The perfect, nude corpse of a beautiful woman washes up on a pristine Miami Beach - her body tanned and shapely, her nails elegantly manicured. The problem is that the victim, Kaithlin Jordan, was murdered ten years ago. And her convicted killer - her husband, R.J. Jordan, scion of a wealthy and powerful South Florida family - sits on death row, just weeks away from his execution. Newspaper reporter Britt Montero recalls the high-profile murder trial that heated up a volatile tropical city like the merciless August sun. Even without a body, the prosecution case against Jordan seemed airtight and the jury enthusiastically bought into it. Now R.J. is preparing to walk. Impulsive and explosive, with a turbulent love life and a unique, highly charged relationship with this singular metropolis erected between swamp and sea, Britt is only truly happy when she's involved in a juice murder story. And this one has the right smell and feel...and threat. Because somewhere in the tangle of an enigmatic beauty's bizarre life and even stranger rebirth - somewhere between the sparkling gold coast glamour and flashing neon sleaze - are secret passions and buried solutions that could doom an overly inquisitive journalist with a tendency to leap before she looks. After all, this is Miami, where anything is possible...even dying twice.

The Laird and the Law are brought together again! Involved in plans to establish the Borders town of Kilstane as a music festival centre, Sir Nicholas Torrance faces problems when a corpse is found in the main concert venue. Sent to his aid is Detective Inspector Lesley Gunn, who is still emotionally bruised from their last encounter. She becomes enmeshed not just in a murder investigation but in musical puzzles taxing all her powers of deduction. An eccentric composer dominates the proceedings, but investigation shows that he himself is dominated by the ghost of an old rival. But just when Lesley Gunn is tangling with bewildering patterns of musical guesswork, another murder throws even more discord into the festival. John Burke presents an entertaining puzzle and the tantalizing question of whether the laird and the sleuth will at last come together, or whether a tempestuous woman violinist will wreck things for them and others.

When recent divorcee Meg Altman and her ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, move to New York City to start afresh, they buy the former upper West Side home of an eccentric millionaire. Most bizarre among the brownstone's features is a vault-like steel-encased room with a phone line, emergency supplies, and a wall of closed-circuit TVs monitoring the townhouse. It's called the Panic Room, and it's meant to provide a sense of security. Instead, it just makes Meg nervous. When three burglars break in, Meg and Sarah are forced to seek refuge in the high-tech bunker. They've barely breathed a sigh of relief before they realize the intruders are after something located inside the Panic Room - and they're not leaving until they get it. Terrified and trapped, mother and daughter must use every last resource to fight for their homes...and their lives.

Returning to Paris from a conference, Inspector Gautier is devastated to learn that his mistress Ingrid, a Dutch journalist has been brutally murdered. Before he can begin to investigate her death, the British Ambassador informs the surete that his daughter Fiona has been abducted to England and Gautier is sent to rescue her. In England with the help of Sylvie, a secretary at the French Embassy, he learns that Fiona is travelling with a Hungarian agitator and they have gone to Scotland. He follows them to Edinburgh, and finds that Fiona has been abandoned penniless. Back in Paris a British armaments firm, having rearmed Germany, is negotiating a contract with the Minister of War to supply field guns to the French army. In Vienna an Austrian journalist, who was working closely with Ingrid to uncover a conspiracy in the Balkans, is murdered and soon afterwards the Comte d'Artagnan a well-known pervert, is stabbed to death in a Montmartre dance hall. The political motives behind these murders become clear when the wife of the Minister of War disappears, apparently also abducted. Sylvie comes to Paris on secondment from London and with her help Gautier begins to unravel the conspiracies. In spite of their efforts the danger of a war in Europe moves inexorably closer but there is consolation for Gautier as he moves closer to a new relationship.

In Roots Of Murder and Murder Sets Seed, florist Bretta Solomon proved that she couldn't stay away from danger.

Janet La Barre was a skilled undercover agent who had just broken a major crime syndicate in Florence, Italy. Now, on returning home she is immediately assigned to a case involving several missing girls. But what is the connection between her last case and this one? And, of even greater significance, who is the mysterious Janet La Barre? No one really knows who she is or where she came from, least of all Joe Davidson and Harry Collins who are involved in looking for one particular missing girl. Then, when the two investigations become entangled, Davidson and Collins are in danger of being arrested. They, too, must go undercover and soon they find themselves on the trail of a powerful and dangerous man. Whisper of Evil is an absorbing and spelbinding thriller with lively characters. From the first page to the exciting denouement, Whisper of Evil is an enthralling novel.

When Guy Radford goes to visit an old college friend on the West Indian island of St Marien, he is blissfully unaware of the trouble he is flying into. For St. Marien is an island on the brink of revolution, where divisions of race and wealth have created such tensions between desperate workers and powerful plantation owners that a violent showdown is inevitable. When Radford unwittingly becomes caught in the crossfire he finds his own life in danger. And, as the conflict intensifies, the fact that he has fallen in love adds merely one more complication to an already tricky situation...

The world's bestselling novelist is back with Never Enough, a steamy novel chronicling the rise of David Shea, a man who learned early that on your rise to the top you use any means possible. When David, a high-powered Wall Street investment banker, blows off his twenty-fifth high school reunion in order to tryst with his sexually charged girlfriend and his third ex-wife, he also in essence blows off his past. It's a past that won't be denied, however, a past that casts a shadow over the present. And a high-stakes game of moral ambiguity, love, betrayal, and dangerous consequences is still under way. In Never Enough, Robbins tells a tale of fast and loose trading - of stocks as well as sexual partners. Big-money payoffs and pitfalls and legal wrangling are the instruments of the game. And while David's machinations with money and women are always complex, he's managed so far to stay one step ahead of every bad break. But the ending is one that neither David nor his women could ever have foreseen.

Adelaide Porteous had made a good marriage to the great barrister Sir William Porteous, QC and this imperious, beautiful woman was one of Queen Victoria's courtiers, already she has launched two of her three daughters into society. But then disaster strikes. The homicidal dilettante Gideon Raikes, enraged at Sir William's attempts to put him behind bars, engineers a very public attempt on his life. The ensuing investigation begins to disinter some gruesome Porteous family skeletons and Adelaide is forced to contemplate desperate measures to secure the safety of her husband and three children.
Set in late Victorian London and rural Essex, this well-written novel features the chirpy but vulnerable Detective Inspector Arnold Box and his colleagues of Great Scotland Yard.

In the six months since Tom McInnes opted out of the work-hard, play-hard lifestyle of a successful Alabama law firm, his spirits are flourishing, even if his private practice is not. But Tom's peaceful, if unprofitable, existence is soon shattered by news of the brutal murder of his errant younger brother Hall. Summoned home to Cooper's Bend, Tom finds himself directly in the line of fire from his bullying father, menacing town toughs and the local law enforcement. Undaunted, Tom is determined to track down Hall's murderer. But before long, his probe puts him dangerously close to people who will stop at nothing to prevent him from discovering the truth. With pitch-perfect dialogue and plot twists to send the reader scrambling, Sins of the Brother marks the debut of a talented new writer.