Kate Summerscale reopens the case of the gruesome Road Hill murder of 1860 but models her account on the country-house murder mystery – the genre inspired by the real murder and its investigation by Scotland Yard’s Jonathan Whicher.

‘I’m just going up to the room for a second’; with that, Liane Bellion leaves her husband by the pool, goes to her room in the luxury hotel on Réunion and vanishes. When Monsieur Bellion and his daughter flee the hotel, police begin a frantic manhunt across the island.

Following a Texas cheerleader’s murder, an innocent man was sent to death row. Now the real murderer is dying and sets out to convince the disbelieving authorities that they made a mistake.

Twelve years ago, the medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver’s weekend away became a murder case when Jeffery’s best friend shot dead an intruder. Sara suspected Jeffrey of changing the crime scene, and now the past is catching up with them.

The first Grant County novel opens with Sara’s discovery of a murdered woman in the local diner. Sibyl Adams has been raped, murdered and mutilated, and the hunt for a vicious serial killer begins.

When Temperance Brennan investigates the murders of a teenage girl and a businessman, she uncovers a bizarre conspiracy linking human trafficking across North America to the theft of antiquities such as Peruvian dog mummies.

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is introduced in a thriller which sees her using her autopsy of a badly decomposed body to persuade her sceptical boss that a serial killer has been at work in Quebec.