Castlemere is under siege. A conman with a particularly inventive if unscrupulous mind is holding the town to ransom - to the tune of one million pounds. And if this demand is not met, no one will be safe from the frightening events he has in store.
With the casualty rate rising, the pressure is on Detective Superintendent Frank Shapiro to uncover the blackmailer. But this is a clever man; finding him will be difficult. Finding him in time may prove impossible -particularly when nothing and no one is quite what they seem . . .

'A first-class writer' Birmingham Post

The first full investigation into 'Britain's Roswell'

This is the casebook of the world's only officially recognized UFO encounter. It took place in the UK in December 1980. Georgina Bruni has had access to police, Ministry of Defence and US military sources and reveals fresh information on the incident and the possible alien encounter that ensued. Revealing details of the aftermath and the harsh treatment meted out to those who wavered from the don't ask, don't tell line of officialdom, this book has also recently drawn questions in the House of Lords. With a foreword by bestselling UFO writer Nick Pope.

It is not often that a chief crime correspondent is expected to loiter in the dark outside a young woman's house. However, Max Chard's tabloid has received a tip-off that Labour MP Howard Lanche is spending his nights there with a woman who is not Mrs Lanche.
But there's something not quite right about this story. And when the body of a young woman is found at the bottom of cliffs in Lanche's constituency, Max realizes he has a far bigger story than an adulterous MP on his hands . . .

'A powerful piece of storytelling' Crime Time

'A character that readers will undoubtedly hope to see more of in the future' Salon

Detective Lieutenant Dore Konstantin is up against it ... and she still can't find the fabled out door.
Konstantin is Chief Officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division. In fact, she is the AR Division - unless you count her subordinates, Celestine and DiPietro Now, as if handling her heavy case-load almost sin-le-handed wasn't enough, she's got a stalker to deal with..
Hasting Dervish, is the stalker. At least, that's what Susannah Ell claims, and she should know. Two reasons: first, she's the one being stalked; second, she used to be married to Dervish. Worse, Susannah says Dervish is a race traitor - to the human race that is. He's swapped places with and ambitious Al, and now Dervish has all he processing power he needs to infiltrate every line of code in Susannah's AR design studio. And what about the Al? It's using Dervish's body as a base to visit AR, handing out in the gambling casinos of the Lowdown Hong Kong mound.
Which is where the guys from the East/West Precinct, a Japanese law-enforcement agency, come in. And specifically Goku, who often likes to go into AR in the persona of a nine-year-old kid. This really makes Konstantin unhappy but if she's going to get the goods on Hastings Dervish, she'll have to deal with Goku.

First introduced to us in Tea From an Empty Cup, Dore Konstantin makes a more that welcome return in Dervish is Digital. Fast, funny and packed with brilliant ideas, this is how crime investigations are going to be conducted the day after tomorrow. Get ahead of the game - mug up on it now.

The Crow Trap is Anne Cleeves' first out-of-series crime novel - in breaking away she is widening her reputation in the field of crime writing.
"You think the murderer might come back when he sees we've not abandoned the project. You want to use us as decoys." Like the crow, she thought, in the trap.

At the isolated Baikie's cottage, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal....
For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect way to rebuild her confidence after the betrayal of her lover. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide...
When Rachel arrives at the cottage, she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella, it appears has committed suicide.
Only when another death occurs does the fourth woman enter the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women's tangled lives ....
With the events leading up to the first murder cleverly told by three separate characters (including that of the murder victim) and the ensuing investigation seen mainly through the eyes of the detective inspector, the plot is both inventive and intriguing. Betrayal, trauma and obsession add psychological tension to the chilling mystery surrounding the murders, creating suspense throughout.

'At her best she is ...excellent' Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers

Peter F. Hamilton's bestselling 'Night's Dawn Trilogy' has been one of the most acclaimed and triumphant works of science fiction to appear in decades. Swiftly gathering a worldwide readership, this masterwork of cosmic imagination and sheer storytelling amounts to over 3,700 pages (or 1,200,000 words) in total, and has brought to life an entire galaxy of diverse planets and astonishing civilizations.
At the core of this magnificent creation is the Confederation itself: an assembly of human and xenoc colony worlds and asteroid settlements whose cultures and conflicts and turmoils are described over a Timeline of nearly six hundred years.

To mark the completion of this awesome trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton has here produced The Confederation Handbook as an essential companion guide to the countless diverse elements of the massive imaginary universe he has created.

'One of the towering achievements in British sf and we just can't get enough . . .' SFX

Dr Jessica Riley nursed her sister back from a six-year withdrawal after their parents' traumatic deaths and Melissa has lived life to the full ever since. But when Jessica takes on the treatment of Cassie, daughter of US President Andreas, both sisters are plunged into chaos. Cassie suffers a nightmare-filled trauma, having been victim of a highly violent kidnap attempt. Her life was saved at the last minute, but the bloody affair has gone unpunished and her saviour, Michael Travis - who alone seems to hold clues to the attackers' identities - has his own secrets and has disappeared.
As the manhunt for enigmatic diamond smuggler Travis closes in, everyone is forced to bend rules and trust those they would normally condemn. Extraordinary bonds develop and at every turn the mysterious pull of an emerald-eyed statue is strangely significant. Lives depend on knowing who can really be trusted and some will doubtless be lost . . .

The final Inspector Ghote investigation
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CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award Winner

'There, in the heart of his place of safety, in a room he was calling as his den, a room where no one was admitted without first knocking, not even his wife, Ajmani sahib was killed…'

All Bombay is buzzing with the news of Ajmani's murder. Every Inspector in the branch is asking how he could have been stabbed to death in his heavily guarded mansion, racing to crack the crime first. Except Inspector Ganesh Ghote who has been set the less glorious task of tracking down the cat burglar, nicknamed, Yeshwant.
Aided – or perhaps hampered – by his old friend Axel Svensson seeking Indian warmth from the Swedish winter-cold, Inspector Ghote fights to uncover Yeshwant's true identity. In doing do he may unexpectedly solve the murder of Anil Ajmani after all

As a Boeing 737 departs Athens airport, its crew is confronted by officials intent on removing one passenger, a former US President. Fearing for his safety, Captain Craig Dayton stages an illicit take-off, but there's an Interpol warrant out for the man's arrest, to extradite him to Peru for a show trial on charges of condoning torture and murder. Almost every nation must honour that warrant but, still determined to protect him, Dayton and crew commence a hair-raising, round-the-clock mission in search of a safe haven for this latest international pariah.

'Arguably the king of the modern-day aviation thriller' Publishers Weekly

Widowed Jan Hardy is left to look after her two children, and to face her bitter mother-in-law alone. But she cannot continue to make a success of the crumbling Welsh farm and the life that goes with it. So she turns to the only thing she knows about: handling horses.

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The New York State Library looms as a silent sanctuary of knowledge. But for Dr Stephen Swain and his eight-year-old daughter Holly it is a place of nightmare. Because, just for one night, this historic building is to become the venue for a horrifying contest - where to survive, you must win.

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