A group of archaeologists is uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement on a beautiful hill in the glorious English countryside. But the idyll is shattered when they begin receiving threatening letters. Former city detective Jake Jackson, now enjoying a quieter life in the local village, is pulled in to investigate. Soon, threatening letters are the least of their problems, when a murderer strikes.

Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre to find his biological parents. Annie discovers her client's father is a bank robber who her granddad, Leroy, arrested back when he was sheriff. When the brother of her client dies suddenly, his death ruled a suicide, Annie questions whether or not it was in fact homicide - and who in this family of outlaws would rather some secrets stay buried.

London, 1944. 14-year-old Charlie Matters steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. 15-year-old Molly Wakefield, evacuated to the countryside, has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London to find her parents missing. Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver and his book shop. All three, however, are at risk from dangers hidden in their pasts.

Driving back through Wales in a fierce winter storm, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is forced to seek shelter at a remote village in the Eryri mountains. But a one night stopover becomes something very different after a gruesome discovery in the depths of the local forest. With communications down and the only road washed out by the storm, Hunter is unsure who - if anyone - he can trust.

Florence, New Year's Day 1557. Jacopo da Pontormo is found on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him are the masterpiece frescoes he laboured over for more than a decade. But when guards search his quarters, they find an obscene painting of Venus and Cupid - with the face of Venus replaced by that of Maria de' Medici, the Duke of Florence's oldest daughter. Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation.

When the charred remains of MP Rupert Millington are found inside a burning effigy, no one knows how they got there, but there are plenty of rumours about whodunnit. The lead suspect wants Detective Tess Fox and her con-artist sister Sarah Jacobs to help clear her name. She says she's being framed, but surely there is no smoke without fire. The heat is on when a second victim is killed in a locked room while Tess and Sarah are in the building.

Harry's friend Ned Tucker is in the Virginia House of Delegates, advocating for a bill to improve road clearing during bad weather. The bill's chief detractor is the glamorous Amanda Fields, a former newscaster turned delegate whose flair for the dramatic has earned her a formidable reputation - and made her more than a few enemies. But it wasn't Amanda, but a young page, who is found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hit man in the world, has quit. But whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen must track him down and kill him first. So when a bullet hits the glass inches from his face, he knows who fired it - doesn't he? It turns out that the sniper isn't the hardened killer he was expecting. It's Mireille - a mysterious silent child abandoned in the woods with instructions to pull the trigger. Reuniting with his spiky lover, Kat, Seventeen has to protect Mireille and discover who sent her to kill him and why.

Jane Austen arrives at Rowling House to visit her wealthy brother, Neddy. Little does she know that her sister-in-law Elizabeth has plans to help Jane come out to society and find a respectable husband of good status and wealth. Meanwhile, when a mysterious foreign princess is taken in by Mrs. Knight, Neddy's adoptive mother, Jane and her family fear that Neddy's inheritance could be at risk, jeopardizing them all.

Italy's Valerius Passerie was one of the finest composers of the gialli genre and his original LPs from his 1960s heyday fetch a fortune from collectors. But was he a murderer? Passeri's mistress was killed in London in the 1960s while he was there on location for a film shoot. Now the Vinyl Detective has been hired by Passeri's granddaughter to clear his name.

While Katie is on a run in the local marshland preserve to de-swamp her jumbled thoughts, she encounters the shocking sight of her friend, reporter and druid Steve Dawes, standing over a dead body. The way the victim was killed suggests a magical ritual may have been involved. It turns out that the deceased was a true crime podcaster who covered paranormal cases in Savannah. The situation gets stickier than a pecan bun when Katie discovers Steve knew the victim.

When PI Lydia Shephard brings Lana onto the case, three of the members of an elite Asian order known as the Eight Immortals have already been murdered. Each member of the order holds one item that represents their immortal counterpart, and someone is dying to get their hands on them all. Lydia's client insists he - and only he - knows who will be next and wants the murderer captured before there is another victim.

Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a bed in a makeshift hospital room. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing he can recall is the car he had hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. The people who staged the attack assume Reacher was the driver's accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk. A plan that will backfire spectacularly...

Allie is preparing to wed police officer Rex Manning and though Allie's the furthest thing from a Bridezilla, it looks like she has a Momzilla on her hands. Why else have her mother and extended family shown up a full two weeks before the nuptials to drive Allie to dizzying distraction? Honestly, a murder investigation is far less stressful - and as it happens, Allie just found Velma French dead on the ground beside the rock that killed her, with her rival Myrtle sobbing nearby.

Renee Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. It is the arrested man's father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. When Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen she goes to Harry Bosch for help, and ends up taking on a new volunteer to the cold case unit - Bosch's daughter Maddie.

For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner of the Pacific Northwest. A recent bank robbery in Seattle looks like it may have been committed by the Danbys, but there's no way the FBI can get any locals to turn against them. Only Danny Barrett has what it takes to get inside the organization and shut them down.But before Danny can do that he's going to have to contend with Henry Carter, a former in-law and current psychopath.

It was a simple errand. Collect a package. Save the world. But when Bill Kemp's contact washes up dead on the frozen banks of the Danube, where the Iron Curtain falls across the map of Europe, he's thrown into the heart of a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to destabilise the continent. With winter closing in and enemies on all sides, Kemp must risk a daring expedition across the Austrian Alps to Switzerland. His introduction to the dark world of espionage will prove as deadly as those bleak, beautiful mountains.

Robbie is just weeks away from giving birth. Meanwhile a stranger is causing a stir in town and Robbie's Aunt Adele appears unusually preoccupied at the baby shower. But when someone finds a body in the ram field on Adele's sheep farm, it's Robbie's turn to be worried. Especially after Chief Buck Bird uncovers a troubling link between Adele and the possible murder victim.

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite, Peter Gaveston, unleashes a horde of demons. Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to the Dominican Priory at Blackfriars where Gaveston's corpse awaits burial. But, on arrival, Corbett discovers that a series of macabre murders has turned the priory into a mansion of death, and a killer is roaming free.

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan for years. But now Ali's car has finally been found, submerged in a lake in his hometown with two dead men inside and a cryptic note.

This tight-knit, four person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of control fires before they cause major destruction. They've also stolen millions from banks, jewelry stores, and art galleries. Under the cover of saving the city, they've used their knowledge and specialist equipment to become the most successful heist crew on the East Coast. But their new member is an undercover operative whose position among them grows ever more dangerous.

Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend's baby. But this weekend marks the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Kim Gillespie with her sleeping baby. When Kim's older daughter makes a plea for anyone with information about her missing mom to come forward, Falk and his old buddy Raco can't leave the case alone.

August 1816. A dead man is found hanging upside down by one leg in an abandoned chapel, his hands tied behind his back, recapitulating the tarot card known as Le Pendu, the Hanged Man. The victim - Lord Preston Farnsworth, the younger brother of one of the Regent's boon companions - was a passionate crusader against what he called the forces of darkness, namely criminality, immorality, and sloth. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, will investigate.

A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year's Eve. It is Benjamin's birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d'oeuvres consumed, and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. In the morning, all of them wake up - except Benjamin. As Abigail attempts to wrap her mind around her brother's death, an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer.

The Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules an unprecedented trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. The visit coincides with a plan to resume uranium mining along the Navajo Nation border. Tensions around the official's arrival escalate when the body of a stranger is found in an area restricted for the disposal of radioactive uranium waste. Is it coincidence that a cult with a propensity for violence arrives at a private camp group outside Shiprock the same week to celebrate the summer solstice?

Chuck Brewster, the former business partner of Ali Reynolds's husband B. Simpson, once carried on an affair with Clarice, B.'s first wife. So when he's found murdered with Clarice standing nearby covered in blood, it seems an open and shut case. But Clarice swears she's innocent and begs for Ali's help.

Chloe and Sloane Morgan were only children when their mother was the second victim of the Bayside Strangler. Now the sisters have suddenly vanished after years of searching for the killer. Were they getting too close to the truth? Armed with the box of photos, videos, police reports, and notes gathered by the sisters over the years, Kendra follows the sisters' trail of clues.

1999. As London prepares for the Millennium, a serial rapist is stalking the River Thames. A junior female police officer in a world dominated by men, Detective Constable Louise Mangan is desperate for the chance to prove herself, and when she brings in the culprit almost single-handedly, she believes the people of Hampton Court can rest easy at last. But the worst is yet to come.

Summer 2020. Honorary Counsel Nathan Sutherland receives a phone call from Vanni, his friend in the Venetian police force. There's been an incident on San Francesco del Deserto, an island in the north of the Venetian lagoon.The details are unclear but an Englishman on retreat appears to have died during the night. There are two other Englishmen in his party, everybody is having difficulty communicating due to the language barrier, and so could Nathan come out to the island with him?

