May 1915. With thousands of Britons fighting in the trenches a severely depleted police force remain..

It's been a busy year for Alameda County Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison. Then the call comes in the mi..

Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned him..

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

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

A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective..

It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel. N..

It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home Fr..

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find h..

Ever since the death of her husband Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage high up on th..

Three very different women come together at isolated Baikie’s Cottage on the North Pennines to com..

Four generations of the Black family have farmed Blackpeak Station in the high country of New Zealan..

On a lonely moor in the northeast of England the body of a young woman is discovered near the site o..

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

Dave Martin is down on his luck: his wife’s left him; his farm is a failure; his house is a mess; ..