A stunning debut novel from a major new talent, Black Dog is a dark psychological thriller, steeped in atmosphere and tension.

It's a long, hot summer in the Peak District, but the blue skies are darkened by police helicopters and the sound of birdsong is drowned out by the increasing hysteria of a full-scale search operation for a missing teenage girl. Laura Vernon is smart, sexy and the keeper of many secrets, but now she's lying dead in a thicket in the heart of the country.
Harry Dickinson found the body, but what makes him so bent on obstructing the police investigation into Laura's murder! Graham Vernon is a man who knows all about secrets and the police are at a loss to understand the attitude of this powerful businessman to the death of his only child. He's holding something back. But what could be more important than finding Laura's killer?

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An Autobiography

a new edition of Agatha Christie's own autobiography to commemorate the 25th anniversary of her death.

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THE CLASSIC COLLECTION

Poirot's first case. Recently, there had been some strange goings-on at Styles St. Mary. Evelyn, companion to old Mrs Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering about "a lot of sharks". Her presence had spelt security, but now the air seemed rife with suspicion and impending evil.

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Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows -- what he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger...

Frank Delaney's 'Newman' novels have been described as a 'flammable mixture of John Fowles and Ian McEwan'. They are absorbing, passionate and riven with tension, with plots as sharp as tomorrow's headlines.

In the third of them, At Ruby, the wealthy and fashionable architect Nicholas Newman is again embroiled against his will in events beyond his control. The story opens in the boardroom of a company of which he is a director; he looks on as fellow shareholders set up a takeover bid. The chairman, Richard Strafe, a mysterious, aggressive man, repels them, but that night violence breaks loose. Newman tries to avoid being drawn into it, and fails. At the same time, his own office - and home - erupt when he agrees to design the new 'nightclub' for the celebrated Madame, Ruby Hamer. He has known Ruby from his former, wilder, life and she feels an entitlement to Newman which he now regrets. These difficulties then meet the past as Strafe and Ruby, in different ways, threaten Newman's new and fragile marriage.
On the surface Newman's existence is state-of-the-art confidence from the pages of the lifestyles magazines. But it is a life that gives him little sustenance when the truth of the real world bites.
Innovative and stylish, the novel twists and turns to the very last paragraph as Newman, the man who has everything except contentment, tries to resolve the ambiguities of his life by facing the moral horrors of the past.

For Hannah Keller, J.J. Fielding is an obsession. As a Miami detective Hannah, had been closing in on the crooked banker, only to see him vanish, taking with him the Cali drug cartel's cash. She went to pick up her young son and found her parents dead - and Fielding's photograph left on the scene.

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Jack Higgins's recipe of non-stop adventure and pulse-pounding action told at a breakneck pace has proved irresistible to millions of readers around the world. In 2000, his acclaimed Day of Reckoning raced straight into the top ten of both the Sunday Times and the New York Times hardback bestseller lists - the latest in a long line of world-wide bestsellers. Now his hugely popular hero Sean Dillon returns in his ninth action-packed adventure, thrown into a desperate race against time to prevent an assassination that would shock the world.
When Paul Rashid, leader of the Rashid Bedouin of Hazar in the Persian Gulf, uncovers an international conspiracy to deprive his family of the oil wealth that is their birthright, he vows to gain a very public vengeance. The man sent to stop him is the British Government's uncompromising secret enforcer Sean Dillon. It is a mission that will test him as never before, confronted by foes old and new in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that will take him from Ireland to the USA, and from the heart of the English countryside to the deserts of Hazar... and the very edge of danger.

'Higgins is the master.' Tom Clancy
'Higgins makes the pages fly.' New York Daily News
'Higgins is a master of his craft: Daily Telegraph

When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, the men in her life assume it's because she's married to a cop.
But while they trawl after shoals of red herrings, Ellie is blasted off course with a motley crew of women on a voyage of discovery whose perils make Scylla and Charybdis look like a pair of Barbie dolls.
Irish arms, Colombian drugs, and men who will stop at nothing, create a tidal wave which threatens to sweep her away. She heads out of town in search of haven, but instead finds herself at the very eye of the storm in a remote clifftop house undermined by the sea.
Fat Andy eventually smells a Security Service rat and comes steaming to the rescue, but for once it's too little, too late. Ellie's on her own (apart from her Middle England friend, Daphne; an octogenarian aid-worker and her vapid secretary; a gorgeous South American money launderer; an ancient crone; and a female cop who gets up her nose) and must reach deep down into her reserves to find the strength to survive.
After the huge success of On Beulah Heights, the question was, where could Reginald Hill take his Dalziel and Pascoe novels next! The answer is, even further! Arms and the Women is wholly Hill: pacey, perceptive, humorous, intelligent, and above all compulsively readable.