Most buildings on the former boarding school property have been repurposed for an upscale retirement community, but the developer had no use for the house where the headmaster and his wife were killed decades earlier, their deaths remaining a mystery to this day. Can Nashville carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck exorcise the beautiful Victorian structure's demons, solve the cold case, and give the building new life? Or will ghosts from the past seek to silence them forever?

Intern Faye is a shoo-in for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank, Greene Brothers Hale. Then a betrayal arrives to shatter her plans and her life. But what her high finance masters-of-the-universe bosses don't know is that Faye isn't like any of the other interns. Going back is not an option. Her new plans involves Swiss watch timing, nerves of steel and ten million dollars in cold hard Wall Street cash.

Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the badlands of South-East England. She's never felt more Thelma & Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead. How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice?

Georgina Harrington should never have trusted her feckless cousin Percy with her most precious archaeological discovery. But no one would take her academic work seriously if they knew it was hers and not her male cousin's. When Percy goes missing, only Georgina realizes that he is truly in danger. And to find him, she must rely on the help of his infuriating but incredibly handsome best friend.

The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish rings out. Lady of the house Amy Phelps has been discovered dead. But with all the windows and doors to her room locked from inside, how - and by whom - was she killed? Arbuthnot 'Arbie' Swift finds himself in the unlikely position of detective. The celebrated author of The Gentleman's Guide to Ghost-Hunting is staying at the Old Forge to investigate a suspected spectre, but now the more pressing matter of Amy's murder falls to him too.

Sage arrives in Bali planning only to drink on the beach until his money runs out and then return home to start over. So he's caught by surprise when he falls in love with the country and its people, particularly the attractive and considerate Ratri. As his visa's expiration date nears and his funds dwindle, the desperate Sage finds himself being recruited by a drug-smuggling ring - in a country where drug trafficking is punishable by death.

Film star Anna Symons is found dead on an ice rink in Manchester, recreating a scene from a blockbuster she starred in years ago. DI Erika Piper, having only recently returned to work after suffering a near-fatal attack herself, finds she must once again prove her worth as the hunt for the media dubbed 'Blood Ice Killer' intensifies. But when another body is found and, this time, the killer issues a personal threat, Erika must put aside her demons to crack the case, or suffer the deadly consequences.

Northern Ireland, July 1992. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy's a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It's an easy gig, if he can keep his head down. But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protege is on holiday in Spain. A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But something's not right, and as Duffy probes he discovers the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hit man and why?

Aidan Thomas, a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New York town where he lives, has a dark secret he's been keeping from everyone in town and those closest to him. He's a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and there's a ninth he has earmarked for death: Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed, fearing for her life. But how does he explain Rachel to his 13-year-old daughter Cecilia?

Mick Hardin, Rocksalt's reluctant sheriff, is chafing at the sudden dissolution of his retirement plans, wearied by the petty squabbles of the townsfolk. It's all business as usual, until the murder of a local bar owner draws an unlikely suspect who threatens to fan the flames of Mick's past. When two more bodies turn up, seemingly unconnected to the first, Mick is forced to reckon with the mysterious circumstances of a case not so open-and-shut as everyone believes.

In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain. And Nelson "Nails" McKenna has been his enforcer since he was a teenager, though his heart's not really in the dirty work. Then one night in a local roadhouse, Nails goes too far defending a woman, and even Burroughs's reach can't get him out of this one. With a dead body and countless witnesses, Nails and the woman become fugitives on the run, and unlikely partners.

When a case ends with a father killing the child V.I. Warshawski had been hired to find, she begins second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout. Her worried friends send her down to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball, where Angela, one of her proteges, is a Northwestern star. Then Sabrina, one of Angela's roommates, disappears and when V.I. finds Sabrina close to death in a drug house, the mother's gratitude quickly turns to suspicion. V.I. finds herself in the FBI's crosshairs, and the young men running the county's opioid distribution are not happy.

When ex-cop Bill Robinson takes over the Inn by the Sea, all he wants is a quiet escape from the city. But when a crime boss moves into town and begins terrorizing Bill's friends, he can't just sit back and watch. It's not long before local criminals are turning up dead and the Inn comes under attack. With the help of the Inn's fearless residents, Bill must do everything he can to defend his town, his chosen family, and his home.

Frances spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death,and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the killer.

Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life. But she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help - for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, manipulating events like a chess master, watching Leng's every move...and awaiting his own chance to strike.

Now Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, Molly's entire existence is upended when she brings a shoebox of her gran's old things to a reality TV art appraisal show. One piece turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure and Molly is briefly a multi-millionaire -- before the piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.

Temperance Brennan is called to Washington, DC to analyze the victims of a building set ablaze amid mysterious circumstances. Teamed with telejournalist Ivy Doyle, she learns that back in the thirties and forties the property belonged to a member of a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this fact seems irrelevant - until the son of a Foggy Bottom gang member is shot dead at his farm in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, Scotland. The locals put her age at somewhere between 55 and 70. They think she's divorced or a lifelong spinster; that she used to be a librarian, a pharmacist, or a witch. They think she's lonely, or ill, or maybe just plain rude. For the most part, they leave her be. Then local teenager Charlie McKee is found hanging in the woods, and Marjorie is the first one to see his body. When what she saw turns out to be impossible, the police have their doubts.

BC author. Rose, the mother of twenty something aspiring writer Jules, waited three months for answers about her daughter's death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop that Jules was attending on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.

Pomona Afton, Upper East Side hotel heiress, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmother's murder. Her grandmother was mean, greedy, and paranoid - so paranoid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that, should she die an unnatural death, all the family assets get frozen. Pom needs someone to solve this murder, like, yesterday, so she can get her trust fund back. But she quickly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back, she's going to have to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herself...

Sarah Grayson, secondhand store owner, and her clever rescue cat Elvis get involved in the case of a man who was linked to a drowning death years ago and is now found dead himself, on the same stretch of beach. Some of Sarah's friends from the store knew the victim - and the young woman who drowned - very well and are concerned they could be dragged into the case.

Twenty years after Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was found brutally stabbed to death, her terminally ill sister offers five million dollars for information on the crime. Dozens of true-crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and "clicks," and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead.

Terrorists have detonated a bomb in London. Assigned to root out the source of the terrorists' funding, Joseph Dryden, 004, and Conrad Harthrop-Vane, 000, enter the field. Tracing clues from Sotheby's auction house to Crete to Venice, they uncover a money laundering scheme involving diamonds, black market antiquities, and human trafficking. Once a major sale is made, a six-day countdown to the next terror attack begins. As the Double O's follow the twisting trail, they find themselves unexpectedly inching closer to the missing Bond...

When Abigail agreed to move to Soap Lake, Washington, for her husband's research, she expected old-growth forests and craft beer, folksy neighbors and the world's largest lava lamp. Instead, after her husband jets off to Poland for a research trip, she finds herself alone, in a town surrounded by sand and haunted by its own urban legends. But when a young boy runs through the desert into Abigail's arms, her life becomes entwined with his and the questions surrounding the death of his mother, Esme.

George Cross is called to investigate when the body of a monk is found savagely beaten in a woodland near Bristol. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic's past. How can Cross unpick a crime when he doesn't know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?

Online, Xander had it all: a parade of private jets, fabulous parties with socialites, and a burgeoning career as a social media influencer. The only problem is, after his body is fished out of Mission Bay, the police can't seem to actually identify him. Who is Xander Lin? Nobody knows. Every contact is a dead end. Vera is determined to solve Xander's murder.

London, 1894. Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker is entangled in a conspiracy to revive the American Civil War. There are those who want to revive the Confederacy with a warship promised to the Rebels from the British Government in 1865. To get it now, they're threatening to reveal the long-secret treaty with the Confederacy. Barker is hired to use his connections to discreetly bring their threats to the Prime Minister. But the American government has their own team watching, and waiting, for the right moment to take action.

Former NYPD detective Nico Doyle is asked to help Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman has been found dead in her home, slumped over her piano, and the sole witness speaks only English. The two find no shortage of suspects. Following the death of her husband, the late Signora Nora had taken on a number of lovers, her two daughters weren't on the best terms with her, and there's a lot to be gained from the sale of her residence.

