Best British Detectives Books

Best Seller Free British Detectives Books of 2023

  • The Famous Plantation Mystery reviews

    The Famous Plantation Mystery Book Reviews

    Teddy Donaldson

    The lawyer drew some documents from his desk. “I want you to sign these,” he said. Hutton gave a violent start. “What are they?” he asked. “The articles of agreement.” “What agreem...

  • Dead Smart reviews

    Dead Smart Book Reviews

    Stephen Puleston

    A poor man's folly... When small time crook Eddie Westford is murdered at a busy football game, DI John Marco intially suspects football hooligans are to blame.  Unti...

  • The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 reviews

    The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 Book Reviews

    Stacy Willingham, Alex Finlay, Gigi Pandian, Camilla Sten, Anna Downes & Samantha Jayne Allen

    Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The fourth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can'tmiss novelseither standalone or first in ...

  • Silver for the River-Nymphs reviews

    Silver for the River-Nymphs Book Reviews

    Nicholas Foster

    A mystery crime noir from the antique world of 1950s London in which a series of unexplained murders of leading lawyers is linked to the worlds of theatrical impresarios, shady ant...

  • The Hundred Year Wait reviews

    The Hundred Year Wait Book Reviews

    Amelia Price

    The first book in the Mycroft Holmes Adventures series It's been onehundred years since Watson died and Mycroft still doesn't understand what Sherlock saw in having such ...

  • The Revengers reviews

    The Revengers Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    “We've been tasered, drugged, kidnapped, and almost blown up. So I'm sorry we’re late for the party.” Jeff Cody is having a bad day. But readers will love this short stor...

  • Spaghetti Junction reviews

    Spaghetti Junction Book Reviews

    James Dargan

    SPAGHETTI JUNCTION,  A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sanch...

  • A House of Ruin reviews

    A House of Ruin Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    A murder that stole 1982 national headlines: “Renowned Family Slayed in Home” A case that remained cold for forty long years. The Eyler family was anything but average. The father ...

  • Call Mr. Fortune reviews

    Call Mr. Fortune Book Reviews

    H. C. Bailey

    In the suburbs of London, a remarkable detective fights for the underdog When father is away, Reggie Fortune is left in charge of his quiet country medical practice. A young doctor...

  • An Addendum to the Affair of the Dog That Did Not Bark. reviews

    An Addendum to the Affair of the Dog That Did Not Bark. Book Reviews

    Philip van Wulven

    Some revelations by Dr Watson of hitherto undisclosed details in the resolution of this interesting case.

  • The Curious Case of the Broken Window reviews

    The Curious Case of the Broken Window Book Reviews

    Bryan M. Porter

    It is July 25, 1864 when the good inspector James Wright is called to the chief inspector, as a murder suspect has asked for him by name. Unsure of what could be afoot, the inspect...

  • Nothing but Darkness reviews

    Nothing but Darkness Book Reviews

    M.A. Green

    From international bestseller, M.A. Green Aidan Sheppard has always resisted his darker urgesonly the violent ones, he'd never deny himself anything sexualuntil one n...

  • A Questionable Hero reviews

    A Questionable Hero Book Reviews

    Stephen Gane

    Liston Pearce was a ruthless Yardie gang boss, so why did he save the kife of a policewoman?

  • Iceline reviews

    Iceline Book Reviews

    Martyn Taylor

    Smuggling, skulduggery and scuba diving and he was in the right place at the wrong time. A late evening encounter outside the compressor shed and a moment of panic. A tourist joins...

  • Death in the Docks reviews

    Death in the Docks Book Reviews

    Simon Glyndwr John

    Owen Jones returns to the main Abermorfa Police Station as an Acting Detective Inspector. Owen’s new role includes his overseeing of the Special Branch unit based in the docks who ...

  • The Cheat Killers reviews

    The Cheat Killers Book Reviews

    Gordon Warden

    The Cheat Killers. Unfaithful husbands are being murdered in an unusual fashion. Clues are deliberately being left at the scene. Why? Does the killer want to be discovered, or are ...

  • A Taste of Inspector Pirat reviews

    A Taste of Inspector Pirat Book Reviews

    Rob Falconer

    Here is a “taste” of Inspector Pirat, a quartet of detective short stories translated from the Spanish books of Professor Guiteras featuring Inspector Pirat. These have now been re...

  • Tree of Snakes reviews

    Tree of Snakes Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    A rough sleeping man is brought to A&E. He died in hospital. The police were alerted that tests indicated he may not have died from natural causes. The incident spirals int...

