Books like A Place of Execution
In December 1963 thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from Scardale, a closed-off Derbyshire village, and the young Inspector George Bennett takes on the case. Decades later a journalist writing a book about it asks him to tell the story.
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Raven Black
On New Year's Eve in Shetland two teenage girls knock on the door of Magnus Tait, an old loner long suspected over a girl who vanished years ago. Days later one of them is found strangled in the snow, and Inspector Jimmy Perez takes the case.
Bitter Wash Road
Constable Paul Hirschhausen, a whistleblower exiled to a one-man police station in the South Australian wheat country, is sent out to a report of gunshots on Bitter Wash Road, and soon after a girl is found dead by the highway.
The Mermaids Singing
A killer is torturing and murdering men in Bradfield, a northern English city, and Dr Tony Hill, a psychologist brought in to profile him, works with Detective Inspector Carol Jordan as the killer starts to write about his work.
Gone
DI Jack Caffery investigates a carjacking in Bristol in which an eleven-year-old girl was in the back seat, and the thief has done it before.
On Beulah Height
Fifteen years ago three little girls vanished from the Yorkshire dale village of Dendale, just before it was flooded for a reservoir. Now a drought has brought its ruins back into view, another child has gone missing, and Superintendent Andy Dalziel is back on the case he never closed.
Silence of the Grave
A child's birthday party on a building site on the edge of Reykjavík turns up a human bone, and Inspector Erlendur starts to trace the skeleton back to the war years, while his daughter lies in a coma.
Gorky Park
Three bodies are found frozen under the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park, their faces and fingertips cut away, and Arkady Renko, chief homicide investigator of the Moscow militia, suspects the case is one the KGB would rather he dropped.
Resurrection Men
John Rebus, sent back to police college after throwing a mug of tea at his boss, joins a team of washed-up detectives, and is secretly told to spy on them.
The Laughing Policeman
On a rainy November night in Stockholm, a gunman kills eight people on a city bus, among them a young detective from Martin Beck's squad.
The Crow Trap
Rachael Lambert arrives at a remote cottage in the North Pennines to lead an environmental survey and finds her friend Bella, the farmer next door, dead in her barn. Two more women join the survey, and Inspector Vera Stanhope comes to ask questions.
The Ice House
A body is found rotting in the ice house at Streech Grange, where Phoebe Maybury's husband went missing ten years ago, and the village, which never forgave Phoebe or the two women who live with her, waits for the police to finish what they started.
Faceless Killers
In the first Wallander novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the brutal killing of an elderly farming couple in rural Sweden, and a dying word sets off a wave of anti-immigrant violence.