Mystery England

The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War Two pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon starts digging into the victim’s past. The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a case that takes him from the cave systems beneath rural Somerset to the heart of government, and threatens to expose a military cover-up at the highest level. Blocked by a wall of silence, Dixon must unravel a dangerous conspiracy before the killer strikes again.

Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut. With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent undercover as a trainee teacher into Isobel’s boarding school. But to find the killer, he must first confront his inner demons and lay to rest the ghosts lurking in his own past. If he can… As Dixon digs deeper, the stakes have never been higher and a murder has never felt so personal.

Kate Marshalls detektivbyrå får ett lyft när hon och partnern Tristan anlitas för att utreda ett gammalt ouppklarat fall. Tolv år tidigare avslöjade den unga ambitiösa journalisten Joanna Duncan en politisk skandal, något som fick stora konsekvenser. I efterdyningarna försvann Joanna spårlöst och återfanns aldrig. När Kate och Tristan får tillgång till den gamla förundersökningen har alla spår kallnat sedan länge, men de hittar namnen på två unga män som försvann ungefär samtidigt som Joanna.

Okker gokker gummiklokker! Hvem skal leve, hvem skal dø? Da en læge brutalt bliver myrdet i en lokal skov, bliver kommissær Kim Stone chokeret over at opdage, at offeret er Gordon Cordell – en mand med forbindelse til en tragisk tidligere sag. Dr. Cordell havde en broget fortid, men hvem kunne ønske ham død?

Mød kriminalassistent George Cross, opdageren fra Bristol, outsidernes, de hjemløses, de stemmeløses forsvarer. Endnu en britisk krimi du ikke må gå glip af. Kriminalassistent George Cross kan være uhøflig, vanskelig og akavet over for folk. Men hans aldrig svigtende logik og hans stædige jagt på sandheden gør at han er den i politistyrken der har flest domfældelser bag sig. Så da hans kolleger affejer en mands død som resultatet af et skænderi blandt Bristols hjemløse, er Cross ikke overbevist.

Det er aften, du kommer sent hjem fra arbejde – og huset ligger i mørke. Du går indenfor, og telefonen ringer. Du tager den – og din verden bliver vendt på hovedet. Din fjortenårige datter er blevet bortført, og hendes kidnappere forlanger en halv million pund i kontanter. De giver dig 48 timer til at skaffe pengene. Hvis du ringer til politiet, dør hun. Mens mareridtet udspiller sig, kan du være sikker på to ting: at du vil gøre hvad som helst for at få din datter levende hjem – og at tiden rinder ud...

Må vi præsentere Jane Bell. Efter sin mands død forlader hun sit job som lærer for at melde sig frivilligt som reservebetjent ved politiet. På sin allerførste vagt bliver Jane kaldt ud til gerningsstedet for et mord. En ung mand har slæbt sig op til øverste trin på Greestone Stairs for at dø. Jane handler instinktivt og er pludselig dybt involveret i sagen Set fra politiinspektør Steph Warwicks stol har reservebetjente ikke noget at gøre i en mordefterforskning. Hun mener, at den uerfarne grønskolling blander sig i noget, der ikke kommer hende ved.

Da teenagepigen Sadie Winters springer ud fra taget på sin skole, bliver hendes død betragtet som selvmord – en sidste desperat handling begået af en pige med store problemer. Men så bliver det ilde tilredte lig af en dreng fundet på den samme skole, og det står klart for kommissær Kim Stone, at disse dødsfald ikke er tragiske ulykker. Kim og hendes folk begynder at optrevle et net af dystre hemmeligheder, og en af lærerne sidder med nøglen til sandheden. Men netop da hun skal til at bryde tavsheden, bliver hun fundet død.

Første gang, Thomas Lynley og overbetjent Barbara Havers fra Scotland Yard arbejder sammen, er på mordsagen om den halshuggede mand i laden. Det er ikke en sag for sarte sjæle. Da Cromwells soldater for trehundrede år siden tromlede gennem Keldale Valley i Yorkshire, søgte hele landsbyen tilflugt i Keldale kloster. Og sagnet fortæller, at et barn begyndte at skrige, og at landsbyboerne kvalte det af frygt for at blive opdaget. Nu er dalen atter hjemsøgt af et brutalt mord.

England, 1883. Recovering from a devastating loss, Evelyn has become determined to use her powers to save other gifted people from those who would study and oppress them. But when her rescue of a young telekinetic girl goes terribly wrong, Evelyn finds herself involved with a secret society devoted to recruiting and protecting people like Evelyn and her friends. Like magic, Evelyn's problems start to disappear. Her reputation is repaired, her friends are provided for, and her parents are thrilled at all her new suitors.

England, 1882. Evelyn is bored with society and its expectations. So when her beloved sister, Rose, mysteriously vanishes, she ignores her parents and travels to London to find her, accompanied by the dashing Mr. Kent. But they're not the only ones looking for Rose. The reclusive young gentleman Sebastian Braddock is also searching for her, claiming that both sisters have special healing powers. Evelyn is convinced that Sebastian must be mad, until she discovers that his strange tales of extraordinary people are true.

As a young medical student at Edinburgh, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took classes with the remarkable Dr. Joseph Bell in forensic medicine. Dr. Bell exhibited many of the characteristics that Doyle would later synthesize into the personage of Sherlock Holmes: complete faith in human reason, meticulous powers of observation, and encyclopedic knowledge of the activities and methods of the criminal classes.

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIV's Baroque, mannered France for two years. Now she is returning home to England and anxious to re-establish herself quickly. First, she will regain her former position as a maid of honor to Charles II's queen. Then she will marry the most celebrated duke of the Restoration, putting herself in a position to attain power she's only dreamed of.

London, 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it, including Ira's bitter ex, Dr. Timothy Lazarus.

Evelyn James is a forensic specialist in the Cleveland Medical Examiner's office who's juggling a demanding workload, a teenage daughter from a failed marriage, and a homicide-detective boyfriend. And somehow she always happens to be involved in some of the twistiest, most challenging crime scenes imaginable.

It's June 1941, and the low point of the war. England throws wave after wave of RAF bombers across the Channel, but somehow the Luftwaffe is able to shoot them down at will. The skies, indeed, the war itself seem to belong to Hitler.

Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house to find the front door unlocked, dinner on the table, and the family nowhere to be found - Carrie, her husband, and two daughters have disappeared. When the police turn up no leads, Emily turns to her former boyfriend David Raker, a missing persons investigator, to track the family down. As Raker pursues the case, he discovers evidence of a sinister cover-up, decades in the making and with a long trail of bodies behind it.

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. This is the sixth book in this classic series. While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.

As a bogler's apprentice, 10-year-old Birdie has faced down plenty of monsters lurking in the chimneys, wells, and other dark places of Victorian London. She serves as bait, singing sweetly to lure the bogles out so her master, the well-seasoned Go-Devil Man Alfred Bunce, can kill them with his trusty spear. Enter the wealthy folklorist Miss Eames, who is determined to find more scientific ways of drawing out the monsters, and Birdie fears that her livelihood may be threatened by the well-meaning lady.

Chicago sixth graders Ruthie and Jack think they’ve learned everything about the magic of the Art Institute’s Thorne Rooms. But the magic starts to act strangely when Ruthie and Jack discover two rings that are out of place - and out of time - and a portal that shouldn’t be open but somehow is. Ruthie and Jack follow the clues to 17th-century England and the Brownlow house, where they meet the Brownlow’s governess, Rebecca. But Rebecca has a few secrets of her own - and she might even be in the wrong century!