A puppet for the Soviets?

What happens when the enemy manipulates the words of the United States Constitution to his own advantage? Could the Soviet Union really get their own man elected President?

Recent Ted Allbeury titles from Severn House include Berlin Exchange and Never Look Back.

White heather's meant to be for good tuck. Just goes to show . . .

When Adele Morrison's body is found in the swimming pool of the Crown House hotel, her estranged husband stands to inherit everything he had been fighting to claim as part of a divorce settlement. DI Ian Preston, however, is unable to get past the coroner's verdict of accidental death - until the body of Adele's lover is found floating in the Thames.

Someone is leaking classified information, posting it on the Internet for the entire world to see. Commander Michaels, director of the ultimate computer security agency Net Force, is called in again by Congress, this time to track down the ruthless hacker whose illicit postings have been the cause of many deaths. With international intrigue, murder, romance and treachery this novel exposes the limitless possibilities of the new millennium.

Phyllida Moon has to abandon any plans of a restful holiday with the love of her life in favour of an emergency operation. But Inspector Kendrick takes advantage of her need for convalescence to ask her to investigate some suspiciously premature deaths at Stansfield Manor Nursing Home. As usual, Phyllida's sleuthing involves acting a part - but this time she must act herself.

Phyllida Moon, private investigator and master of disguise...

Although fresh from starring in a brand-new TV detective series, Phyllida Moon is happy to be back at the Peter Piper Detective Agency. And apart from the simmering attraction between her and Peter, the challenge of investigating suspected drug dealing in the Little Theatre company will prevent her from becoming bored.
But matters are complicated because Jenny, secretary extraordinaire at Peter Piper, has fallen in love with one of the suspected dealers. Kevin is the man of her dreams - she can't be wrong about him, can she? Phyllida knows there is something very wrong going on behind the scenes at the Little Theatre, but when a body is found she realises it's more sinister than even she would have imagined. Phyllida must solve the mystery to prevent another murder taking place . . . and a heart being broken.

The camera never lies . . .

For nearly her whole life, Rachel Matson saw the world through the lens of a camera, and produced stunning photographs that not only captured the moment, but also hinted at a greater truth. Now the ninety-year-old widow lies paralysed, in the final stages of a debilitating illness. Yet her eye still picks up the most telling details, and when missing pieces of her past are slowly brought into sharp focus, she must now confront a haunting truth . . .

The compelling sequel to Temple of the Winds

Life in Pentworth hasn't been the same since it was surrounded by a force field and effectively cut off from the outside world. But life takes an even more sinister turn when the twisted Bodian cult manages to reinstate a seventeenth-century law against witchcraft - including burning at the stake. At the same time, the divide between town and country is widening, and a civil war is looming on the horizon . . .

A serial killer is on the loose, and the clock is ticking . . .

The only thing that characterises the murders committed by the Lancashire Leopard is that he leaves no clues. He's killing young women, and it looks like he's gaining confidence. Detective Inspector Peach has hit a brick wall - and it seems that the only chance of catching the Leopard is to let him strike again.

November 1942: war is raging in Europe . . .

The invasion of North Africa has begun. In Washington, OSS chief William J. Donovan finds himself fighting a rear-guard battle against an unexpected enemy: the rival intelligence chiefs back home. The action hurtles from Washington and London to the battlefronts of Germany and Africa to the intrigue of Lisbon and Morocco. This is W E. B. Griffin at his best.

Give Me Liberty is the third in the gripping series following In The Line of Duty and Covert Operations.

Griffin published his last Brotherhood of War novel, The Aviators, in 1988. But there was always at least one more story he wanted to tell . . .

In November 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Congo intent on taking over Africa and South America. He failed. Licking his wounds he returned to Cuba to recruit more men and try the same thing in Bolivia. He failed there, too in fact he died there. But who was trying to kill him, really? And who was trying to keep him alive?

"W. E. B. Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition" Tom Clancy

A dazzling blend of fact and fiction from a master storyteller

Bismarck is finally going out to fight the British enemy. It will be a prestigious operation for Admiral Raeder, the head of the German fleet and advocate of the big surface ship. But Admiral Doenitz, head of the submarine service, views the operation with disgust. He wants the big ships mothballed, and he'll sabotage Raeder's operation if he can . . .

It's the Screaming Eagles' last chance . . .

