An Agatha Christie omnibus, bringing together all four stand-alone novels she wrote in the 1920s - "The Secret Adversary", "The Man in the Brown Suit", "The Secret of Chimneys" and its sequel "The Seven Dials

Agatha Christie's imaginative crime novels and thrillers made her a household name from the 1920s right through to her final books in the early 1970s. She was the creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple

Brings together the four stand-alone novels Agatha Christie wrote in the 1950s - "They Came to Baghdad", "Destination Unknown", "Ordeal by Innocence", and "The Pale Horse".

'The most impressive body of crime fiction in America today' Independent.

Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set at the start of the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a

The emotionally gripping follow-up to the international bestseller, THE COLOUR OF LAW

The seventh classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck.

Samuel Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. He is called to do a hit at very short notice. When he discovers the identity of his target, and the identity of the target's companion, he knows that hi

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through th

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial killer is still at large and very close to home.It's the second week of July Trades Holiday in Edinburgh an

After eight years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on a sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning fa

A gripping new crime thriller from the author of DEAD SKY

The first in a series from the crime master himself, Ed McBain.

Intrigue. Espionage. Advanced technology. Clinical violence. Hoovering. It's the new Christopher Brookmyre novel.

Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne's first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in an emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn had been left on the steps of the town's Episcopal church, w

A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hipswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging

02 An omnibus edition of three of PD James' best-loved and best-selling Adam Dalgliesh mysteries: A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires and Original Sin. 03 An omnibus edition of three of P.D. James' best-loved and b

It's March 1934, and Josephine Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celebrate what should be the triumphant final week of her celebrated play, Richard of Bordeaux. However, a seemingly senseless murd

When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard, DS Wesley Peterson immediately suspects foul play. Then history provides him with a clue. Wesley's archaeologist friend, Neil Watson, has

Cambridge is recovering from the Black Death and Matthew Bartholomew, a physician, is in great demand. A series of murders force him to divert his attention from the community, as he discovers a breakaway sec

When a fourth child is taken, Solomon Glass knows what to expect. An anonymous letter to the mother, making a promise: kill yourself and your child will be released. He knows because two women are dead already. Glass has ju

There is no doubt in Thomasina Elliott's mind that her oldest schoolfriend is a creature of habit. So when, after three years of regular correspondence, Anna's letters suddenly stop, Thomasina becomes concerned. And even more s

Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing holiday with his family are dashed when a body is found in Marghera so badly beaten that the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches in vain for someone who can identify the bod

When private eye Tess Monaghan finds herself literally on a collision course with the makers of a TV series being shot in her native Baltimore, it's not only her introduction to the surreal world of televison drama, but

Ex-convicts, bushrangers, ruthless gold prospectors, forgers and impostors, thieves and murderers: they all flow through the stories that make up this collection, challenging colonial law and order. The landscape its

The jury was ready. Uncle Joe, the ancient bailiff, had guarded them while he also arranged their meals, heard their complaints, and quietly slipped their messages to the judge. Uncle Joe was rumored to also eavesdrop on his

Dirty dealings, corrupt cops, computer geeks and a final showdown at an exclusive Sydney beach - is this Cliff Hardy's last adventure?

A facsimile first edition hardback of the exotic Poirot book, based on Agatha Christie's own travels in the Middle-east with her archaeologist husband. Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swol

With the skill and empathy which caused A.N. Wilson to describe her as 'the best female crime writer in this country', Frances Fyfield has produced an outstanding novel of the destruction of hatred and revenge.

Parker, a professional thief, is on the run after a country town bank robbery goes wrong. There are road blocks everywhere and search parties with bloodhounds are in the woods. As they close in on Parker he is confronted by

In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. Suspecting this wasn't an accident, his teacher asks Herakles, the "Decipherer of Enigmas", to investigate. A second plot unfolds in parallel through t

Bad language. Scatalogical humour. Razor wit. Convoluted plot. High readability. It's the new Christopher Brookmyre novel.

Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some conscious form after we die, and is that form capable of communicating with the world of the living?...Aye, right. That was Jack Parlabane's stance on the matter

When Professor Springer, one of Britain's leading philosophers, is brutally murdered on the steps of a London university, the brilliant duo, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, return to

When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the invest

Another authentic, spine-tingling thriller from the woman who has been there herself.

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched

John Talentire has died attempting Harding's Folly. The verdict is accident, compounded by idiocy. But Imogen Quy can't help wondering how such a clever young man died so stupidly. And when a wildly eccentric production of "

Hailed by Carl Hiassen, Jeffrey Deaver and James Ellroy as 'suspense at its best; the wildest ride in modern crime exoticum; the last and most compelling word in thrillers.'.

In surreal Bangkok, city of temples and brothels, where Buddhist monks in saffron robes walk the same streets as world-class gangsters, a US marine sergeant is killed inside a locked Mercedes by a maddened python and a swarm

Presents 50 novels in the "Maigret Series", each providing the pipe-smoking detective with an interesting murder which the author solves with an unusual method of investigation, relying on experience, intuition and ruthlessn

There's a mansion, there's murder, there's mystery - and Miss Marple wouldn't live till lunchtime. This titles featuring Jack Parlabane - played by James Nesbitt in the television drama of "Quite Ugly One Morning".

The murderer of two children escapes from prison. Another child is murdered in the nearby town of Strengnas. The father of the murdered child decides he must take revenge. Anger spreads across the whole country and the case

Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of mo

In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, the pages marked with scribbled corrections.

When Gregory Matthews, patriarch of the Poplars is found dead one morning, imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for supper, after all, she had warned him about his blood pressure. But a post-mortem deter

Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price. The head of the family, his three sons, his two grandsons and his nephew are all killed leaving the five widows