
Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates the poisoning of an elderly Basque woman at the Durant assisted-living home, and the case leads into the region's buried past and that of his old predecessor, Lucian Connally.
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Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.

Joe Pickett, a young and underpaid game warden in Saddlestring, Wyoming, finds an outfitter dying on the woodpile behind his house, and the trail leads into a fight over land and money in which he and his family are in the way.

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.

Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective, buys a cottage in a remote Irish village for a quiet life, until a local kid asks him to find out what happened to a missing brother.

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.

In Trekkersburg, a town in apartheid South Africa, a mortuary mix-up shows that Theresa le Roux, a young white piano teacher, did not die naturally, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu colleague Sergeant Mickey Zondi set out to learn why.

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.

Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.

Probationary constable Peter Grant is guarding a murder scene in Covent Garden when he takes a statement from a witness who turns out to be a ghost, and is recruited into the Metropolitan Police's one-man unit for magic as a strange spree of violence breaks out.

A detective investigating a child's murder in the Dublin suburbs realises the case connects to his own forgotten childhood trauma in the same woods.

Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown in rural Australia for the funeral of his childhood friend, accused of killing his family and himself, and stays to look into the case, reopening a death twenty years old.

Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective recovering from injuries, takes a posting back in his home town on the south-west coast of Victoria, and a rich old man is bashed in his home.