US Army Staff Sergeant Josh Adams is summoned to a secret meeting with an Arab and a Russian – three strangers in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

Over the next few hours they get to know a little bit about the other – at least as much as they are willing to reveal. 

It is quickly obvious that much is being left unsaid, each man straining to conceal deep personal...

Jessica Jones at her best...
When Detective Sergeant Jessica Jones is commanded to take a month's leave, she is resentful and frustrated. With a month to kill, she accepts the job of recovering the missing son of a millionaire and a journey to Nigeria that seems on the surface to be perfectly straightforward. It turns out to be anything but, and Jessica...

Each man kills the thing he loves…

Edward Marsham is admitted to the Royal Infirmary having hung himself in his prison cell.

As predicted, he dies.

In the wake of several unexpected deaths at the hospital, however, Dr. Claire Woodforde suspects there is a killer amongst the staff. As Detective Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton and her new sergeant Tom Bayes...

Mary Seton is lady-in-waiting to the legendary Mary Queen of Scots.

Torn between her own desires and her duty to serve her mistress, she is ultimately drawn into her Queen's web of passion and royal treachery - and must play her part in the game of thrones between Mary and Elizabeth I. 

Must she choose between survival, and sharing the same fate as the woman...

Chris Peters loves his work in a multi-national bank: the excitement of the trading floor, the impossible deadlines and the constant challenge of the superfast computers in his care. And he loves his beautiful wife, Olivia. But over time, the dream turns sour. His systems crash, the traders turn on him, and Olivia becomes angry and disillusioned. So much...

Deadly secrets and shocking truths…

When Jo Townsend spies a strange man taking photos of her running her stall in Camden Lock Market, she is shaken up to say the least. But her attempts to put the strange incident aside are undermined when she is assaulted upon her return home by an unknown assailant – who is looking for her husband, Mike. 

As she looks to...

A tale of two brothers… 

Edward Eden may be rich, but he is also the illegitimate son of the late Lord Thomas Eden. Having inherited his father’s vast wealth, but not his title, Edward has poured vast amounts of money into his long-time friend Daniel Spade’s school for the poor in London. That, and Edward’s frequent visits to Newgate Prison, have earned him...

It was the flat Rebecca and Greg had dreamed of finding; a beautiful conversion in a big Victorian house. The huge mirrored wardrobe that the builders couldn’t shift only seemed to add to its charms… 

But soon their dream turns into a terrifying nightmare. As Rebecca delves into the dark circumstances surrounding the mysterious murder of George Carthew in...

A thrilling romance set in sensual Southern France and enchanting Paris, this is another classic from master of the genre Nora Fountain. 

Joanna's first love is art, although she is in Paris to study music. Lured into an art gallery by an exquisite landscape painting in the window, she is astonished to find a portrait of herself among the exhibits. The...

The voyage of a lifetime was not what Detective Sergeant Jessica Jones was expecting when she was kidnapped...

Michael had everything down to the finest detail. All he needed was a smooth execution and he would be on his way. Ten years in prison for a crime he never committed was not something he took lightly. Detective Jones had ruined his life – but she...

Jack Tars and Commodores is a lively and authoritative account of the United States Navy from Independence through the War of 1812.

During this turbulent period the new American republic fought three wars — declared and undeclared — against the Barbary States, France, and Great Britain. The first two were entirely naval affairs; the third, a combination of...

An accompaniment to his previous history, The Seven Queens of England, Geoffrey Trease’s second volume of England's monarchy provides a fascinating insight into the lives of Britain’s seven most captivating Kings. 

Carefully selected for the dramatic quality of their lives and the interest of their characters, The Seven Kings of England spans the monarchy...

Cop Andy Bastian is offered a thousand dollars in exchange for a favour – not an insignificant amount in the early Sixties.

He’s to deliver Ralph, the brilliant son of wealthy parents, to Kansas to be detained in a mental health facility. 

It’s a long journey from California, but they don’t get far before it’s clear they’re being followed.

Initially suspecting...

Twelve Shades of Black sees writer Joy Martin attempt to shed light on the daily lives of black people within the racially charged context of South Africa during the apartheid era. 

The result is a series of interviews presented as a collection of twelve essays, each focused on the life of an individual person living in the townships outside Johannesburg. 

...

When Sergeant Blaketon learns of the Swanland Corporation’s plan to build a reservoir in a beautiful valley near Aidensfield he is more than a little concerned. The project, he is convinced, will result in drunken brawls between construction workers and the local men, competition for and among the local women, and a general disruption of village life.

As...

Killing isn’t good for the soul…

After the tragic shooting of a friend during his last job Michael Devlin promises to never draw his gun again.

But he is tracked down and blackmailed by Mason Talbot, a CIA agent stationed in London, into planning a hit on a prominent UK politician.

With the help of the fixer, Oliver Porter, Devlin must carry out the job – and...

Yorkshire, 1914.

Clara Howdale lives a subservient life underneath her father, a rich and stubborn man who wants to marry her off to the highest bidder. 

But Clara has a mind of her own, and the way her father treats his employees is slowly starting to change the way she thinks. 

Finding kinship with a suffragette, Clara’s eyes are opened, and she sets her...

The Chinese Dragon has awoken - and is narrowing its sights on the South China Sea.

America - and it's president Morgan Taylor - cannot permit such territorial expansion to go unchecked. But America also cannot afford to go to war.

To square the circle the President decides to employ the services of David Santos, a retired air force general and intelligence...

It is 1869 and Hannah Jerram plays a devious trick on her brother, Luke, whilst she is flirting with her adopted brother, Ben. Hannah’s mischief ends in disaster however, as Luke falls off the roof, leaving him with an injured leg that results in a limp that he is stuck with for life. Whilst commotion ensues, the family are all too busy to notice a...

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...

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...

Somebody tried to kill me.

Travel writer Lee Smith experiences a bumpy landing when she returns to Canada from a Caribbean cruise. 

A text from her best friend, billionaire Jack Hughes, pops up on her phone before her plane has even stopped at the gate in Toronto - Somebody tried to kill me. 

Just over three hours (and one speeding ticket) later, she’s...

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...

When Liz’s Marshall’s father asks her to cut short her holiday in Miami to find Nick on a remote island, Liz couldn’t comply fast enough. 

Leaving Miami to go searching for her ex-RAF brother felt good – even though neither she nor her father could understand why things had gone so downhill with him – but she was excited to see Nick, and hoped she could find...

'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...

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...

This time, he’ll prove it once and for all…

For three months now, Lash Parker has been on tour duty in the neighbouring town of Alfafa.

His original post was a deputy for Hawkville, Leyton County, Kansas. But three months ago, he was shot badly in an ambush.

Rustlers had been targeting Leyton County and Parker had caught two of them red-handed: Snatch Bailey...