British Detectives Thrillers

Nella lussureggiante campagna del Lake District, un giovane viene ritrovato morto nella sua autofficina. Tutto farebbe pensare a un suicidio. Ma non è della stessa opinione l’ispettore Meredith, che si troverà coinvolto in un’intrigante indagine sullo sfondo dei suggestivi paesaggi della Cumbria. Pubblicata per la prima volta negli anni Trenta, un’indagine travolgente e ricca di colpi di scena firmata da John Bude, nella quale immergersi pagina dopo pagina, seguendo le orme dell’ispettore Meredith nel mistero più oscuro del Lake District.

When DI Allie Shenton is called out to a murder suicide, it quickly becomes clear that it's a double slaying, and there is a killer on the loose. The bodies are found in a property owned by local entrepreneur/drug dealer Kenny Webb. Several young women are staying there, they are refusing to talk and one of them is missing. While she waits on forensic evidence, Allie decides to do what she does best. She takes to the community to see who will talk. Right now, she's the only one who can get answers. But then a third murder rattles everyone.

In Liverpool, a woman inexplicably leaps to her death. The following morning, two bodies are found on nearby Crosby Beach: a woman tied to a statue, and a man buried up to his neck and left to drown. When a nine-month-old murder case is reopened, DI Sheridan Holler is shocked to uncover family connections between the victim, Daniel Parks, and the three unexplained deaths. With Daniel’s body still missing and the number-one suspect cleared of the crime, Holler’s cold case suddenly becomes a major murder investigation.

From hunting pickpockets in London omnibuses and ghosts in Hesse Square, Sergeant Watters and Detective Silver are led into the notorious Wild Geese public house, and a tangled mystery that involves the murder of a guardsman and the vivacious wife of an Austrian diplomat. With the help of the Irish woman Rowena, Watters trawls through the back streets of London, encounters female prize-fighters and suave cracksmen, and finds himself in the savage world of espionage. But can he unravel the mysterious words: "There is a storm from the east and the west"?

When latter-day lothario and expert kayaker Roger Alcock disappears on the night of the "Great Cockermouth Flood", his attractive wife Maeve takes 24 hours longer than might reasonably be expected to notify the authorities. When Roger’s corpse washes up on the Solway coast, a postmortem suggests his death could legitimately be classified as misadventure. Maverick British DI Skelgill, detects a sinister undercurrent that pervades the tightly knit community in which Roger Alcock moved. As the floodwater recedes, reasons surface why Roger’s erstwhile associates might celebrate his demise.

She looked like she’d drifted off to sleep, curled up in her white dress, blonde hair floating in the breeze. They called it the Angel Murder. Eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock is found dead at a local beauty spot, dressed in a pure white nightgown, her white-blonde hair arranged around her. For years her death is a mystery, her killer the one who got away for a whole generation of police.

When Kate and Nathan receive a photo of four kidnapped models, the clock starts ticking for the detectives to save their lives before it’s too late. Kate has been on the Murder Team for a few months now, working run-of-the-mill cases with Nathan. But the memory of that first case, and it's disturbing details, still bothers her. Meanwhile, four models arrive at a shoot in a local abandoned mental asylum and are violently kidnapped. The next day, a photo of them lands on the desk of Kate and Nathan, with a chilling note.

To catch the spider, he must become the fly.... When a serial killer takes his next victim and evades arrest for the third time, a police leak is suspected. An internal investigation is launched, and Detective Inspector Mark Debruin is identified as the lead suspect. However, with his dying daughter awaiting a transplant in hospital, and a prison sentence hanging over him, Debruin can ill afford to waste time. He has just one chance to prove his innocence and to save his daughter - he must find the killer before it’s too late.

Nella sala di lettura del British Museum il professor Julius Arnell esala l’ultimo respiro. Sembrerebbe la classica morte per cause naturali. Ma quando dei confetti avvelenati vengono ritrovati nelle sue tasche, all’ispettore Shelley e al suo improbabile compagno di indagini non resterà che usare tutto il loro fiuto per scoprire l’identità del pericoloso omicida.

May 1940. With Nazi forces sweeping across France, invasion seems imminent. The English Channel has never felt so narrow. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with preparing the resistance effort, should the worst happen. But even as the foreign threat looms, it's rumours of a missing child that are troubling Cook. A 12-year-old girl was evacuated from London and never seen again, and she's just the tip of the iceberg - countless evacuees haven't made it to their host families. As Cook investigates, he uncovers a dark conspiracy that reaches to the highest ranks of society.

