When the body of a theology student is found on a desolate stretch of East Anglian coast, his wealthy father demands that Scotland Yard should re-examine the verdict of accidental death....

That a man who caught murderers should be a successful poet seemed inappropriate to some people. But Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of the Criminal Investigation Department was attending his...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays the patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly,...

The bizarre murder of the managing director of The Peverill Press presents Adam Dalgliesh with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity - and a murderer who is prepared to kill again.

Venetia Aldridge is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her brilliant career as a...

When a young girl is found strangled in a field in the Fens, it looks like a routine job for the staff of the East Anglian Forensic Laboratory. But then the senior biologist is found dead in his...