George Palmer-Jones investigates the mysterious murder of Tom French, who, like Palmer-Jones, was a birder

Product Description: The honeymoon was over . . . and Jim and his English bride, Sarah, had come home to Kinness to settle down. But first there was to be one huge celebration for the newlyweds, with the whole island present. And before the party was over, there would be a shockingly unexpected death...read more

Product Description: The privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast is the perfect site for murder. A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner's announcement that he is going to sell the island...read more

Product Description: 'The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman's flesh and the beak pointed towards her eyes . . .'The sight is a particularly horrible shock for George Palmer-Jones, ornithologist and amateur detective...read more

The murder of Mrs. Parry, a kindly, much-loved elderly woman, in the English seaside village of Heppleburn baffles detective Stephen Ramsay, but suspects begin to appear, village tensions mount, and the neighborhood killer makes a lethal reappearance

When aggressive bird-watcher Greg Franks' bludgeoned body is found floating in the ocean, detective George Palmer-Jones sets out to find the killer

Product Description: "She writes nicely and her characters do not come out of the stock cupboard." - THE SPECTATOR. For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special - she would plan to visit people as a welcome respite from the duties that being a vicar's wife entailed...read more

Product Description: Ever since the death of her husband, Ursula Ottway has lived alone in Back Rigg Cottage, high up on the fells overlooking the beautiful Crow Water reservoir. She has always been popular in the local community, but Ursula's life is far from secure...read more

Seeing through a widow's charade about her marriage having been an amiable one after her environmentalist husband's apparent suicide, private investigators Molly and George Palmer-Jones discover that the dead man had many enemies. Original.

Product Description: IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT AND ERNIE BOWLES IS STEPPING OUT--TO DIE.Ernie's big fantasy is that his blind date with a blonde divorcee will end with the two of them back at the farm, cozily shacked up. Alas, Sunday morning finds Ernie on the cold kitchen floor, all alone and strangled...read more

When Mick is murdered while birding on the Texas coast, his friend, Rob, is tagged for the crime, but shrewd birder-investigator George Palmer-Jones focuses his attention on some odd ducks among the English contingent

Product Description: Gabriella Preston was found in the boot of a car, lying curled on her side like a child. She was dead. The car belonged to Gus Lynch. Gus Lynch was the director of Hallowgate's Youth Theatre, Gabriella his female lead. The local police are over-stretched with an outbreak of joy-riding so call in Inspector Ramsay and Sergeant Hunter...read more

Product Description: Appropriately, it was at Hallowe'en that headmaster Harold Medburn's body, dressed in academic cap and gown, was found swinging from the school's rusty netball hoop. And although his death brought fear to some hearts, relief was the dominant response, for Medburn had been a bully...read more

The electrifying follow up to the award-winning Raven BlackRaven Black received crime fiction’s highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an electrifying sequel.It’s midsummer in the Shetland Islands, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws an elaborate party to launch an exhibition of her work at The Herring House, a gallery on the beach.The party ends in farce when one the guests, a mysterious Englishman, bursts into tears and claims not to know who he is or where he’s come from. The following day the Englishman is found hanging from a rafter, and Detective Jimmy Perez is convinced that the man has been murdered. He is reinforced in this belief when Roddy, Bella’s musician nephew, is murdered, too.But the detective’s relationship with Fran Hunter may have clouded his judgment, for this is a crazy time of the year when night blurs into day and nothing is quite as it seems.A stunning second installment in the acclaimed Shetland Island Quartet, White Nights is sure to garner American raves for international sensation Ann Cleeves.

Product Description: When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient find―or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is fatally shot and Ann Cleeves's popular series detective Jimmy Perez is called in...read more

When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human remains, the locals are intrigued. Is it an ancient find - or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman fatally is shot and Ann Cleeves's popular series detective Jimmy Perez is called in. In Red Bones, a claustrophobic mists swirl around the Shetland Islands, and Inspector Perez finds himself totally in the dark.

Product Description: It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now residents of the East Yorkshire village of Elvet are disturbed to hear of new evidence proving Jeanie's innocence. Abigail's killer is still at large...read more

Product Description: Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered...read more

Product Description: Silent Voices is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series - now the major ITV detective drama Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn. When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders briefly if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes...read more

Product Description: DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but she has more tolerance for her hippy neighbours than most. When one of them goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what happened. It's an easy job to track the young woman down to a country retreat where aspiring authors gather to work through their novels...read more