  • Murder Most Stupid reviews

    Murder Most Stupid Book Reviews

    David Brooklyn

    A horde of dreadful, vulgar, cretinous guests of dubious morals and lapsed honour, in cahoots with a pack of impertinent, bestial, lumpenproletarian staff, frustrate the noble effo...

  • Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens reviews

    Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Vollständig überarbeitete, korrigierte und illustrierte Fassung (HD) Das Tal des Grauens (Originaltitel: The Valley of Fear) ist der vierte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in dem ...

  • The Murder at Sissingham Hall reviews

    The Murder at Sissingham Hall Book Reviews

    Clara Benson

    "It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder m...

  • No Police Like Holmes reviews

    No Police Like Holmes Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    Fully revised 2nd edition The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world wer...

  • Two Tocks before Midnight reviews

    Two Tocks before Midnight Book Reviews

    Clay Boutwell

    The Strange Affair of October 24th, 1859: When a flurry of forgeries appears in museums and among collectors, the members of the Agora, a society dedicated to the betterment of man...

  • The Dressing Table Murder reviews

    The Dressing Table Murder Book Reviews

    Cassandra Chan

    Bethancourt & Gibbons mysteries are a series of traditional British cozies in a modern setting. Phillip Bethancourt is a wealthy manabout town and amateur sleuth. His best ...

  • Rachel Amphlett Reading Order and Checklist reviews

    Rachel Amphlett Reading Order and Checklist Book Reviews

    Rachel Amphlett

    The only official guide to crime fiction and spy novel author Rachel Amphlett   This free guide provides an official introduction to novels by crime fiction and spy novel ...

  • The Penitent Priest reviews

    The Penitent Priest Book Reviews

    J. R. Mathis & Susan Mathis

    My wife died in my arms, the victim of a nameless killer's bullet. I should have died with her. But God had other plans for me.  Fifteen years later, I'm back wh...

  • Trust Fall reviews

    Trust Fall Book Reviews

    Frankie Bow

    It looks like it's going to be another boring faculty retreat at Mahina State University, "Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow." But then the Trust Fall exercise goes ...

  • The Girl for the Gold reviews

    The Girl for the Gold Book Reviews

    C. A. W. Parker

    First they took the girl now someone has stolen the ransom... In the golden age of crime, Rusty Macduff is a private investigator with a difference. Faced with an oversupply of gr...

  • Frankenstein.com reviews

    Frankenstein.com Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    Frankenstein.com is the sequel to Resident Fear. Two years on from arresting the serial killer involved, a new challenge faces D.C.I. Renton. The story is once again set in the Nor...

  • Hilda Hopkins reviews

    Hilda Hopkins Book Reviews

    Vivienne Fagan

    Hilda Hopkins está en el camino de aumentar su pensión y mantenerse en sus planes de tejer a máquina y con la lana de “Sweeney”. Después de escaparse a lo Rambo por la ventana del ...

  • The Albert Gate Mystery reviews

    The Albert Gate Mystery Book Reviews

    Louis Tracy

    Amateur detective Reginald Brett attempts to solve a case revolving around missing diamonds and four dead Turkish officials in this British mystery novel.

  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes reviews

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    From his rooms in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes grapples with forces of deceit, intrigue, and evil in Victorian London. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes inspired The Map of Chaos by ...

  • Not Exactly Dead reviews

    Not Exactly Dead Book Reviews

    Kathryn Judson

    Richard Hugh, aka TripleO Five of the unsung British agency nicknamed MI5 1/2, is happily making life miserable for bad guys and, when he has time, cultivating a reputation as a la...

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles reviews

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazi...

  • A Mersey Killing reviews

    A Mersey Killing Book Reviews

    Brian L. Porter

    A skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations. Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fame and fortune, as the fledgling...

  • A Secondhand Lie reviews

    A Secondhand Lie Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    Sometimes you know things you’re not supposed to know. Things that you can never unknow. Things that will change the course of your life…and the fate of the ones you love. I found ...

  • Murder on the Orient Express Teaching Guide reviews

    Murder on the Orient Express Teaching Guide Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie & Amy Jurskis

    To help teachers decide if Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is right for their students, we’ve created this free ebook that features sample chapters from the book and...

  • Gone Up In Flames reviews

    Gone Up In Flames Book Reviews

    Michael N Burton

    This is a Short Story Louisa Dalton is a thirty something former police recruit. With a messy divorce now behind her, she's settled into running a market stall, selling her ho...

