Two bodies, their throats cut with brutal precision, lie in a waste of blood in the dingy vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Da...

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

Poirot Investigates is a collection of eleven short stories involving the famed eccentric detective, Hercule Poirot. The problems Poirot unravels are skilfully tangled, and unravelled by the detective's omniscient genius. Throughout t...

Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him with ten prime suspects in the murder case of Sampson Warrenby....Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his head.…Everybody in the village...

Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter returns with a taut, white-knuckled thriller featuring master sniperBob Lee Swaggeras he protects a group of political hostages during a perilous standoff and ...

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûrete du Quebec in the latest audiobook from #1 New York Times bestselling autho...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1New York Timesbestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winte...

An important and powerful policeman has been murdered, bludgeoned to death in his own kitchen. Few in suburban Surrey mourn the violent passing of Division Commander Alastair Gilbert, whose arrogance and cruelty were legendary in his...

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, schedul...

When Richard Abernethie, the master of Enderby Hall, dies his heirs assemble at the vast Victorian mansion to hear the reading of the will. It is then that Cora, Abernethie's sister, comes out with an alarming proposal: 'But he was mu...

Mystery writer Harriet Vane’ s murder trial is the talk of London, and naturally, Lord Peter Wimsey is fascinated by the case. He’ s not convinced she poisoned her fiancé in the same way she offed one of the character...

"Hugely funny, exquisitely well written, a tongue-in-cheek village mystery to be savored. G.M. Malliet's arch tone and wry humor make her a writer to be treasured."--Julia Spencer-Fleming, bestselling author of ONE WAS A SOL...

Agatha Raisin is lonely. Busy as she is with her detective agency and the meetings of the Carsely Ladies’ Society, she still misses her ex-husband, James Lacey. So when he suddenly resurfaces and invites her on holiday at a surp...

After centuries as a Balkan backwater, the sleepy town of Averna has -- overnight -- become a stunningly valuable port, thanks to an earthquake that rejiggered the regional topography. But to whose coffers will that value accrue? Albe...

"[A] magic kingdom of Victorian murder and intrigue."—The New York Times Book Review  Thomas Pitt is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilit...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center” (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine wh...

Although P.D. James has made it to the top of American bestseller lists, she's not the only talented female writer of British mysteries who is popular here. Like James, Deborah Crombie is another exceptional stylist who uses every new...

Inspector Richard Jury and his friend, Melrose Plant, investigate the murders of two women in the Lincolnshire fens, with one of the victims being the ex-wife of the Fengate estate's owner, and the other the estate's kitchen maid. Rep...

In this addition to the long-running Richard Jury series, the New Scotland Yard detective follows a tangled trail of missing, sexually abused, and murdered children. The death of a five-year-old girl is linked to a pedophile ring cont...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   In England's young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell ...

Discovering a pawn ticket that leads them to London’s Chinatown district, Victorian enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, retrieve a seemingly innocuous book that turns out be a rare stolen text containi...

M.C. BeatonAs the Pig TurnsThis little piggy went to investigate…After a disappointing Christmas season, the touristy Cotswold town of Winter Parva is upping the stakes with an old-fashioned pig roast, complete with music, merriment...

This psychological thriller is narrated by Robin Timariot, a civil servant wondering if he should quit and join his family's cricket-bat manufacturing business instead. As he hikes along the Welsh borders in the summer of 1990, he enc...

When Rosaleen Cloade comes to sleepy Warmsley Vale to collect on her late spouse's sizable inheritance, the Cloade family — who all rely in various ways on the funds from their dear departed Uncle Gordon — have other plans for the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLaurie R. King's New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today's most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thri...

These full-cast dramatizations of IMurder on the Orient Express, Five Little Pigs, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, Peril at End House, and ILord Edgware Dies feature specially-composed music, outstanding casts, and brilliant writers,...

The Reverend Stephen Babbington rarely partakes in alcoholic drinks, but at an exclusive gala, he decides it is appropriate to celebrate. He picks the wrong time to start sipping cocktails, though, for after just one taste, he immedia...

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth...

At 35, Freddie Craft has retired as a steeplechase jockey and now runs a fleet of motor horseboxes transporting runners from their stables to the races, or brood mares to the stud farms. When a hitch hiker is picked up and someone die...

Nancy Atherton's twenty-first cozy mystery in the beloved, Nationally Bestselling Aunt Dimity series.While exploring the attic in her cottage near the small English village of Finch, Lori Shepherd makes an extraordinary discovery: a g...