Collection: Mystery

Barney Thomson - an awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber - lives a life of desperate mediocrity. But his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer ...

Jo Anderson is dying to get out of Piney Woods, Louisiana - too bad she didn't see that the real dying was waiting for her in Copper, Colorado, and the traveling troupe of Becklaw's Murder Mystery Tour.

Three women have been found brutally murdered in south London, the victims only feet away from help during each sadistic attack ... and the killer is getting braver. Sarah Grainger is rapidly becoming too afraid to leave her house. Once an outgoing photographer, she knows that someone is watching...

Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He's a murder detective. A near-genius. He commands outstanding loyalty from friends and colleagues. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumours that DCI Luther is bad - not corrupt, not on the take, but ...

Since he got home from Iraq, Spero Lucas has carved out a good life for himself and has made name for himself as the kind of person who gets jobs done quietly and effectively, usually just on the right side of the law. A quick case for a criminal defense attorney leads him into the world of a hig...

Jimmy Suttle has finally tired of the relentless struggle against the rising tide of crime in Portsmouth. Surely a job in the West Country will offer some respite? Soon he is investigating the murder of a long-distance rower in the small town of Exmouth.

Unflinching in exploring horrific crimes and the darkness they spring from, Tami Hoag combines killer pace and deadly wisecracks. And with a serial killer on the loose, it's going to be a hell of a ride!

DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. The terrible abuse he suffered in childhood hasn't stopped him enjoying family life with his wife and two daughters, or pursuing an impressive career with South London's Murder Investigation Unit. But it has left him with an uncanny ability to identi...

Meet PC Donal Casey. Irish runaway. Insomniac. Functioning alcoholic. Donal is working the beat in London, trying his best to forget that night. To ease the guilt that eats away at him. When a beautiful red-headed woman bleeds out in front of him in her London home, he knows it's not the last he'...

London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad. London is a teeming warren of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and assassins. One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker,...