Clearing Whimbrel House of its contents following the death of Colonel Caversham had seemed such a simple job. Only one item proved a little difficult to manoeuvre the heavy coffin containing an Egyptian mummy, now the property of the Greatorex Museum. Little do they realize that the coffin does not contain the remains of Rodoheptah, but the body of a young lady, dead only two weeks.
When the horrifying discovery is made, Inspector Sloan is called in to find not only a two-thousand-year-old corpse, but also a ruthless killer ...

Catherine Aird is the author of some eighteen crime novels and lives in East Kent

This hauntingly vivid novel, which takes Andrea Badenoch to a new level of Writing .

'There is a talented writer on show here' Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

It is 1962. The Beatles have released 'Love Me Do' and John Glenn has orbited the Earth. But in this pit village in County Durham everyone is looking back towards the traditions of the past...
Except, that is, for Gloria, the local hair stylist. With her low block heels and her Mini Cooper, Gloria is a modern woman -until she's found dead, floating in the coal-polluted shallows of a nearby pond.
Gloria's young niece, Kathleen, finds the body but refuses to accept the suicide explanation embraced by the village. Gloria was optimistic and strong - she had everything to live for. So twelve-year-old Kathleen keeps her eyes open, takes photographs with her Box Brownie camera and tries to work out what has happened...
And in doing so embarks upon her own journey of discovery.

Evers Wheeling is a superior-court judge in small town North Carolina; young, bright and going nowhere. He has trouble pinning down his hung-over, hazy life and things aren't great with his wife. When Evers is approached by the ethereally beautiful Ruth Esther, her one simple request sends him on a Byzantine, cross-country journey. Aided and abetted by his dopehead brother and equally wasted cronies, Evers embarks on a hunt for mysterious treasure stashed away by Ruth Esther's deceased father. The adventure spirits Evers far away from his earlier existence, into a fierce estrangement from his wife, into the arms of a militant black attorney and into having to deal with his brother's trial for murder.
Combining Southern gothic, black comedy, courtroom drama and explorations of faith and redemption, this first novel will be long remembered for its astounding writing and brilliant, unexpected conclusion.

The novel begins on the day former baby photographer Nina Zero is released from prison - she accidentally blew up a terminal at LAX - and drives to Las Vegas to marry an English paparazzo who needs a green card. Nina figures to make a few bucks on the marriage, but she never counts on falling in love, and never expects to become the chief suspect in his murder when two weeks later his corpse is dragged from Lake Hollywood.

Val McDermid of the Manchester Evening News called it's predecessor, SHOOTING ELVIS, the best humorous crime novel of the year (which is something like being voted 'most beautiful' in an ugly dog contest) and Marilyn Stasio of the New York Times wrote, "It's amazing what a new writer can do with the old routines. In his first work of crime fiction Robert M. Eversz took the hard-boiled formula for a terrorist-on-the-lam thriller and worked it into a feverishly hip satire of the Hollywood zeitgeist, in which any reasonably photogenic criminal is allowed a moment of fame." .

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine- year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away - never to be seen again.
His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal - a former stripper forty years his junior - is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Millhone, hired by Fiona to find out just what happened to the man they love.
Enter also Tommy Hevener, an attractive flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. And Tommy is a man with a very interesting past ...

Sue Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1940, her father the mystery writer C.W. Grafton, whose own work gave his daughter the initial inspiration to write herself. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Steven Humphrey. She is currently working on her next Kinsey Millhone novel.

Remember the fairy stories you were told when you were a child? Tales of tiny, magical, winged beings and elves, wicked witches and goblins. Demons . . .
What if one day you found they were true? What if, when you became an adult, you discovered they were all based on fact? What if you met the fantasy and it was all so very real?
That's what happened to Thom Kindred. The wonders were revealed to him. But so were the horrors, for not far behind the Good, there always lurks the Bad. And the Bad had designs on Thom. The Bad would show him real evil.
He would see the 'hellhagges' and the demons. He would be touched by perverted passion. And corruption. And he would encounter his own worst nightmare.
The Bad would seek to destroy him. And only the magic of the little beings would be able to help him.

In this first Inspector Banks novel.

A peeping tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two young thugs are breaking into homes; and an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Inspector Banks investigates these cases, which weave together as the story reaches a tense climax.

Set in Egypt and following on from River God and The Seventh Scroll, Warlock marks the return of the world's finest adventure writer
The new Egyptian epic . .

Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods, an adept of magic and the supernatural. Now Taita answers the summons from the beyond. He leaves the desert vastness and returns to the world of men, to find himself plunged into a terrible conflict against the forces of evil which threaten to overwhelm the throne and the realm of Egypt, and to destroy the young prince Nefer, who is the grandson of Queen Lostris. With vivid depictions of battle and intrigue, of love and passion, with fascinating characters both good and evil, Wilbur Smith brings to life in colourful detail the world of ancient Egypt. This is a masterful feat of storytelling by one of the world's bestselling authors. It is Wilbur Smith at the peak of his formidable powers.

Wilbur Smith became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of his first novel, When the Lion Feeds. He is now a critically acclaimed international bestseller having since written twenty-seven novels, meticulously researched on his expeditions across the world. His books are translated into twenty-six languages and published worldwide.