In a London bar Tanz meets Einar, a charismatic and sexy Viking travelling for business. He offers Tanz an irresistible proposition: return to Iceland with him for an all expenses paid writing retreat and some no-strings-attached fun. Tanz follows her heart (and the voices in her head) off to Iceland, but when she arrives, she's ditched faster than you can say Blue Lagoon. There, with only the dead for guidance, Tanz is thrust into the heart of a chilling cold case, where the echoes of the forgotten and the allure of forbidden magic compel her to listen, to understand and to act.

Maggie Zito is being held for murder. The volatile single mother is accused of killing the retired leader of the notorious Exiles motorcycle gang and his wife aboard their million-dollar houseboat. With a mystery witness putting Maggie at the scene, and the Exiles baying for her blood, it's unlikely she'll make it to the trial alive. Desperate, Maggie's lawyer, Shuzhen Chen, calls in a favor to Dave Wakeland. Find evidence of Maggie's innocence and get her client out of custody. Local author.

Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own.

Jane Sharp has become obsessed with true crime, befriending armchair detectives and joining their morbid internet underground. When news of the shocking deaths of three college girls in Delphine, Idaho, takes the world by storm, and sleuths everywhere race to solve the crimes, Jane and her friends are determined to beat them. But the case turns out to be stranger than anyone expected. Details don't make sense, the police are cagey, and there seems to be more media hype and internet theorizing than actual evidence.

Alice and the friends she made in her prenatal group attend an eco-protest and willingly chain themselves to trees and settle in as an excuse to get some overdue rest. Not the most comfortable arrangement ever, but at this point, they'll take what they can get. However, the next morning one of their fellow protesters is found strangled, and any hope of a peaceful interlude is suddenly swept away.

After Addison McKellar's husband goes missing, she turns to her father's old friend, legendary Memphis PI Porter Hayes. Porter and Addison begin to dig deeper into Dean's affairs and quickly discover that he was never the hardworking business owner and family man he pretended to be. As they piece together the connections between a hook-handed mercenary, one of Elvis's former leading ladies, and a man posing as an FBI agent, it becomes clear that Dean was deeply enmeshed in a high-stakes web of international intrigue, and Porter and Addison aren't the only ones looking for him.

1966. Nine year old Stephanie strikes up a relationship with Mr Man, who always seems pleased to see her. Then, when her spiteful friend Dawn goes missing in the woods during the World Cup final, no one appears to know what happened to her - but more than one of them is lying. May 1997. Stephanie has spent her life trying to bury the events of that terrible summer. When a man starts following her on the train home from London, she realizes the dark truth of what happened may have finally caught up with her.

Detective Declan Miller has a problem. A young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase containing a pair of severed hands. Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death.

Serial killer Kitty Collins doesn't want to kill. It's just so hard to resist. Some men really, really deserve it. Men like Blaze Bundy, an anonymous influencer spreading misogyny online. He's making it very hard for her to control her murderous urges. Meanwhile she is in the south of France to watch her mother marry a man she's never met. She should be drinking cocktails and focusing on her tan, not plotting a murder. But a woman's work is never done. Surely one more teensy little kill wouldn't hurt, would it?

In the shadow of Lewes Castle lies buried an ancient tablet. Hours after discovering it, dashing local archaeologist Gideon Rivers is dead. Writer Virginia Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa, both know it doesn't take much to cause a stir in town. And when Gideon returned home from a dig in Syria with a glamourous Parisian heiress on his arm, all eyes were on him. But who would have conspired to murder such a charming young man? There are more suspects in his circle than it first seems: an ambitious fiancee, a jealous best friend, and a string of scorned former lovers.

A man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff member who was due to work the previous night but never showed up for his shift. DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. Her only clue is the disappearance of one of the home's residents, 14 year-old Chloe Spence.

In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the abduction and possible murder of her child. Defending Colleen is the lawyer Moxie Castin, and working alongside him is PI Charlie Parker, who senses the tale has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wife's guilt, a group of fascists arming for war, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old, twisted house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built. A house, and what dwells beneath.

Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. PI Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has been involved in the abduction of four children from Mexico: three girls and a boy, all belonging to the cartel boss Blas Urrea - except Urrea's family is safe and well in Mexico, which means the abductees cannot be his children.

Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.

Washington Poe has a story to tell. He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family. And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it.

A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with mere hours to survive.But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer.

Canadian authors. The story of the vengeful barber Sweeney Todd has gripped fans across literary, stage, and screen renditions - but little has been revealed about Mrs. Lovett, Todd's notorious partner in crime. Until now. Enclosed herewith: a bloodcurdling correspondence of profound horror and intrigue, based on the original Victorian penny dreadful that started it all.

An anonymous letter delivered to the offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year. For new senior editor Martha Thornhill, the date means only one thing: the summer her brilliant older sister, Charlie, went missing. It seems that Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret. Now someone is trying to lead the lexicographers toward the truth.

Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can't believe her luck when a skilled builder just happens to show up after she purchases land near Prentiss Pond. All Mark Redmond asks in return for building Josie's dream cabin is that he be left alone to homeschool his 12-year-old daughter, Cady. For Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch, the intensity of Redmond's secretiveness is troubling, especially in light of suspicious criminal activity being reported around the area.

They're the perfect couple. James, a high-profile lawyer at a successful City firm, and Bella, a beautiful teacher at a prestigious private school. Then one night, James loses an important file linked to a multi-million pound deal and, in a panic, contacts the company's IT helpdesk. A friendly woman answers his call and quickly fixes the issue. All is well once more. But in the weeks after, James is accused of more mistakes at work, ones he doesn't remember making and can't explain. Meanwhile Bella finds herself the target of vicious rumours at school - and no one believes her side of the story.

Fiber artist Ingrid Barrick has just been found dead in her ransacked house, but the fact that she'd seemed a bit troubled lately - and had been obsessively doodling pictures of bees - has the Knit and Nibblers wondering if this was really a burglary gone bad like the police think. There had been tension with a neighbor who was fuming (and sneezing) over the ragweed in Ingrid's garden - but allergies don't seem like grounds for murder.

Estranged after a devastating betrayal, brothers Victor and Frank Landis - sheriffs of neighbouring counties - hadn't spoken for years. In truth, Victor didn't care if Frank was alive or dead. Until the day somebody killed him. Crossing county lines in search of answers, Victor is soon on the trail of a sinister conspiracy that takes him deep into the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.

After a drug bust goes bad, Deputy Sheriff Garrett Nelson is left wounded, with a permanent limp and a career in tatters. He takes a job at a Florida penitentiary, on the grounds of an old Spanish mission. Its chapel, a working bell tower, is now an execution chamber. And West must attend the executions. Working on Death Row comes with a few simple rules. Do not let the inmates get under your skin. Do not let anyone escape. Do not take justice into your own hands. Garrett Nelson will break every one of them.

After the injury that erased Bourne's whole life, Nash Rollins lied about the circumstances of David Webb's recruitment to Treadstone. He was afraid that learning the truth might drive Bourne out of the agency forever. But now, when Bourne meets a woman who recognizes him as David Webb, the secrets of those days begin to come out - and Bourne is forced to confront the dangerous ghosts of a past he doesn't even remember.

When Lord Evan - a charming escaped convict who has won Gus's heart - needs to hide his sister and her lover from their vindictive brother, Gus and Julia take the two women into their home. They know what it is like to have a powerful and overbearing brother. But Lord Evan's complicated past puts them all in danger. Gus knows they must clear his name of murder if he is to survive the thieftakers who hunt him. But it is no easy task - the fatal duel was twenty years ago and a key witness is nowhere to be found.

At first, Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter aren't sure of the identity of the victim found dead at the remote Cotswold cottage, but it's not long before a neighbour, Eleanor Holder, comes forward with her opinions on the deceased. Jerry Harrison was not a popular man in the village of Weston St Ambrose. His aunt's tragic death led to him inheriting her cottage and many of the locals still see him as an outsider. But before long, another villager is attacked and left for dead...

In the industrial north of Prince George, BC, housewife Jenny Hayes shares a fence with the only First Nations woman in the neighbourhood, Rachelle, and her two little girls. After Rachelle disappears along Highway 16, her daughters are carted off by the government, and Jenny takes it upon herself to investigate.

Retired schoolteachers Pat, Liz and Thelma don't know what to think. The death of Neville Hilton is not a crime. Just your standard, if tragic, heart attack. At least that's what the autopsy shows. But his ex-wife isn't convinced. She's sure the current Mrs Hilton is involved - maybe she wasn't at some horse event, as she told police. And so the three friends step away from their slices of cake to investigate.

Essex, February, 1991. The weather is biting cold. Everyone would rather be somewhere warmer, which is why it's a big surprise when a wanted drug smuggler, Bruce Hopkins, risks a return to his old haunts in Colchester after a decade long exile on the Costa del Sol. Lured back by a letter from the wife Hopkins left behind, no one is more surprised than him when he finds himself abducted and stripped bare only to be sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. DS Daniel Kenton is teamed up with the unorthodox DS Brazier to investigate.

