Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.

Investigating a savage death at an exclusive psychiatric clinic, Dalgliesh is caught in a whirlwind of political intrigue and deceit.

A string of mysterious deaths catapults Dalgliesh into a maze of mystery, blackmail and murder.

Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates the bizarre murder of a man with his hands cut off found floating in a dinghy out at sea.

The new CEO of a respected London publishing house is found dead and Commander Adam Dalgliesh thinks that the reasons for his death lie in his less-than-reputable past.

"Dark secrets lurk behind the respectable facade of a government minister's household in a complex case of multiple murder." --

Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh retreats to an isolated town for some rest, but his isolation is shattered when he discovers he cannot escape murder.

Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh is called to investigate when a government minister receives threatening letters. The Minister's own household is a challenge. His exquisite wife makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter, deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush....

Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh is searching for a "back seat strangler" who has already murdered four people. When an unpopular forensic scientist is found dead in a British government laboratory, Dalgliesh discovers that almost everyone there could be a suspect. When another body is found nearby, the detective must race against time to find the killer.

"As rival superpowers compete to dominate, one small group of elite spies is the only thing keeping the world from sliding into Cold War chaos. They are the Sandbaggers, a covert team of British Secret Intelligence agents so highly skilled and so ruthless that they take on the ultra-dangerous assignments nobody else can handle. Whether stealing sensitive documents from deep with bureaucratic strongholds, spiriting key defectors from locked-down locations,...