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A collection of seven short stories, recorded here for the first time. In The Killing Field, Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how to spend the rest of their holiday, when their presence is requested at a Cumbrian airfield. An airfield that, during the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, was...

Monsieur Magloire, personnage énigmatique, vit depuis quelques années à Montélimar dans une belle propriété qu'il a héritée de son cousin et immédiatement vendue, en viager, pour vivre tranquillement de ses rentes. Un beau matin, il est retrouvé, par sa bonne, pendu dans son salon. Le commissaire de police mandé sur place découvre dans la poche du mort un bout de papier sur lequel est inscrit en rouge le chiffre 131.313. Monsieur Rosic, célèbre détective et ami du procureur de la République, est appelé sur les lieux pour démêler l'affaire du "Chiffre qui tue !"

Read by Hugh Fraser A new Christie mystery combining love, death and melodrama blended together as only Agatha Christie can. Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he...

The exciting new mystery featuring the former head of MI6's Q Branch, Major Boothroyd, from the James Bond universe. Fresh from successfully reinvestigating his childhood friend's mysterious death, Q is hired as a civilian contractor by the police in his sleepy hometown to look into the unsolved...

When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d’instruction Mattiew Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation. But when Lombard’s young niece appears, the inquiry changes course. Suddenly immersed in another world – one of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and the violent forgotten underbelly of society – Lombard begins to make unexpected connections.

It was all going so well until an old man with old fashioned ideas stuck his nose in … Amsterdam has its share of seedy criminals, just like everywhere else. Sylvia van Lidth sits atop a criminal empire providing a service to a very specific clientele … a very wealthy clientele with a...

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing...

Convalescing after his recent injuries, Albert Smith is taking it easy … until a face from his past appears on his TV screen and everything changes. There’s an old score to settle and this time his quest for justice will take him from his quiet English home to the foot of the Alps. With Rex...

Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards, a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow.

Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke's iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayou When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows...

To af Norges mest populære krimiforfattere, Jørn Lier Horst og Thomas Enger, har slået sig sammen i en ny, effektiv duo og har sammen skrevet spændingsromanen NULPUNKT. En berømt sportsstjerne forsvinder, og andre kendte menneske kommer ud for mistænkelige ulykker. Berømmelsens pris er...

In Donna Leon’s brilliant twentieth mystery, Brunetti must prove that all is not what it seems in the death of an elderly widow. Late one night, Brunetti is called away from dinner to investigate the death of a widow in her modest apartment. Though there are some signs of a struggle, the...

"Ici, on a tous du sang indien et quand ce n'est pas dans les veines, c'est sur les mains." Le 11 juin 1981, trois cents policiers de la sûreté du Québec débarquent sur la réserve de Restigouche pour s'emparer des filets des Indiens mig'maq. Émeutes, répression et crise d'ampleur : le pays découvre son angle mort.

Quando viene chiamato su una strada di montagna, al vicequestore Rocco Schiavone basta uno sguardo per capire di trovarsi di fronte a una rottura del decimo livello della sua personalissima classifica. Un ciclista, infatti, è stato vittima di un incidente. Il morto si chiama Paolo Sanna, un cinquantenne che da un po' di tempo abita in zona ma che apparentemente nessuno conosce. Dai primi accertamenti risultano subito delle stranezze.

'WALKER BRINGS TO LIFE A COMPLETE COMMUNITY AND THE CHIEF OF POLICE WHO IS ITS PROTECTOR, TEACHER AND FRIEND' - Literary Review In rural Dordogne, Bruno, Chief of Police, knows that WW2 casts the longest shadow. Rare bank notes are found, linking to the famous Neuvic train robbery of 1944 in the...

When two street kids witness a body dumped in the River Thames, no one believes them—until one of them disappears. Homeless veteran Shrap Nelson takes the case, determined to find the missing boy and expose the truth behind the murder. As Shrap digs deeper, she uncovers a disturbing connection, the victim was a former soldier with a dangerous past. Joined by DC Trevelyan, she’s thrust into a web of suspects and dark secrets, where power and corruption run deep.

Sometimes the oldest secrets are the hardest ones to keep. When retired police detective, Albert Smith, and his dog wander into a small town in the French mountains, no one expects the trouble they will uncover. A body has been unearthed at a nearby archaeological dig and it’s clear no one was...

Tiksi, ville portuaire oubliée aux confins de la Sibérie, accessible par avion ou par bateau deux ou trois mois l'an. C'est là, à 700 kilomètres derrière le cercle polaire, qu'Anna rejoint une équipe de scientifiques qui s'apprête à hiverner sur la banquise à bord d'un voilier. Mais dans cet extrême bout du monde, où la fonte des glaces fait resurgir des virus millénaires, où rôdent les ours et les loups, où s'affrontent chasseurs de mammouths et militaires corrompus, les avaries et la tempête retardent le périple.

Brought to you by Penguin. A sinister plot that will devastate the Western world. A 2,000-year-old mystery that still lurks in the depths . . . When Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon answer a distress call from a research ship, nothing can prepare them for what they find. A strange and...

SHORT-LENGTH NOVELLA exclusive on EBOOK and AUDIO only. Secrets, lies and betrayal collide in the gripping new novella from the incomparable Barbara Taylor Bradford. What would you do if you discovered that your best friend could be your worst enemy? Hayley Martin and Fiona Chambers have been...