An original John Rebus story and the stage debut for one of crime fiction’s greatest creations.
John Rebus may have retired but he’ll always be a detective.
Coming home one night, he finds a young woman waiting for his neighbour. He...
A man is murdered in the gardens of a Bristol hotel. Inquiries reveal that he worked as an escort for a local agency. Rose Piper, investigating DCI, cannot trace the woman he was on his way to meet, but another suspect enters the frame. Until, that...
At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead. But they are mistaken.
Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.
Though crippled, he finds the...
We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides — pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload!
From...
Cut loose from his former life at the coroner’s office, Clay Edison has set up shop as a private investigator. It’s steady, safe work. Until it isn’t.
The trouble begins when a young man, tasked with managing his grandmother’s estate,...
Jane Tennison has worked hard to become the first female detective ever post to the infamous Flying Squad, or ‘the Sweeney’. But the Dirty Dozen is a notorious boys’ club, and Jane’s new colleagues make it clear that they don’t think a...
It was supposed to be a simple case: a young man arrested for armed assault.
But it was just the beginning.
As Rodney Middleton awaits trial, Detective Jack Warr is warned by his mentor DCI Ridley that they have only scratched the surface of...