2010 • British • Duncan Campbell

A Merry Mystery of the Mob Crime ain’t what it used to be. Time was, there were certain traditions, certain codes ...

British • Elizabeth Ironside

Art historian Nicholas Ochterlonie is the very model of a modern English gentleman, with a perfectly ordered life ...

Book Title • British • Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Bill Slider, a middle-aged, straight-arrow London cop, finds his life thrown into passionate disarray by the murder of a mysterious ...

Book Title • British • Dalziel & Pascoe • Reginald Hill

A country-house mystery. The phrase evokes an image of 1930s fops in dinner jackets, starched family retainers, pale fingers dripping ...

Barry Maitland • Book Title • British

Mrs. Thatcher’s London is bristling with the newly rich bankers, and property developers who have declared the city their personal ...

Book Title • British • Douglas Skeggs

Everyone in town is lining up to see Titian's masterpiece, The Triumph of Bacchus, on loan for a limited time ...

Book Title • British • Inspector Quantrill • Sheila Radley

Inspector Quantrill #3 Swaddled in snow, the town of Breckham Market looks like a tourist's dream of the Little English ...

Book Title • British • Inspector Quantrill • Sheila Radley

Second in the Inspector Quantrill mystery series set in an English market town They make an oddly effective team - ...

Book Title • British • Inspector Quantrill • Sheila Radley

The first Inspector Quantrill mystery It’s a glorious spring morning in the village of Ashthorpe. Birds are singing, and sunlight ...

Book Title • British • Janet Neel

First in the Francesca Wilson series For years the trim, methodical Francesca Wilson has served as her family's organizing principle, ruthlessly ...

Book Title • British • John Malcolm

First of the Tim Simpson “art mysteries,” all featuring real works of art depicted on the books’ covers As an art ...

Book Title • British • Elizabeth Ironside

Hugo Frencham was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull, perhaps, a bit fussily fastidious. But in the right ...

Book Title • British • Elizabeth Ironside

Jean Loftus has lived at Asshe House for more than 40 years. Its tidy contours, the soft colors of the ...

Book Title • British • Elizabeth Ironside

In 1925 beautiful, bohemian Diana Pollexfen was celebrating her 30th birthday, but the celebrations soured when her husband died, poisoned ...

Book Title • British • Dalziel & Pascoe • Reginald Hill

The Third Book in the Dalziel & Pascoe Series From Yorkshire to Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but ...

Book Title • British • Dalziel & Pascoe • Reginald Hill

The Second Book in the Dalziel & Pascoe mystery novel series The second book in the Dalziel and Pascoe mystery ...

Book Title • British • Dalziel & Pascoe • Reginald Hill

We bring back the (long out-of-print) first novel in the phenomenally popular Dalziel & Pascoe mystery novel series about ...

Book Title • British • Reginald Hill

Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear—of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. ...

Book Title • British • Caroline Graham

Simon Hannaford is in need of some fast money, and murder seems the obvious solution. Specifically, a 1930s Murder Mystery ...

Book Title • British • Caroline Graham • Inspector Barnaby

The Fourth Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series The Midsomer Worthy's Writers' Circle has never had much luck in attracting ...

Book Title • British • Caroline Graham • Inspector Barnaby

The Third Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton ...

Book Title • British • Caroline Graham • Inspector Barnaby

The Second Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series and a delicious satire of community theater Actors do love their dramas, ...

Book Title • British • Caroline Graham • Inspector Barnaby

The First Book in the Inspector Barnaby Series Badger’s Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local ...

Book Title • British • Peter Dickinson

Gold-Dagger winner for Best Crime Novel of the Year. It’s 1968 but one communal house in West London is steeped in ...

Book Title • British • Peter Dickinson

Americans may have Colonial Williamsburg, but for the Brits, there's "Old England," an elaborate theme-park that pays homage to a ...

Book Title • British • Peter Dickinson

The monarchy is not what it used to be. King Victor II may be the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, but ...

Book Title • British • Canterbury Cathedral • Michael David Anthony • November 2008

A Canterbury Cathedral Mystery An administrator at Canterbury Cathedral, Richard Harrison isn't much troubled by a nasty anonymous letter ...

Book Title • British • Canterbury Cathedral • Michael David Anthony

A Canterbury Cathedral Mystery The first book in the Canterbury Cathedral series featuring retired Colonel Richard Harrison, who ...

Book Title • British • Robert Barnard

A man’s home is his castle, but for Percy Spender (“call me Perce”) that motto has been taken just a ...

Book Title • British • Robert Barnard

Sara Causseley could not be more delighted by her new job as governess to the aristocratic Hallam clan. The children ...

Book Title • British • Robert Barnard

At the Ketterick Arts Festival, the apprentice is just about the only fella that is chaste, know what I mean ...

Book Title • British • Robert Barnard

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many working-class families sent their children to the comparative safety of ...

Book Title • British • Robert Barnard

From the London Times Literary Supplement contemporary review: The Northern Opera Company is rehearsing Rigoletto in the Pitford Independent Methodist Hall ...

2009 • Book Title • British • L.C. Tyler

Cover by George Booth, New Yorker cartoonist A mediocre mystery-writer (and thus a purveyor of red herrings), Ethelred Tressider has even ...