There's no point screaming - we've only just begun . . .

It's not going well for NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave has been cancelled, someone has firebombed a migrant hostel and there's a massive climate change 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 - aka DS Steel's team - until the top brass can arr...

The second instalment in your new favourite cosy crime series: The Antique Hunter's: Death on the Red Sea is the perfect mystery read for fans of the Antique's Roadshow.

'Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . .'It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson.Soon Marl...

A Swedish crime writer as thrilling as Mankell, a detective as compelling as Wallander . . .

HÃ¥kan Nesser's astonishingly successful Van Veeteren series continues with the eighth book, The Weeping Girl. Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind . .

. A community is left reeling after a teacher – Arnold Maager – is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child.

Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's ...

DE COCK EN DE KUS DES DOODS is deel 94 in de 'De Cock'-serie van Baantjer, rondom rechercheur De Cock van Bureau Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam.

Als Joyce Degenaar vermoord wordt aangetroffen, staat De Cock voor een raadsel. Wie zou deze geliefde en bekende Amsterdamse hebben willen vermoorden? Zij was actief in haar buurt en betrokken bij de Voedselbank. Daarnaast was ze ook lijsttrekker van Ons Mooi Amsterdam, een partij die zitting heeft in de gemeentepolitiek.

De aandacht van De Cock richt zic...

Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets. Hence, Marian and the girls' drawing master, Walter, have to turn detective in order to work out what is going on, and to protect Laura from a fatal plot.

THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. And Kat's chief suspect is one of the town's most prominent citizens.THE FINAL BODY . . .

Een groot, leegstaand pand in het centrum van Bergen op Zoom. Niemand weet wat er zich achter de dichtgetimmerde ramen afspeelt. Sinds de sluiting in 2014 huizen er ratten, meeuwen en misschien nog wel meer in het ‘Ketrientje’, zoals Huize Sint Catharina liefkozend door de Bergenaren wordt genoemd.

Op een ochtend wordt op de stoep naast het pand het lichaam van een man gevonden. Het lijkt alsof hij uit het oude zorgcentrum probeerde te ontsnappen. Inspecteur Mara de Vries staat voor een ...

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy.