Item category 1: Crime Paperback

Returning to Exeter CID after his son's unsolved disappearance, Detective Sergeant Peter Gayle's first day back was supposed to be gentle. But when a young girl is reported missing, the clock begins to tick. Rosie Whitlock has been abducted from outside her school that morning. There are no clues...

Nobody who meets Dr Jack Cuthbert forgets him. Tall, urbane, brilliant but damaged, this Scottish pathologist who works with Scotland Yard is the best the new DCI has seen. But Cuthbert is a man who lives with secrets, and he still battles demons brought back from the trenches. When not one but t...

When Yaz and her dog Hercules find a dead man on a bench along the canal with chicken bones lying around him, she immediately calls Louise - and the police. The case is odd: a chicken bone has been forcibly rammed down the victim's throat, and the last person to see him was their friend - and Pac...

Chaos breaks out as DS Gabe Martin leaves Southampton Crown Court. Gunshots ring out. She and DI Juliet Stern are hit. The culprit disappears without a trace. Despite her injuries, Gabe is determined to work. She's assigned to the search for missing art student Henry Garside. As she delves into h...

Framed for a crime he didn't commit, private bodyguard Alex Drayce goes on the run in Las Vegas, hunted by both the police and a vicious gang out for blood.

Investigating how a severed hand ends up on the third green of a Cumbrian golf course is not how Detective Inspector Avison Fluke has planned to spend his Saturday. So when a secret protection unit from London swoops in quoting national security, he's secretly pleased. But trouble is never far aw...

Private bodyguard Alex Drayce goes on the hunt across London, following a trail of clues that will lead him to the man who killed his wife years previously.

March, 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with bombs raining down almost every night. Inspector Coburg and his trusted Sergeant Lampson are just recovering from the devastating bomb attack on the Café de Paris when they get a call asking them ...

Even though its famous opera house has shuttered its doors for the war, Covent Garden remains one of the most exciting, bustling areas of London. It's where Hannah Merrill and Aunt Violet have their bookshop and, in spite of the recent spate of burglaries in the area, it's generally thought to be...

Finlay and her nanny/partner-in-crime, Vero, have not always gotten along with Finlay's elderly neighbour, Mrs Haggerty, the community busybody and president of the neighbourhood watch. But when a dead body is discovered in her backyard, Mrs Haggerty needs their help. At first a suspect, Mrs. Hag...