It has been six months since D.I Ray Flowers was viciously attacked and left with horrific burn scars. Now all he wants is peace and quiet and a place to consider his future. His late aunts cottage seems ideal.
Ray wants to know why he was attacked, and by whom and when a petty criminal is found dead and a note is sent to Ray inferring that this was the man responsible, Ray can not resist the pull of the investigation,
But there is soon another matter commanding Ray's attention. A woman called Kitty who seems to have been a friend of his aunts and someone who begins to involve herself in Pay's life. The problem is, Kitty died more than three hundred years before Ray was even born: And, an even greater problem, Ray finds that he might even have been implicated in her death.

Elegantly written, The Angel Gateway deceptively evokes an England of cream teas and hot summer days, before examining the darker currents that lurk beneath. recommended. Jonathan Wright in SFX.
"Takes the psychological suspense novel into new realms of mystery." Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News. "Adams's debut, The Greenway, hinted at a promising crime writing talent: Cast the First Stone amply confirms that view." Marcel Berlins, The Times.
"This is the art of the truly great suspense novel, an art which Adams has mastered." Crime Time.
"The elaborate duel between hunter and hunted makes absorbing reading." The Times
"Gripping, scary, a wonderful read. She could rise to the top of the genre." Yorkshire Evening Post. "I am a great fan of good commercial fiction, and it rarely comes better that Jane Adams's Bird. It is a haunting crime novel and psychodrama pulling all the right strings in all the right places." The Bookseller.

It is 1921 and Constable Billy Styles is about to experience a horrifying awakening to life as a police officer. For Colonel Fletcher, his wife Lucy and two of their staff have been stabbed to death in their manor house deep in the Surrey countryside.
The local police force seem Sure the murders are simply the result of robbery with violence, but Billy's superior, Detective Inspector John Madden, brought in from Scotland Yard, sees matters very differently.
For Madden has experienced the horrors of the Great War and has seen madness at first hand. And this crime, he is sure, has been perpetrated by a psychopath who will strike again.. .and soon.

Mankind's salvation lies in the hands of a burnt-out priest One snowy midnight in Chicago, a drunken ex- priest is accosted on the street by a well-dressed stranger - who turns out to be his former altar boy. The young lawyer wants Father Martin Delaney to perform a very special, ancient ritual - the spiritual cleansing of a mystery mansion way down south. Decades after a tragically bungled exorcism got him defrocked, Delaney is terrified by this request. Arriving blindfolded in the middle of a raging blizzard, he soon realises that the vast residence is indeed seriously haunted. But that is not its most alarming aspect... with only a book of rituals and his rickety faith to aid him, the disgraced priest must confront an age-old, overpowering evil - to avert what might become world-wide disaster.

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Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back and, boy, is she on good form. Fellow bounty-hunter Ranger is on the run and the other man in her fife, vice cop Joe Morelli, is after him. But as if that wasn't enough - Grandma Mazur moves in, and then all hell really breaks loose. Hot Six is much, much more than a whodunnit, and is not to be missed.

.A man wakes up terrified, cold, aching and not knowing where he is or how he got there. He picks up a newspaper and finds it is 29 January 1958, and the US is about to launch Explorer - if the launch fails the Russians will dominate space for the foreseeable future.

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Twilly Spree, an eco-enthusiast, spots someone dumping litter onto the freeway and decides to teach them a lesson. Twilly discovers it is Palmer Stoat, a Florida political fixer whose current project happens to be the "malling" of a Gulf Coast island, and he gets mixed up in all kinds of trouble.