Fox Farm is, thanks to two corpses, neither picturesque nor peaceful. The body in its kitchen belongs to eminent historian Christopher Cliff, who has taken his own life. The second, found on the property boundary, remains unidentified. DI Nick Lowry enlists the services of DC Daniel Kenton and WPC Jane Gabriel. And the team soon find themselves interrogating enigmatic neighbours, antiques merchants, jilted lovers and wronged relatives.

Essex, November, 1983. In the garrison town of Colchester the body of a 19-year-old Lance Corporal has been discovered on the local High Street, the result of what appears to be a bizarre, chivalrous duel. It seems he was the victim of a doomed army love triangle. As such, the military police are wishing to keep the matter confined within military ranks. However, it is not long before the blood from the duel runs into civilian police affairs, and the trail presents CID with a local rogues' gallery. A savvy entrepreneur. A wayward skinhead. A member of the landed gentry. And a shadowy Mauritian travel agent with a chilling reputation. Soon, they will discover, a real estate deal, a racist, and the town's Robin Hood pub hold the key to the killing...

Dale Figgo is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. And his already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries. Viva Morales is a newly transplanted Floridian, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, now working at the Mink Foundation and renting a room in Figgo's apartment. Twilly Spree has an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment, and way too many inherited millions of dollars.

Port Ellis journalist Cat Conway is looking forward to an easy assignment covering a major wellness and self-actualization summit at the Pinerock Resort, featuring Bliss Bondar and Bree Guthrie, creators of the Welcome, Goddess empire and widows with attitude. Cat's mother, Marian Conway, bestselling author, is on the agenda--and so is murder. When one of the influencers turns up dead, suspicion falls on the high-profile guests.

After thirty years of friendship, four friends watch their dreams go up in smoke when their husbands pool their funds in a bad investment. Then one of the husbands dies in a freak accident and the other three women are shocked to see their friend rebound with a huge life insurance payout and a new life in Florida. In the aftermath, the three discover that their husbands have identical, seven-figure life insurance policies. A new dream begins to take form, and this time it involves a hitman.

Editor Susan Ryeland, back in England now, is working on the manuscript of a novel, Pund's Last Case, by a young author named Eliot Crace, a continuation of the popular Alan Conway series. Eliot is the grandson of children's author Marian Grace, murdered by poison 15 years ago. And this novel features a murder by poisoning. Then Eliot is suddenly killed in a hit-and-run accident, and Susan finds herself under police scrutiny as a suspect in his death.

When the producer of a true crime show hears about a new angle on the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford, he sends a researcher to verify the claims. Then, two months later, a woman's body is found bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods, and is linked to the disappearance of the child. DCI Adam Fawley had arrested the child's mother for murder in 2016, a murder he now knows she didn't commit.

Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work. The puzzle holds untold consequences for space warfare. The years pass, and they are not kind to Volkov. After the loss of his son, a prosecutor who had been too tough on corruption, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Volkov makes the fraught decision to contact the CIA.

After Kausar Khan's 30-something daughter, Sana, phones to say she's been arrested for killing the unpopular landlord of her clothing boutique, Kausar heads to Toronto for the first time in nearly twenty years. The facts of the case are troubling. Sana found the man dead in her shop at a suspiciously early hour, with a dagger from her windowfront display plunged into his chest. But Kausar senses there's more to the story than what her daughter is sharing.

Tara Martin, a shy, peculiar woman, has recently started working part-time at Helen Louise's bistro and helping Charlie in the archive. Tara isn't exactly friendly and she has an angry outburst at the library that leaves Charlie baffled. When Tara is viciously attacked and lands in the hospital, Charlie knows his instincts were correct. Tara was in trouble and someone was after her.

It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun's sister vanished and ever since she's been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. Now a glimmer. Local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington state. But something is not right with Ellie. She won't say where she's been, or who she's protecting, and it's up to Chelsey to find the answers.

BC author. Butler Helen Thorpe is not one to judge, but the participants in Close Encounters for Global Healing on Side Island are astonishingly unpleasant. The five-day program is meant to help them bridge their ideological and personal differences. But no one seems interested in a civil conversation, much less global healing, and each person has shown up with their own secret agenda. Yet, when something deadly happens, they must somehow learn to work together.

It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye. When a client brings him a fraud case, Clay dives into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable. His investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to shut him up.

Thumps Dreadful Water is a Cherokee ex-cop who is trying to make a living as a photographer in the small town of Chinook. Then he photographs a dead body in a just-completed luxury condo resort built by the local Indian band.

A visit to her old university takes an unexpected turn for solicitor Finn Fitzpatrick when she receives an exclusive invitation. She is far from high profile on the legal scene, so why is she on the guest list for a select gathering in the College president's private dining room? Three days later, a body is discovered on college grounds. And, as the police launch their hunt for the killer, everyone who was at dinner that night falls under suspicion. Including Finn.

1920s Kyiv. Samson Kolechko and his colleague have been dispatched to investigate the illegal sale of meat. But just as Samson is beginning to dig into the very meat of this case, his live-in fiancee Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out.

As a heavy mist rolls into the Swedish coastal town of Fjallbacka, shocking violence shakes the small community to its core. Rolf Stenklo, a famous photographer, is found murdered in his gallery. Two days later, a brutal tragedy on a private island leaves the prestigious Bauer family devastated. With his boss acting strangely, Detective Patrik Hedstrom is left to lead the investigation.

1950. Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Troy learns that his sergeant has been conducting an affair with the known mistress of infamous London racketeer Otto Ohnherz. Troy is immediately intrigued by the mysterious origins of Ohnherz's second-in-command, Jay Fabian, who is a major contributor to all three British political parties and claims to have survived the concentration camps - yet he lacks proof beyond his word.

In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in. And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever. Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He's working for them. Because when a German trader is the next to die, the authorities decide it is innocent civilians who will pay the price - unless Eddie can find the killer in time.

Oldcastle DC Angus MacVicar is assigned to the murder investigation that hunts the "Fortnight Killer". Every two weeks the killer leaves one corpse at the scene, and the second body is never seen again. But instead of working on the investigation's front line, Angus is lumbered with the forensic psychologist from hell - a jetlagged, sarcastic, know-it-all American, on loan from the FBI, who seems determined to alienate everyone while dragging Angus into a shadowy world of conspiracies, lies, and violence.

Emma Wood, Eleanor's best friend since childhood, is starring in the movie adaptation of When in Rome, Eleanor's first novel. Emma is also marrying Fred Winters, a major movie star and Emma's co-star, who just happens to be playing Connor Smith, Eleanor's ex and leading man of the series. Cast and crew are invited to the wedding at nearby Catalina Island. Then Emma receives a note that says "Someone is going to die at the wedding."

Series finale. British Intelligence has ordered Maggie to assassinate Werner Heisenberg, the physicist who may deliver a world-ending fission bomb for Germany. Maggie travels to Madrid, where Heisenberg is visiting for a lecture.At the same time, couturier Coco Chanel, a spy in her own right with ambiguous loyalties, has requested a mysterious meeting with the British ambassador in Madrid - and has requested Maggie join them.

BC author. When Joseph Quentin asks Jilly Truitt to defend his wife, who has been charged with murdering her own mother in what the media are calling a mercy killing, every instinct tells Jilly to say no. Word on the street is that Vera Quentin is in denial, refusing to admit to the crime and take a lenient plea deal. Quentin is a lawyer's lawyer, known as the Fixer in legal circles, and if he can't help his wife, who can? Against her better judgment, Jilly meets with Vera and reluctantly agrees to take on her case.

A call in the night places Lady Dandy Gilver's oldest friend Daisy at the centre of a murder investigation. With her friend's future on the line, Dandy and her fellow sleuth Alec Osbourne must race to prove her innocence. But when they reach the idyllic Scottish village of Dirleton, residents confirm a woman was seen at the crime scene - an ancient stone called the louping stane, still spattered with the victim's blood. And the longer the detectives spend in the village the more they question Daisy's involvement.

Investigative journalist Shona Sandison, last met in THE GOLDENACRE, is attending the wedding of her closest friend and former colleague, Vivienne. But the night before the wedding, Vivienne's reclusive school friend, Dan, jumps from a roof to his death. Shona is the only witness to the suicide - and so the only person who saw the occult tattoos covering Dan's body, and heard the unsettling, mystical phrases he was uttering.

