‘I cannot feel very confident that he did take his own life.’ Rood delivered himself of this opinion entirely without emphasis or excitement. ‘In fact, I should suppose it highly probable that he was murdered.’

After being found shot in his library with a note beside him, the police are satisfied that Lewis Packford’s death was a suicide. But his solicitor...

A bad omen. A sign of sorrow. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy…

Detective Inspector Montague Pluke has always been superstitious, so when he sees a lone crow fly over the Crowther’s home, he’s sure death is waiting in the wings.

And it doesn’t take long for Pluke’s premonitions to become a reality: the naked body of a young...

Ten years ago, a mutilated hand was found in the woods, solving the disappearance of missing sixteen-year-old Steven Leng. The police thought it was an open-and-shut case, but Steven’s mother wasn’t willing to give up hope that her son might still be alive…

Private Investigator Alex Best just needs to make it through the holiday season and move out of...

As the sun rose higher in the sky there was nothing to suggest that 23rd July 1932 was to be anything other than the most ordinary of days.

But, for Grace Hardie, this one day changes everything.

Grace Hardie has been happy in her family home of Greystones. Alongside her mother and brother, she lives a quiet life of sculpting. But her beloved Greystones...

‘We’ve still got each other. We’re the Caldwell girls, remember?’

Just when the Caldwell girls settle into their new lives away from each other, the Second World War brings more chaos that tests the Caldwell family.

While Immy continues her role as an ATS driver, her fiance is off driving a very different vehicle on the front lines: a tank. Overcome by...

‘Father, I committed murder…I haven’t been to confession since then…God forgive me…she didn’t deserve that…’

Detective Superintendent Mark Pemberton is first on the scene of a deadly car accident and he overhears a deathbed confession that sends him reeling. With his last breath, James Browning admits to killing a woman — the problem for Pemberton? No...

The British bulldog does not let go until the murderer is brought to justice. But this is not Scotland Yard, Inspector. This is France…

This trip to the French Riviera isn’t what anyone signed up for: while Littlejohn loses his vacation, another man loses his life.

When Alderman Dawson, the victim of a deathly stabbing, calls Littlejohn to his...

His pen scratched the paper slowly, “I murd – I say, how do you spell ‘murdered’?”

Shergold Engineering Company has come into a bit of financial trouble. And it seems the Ministry-sent Barry Foster might just have something to do with it.

The company directors, Arthur Shergold and Guy Reeves, decide Foster must be stopped, and when Reeves confesses to the...

Boughs bent, limbs sprang. Havoc Wood had never seemed so alive.

After a toxic Halloween wreaked havoc on the Wood, the Way sisters are left shaken. Thinking they had gained some control over their powers, now they aren’t sure they’re cut out to be the Gamekeepers.

The sisters are scared, insecure, and in no position to handle the Old Magic hovering in every...

In this collection of eighteen short stories, Queen of Crime Margery Allingham dabbles in the occult, the mysterious, and the murderous. Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humor, and her classic wit.

With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and...

As the Great War comes to a close, a new age dawns on London…

Spoiled and stubborn, Anna Pelucci gets everything she wants. Doted on by her Italian father, she has more gowns than she can count and more suitors than she needs – but nothing is ever enough.

Across town in south London, the young Mary Chapman leads a very different sort of life. Struggling...

An astonishing and evocative debut from a new voice in crime fiction.

And now he knew what was wrong with the arrangement. It was the Ma… the negative space… There was only one thing beautiful enough to fill it and — finally — she was with him. Ready, if not willing, to play her role.

Holly Blain wants to cover real news. The entertainment beat — pop stars...

‘It was a bridge too far and perhaps the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start, but we had to try, didn’t we?’

17 September 1944: 30,000 airborne soldiers prepare to drop 64 miles behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied Holland; tens of thousands of ground troops race down Hell’s Highway in tanks and armoured cars, trucks and half-tracks to link up...

Dear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew. But it wasn’t to be.

Jess never imagined she’d be navigating single motherhood, let alone while facing breast cancer. A life that should be just beginning is interrupted by worried looks, heavy conversations, and the possibility of leaving her daughter to grow...

There was more than one kind of war. There was the one that threatened so much of the world now, and there was the inner war within a person.

A terrible tragedy has torn the Caldwell family apart and the Caldwell girls have split up: Imogen has joined the war effort, Elsie has married, and Daisy? Daisy has lost her way.

Living away from home and missing her...

A quartet of paintings hang in the gallery. The artist now famous, his subject long forgotten: nobody of consequence…

Sent into service at the tender age of twelve, Rosie Goodison learns just how unfair the world really is. Some people work their entire lives and have little to show for it, while others do nothing and seem to have it all.

Full of courage and...

I don’t want to die, she thought, I just want everything to be different, to get away from it all.

Charlotte Comlyn is running away. From a marriage proposal, from her fortune, and from a series of misunderstandings with her parents.

Disguised in her brother’s clothes, she appears at the London home of her mother’s estranged best friend, the actress Beth...

The temperature is dropping, the wind is rising: something sinister is on its way to Smugglers’ Cottage.

Ten guests huddle together in a guest house for their Christmas holidays in the south of England. Among them is Private Investigator Nigel Strangeways, sent by the British security department to keep a close eye on Professor Alfred Wragby – a...

David realised that he had tumbled in upon something that was not merely a mess… He had tumbled in upon a mystery.

Desperate for some time away from his rowdy peers, David Henchman heads out of Oxford for a hike across Dartmoor. Relishing the peace and quiet, the last thing David expects to find at the top of Knack Tor is a dead body.

Positioned with a gun in...

Grace Hardie has grown up in a sweeping estate on the outskirts of Oxford. But her life has been a far cry from a fairytale. Ailing and asthmatic as a child, she never really found her place – not with her brothers, not with any friends – always on the outside.

And when tragedy strikes twice in the same day, Grace’s world, and her place in it, is turned...