Collection: Mystery

Stephanie and Jasmine are strangers who have nothing - and yet everything - in common. They board the same plane for different reasons, Stephanie for a business trip and Jasmine to escape an abusive relationship. A few days after landing, they text their friends - the same exact messages that the...

They can't even agree on what to read, so how are they going to solve a murder? St. Tredock Book Club disagree on everything, from the books they read to the biscuits they eat. For book club organiser Nova Davies, who's new to the Cornish seaside village, the digestive vs shortbread debate is jus...

Spring 1941. It is the third year of war, and when the siren sounds the people of Cambridge trudge to the city's public bomb shelters. Crowded, smoky, often raucous, the shelters have become a way of life for the poor. At dawn the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner of the Trinity Sh...

There's been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn - with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony ca...

Venice. Winter, 1539. When Cesare Aldo learns of a conspiracy to assassinate Duke Cosimo de' Medici, he is hired to protect the ruler of Florence. With his life, if necessary. The deadly attack which follows leads to bodies, bloodshed - and something far more dangerous. Those behind the plot obta...

It's a chilly Auckland winter, but for Hana Westerman and her family, it is a time of excitement. Matariki is approaching - the small cluster of stars also known as the Seven Sisters is a sacred constellation in Maori culture, heralding a time of new beginnings. Hana's daughter Addison is getting...

Winter, 1901. The Inner Temple is even quieter than usual under a blanket of snow and Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case. All is calm, all is bright - until the mummified hand arrives in the post. While the hand's recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully s...

When Vish Puri, India's Most Private Detective, learns he's won the long-coveted International Detective of the Year award, it's supposed to be a secret. But within hours, it seems all of Delhi knows - and his indomitable Mummy-ji announces she'll be coming with him to the ceremony in London, nev...

The life of Lulu Lewis, a retired police detective, took an unforgettable turn when Conrad first introduced himself to her. Unforgettable because: (a) Conrad is a special cat, (b) special because he told her so. Yes, that's right, he can talk. For obvious reasons, this ability remains a closely g...

Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. Her partner Detective Inspector Hal Challis is a t...