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Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when ...

On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. He's celebrating the success of his lakeside holiday homes, and has genero...

Evil is stalking the streets of Bruncliffe . . . From stolen washing to inheritance investigations, Bruncliffe’s Dales Detective Agency is b...

What you know can kill you - or make you kill. Set in 1970s Scotland, Miles Away is the story of Dacre, whose early life has been disturbed ...

'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, D...

'There are lots of things that ran in families, but murder wasn't one of them . . .' When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen ca...

In the seventh novel in Julia Chapman’s Dales Detective series,  Date with Betrayal , betrayal is rife in the idyllic Yorkshire Dales as Sam...

The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie series The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves...

When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is faced...

Twenty-five years ago, a woman and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate h...

A SECRET KEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS... After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes...

Julia Chapman ’ s sixth Dales Detective Agency novel,  Date with Deceit,  sees Delilah going undercover at a shoot involving dangerous crimi...

She was dressed in a long white gown, embroidered with tiny flowers. Her body was wrapped in colourful ribbons that floated in the breeze. B...

As the Hughes family celebrate bonfire night, a terrible accident leaves the garden shed in flames – and father and grandfather Thomas trapp...

Oxford, 1961 A family day out at Briar’s Hall ends in tragedy when a young boy goes missing – and his body is found at the bottom of a disus...

Oxford, 1960 As the city of Oxford prepares itself for the inaugural Miss Oxford Honey Beauty Pageant at The Old Swan Theatre, excitement is...

Summer 1960, Oxford In the glorious sunshine of Oxford, on a day when everyone should be celebrating, tragedy strikes when a university stud...