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With Valentine's Day fast approaching Persimmon “Simmy” Brown's flower shop near Lake Windermere..

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When a body is hauled from the River Tyne Sarah Tucker heads North for a closer look. She identifies..

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When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath Sarah Tu..

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Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an el..

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In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Ler..

DI Charlie Priest and his team are presented with a bizarre murder that leads to the discovery of lo..

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September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace...

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His name is carefully guarded but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffm..

After thirty years of service former Chief Constable Bob Skinner faces the possible end of his polic..

Nothing ever happens in August and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a break. Heading off fo..

Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke are building a brand-new school and youth shelter hopin..

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border a man murders a young woman. At the same time..

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his t..

Emily Radley's Christmas plans are shattered when she learns that her aunt Susannah is dying. Althou..

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female le..

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat young Detective In..

Detective Lindsay Boxer’s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is ca..

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Leanne Chalmers has been forced to leave her television career behind and start again as Lily. No-on..

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After cracking their first case as a private investigation team Oz Blackstone and Primavera Philips ..

On a hot summer morning Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York on his w..

Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo’s biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolate..

When Alex Cross is called to investigate the scene of a massacre he is shocked to find that one of t..

Brexit looms and Charles Thoroughgood Chief of MI6 is forbidden for political reasons from spying on..

Nine years ago divorcee Marcia Brown took her own life. A pillar of the community she had been accus..

“Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murd..

Detective Inspector Montague Pluke of CID is England's most superstitious police officer. With crime..

Oz Blackstone enormously wealthy screen hero and sleuth dies of a ruptured aorta. Her mind still fil..

In this thrilling selection of short stories a young porter is found dead in a coal tub; Colbeck dev..

The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre com..

Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tr..

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

“The dead can't speak to us” Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. Sometimes only an out..

DI Charlie Priest is in for a surprise at the monthly superintendents' meeting. DCS Colin Swainby st..

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..

When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate clutching a shotgun few se..

When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident Shetland detective Jimmy Perez..

Young Tom French was found dead lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast with his head bashed in and hi..

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the sheriff's department to arrest a man for a possible doub..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but when one of her neighbours goes missing she f..

When teenager Jennifer Maidment’s murdered and mutilated body is discovered it is clear that there..

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When a body is found floating in the sea off Portsmouth harbour Detective Inspector Horton initially..

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Four bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time. Witnesses to the shocking shooting of a teenag..

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The horrific suicide of a successful Lithuanian entrepreneur shocks newly appointed Chief Constable ..

When Desiré Rosenkvist of Stockholm Police receives a letter two things are immediately clear: the ..

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Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspapers. His paren..

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Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow icy roads a tired driver. A bus crashes and is stranded in a ga..

Carole Seddon hates Christmas - it all seems rather a waste of time. So when her best friend Jude dr..

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One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves..

Returning from a much-needed holiday Persimmon “Simmy” Brown discovers that life in the Lake Dis..

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Was it a case of murder by committee at The Gillibry Island Bird Obsevatory Trust? The members of th..