'Appignanesi skilfully manipulates the reader through a maze of suspicion and fear to a tense denouement,' Sunday Telegraph

When investigative journalist Isabel Morgan disappears, colleagues and lovers see this as just another gambit in an ever-dramatic life. But her closest friend, Leo Holland, is filled with a sense of dread: something terrible has happened to Isabel. She is more certain of this than of much else in a life that is teetering close to the edge. In desperation she flies from New York to London to try to trace the woman she realizes has become her sustaining force. But how well does anyone know their best friend?
Convinced that Isabel's analyst holds the key to her disappearance, Leo masquerades as a potential patient. In the process, however, she discovers more than she set out to know. Danger, it seems, in Isabel's secret world, comes in many guises.
Set in a world of competing therapies, Sanctuary is a sophisticated psychological thriller, which examines the meaning of friendship and the value of intimacy between friends.

The Dead of Winter:
'Appignanesi paces the mounting emotional atmosphere beautifully.' The Times
'Richer and stranger than a mere thriller ... A considerable achievement.' Guardian

'Lee Child writes edgy American thrillers to rival the likes of Thomas Harris and John Grisham.' Mirror

Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transportation. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees you're lucky if a driver will open his door long enough to slide you in. That's Jack Reacher's conclusion. He's adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up.
But he'd never expect it to be someone like Carmen. She's beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn't kill her first.
Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen's remote ranch there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Her family is hostile. The cops can't be trusted. The lawyers won't help. If Reacher can't set things straight, who can?

'Compulsive reading right up to the last page.' Peter Miller, The Times
'Reacher is the sort of hero no woman could help failing for' Daily Mail

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. They're both highflying army career women, they're both victims of sexual harassment by their superiors, they're both forced to resign from the service.
And now they're both dead.
They're discovered in their own homes, naked, in baths filled with army-issue camouflage paint, their bodies completely unmarked. Expert FBI psychological profilers start the hunt for a serial murderer, a smart guy with a score to settle, a loner, an army man, a ruthless vigilante known to them both.
Jack Reacher, former US military cop, is a smart guy, a loner and a drifter, as tough as they come. He knew both victims, For Agent-in-Charge Nelson Blake and his team he's the perfect match. They're sure only Reacher has the answers to their burning questions: how did these women die? And why?

In this compelling and ingenious thriller, awardwinning writer Lee Child proves again that he is more than a match for the genre's established names - and that Jack Reacher is a uniquely appealing hero, sometimes sensitive, usually unpredictable, often dangerous, but always one step ahead.

The stunning new novel from the John Creasey Prize-winning author of Garnethill

The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris she was sitting in her office in the Glasgow Women's Shelter nursing two broken ribs and smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. Two weeks later Ann's mutilated body is washed up by the Thames. Maureen and her mate Leslie are the only people who seem to be worried about her, and Leslie isn't telling what she knows.
Maureen has her own problems and, keen to quit Glasgow, travels to London in search of answers. She quickly finds herself out of her depth, embroiled in a seedy world of deceit and violence. Alone and threatened in a strange city, Maureen must act fast to piece together Ann Harris's last hours and days - and to save herself from Ann's fate.

Garnethill:
'Thought provoking and sparkily written ... A perceptive, surprisingly upbeat read. . Val Mcdermid, The Times

The maverick second novel from a young writer hailed as 'brilliant ... like Ben Elton at his wittiest.'Express

Once Nick Carraway was a journalist, and a damn good one too. But that was before he learned about the beautiful, mysterious heroine of a subway shooting, before he discovered her name was Jamey Gatz, before he scooped a story that he so fervently believed would make his name, his fortune, and change his life. And how right he was - life would never be the same again, because here he is, about to stand trial for the murder of the girl whose memory haunts him still ... Jamey Gatz.
Confirming its author as a novelist of prodigious talents and startling invention, Something Sacred is at once a searing satire on the power of the media and the nature of celebrity, and a supremely affecting story of love, betrayal and - maybe, just maybe - redemption ...

Let There Be Lite:
'Takes you up to the edge of libellous - and gets away with it ... Nothing is spared by Rupert Morgan's blistering pen ... As a story it raffles along with the pace of a thriller As an inventive swipe at the Establishment, it will make you laugh while you wince. Daily Mail