In the beginning there was Laidlaw . . . the CWA Silver Dagger-winning masterpiece that launched a genre, from the godfather of Scottish crime fiction

When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding her killer. Jack Laidlaw. He is a man of contrasts, ravaged by inner demons but driven by a deep...

Inside a beautiful Victorian family home in Glasgow, a mother and her young son are found brutally murdered. DI Costello is furious and knows exactly who did it: George Haggerty, the husband and father. The only problem is that Haggerty has a cast-iron alibi – the police themselves caught him speeding at the time of the murders. But Costello can’t let it...

‘No CCTV cameras, no overlooking houses, no passing traffic or pedestrians. That means no witnesses.’

Bill Slider begins a nightmarish investigation when an unidentifiable victim is found in the no-man’s-land beneath a London highway. Slider doesn’t have much to go on. The victim, a smartly dressed businessman, has no ID in his pockets and no one has...

London, 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack wakes in a tavern’s yard with a sore head, his knife smeared with blood and a dead stranger lying beside him. Jack may have robbed the man but he’s certain that he didn’t kill him.

Unfortunately, the man’s purse contains something much more valuable than money and, as the prime suspect for the murder, everyone is...

"A marvellous set of unsavoury suspects" Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week

"A rollicking read" Evening Standard

Bryce Peabody is ready to give a scandalous talk at the annual literary festival in the pretty English town of Mold-on-Wold. Scathing in his reviews and unseemly in his affairs, Bryce is known to have many enemies. So when he is discovered dead...

"Bailey’s prose sparkles" The Times

"Puzzle solvers and historians will love this mystery" Booklist

Superstition. Murder. Vengeance.

Tabitha Hart earns a scandalous living in London, with whichever gentleman has enough coin for her company. But in the summer of 1752, her mother urgently summons her home to the village of Netherlea and, with reluctance, she...

DI David Vogel is first on the scene when Melanie Cooke’s bruised and strangled body is discovered in Bristol’s red-light district. The evidence points to Melanie’s father being the killer, but Vogel is on edge: the quick arrest is too easy, too straightforward.

When two more murders are reported, Vogel’s team broaden the search: new evidence suggests that...

Special Agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters heads straight for his home, a remote Alaskan island with a population of just eighty.

What he doesn’t know yet is why.

Soon, however, he learns that Russia is playing a dangerous political game: in a daring act of provocation, it reclaims the American island as its own...

Four washed-up spooks. Two dead civilians. One remote and deadly outpost.

Harry Tate is a loyal MI5 officer and a servant of the State. But when two civilians are shot dead during a drugs intercept gone wrong, he is forced to take an immediate posting to the Red Station.

What he doesn’t know is that this remote Balkan outpost is a punishment and he won’t be...

What’s wrong, killer got your tongue?

It’s DC Sean Blake’s first week on the job, but already he faces a series of brutal and bizarre killings: women are being strangled in their homes, each with a mobile phone forced down their throat. There are never any signs of a struggle or forced entry. The Greater Manchester Police have no leads.

Blake can’t afford to...

“You can’t upset anyone looking into old bones.”

DCI Bill Slider’s out of favour in the force—for accusing a senior Met officer of covering up an underage sex ring. As punishment, he’s given a cold case to keep him busy: some old bones to rake through, found buried in a back garden, from a murder that happened two decades ago, and with most of the principal...

London, 1471. The War of the Roses rages on . . .

Edward of York has claimed the English throne and his Yorkist supporters gleefully slaughter their adversaries; there’s no mercy for anyone who supported the Lancastrian cause.

Margaret Beaufort—mother of Henry Tudor, the only hope for the House of Lancaster—knows her enemies are closing in. Desperate for...

Harvard professor Cal Donovan faces a ruthless secret society in the first of a gripping religious conspiracy thriller series

Abruzzo, Italy: a young priest suffers the stigmata of the crucifixion.

The Vatican, Rome: the Pope calls on Harvard professor Cal Donovan to investigate the truth of the priest’s claim.

Berlin, Germany: a neo-Nazi organization...

In the sleepy, English village of Fethering, an author event at the local library ends in murder and it's up to amateur sleuths Carole and Jude to solve the case.

Fethering has everything a sleepy coastal town should: snug English pubs, cosy cottages, a little local library – and the occasional murder . . .

A bestselling author with a soaring ego and...

When a child abduction and sexual assault case overlap, Glaswegian police team Costello and Anderson team up to crack the cases.

DI Costello faces a disturbing child abduction case; a six-week-old has been stolen and replaced with another baby. The swap took cold and meticulous planning, so Costello treads the seedy, Glaswegian back streets for answers...

A heart-stopping thriller on female friendship, deadly secrets and a night out that goes horribly wrong.

Six friends. Three secrets. One murder. 

Maggie is destined to marry the perfect man in two weeks. Desperate for a last wild night on the town before the big day, she gathers six friends for a night to remember. Only things go wrong, horribly wrong.

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In this compelling Italian mystery, Detective Nic Costa is sent to infiltrate the mob on the remote Calabrian coast.

The ’Ndrangheta is a ruthless mafia organisation, one of the richest and most powerful organised crime groups in the world. Completely impenetrable to outsiders, merciless when crossed, they run the savage Calabrian coast of Italy, their...