Agatha Raisin believes the village vet has taken a shine to her, but before romance can bloom, he accidentally kills himself. Oh well, there is still her neighbour, and perhaps a common interest like a murder investigation will bring them together.

The local ladies all deem Mr John a wizard, so when Agatha finds a few grey hairs on her head, she makes a beeline for the handsome Evesham hairdresser. And as well as sorting out her hair it soon becomes clear the charming man also has designs on her heart - but their future together is cut short when Mr John is fatally poisoned in his salon.

Agatha is going through a man-hating phase and so is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets Tristan Delon, she is swept off her feet. She is ecstatic when he invites her to dine with him, but the next day, Agatha is left with a hangover and his cold corpse suggests that once again, she's in the frame for murder.

When serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim - the man in charge of hunting her down - she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. So why, after ten days of horrifying physical and mental torture, did she release Detective Archie Sheridan from the brink of death and hand herself in?

A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of Cold Granite and Dying Light, set in gritty Aberdeen.

A brand-new series for Number One bestseller Jeffery Deaver, featuring FBI Agent Kathryn Dance.

Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to escape her past. She has only unhappy memories of Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away - but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return.

In a Minneapolis park full of snowmen is a hidden goulish surprise ...First, the bodies of two cops are found inside the snowmen and then a day later, in the countryside Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a similar discovery. Soon Detectives Gino and Magozzi are sent north Minnesota's seen for years to find what else links the investigations.

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other's backs. Now he must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can't let that go.

On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that's the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who concludes that Bishop has performed the apparently impossible feat of being in two places at once. Has someone stolen his identity, or is he simply a very clever liar?

A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed ...When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the young woman? And how did she die?

Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead... Set in Aberdeen, where the rainy season lasts all year, criminal gangs vie for supremacy on the streets and the oil industry brings an influx of wealth and vice, this thriller is from a writer with an observant eye and a Scottish sense of humour.

Rosie Williams, a prostitute, is stripped naked and beaten to death. But, Rosie won't be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city, six people are burning to death, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside. And despite Logan's best efforts, it's not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab.

The death of Sylvia Kaye figured in Thursday afternoon's edition of the Oxford Mail . By Friday evening Inspector Morse had informed the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man - facing charges of wilful murder and rape. But as the leads fade into darkness, Morse becomes more and more convinced that passion holds the key.

The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the dreadful crime they are still no nearer to making an arrest. But one man has yet to tackle the case - and it is just the sort of puzzle at which Chief Inspector Morse excels. So why is he adamant that he will not lead the re-investigation?

They called her the Swedish Maiden - the tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford. 12 months later the case remained unsolved - pending further developments. On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalizing article in The Times about the missing woman.

Little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had clues. Within days of taking over the case Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of Dr Felix McClure.

April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next.

Adultery, murder and dangerous love collide in Jessie Keane's gritty debut thriller set in the London's East End. Perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Lynda La Plante.

On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods - that of a human foot. Meanwhile a multiple rapist is on the loose, the local supermarket reports poisoned stock and a man claims to have cut his wife up into little pieces, yet can't recall where he hid them.