In the Paris Bureau of the World Reporter, the pressure was on. Their New York chief wanted a story, and a good story, quick. An Iraqi named Colonel Arbil had been murdered in Switzerland, and the police were trying to find the woman in the bikini who had been his mistress and who had witnessed the crime. The Paris bureau was short of top reporters at the time. The assignment was handed, rather reluctantly, to Piet Maas. Read More...

Paris, 1892. The American historian Henry Adams, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American woman studying in Paris. But when he goes looking for Miriam, no one at her given address has seen her. And when another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adam knows she is in trouble and needs his assistance. Read More...

"It may seem odd to class a man who has difficulty in rolling his umbrella... among the Supermen of detection, but Father Brown belongs among them." Read More...

Homeless, hungry, and broke, a young Pole wanders through the streets of Paris with his Hungarian girlfriend. Stan, wanted for a crime in his native Poland, has only one thing to sell, and only one possible buyer for it...the police. But if Stan betrays the gang, will he be an outlaw twice over? Read More...

A Horrific shooting incident at a private school just north of Edinburgh: two seventeen-year-olds killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. A man who finally turns the gun on himself. As Dective Inspector John Rebus puts it, 'there's no mystery'...except the why. Read More...

Once again, Laurence Gough brilliantly captures the sights and sounds of Vancouver, as police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker investigate the murder of a city police officer, who had a very arcane sex life. But is that the key to his death? Read More...

The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a disused siding marks the beginning of Inspector Aurelio Zen's most difficult and dangerous case, set against the backdrop of the three-thousand-year-old city of Catania. Read More...

'It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant ... It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his knees.' Who was Billy Blake, other than a homeless alcoholic who wandered the streets? Read More...

Twelve hours after a woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away walking the streets of Poole, alone and apparently abandoned ... Read More...

When Venetia Aldridge QC defends young Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, this for her is just one more case, one more opportunity to triumph in a distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But Regina v. Ashe sets in motion a chain of events as terrifying as they are unpredictable. Read More...