Collection: Mystery

Ten days to Christmas and Tracey Uphill, aged eight, hasn't come home from Sunday school. Her mother, a pretty young prostitute, is desperate. Enter Detective Inspector Jack Frost, sloppy, scruggy and insubordinate.

A young man is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out. A student of Icelandic history in Reykjavik, he came from a wealthy German family who do not share the police's belief that his drug dealer murdered him. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is commissioned by his mother to find out the truth.

She started as a maid in an aristocratic London household, studied her way into Garton College at Cambridge, then became a front line nurse in WW1. Now she has set up on her own as a private investigator - with a case that will force her to confront the ghost of her past.

Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Inspector Salvo Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.

When an elderly man is murdered in Istanbul's decrepit Jewish quarter, it seems frighteningly like the motive is racial. But Inspector Ikmnen, husband of Fatma, father of eight and the sone of an Albanian mother whose reputed gift of second sight gave rise to rumours that she was a witch, is not...

Once a Para in the elite SAS, now an Edinburgh policeman, John Rebus spends his time evading his memories, & right now ignoring a series of crank letters. As murders occur under his nose, he realises he can no longer ignore the killer's presence.