When young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on the riverbank, the only clues left behind are her phone and shoes. Amateur investigators descend on the rural idyll. Everyone has a theory. But when another woman is discovered dead in the river, signs point to murder. Jake Jackson, a former detective who came to the countryside searching for peace, must investigate before more lives are taken.

Walter Nash, working under the alias of Dillon Hope, is on the road to revenge after becoming an informant for the FBI against a global criminal operation headed up by Victoria Steers. He has nothing left to lose and with long, rigorous training under his belt the gentle and sensitive Nash has transformed into something he never thought he'd be: a physically imposing man with lethal skills. And now he has only goal left in life -- taking down Victoria Steers.

An August heat wave has all of Brittany in its grasp, and the only chance to cool down for Commissaire Georges Dupin is his daily swim in the ocean. Until one morning his routine is interrupted because a body has been found in the harbor with clear signs of foul play. Patric Provost was from one of the long-established families on the island of Belle-Ile and owned and operated a company dealing in an island delicacy: the famous Belle-Ile-sheep. Dupin has barely stepped foot on the utopia-like island before it comes to light that Provost was not well liked.

Summer in Brittany has carried merrily into October, bringing warm, sunny days and balmy nights. For Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team, it also brings a heavy blow. Second inspector Kadeg's aunt has passed away after a series of omens of death. And when Kadeg travels to the former abbey where his aunt lived, he's attacked and critically injured.Dupin and the rest of his team quickly head to the aunt's estate on the Cote des Legendes to look into what happened.

It's midnight at the Savoy Hotel, and the doorman notices a Rolls-Royce parked in a spot where it shouldn't be. In the back seat is a man who is, most regrettably, dead - clutching a love note addressed to a woman named... Priscilla. Could this be Miss Tempest, the feisty, trouble-prone Canadian who heads the Savoy's press office?

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 a decades-forgotten car bobs to the surface of a local creek, with a body still in the driver's seat, it's up to Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her beloved cats and dogs to save the day.

Arthur Fletch is one of the world's bestselling novelists. When six struggling authors are invited to spend a weekend on his private Scottish island, they arrive to discover that Arthur Fletch is dead - and his last book is unfinished. Fletch's agent and editor want a worthy ending and offer an irresistable prize for whomever can provide it -- within 72 hours. It's the perfect plot. All it needs is a killer ending.

When a violent storm descends upon the Orkney Islands, the body of Archie Stout is left behind in its wake. An unusual murder weapon, a Neolithic stone bearing ancient inscriptions, is found discarded nearby. Detective Jimmy Perez counted Archie as a childhood friend, making this case more personal than most.

LA County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor - a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair.

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.

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.

Criminal defense lawyer Bjorn Diemel has been given an ultimatum: repair his work-life balance, or his wife will leave him - and take their daughter. He reluctantly starts a mindfulness course, and to his surprise, it's a revelation. He becomes calmer, happier, and more focused as he starts to understand what's really important in life. When his worst client, brutal kingpin Dragan Sergowicz, tries to interfere with his precious family time, Bjorn will stop at nothing - not even killing - to protect his peace.

The Amish Candy shop owner and star of TV's Bailey's Amish Sweets is marrying Holmes County Sheriff Aiden Brody. To sweeten the occasion there will be a scrumptious giant chocolate truffle wedding cake, made especially for the happy couple by Bailey's New York City mentor, Jean Pierre. Other than the risk of the ring bearer, Jethro the pig, taking a bite out of the confection, what could go wrong? Well, at the reception, a wedding guest dies after sampling the hors d'oeuvres.

On a cold night in the remote Irish village of Ardnakelty, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now, and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancee Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty's tangles.

After twenty years away, Clay has recently returned home from abroad with his twelve-year-old son Braedon, and his relationship with his father Judd, the recently replaced sheriff, is as strained as ever.Trouble immediately brews for Clay when his beloved uncle, Teddy, disappears. Together, the three generations of Hawkinses must overturn every stone in Riverwood and confront deep familial wounds to find the one person who brings them together.

Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm two sisters--Freyja and Gudrun--rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five years later, a young woman--Sigga--is spending time with her grandmother when they learn a body has been discovered on a mountainside near Reykjavik, perfectly preserved in ice.

Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. After years of scorning those who left the Ridge behind as it fell into ruin, Ro never imagined she'd become one of them. But everything changed when she lost her son. But when Ro returns to Carralon Ridge to be with her husband and daughter on the anniversary of Sam's disappearance, she begins to suspect that something important was overlooked in his case.

London, 1816: When a notorious young aristocrat is burned alive on a windswept hill popular with neo-Druids, former cavalry officer Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself plunged into a murder investigation shadowed by tales of ancient human sacrifices and long-buried secrets. The victim, Marcus Toole, was the only son and heir of a prominent nobleman. His closest friend - Sebastian's own nephew, Bayard - claims to have passed out drunk before the attack and remembers nothing.

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 townhouse. 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.

Homicide Detective Godai of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is assigned to investigate the death of a lawyer, Kensuke Shiraishi, whose body was found on a Central Tokyo riverbank. His investigations leads him to one Tatsuro Kuraki, who claims to have had limited contact with Shiraishi - but, surprising the investigators, Kuraki not only confesses to the lawyer's murder, but another one from thirty years ago - for which another man was arrested and died in custody before trial.

Egypt, 1903. When renowned papyrologist Helen Gardiner arrives at an excavation site in the ancient city of Calliopolis, she learns that she has been given the job because her predecessor has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Toronto, 2019. Archivist Maddie Sloan collaborates with TV archaeologist Peter Bahar to verify the provenance of objects in the Egyptian collection believed to be from Calliopolis. They learn that two papyrologists seem to have abruptly disappeared from the 1903 dig without explanation.

When Kausar Khan decided to move back to Toronto to be closer to her family, she didn't expect to have another murder investigation on her hands so soon - or rather, she didn't expect to have another murder investigation on her hands ever. But when a young man named Mateen is found dead in their Golden Crescent neighbourhood, and when it turns out Mateen was close with Kausar's granddaughter, Maleeha, what's a grandmother to do but try to solve the case?

When a middle-aged widow loses her job at the butcher shop, she's at a loss as to how to provide for her family - until she's offered a position that puts her carving skills to new uses - they want her to be an assassin. Too scared not to take them up on their offer, she agrees to the position. And Mrs. Shim soon finds that her new job isn't so different from her old one in the butcher shop, quickly becoming the agency's best contract killer. But her rise to the top hasn't gone unnoticed. Jealous of her talents, her agency's competitors - and even her own colleagues - begin pointing fingers (and knives) in her direction.

