It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery.

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Jane Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a mysterious visitor is found shot dead in another part of the building

This time hard-boiled writer Milo Milogragovitch is trying to find his feet in Texas, earning a living as a bar owner and a PI on the side. A tedious job tracking down a runaway wife takes a violent turn when he finds himself in a bar with ex-con Enos Walker, who's out for revenge on the partners who turned him in. Turning a gun on Walker, bar manager Billy Long is accidently shot himself and the police are only too keen to add his murder to the long list of crimes Walker's in the frame for. Only Milo's testimony can save him from a death sentence, but Milo's got problems of his own in the shape of sultry lawyer Molly McBride.

Judith McMonigle Flynn fears her hip replacement surgery as two other patients have recently lost their lives during "routine operations," and she becomes compelled to get to the bottom of what could be the worst malpractice case ever recorded.

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Streetwise New York detective Paul Devlin searches for his lover's missing aunt, a beloved doctor known for her work with the poor, in Castro's Cuba, delving deeply into the island's dangerous voodoo culture.

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Undercover enforcer Sean Dillon is the target for a vengeance killer in this action packed new thriller from the master of the genre.

Jack Higgins's recent novel, Edge of Danger, was the latest in a remarkable line of international bestsetters, racing into the top ten of both the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists. Now his hugely popular hero Sean Dillon returns in another adrenalin-fuelled adventure that will be welcomed by his many fans around the world.

At the end of Edge of Danger, the murderous Rashid family had been forced to pay the ultimate price for their crimes by British undercover operative Sean Dillon and his team. Yet one member remained alive, and that may have been Dillon's fatal mistake. Kate Rashid witnessed her brothers being killed one by one and now she has sworn vengeance. Never mind that they tried to assassinate the President of the United States, that villainy ran in their veins, they were her brothers and her enemies would pay. Sean Dillon, White House operative Blake Johnson, the US President himself… their time was coming, and only she knew how - or when.

In the master thriller writer's breathtaking new adventure, super-spy Paul Chavasse plunges into a high-risk mission, only to find himself at the centre of a deadly doublecross, fighting for his life.
It's a trip that Paul Chavasse - one of Jack Higgins's most extraordinary heroes - will never forget. His destination: the isolated republic of Albania on the Adriatic coast, at a time when the regime is at its most repressive and the people live in daily fear of the secret police. His job: to find a double agent whose cover has been blown and put him out of commission, permanently. But what Chavasse doesn't know is that deep within the twisting channels of the perilous coastal marshes, someone has set a trap for him - someone who holds the keys of hell.

A new Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain's finest male crime writer: 'An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift.' Frances Fyfield, Mail On Sunday

In the Beginning was the Word...
A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents - yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette, apparently as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responsibility for the deaths. At Mid-Yorkshire CID the word is heard but not believed. Even Hat Bowler, the young DC who first gets hold of the story, only pretends to take it seriously in order to get closer to the girl of his dreams, librarian Raina Pomona. But when the story is leaked to television and a third indisputable murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a game no-one knows the rules of, against an opponent known only as the Wordman,
Gradually the hunt focuses on three main suspects. Still Dialogue follows Dialogue and funeral follows funeral, until finally Hat Bowler, who is at odds with his girlfriend over the direction of the police investigation, begins to fear that she may soon realize he's right in the worst possible way.
Reginald Hill's books are always full of word-games, but they have rarely been so important as they are here. There are clues enough to weave a tapestry, but just who is playing against whom? Is it the Wordman versus the police? The killer against his victims? Or is everyone drawn into the game - even the reader?

'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace: Donna Leon, Sunday Times
'The best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world: Andrew Taylor, Independent

While accompanying his grandmother and her new husband to Alaska, former Seattle homicide detective J. P. Beaumont finds himself investigating the murder of middle-aged divorcTe Margaret Featherman aboard a cruise ship, a crime in which the only witness is a hapless Alzheimer's patient.

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