  • Mister Mottley and the Key of D reviews

    Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews

    Ellen Seltz

    Has Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...

  • The Red Thumb Mark reviews

    The Red Thumb Mark Book Reviews

    R. Austin Freeman

    The clever and thrilling debut of literature’s first forensic detective In all of London, there are few who know more about science than Dr. John Thorndyke, and fewer still who kno...

  • Long Gone reviews

    Long Gone Book Reviews

    Paul Pilkington

    The gripping detective mystery series and first novel in the Archangel Trilogy. From the author of the millondownloaded Emma Holden Trilogy... A missing girl... Natalie Long is mis...

  • Death of a Hero reviews

    Death of a Hero Book Reviews

    B.M. Allsopp

    Meet young Joe Horseman. How much will he risk to save his dead hero's honour? Horseman idolises rugby captain Seru, who plucked him from the crowd of hopeful freshers to plac...

  • Enigma reviews

    Enigma Book Reviews

    Wolf Black

    This book is a good oldfashioned read. Pure and simple. When a serial killer starts preying on young mothers, it’s up to Love, and his sophisticated partner Stuart Le Fanu, to empl...

  • The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card reviews

    The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card Book Reviews

    R Weir

    Jarvis Mann is a private detective, whose business thrived on the mundane Paying the bills by shadowing cheating spouses Getting in the middle of messy divorces And working for the...

  • My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series reviews

    My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series Book Reviews

    Joy Bassetti-Kruger

    When Susan's mother's secret life as a spy for MI6 during the cold war, spills over into Susan's life, she is unprepared for the devastating effect this has on their...

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes reviews

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    An Apple Books Classic You get not one, not two, but 25 gripping mysteries in Arthur Conan Doyle’s first of five collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Follow the brilliant ...

  • A Questionable Hero reviews

    A Questionable Hero Book Reviews

    Stephen Gane

    Liston Pearce is a bad man, A yardie, A drugdealing gangboss. A splitsecond decision starts a series of lifechanging events that he could not have foreseen even in his wildest imag...

  • Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes reviews

    Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hat nicht nur den berühmtesten Privatermittler der Welt erfunden, sondern das Genre des modernen Detektivromans gleich mit. In zwölf kurzen Erzählungen erleb...

  • Out of Time reviews

    Out of Time Book Reviews

    Steven Allinson

    Some cases are over before they have begun... Boxing Day in London is shaping up to be one of the worst on record for Detective Neil Townsend. When a young family discover what app...

  • The Four Faces A Mystery reviews

    The Four Faces A Mystery Book Reviews

    William Le Queux

    In this 1914 Edwardian mystery by English writer William Le Queux, a London gang of thieves becomes involved in robberies, kidnappings, and murders.

  • Overwhelming Evidence reviews

    Overwhelming Evidence Book Reviews

    Steve Bentham

    A ruinous secret not yet told. A killer determined to keep it that way. A cozy British detective mystery with a touch of noir Christopher Vernham, a downatheel private inv...

  • Back Track 3 reviews

    Back Track 3 Book Reviews

    H.A Dawson

    Back Track 3 Fast paced Intense gripping thrillers with dramatic interludes and enthralling mystery. The clues are there if you really scrutinise but why not just enjoy the story f...

  • The Bridge reviews

    The Bridge Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    It was a political decision taken to make a statement to the rest of the world. In fact, it did achieve phenominal notoriety. At first, a sequence of horrific murders seemed to be ...

  • Angry Betty reviews

    Angry Betty Book Reviews

    Jamie Lee Scott

    A female cop, a dead body in the trunk of a car, and drug cartels in a small Texas town. Kate Darby learned to hate cops at an early age, thanks to her drug addicted mom. No one wo...

  • Mud Pie reviews

    Mud Pie Book Reviews

    Emma Lee Bole

    A tale of rugby, puddings and murder. Ingredients: 1 handful of illegal drugs, 1 twelveinch chef's knife, 1 bloodstained handkerchief, 6 rugby forwards and half a motorbike. W...

  • Escape the Dark reviews

    Escape the Dark Book Reviews

    Michelle Files

    Don't hitchhike, because the person who picks you up could be a serial killer. Don't pick up hitchhikers, because they might be your worst nightmare. What if three of the...

  • Just Fishing reviews

    Just Fishing Book Reviews

    Isabella Muir

    As he relaxes in his favourite seaside resort of Anzio, near Rome, Italian Detective Giuseppe Bianchi has the chance to reflect on his life choices, while helping a friend to make ...