The last winter of the war comes as young Jakob Fritsch's German village in Ukraine is torched by Russian troops. Separated from his mother and younger brother, he's shoved onto a train's stock car. As morning dawns, a lone Stuka dives from the sky, dropping its bomb on the locomotive, and the stock cars are blown from the tracks, tipped, and smashed. As the Russian guards start shooting Jakob flees and tries to make his way across the desolate landscapes of Ukraine and Poland.

26-year-old Ruth excels at microchip design but decides to get rich the old-fashioned way: robbing banks. She becomes a cybercriminal and devotes five years to siphoning more than $250 million out of the banking system using a hacked firewall chip that she created and only she knows how to access. Then one night an alarm goes off and five hours later she's on the run, chased across California and the West by a slew of government agents who see her as both a high-level national security threat and a potential intelligence asset.

In Nashville, carpenter Whitney Whitaker is ecstatic when she discovers an abandoned barn perfect for her next project. However, since the surrounding former farmland has now developed into a shiny new shopping center, it seems the decrepit antebellum barn that once served as a livery stable should be torn down to make way for something more modern. When a local print journalist reporting on the renovation is found dead on the property, investigators suspect he might have been murdered for any one of several exposes he'd published about local politicians, movers, and shakers.

Convicted of murder at seventeen, infamous killer and true crime celebrity Orianna Negi has always maintained her innocence. Orianna has a blind spot over that fateful day: she can't remember what happened. Forensic psychologist Annie Ledet is tasked with unlocking the truth. Orianna grew up in Eden Falls, ruled by the insular Wyclerc dynasty and its ruthless patriarch , Amos. As their sessions progress, Annie reaches into Orianna's past to a shattering realization....

After a humiliating breakup at graduation and no job offers on the horizon, Nia retreats to her sleepy hometown of Cinnamon Falls where she can sulk in peace about her life being a mess. When she arrives, the town is gearing up for their annual Fall Fest, where people travel from far and wide to bob apples, carve pumpkins and watch the firework display. But just a few days before opening night, a shocking discovery is made. A body is uncovered in the local diner, alongside a note: Who will be next?

It's not going well for Aberdeen's NE Division. Half the force is off sick, all leave has been cancelled, someone has firebombed a hotel full of migrants and there is a massive protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to kick off a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots, and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions.

When friends Louise and Irina find a dead body in the local park whilst walking their dogs, they are soon drawn into the mystery of who murdered local entrepreneur Phil Creasey. Phil used to be a member of their dog walking community - nicknamed 'the Pack' - until the death of his cockapoo, and the Pack feel they owe it to Phil to investigate his death. But with Louise and Irina leading the charge, it isn't long until they're neck-deep in local gangs, stolen motorcycles and a disturbing string of poisonings.

Journalist Danielle "Dani" Moreau has spent a lifetime trying to outrun the privilege she was born into. Fresh off a personal tragedy, she lands in Ghana to uncover corruption in the local oil industry. Dani soon finds herself chasing a scoop that involves an American operative with a violent past, a Ghanaian double agent, and a fight between the United States and China over one of the world's most dangerous and least-known technologies: fiber optic cables.

July 2015, Sevenoaks. 12-year-old schoolgirl Alice Johnson went missing while doing her paper round, her bag found discarded on the pavement. When, 9 years later, a man is arrested for the murder of another schoolgirl, SIO Dave Armstrong calls in the Finder to investigate the earlier disappearance. But the Finder gradually reveals a hidden Alice, a girl of surprising contradictions. Was the timid 12-year-old a victim of the arrested predator Burns, as he himself hints? Or was she carrying out a plan of her own?

Black Harbor is a tinderbox. Temperatures and violent crime have both risen to all-time highs, a new drug razes the city, and the scene to which Sergeant Nikolai Kole responds is anything but a rote homicide. In the back of a clubhouse lies a body wrapped in garbage bags and doused in bleach. It isn't just any body. Tommy Greenlee, the ex-husband of Kole's former lover, Hazel, has been shot several times and left for dead.

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.

Welcome to Castle Knoll, the idyllic English village home to a surprising number of murderers. Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune teller Peony Lane shares a cryptic message only hours before being found dead inside the locked Gravesdown Estate. Annie has no choice but to delve into the dark secrets of her new countryside home in order to find out just what Peony Lane was trying to warn her about, before her brand new life comes crashing down around her.

Final Daniel Pitt novel. 1913: Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend, fellow attorney Toby Kitteridge, whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby's mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive. With Toby returning to the family home in rural Ipswich, struggling with grief and disbelief, Daniel remains in London to substitute for Toby and defend Peter Ward, on trial for the sexual assault and murder of a young woman.

When a reclusive man is found dead under grisly circumstances in the Colorado wilderness, CBI Agent Frankie Cash and Eagle County Sheriff Jim Colcord, (first met in EXTINCTION), team up again on their most enigmatic and dangerous case yet. Their investigation uncovers a trail of bizarre killings, baffling money transfers, and a fanatical secret society. And all the while, the resurrected Neanderthals, who vanished into the Colorado mountains, seem to be biding their time for something...spectacular.

Chet the dog is less than enthusiastic about the Little Detective Agency's next case. Chet and his human partner, PI Bernie Little, have been hired to find a missing person - only the missing person is a cat. Miss Kitty, an internet sensation, has disappeared, and Chet and Bernie have been hired to find her before her many followers realize something is wrong.

Pomona Afton knows how to throw a memorable party, so throwing a gala for her fledgling nonprofit should be a breeze. Unfortunately, she has to navigate the high-stakes (and snobby) world of philanthropy, a beloved boyfriend who just can't seem to fit in, and of course, her dysfunctional family, all while planning a party that won't only affect the future of her charity, but her own future in society. But she pushes forward and perseveres - until, right in the middle of her party, she discovers the body of one of her biggest donors.

1988 Algeria. In a small town on the edge of the desert, plagued by a locust infestation and a food shortage, teetering on the brink of uprising, the body of Zakia Zaghouani - the singer at the Sahara Hotel - is discovered. Suspicion immediately falls on her lover, who is thrown into prison. The incompetent and greedy Inspector Hamid begins an investigation.

Leonard Summers, a former high-ranking Russian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S., and his family are going into the Witness Protection Program. The Summers are received in Minneapolis by Lucas Davenport and fellow marshal Shelly White. Unbeknownst to them, the WPP group has been tracked by a Russian hit team. And while nobody in the WPP has ever been attacked...Leonard might be the first victim.

Dr. Peter Bannerman's brother Sam takes in three Bengal kittens after the previous owner, his neighbour in a Winnipeg north end apartment building, is found dead. The death was originally thought to be due to accidental autoerotic asphyxiation, but after investigation, Sam is arrested and charged with his neighbour's murder.

