For lovers of intelligent crime fiction, six heart-racing European adventures in one boxset.

Beatrice Stubbs of Scotland Yard: detective inspector, metaphor mixer and stubborn survivor.

Battling crime by day and her own demons by night, the question is always the same. Justice or the law?

"If you've not yet read Beatrice Stubbs, I envy you. What a treat you have in store."

Behind Closed Doors

Did their conscience get to them? Or did someone else?

Four unpopular businessmen, four apparent suicides. Until Interpol find the same DNA at each death.

Beatrice leads the investigation. Potential suspects are everywhere, her Swiss counterpart is hostile and the secretive world of international finance seems beyond the law. Battling impossible odds by day and her own demons at night, Beatrice has never felt so alone.

She isn't. Someone else believes in justice. The poetic kind.

Raw Material

You never know who's watching.

Sunrise on a secluded Welsh beach and Beatrice takes some innocent snaps. Who wants those pictures destroyed?

Back in London, Scotland Yard is trying to pre-empt a serious sexual offence. While neighbour Adrian and companion Matthew play Poirot.

From deserted Pembrokeshire beaches, through the shadowy underpasses of North London, to the remote Irish countryside, amateur detectives and professional criminals are a dangerous mix.

Tread Softly

You don't attract trouble. You go looking for it.

On sabbatical from the Metropolitan Police for a gourmet tour of Spain, Beatrice meets beautiful, bloody-minded journalist Ana Herrero, who is onto a story.

The two women are sucked into a mystery of missing persons, violent threats, mutilated bodies and industrial-scale fraud. With no official authority and unsure who to trust, they are soon up to their necks in corruption, blackmail and Rioja.

Cold Pressed:

Two things people fear the most? Change and death.

Santorini. Turquoise seas, ancient ruins and beautiful sunsets. And a woman thrown from a cliff. The violent death shocks fellow passengers of a grand cruise liner. Beatrice flies to Greece to assist. Murder is aboard and terror spreads like contagion, while someone has Beatrice in his sights. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Human Rites:

Judgement is in the eye of the beholder.

Adrian Harvey has a stalker. Someone is stealing his post, vandalising his shop and making allegations to the police. And who is that nun? When DI Beatrice Stubbs is dispatched to Germany to investigate art theft, Adrian seizes the chance to flee the city. Yet the stalker is still on his heels. Adrian runs from danger to the remote island of Sylt. But danger follows and Adrian has run too far.

Bad Apples:

Some people are just rotten to the core.

A police conference in Portugal is hardly a dangerous assignment, so Beatrice invites family and friends for a holiday. It should be the perfect work-life balance. Until one of her colleagues is murdered. An eclectic alliance of international detectives forms to find the assassin. But are they really on the same side? Meanwhile, tensions rise at the holiday villa. A clash of egos sours the atmosphere and when a five-year-old child disappears, their idyll turns hellish. Trust can be a fatal mistake.