In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round.
Lily Bard returns to Bartley, her hometown, for her estranged sister's Christmas Eve wedding. But murder spoils Bartley's holiday cheer. The town's doctor and nurse have been bludgeoned to death. The problem is, Lily's sister's fiance is a suspect. With only three days before the wedding, Lily must work fast.
Aurora Teagarden's new husband Martin gives her a house as a wedding gift, but when she finds that its previous inhabitants disappeared, Roe's suspicions are aroused. As questions about Martin's past disturb her newfound happiness, Aurora resolves to solve the mystery of the house, and find out the truth about her new husband.
Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house showing. And when a second body is found in another house for sale, it becomes obvious that there is a very cool killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who knows a great deal about real estate.
Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden's fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, jewelry, and a house complete with a skull hidden in a window seat. Roe concludes that the elderly woman has left her a murder to solve.
Librarian Aurora Teagarden reckons she knows everything about her fellow townsfolk, including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature, as she and her friends have formed a club to discuss real life killings.
Not just any woman in Lawrenceton, Georgia gets to be a member of the Uppity Women Book Club. But Aurora Teagarden's stepsister-in-law Poppy has finally been invited, only to die on the day she's to be inducted. Sordid stories of infidelity in Poppy's marriage points to a rash of suspects.
Aurora Teagarden is still mourning her husband's death when a movie company arrives in Lawrenceton. They've come to make the film of a book by her one-time boyfriend Robin Crusoe, a book about their investigation of a series of murders that occurred years before.
Aurora knows that when a day starts with your handyman going crazy in your front yard, it probably won't get any better. Sure enough, her husband's niece Regina arrives with a baby whom no one knew she was expecting. She disappears, leaving behind the child - and a murdered husband.
Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted him dead - especially not dropped from a plane right into her backyard. But when other strange things happen around her, ranging from peculiar to violent to deadly, she must decipher the message in the madness before it's too late.
He's the man with no name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency's clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. Suddenly he is catapulted along a murder trail which leads from modern dance to Nazi secrets and serial killers...
Including explanations of The Theory of Relativity, this title takes us on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein's famous equation, exploring the principles of physics through everyday life.
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward. It lead to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known.
After a New Year's Eve ball, a woman is raped as she returns to her hotel room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Superintendent Roy Grace realises that these new cases bear close similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in Brighton back in 1997.
Due to his financial situation Adrian Mole has been forced to move next door to his parents. And his numerous nightly visits to the lavatory lead him to suspect prostate trouble...