A missing tenant, an irate mother-in-law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house - out-of-work PI Patrick Bird is back in business.

The octogenarian housemates at Sunset Hall are busy preparing for the wedding of one of their own, the blind and blushing bride Bernadette, but as the big day approaches, a threatening note appears at the house. Agnes and the others decide to handle it themselves, not wanting to cause the betrothed stress and dig into the case of the poison-pen letter, determined to ensure the wedding goes off without a hitch . . . aside from the bodies they've already had to hide from the bride.

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.

1879, Victorian London. Will-they-won't-they detective duo Minnie Ward and Albert Easterbrook are looking into two mysterious new deaths. This leads them to the doors of the Spirit Sisterhood, a spiritualist group with a suspicious focus on young women. Minnie smells a rat. Going undercover on her own at the organization's countryside house, she discovers a strangely compelling world of spirits and ghosts. But, without Albert or anyone she loves, Minnie quickly finds herself in very hot water.

Greta Gatsby - younger sister to the infamous Jay - is finally free of her dull finishing school and looking forward to an idyllic summer at the Gatsby mansion, despite the fact that Jay's cadre of dubious friends - Daisy and Tom Buchanan, along with Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker - will be summering there, too. But when death comes to West Egg, and with it, a web of scandal, betrayal, and secrets - Greta has no choice but to turn sleuth, since everyone else seems intent on living in a world of make-believe.

When Tanz returns to her hometown of Newcastle, she comes face-to-face with dark, ancestral secrets lurking in its shadows. Haunted by chilling visions of the witch-trials, a voice from the past warns her, You're the one. Burn it, chosen one. As a sinister figure threatens to ruin everything she'd built for herself, Tanz must embrace her connection to the dead to uncover her destiny.

When a museum in Italy is robbed and the guard murdered, the Carabinieri Art Squad ask for Kate Taylor's help searching for the thieves. It's a small, unremarkable marble sphinx that was stolen - why would the Carabinieri care? Kate finds out the sphinx is the key to unraveling one of the greatest mysteries in archeology: the lost tomb of a legendary king.

Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen's Emma, reimagined as a spitfire con woman, is hired to break off Frank Churchill's engagement and uncover his aunt's would-be murderer in the genteel village of Highbury.

When Clare discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs - until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece.

Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Mitchell, in the body of a Victorian Scottish housemaid, works as an assistant to forensic-science pioneer Dr. Duncan Gray. Late one night, Gray and Mallory are summoned urgently to the home of Lady Adler, a patron of Gray's undertaking business, to find that a ghost is demanding Gray's presence at a seance. The ghost is Lady Adler's former maid, who had gone missing but now requests that Gray investigate her murder.

Disillusioned by the government and institutions he dedicated his life to serving, former Navy SEAL and CIA ground branch operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that saves it. The wife of a teammate he lost in Afghanistan has now lost her son to the opioid crisis and needs Walker's help. Thrust into a conspiracy that goes deeper than he ever imagined, Walker must go up against the system and the very Constitution he once swore an oath to support and defend in order to find justice for his friend's widow.

2:32 p.m. Wealthy, privileged Ilaria Cavendish checks into a luxury London hotel and orders a bottle of champagne. Within the hour, her lover discovers her submerged in a bath of scalding water, dead. At first glance it looks like an accident. No one went in with her. No one came out. But all the signs point to murder.

When expat bicycle tour proprietress Sadie Greene guides a group of sophisticated seniors on a stunning trip in northeastern France, she expects some twists, turns, and sudden stops to sip the Riesling, but not a detour leading straight to murder.

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.

Allie McMurphy lives the sweet life running her world-famous fudge shop on Mackinac Island. As a gesture of goodwill, she is bringing a tray of assorted fudge to her new husband's ex-wife, Melonie. But she finds Melonie's body on the floor of her photography studio - where a remote-controlled camera keeps snapping picture after picture. In one, she's alive, and in the next, she's dead.

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided. As lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village. And then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church.

Nora Carleton has returned to her former role as a New York City federal prosecutor, just in time to face one of the most dangerous domestic terror attacks in the history of the city. Together with legendary investigator Benny Dugan and aided by colleagues at the FBI, Nora builds a case against one of the key players in this burgeoning movement, arguing before a jury that some speech is actually a deadly crime. But a deadlier attack is impending.

Acting on a tip from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky, a remote airstrip in the mountains. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. While Stilwell chases the fleeing pickup man into the mountainside brush, shots are fired on the runway and the plane flies off.

The old unit will reunite to complete one last mission in honour of their fallen comrade. When retired Royal Marine Frankie Chapman is killed during a home invasion, his valuable military medals are stolen. The medals resurface on the black market, and members of the 11/06 club discover they might have fallen into the hands of a wealthy billionaire who dabbles in human trafficking. They may be old hard-cases living on past glories from the Falklands but they're still an elite group of ex-military operatives.

Cornwell excavates her own life, detailing her traumatic childhood being raised by neglectful parents, her father abandoning the young family on Christmas day, her mother being institutionalized twice, an abusive foster family, and developing a parental relationship with evangelist Billy Graham's wife Ruth. Cornwell depicts a harrowing hospitalization and near-death car accident, her career as award-winning police reporter, and then forensic expert, and then novelist.

As a disgraced lawyer with a drinking problem that he doesn't view as a problem, Jake West is coasting on what's left of his charm and money. He used to be the kind of lawyer who could convince anyone of anything - until he decided to take on his father's biggest client and prove his dad was corrupt. Now Jake finds himself almost at rock bottom, and that's before his ex-best friend is murdered and Jake is accused of the crime.

Retired and restless, former Metropolitan Police cop John Carlyle is back in London and exercising his impressive talent for finding trouble. The mysterious death of his glamorous neighbour, Bella, leads Carlyle into a world of chancers, treasure hunters and criminals, via that most legendary of landmarks, the Tower of London. The ravens have vanished, bodies are turning up in the Thames, and the crown jewels are at stake.

A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. With the body count now at 17, people are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next. The police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw - the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground.

Una McMurray is puzzled. Surely, statistically, the international cat show scene shouldn't be this... lethal? Keen to make her mark in her new job in pet insurance, Una's first task is to calculate whether cat ownership extends human lifespan. Tragically, that's not the case for prizewinning cat owner Jeff Bridgely - a most improbable accident has ended his dreams of triumphing at the upcoming International Cat Show. When a second competitor dies in mysterious circumstances, Una investigates.

