Crime and Mystery Fiction

Everyone agrees that Bob Dexter, the prominent Evangelical clergyman, has a great deal of personal charisma. Those who know him realise that he als...

When Jon Mote is hired to investigate the murder of his erstwhile mentor, literary star Richard Pratt, the grad school dropout feels woefully unequ...

Could Graham Pugh really be involved in a murder? E.J. Pugh finds herself back at her old university stomping ground, determined to prove her son i...

The murder of a college professor has its roots in the Cold War: the new Oxford Dogwalkers mystery from award-winning YA writer Annie Dalton. Short...

A heavily pregnant young woman returns to her small hometown to discover it''s not the safe haven she had first supposed.Following a whirlwind roma...

May, AD 41. The emperor Claudius has acceded to the throne, and the citizens of Rome look forward to an era of peace and stability. Not so Marcus C...

Widow Ursula Blanchard is urged to remarry for the sake of Queen and Country in this latest enthralling historical adventureJanuary, 1576. After th...

Could a mysterious music box hold the key to unlocking the puzzle behind a gruesome murder for Detective Inspector Silas Quinn?London, 1914. Despit...

Maggy Thorsen returns in this coffeehouse mystery, where the death of her ex-husband''s colleague leads to events that hit Maggy close to home - in...

Constable Hazel Best attracts a sinister new admirer in this absorbing police procedural.When does a secret admirer become a stalker? When chocolat...

A young mother''s death leads Bristol detective David Vogel to uncover a shocking series of family secrets stretching back 30 years.Jane Ferguson s...

A heavily pregnant young woman returns to her small hometown to discover it''s not the safe haven she had first supposed.Following a whirlwind roma...

Christmas, cookies and a corpse: Tish Tarragon is drawn into a deadly puzzle when a young actress is murdered at the Hobson Glen Holiday Fair.Liter...

A deeply affecting and disturbing novel, both suspenseful and tragic, one of Spencer''s best over a long career. Riveting reading from first page ...

Two men stand at a crossroads: Ex-DI Alec Friedman is recovering from a car crash, but feels empty. Hired killer Gregory is contemplating retiremen...

Severn House is proud to be publishing a collection of new stories from the glittering talent of the members of the Crime Writers'' Association: ...

A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd''s Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly...

Introducing reluctant spy and friar-sleuth Brother Rodric Chandler in the first of a brand-new medieval mystery series.London. July, 1399. As rumou...

When a body is discovered in a locked toilet cubicle on the late-night train to Bath, Ishmael Jones is faced with his most puzzling case to date.Wh...

1471. The Wars of the Roses. Edward of York has claimed the throne, and Margaret Beaufort, mother to Henry Tudor, the last hope of the House of Lan...

Assistant Chief Constable Iles finds himself suspected of murder in the fast-paced 35th installment of the popular Harpur and Iles police procedura...

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman''s body throws Harry Vicary and his team into another perplexing murder investigation.''Big And...

A letter from a vicar in Norfolk leads DDI Hardcastle and DS Marriott on the road to a shocking and macabre discovery . . .One rainy morning in Mar...

A series of chilling murders has left Manchester in a state of terror. Women are being found dead in their homes, their bodies arranged in the same...

Christine de Pizan is hired to be a scribe for the King in 14th Century France but finds more than she bargained for as a trail of bodies are found...

SOME CRIMES CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN'BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' DAILY MAIL'A GREAT STORY TOLD WITH REAL POISE' SIMON KERNICK, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDetect...

A car chase ending with the murder of a senior living centre employee draws Detective Sarah Burke into a chilling case where her career - and her l...

Held captive by a ruthless gang of kidnappers, Liberty Lane must call on all her investigative skills to discover who has taken her - and why.July,...

Maggy Thorsen and her beau Jake Pavlik find themselves plunged into a real-life mystery as baffling as any Agatha Christie classicIt''s November an...

When Alex Duggins comes across a terrifying scene at the site of a new housing development, once again she is drawn into a case of brutal murder.A ...

Can a psychiatrist prevent a crime when it exists only in a patient''s mind?When she receives a wedding invitation from one of her former patients,...

Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected perilWhen Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the ...

The kindness of strangers comes under suspicion in the enjoyable new Ellie Quicke mystery.Ellie''s husband Thomas, a retired minister, is suspiciou...