Item category 1: Crime Paperback

A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city's red-light district, taking their scalps as gruesome trophies and replacing them with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible for crimes in the district, and she's working...

Tanz is a wine-loving, straight-talking, once-successful TV actress from Gateshead, whose career has shrivelled like an antique walnut. She is still grieving for her friend Frank, who died in a car crash three years ago, and she has to find a normal job in London to fund her cocktail habit. When ...

Young Cassie Booth goes missing on her paper round. Then her bloodstained jacket is found in a boathouse belonging to Karl Wilding - but there is little evidence against him. Meanwhile, a routine visit by Detective Inspector Pat North to appease persistent complainer Stephen Warrington soon spira...

The mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is discovered, and detective Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta is assigned the case. He has personal reasons for finding the culprit in an investigation that will bring him ever closer to the murderous world of the narcos, who are waging a w...

A young Asian couple moves into a dilapidated house in Upton Park. The woman, Nasreen, spends much of her time working alone on the house, her husband Abdullah preoccupied with his job. John Sawyer is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Since his discharge, he has been volatile and is now homele...

It is 1894, and Richard Throstle and his wife Georgina arrive in Wigan with their ghoulish magic lantern show, Phantasmagoria. When Richard is found murdered in his hotel room, police sergeant Slevin takes care of the investigation. Meanwhile, the Morgan-Drew Players theatre troupe harbour many d...

Sam Capra - CIA agent, loving husband, expectant father - loses everything that matters to him in a horrifying moment in London. An unknown enemy has set him up as a traitor. But that enemy has targeted the wrong man. Escaping from the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt for the killer who stole hi...

This collection of Agatha Christie stories features 'The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding', 'The Mystery of the Spanish Chest', 'The Under Dog', 'Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds', 'The Dream' and 'Greenshaw's Folly'.

Amid the foggy streets of sinister London, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 'Speckled Band', 'The Engineer's Thumb' and ten other stories, Holmes grapples with the very extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous end.