Reverend Weaver is leading a church service at the Tower of London. It's meant to be a special honour, but when one of the ladies in the congregation drops dead from poison, the Reverend finds himself under arrest as the number one suspect. After all, the murdered lady in question was trying to have him fired. When Palace Housekeeper, Mrs Bramble, hears about her dear friend the Reverend's conundrum, she journeys from the safety of Hampton Court Palace to investigate.

Connie Cross was a trusted pharmacy assistant when she was arrested for the gruesome murders of at least seven strangers. Now, she's serving a whole-life order for the shocking crimes she refuses to explain. Olivia Lang never forgot Connie, the awkward teenager from a south London estate she first met while working for the police. 20 years later, Olivia is desperate to understand what made Connie turn into a murderer. But as she begins to uncover the truth about the UK's most notorious female serial killer, Olivia risks revealing secrets she's kept hidden for years...

Superintendent Killian Tong was once a rising star in the police, now disgraced and haunted by a tragic accident at a protest. Exiled to a remote post, Killian is called back when a dismembered body is uncovered in a landfill. The gruesome murder could be his path to redemption - if he can withstand mounting pressure from superiors desperate to bury the truth, and the even more dangerous fractures within his own family.

The quaint Yorkshire village of Eaglethorpe was a sanctuary for famous actress Lexi Verity, away from prying eyes and camera flashes. But a life led in the spotlight can create envy in its shadows. When Lexi is found floating dead in her swimming pool, DI Joe Plantagenet and DCI Emily Thwaite are called to investigate. The murder of the TV star is front-page news and the pressure is on the Eborby CID to find the killer.

This collection contains a selection of journalism and other writings by Fleming, covering his wartime experiences, reflections on crime and espionage, and the process of writing his novels, among other topics. Readers will feel like they are right beside Fleming, immersed in his world as he works to meet the deadline for his next Bond novel, or participates in a mortifying golf tournament, or befriends an octopus in his beloved Jamaica.

When not one but two corpses are discovered in a London park in the winter of 1929, pathologist Dr. Jack Cuthbert must use every tool at his disposal, including cutting-edge forensics of the period, to solve the mystery of their deaths. In the end, the horrifying truth is more shocking than even he could have imagined.

She thought the lovely farm in the heart of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle would be the perfect refuge from DC politics. But this seemingly peaceful new home is anything but safe for former FBI director Rivers and her children. After Irene's 12-year-old nephew finds a body in a cave on her property, grim evidence points to a long-ago murder and cover-up. Soon Irene's family is the target of the kinds of threats and intimidation she's seen before, but this time the sources are local.

James Traven returns home to his small Montana town in autumn 2024 to care for his mother after a devasting fall. He quickly finds himself trapped in a life-threatening web of lies and lust. With the clock ticking, Traven must save the savvy and beautiful Lana LaBuff from almost-certain murder. Complicating things is her monstrous husband and the fact that their only ally is Cody, the mysterious former Marine who runs the local gun shop and regularly ghosts on ordinary life.

"The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit." Florence Grimes is a 31 year old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son's bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect.

They're making a major feature film of the first Hawthorne/Horowitz mystery novel. Except--they're behind schedule, they've run out of money and - oh! The star has just been murdered. Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne is dead. Or, rather, the actor playing him in the film adaptation of The Word is Murder is. Rising star David Caine has been stabbed, and it seems that everyone on the set had a motive.

Scarpside House is famed for its beauty, its isolation, and its legendary parties. Tonight, it hosts the Penny Club soiree, an annual gathering of lucky men and women from all walks of life, coming together to celebrate their survival against the odds. But this year their luck is running thin. Accidents do happen, after all... And some are long overdue...

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. The 27 year old daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont, Jet has been violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury that will trigger a deadly aneurysm within a week. But nevertheless, she's absolutely determined to finally finish something: Jet is going to solve her own murder.

His native Scotland stands on the cusp of a new era of international expansion under its charismatic new leader, but former top cop Sir Robert Skinner is settled happily in Spain with his family, fully engaged in a new and unexpected career. He is focused on a business issue, only to be drawn suddenly homewards as a family member finds himself a witness to a homicidal attack, and under fire himself.

Fehmi and Sener have been together forty years - no small feat for any pair, but especially admirable for a gay couple in Turkey. Behind closed doors, their life on an idyllic island near Istanbul, is like a powder keg that needs only one spark to blow. That spark soon comes in the form of Deniz, the wildly handsome and troubled teenager next door, who immediately catches Fehmi's eye. Will lust or love win the day? One thing's for sure: not everyone will be getting out of this love triangle alive.

1954: When her former novice's dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda's letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests. But when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it's time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.

South-east London, 1925. Designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room's closed doors. So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor.Rose is determined to bring the swindler to justice.

When renowned author Dr. Daniel Solomon is killed in a devastating explosion in York, authorities quickly attribute the attack to Islamic extremists. But as the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. DS Max Craigie uncovers a chilling connection between a series of brutal murders, each victim linked by a secret that someone is determined to protect. With the number of victims growing and an elusive figure known as the Cashier operating in the shadows, Max must navigate a web of corruption and hatred.

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.

Professional killers are carrying out hits for the Iranian government across the European continent, hitting targets amongst the wealthiest and most privileged. After a slew of murders in London, MI5 decide that enough is enough. They are going to have to hit back at the hitmen for hire. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, the secret service's most dangerous weapon, is tasked with infiltrating the organisation's ranks and cutting off its head. But just how deep does this hydra go?

The great and the not-so-good are gathered at Skirivour Castle Hotel, in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, for the wedding of the year - but they weren't expecting Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel to crash their party. And get horribly, horribly drunk. The whole valley's been cut off by a massive thunderstorm and the phone lines are down, so when the father-of-the-bride's body is discovered - decoratively impaled on a stag's head in the hotel lobby - it's up to the hungover DS Steel to find out whodunit.

Eleanor Dash can never catch a break. Not only has she had to solve two real-life murder plots in the past year, but both times it was when she was meant to be on vacation. Now she's finally got a ticket to a relaxing weekend - an all-inclusive resort in the Bahamas where she's speaking at a conference for murder mystery writers - but she arrives to find a body on the floor of her hotel room.

Warwickshire, 1934. Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well. Recent disturbances, thought pranks at first, have descended into something more sinister, and now the men believe they have a malevolent visitor - the ghost of a murdered girl they call the mermaid of Red Hollow. Private enquiry agent, William Garrett, and freshly minted detective, Phyll Hall, are called in to investigate.

