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Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. Now she is being released from prison. But although she has nowhere to go - her parents have disowned her, her friends have abandoned her, her kids don't want to know - some people care that she is out for revenge.

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Latest Egyptian crime thriller

Lord Amerotke, Pharaoh's Chief Judge, is already in the middle of a murder case when it seems that there is another grave murder to investigate. One of Egypt's great heroes has been brutally killed and Pharaoh Hatusu herself has decided to intervene. She believes that General Balet's murder is only the beginning and she calls on Judge Amerotke for help. There is more to link the deaths than originally meets the eye - but can Amerotke track down the killer before he strikes again?

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero, was a beautiful and talented woman who saw her father murdered, was banished by her brother, and was killed on the orders of her son. Her freed man, a one-eyed former gladiator named Parmenon, tells of Agrippina's battle to survive in and control the depraved and violent Imperial Roman court, and the crumbling relationship between mother and son.

Mystery featuring Mitchell and Markby

When a rambler stumbles over human remains in Stovey Woods off the old drovers' way, an unsolved case that's been nagging Superintendent Markby for two decades is brought back to life. A new murder quickly follows. Is it connected to the older crime?

Ann Granger has worked in British embassies in various parts of the world. She m her husband, who was also working for the British Embassy, in Prague, and together they received postings to places as far apart as Munich and Lusaka. They now live in Oxfordshire.

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Chief Inspector Michael Haggerty asks Richard Jury to prove brewing magnate Oliver Tynedale's granddaughter is an impostor. Excavation of Tynedale's bombed London pub, the Blue Last, has turned up two skeletons - was the child found his real granddaughter? Meanwhile Melrose Plant reluctantly poses as an under gardener to investigate the nanny who purportedly saved the baby's life.

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Fizz and Buchanan are up against Edinburgh's most influential advocate in this delightful sixth novel in the highly praised Scottish crime series.

On Honeymoon With Death, Quintin Jardine's fifth book in his bestselling crime series featuring Oz Blackstone is published on 10t h December. Quintin Jardine regularly reaches the No. 1 slot on the Scottish bestseller list (last year actually ousting J K Rowling from the top slot); in Scotland Quintin Jardine even outsells John Grisham.

In Scotland, the feeling has definitely been for a while that Jardine is going to be the next crime writer to break and earlier in the year, the Radio Times ran a cover feature on TV detectives and tipped Jardine's crime series as the next potential TV blockbusting franchise as well!

Returning To Lescala, the idyllic Spanish village where they were once so happy, Scottish ex-pat Oz Blackstone and Primavera Phillips are looking -to forget the traumas of the past and rekindle the sense of passionate adventure LEscala used to represent.
But old ghosts are not so easy to placate, and the shade of Oz's childhood sweetheart, Jan, now tragically dead, is threatening to turn their relationship into a seething cauldron of bitterness and recrimination.
Until a body turns up face down in the swimming pool of their new villa, and suddenly Oz and Prim are forced to turn their attention outwards and investigate the nest of very dangerous vipers beneath LEscala's sunny exterior.

As the summer of 1322 brings sun to the Devonshire countryside, it seems that the small village of Sticklepath is destined to remain in darkness. An afternoon of innocent adventure becomes one of gruesome terror when two playmates uncover the body of a young girl up on the moors. As the news spreads through the village, one name is on everyone's slips. The body must be that of Alice, the ten-year-old daughter of Swetricus who went missing six years ago.
Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock are summoned to the scene to investigate, but fmd their progress blocked at every turn. There seems to be an unspoken agreement amongst the villagers to ensure that the truth behind Aline's death is never discovered. But what reason could they possibly have for shielding a murderer?
As the king's men slowly break down the wall of silence, they discover that the village has plenty to hide. Aline is not the only young girl to have been found dead in recent years, and it seems that the villagers have been concealing not only a serial killer, but, judging by the state of the girls' bodies, a possible case of cannibalism. Or, if the rurnours are to be believed, a vampire! That would certainly explain the haunted looks in the eyes of so many villagers, and the strange noises heard late at night from the Sticklepath cemetery...

'The most wickedly plotted medieval mystery novels' The Times
'Tremendously successful medieval mystery series' Sunday Independent
'Jecks draws his characters with a craftsman's hand, evokes atmosphere with the touch of an old master and keeps you wriggling on the hook of suspense as skilfully as Christie at her best. Enjoyable to the very end' Northern Echo

Rick and his girlfriend intend to spend their vacation in the wilderness. Gillian is also on vacation, only her idea of a holiday is breaking into people's homes. Only this time she chances the home of a serial-killer. The kind of guy to take his victims to the wilderness for a bit of fun.

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Redmayne and Bale find themselves embroiled in the hunt for the murderer of Nicholas Cheever, a repentant rake. Overcoming setbacks and attempts on their lives, Christopher and Bale pursue their enquiries throughout London and beyond, finding their way through a maze of corruption, political intrigue and religious dissension.

Third thriller from a top astronomer

As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer to be tough. However, nothing has prepared her for the honeymoon murders, when a brutal maniac begins a killing spree, slaughtering newlywed couples. Lindsay is sickened by the deaths, but her determination to bring the murderer to justice is threatened by a personal tragedy. So she turns to Claire, a coroner, Cindy, a journalist, and Jill, an attorney, for help with both crises, and the Women's Murder Club is born.

James Patterson also writes the phenomenally popular Alex Cross series.
He lives in New York with his family.

Second thriller featuring the Women's Murder Club

When a little girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church, Detective Lindsay Boxer knows it's time to reconvene the Women's Murder Club. Boxer and her friends think the killer may be an ex-cop, but nothing can prepare them for the demented logic behind his choice of victims.

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