Amateur sleuth Maisie Cooper had received a puzzling letter from the owners of the Sunny View guesthouse in the Devnoshire countryside, Russell and Audrey, asking for her help. A shocking revelation has created tension amongst the residents in the small hamlet of Trout Leap, and Maisie has a reputation of problem solving... But when the body of one of the villagers is found lying dead by the river, Maisie is convinced that this is more than just an accident.

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's job now. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She's currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D'Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts...

Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But she's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months.Unless she's murdered before her expiration date.

Los Angeles, August 1965. Harry Ingram captured the image of an unarmed activist being shot down by cops during the Watts riots and his photo makes the front pages. So then he is approached by Betty Payton, who wants Ingram's help tracking down her business associate Moses "Mose" Tolbert, last seen during the riots. Ingram follows the investigation down a rabbit hole of burglary rings, bank robberies, looted cash, and clandestine agendas - all the while trying to keep out of the sightlines of LAPD's secretive intelligence division.

BC author. Jake Ripper finds a welcome distraction in his combative and enigmatic new coworker. He hasn't come across anyone as interesting as Dolores in a long time. But when mere curiosity evolves into a darkly romantic flirtation, Jake can't help but wonder if, finally, he's found someone who really sees him, skeletons in the closet and all. Until Dolores asks Jake's help to dispose of a body...

Chet and Bernie's next door neighbour, Mr. Parsons, thought he was doing the right thing by loaning his ne'er do well son, Billy, some money to help get himself settled. But days later, Mr. Parsons has discovered that his entire life savings is gone. Valley PD is certain this is an impersonation scam, but Bernie isn't so sure.

When Kavita Banerjee, the deputy ambassador of Canada, dies suddenly at a dinner party attended by the great and the good from Icelandic business and politics, suspicion falls on everyone present, but particularly on the victim's boss, Graeme Shearer, the Canadian ambassador. Jane Shearer, Graeme's long-suffering wife, is accustomed to cleaning up his messes. But now, saving her husband's career - and her crumbling marriage - requires her to investigate her fellow dinner guests.

Martin Gabriel is a runner for Ben. He runs errands. He runs deliveries. And now he is running for his life... When a deal goes wrong, Martin realizes Ben isn't the legitimate businessman he thought he was. He flees before Ben catches up with him, unaware that Ben's criminal network and the FBI are also on his tail. No longer a runner, but still on the run. Is Martin fast enough to get away from his past?

After the annual village bonfire, Joni Blackwood is missing, the shower left running in her cottage. When the next day, human remains are found in the church graveyard, everyone is quick to assume that the mystery of Joni's whereabouts has had a swift and deadly answer. But when it's revealed that the remains are the small bones of a baby, it's clear that Joni's disappearance only marks the start of dark truths in the village coming to light. If the remains aren't Joni's, did she vanish because she put them there? Or because she knows who did?

Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, is hospitalized following an operation and is sharing a room with cancer patient Stephan Fankhauser, an old acquaintance and former head of Basel Volksbank. One night, a groggy Hunkeler witnesses a young nurse administer an injection to his friend. When he is told the next day that Fankhauser has died, Hunkeler grows suspicious.

Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher hoping to learn the contents of a papyrus scroll he inherited from his antiquarian uncle. To find a way of unrolling the scroll without destroying it, he travels to Naples, where he befriends a Google software engineer days before the man is found dead. With investigative journalist, Kristi Grainger, he follows the clues leading to a Neapolitan trafficker in antiquities, a tech mogul obsessed with the distant past, and a clutch of academics searching for the lost library of Herculaneum.

Together with their new shepherdess, Rebecca, the sheep of Glennkill move into their winter quarters in the shadow of a French chateau. But their new home is far from idyllic. A number of the sheep from the previous flock have disappeared, and deer are dying an unnatural death in the forest. The goats from the neighbouring pasture have a theory: a werewolf. When a human falls victim, it becomes clear that even fantasies can be fatal.

A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia's most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. Closely monitored by the United States, no one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it's going or what it's carrying. A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm.

Adele Friar knows better than most that something dangerous lurks in the forest. So when her sister Maddie goes missing, she fears that the woods may hold the answers. With help from Adele and DCI Tannahill Khan back in London, forensic specialist Laughton Rees is determined to find Maddie and dispel the dangerous ghost stories once and for all. But something strange is going on in the forest - the police seem reluctant to investigate the disappearances, and the locals aren't talking.

An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, complete with spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah's loving and generous tech-mogul brother found the listing online. It's his birthday gift to Hannah and includes their spouses and another couple. But how well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? And who is the new boyfriend, crashing their party? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried.

Ex-CIA agent Alex Matthews is asked by the Director to extricate an agent, codenamed Byron, from Russia. It was, he is told, a matter of grave national security that implicated the White House, and that Byron would hand over the kompromat once he was extricated from Russia. Something, though, doesn't feel right about the whole operation.

When Abby, an American archaeologist, arrives in St. Denis on the heels of her divorce, she hopes to make a new life for herself as a specialist guide for visiting tourists. So when a local British couple discover a grave from World War II on their property, Abby is able to put her training to good use. As it turns out, in the grave are the remains of two German women and an Italian submarine officer who had a big secret to hide. The women are suspected of having had links to the German garrison in Bordeaux during the war.

It's a baking hot British summer, and the sleepy town of Market Foxleigh is staging a crime writing festival... with the three Dahlias as guests of honour. This time they will help a true crime podcast team investigate a local cold case. It's been five years since Dahlia Lively fan Scott Baker was arrested for a murder that had eerie echoes of one of Dahlia's fictional cases. It seemed like an open and shut case at the time, but the podcast team are convinced that the police got the wrong man.

BC author. Lane receives a call with news that Darling's brother Bob has gone missing from a mining camp in Mexico. From bustling Mexico City, through the desert and into the mountain range beyond, Darling and Lane's search for Bob puts them out of the realm of the law and at the mercy of a local bandido. Meanwhile Lane is certain she's recognized someone from her past she'd rather forget.

A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don't think it's a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin's Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Bratva mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane.

In the dead of night, a man's body is found strapped to a chair in Glasgow's Elder Park, his identity unknown. As forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod examines the scene, the violence on display suggests a gangland feud could be the cause. At the post-mortem, a bullet engraved with a snake's head is found in the man's stomach, lending weight to the theory. Elsewhere in the city, a major Hollywood movie is being filmed. But shooting comes to a standstill when its lead actor is reported missing.

In one of the most luxurious cities on earth, a billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. Thousands of miles away, in the leafy Berkshire countryside, Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences. Two deaths. Continents apart. Completely unrelated. So why are they at the centre of a master criminal's plot for revenge?

The salt-scented quadrangles of St Andrews University greet misfit first-year student Finn Nethercott with indifference. This is a place where only privilege counts, and those from the right backgrounds can get away with murder. Finn is quickly seduced into a new circle of friends, four history scholars obsessed with the deepest roots of ancient Scotland who sweep him away on wild adventures to forgotten castles and faerie lochs. But he soon discovers the darker sides of his new friendships.

When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine's Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met online. Karen was all over the dating apps, leading some townspeople to blame her for her own death, while others band together to protest society's violence against women. Into the divide comes Kiki Nunn, whose aggressive newsgathering once again antagonizes Elise.

Following a nasty divorce, Rayna Dumont came to Amsterdam for a fresh start. She's never been the type for a one-night stand, but this move is all about adventure,and Xander is handsome and successful and more than willing to go along for the ride. Until the morning after, when Rayna finds him dead on the shower floor and millions of dollars' worth of diamonds missing from his safe.

Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin with their young children. But now figures from the sisters' past surface to drag them back into the conflict. Tessa is told she must track down her old handler from MI5, Eamonn, and attempt to turn him into an IRA informant, or lose everything. Tessa's reunion with Eamonn revives a host of feelings she has long attempted to bury.

Retired Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, is in Switzerland doing a favor for a friend. But what was supposed to be a simple operation turns violent and Cotton is thrust into a war between the world's oldest bank and the CIA. He quickly discovers that everything hinges on a woman from his past, who suddenly reappears harbouring a host of explosive secrets centering around bitcoin.

Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London. One night, she receives an urgent call from the police at the Hotel Lutetia on Paris's famous Left Bank. Olivia's French grandmother, Josephine Benoit, has appeared at the Lutetia in a distressed state claiming she committed a murder in one of the hotel's rooms at the end of the Second World War. Travelling to Paris, Olivia finds her grandmother confused. But Josephine insists it is a recovered memory from the past. More disturbingly, hotel records show that a woman did die in that room of the Lutetia in 1945.

