After the Puritan ban on Christmas festivities Restoration London is awash with excess between Chris..

A gambler on the run. A widow with deep pockets. A pair of criminal brothers with a secret agenda. T..

Called to a Southampton nightclub Detective Inspector Helen Grace cuts the duct tape from the asphyx..

In Slough House memories are stirring all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again Loui..

Ghislaine Curzon girlfriend of one of the royal princes is in Heckley to open the Curzon Centre but ..

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

Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows - in the grey areas where the real world meets th..

There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dom..

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

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing Mississippi. Just down the ro..

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

Renowned criminologist psychoanalyst and sardonic widow Mrs Bradley is enjoying a relaxing holiday o..

After eighteen years inside Johnny Frank is coming out of jail with just one thing on his mind to ki..

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years living at the Rectory ..

July 2012. The Games have arrived in London. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years..

Following a personal tragedy florist Persimmon “Simmy” Brown has moved to the Lake District to b..

Corpse-candles. Phantom funerals. The bird of death. It was insidious...For Bethan the schoolteacher..

Summer. A boy is lying on the floor of an Oslo appartment. He is bleeding to death. Outside the chur..

After a long period of “resting” life is looking up for Charles Paris who has been cast as the G..

Private Investigator Samantha Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself but when she is aske..

Soho 1962. When Rory Sheehan decides he wants Maggie Riley as his own her fate is sealed. Luca Roman..

When Thea Osborne agrees at the last minute to house-sit for Oliver Meadows she expects a few days o..

Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terr..

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

When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decad..

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

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

The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Sûreté du Québec for his first day o..

January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris an army officer Georges Picquart witnesses..

A film crew has arrived in Bath to make a new film about the city's 18th century heroine Jane Austen..

Maxwell is living his worst nightmare when he begins to question whether his fiancée Imogen is his ..

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

The Teacher has a meticulous plan. Cold-hearted and cunning no one knows who he is. But now it is ti..

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

The discovery of two teenage girls’ bodies and a video of a snuff movie showing the death of one o..

Selma Falck's personal life and career as a lawyer have hit rock bottom. That is until Hege Chin Mor..

Sister Agnes has taken her final vows and delighted to have escaped the oppressive confines of life ..

1916. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case when the body of a young conscie..

It’s Christmas and things are looking good at the Slocombe house. Thea’s daughter Jessica has co..

Ten years after a massive oil crisis the world lies devastated. The towns and cities of Britain are ..

Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new man Piers Targett who's keen to get her invol..

First the joyous birth of Skinner’s son…Then the grim reality of murder in ones of Edinburgh’s..

Kate Shakleton's sterling reputation for courageous sleuthing attracts the attention of the venerabl..

London Rules might not be written down but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's Park's..

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

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

Fethering residents Jude and Carole get more than they bargained for when a meal in their local pub ..

The body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred y..

Dawn Prentice was already known to the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit. The previous summer she had lo..

Agatha Raisin can think of nothing duller than a lecture on birdwatching. . . but events take a thri..

Twenty years retired David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. And he's not ..

When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched leaving a charred body among the burnt-out luxury cars Dep..

Brigdestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook rolling hills and working mill at it's heart nothin..

Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved c..

As head of Edinburgh’s CID Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all…but even h..

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

Detective Inspector Charlie Priest believes in doing things by the book - it's just that he sometime..

A plane explodes mid-flight and plunges to disaster from the Scottish skies the British and American..

Detective Inspector Charlie Priest is late for work for the first time in twenty years. Suffering a..

A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her terminally ill patient brutally mur..

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

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

Amory Ames is investigating the disappearance of valuable jewellery snatched at a dinner party and l..

Old spies grow ridiculous River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright us..

The opening of an elite country club marked by a prestigious golf tournament turns to chaos when a m..

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

In December 1909 the Reverend Joshia Martins expires in a dish of mutton and onions leaving his fami..

Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service w..

Deirdre Fitzpatrick is married to a man who wants to know where she really goes when supposedly taki..

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

Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stonemason fa..

The media call him The Burning Man a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before..

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

He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man s..

May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remain..

A huge funeral for Windermere’s popular resident Barbara Dodge is taking place and florist Persimm..

Although she hadn't known Leonard Mallett very well Carole Seddon feels duty bound to attend her fel..

Survival. It's all down to who you trust. Aiden O'Hara has been head of the family since he was kid ..

When the bodies of missing schoolgirls start turning up former DCI Kate Burrows is dragged out of re..

The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman’s flesh and the beak ..

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

It’s just a normal morning for Anna McDonald until she opens the front door to her best friend Est..

Every August thousands of tourists and performers flood into Edinburgh for its famous festival. But ..

When a skeleton is discovered in a deep grave at the edge of an area of woodland the police discover..

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

Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off a private helicopter they enter ..

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman’s body throws Harry Vicary and his team into a..