any Golden...

Market days in Ashfordly attract villagers from all over North Yorkshire. The spot to be for social outings, shopping, and business, the usually peaceful town springs to life. But new people and excited gatherings can only mean one thing for Constable Nick: more problems.

From a dog intent on demolishing market stalls to a live hand grenade found in a potato...

She could no more stop herself loving him than stop the tide ebbing and flowing. Some things were inevitable.

Annette Granger has had her fair share of heartbreak: widowed at twenty, Annette didn’t think it possible to love again.

Throwing herself into her work, Annette never let herself get to close to anyone else. Though as her career flourishes, she can’t...

A charming collection of Christmas stories from the very best in Classic Crime.

From a tightly-plotted Christmas mystery to a cosy country house murder, these holiday tales are perfect for snowy days and fireside nights.

Including two Christmas short stories from Queen of Crime, Margery Allingham, and two novels from Nicholas Blake and Michael Innes, this is...

Having played at impersonation when they were children, nearly identical cousins Josephine and Juliet embark in a much more serious game as adults.

After being separated at the Battle of Waterloo, the two young women meet again in Savannah, Georgia: one rich and one poor, but each desperate for a different life.

Switching places with her long-lost cousin...

Set in libraries, studies, and decaying mansions, these eighteen short stories are sure to delight and intrigue the most astute armchair detective.

In typical Appleby fashion, these mysteries are smart and comical… and endlessly entertaining. Filled with tales of ghosts and goblins, murder and mischief, Appleby Talks Again is a witty and bizarre collection...

That will give you over three weeks to settle your affairs, say your prayers, and eat a hearty Christmas dinner. I shall kill you, most probably, on Boxing Day.

In the lead up to Christmas, Fergus O’Brien, World War One flying ace turned introspective recluse, suspects someone is out for his blood. Having received three threatening letters promising his...

During the first season of bombing many of my papers were burned, including the pages of my diary describing the spring and early summer of 1940.

What remained of those papers is an intimate, honest, and heartfelt exposition of the beginning of the Second World War in London told through the eyes of esteemed writer, Hector Bolitho.