Crime and mystery: police procedural

After the dramatic events in Dying Fall, Woodend reminisces on his long career in a brand new story.

'This is a cracking good series, with this latest entry quite possible being the best yet' - Booklist Starred ReviewThis is the latest DCI Charlie Woodend mystery.

This is the new Charlie Woodend mystery.

Five little Englishmen, feeling quite secure, one went and lost his head, and then there were four.

A politician spills his guts - all over the road!

The latest Detective Chief Inspector Woodend mystery When Captain Robert Kineally went missing from Haverton American Army base in Devon in 1944, it was generally assumed he had lost his nerve and deserted.

'Spencer continues to display her mastery of the British procedural and this one.

It is one of the most brutal murders Chief Inspector Woodend has ever encountered .

DCI Woodend's first foreign holiday, in General Franco's Spain, ends abruptly when he sees a fellow guest plunge mysteriously from his hotel balcony to the rocky beach below With the help of Paco Ruiz a former policeman, living in disgrace since the Spanish Civil War Woodend embarks on an unofficial investigation which provides more questions than answers.

A village with a dark code for Woodend to crackTo be Witch Makers in the moorland village of Hallerton is both a great honour and a heavy burden.

DCI Henry Christie, taken off an anonymous murder case and transferred into a dead-end desk job, leaps at the chance to investigate the brutal killing of an ex-cop turned sleazy private eye.

A series of increasingly violent assaults is shrouding the happy-go-lucky resort of Blackpool in a veil of terror.

'a standout among her reliably entertaining procedurals' - Kirkus Starred ReviewThe tenth in the acclaimed Inspector Woodend seriesThere had never been a murder in Whitebridge like this one.

'Spencer's latest is her best: an ingenious puzzle that goes straight to the heart' - Kirkus Starred ReviewA miscarriage of justice for DCI WoodendThough it is thirty years since Margaret Dodds was tried and executed for the brutal murder of her second husband, many troubling questions raised during the trial are still left unanswered.

'Superior work from a best-selling British author' - Library JournalA man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors.

The discovery of the body of a young, red-haired school mistress, lying in a pig-pen with her face half-eaten away, is the beginning of a new investigation for Charlie Woodend.

When the brutally murdered body of a Manchester drug dealer is found dumped just inside the Lancashire border, it turns out that the dead man had been a CID informant working for a small nucleus of corrupt detectives.

Transferred from CID to uniform duties, Inspector Henry Christie is back at the sharp end of policing and he's not happy about it -- especially when a brutal murder, apparently the work of a serial killer, takes place on his patch .

A young prostitute is murdered, and Inspector Peach finds himself with a complex, unpleasant case on his hands.

Head teacher Peter Logan is a strange case of Jekyll and Hyde.

The latest Chief Inspector Woodend mystery With the newspapers screaming for a quick solution, this is a case no one wants to touch -- so naturally it is Chief Inspector Woodend who finds himself left holding the baby.

Chief Inspector Percy Peach, Detective Sergeant Lucy Blake and the team, hindered as usual by the direction of Chief Superintendent Thomas Bulstrode Tucker, have one of their most puzzling and compelling mysteries to solve.

Welcome to Italian police detective Nic Costas Rome: the side of the city the tourist board does not want you to see.

A mysterious fire at a Somerset manor house leads to a complex and intriguing case for Bristol detective David Vogel.

Two violent suicides leave Coroner Martha Gunn with some disturbing questions to answer - but the most difficult one of all lies closer to home .

Introducing cross-border investigators Peter Ash and Frankie Varg of the European Crime Division in the first of a series of hard-hitting thrillers.

Branson county sheriff Hank Worth struggles to uncover the truth behind a fatal car crash in this absorbing mystery.

Who was Anthony Garrett?

Constable Hazel Best attracts a sinister new admirer in this absorbing police procedural.

Assistant Chief Constable Iles finds himself suspected of murder in the fast-paced 35th installment of the popular Harpur and Iles police procedural series.

"e;Brings a creepy new note to Spencer's long-running series"e; Kirkus ReviewsThe discovery of a body on a local allotment site re-opens an unresolved cold case for Monika Paniatowski and her team.

A body found stabbed repeatedly outside the local lido leads DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap into an intriguing new case.

DI Joanna Piercy is not happy when she's assigned the apparently minor case of finding a missing elderly man, but it turns out to be far more sinister .

A deadly fire at a nudist club plunges DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole into an explosive mix of deception, betrayal and fraud.

A gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, the international #1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones.

'Brunetti .

Two women died every week in the UK at the hands of a partner or ex-partner.

It begins with a father calling his daughter, but whoever answers is not Pia but his daughter s killer.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'The most polished crime writer on the murder beat' Daily ExpressFive footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here.

SHE'S LOCKED THE DOOR BUT THE KILLER'S INSIDEI believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked.

'Expect a white-knuckle ride to very dark places.

'Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best' HARLAN COBENTHE VICTIMSIn Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder.

Boxing day, late shift.

________________________A gripping psychological suspense novel from the author of Until You're Mine.

Discover the addictive first book in Fred Vargas s internationally acclaimed Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg series The hottest property in contemporary crime fiction Guardian Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen.

Creepy, enthralling, twisty and very moving, Poppet is perfect for fans of Stephen King, Karin Slaughter and Stuart MacBride'Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers' Karin Slaughter'Oozes sinisterness from the first page' Entertainment weekly 'With Mo Hayder you never know where you are going until you get there' The Times-----------------------------------------THE MAUDE IS OUTSIDE.

The third utterly gripping thriller from the former head of MI5 and bestselling author Stella Rimington, featuring MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.

One of the boldest thriller writers working today TESS GERRITSEN Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled MICHAEL CONNELLY__________________________________FBI Special Agent Will Trent s instinct is put to the test.

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLHow do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?

The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective.