Detective & Mystery Stories

They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons – and to unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago.  Book 6 of series.

Her name is Jane Smith. But to friends and foes, she's Jane Effing Smith. Why? Because she's the best criminal defense attorney in the Hamptons - the elite world of New York's rich and infamous. Because she's as good an investigator as she is a lawyer. Because she's tough. She's strong. As Jane is preparing to defend a high-profile client accused of a triple homicide, she's also hired to revive a cold case - a cluster of unsolved murders. Then another bombshell lands: a devastating medical diagnosis. Terminal. She's got a year to live. But first, she has a trial to win. Unless one of her many enemies kills her first.

1222 metres above sea level and the worst snow storm in recent Norwegian history is raging. Marooned in a mountain pass, 269 travellers are forced to abandon their train and decamp into an old mountain hotel. But as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered. Retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate...

Detective Lindsay Boxer has everything she could possibly want. Her marriage and baby daughter are perfect, and life in Homicide in the San Francisco Police Department is going well. But all that could change in an instant.

Lindsay is called to a crime scene at the Four Seasons Hotel. There is a dead man in one of the rooms, shot at close range. The man checked in under a false name with no ID on him, so the first puzzle will be finding out who he is.

In the room next door are a dead young man and woman, also shot. They are surrounded by high-tech surveillance equipment. Could they have been spying on the man now dead in the room next to them?

And in the utilities cupboard down the hall is the dead body of a house maid. The murders are all clearly linked and professionally executed. But what is the motive behind it all? Lindsay will need to risk everything she has to find out.

A LIFE FALLING APART

Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer had the perfect life with her beautiful baby daughter and her loving husband Joe. That was before she discovered everything she knew about Joe was a lie - and his betrayal cuts deep.

A SILENT KILLING SPREE

As Lindsay grapples with her personal life, a wave of mysterious heart attacks strikes across San Francisco, killing seemingly unrelated victims. Is it just chance - or is something more sinister at work?

AN EXPLOSIVE TRIAL

At the same time, a maniac bomber captured by the combined efforts of Joe and Lindsay is on trial - and his defence raises damning questions about Lindsay and Joe's investigation. Before long, Lindsay faces the prospect of her being the one on trial...

THE TABLES ARE TURNING...  Book 16 of series.

A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself.

The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets inside Lindsay in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical symptoms, and her friends and confidantes in the Women's Murder Club warn Lindsay against taking the crimes too much to heart. With lives at stake, the detective can't help but follow the case into ever more terrifying terrain.

A decorated officer, loving wife, devoted mother, and loyal friend, Lindsay's unwavering integrity has never failed her. But now she is confronting a killer who is determined to undermine it all.

Christmas is coming, but crime never stops for the Women's Murder Club. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is looking forward to spending time with her family over the holidays. But when she receives a tip-off that the biggest heist ever to hit San Francisco is being planned for Christmas Day, everything changes. The architect of the ambitious attack unleashes chaos across the city, laying traps and false alarms to distract Lindsay and the SFPD from his ultimate goal. As time runs out, will Lindsay be able to save the people of San Francisco from a Christmas they'd never forget? 

Book 19 of series.

When Angela Hoot is kicked off her graduate programme at MIT for hacking into the computer of a fellow student, she fears she's blown her chances of a glittering career. Angela is wrong: instead, she's offered a dream internship with the FBI. She jumps at the chance, and is thrown straight into her first case at a house in the Boston suburbs where a family of five have been brutally murdered. As Angela struggles to come to terms with the harsh reality of her new job, a phone is found that could hold the secrets of this mass murder - if Angela is able to uncover them.

As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But when a brutal maniac begins viciously slaughtering newly wed couples on their wedding nights, Lindsay turns to Claire, a leading coroner, Cindy, a journalist and Jill, a top attorney, for help, and the Women's Murder Club is born. 

Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home to LA to bury her estranged father, and discovers that he left her two final surprises . . . The first is a private detective agency; the second is a teenage half-sister she has never met. Going into his old office to close down the business, Rhonda gets drawn into a case involving a young man who claims he was abducted. But what at first seems to be a simple investigation, soon takes Rhonda to a dark and dangerous place . . .

Simultaneous murders hit LA, Chicago and San Francisco. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is tasked with uncovering what links these precise and calculated killings. Lindsay discovers that the victims all excel in lucrative, criminal activity. As the casualty list expands, fear and fascination with this shocking spree provoke debate across the country. Are the killers villains or heroes? And who will be next?  Book 20 of series.

Will she live to see her twenty-first birthday? When a distraught mother pleads with reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, Tara, and her baby granddaughter, Cindy goes straight to SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer.

The prime suspect is Tara's husband, but he tells a conflicting story that paints Tara as a wayward wife, not a missing person. Is this a tragic case of domestic violence? Or is the truth linked to a more complex network of killings? As the case grows into something far bigger than any of them could have imagined, the Women's Murder Club will need to work together to unpick the truth from a web of lies.  Book 21 of series.

22 seconds... until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge - or her life.

SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind.

There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home.

Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies.

You talk, you die.

Now it's Lindsay's turn to choose.  Book 22 of series.

The thrilling new novella in the globally bestselling Women's Murder Club series plus two gripping new short stories. 

23 ½ Lies: When SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is called to investigate a crime scene, nothing can prepare her for what she finds: her estranged father gunned down execution style. The case will soon reveal to Lindsay a series life-altering truths... 

Fallen Ranger: A series of armed robberies are linked to a gang of motorcycle bandits. Rory Yates, the hero of Texas Ranger, is tasked with hunting them down.

Watch Your Back: A starving artist is paid to expose his client's cheating wife. But no amount of money can protect him from a world of corruption...

Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke behind bars. Now a new killer has recreated Burke's most infamous crimes-and disappeared without a trace. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas put Burke on the bestseller list, in her true-crime book about the case.

An obsessed fan is studying every detail-and committing fresh horrors that carry Burke's signature. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, one who's penning a deadly playbook featuring Cindy's name in blood-red ink.

Two boys out sledging in their local park find the body of an old woman in the snow. Who is she? How did she come to be there?

Over ten episodes, this compelling series moves backwards and forwards in time to reveal the chain of events that led her to that point.We meet members of her family, her friends and the people she has encountered, all of whom provide clues to help us put the puzzle together. From the police and paramedics to the nurses and residents in an old people's home, each character has their own relationships and circumstances - and on our journey to understanding the old woman's story, we hear theirs too, combining to form a brilliant kaleidoscope of modern life and love.

Journalist Madison Webb never thought she would be investigating her own sister’s murder. She uncovers evidence that suggests that Abi was a victim in a series of killings that have been hushed up as part of a major conspiracy. With her life on the line, Madison must give up the story, or face the consequences…

A young mother is recuperating in a top San Francisco hospital when suddenly she's gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. How and why did this happen? Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer discovers that this is not the hospital's first suspicious case. Other patients have taken unexpected and devastating turns for the worse just as they're planning to go home. Are these just appalling coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives?

A string of fatal arson attacks has broken out in San Francisco. The targets have one thing in common: they are all rich, successful, married couples. With four couples dead, Detective Lindsay Boxer is determined to put a stop to the killings and trace the murderer. Michael Campion was a people's hero who publicly battled against a rare and debilitating heart illness. When he vanished without trace, the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines. But what is the link between the Campion case and the arson attacks? Lindsay, and her friends in the Women's Murder Club, must race to find the suspects and stop the cold-blooded killer, and fast. 

When Laurence Fife was murdered, the police thought his wife Nikkie, with motive and opportunity, was the prime suspect. The jury thought so too. Eight years later and out on parole, Nikki hires P.I. Kinsey Millhone to find the real killer. The trail is cold, but Kinsey finds a lead that brings her face-to-face with the murderer...