  • A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia reviews

    A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia Book Reviews

    Clara Benson

    It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyoneor so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous p...

  • Back Track 1 reviews

    Back Track 1 Book Reviews

    H.A Dawson

    Intense gripping thriller with dramatic interludes and an enthralling mystery. These are stories of personal journeys that lead our unsuspecting main characters into situations bey...

  • Backtrack reviews

    Backtrack Book Reviews

    Paul Doiron

    Enjoy “Backtrack”an original, brand new, short story from Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron, author of the bestselling Mike Bowditch series. When a visiting hunter goes missing in t...

Best Seller Paid British Detectives Books of 2023

  • The Famous Plantation Mystery reviews

    The Famous Plantation Mystery Book Reviews

    Teddy Donaldson

    The lawyer drew some documents from his desk. “I want you to sign these,” he said. Hutton gave a violent start. “What are they?” he asked. “The articles of agreement.” “What agreem...

  • Dead Smart reviews

    Dead Smart Book Reviews

    Stephen Puleston

    A poor man's folly... When small time crook Eddie Westford is murdered at a busy football game, DI John Marco intially suspects football hooligans are to blame.  Unti...

  • The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 reviews

    The Minotaur Sampler, Volume 4 Book Reviews

    Stacy Willingham, Alex Finlay, Gigi Pandian, Camilla Sten, Anna Downes & Samantha Jayne Allen

    Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The fourth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can'tmiss novelseither standalone or first in ...

  • Silver for the River-Nymphs reviews

    Silver for the River-Nymphs Book Reviews

    Nicholas Foster

    A mystery crime noir from the antique world of 1950s London in which a series of unexplained murders of leading lawyers is linked to the worlds of theatrical impresarios, shady ant...

  • The Hundred Year Wait reviews

    The Hundred Year Wait Book Reviews

    Amelia Price

    The first book in the Mycroft Holmes Adventures series It's been onehundred years since Watson died and Mycroft still doesn't understand what Sherlock saw in having such ...

  • The Revengers reviews

    The Revengers Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    “We've been tasered, drugged, kidnapped, and almost blown up. So I'm sorry we’re late for the party.” Jeff Cody is having a bad day. But readers will love this short stor...

  • Spaghetti Junction reviews

    Spaghetti Junction Book Reviews

    James Dargan

    SPAGHETTI JUNCTION,  A NAPOLEON CLANCY BOOK, VOL. 1 It's two men against a world of criminality They're Batman and Robin without the masks, Don Quixote and Sanch...

  • A House of Ruin reviews

    A House of Ruin Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    A murder that stole 1982 national headlines: “Renowned Family Slayed in Home” A case that remained cold for forty long years. The Eyler family was anything but average. The father ...

  • Call Mr. Fortune reviews

    Call Mr. Fortune Book Reviews

    H. C. Bailey

    In the suburbs of London, a remarkable detective fights for the underdog When father is away, Reggie Fortune is left in charge of his quiet country medical practice. A young doctor...

  • An Addendum to the Affair of the Dog That Did Not Bark. reviews

    An Addendum to the Affair of the Dog That Did Not Bark. Book Reviews

    Philip van Wulven

    Some revelations by Dr Watson of hitherto undisclosed details in the resolution of this interesting case.

  • The Curious Case of the Broken Window reviews

    The Curious Case of the Broken Window Book Reviews

    Bryan M. Porter

    It is July 25, 1864 when the good inspector James Wright is called to the chief inspector, as a murder suspect has asked for him by name. Unsure of what could be afoot, the inspect...

  • Nothing but Darkness reviews

    Nothing but Darkness Book Reviews

    M.A. Green

    From international bestseller, M.A. Green Aidan Sheppard has always resisted his darker urgesonly the violent ones, he'd never deny himself anything sexualuntil one n...

  • A Questionable Hero reviews

    A Questionable Hero Book Reviews

    Stephen Gane

    Liston Pearce was a ruthless Yardie gang boss, so why did he save the kife of a policewoman?

  • Iceline reviews

    Iceline Book Reviews

    Martyn Taylor

    Smuggling, skulduggery and scuba diving and he was in the right place at the wrong time. A late evening encounter outside the compressor shed and a moment of panic. A tourist joins...

  • Death in the Docks reviews

    Death in the Docks Book Reviews

    Simon Glyndwr John

    Owen Jones returns to the main Abermorfa Police Station as an Acting Detective Inspector. Owen’s new role includes his overseeing of the Special Branch unit based in the docks who ...

