The main aim of detective stories is to entertain but the best cast a light on human behaviour and d..

Hull 1930. A terrified woman runs through the dark rain-lashed streets pursued by a man desperate to..

In 1920's inner city Dublin Tenements Ivy Rose Murphy struggles to survive in the harsh poverty-stri..

1990 Blackpool. Thirty-three-year-old Helen Burnside is shocked when she learns that her beloved Gre..

Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family so when she blossoms ..

Dupin needs Poe?s help solving a deadly crime. Poe agrees and soon becomes enmeshed in Dupin?s quest..

Max Jackson a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris has a complicated arrangement with his est..

Did you know that the history of the beard is connected to the Crimean War; that the history of pape..

November 1983: Three hundred feet beneath the Atlantic submarine Lieutenant Bill Guth and his fellow..

When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident Shetland detective Jimmy Perez..

1864: Suddenly left as the head of the family Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep he..

It?s with mixed motives that Karen Slocombe?s cousin Penn pays her a visit. Not only does Penn want ..

Wrongly disgraced and her career left in tatters palaeontologist Darcy Manning embarks on a mission ..

They were best friends who never meant to fall in love - but for one of them it was already too late..

On top investment bank Bloomfield Weiss?s training programme in New York Chris and Lenka had become ..