When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. As they struggle desperately to find the missing boy who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time where it's their turn to become the prey . . .  Book 22 of series.

An investigator from the Carabiniere, looking into the illegal hauling of garbage, asks for a favour. But the investigator is not the only one with a special request. His father-in-law needs help and a mysterious woman comes into the picture. Commissario Brunetti soon finds himself embroiled in a dangerous investigation into murder and corruption.  Book 18 of series.

Heather Malone has lived in Lake Henry for fourteen years. Out of the blue, she is arrested for murdering a man in California. Her partner Micah, her lawyer Cassie, and her best friend Poppy Blake, all work tirelessly to clear her name.

Ten-year-old Amy has been abducted from Acid Row. The revelation that a known paedophile has been re-located to the area leads to rioting, which, after five hours of savagery, leaves three people dead. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Flavia Petrelli, reigning diva of La Scala, had attacked the men with a speed born out of anger and surprise. She had routed the strangers from her beautiful home on the top floor of a fourteenth-century Venetian palazzo. But she had been unable to save her lover, Brett Lynch, from a terrible beating at their hands.  Book 5 of series.

Philip Fletcher takes an undemanding job at the Chichester Festival, but his detective skills are soon in demand as a friend is pursued by a stalker.

A young Asian couple move into a dilapidated house in Upton Park. Nasreen, spends her time working alone on the house, whilst her husband Abdullah goes to work. When Nasreen's friend, a homeless man, disappears she reaches out to the Arnold Detective Agency. Mumtaz Hakim begins to dig into Abdullah's past and into the house itself which, she finds, holds its own grim secrets.

Minty's fiance, Jock Lewis, was supposed to have died in the Paddington train crash. When his ghost appeared before Minty, and even touched her, she decided to protect herself from this shadow man and started to carry a knife!

The investigation of a young woman's murder twelve years ago sets off a terrifying chain of events.

Retired doctor Fredrik Welin lives alone on an island in the Swedish archipelago. But his quiet, solitary life is turned upside down when his house catches fire. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. When another house goes up in flames, the community realizes they have an arsonist in their midst...

Arson, accident or murder? After a fire rips through a North London tower block, two bodies are found locked in an eleventh-floor flat. But it is the third victim - the MP Geoff Armstrong - that requires the presence of detective Maeve Kerrigan and the murder squad. It appears that Armstrong, trapped by the fire, chose to jump to his death rather than wait for rescue. But why? And what was the controversial right-wing politician doing there in the first place? As Maeve picks through the wreckage, she will uncover a secret world where everyone has something to hide . . .

Undertaker Francis Hancock enters the world of Romany gypsies in a tale of murder, magic and Nazi spies set in Epping Forest during the Blitz.

Dawn Prentice was already known to the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit. The previous summer she had logged a number of calls detailing the harassment she and her severely disabled teenage daughter were undergoing. Now she is dead. Was DS Ferreira, only recently back at work after being severely injured, negligent in not taking Dawn's accusations more seriously?

Book 3 in the Zigic and Ferreira series.

When a boat containing a disfigured corpse is found in the port of Vigata, the investigation leaves a luxury vessel with a shady crew stuck in the port until Inspector Montalbano can make sense of the crime. Soon Montalbano finds himself getting into tangles with the dreaded Commissioner, and a beautiful young woman with whom he becomes dangerously besotted. But can he clear his head long enough to unravel this murky mystery?

New York has seen more than its fair share of horrific attacks, but after two devastating catastrophes in quick succession, everyone is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett is given the task of hunting down the shadowy terror group responsible. Fighting the chaos all around him, Bennett is racing against the clock to save his beloved city - before the most destructive force he has ever faced tears it apart.  Book 8 of series.

Alex Prévost may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives have nothing to go on: all they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.