Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives

The worlds most beloved detective, Hercule Poirotthe legendary star of Agatha Christies Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casketreturns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930.

The twentieth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye KellermanWhen fifteen-year-old Gregory Hesse is found dead, a single gunshot to his head, it appears to be a tragic suicide.

A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play by Charles OsborneSir Claud Amory's revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen.

Some of Agatha Christie's earliest stories - including her very first - which show the Queen of Crime in the making.

When a man plunges down a cliff, two adventurous young friends decide to find his killer.

A weekly dinner partyTen amateur sleuthsThe Tuesday Night Club murdersOn a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a group of friends gather for dinner.

A shocking crimeA mansion filled with suspectsRuth Van Rydock can't shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen to her sister at Stonygates house.

Agatha Christie's international mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

A strange houseA ghost from the pastAs soon as she moves into Hillside, Gwenda knows there's something strange about this house.

A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house.

An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will.

A wealthy familyA fatal cup of teaRex Fortescue was enjoying his morning cup of tea when he met his untimely end.

A priest's death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub.

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice.

A letter from beyond the graveOne last requestAn unsolvable crimeWhen Miss Marple receives a letter from the recently deceased millionaire Jason Rafiel, she's not sure what to make of it.

A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year's Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite.

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery.

On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back.

An ordinary villageA shocking announcementOne morning the villagers of Chipping Cleghorn wake to find a strange notice in their papers:'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage.

Agatha Christie's famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

In this set of short stories, Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake.

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.

A sun-drenched story of desire and murder with a conclusion you'll never see coming.

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict.

A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing.

A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home.

A typist uncovers a man's body from behind the sofa.

A Caribbean resortStrangers thrown togetherIs there evil in paradise?

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players.

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace.

A young woman found murderedA scandal in the makingWhen Mrs Bantry wakes to find a body in her library, there's only one woman to call: her good friend Jane Marple.

A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination.

A grand old London hotelA series of alarming coincidencesDanger lurking down every corridorImpeccable service.

A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra.

The master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly - and his sister is convinced it was murder.

'About as noir as it can be.

The inimitable Faith Fairchild returns in a chilling New England whodunit, inspired by the best Agatha Christie mysteries and with hints of the timeless board game Clue.

Reginald Hill's best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: 'Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world' - IndependentEx-convict and aspiring academic, Franny Roote, has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe who immediately smells a rat.

The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, films and TV appearances.

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' Marcel Berlins, The Times '[Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of one's wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller' Sunday TimesWhen a four-year-old child is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, Detective Inspector Dog Cicero soon realizes that this is no routine investigation.

'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday TimesHurrying out of St Monkey's church one day, Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy's corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he's ever known.

Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel investigates a murder close to home in this first crime novel featuring the much-loved detective team of Dalziel and Pascoe.

SISTER ROSE IS ON A MISSION.

Witty Italian art-history crime series featuring English dealer Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the best-selling literary masterpiece, 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring Jonathon Argyll, scholar and sleuth, from the bestselling author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

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A stunning and powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century.

Judith McMonigle Flynn has her hands full with unexpected family ties and a dead body in the backyard in this delightfully zany mystery in Mary Daheims popular Bed-and-Breakfast series.

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD, THE MACAVITY AWARD, THE ANTHONY AWARD, AND THE BARRY AWARDFOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL NOMINATED FOR THE 2015 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZEWith the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Michael Connelly, Edgar Award-nominee Lou Berneys The Long and Faraway Gone is a smart, fiercely compassionate crime story that explores the mysteries of memory and the impact of violence on survivorsand the lengths they will go to find the painful truth of the events that scarred their lives.