Detective Joe Lazarus works for the Dying Squad, solving crimes the living police can't. When the Generation Killer starts wiping out Manchester's innocents, Joe and his new partner Bits have mere hours to catch the murderer. A young woman's life depends on it. Joe's former partner Daisy-May has her own problems. Children are going missing in the afterlife, and she's the only one who seems to care. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy so vast, it threatens both the living and the dead.

Detective Chief Inspector John Shadow is doing his best to ignore the madness of York's annual Viking Festival when duty calls. The body of a wealthy businessman, who was playing the role of the Viking king, is found slain by his own ancient sword. The murder scene looks staged, but before Shadow can compile a list of people to question a second body is found. Shadow doesn't have to look far for suspects-the victims were by no means model citizens.

As criminal gangs rampage unchecked across London, a secretive elite squad begins a campaign of action, delivering the guilty to the cops – along with all the evidence they need for a conviction. But when innocent people are shot after the vigilante crew blunders into a major police operation – Detective Rick Turner among the unintended victims – it’s clear they must be stopped. Rick’s brother Sam might be able to help, but he’s a fugitive from the law himself, on nobody’s side but his own.

In un antico castello delle Highlands scozzesi, la nobile Mary Gregor viene ritrovata barbaramente uccisa. La porta della stanza è chiusa dall’interno, le finestre sono sbarrate. Sul cadavere l’unico indizio: una lucente scaglia di pesce. Quello di Duchlan è il classico castello tetro e minaccioso delle Highlands scozzesi. Una notte vi viene ritrovata uccisa Mary Gregor, sorella del Laird di Duchlan, un membro della piccola nobiltà locale. La donna è stata pugnalata a morte nella sua camera da letto, ma la stanza è chiusa dall'interno e le finestre sono sbarrate.

In un pacifico villaggio della costa della Cornovaglia, un magistrato viene ucciso con una pallottola in testa. Nessun indizio, una sola sospettata, la nipote del morto. Ma in aiuto della polizia giunge il più sorprendente degli investigatori... Il reverendo Dodd, vicario di Boscawen, tranquillo villaggio sulla costa della Cornovaglia, trascorre le sue serate leggendo storie poliziesche davanti al focolare – ma non sia mai che anche solo l’ombra di un vero crimine possa venire a turbare la serena routine della sua parrocchia sul mare!

When one of the notorious Johnson brothers is murdered and a bag of money goes missing, a deadly game of cat and mouse is set in motion. Detective Allie Shenton and her team are called in to catch the killer, but the suspects are double-crossing each other and Allie has little time to untangle the web of lies. As she delves deeper into the case, things take a personal turn when Allie realises she is being stalked by the very same person who attacked her sister seventeen years ago and left her for dead.

A man's body is found on a canal towpath. In his pocket, a magnetic letter in the shape of an E. Days later, a second victim is murdered, this time with the letter V tucked into her clothing. When the letter E is located near to a third victim, DI Allie Shenton and her colleagues are sent into full alert. Is their killer spelling a word, a name or are the letters an anagram? One thing's for certain as the body count rises—the eerie, childlike clues point to a pattern that doesn't look like stopping.

A girl’s body is found hidden in a remote spot of a Cornish farm - the same farm that a young girl ran toward to escape her pursuer many years before. Detective Harriet Taylor has to abandon her day off to investigate. As the forensics team get to work, they uncover another mystery hidden among the rocks. Who would kill a young backpacker? Is there a link between this and a mystery from many years ago? As Harriet and the team get to work, they find more questions than answers. What secrets is the sleepy Cornish village hiding?

When the body of a badly mutilated woman is discovered, Detective Jon Pilgrim realizes they’re hunting a disturbed new killer, with a particular hatred for women. But the victims personal life is full of twists and turns, leading to several potential suspects, and few answers. Elsewhere, Nathan is working with new team member Ellie investigating the murder of a rich but reclusive man. All signs point to an escaped convict who has a history with Nathan and Kate. Delving into the two horrific cases, secrets are uncovered and danger lurks around every corner.

A missing child. A case unsolved. It’s happening again. Thirteen years ago, four children were killed, two survived, but the killer disappeared. Today, a boy goes missing from a sleepy suburban estate, and the system flags a name. The boy’s mother. She’s one of the survivors from thirteen years ago. Nathan, one of DCI Jon Pilgrim’s team, remembers the case. He was one of the officers who found the two survivors. Pilgrim’s team take the case, determined to find the child killer who escaped thirteen years ago.