One sunny day in California, Jessie is hugging her nine-year-old son, Dylan, goodbye at the airport. He's travelling by himself, all the way across the country, to visit his father, Jessie's soon-to-be ex-husband, and his grandparents. Several hours later, Jessie gets a frantic call from Dylan's grandmother in New York. Dylan is missing. At the same moment, miles away, in Toronto, a train operator loses control of a subway train, and the fiery crash injures dozens of passengers. Jessie doesn't know it yet, but this crash is inextricably linked to Dylan's disappearance.

Zoe Pascal has settled into her new life in the picturesque village of Sainte-Catherine, running her beloved bookshop with her dog Russell. When an old friend invites Zoe to join her family at Chateau Palotte for the holidays, Zoe heads off into the French countryside to the grand, yet slightly dilapidated, castle. But there's a frosty atmosphere at the chateau - and then the butler is found dead.

Ten years after his fiance disappeared, Damian Werner is certain he will never see her again. Then someone posts a picture on a public profile, looking for the girl in the photo. Werner is ready to assume it's a coincidence, but the spotter uploads a second photo, one taken by Werner himself a few days before she went missing - and which he hasn't shown to anyone since. Who's looking for the girl? And is it really his fiance reappearing after ten years?

Maude Kirby, recently dumped by her diplomat husband, has moved back to her hometown of West Elk, BC, to live with her mother Val and her confrontational 15-year-old daughter Rhette. Maude is hired for a clerking job at the local courthouse. Told to remain professional during court cases, Maude nevertheless finds it impossible not to get emotionally invested when 18-year-old Levi, on dubious evidence, is charged with poisoning a local gym owner.

Dan Garvie has dedicated his life to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims. So when his father passes away under suspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?

Alice Li, a first-generation Chinese-American, is an erstwhile food blogger who has lived in the shadow of her mother, Vivien Li. A Chinese dissident who escaped China after Tiananmen Square, Vivien is now a globally recognized human rights activist and passionate advocate for a free and democratic China. When security and fire alarms go off simultaneously all around the world, setting off a panic, the signal is traced back to China. As world leaders scramble to respond, Vivien and Alice are called to the White House in hopes Madame Li can decode the Chinese intentions.

When Dr. Gul Delani receives a call in the middle of the night from the Sindh police, she thinks they may have finally found her missing teenage niece, Mahnaz. Gul, a talented curator at the Museum of Heritage and History in Karachi, is one of the country's leading experts in archaeology and ancient civilizations. But instead Gul is summoned to a narcotics investigation in a remote desert region in western Pakistan where amid a drug bust gone wrong, a mummy has turned up, its sarcophagus decorated with symbols from Persepolis.

Mrs. Plansky is fresh off of winning a thrilling senior tennis championship with her doubles partner, Kev Dinardo, and is gearing up to celebrate with him on his yacht. That is, until the yacht is destroyed in a fire. Kev claims the fire was caused by a lightning strike, pure bad luck, but there's one small problem - Mrs. Plansky didn't see any lightning. And then Kev goes missing.

In modern Vienna, American ex-pat Sterling Lockwood is the loyal concierge at the infamously secretive Hotel Orient, where cameras are banned, aliases are required, and every guest has something to hide. After the double murder of two guests, including a tech mogul building an Austrian surveillance state, Sterling must turn detective. But finding the truth will require breaking the Orient's sacred code of secrecy while keeping a few secrets of her own.

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?

Maggie Flynn isn't your typical 1960s woman. She's a spy, an operative for MI5, stalking London's streets in myriad disguises. But Maggie's world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what's worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him.

Tommy Fugue, son to Don Allesandro Fugue, AKA Big Al, AKA The Al Mighty, AKA King of the Denver streets, has been assigned the "summer job" of mastering digital money laundering. Tommy figures he can list some fake projects on FunFunder, pledge them with zombie accounts, and clean a dirty $20,000 in time for college in the fall. But then the Family sees that a roleplaying game he mocked up using his mom's old artwork has been funded to the tune of $650,000... and smells opportunity...

When an anonymous plea to rectify a gross miscarriage of justice lands on the desk of Slovenia detective Petra Vidmar, she knows she can't leave local crime behind her just yet. The victim is a fellow police officer, and it seems the letter writer is too...In the picturesque coastal resort of Koper, the sun shines, the sea glitters and the delicacies are delicious. But Petra quickly discovers that beneath even the most scenic of settings, there lurks blackmail, corruption, family feuds... and murder.

In a village in South West England, the elderly Alastair Moreton is found dead in his home. The angle of his neck says he fell down the stairs. But the stab wound on his body tells a different story. While DS George Cross's list of suspects is long, every victim deserves justice. But in all of Moreton's years, there was something important he never learned: If you go through life making enemies, don't be surprised when they teach you a lesson.

It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan, to open the legendary Dragon Box. Emperor Meiji locked a priceless Imperial secret inside it. Only two people knew how to open the box - Meiji and the box's sadistic constructor - and both died without telling a soul what was inside or how to open it. Every twelve years since then, in the Year of the Dragon, the Imperial family holds a clandestine contest to open the box. It is devilishly difficult, filled with tricks, booby traps, poisons, and mind-bending twists. Every puzzle master who has attempted to open it has died in the process.

Olivia Blunt is thrilled to be hired as assistant to the nationally renowned investigator Aubrey Merritt. And, finally, after weeks of boring computer work, Olivia is invited to join Merritt on an important case. On the night of her 65th birthday party, Victoria Summersworth somehow fell over her balcony railing to her death on the rocky shore of Vermont's Lake Champlain. As the list of suspects grows, Olivia makes one apparent mistake after another. Then she blunders into a truly dangerous situation...

Dahlia Rosalind can't help but notice some tensions between her fellow Dahlias Posy and Caro - perhaps because of Caro's new friendship with her current co-star Luke Burrows, who seems to have a history with Posy. Before Rosalind can get to the bottom of what's going on, Luke is found dead in Posy's dressing room - with Posy standing over him, covered in his blood.

[Vancouver author]. When Lane Winslow finds a suspiciously well-made hat abandoned in the brush, she's certain there's a mystery afoot. Meanwhile her husband, Inspector Darling, and his team at the Nelson Police Station find their straightforward case of a stolen boat suddenly complicated when a 14-year-old boy is reported missing from the local school. Their searches lead them to the sudden disappearances of the local cafe cook, a visiting wealthy investor, and seventy thousand dollars in cash.

DCI Jack Parker is called in to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Maria, and her son, who appear to have vanished off the face of the earth. His boss tells him to focus on her ex-husband, but though the evidence points in his direction, Jack has his doubts. The woman has form with toxic men and the husband is just the latest in a long line. As Jack's plans to hide his early onset dementia become more challenging, he begins to wonder if Maria is really the innocent victim she's been portrayed as - until a body turns up.