More than a match for Rendell and Christie' Hanpstead and Highgate Express
'A fascinating, if rather gruesome story' Birmingham Post
'The book is well crafted; her characters all too sadly believable and I would be surprised if you spot the killer' Daily Post (Wales)

Dead bodies are not an uncommon sight at Queen's hospital in Birmingham. Except in this instance. A body has been discovered in the undergrowth of the hospital grounds, wrapped in a clinical waste bag and wearing a garish Disney tie.
A serial killer is on the loose. Murdering his victims before performing a strange form of mock surgery upon them and dumping them one by one near the local hospital grounds. Does he or she harbour a grudge against the medical profession? Pathologist Karys Harper must piece together the clues which may lead to the killer...
As the body count mounts, Karys finds herself haunted by memories from her past. Will her own peace of mind finally be resolved with the capture of the killer... ?

'You don't have to be an ER fan to get swept up in the adrenaline junkie world of Manhattan's University Hospital…' San Francisco Chronicle

Dr Evelyn Sutcliffe spends her workday keeping Death at bay. But now it stalks her in her home...
'The life-and-death struggle waged daily in the ER is a constant, integral part of Dr Sutcliffe's existence. Her home is her refuge from the frenzy, the anxiety, the uncertainty and the blood. But now a dear friend clings to life by the barest of threads, a colleague struck down by poison he ingested while cooking in Evelyn's Manhattan apartment kitchen.
On a night when she was supposed to be celebrating her anniversary with her significant other, psychiatist Phil Carchiollo, Evelyn instead finds herself back in the emergency room, frantically trying to save a friend - and haunted by the knowledge that the deadly mushrooms he consumed were intended for her.
A proposed union walkout that could cripple the hospital, and the contrivances of a beautiful stalker with lethal designs on Evelyn lead to a maelstrom of intrigue, lies, deadly internal politics, treachery and murder. And Evelyn is forced to accept two unnerving but inescapable facts: there is a killer near at hand ... and the killings have only just begun.

An Inspector Banks Mystery

'Robinson excels in the depiction of character ....He is steadily ascending toward the pinnacle of crime fiction.' Publishers Weekly

No one could believe that a man like Keith Rothwell could be murdered. Except Keith was not all that he seemed - he was leading a double life - as Inspector Alan Banks was about to find out...
It was 2.47am when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw Keith Rothwell's body for the first time. Hours earlier, two masked men had walked the mild- mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and clinically murdered him.
Clearly a professional hit - but Keith was hardly the sort of person to have these kind of enepies. Or was he? For the police investigation raises more questions than answers. Particularly, who is Robert Calvert?
The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. When his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist.

The latest CI Alan Banks mystery, Cold is the Grave is published simultaneously in hardback by Macmillan Crime. The most recent in this series, In a Dry Season (Pan) was shortlisted for The Edgar Allen Poe Award 1999 and for the Macavaity Award for Best Mystery Novel published in 1999. It won the Anthony Award in September 2000. Published simultaneously and available for the first time in paperback is Wednesday's Child (Pan).

An Inspector Banks Mystery

'A dark, unsettling story ....Robinson has done his usual impressive job.' New York Times

The abduction of a young girl brings back dreadful memories of the Moors murders for Inspector Banks and Superintendent Gristhorpe ....
When two social workers, investigating reports of child abuse, appear at Brenda Scupham's door, her fear of authority leads her to comply meekly with their requests. Even when they say that they must take her seven-year-o1d daughter Gemma away for tests ....
It is only when they fail to return Gemma the next day that Brenda realises something has gone terribly wrong. Particularly worrying is the calculated manner of the abduction and the fact that one of the 'social workers' was a woman.
At the same time, Banks is investigations a particularly grisly murder at the site of an abandoned mine. As the leads in the two cases converge, Banks is faced with one of the most terrifying villains he will ever meet.

The latest CI Alan Banks mystery, Cold is the Grave is published simultaneously in hardback by Macmillan Crime. The most recent in this series, In a Dry Season (Pan) was shortlisted for The Edgar Allen Poe Award 1999 and for the Macavaity Award for Best Mystery Novel published in 1999. It won the Anthony Award in September 2000. Published simultaneously and available for the first time in paperback is Dry Bones that Dream (Pan).