A mystery, thriller and portrait of a vital city - Glasgow The Bad Fire is Campbell Armstrong's finest novel since his unforgettable world-wide bestseller .

Eddie Mallon has grown away from his roots and away from the city of Glasgow. Eddie was just a child when his family fractured down the middle. He went to America with his mother; his sister Joyce stayed in Glasgow with their father, the charming, violent, mercurial Frankie Mallon. Now Frankie has been murdered and the son he didn't know is coming home for the funeral. Try as he might, Eddie cannot resist pushing beyond the bland front presented by the local investigators. And when he does, he finds himself spiralling into the mysteries of the past as well as the present.
The Bad Fire is the place where children are told they will go for being naughty Eddie is about to find out that even after all these years, the fire never goes out. Lyrical, elegiac, suspenseful and thrilling, The Bad Fire is a novel populated by a cast of superbly drawn individuals and some unforgettable grotesques, and in which the city of Glasgow is a brilliantly evoked character in its own right.

Campbell Armstrong was born in Glasgow in 1944. After living in the USA for 20 years, he now lives in Ireland. His many bestselling novels include the highly popular Jig trilogy. His recent heartbreaking memoir, All That Really Matters, was a remarkable success, particularly in Scotland and Ireland, where it was a no.1 bestseller.

The new novel from the bestselling author of Divorcing Jack, starring the inimitable Dan Starkey.

Dan gets caught up in the movie biz - slow motion, fast women and more coke (and occasionally Diet Coke) than you can shake a stick at. A cracking adventure that ricochets Dan from Dublin to the Cannes Film Festival in pursuit of a maverick film director who holds the power of life or death over his nearest and dearest.

From the author of The Money Makers comes a thriller in which the financial stakes are high and the personal stakes are even higher.

A young scientist, Cameron, has an idea which could revolutionize medicine. She believes that she has only to publish it for her findings to change the world. A dynamic but maverick financier, jasper, sees the potential, but convinces her that truth alone is never enough: it takes money, nous and competitive savvy.
They embark on a business venture with one aim: to build a stockmarket company worth 100 million pounds - big enough to survive assault, strong enough to market Cameron's technology to the entire world.
The story becomes a race to the stockmarket - and a battle to survive.

Praise for The Money Makers:
'An incredible story - the new Jeffrey Archer.' Radio 5 Live
'A thrilling grown-up fairy tale.' Evening Standard
'A fast-moving story of greed and redemption: Daily Telegraph

A brooding, psychological thriller, the sequel to Stephen Booth's stunning debut Black Dog: 'An exceedingly good first novel: wholly engrossing, it has well-drawn characters and a real sense of place: T. J. Binyon, Evening Standard

A brooding, psychological thriller, the sequel to Stephen Booth's stunning debut Black Dog: 'An exceedingly good first novel: wholly engrossing, it has well-drawn characters and a real sense of place: T. J. Binyon, Evening Standard

Maverick USAF pilot Patrick McLanahan returns in a new flying adventure, as the master of the aerial technothriller tackles a story as cutting edge as tomorrow's headlines.

The world is falling apart and there are plenty of people willing to take advantage. One of them is Pavel Kazakov, a Russian oilman with close ties to organized crime and an audacious idea: build a huge pipeline through the Balkans, get the Russian army to back him and everybody gets rich. Though NATO will object, the new American President's emphatic policy of isolationism will guarantee no effective opposition. Russia will dominate Europe. Kazakov will dominate the oil supply. But he hasn't reckoned with Patrick McLanahan. The young Air Force general leads a combat mission deep into Russia - until he is put in check by the President himself. Soon McLanahan and his team find themselves faced with a dire choice. Which is the greater threat: the dangerous empire in front of them - or the dangerous President at home?

'Clancy's got serious company: New York Daily News

'The Empress of the crime novel' Sunday Express

Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about excepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's private collection.

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On the cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the injection that killed her. With only 24 hours in which to solve the mystery, Poirot recalls a remark he had overheard back in Jerusalem: "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?"

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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.

When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral, suddenly takes on a chilling significance.

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Civil rights leader Malik Martin was looked at as the middle ground between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. His organisation, The Nation, was about to launch their new programme of financial empowerment when he was assassinated. His wife, former movie sex goddess Victoria Them, was at his side when he was killed. She suffered a breakdown and was hospitalised for more than 20 years. Now released, she is trying to find her lost daughter. Her lawyer hires Nina Halligan for the job Nina Halligan, a former prosecutor whose family was massacred by the minions of a drug lord she put in prison, is a private investigator. As she starts digging into this case she stumbles across a group of black nationalists called the New Nation, who are reclaiming African art and repatriating it to the Motherland. In addition, a conservative black evangelist who is setting up church franchises that are derisively called "McChurches" kidnaps Nina to find out what she knows. She's also butting heads with the NYPD, who may have been involved in the death of Malik Martin. After two failed attempts on her life, and several dead bodies, Nina knows this is more than just a missing-person case.

Rich, handsome, and well-bred, Edward Rollins would seem to have everything going for him-except that he feels excruciating disconnection from virtually everyone around him. In his desperation for intimacy, he becomes a voyeur, surreptitiously following the cars of strangers, searching for the subtle, revealing details of their lives. Then one night a seemingly random encounter brings him straight into the heart of a decade-old murder. Forced to turn for help to a woman he barely knows, he risks everything to embark on a quest for personal liberation: to unlock the chilling, long-held secrets of his family's past.

In one of the articles John Sedgwick is writing to coincide with the book's publication, he will assume the character of Edward Rollins, following unsuspecting motorists and recording the details of their lives. A selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, John Sedgwick is part of the storied Sedgwick clan of Massachusetts, whose eclectic members have included an early Speaker of the House, Andy Warhol protegie Edie Sedgwick, and actress Kyra Sedg\vick. A regular contributor to GQ, Atlantic Monthly, Worth, and other magazines, he lives in Newton, MA.