Human Horrors

Radio host Barnaby Robinson is one of the few survivors of a catastrophic nuclear explosion.

1976. The hottest summer in living memory. A little girl thinks she sees a dead body in a deserted gallery at Kew Gardens. But did she? Forty years on, Stella Darnell investigates a chilling new case which takes her deep into the past, the world of botany, and an unsolved murder.

Mike saw what he saw. But his son Jack denies it. They were playing the hiding game when his daughter Susie disappeared. The search party gives up. But Mike knows she isn’t dead.

From the archives of the News Of The World Sunday Magazine, comes a fascinating compendium of real-life murders fuelled passion, lust and jealousy. Jean Ritchie explores some of the most brutal stories behind the chilling truth — that women are more likely to be murdered by a partner or ex-partner than a stranger.

Murder in an ancient Samaritan community. Hundreds of millions of government dollars in (or out of) the control of a dead man. But where’s the money? Visiting Nablus, Omar Yussef must solve the murder and find the money before Palestinian aid is cut.

Twenty years ago, five children escaped a two-week captivity… but six were taken. To honour their deceased friend, an annual candle-it vigil is held, with memories firmly left unspoken. But this year, a young girl’s abduction leads DCI Dawson to investigate the truth about ‘The Bad Place’.

In a decaying Georgian townhouse on the edge of a northern seaside resort, fifty-year-old, teddy-bear-hugging, spinster Marion endeavours to shut out the shocking secret that her overbearing brother John keeps in their cellar.

From niche brothels in Oxford and Soho, to the inner sanctum of a sadistic Russian people— trafficker, the trail of two dead students leads DCI Hanlon deeper into danger — until she becomes the killer's next target.

Muna's desperate and heart-wrenching battle for survival is a true story which claimed the lives of her mother and sister.

When a senator's daughter — an investigative journalist — is found murdered, fingers point all the way to the top.

A gruesome Masonic murder? The Brotherhood won't tell her anything.

A powerful thriller about a lawyer tasked with defending a Catholic priest facing an inordinate number of child sex abuse accusations.

Take a different view of the Emerald Isle in this hard-hitting collection of true crime tales.