On Christmas Eve 1944, Iron Mike McDonald's men, the 101st Airborne Division, are ordered out on a desperate mission to save what's left of their crippled division. They must link up with Patton's Fourth Armoured, still fighting its way through the enemy's lines, by 26th December, the day the Germans launch their all-out offensive.

Cass Evesham, female trader, has a shocking weekend. Her lover ends their affaire particularly brutally and the press besiege her with the news that the grandmother she thought dead is a famous murderess, just paroled.
Livia Claughton, now in a safe house under an assumed name, won't accept help from those who can't imagine the horror of 25 years in prison - long punishment for a very different crime from the one for which she was convicted.
Julia, actress daughter of a famous singer killed in her prime, is determined to restart her flagging career - and feed her hatred - by starring in a well publicised season of revenge plays.
All three women must come to terms with their pasts, their families and their future - and Cass above all must discover if violence is her genetic inheritance.

Grief-stricken over the accidental death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks - and so has the first investigator her father hired to look for her. And when the dying billionaire hires Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to continue the search for his missing daughter, they find that nothing is remotely what it seems.
Travelling from the windblown streets of Boston to the rum-punch sunsets of Florida's Gulf Coast and back again, they search for a woman and a man who could be saints or sinners, victims or victimizers, alive or dead. And the more Patrick and Angle discover, as they are led down a trail of half-truths and corruption into a dark and terrifying world, the more they realize that on this case, any wrong step will certainly be their last.

When missing Julia Winward's mutilated body is found, her brother is determined to discover what happened to her, but nothing makes sense. Julia had been working for a company that shut down 60 years ago, and living at an address that hadn't existed since World War II.

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The latest in the exciting series featuring Captain James Ogilvie

Queen Victoria's granddaughter has married into the Russian royal family, and needs an escort to take her from Moscow to Nepal by way of India. Ogilvie cannot refuse a request from the Queen . . . but these are dangerous times in India. Can Ogilvie protect his royal charge and still manage to keep his sights on the possible uprising on the horizon?

"The military-series genre hasn't a finer craftsman than McCutchan" Publishers Weekly

Newtown Woods: throughout the centuries children have disappeared and now schoolgirl Elinor de Lisle has been missing for twenty-four hours. When her body is found, Lennox Kemp gets involved with the case, and the whole community has to endure media attention and police intrusion - particularly a young sufferer of multiple personality syndrome . . .

The third in the compelling Berkeley series, following To All Eternity and The Quest

After a lifetime of espionage for the British Government, Berkeley Townsend looks forward to a comfortable retirement. But Berkeley's exploits have earned him the undying enmity of the Nazi Party in Germany, and they are dedicated to his destruction. When they come close to succeeding, it is the women in his life who take up his defence and carry the fight into the very heart of the enemy stronghold.

A cosmic new case for Sukey Reynolds

When Sukey's son returns from a weekend away with his girlfriend's family, he has a strange request to make. Anita's aunt has become involved with the RYCE (Release Your Cosmic Energy) cult, and her worried family want Sukey and her partner, DI Jim Castle, to investigate. Sukey promises to help, but the project goes on the back burner for the moment - until a man who has connections with RYCE is discovered dead.

Commando Major Harry Curtis has returned to England to fame and fortune. But after his marriage sours, he's only too happy to be seconded to Malaysia in 1950 to help the Malay Scouts and the SAS in combatting the communist insurgency. Events are complicated when he finds Jutta Hulin - the woman who had saved his life at the end of World War II - in an ambivalent position vis-a-vis the insurgents.

In international espionage, for every spy or traitor dramatically uncovered a hundred remain hidden

The 1970s: "the Norsemen" is a mysterious union made up of northern businessmen from Scotland and Scandinavia. No-one knows where their sympathies - political or otherwise - lie, although they are thought to be well-intentioned. But when the union becomes slowly infiltrated by individuals with a very different agenda, the overall balance of the group is shifted . . .

The latest thrilling title in the bestselling Mariners series

English couple Richard and Robin Mariner are soon to launch the revolutionary SuperCats, their fast ferry service from Thunder Bay across the Great Lakes of Canada. But when the naked body of a young woman is discovered on the lake, the ensuing murder investigation takes precedence over their test runs.

Nathan Ossler was a blackmailer: he made people tremble, pay up and want to die. So when he is found slumped in an armchair with the front of his head missing, nobody in the Yorkshire village of Strensall is shocked. Who, though, pulled the trigger of the .22 handgun?