Billionaire financier Teddy Franklin is a force to be reckoned with, an internationally famous power broker whose high-stakes wheeling and dealing send economic tremors from Wall Street to Zurich. He buys and sells corporations at will and holds the careers of powerful lawyers and politicians in the palm of his well-manicured hand. Nothing, absolutely nothing is beyond Teddy's reach... Until he meets her. Beautiful, tantalizing, mercurial and perverse, Barbara captivates Teddy's imagination and carnal desire like no woman he has ever met. And the more she toys with his feverish attentions, driving him to excruciating heights of lust while withholding the darkest, deepest secrets of her heart, the more he craves this irresistibly sensual and seductive woman who drives him to the brink of insanity. A compelling and erotic psychological thriller.

Until now, there has been no single source for the life stories of assassins in various eras and cultures: the infamous ones and the surprisingly forgotten, the ideologues and the zealots, the sociopaths and the mercenary killers. A Biographical Dictionary of the World's Assassins fills this gap for the benefit of the true-crime fans, the historian, the student and the general reader alike. We all know the names Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth. But who assassinated the Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, igniting the First World War? What wealthy aristocrat killed Rasputin and lived on until 1967? How many different people attempted to assassinate Hitler - or Queen Victoria? Which modern world leader holds the record for escaping assassins' plots - and, more to the point, who were the plotters? How have assassins in Japan, say, differed from those in the United States? What assassins have been produced by such famously peace-loving societies as Canada and Australia? Providing answers to these questions and many more, this is a work in which to browse or to read from cover to cover, whether as a refreshingly new take on history and politics or as a psychological portrait of the assassin personality. It is much more than a ready-reference, and has no political subtext. Rather, it is a collection of biographical stories, a few well-known but most obscure, dealing with individual assassins from the ancient world to the present day. Researched with care and told with style and insight, A Biographical Dictionary of the World's Assassins is a complete chronicle of some of the most influential crimes in history.

At the beginning of a well-earned break, Detective Chief Inspector Simon takes his mother and his partner Jessie to visit a famous Cotswold garden, run by the equally famous Helen Hartley. Soon after their arrival, Simon stumbles across the poisoned corpse of Helen's son Liam. Simon is quickly assigned to the case. As the investigation progresses, it becomes obvious that several people at Clifford's Place had cause to wish Liam Hartley dead. But another person is poisoned, and yet another, all with plants from Helen's beloved garden. With each attack the case Simon is building shifts its emphasis. And the killer is obviously taunting the police - or Helen herself...