The Crime is remarkably heinous: veteran police detective Joe McNaughton is found savagely slain, mutilated, and hung from a public fountain in downtown Tulsa. Scrawled across his chest in blood is the word Faithless. The accused is a tabloid reporter's dream: stunning, nineteen-year-old Keri Dalcanton, a stripper involved in a kinky affair with the married McNaughton.....and now cast by media, police and public alike as a vengeful woman scomed. Powerful circumstantial evidence and the prosecution's deftly orchestrated attacks on the defendant's character have Ben Kincaid's client all but convicted - until a major technical blunder by overzealous cops overturns the case and sets Keri Dalcanton free. Amid a firestorm of outrage, Ben maintains his client's innocence. But angry comrades of the victim are convinced otherwise - and vow to see 'justice' done, by any means necessary, When a police raid on his office uncovers the blood-stained murder weapon, Ben gets a first hand taste of the infamous Blue Squeeze. And as a new trial of Keri Dalcanton is launched, Ben faces his own day in court, charged with conspiracy and murder. What follows is a breathlessly twisting battle of legal wits - and lethal surprises - in which no holds are barred, no secrets are left unexposed, and, ultimately, nothing is what it seems. In Murder One, best-selling author William Bernhardt thrusts idealistic Tulsa, Oklahoma, attorney Ben Kincaid into the most controversial courtroom challenge of his carrer...an explosive murder case that Kincaid will confront not only as a lawyer - but as a defendant.

When writer John Newton receives a mysterious note containing the bizarre request that he should leave a bar of chocolate on one of the gravestones in the local churchyard, he doesn't take much notice. But, as he is about to discover, the consequences of not complying with the anonymous demand can be truly appalling. A newcomer to the picturesque Yorkshire village of Skelbrooke, John comes to realize that its inhabitants harbour a terrifying secret. And as the demands escalate in intensity, so John must face his worst nightmare come true. With this, his eighth nerve-shattering novel of supernatural suspense, Simon Clark triumphantly confirms his reputation as "one of the most exciting British horror writers around."

Walter B Frampton, II Esq., has never been an avid hunter like his forefathers or even his best friend Drake Wingo. He'd rather be dipping sour marsh whisky, reading Vanity Fair, and listening to Mozart. But when Drake and Cliff Dickens, another old friend, ask him along on a grouse-hunting trip, he decides to go. One ruffed grouse is already bagged when the unthinkable happens - the fourth member of their group, a quiet and polite stranger, is accidentally shot and killed. But when the details don't quite add up, Walter begins to have his doubts. Was it an accident? Is his friend a murderer? As events begin to spin out of control, only Walter can find out what really happened that fateful day on the mountain ridge.

When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington, the volatile Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. He shadows an alleged 'child dropper' onto a Thames pleasure steamer and finds himself caught up in Britain's worst civilian tragedy - the 1878 sinking of the Princess Alice - a ghastly experience which will haunt Best forever. His determination to avenge the death of a young pregnant girl he had befriended and save the life of another becomes a crusade. Meanwhile, his beloved Helen returns from Paris with the promise of a decision as to their future. Dead Born is an exciting sequel to Best's adventure's in Dead Image and is again based on historical fact.

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The dark earth in the piedmont of North Carolina's Randolph Country is heavy with bright clay. And it is of the same rich soil that attracts many of the South's most skilled potters. Also drawn to this region is the visiting judge Deborah Knott. She faces the most exasperating case a judge can handle: overseeing the equitable distribution of marital property after a bitter divorce. The Nordans - James Lucas and Sandra Kay - both potters, are divorcing after almost twenty-five years of marriage. As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans' history together produced great artistic achievements. Much of the credit for this stellar legacy goes to Amos Nordan, James Lucas's father and the proud clan patriarch. But Amos is not untouched by tragedy. Two years earlier an even more talented son Donny, apparently committed suicide in a manner so scandalous that Amos still cannot bear to speak of it. Suddenly, amid the petty bickering, an even more gruesome death strikes the Nordans, and the violence stalking the family homestead threatens to shut down the kilns for good. Judge Knott must use all of her insight into the darkest entanglements of the human heart if she is to trap a determined murderer.

Shortly after the Second World War, two survivors find themselves on a Russian freighter bound for a secret destination World War Two has ended a few years earlier and the Cold War is starting when Brett Manning is sent to do some business in the timber trade in Archangel. But on his way, in the thick fog and darkness of the Barents Sea, disaster strikes and his ship is run down by a much larger vessel. Only Brett and one other man are picked up, and the two survivors now find themselves on board a Russian freighter bound for a secret destination. Slowly it dawns on Brett and his companion that they now know too much for their own good and that their very lives are in danger, since they can never be allowed to carry away the information that has by force of circumstances come into their possession. Their only hope lies in escape. But how does one escape from a ship at sea?

Based on actual, cutting-edge scientific research, Skeptic is the kind of thriller that will have you thinking, "It could happen." To Dr. Mike Ballantine, truth can only be found in science and in concrete research. But when his best friend is killed in what looks like an assassination, Ballantine begins to question his beliefs, his knowledge, and even his sanity. Things soon turn nightmarish as Ballantine begins to have strange hallucinations that seem to be fragments of his friend's life. Then the research in his lab uncovers a shocking but undeniable truth: ghosts can, and do, exist. With the help of a brilliant CIA agent, Amber Chen, Ballantine's quest to stop his friend's murderers from obtaining the critical elements of his research pits him against a ruthless genius in a race against time. Skeptic will make you believe.

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Account of the struggle of an allied convoy to reach Murmansk It was the custom of the German Naval Command in the Second World War to name Allied convoys after the U-Boat commander who made the first sighting report. Kapitanleutnant Johan Kleber sighted convoy JW137, Murmansk bound, as it battered its way through the freezing storms and gloom of an Arctic winter; and so Kleber's Convoy it became. The U-Boat's signals were intercepted by the Admiralty in London and passed back to the commanders of the British escort vessels; notably to Lieutenant-Commander Redman of the destroyer Vengeful. The name of the U-Boat commander was for him a painful shock: years before a Hans Kleber had saved his life on a Swiss ski-slope, he had fallen in love with the German's sister and still reproached himself for her accidental death. Could this be the same man? Was the relationship between these two friends and enemies to provide a haunting counterpart to the savage naval battle? Kleber, with fifteen U-Boats concentrating for the attack, was determined to inflict mortal damage on the convoy of thirty-five merchant ships. The British Vice-Admiral, with twenty-six escort vessels, was determined to get it through. It was to be a fight to the death; and death came quickly in Arctic waters where freezing temperatures killed in a few minutes and the chances of survivors being picked up were minimal. This is an authoritative and gripping account of the grim struggle of an Allied convoy to reach Murmansk.