There's no such thing as a free lunch... Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Islands to take on a tax law case that's worth a fortune - if Cantrip's tax-planning chums can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated islands and something - or somebody - is bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Very soon Cantrip is calling upon the aid of his colleagues back at Lincoln's Inn and it's up to amateur investigator Hilary Tamar to get Cantrip back to the safety of his chambers - alive!

Is money really the root of all evil? Julia Larwood's aunt Regina needs help. It seems she and two friends pooled their modest resources and on the advice of another friend, invested in equities - big risk, but big return. And now the tax man is demanding his cut. The only problem is that Aunt Regina and her friends have already spent the money. The real question, however, is how did three amateur investors make a thousand percent profit in record time? That's a question which could be answered by psychic counsellor isabella del Comino, unpopular neighbour to Aunt Regina, but before she can give any answers she is found dead in her drawing room, her pet vulture acting as guardian over her corpse. That's when Julia Larwood calls in her old friend and mentor, Hilary Tamar, to follow a money trail that connects Aunt Regina and her friends to what appears to be capital fraud - and capital crime...

It is 334 BC and the young Alexander waits with his troops by the Hellespont, poised to attack the empire of the great Persian king, Darius III. To win the approval of the gods for his enterprise he makes many offerings, yet the smoke does not rise, the sacrifices are tainted. Worse, his guides are being brutally murdered, Persian spies are in the camp, and Alexander's generals have their own secrets.
Into this turmoil comes Telamon, a physician, and boyhood friend of Alexander. As the climax builds and Alexander throws off his nervous fears, winning a brilliant and bloody triumph over the Persians, Telamon at last succeeds in uncovering their enemies.

First in a new series of historical mysteries featuring Alexander the Great
Paul Doherty has published many hugely successful historical novels and murder mysteries

Superb reviews in UK and USA include:
'The Mask of Ra is the best of its kind since the death of Ellis Peters. As ever, Doherty dazzles us with his knowledge and intimate feel for ancient Egypt.' Time Out
'A rare example of historical fiction that isn't overloaded with history and doesn't give supense short shrift.' Publishers Weekly

When things get tough, these are the guys who get going

Shrouded in mystery and feared throughout the world, very little is known about the elite fighting forces of various countries including our own Special Air Services-the soldier's soldiers. In this anthology the SAS's heroic exploits in the Falklands and in breaking the siege at Princes Gate are described as well as other first-hand accounts of the astonishing bravery of the elite forces of the world, such as Delta Force, the Green Berets and French Foreign Legion.

Included here are:
The US Marines at Peleiu 1944
The French Foreign Legion in Vietnam 1954
22 SAS at Oman 1972
The US Special Forces in Vietnam 1964
The SS Special Troops in Italy 1943
The SBS raid on Simi 1944
The Israeli Paras at Entebbe 1976

In the poetry of John Donne lies a motive for murder

A female sports celebrity has been murdered - her face mutilated in a bizarre, ritualistic manner. What is the significance of the strange text the killer has left at the crime scene? Why did he surgically remove the victim's left eye? And can a Cambridge lecturer help the police reconstruct the killer's fantasy in time to save her own life?
As Inspector John Underwood and his team frantically try to piece together the last hours of Olympic athlete Lucy Harrington, events take an unexpected turn. Harrington's murderer contacts English Literature lecturer Heather Stussmann and invites her to explain his actions to the police. And when another woman is murdered Stussman realises the key to understanding the killer's terrifying motive lies buried in the works of a poet who has been dead for nearly four hundred years...

Most families have a skeleton in the cupboard. Fitzroy Maclean Angel has a whole mortuary... It requires all Angel's streetwise talents to find a missing brother, uncover an outrageous Common Market drugs deal, survive sex on the Eurostar deep in the Channel Tunnel and solve the problem of just how you hide a field of cannabis? And if keeping his own estrange parents apart isn't hard enough, Angel has to contend with a family of East End gangsters involved in a curious case of the missing diesel fuel and stolen beer barrels. Still, if one man is up for the job his name just has to be Angel!