The second novel in the Fethering Mysteries series, following The Body on the Beach (Pan paperback).

It wasn't the rain that upset during Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs. It wasn't the dilapidated barn in which she was forced to seek shelter. No, what upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there, neatly packed into two blue fertiliser bags . . .
So begins the second investigation for strait-laced Carole and her more laid-back neighbour Jude. This time their enquires take them away from their seaside village of Fethering to the small downland hamlet of Weldisham.
There gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin Lutteridge, a young woman who disappeared from the village months before. Detective Sergeant Baylis will confirm nothing. So why is Tamsin's mother, a friend of Jude's, so certain her daughter is still alive? Why is village elder statesman Graham Forbes suddenly taking an interest in Carole? And why is the decidedly unstable Brian Helling so keen to announce that there is a serial killer on the loose . . . ?
As Jude sets out to find Tamsin - either dead or alive - Carole digs deeper into Weldisham's history and the bitter relationships simmering beneath the village's gentle facade.

Increasingly the world has come to rely on a vast web of fibre-optic cables and satellite networks encompassing the planet. Thomas Tye is president of the biggest multi-interest conglomerate ever known, but the Tye Corporation is now dangerously out of control - so even the most powerful nations feel threatened. With plans set afoot to rein him in, the stage is set for economic collapse and worldwide disaster on a scale never yet imagined.

A lecturer and writer on future trends in business and society, Ray Hammond lives in London, and this is his first novel.

Thea Wyatt had only been back in Taviscombe a short while, yet already she has secured a job at the local law firm and has been asked for her hand in marriage by Michael Malory. Things are not going according to plan. Supposedly her future mother-in-law is delighted but when a senior partner at Thea's solicitors firm dies shortly after an altercation with her the fairy tale is over.
Although Gordon Masefield's death is a shock he has no shortage of enemies and when Michael and his mother hunt for the real killer it begins to look like anyone with both the will and the opportunity could have done it - but they must find out the truth before Thea is convicted.

'Even Dame Agatha would be proud of this one' Irish Times
'One to watch with tea and Dundee cake' Crime Time

Freddie Foreman And Tony Lambrianou

The lives of Freddie Foreman and Tony Lambrianou became linked forever on the October 1967 night when Reggie Kray stabbed to death villain Jack 'The Hat' McVitie and they were implicated in disposing of the body.
Talking and drinking late into the night, they have pieced together their stories to produce the first complete chronological account of that night's events. Foreman and Lambrianou also dramatically revisit all of their notorious crimes. Here at last, in real-life dialogue, is the truth behind the stereotype and the I glamour'. Together they recreate the underworld they knew and ruled, the prison sentences they endured and their extraordinary existence in society today.

The Untold Story of the Krays' Reign of Terror by the Former Kray Boss

What could possibly spoil a Scandinavian cruise? Darina Lisle is about to find out ... A cruise offers Darina Lisle and her husband DCI William Pigram a rare chance to be together. On board with them are a variety of passengers, including cruise veteran Enid Carter, farmer Michael Harwood, and lottery winner Shona Mallory. All are there for very different reasons.
The ship's staff has its own problems particularly Purser Phil Burrell. And when he disappears, so too does Darina's dream of a relaxing break with her husband. Did Phil choose a watery end or did someone give him a helping hand? Darina begins to investigate ...

`Brilliant. A star in the making' Minette Walters
`A truly talented writer' The Irish Times
`Parsons refreshes the palate with her elegant and imaginative style.' The Times
'Ms Parsons has produced a mesmeric portrait of obsession and evil' The Telegraph

From the publishers of one of the most established and prestigious crime lists who brought you Minette Walters, Clare Francis and Lynda La Plante, Macmillan presents another huge star in the making. Julie Parsons exploded on to the literary crime scene with her novels Mary, Mary in 1998 and The Courtship Gift in 1999, both published to huge critical acclaim around the world.
But Eager To Please is Julie Parsons' biggest and most compelling novel yet.

`Life or death? Which began and which ended on that cold November afternoon twelve years ago? She still could not decide...
For twelve long years Rachel Beckett has been in prison for the murder of her husband, Martin. A murder she swears she did not commit.
For twelve long years she has been denied the touch and love of her only daughter, Amy. Has been forced to watch another woman raise and enjoy her child. Until, at the age of seventeen, Amy has insisted she never wants to see her real mother again.
But now Rachel is free. And she is ready to take revenge on Daniel - her brother-in-law, her onetime love, and the man she insists fired the fatal shot.
No one can take her beloved Amy away from her and hope to go free ...The wheel must turn full circle...
'Are you listening, outside world? I'm coming back. Are you listening?'

In the brooding milieu of New Orleans, four friends are about to discover the fragile boundaries between loyalty and betrayal. Once inseparable, Meredith, Brandon, Stephen and Greg enter high school only to learn that their friendship cannot withstand the envy and rage of adolescence. Their individual struggles are fuelled by the generations of family feuds and furtive passions hoarded within their opulent Garden District homes and soon, two violent deaths disrupt the core of this closeted society.
Five years later, the former friends are drawn back together as new facts about their mutual history are revealed and what was once held to be a tragic accident is discovered to be murder. As the true story emerges, long-kept secrets begin to unravel and the casual cruelties of high school develop into acts of violence that threaten to destroy an entire community.

A Density of Souls marks a stunning debut and its series of shocking twists will leave you reeling. Bold, compelling and haunting, this is American gothic in a new and intriguing guise.

Following the fantastic reception of In a Dry Season, Peter Robinson brings us the latest mystery in his award winning Inspector Alan Banks series...

Reviews for In a Dry Season
It would be easy to become addicted to Robinson's agreeable but not too predictable stories' Observer
'A highly satisfying police procedural with a time-warp twist' Sunday Times
'Peter Robinson has managed to create that most difficult of species: an intelligent read in a popular genre' Historical Novel Review

Detective Chief Inspector Banks is very surprised when his boss, Chief Superintendent Riddle asks for his help - because it is well known how much Riddle detests him. Riddle's wayward 16-year old daughter, Emily has run away from home and he needs Banks and his unorthodox methods to bring her back without disruption.
Banks tracks Emily to London, where she is living with a south London gangster whose business connections Banks has already been investigating. She refuses to return to her 'parochial' home but when she turns up at Bank's hotel in the middle of the night beaten and scared, he is pulled deeper into events. Especially when three months later - supposedly safely home with her family - Emily suffers a gruesome and suspicious death ....

Peter Robinson was born in Castleford, Yorkshire. After receiving his degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds he moved to Canada to do an MA at the University of Windsor, followed by a PhD in English at York University, Toronto. He is married to a Canadian and now lives there.

Cherry is a clapped-out West End dancer, suffocating in a jaded marriage of convenience. She lives in the shadows of the past, haunted by the ghost of her father and terrified of the outside world. Her sister Jackie is a demented psychopath with a misguided vendetta against her brother-in-law - so can Chip Freeman, Home Shopping Channel's social-climbing TV presenter now escape punishment for running off with Aidan, a gold-digging hairdresser from Harrods?

With a deliciously black touch, Simon Temprell takes his razor-blade to the fabric of these lives to create a story of love, hate, jealousy and greed which supersedes even the most tasteless of comedies.