Summer, Adelaide, 1917. When shop assistant Dora Black is found dead on a city beach, policewoman Miss Cocks and her junior constable Ethel Bromley are ordered to stay out of the investigation and leave it to the men. But when Dora's workmate goes missing soon after, the women suspect something sinister, and determine to take matters into their own hands.

Adelaide, September 1917. Six months after solving the Dora Black case, Kate Cocks and Ethel Bromley are back walking the beat. But now a powerful board governor has been found dead in the Art Gallery - dumped beneath a scandalous nude painting that has attracted both pious outrage and record crowds. Ethel is seconded to the Detective Branch, while Miss Cocks is left grappling with six o'clock swills, shadows in alleyways and a brutal assault on a schoolgirl.

London, 2012. The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games. But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on earth. And the moment the bid is won, an international conspiracy is set in motion to unleash a devastating attack that will leave the world in chaos. One man stands between triumph and disaster: Commander William Warwick, heading up Scotland Yard's elite team.

The Lancashire town of Burnley is a typical British melting pot. Drugs, violence and human trafficking rub shoulders with grand houses and rolling moors... and now two people have been found dead. DI Jane Hacker grew up in Burnley but fled to London after the death of her teenage brother. Now, she's back caring for her sick mother and heading up a crime unit that doesn't trust her instincts. It's time Jane finally faces up to the truth of the town's past and present to track down a sadistic killer, before it is too late.

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.

The wildest corner of Puglia, home to potent saints, fearsome mafia clans, hidden catacombs and sinister ceremonies, does not willingly surrender her secrets, but when Bologna's English detective Daniel Leicester heads south for a family visit, old grudges are resurrected and fresh life is breathed into ancient superstitions. Daniel soon finds himself and his Italian father-in-law, the Comandante, drawn into a search for missing artefacts, while his daughter's camping trip with Daniel's colleague Dolores does not turn out precisely as planned.

1961, England. The Queen is spending a night on board the royal train with her entourage and her sister, Princess Margaret. But before they reach their destination, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from one of the carriages. The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw, get to work on their second joint investigation.

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.

Lane Holland's crime-solving career ended the day he went to prison. Yet one unsolved case continues to haunt him: the disappearance of Matilda Carver two decades ago. Against the odds, Lane finds a lead - a mysterious farm community where Matilda lived briefly, led by the enigmatic Samuel Karpathy. The farm attracts lost souls. But some of those who go to the farm seem to vanish without a trace.

Melchor Marain, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. After release, and after his mother was murdered, he decided to become a policeman. Now he has been sent to Terra Alta, a small town in rural Cataluana, to investigate the horrific double murder of a wealthy local man and his wife.

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days that she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. She cannot even trust those closest to her; both her ex-husband and her deputy would profit from her fall. Melchor Marin, living a quiet life in Terra Alta, is tempted back to Barcelona to work the investigation. But what on the surface seems a straightforward case has its roots in far more serious and disturbing crimes..

Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta. But their idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now seventeen, discovers that her father has been concealing the truth of her mother's death - that she was killed in a hit-and-run "accident" intended to scare Melchor off a case. Angry and betrayed, Cosette disappears to Mallorca with her friend Elisa.

In Maine's rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a "troubled teens" school has been found in the water, seemingly drowned, while a teenage girl has gone missing, believed dead. Now it is up to one man, private investigator Charlie Parker, to find the connection, and bring two evils - one new and one ancient - to an end...

A mysterious party invitation brings the Girls to a small Biscayne Bay island where they discover that Declan, one of Blanche Devereaux's former suitors, has become the famous artist El Toro, and has regarded her as his muse for thirty years. Later in the evening, though, a tropical storm knocks power out across the island, and Declan is found dead the next morning.

Vancouver author. When Dr. Annick Boudreau's clinical partner teams up with a Vancouver musical legend - 1980s hardcore punk icon turned late-middle-aged Zen sage "Wobbly" Robbie Milne - to launch a mindfulness app, she is supportive, if a little skeptical. But when one of Wobbly Robbie's former bandmates is shot dead, suspicions soon turn to another ex-member of the group, and Robbie, true to his punk rock roots, doesn't trust the police with the investigation.

Euphemia has recently returned from Edinburgh to her home in the Fens when spymaster Fitzroy announces his plan to host an extravagant Christmas party at White Orchards. As the guests start to arrive and the snow settles, Euphemia hopes that the hand-picked gathering of spies will find a resolution to shorten the war. But that is before the interruption of an uninvited guest - quickly followed by another - and the discovery of a dead body...

The new seaside resort of Hemlock Bay offers something for everyone. For swindlers and blackmailers, it's the perfect place to craft a new identity. And for murderers? That's what Rachel Savernake, the enigmatic heiress and brilliant amateur sleuth, is about to discover. Mild-mannered accountant Basil Palmer is en route to Hemlock Bay, determined to murder a man he's never met - a man he holds responsible for his beloved wife's death six months prior.

Shay Myers second-guesses the dark vision in her tea leaves about a local citizen and their obsession with genealogy, Irish folklore, and magic. But when bad omens come true, Shay doesn't have time for self-doubt. A woman's body has been discovered, frozen in a strange pose with an eerie black butterfly on her forehead, leading to suspicions that the victim took a conjuring ritual too far due to limited experience - or was murdered by someone with too much.

When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft of his laptop suggests that the motive for murder may lie in his work. While Wesley investigates Barry's famous clients, Wesley's teenage son Michael joins family friend, Dr Neil Watson, on an intriguing excavation of a crashed World War Two plane on Dartmoor.

It's late October 1962. Attorney General Robert Kennedy orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job. Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He's a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. There's a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back.

As a fingerprints analyst, Shaw Connolly's one of the first on-site for crimes, including murder scenes and a mysterious string of arsons popping up throughout the rural Maine community her department serves. But she is obsessed with the disappearance of her little sister sixteen years ago. She has even started taking disturbing calls from a man named Anders Jansen who all but claims to have committed the crime. His calls go to the next level as he reveals just how much he knows about Shaw's personal life, like her stalled career and ruined marriage.

Sequel to THIS IS THE NIGHT THEY COME FOR YOU. When delegated a television interview to discuss a thirty year old political controversy, Superintendent Taleb's instructions are clear enough: whatever you say, do not rock the boat. But an inexplicable urge in the moment to tell the truth lands him in dangerously hot water. Whether he likes it or not, the past is coming for him. And the past in Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, quick to consume the unwary traveller.

