DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but when one of her neighbours goes missing she f..
In 1841 Australia's first children's book was published the anonymous writer known only as 'a lady l..
Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en Party? Almost ever..
Forty years ago Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book its margins full of strange ma..
For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..
A dawn swim turns deadly in a brand-new short story starring DCI Vera Stanhope . . . Two bored cell-..
In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Ler..
When a man's wife leaves him under suspicious circumstances he sets off in search for her unprepared..
No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..
A motley group of travellers meet at a London inn on their way to Canterbury where they agree to tak..
Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female le..
When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..
In the four decades since his first book appeared in print Terry Pratchett has become one of the wor..
Young Tom French was found dead lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast with his head bashed in and hi..
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time ..