Anna Ogilvy was a budding 25-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive - and she hasn't woken up since. Dubbed "Sleeping Beauty" by the tabloids, Anna suffers from a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as "resignation syndrome." Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods represent the last possible hope of solving the infamous "Anna O" case by waking Anna up so she can stand trial.

Mia Crawford is a risk-averse bibliophile who, forced into taking a long-overdue vacation, finds herself on a luxurious private island where she just might have a chance to reinvent herself - for a little while, anyway. She can explore the island. Flirt shamelessly with a cute bartender. Have a vacation fling. Or she can curl up with a good book on the beach. But when gossipy notes written in the margins of an old book turn out to be clues to the disappearance of another guest, Mia finds herself diving headfirst into a dangerous adventure.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, 14 year old Bessie Holland accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father Hackberry and must flee Texas to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters. As the boys admire and respect Bessie's spirit and fortitude, she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy.

After PI Clete Purcel leaves his car at the local car wash, he returns to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade from Mexican cartels. Just as Clete starts to trail the culprits, Clara Bow, a woman with a dark past hires Clete as a detective to investigate her scheming, slippery ex-husband, and a string of brutal deaths all link back to a heavily tattooed man who seems to lurk around every corner.

1968. Just before the Tet Offensive a spy ship is captured by communist forces off the coast of North Korea. The crew thought they had destroyed everything of intelligence value. They were wrong. As a KGB "illegal" elicits information from a high-ranking NSA official, and teams of special operators infiltrating into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam disappear without a trace, an ambitious Soviet advisor launches an ingenious plan that could forever alter the world balance of power. Tom Reece, a SEAL operator attached to the highly classified and shadowy MACV-SOG is about to be thrust into a bloody battle to discover the truth.

Rock musician and World War Two nut Erik Make Loud hires Cordelia, the Paperback Sleuth, to track down a series of rare and highly sought-after Commando novels by the blatantly pseudonymous Butch Raider. But Cordelia soon discovers that the series - and in particular the incredibly rare Commando Gold paperback - are all but impossible to track down. She finds the author, though, who reveals that all his stories came from a real ex-commando he'd met on a pub crawl. But Commando Gold details a 1944 operation in Greece, in which commandos stumbled on a cache of Nazi gold and decided to bring it home with them. And there are people willing to kill to get that gold.

Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers the charred body of an Amish man named Milan Swanz, who had been burned alive. The Amish are reluctant to speak about Swanz, who had recently been excommunicated, and Kate is left wondering: Are they protecting the memory of one of their own? Or are they afraid of something else?

The body in the closet was going to be a problem. Kathryn Hu knew it. Yes, Tucker Jones was a cheating scumbag, and yes, she'd agreed to meet Olivia and Elle - Tucker's other girlfriends - to exact revenge for all he'd put them through... But then they found him. Dead. To clear their names, Kat, Olivia, and Elle team up to find the real killer. But as they go undercover and lie to everyone, including the hot detective working the case, they realize that every person in their ex's life had a reason to want him dead.

Final installment of the series. As Delilah and Samson are beset with worries about their upcoming wedding, a charismatic celebrity comes knocking on the Dales Detective Agency's door, seeking their services. Samson is initially reluctant to help, for many reasons. But things quickly escalate following a shocking murder at Fellside Court and, as a friend comes under suspicion, the couple must set aside their personal problems to catch a killer.

Detective Kamil Rahman is working for the Met Police when he gets the call from MI5. They've received intelligence of a terrorist plot, and it's Kamil they need. Posing as a disaffected cop and working in his friend Anjoli's restaurant on Brick Lane, Kamil attempts to infiltrate the cell. What he uncovers leads him halfway across the world to Kashmir, and face to face with an old nemesis.

When his boss asks him to go to India to investigate the murder of a British engineer who was found with eighteen arrows stuck in his body, Detective Kamil Rahman agrees to take the case, as long as his Anjoli can accompany him. When they arrive in Mumbai, they find someone is on a gruesome killing spree, striking down those connected to the engineer in increasingly macabre ways.

The President of the United States is up for reelection. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.

World famous singer Enola had it all - fame, fortune, and a breathtaking penthouse view. Then she vanished without a trace, leaving the band's careers in ruins. Fifteen years on, the remaining members are reuniting for a series of concerts in Las Vegas. But when mysterious accidents plague them, some start to wonder if Enola is back for revenge. What happened all those years ago - and who really knows the truth?

When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family - and the family business - together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante's recklessness has placed them all in real danger.

Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone's throw from the trailer park where they've lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay. When the plant manager, Luke Jackson, fires Edwin to set an example for the rest of the workers - and to show the higherups that he's ready for a major promotion - Edwin is determined to get revenge on Luke and his wife, Mimi, a new mother who stays at home with her six-month-old son.

This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold--discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing--and no one--is ever as it seems.

When thirty-four-year-old Cath is forced to go through her late mother's things one afternoon, she is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming "murder week" in England's Peak District. A whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. She decides to go on the trip herself. Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers - Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband's birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels - Cath sets about solving the "crime" and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way.

Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can find just about anything. Too bad she can't seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble...big trouble. As the president of a too-big-to-fail bank, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world's most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. But recently, these insured pieces started going missing.

When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What they don't know is that Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex-social worker from Staten Island attempting to lead a double life as a private eye. The more Marie-as-Luella learns about Sex Island's dark underbelly, the harder it gets to make it out alive. She encounters shady producers, sleazy directors, contestants willing to do whatever it takes to win the $100,000 grand prize - and the dead body of the show's missing fan-favourite in her bathtub.

PI Billie Levine should be ecstatic. She's finally getting the cheating spouse cases she's always wanted. Except Jeremy Yang is competing for work with his own PI firm. He keeps swooping in and stealing prospective clients. Their rivalry escalates when Billie and Jeremy are hired by an ultra wealthy couple on opposite sides of a corporate takeover. When the bodies start dropping, Billie and Jeremy will have to join forces if they are to come out unscathed; they can kill each other later.

The Ophelia is your typical billionaire yacht. Model-gorgeous Sasha is a last-minute hire for a weeklong Atlantic crossing. She joins fellow stewardesses Jade, Imogen, Euphemia, and Lola. But despite its sleek opulence, the Ophelia isn't as heavenly as it seems. A stewardess on the previous charter died under mysterious circumstances, the guests' expensive jewelry keeps disappearing, and the crew grows steadily more and more suspicious of one another. Then the yacht's owner brings aboard his best friend and two more women, also beautiful. Also hiding something. When a crew member turns up dead after a night of partying, everyone on the yacht is a suspect.

DSI William Lorimer first meets Meredith St Claire when he is giving a careers talk at his goddaughter's school. The popular and glamorous drama teacher is distraught, begging him to investigate her fiance's recent disappearance, but with a report already made to the relevant authorities, there's nothing more Lorimer can do. But then a body is discovered on the outskirts of Glasgow. Guy Richmond was a wealthy and charismatic actor, adored by everyone. Or so it first seems.

The Darcys of Pemberley are thrilled that their eldest son has been invited to a country house party by an old schoolmate. Other former classmates will be there, for riding and shooting and other proper pastimes for young men. Jonathan is less taken with the idea of sharing a roof with his old bully, but when he finds himself reunited with his sleuthing partner, the radiant Miss Tilney, he doesn't mind so much. When their host's young wife dies horribly in the midst of an elegant party, they have good reasons to spend a great deal of time together ferreting out the truth.

Jonathan has been forced to accept an invitation to stay with old friends Edmund and Fanny Bertram at the house of Edmund's brother, Sir Thomas. When the former husband of Edmund's sister Maria, Mr. Rushworth, is discovered dead, Jonathan and Juliet find themselves with problems far weightier than the marriage market. Maria had abandoned her husband for the notorious rake Henry Crawford and, when he wouldn't marry her, was forced to flee to the continent in disgrace. Now she is back, with a daughter she claims Mr. Rushworth fathered after their divorce - and who he wrote into his will just before his death.

Josh Duffy and his wife Nikki have come to Ghana with a team of US embassy personnel for dedication of a new dam. Since Ghana is a stable democracy, the Duffy children have come along. But stability proves to be fleeting when a Chinese plan to embarrass the US means the destruction of the dam. Now Josh and his protectees are on the run caught between a Chinese hit squad and a rebel army.

Bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed...and the past is never the past...

Told in emails, text messages, and essays. Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University's new Multimedia Art course, must find six students from all walks of life across the United Kingdom for her new master's program before the university cuts her funding. The students are nothing but trouble from day one. And then there is the examiner, the man hired to grade students' final works - an art installation for a local cloud-based solutions company that may have an ulterior agenda - and who, in sifting through final essays, texts, and message boards, warns that someone is in danger...or already dead.

