Historical Police Fiction

DI Hardcastle tracks a killer who’s left his hat behind... July, 1917. DI Ernest Hardcastle and his assistant, DS Charles Marriott, investigate the murder of a cashier operating in London’s Victoria Station. An army officer claims to have seen the murderer running away, and an army cap left behind appears to identify the criminal. Hardcastle believes that it will be a simple matter to go to Aldershot and arrest him, but things are never as easy as they seem.

When workmen converting former girls' boarding school Chadleigh Hall into a luxury hotel discover a skeleton in a sealed room, DI Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan, are called in to investigate. But within minutes they have a second suspicious death on their hands: a team of marine archaeologists working on a nearby shipwreck have dragged a woman's body from the sea. And it becomes clear that her death was no accident. The dead woman's husband may be linked with a brutal robbery of computer equipment, but Wesley soon discovers that the victim had secrets of her own....

An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovered under a 300-year-old stone plinth, a corpse that seems to have been buried alive. But DS Wesley has a more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday park, and the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration of Earlsacre. Does local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer?

The explosive conclusion to the Arlington & McCurley Mystery series. As an inspector at the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Quinn McCurley is expected to uphold law and order. But beneath his respectable veneer hide deception, bloodshed, and dangerous alliances. Dr. Elizabeth Arlington, a shrewd physician with a harrowing history, finds herself caught in Quinn's murderous past. When her life and those of her children hang in the balance she must make an impossible choice: trust the man who has deceived her or escape back across the Atlantic with her children, leaving everything behind. ...

On a hot August day in 1994, 76 holidaymakers travel to an island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 75 return alive - a young man is murdered, the case left unsolved. Twenty years later, using state-of-the-art forensics, the DNA results of a blood-soaked towel prompt DI Peter Shaw to summon all 75 original suspects to a mass screening. But one of them is found dead in her bed. Is there a link to the 1994 murder? DI Shaw and DS Valentine become immersed in the secrets of an isolated community.

Minutes before twelve on a night in 1943, Detective Dan Brady is summoned to a churchyard where a woman has been found strangled. He soon discounts the theory that the woman was killed during a mugging, and an interview with her widowed husband yields more questions than answers. When a man's body is found on a rocky islet a few days later, Danny connects him to the woman's murder, and soon suspects mob involvement.

The new Charlie Woodend mystery - Angela Jackson has been missing for over 24 hours and, in the opinion of Dr. Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will first torture and then kill her. With damaging strains operating within his own team, the more the investigation proceeds the less hope Woodend can see. And he knows deep within himself that he will fail in bringing Angela back alive....

There is a new broom at Scotland Yard: Nimrod Frost. His first “little job” for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall. This is hardly a task for an Inspector. Yet even as Lestrade questions a witness, a man is reported dead - horrifically mauled. Having solved that case to his own satisfaction, Lestrade returns to London and to more suspicious deaths - all old men who should have died quietly in their sleep. Is there a connection? Lestrade's superiors discount his speculations....

Trieste, primavera del 1902. Il ricordo dei fatti di sangue seguiti al primo sciopero operaio dell'Impero asburgico è ancora vivo nella mente della cittadinanza. A pochi giorni dalla revoca dello stato d'assedio proclamato dal governo di Vienna, un sottufficiale dell'esercito viene trovato morto e sfigurato in un vicolo. Intanto, una preziosa reliquia cristiana, il Mandylion, viene rubata, perduta e infine ritrovata da Davorin, un ragazzino di dodici anni che in seguito a ciò pare acquisire strani poteri.

W San Francisco Mitzi Fallon zaczyna pracę jako agentka FBI w Wydziale Przestępstw na tle Historycznym, Religijnym i Spraw Niewyjaśnionych. Prowadzi sprawę morderstwa sprzedawcy antyków, któremu skradziono bezcenny celtycki artefakt. Mitzi zostaje wciągnięta w tajemniczą intrygę, która bierze swój początek w zakulisowych posunięciach amerykańskiego rządu i sięga daleko w przeszłość Wielkiej Brytanii, do zdegradowanego niegdyś do postaci mitycznej króla Artura.

In the first audiobook in this classic series, a former CIA spy behind the German lines in WW2 and secret agent fighting the Russian KGB in Europe during the Cold War, returns to the states to find himself up against the dirtiest plot ever against the U.S. Russia's top secret agent has infiltrated the country, making an unholy deal with the Mafia, for an unlimited supply of heroin, the Mafia agrees to back all Reds' activities in the United States. The streets will be flooded with smack...and the back alleys with Russian agents working to bring down America.

