You can find him in New Orleans, living in his battered 1920s warehouse and playing harmonica at JoJo's Blues Bar in the French Quarter. His name is Nick Travers, an ex pro footballer for the New Orleans Saints turned blues historian at Tulane University.
Nick heads deep into the heartland of the blues - the Mississippi Delta, investigating a crime over half a century old. In August 1938 outside a Greenwood Mississippi jukejoint the most celebrated figure in blues history, Robert Johnson, was murdered. Some say he was poisoned by a jealous woman while others say the devil took him after Johnson sold him his soul at the crossroads.
Sixty years later a college professor researching rumours of the discovery of nine unknown Johnson recordings, goes missing in the Delta. Naturally curious, Nick decides to retrace his last-known steps. Nick finds himself pitted against a host of strange characters, including an eccentric negroid albino and a slick seventeen year old hitman who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Elvis Presley. Neck-deep in trouble, Nick has to fight to save his own skin while at the same time try and unravel the greatest mystery in all blues lore.

Praise for Crossroad Blues:
• 'If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins' - Kinky Freidman •
`You can really hear the music everybody talks about so reverentially' New York Times •
'Atkins's research into blues history adds depth and context to the always-entertaining story, which whizzes by like an old, familiar song hear on the car radio late at night' Chicago Tribune

Dr Geoffrey Garrett was for over 30 years a Home Office pathologist. This is his personal memoir, in conjunction with crime journalist Andrew Nott, of many infamous, unusual and heartbreaking cases and a fascinating history of his professional life, giving a unique insight into a pathologist's work. Beginning with a no-holds-barred account of the basic methodology of a post-mortem examination, the book chronicles many memorable cases, including:
The discovery of a preserved body on the Yorkshire moors later identified as the first victim of the Moors Murderers
The murders of three policemen plus the apprehension of a murderer who turned out to be a policeman's son
An examination of sex crimes How a man's face, burned beyond recognition, was reconstructed to help solve a murder
Plus examples of many other baffling crimes which were resolved on the pathologist's table.
Inside story of the crimes which made the headlines in the British press over the past 30 years
Compelling and fascinating range of cases - from the Moors Murders to a kidnap death where a constable ate the evidence
The text is enhanced by a selection of startling photographs, diagrams and X-rays.

The success of the courtroom drama, or legal thriller, has risen dramatically over the past few years, with bestsellers by John Grisham and Scott Turow being turned into blockbusting films starring Hollywood's greatest. So this anthology is long overdue. Starting with classics like Erle Stanley Gardner (how could this collection not contain a Perry Mason case?), Mark Leyner, Graham Greene and Irwin Shaw it comes bang up to date with short stories from both Gresham and Turow plus new writing talents in this field: Bill Prozini, Lucy Taylor and Jack Trolley.

Contributions from some of the biggest names in legal thriller writing, both past and present - John Grisham, Erle Stanley Gardner, Scott Turow, Graham Greene and many more
Perfect balance of content to meet the huge demand for legal and courtroom thrillers

True-life accounts from around the world of craft sightings, alien abductions and other strange phenomena - from crop circles and UFO cults, to conspiracy theories and the Men in Black.
The Craft: major sightings, what they look like, how they behave, where they are seen
The Aliens: encounters, abductions and abductee interviews. The Alien field guide - from spiritual to nightmarish
The Phenomena: The unexplained, from crop circles and animal mutilation to poltergeist outbreaks after UFO sightings
The Witnesses: UFO contactees, plots and conspiracies, UFO cults and dark secrets
The Meaning: What messages do UFOs hold for us and for the future of life on earth?

Recently married to clothes designer, Amy May, Jack-the-lad Fitzroy Maclean Angel is supposed to be cleaning up his act. But, never one to turn down a bit of casual work, he agrees to help out the inept private eye, Veronica Blugden.
Angel's job is to go undercover and infiltrate a ring of bootleggers who are making a fortune smuggling beer in from France. He soon discovers that there are two gangs working the area, one making the trip to France and the other ruthlessly hijacking their loot-filled lorries. Animosity runs high, but when one of the consignments turns out to be a cover for smuggled drugs, things start to get violent. And when Angel's main contact is murdered it looks as if a gang war is on the cards.

'The outrageous, rip-roarious Mr Ripley is an abiding delight... Colin Dexter
'I never read Ripley on trains, planes or buses. He makers me laugh and it annoys the other passengers.' Minette Walters