British Crime Mystery

He sees inside the minds of killers. Can he face a shocking truth before a vengeful psychopath mutilates more victims? As a forensic psychiatrist and famous TV personality, Dr. Colin Powers seems unstoppable. Despite his show’s focus on true crime, he yearns for the challenge of solving real cases. But his wish sours when he receives an anonymous letter containing images of horrifically mutilated victims...

"Walter, you old rascal," chuckled the barista as she placed the steaming cup of black coffee on the counter. Walter Shively raised an eyebrow, his eyes twinkling with amusement. "I've told you, young lady, it's not polite to call an old man a rascal," he said with a wink, taking the coffee in his weathered hands. The warmth was a comforting contrast to the chill outside, and he took a sip, savoring the bitter taste that brought him back to life every morning. The barista, barely in her twenties, giggled.

If Alison Girling, former principal of England's Holm Coultram College, died in an avalanche in Austria, why has her skeleton been unearthed on campus? While no love is lost between conservative detective Andrew Dalziel and the entirety of Liberal Arts, his attention to the grim discovery must be paid. But when he and Peter Pascoe scour the ivory tower for answers, they discover that the shady faculty and creepy student body have more to bury than just one corpse. Try two-and counting.

Marty Wingate presents Book 7 in the Potting Shed Mysteries series.

Billie-Rose's bloodstained body is found in the kitchen of her ground-floor flat. She's been strangled to death, there's a deep laceration to her upper thigh, and a wooden chess-piece grasped tightly in her hand. Daubed on the wall in Billie-Rose's own blood is a strange symbol: a bishop's mitre. All Detective Jack MacIntosh can think is: He's back. Four years earlier, four young women were also strangled to death in their own homes, the same deep wound to the thigh, the same weird symbol scrawled on the wall. The work of the killer they call the Bishop. Is he back to kill again?

Still grieving the death of his long-time partner, Chase reunites with his dear friend and fellow Anglophile Billie Mondreau for a seacoast holiday of historic sightseeing. Assigned a pair of guides from the tour company Wanderers, Chase and Billie join seven other like-minded Americans looking forward to an English getaway. All except for Ronald Gretz. The wealthy entrepreneur behind the international Golden Sunset nursing-home chain doesn’t like anything about walking, touring, or England.

1850: Charles Dickens is in Manchester, performing at the Queen's Theatre with his acting group. But his career on the stage is cut short when a man is shot dead - on set. With Dickens himself caught with the gun in his hands, he is immediately arrested. Along with the help of his good friend Superintendent Sam Jones, Dickens must do all he can to find the real killer, before he is locked up for a crime he didn't commit. Can Dickens convince the authorities of his innocence? Will he unmask the true assassin?

Meet disgraced ex-DI Ellie Reckless, a self-proclaimed "cop for criminals", and the person the underworld calls when they can't call the police. For months now, she's built up a series of favors, all so she can set them off like dominos—proving that Nicky Simpson, YouTube sensation and wannabe gangster, was the man who destroyed her life—and killed the man she loved. And in return, Nicky has watched her carefully, waiting to see whether she's too much of a threat to keep alive. But when Nicky's life is threatened, he's forced to turn to Ellie and her team for help.

When Kate and Nathan receive a photo of four kidnapped models, the clock starts ticking for the detectives to save their lives before it’s too late. Kate has been on the Murder Team for a few months now, working run-of-the-mill cases with Nathan. But the memory of that first case, and it's disturbing details, still bothers her. Meanwhile, four models arrive at a shoot in a local abandoned mental asylum and are violently kidnapped. The next day, a photo of them lands on the desk of Kate and Nathan, with a chilling note.

When an armed man massacres several people in central London, Claudine witnesses the whole thing. To her horror, one of the victims is her brother, Jethro. Riven by grief, Claudine retreats to the house in the Fens where she and Jethro grew up. When the police contact her, she is left reeling when they tell her Jethro orchestrated the attack. Why would a gentle, if troubled, middle-aged man cause such bloodshed – and why would he include himself in the list of victims? Claudine finds herself down a rabbit hole of mystery, caught up in Jethro's research on a medieval cult.

