Never Pick Up Hitch-hikers!
by Ellis Peters | 
Officer Down
by Theresa Schwegel | 
The Tightrope Walker
by Dorothy Gilman | 
Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins
by Reed Farrel Coleman | 
Death in Zanzibar
by M. M. Kaye | 
Day of Atonement
by Faye Kellerman | 
The Middle Temple Murder
by J. S. Fletcher | 
Bone by Bone
by Carol O'Connell | 
The Chatham School Affair
by Thomas H. Cook | 
Cold Flat Junction
by Martha Grimes | 
Lone Wolf
by Linwood Barclay | 
Stalker
by Faye Kellerman | 
Letter From Home
by Carolyn Hart | 
Justice
by Faye Kellerman |
Hangman
by Faye Kellerman | 
The Care and Management of Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear |
Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders
by Tessa Arlen |
Death Has Deep Roots
by Michael Gilbert | 
A Night of Long Knives
by Rebecca Cantrell | 
The Hangman's Daughter
by Oliver Potzsch |
While it has many of the elements of the classic detective story, it is also a gripping novel of mounting suspense that takes place in a 1943 prisoner of war camp for British officers in northern Italy--it was the first of Gilbert's numerous later works that would feature suspense and danger as much or more as elements of detection. Gilbert himself had been a British officer during the war, was captured, and interned in an Italian camp. He escaped and spent several months making his way through the Italian countryside trying to reach the British lines. Much of this book apparently reflects his own experiences. It was the basis of a 1959 British film, Danger Within (Breakout in the United States), that closely followed the events in the book. H.R.F. Keating, who wrote Gilbert's obituary for The Guardian, said that "Gilbert's time as a PoW prompted Death In Captivity (1952), surely the only whodunnit set in a prisoner-of-war camp. (wikipedia)