Featuring Dalziel and Pascoe. Caught in the blast of a huge Semtex explosion, the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death's door might be his own size (and indomitable willpower). Pascoe is certain of a conspiracy and the attempted murder of Yorkshire Police's most inept officer only convinces him further. Read More...

Chief Inspector Wexford in a psychological gripper following the worst floods in memory. Three people are missing, but one woman is too sure that they are dead... Read More...

Stephen Whalby is master of the moor. What others find bleak and foreboding, Stephen sees as reassuring and darkly beautiful. When a second murdered woman is found, Stephen's sacred moor becomes a home for death, holding one final, fatal secret for him alone. Read More...

Kinsey finds an old undelivered letter amid childhood memorabilia. It will force her to re-examine her beliefs about the break-up of her first marriage, about the honour of her first husband, about an old unsolved murder. And it will put her life in the gravest peril. Read More...

Police lieutenant Claude LaPointe's normally turbulent existence is exploded by a grotesque murder in the Main. A flashy young Italian has been found on his knees, stabbed to death in a back alley. LaPointe's investigation leads him to pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, winos, and thieves, but not to a prompt solution. Read More...

It's 1963. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. For two years he'd been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts all his energy - and love - into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life, even though he feels empty and a little bored sometimes, but all that is about the change. Read More...

1953 and there's a cold wind blowing across America. Even in LA, Easy Rawlins is feeling the chill, with the tax man at his door... the only way to make some luck is undercover work for the IRS. Until one of his targets winds up dead and the fingers are pointing at Easy... Read More...

The summer of '48 in the City of Angels and there's heat on the streets and in the ghettos of LA when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalks. Heat when she disappears with a truckload of someone else's cash. Read More...

A novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgement on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is dying. Read More...

Five Years have passed since the White Butterfly affair: there's Kennedy in the White House and Martin Luther King is in the news. And then, sure enough, trouble comes knocking again at Easy's door... Read More...