The most disturbing crime they ever worked has come back to kill them. Criminal profiler Doc Powers longs for a peaceful life. Now reunited with his missing girlfriend, his idyllic dreams turn grotesque when someone nails a bloody carcass to his door. With the clues pointing toward a previous case, he fears this is just the start of a dark hunt for revenge...Detective Inspector Jack Carver looks forward to his long-overdue vacation. But when a powerful explosion tragically cuts the trip short, Carver must battle peers who suspect him of setting a devious trap.

Psychotherapist Annie O’Malley thought she’d left the police force forever. The trouble is, she thinks she knows the identity of the killer, and she’s the only one who can hunt him down before it’s too late. O’Malley is drawn back to a world she thought she’d escaped, to a case where every turn reminds her of her childhood and her missing sister. When she’s partnered with DI Joe Swift, a man with more ghosts than people in his past, O’Malley has to make the hardest decision of her life. Save a stranger. Or save herself.

When a local man is brutally murdered in his home library, Kate and Nathan are brought in to find the killer. But this was no ordinary library. Filled with books on the occult, it’s clear that they were after something. Something that was not in the library. Something that they’re willing to kill for. With the clock ticking, Kate and Nathan must find the killers or the item they were after, before they kill again.

Forty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters 16 months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works are “degenerate art” seized by the Nazis and shipped across the Atlantic to create cash for their covert operations. But how to prove it? There’s only one man for the job - Roy Hawkins. The British Secret Intelligence Service has put their half-American star agent in tough spots before, and he’s always come out on top.

When Gabriel Lee escapes an unhappy marriage and moves to Porlington to start over, he finds himself part of the Porlington Philharmonia - an orchestra made up of the usual characters you would find in such a thing. Until one of them is found dead following a concert. Suddenly, everybody is a suspect, but nobody seems likely. A thriller full of intrigue and humour, this tale gives an insight into just what a barmy world musicians live in, especially when things go fatally wrong.

Detective Mary Hume stares at the crime scene in confusion. She's in an empty flat. Peeling wallpaper. A bloodstained chair in the middle of the room. But no body. Her sergeant hands her a burner phone. On it is a video clip. It shows a woman. Tied to the chair in the flat, a carving knife pressed to her throat. Placed in the woman's lap is a piece of cardboard. Written on it in blood-red is one word: DEADTOWN.

I Surray e i loro cinque figli sono famosi scrittori. Dopo una serata con editori e artisti nella loro casa di campagna dell'Oxfordshire, Ruth, la figlia di mezzo, viene trovata morta nella sua camera, apparentemente suicida. Ma una lettera postuma della stessa defunta recapitata al fratello Richard scombina le carte...

Una notte d'estate per le vie di Londra il sergente Wigan incontra un uomo visibilmente ubriaco. È Michael Fisk, un collezionista di libri rari, che finisce per contagiare il poliziotto con la sua stessa passione. Ma Wigan non può certo immaginare che si troverà coinvolto in un mondo bizzarro e molto pericoloso. Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1956, un'indagine avvincente nel mondo del collezionismo librario che delizierà insieme gli accaniti bibliofili e gli appassionati del mistero.

From Sarah Hilary, winner of Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year and author of Fragile, this is a slow-burn psychological mystery set against the abandonment of an exclusive housing development – and devastation of the families that lived there . . . 'An astonishingly gifted writer' –...

Join ace crime reporter Colin Crampton and his feisty Australian girlfriend Shirley Goldsmith as they embark on a new adventure. It all starts when Colin spends a lazy afternoon by the beach with Shirley. But when a daring robbery takes place, Colin reckons he's on the trail of a big story. But nothing about the robbery is what it seems. Colin and Shirley are drawn deeper into danger. Colin encounters a motorcycle rocker with bad teeth, a dyslexic tattooist, and a seller of novelty toilet roll holders as he chases down his story.