Cops & Crime Sale 2020

The fifth novel in Julia Chapman's delightful cozy mystery series featuring Samson O'Brien and Delilah Metcalfe, the Dales Detectives. A fatal accident at an auction mart takes the daring pair into dangerous waters. Perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton.

Julia Chapman's fourth Dales Detective Agency novel following Date with Mystery - A teenager has gone missing from Bruncliffe, can Samson O'Brien and Delilah Metcalfe find him?

With her husband away on business, Amory Ames is alone at her country house Thornecrest, preparing for the arrival of their baby. When a woman appears also claiming to be Milo's wife, Amory is sure there must be a mistake, but with secret identities, whirlwind romances, and a murder, suddenly events are spiralling out of control.

Mary Dutton is accused of killing her husband by poison, though there aren't many who dispute her involvement in his death. The police see it as an open-and-shut case, and even those protesting for her freedom believe she committed the act, but is innocent of wrongdoing after suffering years of domestic abuse.Since his recent success in the high-profile Dryden case catapulted him to the front pages of the national press, unassuming Yorkshireman Arthur Skelton is now one of the most celebrated and recognisable barristers in the land. His services are much in demand and, despite the odds, he agrees to represent Mary Dutton.Yet with a general election on the horizon and both sides of the political divide keen to turn the Dutton case to their advantage, as well as long-held secrets within the Dutton family itself, can Skelton ever really expose the truth?

Introducing DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans, the Fenland's finest detectives, in a race against time to stop a serial killer who has returned to the Fens after 20 years. Twenty years ago a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial killer.

The body of a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback seen from the criminal's perspective. An unconventional yet gripping story of intrigue, betrayal, obsession, justification and self-delusion.

The CIA's most valuable spy has been compromised. Only an unconventional secret Army unit has any chance of safely extracting him from East Berlin. The Cold War is about to turn hot.

Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. And into the middle of it there drops, like a clap of thunder, a box of chocolates.

On the first night of the Blitz, the body of local Justice of the Peace Charles Villiers is found in the back of a van, but a bomb destroys the evidence. As DI Jago does some investigations, it appears that many people may have wanted Villiers dead.

When the Natural History Museum hires Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton to investigate the destruction of a fossilised dinosaur skeleton, they are slightly reluctant- vandalism is not their speciality. But then an attendant in the dinosaur room is found murdered.

First published as Fifth ColumnSeptember, 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all time high and no one is sure who can be trusted.In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn't be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate. But few seem to really care about the woman's death - not even her family. As Jago digs deeper he starts to uncover a trail of deception, betrayal, and romantic entanglements...

15-year-old Billy Davies is found dead in his father's shed. A pair of gardening shears thrust brutally into his chest. DI HillaryGreene tries to get to the bottom of this baffling crime. How had Billy come into contact with such a vicious killer? Who wantedhim dead and why?

A literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, in which a love triangle turns murderous.

The third part of Andrew Bibby's Cumbrian Fells Trilogy, following on from 'In the Cold of the Night' and 'The Bad Step', where DI Chrissy Chambers and journalist Nick Potterton set out to uncover who has fire-bombed a local environmentalist's camper van. Set among the beauty of the mountains and lakes of England's most popular National Park.

A lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street, two fingers on her left hand severed, in what looks like a brutal attempt by looters to steal her rings. When the next day Nora's teenage granddaughter, Peggy, a munitions worker at Marshall's Airfield, is reported missing, Brooke realises there is more to the situation than meets the eye.

After the murder of an unidentifiable woman at the Manchester Museum, Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are sent in to investigate.

The sixth book in the best-selling Jackman & Evans series, The Patient Man follows DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans as they finally come face to face with Alistair Ashcroft, the elusive serial killer. Set in the atmospheric Lincolnshire Fens, it draws on local knowledge of the area and expert research into police procedure

Detective Betty Church is forced to revisit ghosts from her past when a skeleton is found buried in the woods.

A would-be politician is found battered to death in the kitchen of his Oxfordshire home. His wife's alibi is full of holes and there'sanother woman in the picture. His seemingly mild-mannered political rival can't seem to place himself at the time of death either. DI Hillary Greene is called in to get to the bottom of this perplexing murder.

Detective Inspector Nikki Galena has nothing left to lose. She's seen a girl die in her arms and her daughter will never leave the hospital again - she will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter.

Detective Inspector Rowan Jackman faces the most difficult case of his life. His sister-in-law, Sarah, disappears to London and throws herself into the river. As a woman with a seemingly happy home life and two beloved sons, what drove her to this?

''A gripping book full of twists and turns.'' Alice Clark-Platts''Unsettling and beautiful'' Allie Reynolds''Kept me guessing until the very end with a brilliantly clever twist that I really didn’t see coming'' Sarah Pearse''A little gem'' GJ MinettThree months into her new role as a psychiatrist at a clinic in New York, Erin Cartwright is asked to evaluate the case of a man who murdered his mother and sisters at the age of seventeen.Found not guilty by reason of insanity and held in a maximum-security psychiatric facility for twenty-seven years, Timothy Stern is now eligible for release. Upon learning the crime occurred in the same village she once visited as a child, Erin is on the verge of refusing to take the case, when a startling discovery triggers memories she’d rather keep hidden, and a suspicion the wrong man is behind bars.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING Lies, secrets and hidden pasts all come into play in this beautiful debut from Ann Gosslin. All in all, this book had me hooked throughout, I enjoyed it so much. monsieurmarpleThis is a suspenseful, disquieting psychological thriller, which I found very compelling. silverliningsandpagesI can imagine it being the setting of a new series, and see Erin getting into more complex investigstions. Great for new readers of psychological thrillers. rhirhireaderThe writing is great, it doesn''t feel like a debut book at all. breathingbooks95I enjoyed this one. I raced through it and was pretty much gripped from the start. mrsfegfictionThe writing is truly exquisite and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. […]I would love to read more of Gosslin''s work. escapetothebookshelfGosslin creates the perfect level of suspense throughout, I couldn’t have asked for more. nobooksgivenI absolutely loved this book! Loved it! […] I enjoyed every minute, thrilling and captivating. lostinherbooklandCrikey, #theshadowbird the debut novel from Ann Gosslin really got under my skin. This is a captivating, emotional thriller that I couldn’t stop thinking about. It made me cry, gave me hope and I couldn’t put down with all its twists and turns. noveldelightsFull of twists and turns The Shadow Bird is a brilliantly written psychological suspense book that has been thoroughly researched and paced perfectly […] This is an intense and gripping debut and I cannot wait to read what Ann Gosslin writes next! oncemorewithreadingAs the pieces start to add up I though I could see where this story was head but wow it had some amazing twists that left me reeling! booksandemmaIt is almost impossible to believe that THE SHADOW BIRD is author Ann Gosslin’s first novel. This psychological thriller is sure to gain instant fans […] 5 OUT OF 5 STARS. amiesbookreviewsThere were so many secrets, so much hidden in The Shadow Bird that it was impossible to put the novel down […] It was dark, and unsettling, but with chunks of light that provided that perfect balance. A brilliant debut. amandaduncan12

When there are high crimes to be covered up, mysteries to be wrapped in enigmas, or a murderer to be liquidated - literally - there is only one man in England who can be trusted with the task: Felix Culpepper, tutor in Classics at St Wygefortis' College, Cambridge, and assassin-at-large for the British Establishment.

Hardback edition with an additional essay by President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards. Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931. This fascinating and unusual novel tells the story of what happened that dark Christmas night; and what the murderer did next.