Collection: Mystery

Elderly heiress Celeste Van Duren intended Marchfield Square to be a haven from the outside world. A place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts, or who could otherwise not afford to stay in the city they call home. That was the plan. One of her tenants being murdered in his own kitc...

Travel writer Jill Curtis is in Louisville, Kentucky, on the next stop of her bourbon tour assignment, but the night before her first tour at Parker's Distillery, she is shocked to learn that the master distiller, William Scott, has died suddenly of a heart attack. Could there be more to William'...

Detective Lindsay Boxer has finally married her long-time boyfriend Joe. But she doesn't have time for a honeymoon before returning to work. A 15-year-old girl is found lying unconscious in the street, naked but for a cheap plastic raincoat, and haemorrhaging badly after having given birth, but t...

Detective Lindsay Boxer has finally married her long-time boyfriend Joe. But she doesn't have time for a honeymoon before returning to work. A 15-year-old girl is found lying unconscious in the street, naked but for a cheap plastic raincoat, and haemorrhaging badly after having given birth, but t...

Millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down and Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals, and it was taken from an SFPD evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer, even her closest friends on the ...

We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses ...

1222 metres above sea level and the worst snow storm in recent Norwegian history is raging. Marooned in a mountain pass and with night falling, 269 travellers are forced to abandon their train and decamp into a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn b...

Lindsay Boxer's baby is born. But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. And an eccentric English profes...

Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge. After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law career. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy has he...

Set in the year of the Armada, '1588' brings together five eBook exclusive short stories featuring Hew Cullan, together with Francesm Giles, Meg and other characters from the 'Hew Cullan' series.