Rob Sullivan, a British customs officer, is on secondment to Brussels where a tiny unit from the EU's member states are supposed to tackle all excise duty crime in Europe. Alone in a dreary city, Rob finds much of his work either boring or frustrating, but occasionally a big fish ripples the surface of their pond. This time he and his colleagues, including the intriguing Claire Colmar, link two cigarette smuggling operations. While they are pretty sure they can name some of the players they need to prove it, and they want to track back to the real mastermind behind the scheme, but every time a lead appears they reach the witness just after they've met an 'accident'. Increasingly desperate they begin to take short cuts, with terrifying consequences.

The year is 2023. The staphylococcus plague of 2006 has killed 40 million people worldwide; the crash of '07 has left the global economy in tatters; and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forrester has traumatised America. It is a new era, and yet most of the technology is easily recognisable to readers from the 20th century. The Internet, for instance, is the main source of information, outpacing newspapers, television, and books. But Dr. Gideon Wolfe, a professor of criminal psychology, is about to discover that technology can be anything but reliable. Information is NOT always knowledge.
He is handed a disk which contains the all too familiar video of President Forrester's assassination but with one crucial, shocking difference: it shows that before the video was released it was altered with special-effects. This information leads Gideon Wolfe on an electrifying journey through the criminal underworld of New York, Florida, and the jungles of Africa. It will be a quest to find true knowledge in an age when all information can be manipulated.

April 198& American F-111 warplanes bomb the AI Azziyah compound where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-yea-old youth, Asad - Arabic for `lion' -loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his family but his nation, his religion and the Great Leader - Gadhafi. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Twelve years later. Asad arrives in New York, intent on killing all five surviving pilots who participated in the bombing, one by one. Asad claims he wants to defect and John Corey, NYPD homicide detective turned Special Contract Agent for the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force) is waiting at Kennedy Airport to meet him. As he escapes Corey and the ATTF at the airport, Asad knows that he must act quickly and decisively. Like his namesake the lion, he must hunt and kill, before someone works out who his prey is...

The Lion's Game is a thrillingly entertaining read from a master storyteller.
`A compulsively readable thriller'- Publisher's Weekly

Twenty years ago, Henry loved Francesca, but he didn't help her when she most needed him. Now, still haunted by the memory of her vibrant personality, as well as the shortcomings of his own life, he makes a sentimental journey from his native America to her home town on the English coast. There he discovers that the Woman of his dreams is a murderess, serving life for the killing of her own child, a crime to which she has confessed in chillingly accurate detail.
Henry is tempted to turn away in disgust, but instead he is drawn to the town and those who know Francesca best; her cousin, her lawyer, and her best friend with the daughter Francesca helped her to adopt. Lodging in the House of Enchantment, whose eccentric, gay hosts prize hospitality far beyond profit, Henry cannot bring himself to believe in Francesca's guilt, but if she did not murder her son, who did?

Bursting with richly original characters, this is a novel of suspense where the truth is a menacing and elusive as the tide.

The bishop's body lies at the bottom of a quarry. In his car are a suicide note, a copy of Men Only and a Bible underlined at the text, '... hath devoured thy living with harlots'. His last phone call, the police discover, was to one Madame Swish.
Devoured by guilt? Or did someone help the bishop move closer to the Lord? He was last seen alive by Otis joy, the charming young rector of the Wiltshire village of Foxford. Adored by the ladies in his congregation, who fill his pews and collection plates each Sunday, the Reverend Joy had become less popular with the bishop, who had discovered irregularities in the church accounts.
The bishop's demise is only the first of a series of sudden deaths in Foxford.
Rich as the devil's food cake at the church fete, The Reaper is a dark, delicious crime story from the award-winning Peter Lovesey.

It looks as though Vincent Cardoni is being framed for murder by his soon-to-be ex-wife, then she finds she's been set up as a killer herself. If they are both innocent, who is guilty?

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Celia has never been the most diligent of aunts. Even when her brother died she didn't pay very much attention to her niece, Tamsin, and now it is too late. Tamsin is dead, found hanged in woodland near her home and leaving behind an enigma about her passing.

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In March 1999, Manchester general practitioner Harold Shipman was charged with the murders of four of his patients and a total of 15 in all. He pleaded "Not Guilty". Each of Shipman's alleged victims was middle-aged or elderly and each was his patient and neighbour. The macabre exhumations of some of the bodies devastated the suburban community of Hyde in Greater Manchester, and it is the authors' inside knowledge of the region that provides the context for their investigation of the case. Found guilty of the murders of 15 women in January 2000, Dr Shipman is the world's most prolific serial killer, with the estimated total number of victims standing at between 200 and 300. The authors of this in-depth investigation had access to friends, colleagues and patients, and explore how Shipman killed, how he was able to get away with it and, perhaps most importantly, why he did it. The book contains a reconstruction of the police investigation; details of the exhumations and interrogation; the stories of the victims and their families - including many not among the 15 with whose killings he was charged; coverage of the trial and sentencing; and expert opinion as to why Dr Shipman was driven to kill.

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When Alan is made redundant, he can't bring himself to tell his wife. With time on his hands while secretly looking for a job, he meets waif-like Tessa, and her lonely, widowed mother. He feels protective towards them, but when Tessa disappears, once-respectable Alan is the police's prime suspect.

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