Item category 1: Crime Paperback

Sunset Hall doyenne Agnes Sharp is only too pleased when her housemate Edwina wins a trip to a spa hotel in Cornwall - heaven knows the group of elderly sleuths could do with a change of scenery. But it quickly becomes apparent that the hotel is no paradise, despite the romantic package and five-...

The murder of Alaska Sanders was quickly solved. Within days, two suspects were identified. One died, the other pleaded guilty. Case closed. But, eleven years later, the death of another woman in a fast-food parking lot changes everything. Marcus Goldman, celebrity author and amateur investigator...

Undercover police officer Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. He knows it's a risk and he's ready for it. First, he sends his wife and daughter to Libya, where they will find boat heading for the Italian coast. Meanwhile, Adam himself winds up in France in the Calais Jungle, the infamous camp for mi...

Traci Beller was only thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now a super-popular influencer with millions of followers, she finally has the money to hire a new d...

Sir Claud Amory has the formula for a new powerful explosive, which is stolen by a member of his household. Locking everyone in the library, he switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula. When the lights come on, he is dead.

The body of an 18-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned. Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to e...

When Bill and Nora Ashby died Aunt Bee stayed on to bring up their five children. Soon afterwards one of the children, Patrick, disappears and leaves a suicide note at the top of a cliff. Years later a man turns up called Brat Farrar.

A local woman is found in a children's playground, tied up and burned to death. Her clothes are neatly folded and laid at the base of a nearby tree. Her body, charred and still smoking, is on display for all to see. One town over, another victim is discovered in the scorched remains of a brutal f...

Detective Caius Beauchamp is dispatched to a double murder in a South London townhouse. It looks like a simple botched burglary, until Caius gets a tip-off about the well-heeled family's nefarious past. Which is worse: the body on the floor or the skeletons in the closet? Caius' own family circum...

Enjoying a rare day off, DS Jazzy Solanki's peaceful spring walk is interrupted when a body is discovered along her path. Instinct tells her it's not a coincidence. Could Jazzy's estranged, vengeful stepsister - consumed by grief over their brother's death - be sending her a deadly message? Then ...