An honest policeman Sergeant Wigan escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and..

More than 50 years ago Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caugh..

Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking that someone is out to get him. Wi..

Reid left both the police force and the small town of Manson a decade ago promising his boss he'd ne..

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

A woman swims in a remote milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears a body is r..

When jeweller Fahrettin Muftugolu is found dead in his apartment it looks like suicide. Searching th..

When 16-year-old Dísa is given five bitcoin by her divorced father she is unimpressed. But a year l..

When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames off-duty police officer Lacey F..

Oxford historian Daniel Kind and his partner Miranda both want to escape to a new life. On impulse t..

A series of bizarre drug-related deaths among runaway teenagers has set the North East's homeless co..

Ben Harper's life changed for ever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. It..

A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police fin..

When a young child goes missing on the Isles of Scilly the community rushes to help DI Ben Kitto and..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but she has more tolerance for her hippy neighbou..