A crew is staying at Richard's B&B while filming at a nearby chateau. But when a beloved actor su...

Scheisse! recounts the extraordinary story of Union Berlin, the German Bundesliga's most spirited...

Exploring everything from thermo-dynamics to sold state physics, and relating the physics in comi...

Hettie and Tilly find themselves investigating a spate of fairground murders as a carefree vacati...

Praise for Gabby Hutchinson Crouch:

A darkly comedic novel about a family in crisis

What if everyone you loved was suddenly taken away? Five siblings struggle to stay together as th...

When Simon meets Kim, at last something is more important than ornithology. But as he's never bee...

An optimistic account of how the Nordic countries can teach us to live easier, healthier, happier...

The Michaelmas Murders

Cursed under London

The Secret Christmas

A twisty Victorian mystery featuring quick-witted detective Eliza Mace

Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2024

When an operation to disband an armed robbery goes awry, the Chief holds Pel responsible...

The touching, honest and laugh-out-loud account of what it's like to become a first-time mum afte...

The irascible Inspector Pel has failed to give up smoking. A Gauloise magically calms his nerves,...

On the trail of a couple of missing alpacas, disaster-prone Tom Winscombe has somehow ended up at...

Given a terminal diagnosis (actually two of them) thirty-five year old Miguel Padilla decides he ...

Mrs. Pollifax must make contact with a defecting female spy in Istanbul and finds herself in quit...

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most lovable and most unlik...

A brief spell among the Pueblos, and a shoot-out under a moonless sky brings Pel his reward when ...

Reviews of the DJ Rick Shannon series

In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Caus...

What people are saying about Serge Storms:

What readers are saying:

Originally published: London: Arrow, 1996.

Titus Llewellyn-Gwlynne, actor manager of the Red Lion Theatre, has lost a backer who was going t...

Reviews of the Transplant Tetralogy

While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received ur...

What people are saying about the Flaxborough series:

Armed with only an open mind and a little karate, Mrs Pollifax is the most lovable and most unlik...

The ninth and tenth books in the Maigret-esque Inspector Pel series. The series has been praised ...

Reviews of the DJ Rick Shannon series

Praise for the Inspector Pel Mystery series:

The classic fictional memoirs of a hapless schoolmaster.There is chalk in his fingernails and pap...

Freckled fugitive Smiler is never far from trouble.

It's murder on the dance floor! When reality TV dancer Nadiya Slipchenko senses danger, detective...

Praise for the Inspector Pel Mystery series:

Reality TV takes a deadly turn. Cherry Hinton, formerly undercover on the show, takes on the case.

A collection of light-hearted short stories about a group of amiable criminals, evoking the very ...

Praise for Bill Fitzhugh's Books

Reviews of the Transplant Tetralogy

Praise for the Inspector Pel Mystery series:

Tuesday nights have turned noisy in Chalmsbury. First a drinking fountain is blown up, then a sta...

The last thing Mrs Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk i...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fict...

Fifteen-year-old Smiler is still on the run.