'It was eleven years later, on a dull February day, wben Katie walked into her foster motber's living room, ber pale face grave. "He's coming back," she said.'

With his resignation from the police force now approved, Ray Flowers's plans to set up a security and detection business with his old friend George Mahoney are in full swing. And one of their first cases is to help an acquaintance whose daughter has joined the cult known as The Eyes of God.
The Eyes of God are disturbingly familiar to Ray. For eleven years earlier he led the inquiry into the ritualized murders of three young boys. The man convicted of the killings was cult leader Harrison Lee, whose arrest had led to the mass?suicide of cult members.
But now Lee has died in prison, and his evil can be finally laid to rest. Or can it?
For as the cultist is being cremated a nine?year?old boy disappears ? his body found in the exact same circumstances as the young victims eleven years earlier . . .
This terrifying novel of murder and alchemy confirms Jane Adams's place as the queen of supernatural crime.

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine- year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again.
His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal - a former stripper forty years his junior - is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired by Fiona to find out just what happened to the man they love.
Enter also Tommy Hevener, an attractive flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. And Tommy is a man with a very interesting past ...

Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1940, her father the mystery writer C.W. Grafton, whose own work gave his daughter the initial inspiration to write herself. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Steven Humphrey. She is currently working on her next Kinsey Millhone novel.

' It is always a joy to discover a crime writer with a sure touch and the capacity to shock' Peter Lovesy

A violent spate of robberies have hit the town of Leek, targeting elderly women in their homes. When the latest attack turns to murder, DI Joanna Piercy takes on the investigation ....
The murder victim, a cantankerous old women named Nan Lawrence is found bludgeoned to death over the tapestry she was embroidering. When DI Piercy calls on Nan's neighbours she finds that they are none other than Nan's estranged brother and his teenage grandson who was very close to his great-aunt.
Is this murder linked to the other attacks in the area? If not, then who murdered Nan, and why?
Aided by her colleague, Mike Korpanski, Joanna gradually unravels a mystery that is rooted in the past ....

`Brilliant. A star in the making' Minette Walters
`A truly talented writer' The Irish Times
`Parsons refreshes the palate with her elegant and imaginative style.' The Times
'Ms Parsons has produced a mesmeric portrait of obsession and evil' The Telegraph

From the publishers of one of the most established and prestigious crime lists who brought you Minette Walters, Clare Francis and Lynda La Plante, Macmillan presents another huge star in the making. Julie Parsons exploded on to the literary crime scene with her novels Mary, Mary in 1998 and The Courtship Gift in 1999, both published to huge critical acclaim around the world.
But Eager To Please is Julie Parsons' biggest and most compelling novel yet.

`Life or death? Which began and which ended on that cold November afternoon twelve years ago? She still could not decide...
For twelve long years Rachel Beckett has been in prison for the murder of her husband, Martin. A murder she swears she did not commit.
For twelve long years she has been denied the touch and love of her only daughter, Amy. Has been forced to watch another woman raise and enjoy her child. Until, at the age of seventeen, Amy has insisted she never wants to see her real mother again.
But now Rachel is free. And she is ready to take revenge on Daniel - her brother-in-law, her onetime love, and the man she insists fired the fatal shot.
No one can take her beloved Amy away from her and hope to go free ...The wheel must turn full circle...
'Are you listening, outside world? I'm coming back. Are you listening?'

Following the fantastic reception of In a Dry Season, Peter Robinson brings us the latest mystery in his award winning Inspector Alan Banks series...

Reviews for In a Dry Season
It would be easy to become addicted to Robinson's agreeable but not too predictable stories' Observer
'A highly satisfying police procedural with a time-warp twist' Sunday Times
'Peter Robinson has managed to create that most difficult of species: an intelligent read in a popular genre' Historical Novel Review

Detective Chief Inspector Banks is very surprised when his boss, Chief Superintendent Riddle asks for his help - because it is well known how much Riddle detests him. Riddle's wayward 16-year old daughter, Emily has run away from home and he needs Banks and his unorthodox methods to bring her back without disruption.
Banks tracks Emily to London, where she is living with a south London gangster whose business connections Banks has already been investigating. She refuses to return to her 'parochial' home but when she turns up at Bank's hotel in the middle of the night beaten and scared, he is pulled deeper into events. Especially when three months later - supposedly safely home with her family - Emily suffers a gruesome and suspicious death ....

Peter Robinson was born in Castleford, Yorkshire. After receiving his degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds he moved to Canada to do an MA at the University of Windsor, followed by a PhD in English at York University, Toronto. He is married to a Canadian and now lives there.

'Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs. The earth opened before him, and as he fell, there was a sensation of being engulfed in a swirling vortex of blackness and he knew for just a fleeting instant of time that he was dead' From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered, his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery is Sean's son Dirk, the jealous, violent and power-crazed genius whose all-consuming hatred can only end in blood...

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