  • The Cheat Killers reviews

    The Cheat Killers Book Reviews

    Gordon Warden

    The Cheat Killers. Unfaithful husbands are being murdered in an unusual fashion. Clues are deliberately being left at the scene. Why? Does the killer want to be discovered, or are ...

  • A Taste of Inspector Pirat reviews

    A Taste of Inspector Pirat Book Reviews

    Rob Falconer

    Here is a “taste” of Inspector Pirat, a quartet of detective short stories translated from the Spanish books of Professor Guiteras featuring Inspector Pirat. These have now been re...

  • Tree of Snakes reviews

    Tree of Snakes Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    A rough sleeping man is brought to A&E. He died in hospital. The police were alerted that tests indicated he may not have died from natural causes. The incident spirals int...

  • Murder Most Stupid reviews

    Murder Most Stupid Book Reviews

    David Brooklyn

    A horde of dreadful, vulgar, cretinous guests of dubious morals and lapsed honour, in cahoots with a pack of impertinent, bestial, lumpenproletarian staff, frustrate the noble effo...

  • Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens reviews

    Sherlock Holmes und das Tal des Grauens Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Vollständig überarbeitete, korrigierte und illustrierte Fassung (HD) Das Tal des Grauens (Originaltitel: The Valley of Fear) ist der vierte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in dem ...

  • The Murder at Sissingham Hall reviews

    The Murder at Sissingham Hall Book Reviews

    Clara Benson

    "It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder m...

  • No Police Like Holmes reviews

    No Police Like Holmes Book Reviews

    Dan Andriacco

    Fully revised 2nd edition The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world wer...

  • Two Tocks before Midnight reviews

    Two Tocks before Midnight Book Reviews

    Clay Boutwell

    The Strange Affair of October 24th, 1859: When a flurry of forgeries appears in museums and among collectors, the members of the Agora, a society dedicated to the betterment of man...

  • The Dressing Table Murder reviews

    The Dressing Table Murder Book Reviews

    Cassandra Chan

    Bethancourt & Gibbons mysteries are a series of traditional British cozies in a modern setting. Phillip Bethancourt is a wealthy manabout town and amateur sleuth. His best ...

  • Rachel Amphlett Reading Order and Checklist reviews

    Rachel Amphlett Reading Order and Checklist Book Reviews

    Rachel Amphlett

    The only official guide to crime fiction and spy novel author Rachel Amphlett   This free guide provides an official introduction to novels by crime fiction and spy novel ...

  • The Penitent Priest reviews

    The Penitent Priest Book Reviews

    J. R. Mathis & Susan Mathis

    My wife died in my arms, the victim of a nameless killer's bullet. I should have died with her. But God had other plans for me.  Fifteen years later, I'm back wh...

  • Trust Fall reviews

    Trust Fall Book Reviews

    Frankie Bow

    It looks like it's going to be another boring faculty retreat at Mahina State University, "Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow." But then the Trust Fall exercise goes ...

  • The Girl for the Gold reviews

    The Girl for the Gold Book Reviews

    C. A. W. Parker

    First they took the girl now someone has stolen the ransom... In the golden age of crime, Rusty Macduff is a private investigator with a difference. Faced with an oversupply of gr...

  • Frankenstein.com reviews

    Frankenstein.com Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    Frankenstein.com is the sequel to Resident Fear. Two years on from arresting the serial killer involved, a new challenge faces D.C.I. Renton. The story is once again set in the Nor...

  • Hilda Hopkins reviews

    Hilda Hopkins Book Reviews

    Vivienne Fagan

    Hilda Hopkins está en el camino de aumentar su pensión y mantenerse en sus planes de tejer a máquina y con la lana de “Sweeney”. Después de escaparse a lo Rambo por la ventana del ...

  • The Albert Gate Mystery reviews

    The Albert Gate Mystery Book Reviews

    Louis Tracy

    Amateur detective Reginald Brett attempts to solve a case revolving around missing diamonds and four dead Turkish officials in this British mystery novel.

  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes reviews

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    From his rooms in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes grapples with forces of deceit, intrigue, and evil in Victorian London. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes inspired The Map of Chaos by ...

  • Not Exactly Dead reviews

    Not Exactly Dead Book Reviews

    Kathryn Judson

    Richard Hugh, aka TripleO Five of the unsung British agency nicknamed MI5 1/2, is happily making life miserable for bad guys and, when he has time, cultivating a reputation as a la...

