Sorted on book title (not in series order)
What happens when a serial killer forgets that he’s a serial killer?
At Sunset House the tea is barely introduced to a teabag, the carpets are permanently flecked with glitter and care assistant Jolene would rather be watching daytime television than caring for...Read more
‘Where does this all leave us, sir?’
‘Things are moving fast.’
‘We’re getting near the end, you mean?’
‘We were always near the end.’
The murder of Yvonne Harrison had left Thames Valley CID baffled. A year after the dreadful crime they are still no...Read more
A member of the crack elite force the Special Air Service for seventeen years, McNab saw duty all over the world--and was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he resigned in 1993.Now, in Remote Control, his explosive fiction debut, McNab has drawn on his personal...Read more
A killer stalks Edwardian London...avenging a crime five centuries old. Ex-Inspector Bough wasn't enjoying his retirement from the Yard. So when his nephew Nicholas approached him with seven unsolved murders from 15th Century Italy, he was prepare to show interest. The year was 1902 and the...Read more
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are...Read more
It sends a shiver down Detective Superintendent Alan Markby's spine when he hears that a rambler has stumbled on human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswolds.
Twenty-two years ago, as a fresh-faced young inspector, he had a rare failure in the hunt for a brutal...Read more
Autumn 1943. Global espionage elite converge on Buenos Aires. Intense, high-level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist Erich Rhinemann. American agent David Spaulding will be there. His top-secret mission can bring the war to an...Read more
Brimming with heart-stopping action, "The Riddle of the Sands" is one the earliest spy novels. This spell-binding story is set in the period before the start of the First World War. It narrates the story of two friends' adventure as they stumble upon Germany's plans to invade England. A gem...Read more
By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried.
Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8.15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since.
Plenty of time to disappear,...Read more
Ashley prides herself on her keen ambition and sees no reason why she shouldn’t achieve what she feels she deserves. There is always a cost, but that doesn’t necessarily have to be a cost borne by herself. The other employees in her new firm need to be conquered either by charm or clever...Read more
In a quiet and picturesque English countryside where people are still recuperating from the ravages of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by the discovery of a horrifying murder. Five victims; four of them killed with military efficiency and, judging from the...Read more
As Road Rage begins, Chief Inspector Wexford is walking through Framhurst Great Wood, just outside his beloved town of Kingsmarkham, for what he tells himself will be the last time. He can no longer bear to look at the natural beauty that will soon be despoiled by the construction of a new...Read more
Here Robert Ludlum combines a motley cast -- characters all -- with the U.S. Army's latest fall guy in a mad plot to kidnap the most beloved pontiff since John XXIII. The ransom: one American dollar for every Catholic in the world. The problem: Pope Francesco I says: "Gentle Souls, why not...Read more
Laid-off lathe operator-turned-private investigator Joe Sixsmith is suddenly very popular, and not just with the ladies. Though he doesn't know a putter from a nine iron, he's being implored to come to the rescue of one Christian Porphyry, the scion of the upper-crust family that owns the...Read more
Scotland Yard's Inspector Capricorn investigates the apparent suicide of an unstable young diplomat attached to the United Nations and is confronted by a series of extraordinary revelations and an array of irrepressible charactersRead more
Imagine the Roman Empire is still flourishing today...
In 2756 AC (2004 AD in Christian terms), magnetic railways span Roman territory from Persia to Terranova and mechanised crucifixes are ranked along the banks of the Thames. The heir apparent to the imperial throne, Marcus...Read more
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the...Read more
Discovering hidden writings by Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer that made shocking predictions for the modern world, documentary producer Lucy King races throughout England, France, and New York to decipher clues leading to a fated lost treasure.Read more
From the author of "Festering Lilies" published to critical acclaim When a beautiful art historian dies in her house in Chelsea, one theory blames the Revenue for driving her to suicide, and part-time civil servant Willow King is sent in to investigate the tax inspectors. While she is...Read more
One unlucky shot at a marauder plunges ex-Colonel Taine into the trap-door world of international intrigue. This single confrontation escalates into a fast-paced story of terror and violence which combines the rasp of authenticity with a smooth literary finish.Read more
Two small-time crooks break into TV director Harold Roy’s shabby mansion and stumble across a kilo of cocaine and Harold’s wife, who proceeds to fall in love with one of the crooks. Now she is going to make a deal to save both her husband and the drugs, but the precious powder belongs to...Read more
Ruined City: When Henry Warren, director of an English bank, lands by chance in a hospital in a bleak Northern town that has been ruined by the closure of its shipyard, he discovers nothing less than a new purpose for his life. Moved by the fate of the town's inhabitants, Warren risks his...Read more
A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders.
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From Yorkshire to the sleepy village of Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but for Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe, the distance will close off part of his life forever. Motoring down for a reunion with old friends, he arrives to find not a welcome but a grisly triple murder. Out of...Read more
Tina Rossi, an opera singer discovers her lover, a top research scientist, dead at their secret meeting place and Johnson Johnson, an artist and amateur detective, helps her unravel the mystery.Read more
Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister, Horace Rupole--disheveled, polemical, and immensely fond of cigars, Wordsworth, and Chateau Thames Embankment. Adapted from his scripts for the TV series of the same name.
These six stories include:
Rumpole à la...Read more
Just in case Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders gave fans the impression that the Great Defender was resting on his laurels, his new case sends him at full sail into our panicky new world. Rumpole is asked to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been imprisoned without charge or trial on...Read more
