It was some time since Benet had seen her mad mother. So when Mopsa arrived at the airport, looking colourless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet tried not to hate her. But the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder. Domestic dramas exploding into deaths and murders ... thre[...]

The sixteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. When a young, black woman goes missing in Kingsmarkham, Wexford must respond to a test not only of his powers of deduction, but of his basic beliefs and prejudices. Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmar[...]

The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while...A few weeks l[...]

After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to make a new life for himself. However, he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed. Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot, and David's girlfriend, Clare. And sudde[...]

The twenty-first book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something slightly less savoury - a human hand. The corpse, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wr[...]

Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs Primero's murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind. Until now, Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter. Only Archery can't let the past remain b[...]

A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident. Strangely, no other car was involved and no cause has been found. Wexford's only option is to wait and hope that the one surviving victim - the mother, Mrs Fanshawe - regains consciousness. But when she awakens six weeks later, Wexford's attentio[...]

On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella disappeared. There were no clues, no demands and no traces. There was nowhere else for Wexford and his team to look. Just months later, another child vanishes - five-year-old John. Wexford and Inspector Burden are launched into another investigation and [...]

When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. Through a web of lies and deceit Wexford uncovers a history of love and hate that began years earlier, and he realises that never has he witnes[...]

On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy. The woman turns out to be Rhoda Comfrey, but there's no apparent motive. Wexford's only hunch is that the clues to her murder must lie in her solitary London life. But her existence there[...]

Wexford is brought in to deal with a distraught mother whose baby girl has been swapped with an unknown baby boy. When a local priest discovers the missing baby, safe and sound, on the church steps, the hunt for the missing girl is quickly over. Mother and daughter are happily reunited, but the myst[...]

The messages were coming in thick and fast. Coded messages that John Creevey should never have seen. But the messages were a lifeline to John - a means of getting back his wife and perhaps a way to harm the man who had seduced her away from him.[...]

Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strang[...]