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles reviews

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazi...

  • A Mersey Killing reviews

    A Mersey Killing Book Reviews

    Brian L. Porter

    A skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations. Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fame and fortune, as the fledgling...

  • A Secondhand Lie reviews

    A Secondhand Lie Book Reviews

    Pamela Crane

    Sometimes you know things you’re not supposed to know. Things that you can never unknow. Things that will change the course of your life…and the fate of the ones you love. I found ...

  • Murder on the Orient Express Teaching Guide reviews

    Murder on the Orient Express Teaching Guide Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie & Amy Jurskis

    To help teachers decide if Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is right for their students, we’ve created this free ebook that features sample chapters from the book and...

  • Gone Up In Flames reviews

    Gone Up In Flames Book Reviews

    Michael N Burton

    This is a Short Story Louisa Dalton is a thirty something former police recruit. With a messy divorce now behind her, she's settled into running a market stall, selling her ho...

  • Mister Mottley and the Key of D reviews

    Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews

    Ellen Seltz

    Has Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...

  • The Red Thumb Mark reviews

    The Red Thumb Mark Book Reviews

    R. Austin Freeman

    The clever and thrilling debut of literature’s first forensic detective In all of London, there are few who know more about science than Dr. John Thorndyke, and fewer still who kno...

  • Long Gone reviews

    Long Gone Book Reviews

    Paul Pilkington

    The gripping detective mystery series and first novel in the Archangel Trilogy. From the author of the millondownloaded Emma Holden Trilogy... A missing girl... Natalie Long is mis...

  • Death of a Hero reviews

    Death of a Hero Book Reviews

    B.M. Allsopp

    Meet young Joe Horseman. How much will he risk to save his dead hero's honour? Horseman idolises rugby captain Seru, who plucked him from the crowd of hopeful freshers to plac...

  • Enigma reviews

    Enigma Book Reviews

    Wolf Black

    This book is a good oldfashioned read. Pure and simple. When a serial killer starts preying on young mothers, it’s up to Love, and his sophisticated partner Stuart Le Fanu, to empl...

  • The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card reviews

    The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card Book Reviews

    R Weir

    Jarvis Mann is a private detective, whose business thrived on the mundane Paying the bills by shadowing cheating spouses Getting in the middle of messy divorces And working for the...

  • My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series reviews

    My Mother, the Spy Part 1 of series Book Reviews

    Joy Bassetti-Kruger

    When Susan's mother's secret life as a spy for MI6 during the cold war, spills over into Susan's life, she is unprepared for the devastating effect this has on their...

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes reviews

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    An Apple Books Classic You get not one, not two, but 25 gripping mysteries in Arthur Conan Doyle’s first of five collections of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Follow the brilliant ...

  • A Questionable Hero reviews

    A Questionable Hero Book Reviews

    Stephen Gane

    Liston Pearce is a bad man, A yardie, A drugdealing gangboss. A splitsecond decision starts a series of lifechanging events that he could not have foreseen even in his wildest imag...

  • Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes reviews

    Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hat nicht nur den berühmtesten Privatermittler der Welt erfunden, sondern das Genre des modernen Detektivromans gleich mit. In zwölf kurzen Erzählungen erleb...

  • Out of Time reviews

    Out of Time Book Reviews

    Steven Allinson

    Some cases are over before they have begun... Boxing Day in London is shaping up to be one of the worst on record for Detective Neil Townsend. When a young family discover what app...

  • The Four Faces A Mystery reviews

    The Four Faces A Mystery Book Reviews

    William Le Queux

    In this 1914 Edwardian mystery by English writer William Le Queux, a London gang of thieves becomes involved in robberies, kidnappings, and murders.

  • Overwhelming Evidence reviews

    Overwhelming Evidence Book Reviews

    Steve Bentham

    A ruinous secret not yet told. A killer determined to keep it that way. A cozy British detective mystery with a touch of noir Christopher Vernham, a downatheel private inv...

  • Back Track 3 reviews

    Back Track 3 Book Reviews

    H.A Dawson

    Back Track 3 Fast paced Intense gripping thrillers with dramatic interludes and enthralling mystery. The clues are there if you really scrutinise but why not just enjoy the story f...

  • The Bridge reviews

    The Bridge Book Reviews

    Hylton Smith

    It was a political decision taken to make a statement to the rest of the world. In fact, it did achieve phenominal notoriety. At first, a sequence of horrific murders seemed to be ...

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