Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates the chilling case of Brenda Scupham, a welfare mother who unwittingly hands her seven-year-old daughter,...

Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very ...

A collection of storiesThe hero of Robinson's novels (Wednesday's Child, etc.), Yorkshire Chief Inspector Alan Banks, appears in three of this collection'...

In Whitby, on the edge of a cliff, a woman is found sitting in a wheelchair with her throat cut. The crime is investigated by Inspector Annie Cabbot. At the ...

It should have been a cosy scene – log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree. But appearances can be deceptive. For Caroli...

For the first time, the best science fiction novels and short stories of recent years are under one cover! Such masters as Arthur Clarke, Bruce Sterling, Dav...

From a classic novella with a puzzle that the reader solves together with its characters, to a crime thriller full of unexpected plot twists, this collection...

From Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the post – Civil War frontier, from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, these gripping stories t...

In a remote countryside lane in North Yorkshire, the body of a young girl is found, bruised and beaten, having apparently been thrown from a moving vehicl...

Five teenage girls disappeared in and around the city. To catch the serial killer, a special group was created, one of whose units was headed by Chief Inspec...

In September 1969, in North Yorkshire, at the Brimley Festival, a hippie girl, Linda Lofthouse, was stabbed in the heart; and in October 2005, music critic a...

The best-selling mystery writer Lawrence Block proves his point with the twenty outstanding stories he has chosen for this volume. For fans of the traditi...