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When a little girl is murdered the only lead is a phone call about the death... but it was made 2 months before the incident.

When young Freddie Hackett witnesses a murder, the police refuse to believe his identification of the murderer. In desperation, he asks Maisie Dobbs to investigate.

Simmy Brown had hoped for a quiet autumn in her new home in Patterdale. But when a lodger is poisoned at her parents' B&B, peace is destroyed and the investigation begins.

In the war-torn lands of Yorkshire lives a wealthy merchant in his castle. When an imposter tries to sneak into the castle and is killed by bloodthirsty lions, Delchard and Bret determine to find out what he had been searching for .

1898, Glasgow. A man is found stabbed to death but the police are struggling to grasp any leads. Can Juan Cameron, photographer-cum-sleuth, bring to light what the eye may overlook?

London, 1817. A man is shot outside of Covent Garden Theatre. Was Sir Roger Mellanby MP, a spearhead for social reform, really the intended target of the shooting? Twin detectives Paul and Peter Skillen are tasked to find the assassin.

With her husband away on business, Amory Ames is alone at her country house Thornecrest, preparing for the arrival of their baby. When a woman appears also claiming to be Milo's wife, Amory is sure there must be a mistake, but with secret identities, whirlwind romances, and a murder, suddenly events are spiralling out of control.

When Ricolde, 'the finest whore in Worcester', is found butchered on an island a few miles up the River Severn, can Bradecote and Catchpoll discover the killer's identity?

When there is a land dispute over Archenfield in Hertfordshire, Delchard and Bret are sent to settle it. But when the principle witness is murdered, things become less straightforward .

The village of Maldon is controlled by the Fitzcorbucion family, led by wealthy bully Hamo Fitzcorbucion, the lord of Blackwater Castle. When Hamo's son is found murdered, he demands justice and will stop at nothing to get it.

Juno Browne must unmask a killer claiming to be Cutty Dyer, a blood-drinking demon from Dartmoor folklore.

When widow Simone leaves Australia to do a house swap with a couple in the UK, she meets Russ who's looking for some peace and quiet after an accident. Can they help each other build new lives?

Leo Davies QC seems to have it all. But behind the flourishing career is a troubled private life, and when will Leo learn not to mix business with pleasure?

June 1144. When the naked corpse of an unknown man is discovered and the Prince of Powys's messenger fails to reach Earl Robert of Gloucester, Bradecote, Catchpoll and Walkelin head to Wales to confirm his identity, and piece together evidence that the dead man deserved a noose rather than a dagger.

Lenka Janiurek's memoir discusses the men who defined her life, and the challenges of identity, belonging and family.

When Jane Roberts' husband, Bert, deserts her and their three children, the future looks bleak. With a helping hand and some fresh opportunities she manages to turn things around, but is Bert truly out of the picture?

When Jed is asked to use his spiritual gift to solve the brutal murder of a friend's brother, he finds himself dragged into dangerous family secrets that threaten them all.

When a pacifist is found murdered, questions are raised: why did the man have a loaded revolver? Did he have enemies? As DI Jago digs deep into the man's past, it seems like more than one person might have had a motive for murder.

Mary Dutton is accused of killing her husband by poison, though there aren't many who dispute her involvement in his death. The police see it as an open-and-shut case, and even those protesting for her freedom believe she committed the act, but is innocent of wrongdoing after suffering years of domestic abuse.Since his recent success in the high-profile Dryden case catapulted him to the front pages of the national press, unassuming Yorkshireman Arthur Skelton is now one of the most celebrated and recognisable barristers in the land. His services are much in demand and, despite the odds, he agrees to represent Mary Dutton.Yet with a general election on the horizon and both sides of the political divide keen to turn the Dutton case to their advantage, as well as long-held secrets within the Dutton family itself, can Skelton ever really expose the truth?

During an air raid, the body of a young woman is found, strangled. DI Jago suspects that she had a secret and was mixed up in an underworld of criminal activity.

Cote d'Azur, summer 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes find themselves in a world of sun and jazz, fortune and friendship, childlike pleasures and grown up sins .

Aspiring novelist Jessica Lord is disappointed to meet her favourite author and discover that he's rude and arrogant. But it seems their paths are destined to cross .

First published as Fifth ColumnSeptember, 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all time high and no one is sure who can be trusted.In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn't be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate. But few seem to really care about the woman's death - not even her family. As Jago digs deeper he starts to uncover a trail of deception, betrayal, and romantic entanglements...

On the first night of the Blitz, the body of local Justice of the Peace Charles Villiers is found in the back of a van, but a bomb destroys the evidence. As DI Jago does some investigations, it appears that many people may have wanted Villiers dead.

DI Owen Sheen is determined to restore the professional reputation of suspended DC Aoife McCusker, and to solve the case of the boy found buried in the Irish boglands. But it's not going to be easy...

A lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street, two fingers on her left hand severed, in what looks like a brutal attempt by looters to steal her rings. When the next day Nora's teenage granddaughter, Peggy, a munitions worker at Marshall's Airfield, is reported missing, Brooke realises there is more to the situation than meets the eye.

After the murder of an unidentifiable woman at the Manchester Museum, Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are sent in to investigate.

When the Natural History Museum hires Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton to investigate the destruction of a fossilised dinosaur skeleton, they are slightly reluctant- vandalism is not their speciality. But then an attendant in the dinosaur room is found murdered.

After moving into a leisure village in Wiltshire, Cassie was looking forward to some peace. But when a girl arrives claiming to be her granddaughter, the door to the past is wrenched painfully open.

Despite the catastrophic outcomes of her previous house-sitting commissions, Thea Osborne, accompanied by her trusty spaniel, Hepzie, is truly convinced nothing can go wrong on her next assignment in the charming village of Blockley. The Montgomerys have asked her to look after their house while they take a much needed holiday.But trouble seems to follow Thea and when a body is discovered in the house next door, she finds herself in the midst of village secrets.From mystical local legends to celebrity sightings, the erstwhile quiet area turns out to be a place of mysterious contradictions - with very sinister undertones.