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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.
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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.
Jar City
An old man is found battered to death in his basement flat in Reykjavík, with a note on the body that reads 'I am him', and Inspector Erlendur, finding no motive, starts digging into the dead man's past.
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.
Last Bus to Woodstock
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.
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.
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 Puppet Show
A killer is burning men alive in the stone circles of Cumbria, and Detective Sergeant Washington Poe, suspended and sulking, is called back when his own name turns up carved into one of the bodies.
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.
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.
The Cold Cold Ground
In 1981, with Belfast rioting over the hunger strikes, Sergeant Sean Duffy, a Catholic in the mostly Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, is sent to a killing that looks paramilitary but may be the work of a serial killer.
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.
Ratking
Aurelio Zen, a Rome police official parked in a dead-end job, is sent to Perugia to take over the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful industrialist whose family seems in no hurry to get him back.