They murdered his boss, stalked his family and invaded his home. Now they want his life...
When Dr Jack Hunt moves from his native Dublin to a new job at a top Chicago hospital he hopes it will herald the career break-through he needs. But despite his groundbreaking research in cardiology, Jack is frustrated at every turn by the hospital's collusion with powerful drug companies.
Then his boss is shot dead - in his office. The bloody event horrifies the city. Little does Jack know that the bullet was meant for him. Somebody, somewhere, wants him dead. And when he is promoted into the dead man's job, not only his life but those of his wife and young son are at risk. Tension mounts to force Jack from his post - and to force him to fight back. Slowly uncovering a terrifying tale of corruption, Jack finds himself on the run, culminating in a heart-stopping chase across the breadth of the country...

Lawyer James Raison is sent to Munich to represent one of the claimants in a case of reparation involving the Swiss account of a rich Jewish banker called Bamberger who disappeared when the Germans overran Europe. The other claimant, Grunwald, an aged concentration camp victim has returned for the first time to the country where he suffered harrowing humiliations. Grunwald wants the money to build a home for the mentally ill in Israel. Together, Raison and Grunwald set out to investigate Bamberger's disappearance. Their search leads them across Europe to the Bavarian border. At last, within reach of Bamberger's money, they expose a final, shameful deceit.
By the author of "Kolmysky Heights".

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Back in the days when the world didn't care, Chaim Weizmann, one of the founders of modern Israel and its first president, discovered a way to make synthetic oil. Now everyone cares - because oil is running out. But Weizmann died without revealing his secret, and the task of recreating the priceless formula falls to Igor Druyanov. If Druyanov is anxious to track down Weizmann's discovery, there are others even more anxious to prevent him. For Druyanov's success could overturn the Middle East, and there are powerful men who will not allow that to happen...

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The world is changing and London is swinging: it's the 1960s. But in the East End the docks are closing and life will never be the same for the families who have worked there for generations, among them the Wright family.
Lorna Wright is a nice girl, but Richie Clayton is bad news: a violent thug who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the top of the East End underworld. The more Lorna gets mixed up in his ugly, brutal, world, the more she finds herself in trouble too.
There are plenty of people who'd like to see Richie stopped. So when, after a terrible row with Lorna, Richie is found murdered, the finger of accusation points in all sorts of directions...

Today he is eight years old.
He's had an operation.
A Routine. It went fine.
Now he's gone home.
To terror.

Months have passed.
But Toby still bursts into tortured screams.
Because something is very wrong.
Toby can remember every moment of the operation.
All the trauma.
All the pain.
He relives every horrifying detail of surgery.
While he's awake.

Now someone must expose the unspeakable truth about this hospital. Or else an innocent child will die. And he won't be the last. The next victim may be wheeling into surgery right now.

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The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are shelves in every room, packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has checked pedantically for mistakes of grammar and fact.
Life for Ribbon, without his mother now, is lonely and obsessive. He still keeps her dressing table exactly as she had left it, the wardrobe door always open so that her clothes can be seen inside, and her pink silk nightdress folded on the bed...
There is one book too that he associates particularly with her Volume VIII of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Piranha to Scurfy. It marked a very significant moment in their relationship.
In other stories, Ruth Rendell deals with a variety of themes, some macabre, some vengeful, some mysterious, all precisely observed.
The second novella, High Mysterious Union, explores a strange, erotic universe in a dream-like corner of rural England, and illustrates very atmospherically what range Ruth Rendell has as a writer.

Scotland, spring 1297. Margaret Kerr's husand Roger has been missing since Martinmas. Is he still searching for a new port from which to ship his goods, Berwick having been closed by King Edward I? Has he been caught up in the rebellion against the English? Is he even alive?
Jack Sinclair, Roger's cousin, is away in Edinburgh, presently occupied by the English, seeking news of the missing merchant. When Jack's lifeless body is brought back to Dunfermline Margaret resolves to go to Edinburgh herself in search of the truth. She coerces her uncle, Murdoc Kerr, to let her stay in his inn. In short order she takes over the running of the inn and involves her uncle in an investigation that could endanger his own clandestine activities regarding the war. Soon Margaret discovers how little she had known either Roger or Jack...
Set at the time of Robert the Bruce, this dramatic new series introduces a spirited young female detective, and is set against a backdrop of a city full of action, political activity and drama.

A narrative tour de force with the striking originality of Carol O'Connell, the everyday terror of Stephen King, and the psychological depth of Ruth Rendell.

One night at her parents' party, little Fiona goes missing, and a family is torn apart. As her two brothers grow up without her,trying to take care of a mother troubled by double vision and haunted by thoughts of her daughter, their lives begin to diverge: Eric immerses himself in work and becomes a successful neurosurgeon, but Pilot is tormented by schizophrenia, apparently triggered by that childhood tragedy.
After a schizophrenic episode, suffered while walking in the woods outside the house, Pilot ends up in a psychiatric hospital raving about his sister, and his mother and brother rally round. But in amongst his complaints of hearing voices and seeing disturbing visions, he makes a new and terrible accusation. As the past begins to resurface, the truth, unravelled by years of loss, betrayal and madness, is beginning to come to light. Through a trauma of confusion and memories, Pilot thinks he knows what happened all those years ago. As events start to overtake him and build towards a shattering climax, he risks devastating his family all over again, and fears what he may discover about those closest to him. But most of all he is terrified of what he might find inside himself.