Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women .

Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is forced to turn reluctant sleuth yet again in the fourth of this fast-paced, highly entertaining racing mystery series.

Government girl Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be posted to London, but her journey across the Atlantic proves to be anything but plain sailing.

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this captivating and riveting thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer.

Extraordinary crimes require extraordinary detectives.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light .

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.

Another impeccable edge-of-your-seat thriller from bestselling author John D MacDonald that has inspired a generation of crime writers.

Let John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - take you on a ride with this high-octane, all-action thriller.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

As we've come to expect from John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - this thriller, with its vivid characterisation, masterful sense of suspense and sardonic take on life, is so gripping, you'll be hard pressed not to finish it in one sitting.

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss.

Let John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - take you on a ride with this high-octane, all-action thriller.

'Fast, hard and knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue, tradecraft and suspense.

ESCAPE THE NIGHT -a powerful novel of suspense and scandal, of surveillance and threat, of amnesia and obsession, of parents and children - and the long buried secret that links them all in a deadly chain.

Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books.

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery.

Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben, has written a thriller jam-packed withaction, tension and twists and turns.

Private is going down under.

Jamie Saintclair embarks on another action-packed historical adventure, guaranteed to have you gripped from page one!

'If you like your crime medicine strong, this will keep you gripped.

Suspense as sharp as a scalpel's edge.

It s a brutal race to the finish line .

Private is the world s largest detective agency.

Showgirls.

The past is a foreign country .

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled.

He is the first, the sharpest, and the most chillingly modern detective of the Victorian era.

*The #1 Irish bestseller*The latest gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author'The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction' ERIN KELLY'Oh.

Charlatans is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.

From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing.

Irma and Siiri go out with a bang in The End of Sunset Grove, the conclusion to Minna Lindgren's Lavender Ladies Detective Agency trilogy.

Something Wicked is the first in a breathtaking Andrew Hunter series from Kerry Wilkinson, creator of the bestselling Jessica Daniel books.

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again.

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againMurder in Paradise is the third mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againCome Death and High Water is the second mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

Former Secret Service Agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, return in their most surprising, personal and dangerous case to date.

High Island Blues is the eighth and final mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againSea Fever is the sixth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet againThe Mill on the Shore is the seventh mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.