Nocturnal Tales: Mystery Audiobooks and Crime Stories

Sussex, 1929: a practical woman writes to the Belgian Detective not because she believes in ghosts but because something in Lost Man's Lane is behaving as though it wants her to — a wounded figure stumbling in the dusk, a warning pinned to a gatepost... more

In 1932, a crested letter draws the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion to La Ventana, a vast Uruguayan estancia where a respected household is tightening around fear: locked doors found open, bridles cut, a prized horse ridden in secret, and a... more

London, 1891: a young woman arrives at Baker Street carrying a chess piece her father tried to burn — a red pawn carved from Indian ivory and stained the colour of old blood — and every Tuesday for seven weeks another piece has arrived by post with n... more

Yorkshire coast, November: a baronet is found dead in his locked study with salt water pooled near the hearth, seaweed pressed beneath the bolted door, and no earthly way in or out — for three consecutive nights before his death a bell tolled from be... more

A missing baby, a ladder at the nursery window, a ransom note demanding ten thousand pounds, and one very sharp old lady who sees what everyone else overlooks — when an infant son vanishes from his cot at Little Fellings and the whole village is thro... more

Chicago, 1930s. The notebook marked PART ONE has been opened — and Alice Mercer's small, careful handwriting tells a story the police never heard while she was alive. Moved dresses. Unlatched windows. Footsteps after midnight. A man who smelled of so... more

Rome: the Belgian Detective and his loyal companion arrive for a restful fortnight only to be drawn into scandal when anonymous letters begin circulating inside a small Anglican church — letters that don't merely insult but accuse, and not of ordinar... more

Christmas Eve in London: a small tobacconist on Valette Street stays open late with the lights on and the till counted, routine unchanged — until two quiet shopkeepers are found shot dead behind the counter in a scene staged to look like a simple rob... more