'Historical fiction at its finest' - Belfast TelegraphDorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the King and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different...

The definitive edition of Minette Walters' thrilling tale of courage and defiance during the time of the Black Death, featuring The Last Hours and The Turn of Midnight.England, 1348: A deadly plague is...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land... June, 1348: the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in the county of Dorsetshire. Unprepared for the virulence of the disease, and...

A body is found in a chicken run . . . Based on the true story of the ‘chicken farm murder’ which took place in Blackness, Crowborough, East Sussex in December, 1924. Norman Thorne was found guilty of...

This Picador Classic edition of Minette Walters’ The Sculptress features an introduction by Stephanie Merritt, journalist and author of While You Sleep.The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin...

A brutal crime with three suspects, The Breaker is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When she revisited, always with astonishment, what had happened to her, it was the deliberate...

Winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best crime novel, The Sculptress is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...

Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for best first novel, The Ice House is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. It was evident, if there were no other entrance...

A deadly plague is spreading across the land...__________________As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of...

Par une lugubre nuit d'hiver, Ailsa Jolly-Renard est retrouvée morte de froid, à moitié dévêtue sur la terrasse de son manoir. Assassinat ou accident ? La police conclut à une mort naturelle par hypothermie....

Méfiez-vous du monstre que vous avez créé. En apparence, une famille bourgeoise sans histoire, émigrée en Angleterre depuis un pays africain : la mère, le père et les deux fils. Mais les Songoli cachent...

Mathilda Gillespie parlait trop, buvait trop et terrorisait son entourage. Elle était richissime, avare et fabulatrice. Sa fille se droguait, sa petite-fille la volait. Son testament, ignoré de tous,...

A thirty year old murder case and a possible wrongful conviction, Disordered Minds is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted...

A compelling look into damaged minds, The Chameleon's Shadow is a psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries,...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction, Fox Evil is the bestselling thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night...

Set in the bleak environments of London’s homeless community, The Echo is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly...

Exposing the horrifying consequences when communities ignore the people who need them the most, The Shape of Snakes is the psychological mystery from crime queen Minette Walters.November 1978. Britain...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, The Scold's Bridle is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and...

A chilling tale of prejudice, ambition and cunning, The Tinder Box is a novella from crime queen Minette Walters. In the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick O’Riordan has been...

Buried secrets and gritty bravery, The Devil's Feather is the psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it?...

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate.A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children – where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground...

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, The Dark Room is the psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. Something else had happened . . . Something so terrible that she was too frightened...

A body is found in the woods . . . Based on the true story of the shocking murder of Mrs Caroline Luard, which took place in Kent in August 1908. Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds...

" D'où provenait la fascination qu'exercait Olive Martin ? Du spectacle grotesque de son mètre cinquante-cinq pour quelque cent vingt kilos ? De la répulsion qu'elle inspirait ? Elle avait débité sa mère...

La suite des Dernières heures. Une pandémie. Un confinement médiéval.D'une poignée de gens dépendent la survie et la liberté de milliers d'hommes. À l'aube de l'an 1349, la peste noire continue...

Mois de juin de l'an 1348 : une épidémie monstrueuse s'abat sur le Dorset et décime peu à peu les habitants. Nobles et serfs meurent par milliers dans d'atroces souffrances....