London, 1917. When a man's body is found deep inside Room 40, a highly secretive organization within the Admiralty, intelligence agent Patrick Gallagher is brought in to investigate. The man has no identification and was discovered in a room locked from the inside with no other apparent exit. Moreover, a highly confidential telegram is found on the body. Few know about the death and to avoid raising further suspicion, Gallagher invites those involved to his family's home at Hartlake Hall for questioning.

DSI William Lorimer never expected that the next time he'd visit the Isle of Mull - where he and his wife, Maggie, have often wandered its windswept coasts and picturesque lochs - it would be for the funeral of an old friend. Mary Grant's sudden heart attack was a shock to the small community on the island, but Lorimer has no reason to suspect foul play, until he is approached at the funeral by one of Mary's closest friends.

Jonathan Darcy has recovered from the wound he received in his most recent investigations. But his parents aren't over the shock, and insist that Jonathan must stop these dangerous adventures with Miss Juliet Tilney - particularly now that she is a young lady of ruined reputation. Jonathan still hopes for some opportunity to be with her again, and then it comes - unfortunately, in the form of his uncle Charles Bingley's brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, being found murdered at Netherfield Park.

London 1930. Selby Bigge and his aristocratic sidekick Theodora Smythe are invited to dine with Doctor Hector Fortescue and his family. The good doctor is adamant that homosexuals can be 'cured' of their perversions, oblivious to the fact his son Lancelot is 'as fruity as a pineapple'. Later that evening Theodora becomes Theo and attends the Servants' Ball with Selby - a fancy-dress dance for servants, which attracts queers of all classes. Lancelot makes a surprise appearance dressed as Harlequin, as do other members of the Fortescue household. And before the night is out Selby and Theo will have another murder to solve.

July 1833. Kiera is anxious to help promote a match between her brother, Trevor, and the woman he's fallen in love with, inviting her family to join them. However, Kiera swiftly discovers that the would-be bride's father - the prosperous industrialist Jeremiah Birnam - is brusque, discourteous, and, at times, downright rude. So when Mr. Birnam's secretary is found murdered with Birnam standing over her body, many are content to allow him to take the blame.

Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralyzed, just like in the Bible. The Vatican is overjoyed - imagine, a real saint in the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South. The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps with in her motorhome. And she sleeps with a lot of people, it's what she does for a living. A saintly hooker isn't exactly presentable. A martyred saint, on the other hand, has a conveniently rewritten past. That's a job tailor-made for the Bronski twins - the best contract killers in the business.

Post-war Riverton has little to offer Richard, a mild-mannered loner working a dead-end job at Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company. When he meets Marlon, a smooth-talking confidence man, Richard finds his partner in crime. Passions ignite between the men, and together, they hatch a plan to rob the vault at Eddy & Dowd - a once-in-a-lifetime score that will fund their escape to the Big City, where they can live and love as they desire.

Her Majesty, Queen Camilla, is aboard the Royal Train heading to a charity event in Sussex when disaster strikes - the train is derailed. Minutes later, a trusted aide is shot dead by a sniper. Despite all the evidence, Roy Grace is not convinced the Queen was the intended target. But when there is a second murder, the stakes rise even higher, and Grace is at risk of being embroiled in a very public catastrophe - and in mortal danger.

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.

Bombay, 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective, Persis Wadia, kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate the divisive new defence minister, a man calling for war with India's new post-Independence neighbours. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down the assassin's co-conspirators - aided by agents from Britain's MI6 security service - Persis is quickly relegated to the sidelines. But then she is given a second case, the burned body of an unidentified white man found on a Bombay beach.

When Dolores Chimes, a famous medium, arrives in Gore-on-Sea, even surly Detective Inspector Rideout is lured in by her promises of messages for the afterlife. But after a reading goes disastrously wrong, Dolores loses her life - and the six sitters at the seance with her fall victim to supernatural deaths themselves in the days following the nightmare of a reading. Determined to unveil the truth, Nora finds herself chasing a ghostly serial killer she believes to be responsible, before the sixth victim - Detective Rideout himself - perishes along with the others.

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 Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to "kill thirteen innocents and one guilty" in "an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man," Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help.

When washed-up 80s rock legend Johnny Freestone is found dead in a cave off Scotland's North Coast 500 tourist route, it looks like a tragic accident another celebrity lost to a reckless lifestyle. But detective and secret Freestone fan Jack Logan is convinced he was murdered. As Logan delves into Johnny's final days, he uncovers a trail of bitter rivalries, broken promises, and a comeback tour that wasn't quite what it seemed.

A troop of Red Army soldiers has disappeared without a trace while visiting a banya, a traditional Ukrainian bathhouse, in the heart of Kyiv. Their abandoned boots and uniforms are the only proof that they ever existed. Samson Kolechko's investigation uncovers human remains in the stoves and the presence of a sinister religious cult in the city.

Cockney private eye George Harley is finally back in business, operating a new detective agency in the heart of London's Soho. Harley and his new assistant Bunty are presented with their first case when a distressed father engages them to investigate the disappearance of his daughter, who has run away from home to join a cabaret troupe led by the notorious 'Queen of Depravity' Ilse Blau, now in London after being driven out by the Nazis from Weimar-era Berlin.

When a corrupt art dealer is killed, Detective Eddie Giral descends into an underground world of stolen paintings, forged identities, and whispered deals with Nazi Occupiers. As Eddie discovers links to a wealthy Jewish family's missing collection, the trail leads him to Paris's Jeu de Paume, where looted masterpieces have vanished - and where guarded curator Rose Valland gives nothing away. But in Eddie's efforts to win her trust he forgets - can he trust her?

The Hill is the kind of place everyone wants to live: luxurious, exclusive and safe. But now someone is breaking and entering these Cheshire homes one by one, and DS Leo Brady suspects the burglar is looking for something, or someone, in particular. Over the border in Wales, DC Ffion Morgan recovers the body of an estate agent from the lake. There's no love lost between Ffion and estate agents, but who hated this one enough to want her dead - and why?

Bournemouth 2008, the height of the financial crash. Don Bayliss, a timid and well-mannered accountant, vanishes after leaving his office before a scheduled meeting. After seven years of searching with no firm leads, the investigation is closed, and Don is presumed dead. Now, more than eight years after his disappearance Dorset Police call in the Finder and the cold case is reopened. The Finder begins with the last sightings of Don on the day he went missing, hearing how he seemed in a hurry, somewhat distracted. He unearths a string of overlooked clues that lead him to face the unlikely friendships that Don had made, the somewhat overbearing nature of Mrs Bayliss, the secrets that haunted him in his home life and the mistakes that led to him being investigated at work.

