Young lawyer Henry Mathews is called back to his rural Kansas homeland when Tyler Crandall, the town's richest citizen and boss of much of its population, dies. The routine legal matter of handling the dead man's will has fallen to Mathews. But when the will leaves Crandall's assets to a homeless person called the Birdman, who sits day after day in the town's square, the situation becomes complicated. The gripping events that follow reveal a shocking string of secrets about the town's leading citizens, and Mathews is forced into sophisticated and highly dramatic manoeuvring to uncover the truth.

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Christmas suspense story with Carol Higgins Clark

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`The pace of the story is excellent, the twists and turns keep you guessing all the time' Maeve Binchy, Mail on Sunday

The New Jersey State Police had started calling him Howdy Doody, after the famous TV puppet of the 1950s. Three people killed in northern New Jersey, then three in Manhattan and another in the Bronx, in a thirteen-month period. And all of them hung up with strings attached to their limbs, like puppets, and objects arranged in geometric patterns throughout the murder scene. The murderer had been caught in New York city several months previously.
Then State Police detective Mo Ford found another victim, killed and arranged in exactly the same way...
Put in charge of the investigation, Mo finds himself in thrall to the DA, who has him over a barrel because of the recent accidental death of a suspect. As he investigates further, Mo begins to construct a theory which involves the US intelligence agencies and a horrific experiment with human beings. But how many puppet masters are involved?

The quiet tranquillity of the Welsh village of Felinbach is shattered when the baby of a local couple is stolen from her cot. No one can think of any reason for the crime as the couple are not wealthy and the baby, Anne-Marie, was born badly deformed. The police, in the absence of any other suspect or motive, suspect John Palmer of his daughter's murder and their suspicions are confirmed when the baby's body is discovered buried in his garden.
Local GP Tom Gordon cannot believe the Palmers had anything to do with the murder. But it is not until Tom is co-opted to investigate the disappearance of the body of a three-month-old cot-death victim from the nearby Caernarfon General's Pathology Department, that he begins to see a sinister connection between the hospital and an IVF clinic where the Palmers had been treated.
The Hospital is about to host a symposium on in vitro fertilisation, headed by world renowned specialist Professor Carwyn Thomas, who has more than a passing interest in the murder of little Anne-Marie Palmer. With John Palmer about to be tried for a murder Tom is sure he didn't commit things begin to look desperate and dangerous - for all of them.

"McClure's forte is to take an outside-chance medical possibility, decide on worst possible outcome ... and write a book" - The Scotsman

Ken McClure's Tangled Web evokes a sinister world where no life is sacred least of all a baby's and where the Hippocratic oath can be twisted and abused to fulfil the most desperate of motives.

A master killer calling himself the Sandman is out for revenge in the USA. Slaughtering families and complete neighbourhoods by unleashing devastating explosions nationwide and watching the horror unfold on sophisticated surveillance cameras.
Jack Casey - ex-FBI profiler, now a cop in a posh Boston suburb - knows only that the Sandman wants him to suffer, even more than when a psychopath's unspeakable crime shattered his own life. The killer is monitoring Jack's every move with an array of cutting-edge electronic devices. But as motivations for the Sandman's crimes come to light, Jack begins to wonder if the evil he is fighting emanated from his own side of the law...

Chris Mooney has burst onto the thriller scene with a novel for all fans of James Patterson and John Connolly.

Marie Lightfoot, a "true crime" writer investigating the case of a child killer, uncovers some unsettling facts while probing the evidence and soon finds herself in the sights of a brutal killer who is still very much at large.

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A terrifyingly authentic techno-thriller from the British Government's UFO expert An alien spacecraft is making its way towards us. The government and military are helpless to contain the increasingly desperate situation and must concede to the aliens' intention to inhabit the Earth, offering partnership in return for colonisation without bloodshed. But chances of peaceful settlement are swept aside when a powerful sub group unleashes a biological weapon of mass destruction against the aliens. They hold out the prospect of a vaccine - if the aliens capitulate and hand over the ship. Now, in a battle between two intelligent life forms to gain control of the Earth, the future is uncertain and the possibility of mass extermination grows ever closer...

`A disturbing and highly entertaining piece of fiction' Dreamwatch
`Pope keeps you guessing to the end' SFX

Jerry Cooper of The Predators returns, moving from his spring-water success to launch his new empire of intimate women's apparel. Unfortunately, Jerry's operation isn't exactly legit. He would desperately like to keep his son, an honest lawyer with street smart and a code of honour, out of the family business and away from his mob associates. All is well until Jerry needs a good lawyer, and his son insists on getting involved.
Combining the grit of his early work with the glamour of his later novels, Robbins once again provides readers with a pantheon of street-raised hustlers and anti-heroes who - wise to the way of America's mean streets - use their hard-won knowledge to claw their way up the ladder of success.

Computer hackers, corporate spys and the defence industry...none of them hold a candle to the ultra-cool Kidd Kidd's pretty good painter, but it's his computer genius that pays the rent. That and his criminal brain. In the first novel featuring Kidd, he finds that computer fraud is child's play compared with the defence industry's Machiavellian games, and lives are soon on the line in the cool high-tech thriller...

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