James Lee Burke meets Charles Frazier in a dark, atmospheric debut novel of love and revenge.

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1957. Following old custom, 18-year-old Therese Petitjean has been promised in marriage to the 52-year-old head of the rival family. But Therese has other plans for the old fool, and her drastic actions spark the feud into flame as never before...

Winner of the prestigious 1998 CWA/The Macallan Gold Dagger Award for Fiction
Pulitzer-prize nominee
One of only two writers to win two Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Author of 5 New York Times Bestsellers
Tommy Lee Jones is currently starring in and directing Dixie City Jam
Film of Heaven's Prisoners released in 1996 with Alec Baldwin & Teri Hatcher The rights of another 2 books have also been sold to Baldwin
Two for Texas released in 1998 starring Kris Kristofferson

`James Lee Burke is the Faulkner of crime fiction.' Jonathan Kellerman
`The best of American writing, never mind just American crime writing' Marcel Berlins, The Times

America's most acclaimed crime writer returns to the savage, wilderness of Montana with his hero Billy Bob Holland ....
`John Steinbeck once said Montana is a love affair. If a person was going to make his troth with any particular place on earth, I don't think he could find a better one than this stretch of road. Every bridge crossed a postcard stream, every mountain tumbled into one higher and a deeper green than itself.'

But in the Bitterroot Valley of Western Montana, the love affair has a chilling side, as ex-Texas Ranger, now lawyer, Billy Bob Holland, discovers on a visit to his friend, the chivalric and troubled Vietnam veteran, Doc Voss.
Doc's daughter is brutally gang-raped by bikers and ring leader Lamar Ellison walks free when the DNA samples `get lost'. Soon after, Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested. So much for Billy Bob's vacation -Doc needs a lawyer, and fast. Not only that: a newly released killer has tracked Billy Bob to Montana, bent on avenging the death of his sister for which he holds Billy Bob responsible.

Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's skepticism. The stranger asserted that he had risen from his own coffin and that four walls meant nothing to him. He added, 'My brother can do more... he wants your life and will call on you!' The brother came during a snowstorm, walked through the locked front door, shot Grimaud and vanished. The tragedy brought Dr Gideon Fell into the bizarre mystery of a killer who left no footprints.

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The young woman was shot dead in cold blood, dropped outside the stadium in front of a stand selling Moet for $7.50 a glass. Once she had ruled the tennis world, now she was just another stain on a pavement.
At that moment in time, inside the venue, another precocious player is carving his way to the top, straight from the ghetto and dazzling the pundits with his power and raw talent.
When Myron Bolitar, sports agent to the not-quite-but-soon-will-be stars, gets involved he realises that there is a link between these parallel lives, and very soon finds himself embroiled with a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous mother, and the mob ... way, way over his head.

Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of superstar golfer Linda Coldren and her husband Jack, an ageing pro, at the height of the US open - and just at the moment when Jack is about to lay the ghosts of his past failures to rest. To help get the boy back, Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown-cheaters' motel - and back in times to a US Open twenty-three years ago, where the root of all this lies...

For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories - of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played, and the woman they both loved. Memories really best left undisturbed. But now, among the stars, the wannabes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unravelling the strange, violent ride of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-toface with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive.

Will Klein lost his lover and his brother in the same moment. Eleven years ago, Julie Miller was found brutally strangled and on the same day, Will's brother, Ken, disappeared, wanted in connection with the crime. Just when Will thought he could banish the past, history begins to repeat itself.

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The impressive fiction debut from the celebrated political commentator, whose autobiography As It Seemed to Me was a double Sunday Times bestseller.

John Cole is one of the most loved of all British TV personalities as the bestselling sales in hardback and paperback of his autobiography proved. It has long been his ambition to write fiction - this is the result. It is the story of Alan Houston, a journalist whose life - and marriage - is wrecked by the sectarian conflict that flared anew in the northern Ireland of the 1970s. Flattered into becoming an adviser to the British government in Northern Ireland he lets the role go to his head. Absorbed by his new job, he neglects his wife, and puts his sons at risk as he courts the inner most circles of the IRA.

'Connelly is a crime-writing genius. His Harry Bosch stories are genuine modern classics, and this one's in the same league... unmissable' Independent on Sunday of Void Moon

The latest sure-fire bestseller from the master thriller writer finds Harry Bosch investigating the twenty-year-old murder of a teenage boy, and contending with a confessor who didn't do it, someone the department brass would like to pin it on, and a third, elusive suspect...

In Tokyo, nationalist fanatics execute the Emperor and throw Japan into a desperate bid to capture oil-rich Siberia from a weakened Russia. Their goal is world domination and the price they are willing to pay is a third world war.

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In a stunning explosion of terror, America's worst nightmares come true when Colombian suicide squads hit the streets of Washington. They have gone to war, and will destroy everything and everybody in their path. With its power and communications systems blown apart, the city is plunged into turmoil. In the Pentagon, Captain Jake Grafton and the Joint Chiefs of Staff face the most deadly challenge ever to threaten America. But while confusion and chaos rule the streets, a ruthless hunter, serving an unknown master, has his own catastrophic mission. He will not rest until he has wiped out the whole cabinet, starting with the President himself

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