When researcher Brodie Farrell is asked to locate the whereabouts of a young man, Daniel Hood, she sees nothing suspicious in the request. Duly finds him, passes Iris details on to her client, and commends herself on a job well done. But a (few days later Brodie is overcome by guilt, Daniel is in a life-threatening coma - if it wasn't for her efforts, none of this would have happened.
So she resolves to do everything she can to bring Daniel's attackers to justice. But, when Daniel does eventually regain consciousness, he isn't much help to Brodie. Until he was snatched from his ordinary life. he hadn't known he had an enemy in the world. All he knows is that the men who hurt him were looking for someone called Sophie - and he doesn't know anyone of that name.
Daniel needs to understand what has happened to him and why he has been left scarred for life. The journey of discovery that lie and Brodie embark upon leads them into a deeper and more complex tragedy than either first imagined...

A teenage boy is beaten to death with a wheel brace on an abandoned pier. There is one eye-witness to the crime. The police are convinced they have the murderer, they just need a positive identification to lock him up for good. Neil Cochrane was the prime suspect in a serial killer investigation ten years ago and only a travesty of 'Justice allowed him to walk free. The new murder fits the profile exactly and this time he won't escape. That's what Detective Inspector Jack Deacon believes and he is a determined man.
But Daniel Hood is the eye-witness and he is not prepared to bow to pressure and identify Cochrane when he is not convinced that this is the man he saw. A taut, compelling exploration of love and honour, True Witness is the second book in the series featuring Brodie Farrell and Daniel Hood.

In an affluent San Francisco high school, Flannery Culp's group of friends, known as the Basic Eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique. Disdaining the jocks and cheerleaders, they maintain a level of sophistication which raises them above the rabble. Whether hosting glitzy dinner parties, quaffing absinthe or playing croquet, Flan knows that the Basic Eight are something special.
But when a teacher is murdered, people start looking to Flan and her Basic Eight for answers. And when the most gorgeous boy in school spurns her advances, Flan's enchanted life starts to sour. AJI of a sudden, things have turned serious...

Fast, funny and compulsively readable, The Basic Eight is the acclaimed debut adult novel by the author of the Lemony Snicket series.

Superintendent Gregory Summers is co-operating with the National Crime Squad on Operation Cuckoo, intended to crack down on illegal immigrants. The Thames Valley is a prime target for modern day slave traders, who make the unfortunate `slaves' pay their own fare to the promised land.
Meanwhile, Antony Lucas tracks down wealthy widow Elise Weissman, the mother who gave him up for adoption thirty years ago . He is cautiously welcomed into the fold, but it isn't long before an abusive past and family secrets threaten to destroy the family. A spiral of violence and devastation ensues, violence that must end in death for one member of the family. But whose motive was strongest? And where does the sudden death of an elderly man in his luxury hotel room fit into the picture?
Gregory Summers is drawn into the midst of the investigation and must try to piece together the facts - a task that gets more difficult every day...

When a young girl, Emilia Troy, goes missing it isn't long before rumours about what has happened have. spread through the Peabody estate. Everybody thinks that the social worker assigned to the case, Joshua Salem, is the prime suspect. And stories about Emilia's troubled father, Roger Troy are catching the imagination of the gossips. A once great scientist driven to insanity by the loss of his first wife - it is no wonder that speculation about his role in the disappearance of his daughter is rife.
The case is handed over to Gregory Summers who must solve Emilia's disappearance by trawling through his suspects' murky lives - the over protective social worker, the lonely nurse, the jilted foster parents. As his investigations progress, he is led on a manhunt for Salem through the BSE infected countryside of Newbury accompanied by a ghost from his own past, Chief Inspector Megan Davies. Personal relations and professionalism overlap as Summers soon learns that behind every respectable facade, dark secrets lurk...

Praise for Susan Kelly's Gregory Summers Series:
'Kelly's writing is mesmerizing. It is clear and perfectly paced with characters that stay in one's mind long after the book is finished.' Deadly Pleasures
'There's a welcome new detective, Superintendent Gregory Summers, in Susan Kelly's new novel' The Daily Express

Devon, April 1759...Newlyweds John Rawlings and Emilia are spending their honeymoon touring the mysterious county of Devon. The gruesome discovery of a young girl's body, badly beaten and bruised and draped over the figurehead of a schooner draws the Apothecary into the investigation. He recognises the dead girl as Juliana van Guylder, and when her brother, Richard, goes missing too John realises that, honeymoon or no, he is deeply involved in something rather sinister. Soon the Flying Runners are on the scene, but although they know the identity of the dead girl, they are still no further towards finding her killer. And where does the violent gang that has been terrorising Exeter, the mysterious Society of Angels, fit in to all this? John Rawlings is determined to solve this case ...even if it means putting himself in danger.