The body of Leo Hawkins is found in a Devon holiday cottage, the cause of death carbon monoxide poisoning. Was this a tragic accident or something more sinister? CSI Ally Dymond will follow the evidence wherever it leads. Leo's wife gives an account of his final hours, but something isn't adding up. Graffiti left by an anti-tourist group is discovered nearby. The only consistent thread in the investigation is that no one is telling the truth.

When DS Lucy Golden discovers an abandoned car showing signs of a recent and bloody escape, the race is on to find the injured occupant, who must be somewhere close by on the Irish island of Achill. But when an anonymous threatening note is found in a pool of blood, the search team is briefed to look for a body, rather than a survivor. Once the victim is revealed as a retired police officer, Lucy and her team are on edge...

A historian studying the movements of the Vikings has traced their exploits to Ravensea Castle and believes they buried a treasure hoard before the castle was built. Meanwhile, a team of four ghost hunters is coming to stay at Ravensea for the filming of Britain's Got Ghosts. When the historian is murdered during a Viking festival on castle grounds and his notes go missing, Nora can't help but wonder if the treasure was why he was killed - and could it be connected to the visiting ghost hunters?

Once a rising star in the wine world, Olivia was one of a handful of women in the world to hold the distinction of being a Master Sommelier before COVID stole her sense of taste - and her career. Adrift and depressed, she gets a second chance when beloved celebrity chef Jacques de Bizet invites her to Paris for a job interview. But as the interview begins, he collapses, poisoned, making Olivia the prime suspect.

When a handsome stranger named Jon checks in at the hotel he works at and invites Brandon to his room, Brandon ignores the advice of his crew - a group of loveable and messy queer twenty-somethings - and accepts. When Jon checks out early, leaving behind a bag of belongings and his cellphone, Brandon takes the phone and sets out to find him. But he gets more than he bargained for when he witnesses a murder - and sees Jon fleeing the scene.

Germany, 1945. Year Zero. The war is at an end. When Ireland's ambassador to the Third Reich finally leaves the war-torn country, Garda detective Stefan Gillespie makes his way home under the watchful eye of British Intelligence, who are searching for some of the Irish citizens Ireland doesn't want back. The usual dirty business. But suddenly Stefan is drawn into a murder inquiry on visits to his German relatives.

Hyderabad, India, 1895. When three bodies are discovered with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to the Ripper's Whitechapel victims, Chief Inspector Soobramania known as Soob is summoned to investigate. Suspicion alights upon three powerful men: a Russian grand duke and an English earl visiting the city, and their friend, a Deccani noble, who is also the stepson of one of the victims.

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.

Drag queen Misty Divine has barely settled into her new role as the glamorous hostess of Lady's Bar when a private detective arrives out of the blue. He's been stabbed. With what might be his final breath he whispers a cryptic message. "You're in danger, Misty... you must find Jeremy."

The body of a bookseller is discovered, lying in a pool of blood in his Bristol bookshop. Police have one question: how did the man meet such a violent, murderous end in this peaceful place? It may be a quiet profession, but it's full of passionate, ambitious characters who know the value of a rare book. Their extensive reading means they also know how to get away with murder. But is that enough to fool the tenacious DS George Cross?

SUMMER 1944. The Nazis have one last chance of victory - and its success depends on a traitor in the quiet English village of Larkwhistle in the New Forest. When Jill Metcalfe receives the news of her brother Henry's death from his friend, US Air Force officer Jack Strafford, she learns of more than just his loss - she is recruited to continue his mission. Jack has come to the village in the hope that Henry's cryptic last words will reveal the identity of the traitor he is hunting.

One morning at his favorite cafe, ex-NYPD Detective Nico Doyle notices Cilia, a seven-year-old girl he has never seen before, frolicking with his dog on the floor. He later discovers she has left a note in his collar - Please help my babbo. With help from the local carabinieri, Nico discovers that Cilia's father, Saverio, has fled town following an unfortunate incident. His business partner was killed at their electronics store, and Saverio is the hot-headed local carabiniere's main suspect.

Once hailed as Liverpool's finest detective, Mark Fletcher brought a serial killer to justice and earned the city's admiration. But when he's accused of working with Liverpool's most notorious crime family, his legacy is shattered - and so is his life. Now disgraced and spiralling, Fletcher wakes up in a hotel room with no memory of the last 24 hours... and a dead body beside him. The evidence says he did it. His instincts say otherwise.

Caterpillar Island, off the central coast of Maine, is by day a vacationland of lobster bakes and quaint fried clam shacks, kayaking and country houses. At night, though, by the light of a headlamp, the island is alive with cash, guns, and poachers. Oxy addicts, struggling retirees, and unemployable deadbeats dip their nets in the creeks to catch elvers - two-inch-long baby eels that fetch $2000 a pound on the international black market. Into this dark and dangerous world falls Jeanette King, who has, up to this moment, been earning her meager living mainly by picking and packaging peekytoe crab meat for shipment to New York and Boston.

When Bruno stumbles upon a motionless figure in a car parked at a scenic overpass on the ridge of the Vezere valley, he's ready to investigate. Inside, he finds a suicide note and the dead body of Monique, a successful businesswoman who rented chateaus to wealthy expats. It seems like an open-and-shut case. But Bruno can't shake the suspicion that something sinister lurks underneath this tidy narrative.

After Bruno sees he's missed several phone calls from his longtime neighbor Pamela, he has no idea what to expect. He's shocked to hear that she's found her new lodger on her back patio, brutally murdered. Bruno knows that Pamela isn't capable of killing anyone, but then who's the culprit? And what's the motive? The victim had only just moved to town to take a job at the local nursing home. She had no enemies in the village - but no friends, either.

On a retreat for their true-crime book club, four women are the only people on Snakebite Island. But what was supposed to be a fun weekend of getting trashed on rose and talking serial killers takes a dark turn when one of the women is found dead on the shore. Murdered. By one of their supposed friends.

Deep in the Australian wilderness is a sinkhole renowned as a freediving spot. But a local sports hero - and the glamorous face of a high-adrenaline video channel - is found dead far beneath the surface. Despite diving the sinkhole hundreds of times, his lifeless body is discovered dressed in normal clothes, handcuffed to a supply line. With no witnesses - and evidence submerged 30 metres underwater - how can Detective Dana Russo solve the case?

Maggie McCabe, a highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, is upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked. Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline. Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world's most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance.

Leaving behind Sheffield, her friends and her job, a grieving DCI Matilda Darke finds solace in the wild, untamed beauty of the Lake District. But she can't outrun her reputation. PC Alison Pemberton is living in the shadow of her twin sisters, who were abducted thirty years ago. Matilda finds herself agreeing to try and unearth the truth about the Pemberton twins.