So John Dalmas is hired to smear a girl, a gold-digging lady with bedroom eyes. Forerunner of Philip Marlowe, like the other private eyes in these five stories, Dalmas is tough-talking and soft-centred - and trouble is his business. Read More...

When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, the men in her life assume it's because she's married to a cop. But while they trawl after shoals of red herrings, Ellie is blasted off course with a motley crew of women on a voyage of discovery whose perils make Scylla and Charybdis look like a pair of Barbie dolls. Read More...

The questions are piling up and Doug McHarg can't stop asking them, even when he's warned off by his boss in the local police force, Scotland Yard, and by increasingly professional death threats. The pattern that emerges is of a shadowy, immensely powerful organization, with a reach that extends to the White House and the English throne. Read More...

Shocking allegations have been directed at Chris Porphyry. When Chris turns to Joe Sixsmith, PI, he's more than willing to help only Joe hadn't counted on being kissed and dangled out of a window all in the same day! Before long though, Joe's on the trail of a conspiracy that starts with missing bells, and ends with murder... Read More...

Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God, others say that God wasn't ready for Dalziel. Sandytown's principal landowners have grandiose plans for the seaside resort devoted to healing - none of which they can agree on. When one of them goes in a particularly gruesome fashion, DCI Peter Pascoe is called in to investigate. Read More...

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel. Heredity seems to have gone a gene too far when Pal Maciver's suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier. In each case accusing fingers point towards Pal's stepmother, the beautiful enigmatic Kay Kafka. But she turns out to have a formidable champion, Mid-Yorkshire's own super-heavyweight, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel. Read More...

A Dalziel and Pacoe novel. This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and as the Dendale reservoir waters shrink and the old village re-emerges from the depths, old fears and suspicions arise too as someone sprays the deadly message on the walls on the small town of Danby. Read More...

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...

Maureen Johnson wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that he is dead. This, Maureen says to herself: is not a good way to start the day. 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...