Newly promoted Inspector Frankie Oliver has been consumed by rooting out her sister's killer and bringing them to justice. But when new evidence comes to light, and her former boss DCI David Stone embarks on an investigation into the tragic unsolved murder without her knowledge, the ties that bind them begin to fray.After decades without answers, who knows where the trail might lead? And will knowing the answers be the very thing that breaks Frankie irreparably?

Mark was the most dangerous killer-for-hire in the world. But after learning the hard way that his life's work made him more monster than man, he left all of that behind, and joined a twelve-step group for reformed killers. When Mark is viciously attacked by an unknown assailant, he is forced on the run. From New York to Singapore to London, he chases after clues while dodging attacks and trying to solve the puzzle of who's after him. All without killing anyone. Or getting killed himself. For an assassin, Mark learns, nonviolence is a real hassle.

One year after the clash with his former students in upstate New York, retired Marine Warrant Officer and SERE instructor Derek Harrington is the tip of the FBI's spear in their mission to eradicate the domestic terrorist group known as Autumn's Tithe. After several successful operations, intelligence points to one final camp in the remote Kentucky wilderness, and Derek prepares to take down Autumn's Tithe for good.

A new year brings a new danger to the Essex shoreline. An illicit shipment, bound for Colchester - 100 kilograms of powder that will frantically accelerate tensions in the historic town, and leave its own murderous trace. Detective Inspector Nick Lowry, and his fellow officers Daniel Kenton and Jane Gabriel must now develop a tolerance to one another, and show their own substance, to save Britain's oldest settlement from a new, unsettling enemy.

March 1833. Kiera and her husband, Sebastian Gage, have decided to settle in Edinburgh for the winter with their infant daughter. Kiera's thrilled when she receives an invitation to the auction of the late Lord Eldin's coveted art collection, and she and Gage eagerly accept. When the floor collapses beneath the gathering, killing one of their fellow bidders, Kiera and Gage are lucky to escape with their lives. Within days it becomes apparent that what at first seemed to be a terrible accident is actually something far more nefarious.

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now. But Fernando isn't put down that easily. Using the assistance of a Santeria priestess, an insane Puerto Rican pop sensation, a very human dog, and a Russian hitman, he'll build the courage (and firepower) he'll need to fight a gangbanger who is a bit more than human.

15 years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage's exile comes to an end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. It is the 2024 Presidential election and Robert E. Lee White, a Southern war hero has seized the public imagination as a third-party candidate. Teaming with his fearless daughter (now a civil rights lawyer) and a former Black Panther who spent most of his life in Parchman Prison, Penn tears into Bobby White's pursuit of the Presidency.

28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, James Sallis, AK Benedict, Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale, Vaseem Khan, Tara Moss, Martin Edwards, James Grady, Lavie Tidhar, Paul Di Filippo, Bill Pronzini, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Maxim Jakubowski, David Quantick, William Boyle and more.

When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the back of the small church. As the service progresses, Taylor notices a man six rows in front of him. At first he thinks he must be mistaken, but the more he looks at him, the more convinced Taylor becomes that this is his old schoolfriend, Rufus Rorke. Except it couldn't be him, could it? Because two years ago, Taylor attended Rufus Rorke's funeral. He even delivered Rufus's eulogy...

Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble in the small town of Ashland, as both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil. Beau's daughter and son-in-law are having marital troubles, and his grandson, a senior in high school, shows up on his doorstep, wanting to live with Beau and his wife Mel as he finishes out the school year. Meanwhile, a friend from his past asks for Beau's help in looking into what appears to be an accidental death, a fentanyl overdose.

In the summer of 1964, recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear enlist for Vietnam. In California to catch a few waves before reporting, a sudden storm capsizes a nearby cargo boat. It turns out the boat carried valuable contraband from underground sources. Back in the present day, Walt is forced to speak before a Judge following the fatal events of THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE. With powerful enemies lurking behind the scenes, the sheriff of Absaroka County must consider his options if he wishes to finish the fight he started.

When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over 300 miles a day, goes missing the question becomes - where do you look for her? The Postal Inspector for the State of Wyoming elicits Sheriff Longmire to mount an investigation into her disappearance and Walt does everything but mail it in; posing as a letter-carrier himself, the good sheriff follows her trail and finds himself enveloped in the intrigue of an otherworldly cult.

Mary Russell's uncle Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place. He was involved - somehow - in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle. It was a theft that shook a government, enraged a king, threatened the English establishment and baffled not only the Dublin police and Scotland Yard, but Sherlock Holmes himself. And, now, Jake expects Russell to step into the middle of it all?

When the body of Leanne Wilson is found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, it is classified as a tragic accident. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Then DS Max Craigie discovers that five other women in the last year have died by falling off mountains, and something feels very wrong. They were all experienced climbers and alone when they died. This can only mean one thing: there's a killer on the loose.

Mrs. Blossom has a knack for blending into the background, which was an asset during her days assisting PI Tess Monaghan. But when she finds a winning lottery ticket in a parking lot, everything changes. She is determined to see the world that she sometimes feels is passing her by. When Mrs. Blossom booked her cruise through France on the MS Solitaire, she did not expect to meet Allan on her transatlantic flight. He is the first man who's sparked something inside her since her beloved husband passed. She also didn't expect Allan to be found, dead, 24 hours later in Paris, a city he wasn't supposed to be in.

Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self Portrait As Sphinx. Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are confounded when they stumble across proof that the fire was no accident but something more sinister. What they uncover threatens the very foundation of Juliette's aristocratic family and revives rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted the Willoughbys for generations.

London, 1839. Bonnie and Crawford lead a life of trickery, surviving off ill-gotten coin and nefarious schemes. Until one hot evening, their luck runs out and now Bonnie needs to disappear. Crawford secures a position for her as lady's maid in a grand house on the Thames that is still deep in mourning for its late mistress. As Bonnie comes to understand this family she begins to question what really happened to Mrs. Moncrieff and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.

Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and a recluse, an existence she's content to endure until a letter arrives inviting her to interview for the position of Scruffmore family historian. Not only does an internet search for the name yield almost nothing, it's a role she never applied to in the first place! This is the first puzzle she must solve as she travels to Eerie Island, there to unravel the mysteries hidden throughout its ominous castle, becoming certain that one of the Scruffmores is going to die and she's running out of time to stop it.

New Year's Eve, 1962. As a snowstorm rages outside, Oxford high society gathers to ring in the new year at the city's most exclusive party. This is a soiree no one will forget... not least because a guest is found dead in his car the next morning. It seems the young man tragically froze to death overnight after crashing into a snowdrift - but when WPC Trudy Loveday and coroner Clement Ryder are called in to investigate, they discover a tangled web of secrets that plainly points to murder.

Oxford, 1963. In a backstreet club, people dance the night away to their favourite band. But behind the scenes an argument is brewing between bandmembers, two possessive girlfriends have plans for their partners, the club manager is creaming off profits - and a tragic accident leaves the lead singer dead. But was it an accident at all? Coroner Clement Ryder is suspicious, and WPC Trudy Loveday knows there's only one thing for it.

Liverpool, 1979: new CID recruit Leigh Borrowdale is seconded to an inquiry into a mysterious death in a decaying building, where the remains of a young man have been found. Tasked with looking into missing persons' cases to track down the identity of the victim, Leigh comes into contact with the disappeared of a city living through its darkest days of the winter. As she faces her own family demons and battles the male-dominated world at work, Leigh discovers a connection to two boys feared drowned in the Mersey and links to the murky Liverpool underworld.

January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. Then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But the missing ex, a young white man named Curt Fields, is found dead.

Author Jane Hepburn is determined to make her time at the Killer Lines festival worthwhile. This is her chance to change her fortunes and make her fictional Detective Baker a household name. But when Jane encounters the dead body of renowned (and reviled) literary agent Carrie Marks, the festival takes on a decidedly different tone. Joined by Carrie's newest client, debut novelist Natasha Martez, and the agency's hapless intern, Daniel Thurston, Jane decides to put her fictional sleuthing skills to use in the real world - by solving the murder.

Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone, his grief-stricken father Armando is deep in debt, and they are about to lose the butcher shop that has been in their family for generations. Iggy must earn his father's lost trust in order to save the business from the threats posed by a new competitor, a vigilante activist, and big-game hunter Orin, who has dragged Armando into his dangerous money-making schemes deep in the Everglades, where more than secrets are buried.

Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo is only permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gang's boss. But every man around them is bloodthirsty and trigger-happy. Shindo doubts she and Shoko will survive much longer if nothing changes.

After Jen Stonebreaker witnessed her husband's tragic death 25 years ago at a big-wave surfing competition, she has stayed away from competitve surfing. Now she is ready to try again, with her twin sons Casey and Brock. Casey's love for the ocean and his willingness to expose illegal poachers on social media has put him on a collision course with a crime syndicate eager to destroy anyone threatening their business. His brother Brock leads a church and rescue mission that not everyone appreciates, and threats to destroy his mission - and his family - swirl around him.

A jet has crashed and exploded on the runway at Reagan Airport. Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail - it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. And time before another lethal strike runs even shorter. Especially for Detective Cross.

Herbalist Nora Asquith is delighted to welcome Ravensea Castle's first guests to the picturesque village of Monkwell, Yorkshire. After a thousand years of ownership, her family has decided to convert the castle into a bed and breakfast. But when Hilda Dibble, a self-appointed local luminary who had opposed the hotel plan every step of the way, is found dead in the knot garden the next morning, Nora's business is not only at risk - she's a prime suspect.

Meredith Fox, a once-prominent Hollywood publicity agent, has clawed her way back from the brink of obscurity. Now, she's poised for a comeback, leveraging the dark secrets of her celebrity clients to put herself back on top. But when a routine money drop goes fatally wrong, Meredith finds herself caught in a deadly web of betrayal. Detective Michael Casey, navigating the waters of Beverly Hills' elite, is tasked with unraveling the mystery behind Meredith's death.

The violent slaughter of the wealthy Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation of New Zealand. All of the evidence pointed to their young live-in chef, Bill Kareama, who was swiftly charged with murder, brought to justice, and left to rot in jail for 17 years. But now prison psychologist TK Phillips is fighting for an appeal, convinced Bill did not receive a fair trial. Then celebrity true-crime podcaster Sloane Abbott takes an interest and uncovers new evidence that could set fire to the prosecution's case.

Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city's famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is an unorthodox yet highly educated oddball who becomes a consultant for young inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt. A superstitious killer is on the loose. His victims include several maids, each brutally staked. Recognizing the killer is using an ancient ritual for keeping the undead buried, the gravedigger joins the inspector on a journey that will take them deep into the underworld of their glamorous cosmopolitan city.

In the New Mexico badlands, the skeleton of a woman is found - and the case is assigned to FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. The victim walked into the desert, shedding clothes as she went, and died in agony of heatstroke and thirst. Two rare artifacts are found clutched in her bony hands - lightning stones used by the ancient Chaco people to summon the gods. Is it suicide or... sacrifice? Agent Swanson brings in archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate.

Fiji, 1915. Sergeant Akal Singh is sent to the neighbouring island of Ovalau on a series of seemingly straightforward tasks. Instead he becomes embroiled in the gruesome death of an unpopular local and the imprisonment of a group of Norwegians. To add to Akal's woes, Katherine, a charming aspiring journalist, harbours an agenda of her own. Will Akal be able to keep her--and himself--out of trouble before anybody else gets killed?

On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls' night out has turned into a murder scene. The bride lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancee - two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii.

Every year, executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company's top employees for an exclusive retreat in Miami, and this year Caitlin Levy - Aurora's newest hire - is joining the team as head of events. When a fellow high-level executive vanishes after the first night, the disappearance has the potential to derail the future of the company's sale and cost everyone on the team millions. Now more than ever, Caitlin and her colleagues must continue the charade - partaking in team-building exercises, group brainstorms, dinners - in order to keep the future of Aurora afloat amid all the fatal speculations.

Crisis management expert Arden devotes her skill and determination - and maybe her final days on the job - to helping Cordelia Bannister and her husband Ned, a Boston real estate mogul. Though he was recently acquitted in a fatal drunk driving accident, his reputation is ruined, and the fallout is devastating not only to the Bannisters' lives, but the lives of their two adorable children. But soon, revelations begin to emerge about what really happened the night of the accident. And then - another car crash throws Ned back into the spotlight.

The five members of Nora's book club disagree on everything, and to make matters worse, a significant sum of moneyis stolen during one of the meetings. Suspicion for the theft falls on book club member Michael, especially when he disappears and a dead body turns up at his house. But the book club has their own theories. Agatha Christie superfan Phyllis is determined to prove Michael's been framed, while romance reader Arthur believes there's a mystery woman involved, and teenage sci-fi fan Ash thinks dark forces are at play.

Seamus Caron is a hard-edged private eye with a troubled past, navigating Toronto's icy streets and solving mundane cases. When his best friend and homicide chief Sandra Blair's latest case involves a new drug that's poisoning users, Seamus races against time to prevent it from spreading and causing more deaths.

Berlin, Spring, 1940. When the owner of a nightclub is ambushed and gunned down in an alley, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke faces a challenging investigation. The dead man is no innocent victim. He was a known gangster. As further murders follow, it becomes clear that the mobsters running Berlin's two most brutal crime rings are locked in a desperate struggle for control.

By day, Vivian Kelly is a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of 1920s New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. Then the husband of a wealthy client is discovered dead in his study, and Vivian was the last known person to see him alive. The police and the press are both eager to name a culprit, and Vivian finds herself the primary suspect.

An old woman, riddled with dementia, walks off into the woods in the middle of the night. A light in the wood draws her to a campfire with two strange, dangerous men, one young and one old, who are there plotting a crime of as-yet-indeterminate purpose. The two men have a job to do. They are hunting something precious but have only been told: you'll know it when you see it. When they arrive at the place, an abandoned church cellar in the burned-out countryside, they find an answer they never could have predicted.

When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case-the disputed authorship of bestselling children's book Millie the Temple Church Mouse-that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep. But even he cannot fail to notice the judge's dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest.

When former Detective Inspector Jess boards the London Underground, it should be just a few short stops home. But as the tube barrels towards Baker Street, it's brought to an abrupt stop, and they're plunged into the darkness. And then she hears the screeching. Jess pushes through into the driver's cabin. There, she finds his lifeless body, and stab wounds in his neck, still bleeding. With no escape from the train, and in the pitch black, Jess is thrust into a deadly game.

Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is well...except that Wendy wants to murder her husband. What happens next has everything to do with what happened before. The story of Wendy and Thom's marriage is told in reverse, moving backward through time to witness key moments from the couple's lives.

1935. Having smuggled herself out of the house in the middle of the night to escape her impending marriage, Dora is on the first train to London. But as she alights at Paddington station, she is immediately forced to run from the loathsome Charles Silk-Butters, her fiance, who has followed her there. She ducks into the London Library to hide and it is there, surrounded by books, where she should feel most safe, that Dora Wildwood stumbles across her first dead body.

A body with no head or hands has recently turned up in the river Thames, and the police are at a loss until Shelby Facer, the father of forensic specialist Laughton Rees' daughter, identifies the man. The victim was part of a highly secretive smuggling ring Shelby was involved with during his and Laughton's youth - which Laughton's father, former commissioner for the Metropolitan police, was investigating before he died. Laughton throws herself into her father's old files to try to trace the connections between past and present, but as she and DCI Tannahill Khan circle closer to the truth, the case becomes dangerously personal.

When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building's floor plans reveal a mysterious "dead space" hidden between its walls. Seeking a second opinion, the writer shares the floor plans with his friend Kurihara, an architect, only to discover more unnerving details throughout. And what happened to the former owners who disappeared without a trace? When a body suddenly appears and a young woman reaches out about a second house, it soon becomes clear that the writer and his friend may be in over their heads.

When safecracker Ellie McDonnell hears about a suspicious robbery in London, she contacts Major Ramsey - her handsome but aloof handler in the British government. Together they discover that a rash of burglaries leads back to a hotbed of spies in the neutral city Lisbon, Portugal, and an unknown object brought to London by a mysterious courier. As the thieves become more desperate and their crimes escalate, it becomes imperative that Ellie and Ramsey must beat them at their own game.

Penrith, in the heart of the Lake District, is not the kind of place you can easily vanish. Certainly not when the members of the Penrith Bingo Club are trying to track you down. But even stalwart sleuth, Amita Khatri, and her son-in-law, Jason, are foxed this time when a local woman tells them her husband, a mild-mannered academic has gone missing. And he's not the only person to disappear.

DCI Jack Parker has faced some tough cases, but with a serial killer stalking the streets of Newcastle and one of his closest colleagues lying in the mortuary following a hit and run he thinks things are about as tough as they've ever been. But he should know that trouble always comes in threes. Jack is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, one that will end his career and destroy his family: Early Onset Dementia.