The residents of Forgotten Town are still haunted by the bandit bank robbery that plunged them into poverty and ruin.

With all the deputies murdered and only Sheriff Matthews left to police the town, sly and wealthy Saul Bills is all but free to rule Forgotten Town with his prosperous ranch and brutal bodyguard.

Woe betide anyone who merely looks at him the...

Forced to kill a man, Clint McCorg has never been the same.

He had no choice in the matter, but that hasn’t stopped him becoming a bitter and fierce person few dare to cross.

So when Vendado, a town rapidly hurtling towards lawlessness, is in need of a new sheriff, he seems the perfect – if reluctant – man to whip it back into shape. 

It’s far from smooth...

Is a normal life enough ...?

Whatever happened to the great American dream? 

It turned into the urban nightmare as Mark Rogers’ anti-hero Matt soon discovers in his bleak new novel, Night Within Night.

The young New Yorker is married to his beautiful student-day sweetheart Gwen; they have two kids and Matt a promising job working with a record wholesaler.

It’s...

England 1650: Civil War has given way to an uneasy peace in the year since Parliament executed King Charles I.

Royalist officer James Hart refuses to accept the tyranny of the new government, and to raise funds for the restoration of the king’s son, he takes to the road as a highwayman.

Elizabeth Seton has long been shunned for being a traitor’s daughter. In...

It’s down to fathers and fatherhood.

Ben Bracken, ex-soldier, has just got out of Strangeways.

Not by the front door.

With him, he has his ‘insurance policy’ – a bag of evidence that will guarantee his freedom, provided he can keep it safe – and he has money, carefully looked after by a friend, Jack Brooker.

Rejected by the army, disowned by his father, and any...

Once a spy always a spy…

Former British secret agent Bromo Perkins finds his strings being pulled again in Tony Berry’s latest crime thriller, Twisted Trees.

Bromo’s long been ‘retired’ to Australia where he runs a one-man travel agency. 

His clients are a select group – including other ‘sleepers’, acting on orders from London, people like businessman Dave...

Ireland, 1916

The First World War rages on and rumours fly about nationalists planning an uprising against the British for Independence. 

Sheltered from the outside terrors, Louisa lives at High Park, as upper-class estate in the Irish countryside where she feels she never quite belonged. 

Caught between a cold, unhappy marriage and mundane wifely duties...

It’s 1920, and England is recovering from war.

Evangelina Belfry, a woman of questionable reputation and morals, has fallen down the stairs at her home, breaking her neck and dying. 

Her daughter Marina shows up to discover Evangelina’s landlord, George Greenwood, on the scene. 

He says he discovered Evangelina at the bottom of the stairs, but in fact he was...

Under the mercy of a fearsome king…

Robert Fraser Black had an unusual upbringing – raised in the heart of Zululand during the reign of King Chaka, The Great Elephant.

Years later, he recalls both the idyllic and horrifying memories of his childhood.

His father, Jamie Fraser Black was a wanted criminal and the family had to flee into the veld, to escape the...

Shy, seventeen year old Grace is swept off her feet when she meets Harry, an up and coming musician in a dance band.

With her father a strict Catholic, Harry is a breath of fresh air, giving Grace a taste of excitement ouside the confines of her rigid upbringing.

But when her tyrannical father reacts with violence to their friendship, Grace runs away to...

'The languorous sounds of Holmes’ violin floated mournfully through the brisk autumnal air of the beckoning day. The death of Moriarty had a left a vacuum... he was attempting to fill by a far more diligent attention to the Stradivarius he had so felicitously acquired some year before...'

Arriving in London for what he hopes will be the concert of all...

For more than a century the name of Terry stood for the aristocracy of the English theatre…

This great and prolific family, deriving from a Portsmouth publican, encapsulates in its ramifications the names of Craig, Hawtrey and Gielgud, which subsequently represent it in the theatre and on television and radio.

The subject of this enlightening insight into...

Handsome, rich and highly intelligent, Peter Gerard seems destined for a brilliant career in the US diplomatic service…

Joining him on his first foreign assignment will be his fiancée, the beautiful Cynthia Barbee.

But in one day, Peter’s plans are suddenly shattered.

First, by the news that a plot against the government has been uncovered in his home...

You are ready, Scáthach. You are ready to commence your journey and go in search of your destiny and let us pray to the gods that you will find yourself along the road.

A babe found in a casket in the open sea was fostered by the druidess Buimech and the great warrior Eola and given the name Scáthach…

Years later, her adopted father is murdered and this sets...

"Something has happened in the forest, boy,” he said. “Something terrible. A Shard has been found, a Shard of the Arcania, and a monster has awoken."

If you go down to the woods today…

Something dark and dangerous stirs deep in the Netherworlde. A violent, primal power, awoken from its slumber by the Shards of the Arcania.

A scourge lies on the great Everhart...