It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time ..

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print Terry Pratchett has become one of the wor..

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..

Who hanged the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Hallowe'en Party? Almost ever..

It's the swinging sixties and the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw the form..

In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Ler..

Young Tom French was found dead lying in a marsh on the Norfolk coast with his head bashed in and hi..

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but when one of her neighbours goes missing she f..

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female le..

When a man's wife leaves him under suspicious circumstances he sets off in search for her unprepared..

Detective Sergeant Brant is tough and uncompromising as sleazy and ruthless as the villains he’s o..

In 1841 Australia's first children's book was published the anonymous writer known only as 'a lady l..

Forty years ago Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book its margins full of strange ma..

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..