Item category 1: Crime Hardback

It is autumn in Castle Knoll and Annie Adams is busy settling into her new home. She doesn't find Gravesdown Hall cosy, especially since she found two dead bodies there over the summer. What's more, Annie has had the creeping sense she's being watched. Lonely, and desperate for some company, Anni...

Fresh from successfully closing their first live case, the Future Policing Unit are called in to investigate when a headless, handless body is found on a Warwickshire farm. But as they work to identify the victim and their killer, the discovery of a second body begins to spark fears that The Asto...

When Denise Morrow is discovered standing over the body of her husband, a bloody knife between them, Detective Declan Shaw thinks it's an open-and-shut case. But Denise is no ordinary murder suspect. She's a famous true crime author, who knows how killers operate. And how they get away with it. T...

1926. On the towering cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there. The most beautiful are sold for large sums. But when small and hungry Celie Sheppard finds an 'impossible' red egg, it will forever alter the course of her life - and the lives o...

The future is looking bright for Billie Carlson. With her child safely home and a new relationship on the horizon, she hasn't felt so settled in years. But when Billie takes on a new client, Elizabeth Fletcher, it's clear trouble is imminent. Elizabeth has killed a man in self-defence. She met hi...

Yorkshire, 1983. Lorraine Quick's life was looking up with a promotion that took her away from the grim Memorial Hospital. But now Lorraine has her work cut out for her building a PR-friendly team out of the ragtag staff of the infamous Windwell Asylum as it transitions into a modern, top-securit...

In the middle of the night in Kinloch, the phone rings. Detective Sergeant Brian Scott answers. It's a message from his old friend and partner, DCI Jim Daley, which chills him to the bone: 'She's dead, Brian. I couldn't take it anymore - I killed her! You have to help.' Daley has been arrested fo...

London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before, when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-o...

Arbuthnot 'Arbie' Swift arrives at Dashwood House, a glamorously modern hotel in the up-and-coming resort of Galton-next-the-Sea, but all plans for a relaxing stay are scuppered when one of the guests is found dead. The body is found in the writing room, the victim part of a set visiting the seas...

Molly the maid is no stranger to secrets. She sees everything behind closed doors at the Regency Grand hotel: wiping away the dust and grime of guests passing through. But one secret lies much closer to home. An old trinket - a faux Fabergé egg - is revealed to be a precious antique during an ap...