August 1961: Hauptmann Max Heller ist in den Innendienst versetzt worden. Ein Affront für Heller, der kurz vor seinem Ruhestand steht. Als er eines Tages ein Paket mit Beweismaterial aus einem längst aufgeklärten Mordfall erhält, ist schnell klar: Der wahre Täter von damals ist zurück und fordert ihn zu einem Kampf um Leben und Tod heraus. Eine atemlose Mörderjagd beginnt. Auch die politische Lage in der DDR spitzt sich zu. Nahezu unbemerkt von der Welt wird der Bau der Berliner Mauer vorbereitet. Und Karin und Max Heller müssen eine dramatische Entscheidung treffen - gehen oder bleiben?

Why did literary legend Wynn Staniland suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide. And now a promising young author called Zac Wilkinson is working on Staniland's biography and hopes to reveal the true story to a waiting world. When Wilkinson is found brutally murdered, DI Wesley Peterson finds links to the unexplained poisoning of a middle-aged couple - and Staniland appears to be the connection.

1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century. 1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and has surveillance duties. He is assigned the task of monitoring neo-Nazi activities; fairly mundane until a report of a rare gun being fired sparks his interest.

When Dr James Dalcott is shot dead in his cottage it looks very much like an execution. And as DI Wesley Peterson begins piecing together the victim's life, he finds that the well-liked country doctor has been harbouring strange and dramatic family secrets. Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson has discovered a number of skeletons in nearby Tailors Court that bear marks of dissection and might be linked to tales of body snatching by a rogue physician in the 16th century. But when Neil finds the bones of a child buried with a 1930s coin, the investigation takes a sinister turn.

Von Opfern und Tätern. Ende April 1945. Der Krieg geht zu Ende. Nachdem er schwer verwundet wurde, ist Jens Druwe aus Berlin nach Schleswig-Holstein abkommandiert worden. Hier soll er als Polizist für Ordnung sorgen. Als ein hoher Funktionär der NSDAP ermordet wird, wollen seine Vorgesetzten sogleich den ersten Verdächtigen, einen entflohenen Häftling, aburteilen. Doch Druwe stellt sich gegen die Profiteure des untergehenden Regimes. Ihm zur Seite steht allein die Schwester des Verdächtigen, die wie er voller Mut und Hoffnung den Kampf gegen einen übermächtigen Gegner aufnimmt.

Do pobliskiego miasteczka Drim przyjeżdża Peter Hynd, elegancki kawaler z niezłymi dochodami. Małomiasteczkowe panny natychmiast rozpoczynają rywalizację o względy arakcyjnego mężczyzny. Na początku ich niegroźne kłótnie są dla Hamisha Macbetha miłą rozrywką. Do czasu. Gdy pojawiają się groźby pozbawienia życia i pobicia, sytuacja staje się niepokojąca. Wreszcie dochodzi do morderstwa. Hamish musi na chwilę zapomnieć o przygotowaniach do ślubu z Priscillą Halburton-Smythe i skupić się na odnalezieniu zabójcy.

Kiedy Priscilla Halburton-Smythe przywozi do rodzinnego domu w Lochdubh swojego narzeczonego, wszyscy w miasteczku są zachwyceni...x wyjątkiem zakochanego w niej po uszy Hamisha. Uczucia muszą jednak zejść na razie na dalszy plan, ponieważ podczas polowania na głuszce zamordowano gburowatego kapitana Bartletta, zaproszonego na zaręczynowe przyjęcie Priscilli. Szybko okazuje się, że wszyscy jego uczestnicy mieli powód, aby życzyć kapitanowi śmierci. Hamish będzie musiał nie tylko łagodzić zaistniałe podczas śledztwa spory, ale przede wszystkim złapać mordercę.

It’s spring 1962, and a sergeant with the Memphis Police Department is found dead only hours before his scheduled testimony before a grand jury. Was it suicide, or was it murder? What was he going to testify about? A handwritten note left by the sergeant and addressed to the district attorney disappears.

Dotato di arguzia e di un formidabile spirito di osservazione, il giovane Vitale Federici, cadetto di Montefeltri, viene chiamato a indagare su un concatenarsi di delitti all'apparenza insolvibili. L'Italia di fine Settecento, tuttavia, si rivelerà presto ai suoi occhi come un insidioso gioco di apparenze, sotto il quale si celano le macchinazioni di aristocratici, religiosi e magistrati. Le città di Roma, Urbino e Venezia diverranno per lui autentiche trappole mortali, dalle quali potrà salvarsi soltanto grazie al lume dell'intelletto e all'arte della dissimulazione.