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Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau and Inspector Catherine Rohn of the US Marshals service must work together to trace the missing wife of a key witness in a criminal case in the US. The Triads may have infiltrated the police and even the Chinese government, so for whom is he working?

One minute, Heather had been gabbling on at her movie idol, Marina Gregg - the next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the poison really intended? This is one in a new-look series of Miss Marple books for the 21st century.

As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take charge of their most complex and difficult cases yet.

A high-profile criminal prosecution collapses and the body of a woman is discovered on the Mongolian steppes. Inspector Nergui is assigned to conduct an internal enquiry into the failed prosecution, while Doripalam has to deal with both the murder investigation and suspected corruption.

Detective Andrew Ryan is working a series of cases and requires Dr Temperance Brennan's forensic expertise. Three missing persons, three unidentified bodies - all female, all in their early-to-mid teens. Could there be a serial killer at work?

Five years after Duncan Percival is rendered a vegetable after a vicious attack, he finally dies. It is now a murder investigation and DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich are brought in to renew the evidence and re-interview the suspects.

An environmental campaigner and former left-wing radical is murdered, his body scalped. A second scalped murder victim, a geneticist researching the possibility of inherited memory is found. Jan Fabel and his murder team have nothing to go on other than a single red hair left as a signature at ea...

In 'Into The Shadows' Shirley Wells introduces forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham.

Janet Florin has been gone for almost a week. Husband Mark reported her missing when she failed to collect their two young children from school. Family friend, Trisha Marlowe, desperate for news of Janet, hires Sal Kilkenny to track her down. What led Janet to abandon everything she holds dear?