Collection: Mystery (Academy Use Only)

When Alex Cross is called to investigate a massacre-style murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old friend. Angry, hurt and more determined than ever, Cross begins to hunt for the perpetrators of this cruel crime, drawing him into a dangerous underworld.

It is Midsummer, 1631. While Alexander Seaton and his fellow masters enjoy the holiday with their students, Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College, is murdered in a dark alleyway in town. While the university and town authorities investigate the murder, Seaton is asked by the college principa...

Logan Finch has just about everything he ever wanted, including a penthouse apartment and a shot at making partner in one of Glasgow's largest law firms. But there's something missing from his life: he still pines for the woman he thought was 'the one' and who left him without a word of explanati...

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs sets off for home, only to realise she is not yet ready to return. But when she disembarks early in Gibraltar, a brutal murder in the British garrison town leads her into a web of lies, deceit and p...

When a senior Edinburgh civil servant spectacularly takes his own life in Kinloch harbour, DCI Jim Daley comes face to face with the murky world of politics. To add to his woes, two local drug dealers lie dead, ritually assassinated. It's clear that dark forces are at work in the town. With his b...

Detective Inspector Rebus is troubled by the death of his friend Jack Morton. He is also investigating another friend's missing son whilst dealing with a known killer and a paedophile lurking around the Lothian area, but it's all in a day's work to him.

John Sebastian Lafcadio, one of the greatest painters of the Edwardian period, left 12 pictures to be exhibited, one every year, after his death. But there is an unexpected event at the unveilling of the 8th painting - murder.

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. Hercule Poirot has to solve the mystery.

Dr Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost 20 ye...

1635, Aberdeen. A girl lies dead in a frozen garden. A young man goes missing after a drunken brawl. A sinister cloaked figure watches from the shadows. The missing student is in Alexander Seaton's class. When the young man's companion turns up bruised and bloodied, suspicion mounts that he has m...