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When a high-profile millionaire businessman is found brutally murdered at his luxury Abersoch home just before the wedding of his daughter, DI Ruth Hunter must uncover who killed him and why. With a nefarious past in Liverpool, Ruth wonders if the man was the victim of 'a hit' in revenge for the ...

Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction: 'Actually, I'm a murderer.' Set in the north-east of England in the seventies, the lives of four people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with round glasses, on the night train back to Newcastle. By...

The concluding 'Mike Hammer' novel begins with a 21st century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1970. Six years after the events of 'Dig Two Graves', Hammer takes another unlikely vacation - this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling's 17-year-old sibling, Willa....

There are three things Jennifer 'Jinx' Sullivan promised herself she would never do: 1. Eat fast food. 2. Go on a coach trip. 3. Die without exacting revenge on the people who ruined her life. She's about to let herself down on the first two, but she can still keep her word on the third. On a coa...

After a turbulent police investigation comes to an end, Professor Rose is on her own personal mission. With a new lease of life after discovering her birth mother and reuniting with a long-lost plant, Eustacia finds herself with burning questions. Who destroyed her garden in the first place and w...

Simmy Brown is four months pregnant, working partly from home, partly from her Windermere florist shop and very much feeling her age when her husband, Christopher, asks her to deliver flowers to Eleanor Padgett. As an expert in antique textiles, Eleanor has been a considerable help to him at his ...

In November 1944, Bologna's bomb-scarred streets are filled with starving refugees fleeing the advancing Allies. The Fascist Black Brigades, S.S. officers, and Italian Resistance partisans compete for control. Comandante De Luca, once Bologna's most brilliant investigative officer, now works for ...

When a headless corpse washes up on the bank of the Thames, DCI Tannahill Khan knows this wasn't accidental - the killer wanted the body found. This is just the beginning. The post mortem reveals a shocking discovery. Written on the dead man's arm is Forensic Criminologist Dr Laughton Rees' home ...

The Canadian embassy are visiting a remote Icelandic island and the great and the good have gathered to welcome them. But beneath the glamour, tensions are bubbling. When the deputy Canadian ambassador is poisoned at dinner, suspicion falls on everyone present, but particularly on the ambassador ...

1854, Edinburgh. Respectable faces hide private sins. Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her g...