Item category 1: Crime Paperback

Detective Inspector Avison Fluke is a man on the edge. He has committed a crime to get back to work, concealed a debilitating illness and is about to be made homeless. Just as he thinks things can't get any worse, the body of a young woman is found buried on a Cumbrian building site. Shot once in...

Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Inspector Salvo Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.

In the snowbound landscape of Cambridgeshire two corpses are found, only a day apart. Journalist Philip Dryden knows he's on to a great story when forensic evidence links both victims to one terrifying event in 1966.

Meet Juniper Song, an under-employed, twenty-something, Raymond Chandler-loving, Korean American woman from downtown LA. When a friend asks Song to carry out surveillance on his father, she figures she doesn't have anything better to do - plus she gets to indulge her Philip Marlowe fantasies. But...

A killer running rings around the police. A detective spiralling out of control. DI Kate Young is on leave. She's the force's best detective, but her bosses know she's under pressure, on medication and overcoming trauma. So after her bad judgement call leads to a narrowly averted public disaster,...

Two murders. An abandoned asylum. Will a mysterious former patient help untangle the dark truth? The body of an elderly woman has been found in the bowels of a derelict asylum on the banks of the Thames. As Detective Lew Kirby and his partner begin their investigation, another body is discovered ...

September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line. In the first days of his voyage, George only has to deal with a few petty crimes. But then an expensive piece o...

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a bloody handprint on the wallpaper. Another guest, the exotic Valérie, persuades a...

DCI David Garrick is recovering from the tragic murder of his estranged sister - an event that happened halfway across the world. Working for the major investigations team in Kent, he is immediately drawn into a new case - a murdered illegal immigrant. And she's not the first...

It's 1985, and Joe Stone is excited to be joining his old school friend, and lifelong crush, Chris, for a long weekend in London's Soho - home to a vibrant gay scene. When Chris is found brutally murdered, the police write off his death as another rent boy fallen foul of a bad hook-up. But Joe kn...