Devil's Peak

DEVIL’S PEAK begins with a prostitute telling her story to a clergyman. On her lap is a shoe box. What’s in the box?  

Inspector Benny Giessel has just been thrown out of the house by his wife. She has given him an ultimatum.  Choose either the booze or his family. He has six...Read more

Devil's Peak

DEVIL’S PEAK begins with a prostitute telling her story to a clergyman. On her lap is a shoe box. What’s in the box?  

Inspector Benny Giessel has just been thrown out of the house by his wife. She has given him an ultimatum.  Choose either the booze or his family. He has six...Read more

The Grey Wolf

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie...Read more

Bad Boy

A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But since Banks is away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she's found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin—a...Read more

Children of the Revolution

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot....Read more

Death Awaits Thee

Puck Bure's meeting with Paul Sandwall in Stockholm is opportune.As the new manager of Drottningholm Palace Theatre, the historic eighteenth century Opera house on the outskirts of the city, he plans to open the season with a performance of Cosi fan tutte. Not only is Mozart's opera to be...Read more

Solitude Creek

A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire....Read more

Dark Flight

A six-year-old boy has vanished following the horrific murder of his mother and grandmother. At the scene forensic scientist Rhona Macleod finds a chilling African talisman made from the bones of a child. Can she decipher its meaning and track Stephen down before he becomes the next link in...Read more

The Case of the Dead Certainty

Detective novel, following on from 'The Case of the Damascus Dagger' and preceding 'The Case of the Secret Assassin'. Set in the 21st century, a search for a missing teenager leads Ben and Rachel Bartholomew into mysterious and dangerous situations. The author's other publications include '...Read more

Deadly Code

" The left foot had been severed from the leg ten centimetres below the patella. Both fibula and tibia bones were divided at the same place. All the toes were intact, although the nails had disintegrated or been eaten off during the foot's time in the water." Dr Rhona Macleod travels north...Read more

Autumn Killing

It is Autumn in Linkoping and the heavens have opened, but not even these biblical rains can wash away the blood of crimes past and present.Then the brutally-stabbed body of self-made Internet billionaire Jerry Petersson is discovered floating facedown in the moat surrounding his home, the...Read more

After the Fire

"Someone is dead because of Jamie. Yesterday they were alive. When we woke up yesterday and argued about how many pairs of shoes I could take, that person was alive, making coffee maybe. Scratching her arm or yawning in the mirror . . . "  Newly qualified as a firearms officer, Jamie Worth...Read more

Can't Run, Can't Hide

On a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back door, his worst fears are realised. Their home is now an horrific crime scene....Read more

An Air That Kills

Lydmouth is a picturesque market town on the borders of England and Wales. To it comes Jill Francis, journalist, onlooker and outsider. It is the week before Remembrance Sunday and Jill has her own tragic reasons for knowing that November is the month of the dead.
When workmen...Read more

Haunted Ground

When a red-haired girl's severed head is found in an ancient bog in southeast Galway, it may be an historical relic or the answer to a local mystery. As an archaeologist and a pathologist investigate, they reawaken interest in the two-year-old disappearance of a woman and her young son....Read more

A Lively Form of Death

A chief inspector in a British country village probes the murder of a dowdy gossip who drank poison perhaps intended for her sexy employer, who was having a well-publicized affair with a married manRead more

The Case of the Vanishing Corpse

The world of Ben Bartholomew. It is a world of standover gangs and armed terrorists, a world in which a P.I. For hire must carry a gun if he wants to live beyond lunchtime. It is a world of religious fanatics, petty tyrants, spies and nightmares, which explodes with intrigue and danger when...Read more

The Private Island

New Year's Eve, Loloma Island, Fiji. At one of the most exclusive island resorts in the Pacific ocean, the champagne is poured, the fireworks are ready, and the countdown to new year is just beginning. It's set to be a night that no one will forget.

Especially...Read more

Betray Me If You Dare

Ted Waite hadn't meant to shoot Arnold Grenfel, it was a reflex action. And now the bank's alarm had gone off, there was not time to take the money. Where could he go? The police were already alerted. A car perhaps, but that was futile. He could not get out of the town, and he'd still got a...Read more

Down River

Johnny Mays has the moral conscience of a selfish child in the frame of a plain-clothes cop. The city is his playground, the rest of us his toys. He likes to find out where we work, and where we live, and what will scare us most. And Johnny never had a toy he didn't break.

But...Read more

A Game for All the Family

You thought you knew who you were. A stranger knows better.

You've left the city - and the career that nearly destroyed you - for a fresh start on the coast. But soon after the move, your daughter starts to withdraw, because her new best friend, George, is unfairly...Read more

A Good Death

It's 1944 and Theo Cazalle is returning to the family he left in Bonnemort, an estate deep in the French countryside, when he went off to fight with the Free French. Memories of Bonnemort have sustained him through four years of war, but when at last he comes home, he finds his world in...Read more

He Said / She Said

In the hushed aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack. She and her boyfriend Kit call the police, and in that moment, four lives change forever.

Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear.

And while Laura knows she was right to speak out, she...Read more

Windswept & Interesting

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life.

Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his...Read more

Handstands in the Dark

A unique life story from a true survivor, read by the author.

Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. From the grim and far-from-swinging '60s,...Read more

Hitman

A paranoid old woman offers you a hundred grand to kill someone. Trouble is, you're no silent assassin and your target is psychic and quite clearly knows you are coming. So our (anti)hero takes the only option open to him—he gets a gun, gets smashed out of his brain, and hits the streets...Read more