For pace, for intriguing characters, Forbes has created his most atmospheric, gripping novel yet

The wave of the future confronts Tweed - carrying death for at least a hundred million people. With Paula Grey and Bob Newman, Tweed tracks Dr Goslar, inventor of the supreme weapon. More than ten years before, Tweed fought Goslar - and lost. His only failure.
The trail leads to London, where two mysterious women appear - Serena Cavendish and Trudy Warner, just arrived from the States. Can Tweed trust either of them? His team is joined by Capt. Alan 'Chance' Burgoyne, guerrilla warfare expert. The Yellow Man surfaces - the most savage assassin Tweed has ever encountered.
The search for Goslar - who could be a man or a woman - leads to Paris, where the Yellow Man murders two more key witnesses. Tweed finds he has many enemies - the French security services, a secret American unit from Washington, the rival British Special Branch.
The pursuit of Goslar forces Tweed and his team to race to Geneva, then to the idyllic French town of Annecy. By now Bancroft, American professional eliminator', is on their heels. Goslar organizes ambushes to destroy Tweed's team. He is close to delivering the weapon to the West's most fanatical opponent.
Can Tweed outwit Goslar in time? A crescendo climax explodes in remote snowbound mountains. Is Tweed too late?

Two stories weave into one in a chilling novel of suspense

The testimony of Dr Susan Shader, Chicago PD's forensic psychologist, has condemned to death the killer Calvin Wesley Train - for his plea of insanity is blown apart by her evidence that he is a very sane manipulator. And this is something that Train will never forget.
But Susan is soon onto an even more disturbing case - there has been a series of murders near Chicago's Loop by a killer nicknamed The Undertaker. The victims have been stabbed and are all found in body bags. But there is also one more remarkable clue - there is blood from someone other than the victim in their wounds. This blood did not come from a struggle with the killer, but was placed in the body intentionally.
And as Susan races to catch The Undertaker before he strikes again, a newly released prisoner called Calvin Wesley Train is plotting revenge ...

When Sheila Malory takes on the role of literary executor for a famous novelist, she has no idea of the surprises she is about to uncover among her friend's papers ...
Sheila Malory is shocked to hear that her old friend Beth - otherwise known as Dame Elizabeth Blackmore, the popular novelist - has died suddenly and that Sheila has been appointed her literary executor.
Among Beth's payers is an unfinished novel telling of a passionate love affair. Sheila is convinced it is autobiographical - was her friend leading a double life? There are other questions too. Why is Helen Blackmore so unaffected by her mother's death And why is Beth's son Mark refusing to see his family?
Then an American academic, researching a paper on the novelist's life, also dies suddenly. And Sheila begins to have suspicions that Beth's death was no accident ...

'If a cosy detective story is your choice for a bedtime read ... Hazel Holt is just the ticket.' Daily Post

'Good at conveying menace ... chillingly absorbing' The Times

Anna Miles arrived in peaceful Aubrete like a person without a past, and for months has hidden there from the world. Then, one storm-lashed night, someone arrives at her door - a girl she does not know, with the corpse of an old woman in her car. But the mysterious stranger refuses to speak.
As the police try to unravel the case, it seems there is an unknown link between these women. Chief Inspector Robert Wilde begins investigating the passenger's suspicious death, but how can he get the girl to talk? And is nearby Aubrete manor the sinister focus for it all?

The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its world. Humans and mutants and bizarre races cluster in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled here over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand - and inadvertently, clumsily, something unthinkable is released.
As the city is gripped by an alien terror, the fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape has become a hunting ground. Battles rage in the shadows of uncanny architecture, and a reckoning is due at the city's heart, under the vast, chaotic vaults of Perdido Street Station.

In this latest spellbinder from a bestselling author and veteran pilot, passenger aircraft become innocent pawns in a terrifying game of cover-up.

As a packed Boeng 747-400 takes off into a beautiful Hong Kong sunset on its way to Los Angeles, a mystery explosion leaves one pilot dead and the other totally blinded. While an amateur onboard team desperately struggles to manoeuvre the giant machine to safety amid the ensuing panic, they become aware they are still being targeted...
FBI agent and terrorism specialist Kat Bronsky is assigned to hunt for a mysterious business jet previously observed nearby and, in a spine-chilling cat-and-mouse chase, she begins to unravel a top-level conspiracy that will kill hundreds of innocent people rather than have its secrets uncovered.

`A wonderful storyteller' Chicago Tribune
`Skilfully rachets up the suspense ... So compelling it's tough to look away' People
'Nance is a champ at dreaming up spellbinding premises' Publishers Weekly

Cyrus is a millionaire recluse - and a serial killer. Tye is a beautiful young woman from Notting Hill. Quinn is a writer who doesn't write. And Marion is the mother determined to find her vanished son and daughter-in-law - Cyrus's first victims. All collide in this black comedy set in New York.

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An audacious thriller and international bestseller that re-invents the ghost story and marks the impressive debut of Andrew Pyper

From the bestselling author of Ice Station comes a sensational new adventure to leave you literally gasping for breath:
'Supersonically paced ...this is a seriously good book' Daily Telegraph on Ice Station

Matthew Reilly's third book, Temple, is an explosive thriller, set deep in the jungles of Peru. The race is on to locate a legendary Incan stone idol which has the potential to be used, in the slate 20th century, as the basis for a terrifying new weapon. The US Army wants this, prize at any cost and so recruits the unwilling Professor William Race to translate a 400-year-old manuscript containing the only clue to the idol's final resting place. So begins the mission which leads them to the foothills of the Andes. But they are not alone...

During a blistering summer, drought has depleted the precious resources of Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over forty years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet has become a magical playground ... until he unearths a human skeleton.
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, unpopular with his superiors for having challenged the system once too often, is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds.
Anyone else might throw in the towel but, aided by an intuitive detective sergeant, Annie Cabbot, Banks sets out to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time ...

Peter Robinson is the award-winning author of nine previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. He lives in Canada.

'Like John Steinbeck and James Ellroy if they summoned Satan from a Ouija board, shot him full of heroin, and loosed him in Southern California' Dallas Morning News

During Christmas week in 1995, a fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult. Bob Hightower, the girl's father, embarks on a desperate mission to find her but there are no clues to her whereabouts - only the mutilated corpses of her mother and stepfather remain. His final hope lies with Case Hardin, an ex-cult member and ex-junkie living in a halfway house in Hollywood. Bob has no reason - and every need - to trust her.

Boston Teran has written a dark, compelling thriller about retribution and survival, an indelible story of people who must discover what it means to surrender oneself completely and, when necessary, what it takes to come back.

Boston Teran was born and raised in the South Bronx. He now lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.

In ancient Rome, the beautiful young widow, Claudia Seferius, agrees to deliver a pouch sealed with the black salamander. But a rockfall in the dangerous Helvetii territory leaves them stranded in an Alpine valley with five of their number dead. And one death is not an accident.