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Can you solve the mystery before the greatest detective of all time? Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr John Watson, have been hired by actor George Reynolds. George wants them to find out why the audience who comes to see him perform every night are the same people, only wearing disguis...

Picking her most auspicious holiday location, Dani heads for Devon - and is promptly caught up in a series of mysterious happenings. Could it all be connected to the ancient astrological book that falls, literally, into her hands? And who among her new acquaintances can she trust? She can't tell ...

After moving to Furze Point, Martin Clarke is happier than he's been for a long time. Reunited with his daughters Lexi and Beth, he finds himself falling for vivacious antique dealer Angela Chapman. But Beth's husband Noah has a serious accident, while Lexi falls for newcomer Greg, which derails ...

Dawn has been kidnapped. She manages to break free from the ramshackle hut in the woods where she is being held. However, it is raining hard, and as she runs away she gets very cold, very wet, and completely exhausted. Finally she collapses unconscious from hypothermia in the kitchen garden of Vi...

Connie and Jack didn't really know each other until they were asked by married friends, Kay and Mike, to be godparents to their baby daughter. Kay and Mike tried to set them up on a couple of dates, but Connie was still getting over a bad break-up. She and Jack decided they were not meant to be a...

Ex-sheriff Jed Grayson is on his way to Wyoming when he stops at the township of Paradise to rest for a few days. At the Golden Nugget Saloon he has an altercation with Zach Bassett, the son of the wealthiest rancher in the territory. Beating Zach to the draw, he humiliates the youngster in front...

Journalist Peter Lomass is enjoying a break from work, travelling and revisiting old haunts, when he discovers a poem entitled 'The Shootout at Dogleg Crossing' on a newspaper clipping from twenty years earlier, pinned up in a hotel reception area. He decides to trace the origins of the poem, and...

It was drought country. The land was little more than dust, the cattle slowly but surely dying on the hoof. For most of the ranchers in those parts, it had been a year-long disaster. But for local businessman Harp McPhee, it was a situation he aimed to exploit for all it was worth. Knowing the dr...

Nigel Slater has kept notebooks of curiosities and wonderings, penned while at his kitchen table, soaked in a fisherman's hut in Reykjavik, sitting calmly in a moss garden in Japan or sheltering from a blizzard in a Vienna konditorei. Nigel records the small things, events and happenings that gav...

A bomb goes off at the BBC. The country is in chaos, but this is just the start. A global terrorist organisation is plotting a series of deadly attacks. MI6 has just six days' warning for when the next one will strike. With James Bond missing, three of MI6's toughest Double O agents race across t...