Death in the West Wind is the seventh novel in Deryn Lake's highly acclaimed Georgian mystery series featuring sleuthing apothecary, John Rawlings. Based on the real-life historical apothecary who invented carbonated water in England, other characters also featured include John Fielding, the Blind Beak of London who founded the Runners (later to become the Bow Street Runners) and his assistant, Joe Jago.

Deryn Lake is the pseudonym of a popular historical novelist who lives close to the famous battlefield of io66.

1761, London. Famous magistrate John Fielding - the Blind Beak to the mob - is to be honoured with a knighthood. Founder of the Runners, London's metropolitan police force, John Fielding is one of several important members of the community who gather at St James's Palace for the investiture. As the invited audience eagerly crane for a first glimpse of the new queen - widely rumoured to be the ugliest the country has ever seen - a terrible accident occurs when one of the crowd, a nobleman George Goward, tumbles down the great staircase to his death.
Of all the assembled gathering, not one person saw him begin to fall. Even those standing closest to Goward had their eyes fixed on the royal entrance; his wife, the portly Lady Mary Goward, Jack Morocco, known to some as the Black Buck, the notorious Elizabeth Chaudligh, a lady infamous in certain circles for her talents in the bedroom. Only one person witnessed anything untoward - John Fielding, a blindman. A whispered sentence, an exhalation of breath - these are the only clues available to suggest the fall was no accident.
Apothecary John Rawlings, accompanying his friend Fielding to the ceremony, sets out to investigate and despite the fact that his wife Emilia is expecting their first baby is soon drawn into a very intriguing mystery. And it seems that children might in fact be the key to unlocking the puzzle...

Deryn Lake is the pseudonym of a popular historical novelist who lives close to the famous battlefield of lo66.

Hours after opening his letter, high-powered solicitor Jonathan Selkirk is in hospital recovering from a suspected heart attack. That night he disappears. DI Joanna Piercy is also at the same hospital following a road accident - and finds herself at the scene of the mystery. Has Selkirk discharged himself or has he been abducted? Two days later a body is discovered and Joanna not only has to cope with a murder investigation but a broken arm and the arrival of the Regional Crime Squad. The formidable Superintendent Karen Pugh thinks there is a contract killer at work - but who, in the market town of Leek, could have hired him?

Critical acclaim for Priscilla Master's DI Joanna Piercy:
'Excellent' Yorkshire Post
'A sure touch and the capacity to shock... More please and soon' Peter Lovesey

Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and brought up in South Wales, Priscilla Masters now lives in Shropshire with her GP husband and two sons. She now works part-time as a practice nurse in Leek, Staffordshire, and writes crime novels. Other titles by Priscilla Masters available from A&B are: Winding up the Serpent, Catch the Fallen Sparrow and A Wreath for my Sister.

Introducing Chris O'Brien, Private Investigator. Martial arts expert, Philosophy graduate, ex-psychiatric nurse and practitioner of Chinese medicine. Bradford's answer to Philip Marlowe.

Nasty rumours circulating at Club Zed, one of Bradford's most popular nightclubs, lead to a call up for part-time bouncer and fledgling private eye, Chris O'Brien. Manager Tim Marconi has reason to believe that drugs are being dealt in his club, and that's made him mad. And that's not a good situation for anyone involved. O'Brien and his sidekick, the enthusiastic West Indian, Kelp start sniffing around for clues, confident that it shouldn't be too hard to flush out the culprits. But then the stakes are raised when a dead body turns up outside the club and the police swoop in.
Soon Chris is involved in an investigation that will take him across the country and build up to a thrilling, violent and dirty confrontation that will require all his skill and cunning just to stay alive.

That Which Doesn't Kill You is an action-packed, witty and sharply observed debut that marks the first appearance of Bradford's wise-cracking kung fu PI, Chris O'Brien.