To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning, but where was the beginning? Was it the blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or the priest's visit to a woman on her death bed? Or the violent squabble he had witnessed earlier?

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'The Malone stories come alive through their setting . . . Cleary's writing is seamless and his plots imaginative and mature' Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald

Two murders in one hotel on the same night -coincidence? The first victim is a cleaner, but it is the second corpse that sets alarm bells ringing in Sydney's Homicide and Serial Offenders Unit, for the deceased woman proves to be the wife of the American Ambassador.
And as if he didn't have enough to contend with fending off interested parties from the FBI, CIA and federal authorities, Scobie Malone finds himself confronted with a long-forgotten girlfriend who refuses to let go of the past.

From the master of the modern political thriller comes a compelling new novel exploring Winston Churchill's return to power in 1940. In hugely popular bestsellers like HOUSE OF CARDS and WHISPERS OF BETRAYAL Michael Dobbs has drawn on his inside knowledge of the workings of power to create some of the most revealing and entertaining thrillers of recent years -- and in MPs Francis Urquhart and Tom Goodfellowe, some of the most unforgettable characters. Now he turns to one of the most remarkable real-life figures of the last century. September 1938. Winston Churchill is at the lowest point of his career. He has spent a decade in the wilderness, ignored, reviled for siding with Edward VIII over the abdication crisis, branded a warmonger. And he has just watched his arch-rival Neville Chamberlain return from Munich in apparent triumph. The next morning, a despondent Churchill receives a visitor at Chartwell, a BBC journalist named Guy Burgess. This little-known encounter is the first of the extraordinary events that by 10th May 1940, and against almost overwhelming odds, propelled Churchill into Downing Street and changed the course of the Second World War. Now, in the hands of Michael Dobbs, the story of Churchill's return and the part played by the man who would later be revealed as a Soviet spy provide the inspiration for a fascinating novel that sheds new light on one of the most remarkable periods of British history.

Fourth novel, in similar style, by author of Tell Me No Secrets, Fast Women and Looking For Mr Big.

Word is that it isn't safe for women to get close to Johnny Martini. His girlfriends have always been unlucky, meeting with accidents, ending up hurt -- or dead. When Johnny's wife is murdered, her younger sister is determined to learn the truth. But it is a truth that will leave her with nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide.

The discovery of a CIA mole leads to a showdown between East and West in this heart-stopping new tale of modern espionage and military adventure from the acclaimed author of Night Trap and Peacemaker.

In a story written with the authority of personal military experience, Gordon Kent plunges US Navy Intelligence officer Alan Craik into a complex web of betrayal, suspicion and loyalty when his wife Rose, also a naval officer, is suddenly accused of spying. With Rose's career and reputation at stake, Alan will have to risk everything to uncover the real spy, one of the highest-ranking and most powerful officials in the CIA - and he must do so before the spy's machinations result in a major naval action between the USA and a new and robust enemy.

'There's no resisting the appeal of King's thrillingly moody scenes of Dartmoor and her lovely evocations of its legends.' New York Times Book Review

Next in Fidelis Morgan's hugely entertaining series featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew It is the silly season. News is thin on the ground. Newspapers are proliferating and there are even rumours that a woman is trying to start a daily paper. The Cues are desperate to hook in new readers for The Trumpet. As luck would have it the new wife of an old friend of the Countess wants her to chaperone her beautiful step-daughter, Virginia, to France, and so, to kill two birds with one stone, the Countess proposes that she and Alpiew write their Trumpet column from the Royal Courts. Almost as soon as their feet touch French soil, a recent spate of poisonings at the Courts proves fatal, and the Countess and Alpiew are once again plunged into a murder hunt. All this while they struggle valiantly to protect the young girl's virginity from a string of rampant Frenchmen. Their trail leads through Huguenot plots against the king and Catholic plots against the English, through the intricacies of the new French Cuisine, bigotry, decadence, sexual depravity, grand living and burly men whose hobby is embroidery.