As if Lucy hadn't suffered enough in The Colour of Blood, she cannot resist investigating a new mystery 1921. On her wedding day, Lucy's husband, Clive, is called to London to attend to a patient - Patrick Garston, who has attempted suicide. When Lucy decides to take an interest in Clive's work, she examines the rope that Garston had used to try to kill himself She realises that it was tied by someone left-handed, but Garston is right-handed.

Phyllida Moon comes home to a domestic, but most unhomely case on Closing Stages

When PI Phyllida Moon returns to Seaminster, after a trip to Scotland which changed her personal life for ever, the Peter Piper detective agency has a nice little job for her. Hugh Jordan is suspicious about just how many late night meetings his wife, Sandra, is having with her business partner - while Sandra is worried about whether there is more to Hugh's many choir rehearsals than meets the eye.

America is on the brink of agreeing to scrap the Star Wars protection system. But when the US President arrives in Moscow a single sniper can put this in jeopardy. Five shots ring out, wounding the Russian President and the US President's wife. The sniper, George Bendall, is the son of a British defector to the USSR, and the UK government becomes involved in the case. Although the three countries are supposedly cooperating, information about Bendall is hard to obtain - but British agent Charlie Muffin can always turn to his partner, Natalia, who is coordinating the Russian investigation. Charlie and Natalia's relationship can hardly take more strain as their tangle of personal and professional becomes even more complex - almost as labyrinthine as the political manoeuvering around this post-Cold War grassy knoll

A thriller of style, wit and page-turning tension

Charlie Gauntlet, a retired lawyer who was' something dodgy in the Foreign Office' is recently married to Rebecca 'Bex' Olesker, a Detective Sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Anti- Terrorist Branch. When his young wife faces the mysterious and deadly international assassin known only as Alchemist, it is hard for him to stay on the sidelines. She may find him, but will she survive the encounter?

"Richly textured, wonderfully atmospheric and ironical " Publishers Weekly on day, of Absolution

After this murder, everyone is lying to DI Peach

When the director of the University of East Lancashire is found dead, Peach has some bright minds to pit his wits against. There's the director's wife and the chaplain she's having an affair with, the chemistry lecturer with a drugs operation to protect, the brilliant and resentful Walter Culpepper and Carmen, the director's bit on the side. Not one of them, it seems, is in the mood to foster Peach's pursuit of knowledge.

The long-awaited ninth book in the Corps series

On June 25th 1950, the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. For recalled veterans Fleming Pickering, his daredevil son Malcolm, Ed Banning, George Hart, Jack Stecker, Jake Dillon and Ernie Zimmerman, names such as Inchon, Pusan and the Choisin Reservoir are about to acquire a new, bloody reality. .

"W.E.B. Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition" Tom Clancy

Fraud and skullduggery in the Scottish antiques trade, from an ever-popular storyteller

When Scottish landowner Jeremy Carpenter comes to the rescue of American Hazel Tripp, they find they have something in common: both of them bear a grudge against one Gordon McKennerty, a notorious local crook. Hazel, an antiques restorer, and Jeremy, an expert on the legend of the Holy Grail, pool their resources, and devise a scheme to ensure McKenrierty's comeuppance once and for all.

Introducing Detective Chief Inspector Brock and his sidekick, Poole

A fast-moving, intricate and compelling contemporary mystery, starting with the brutal murder of a prostitute in London's West End. Brock and Poole might seem mismatched in age and temperament, but their verbal sparring hides a genuine mutual respect that grows as they hunt down the killer. Up to date, authentic and effortlessly readable.

"Funny, knowing cops-and-robbers exercise ... Very engaging, very classy" Literary Review on Underneath the Arches

Whose side is the Law - and detective Kerry Lake in particular - on?

Scout Pethor and his friend Matthew Gain were acquitted of the race-related murder of Angela Sabat, a black American girl. It's a judgement Angela's mother doesn't accept. Still, you can't be charged twice for the same crime - can you? So there shouldn't be anything for Keny Lake to worry about. But the post-trial inquiry suggests that policeman Vic Othen, Lake's adulterous lover, might have been involved.

The honour of the Cuerpo is on the line as Inspector on An Artistic Way to Go Alvarez is asked to cooperate with an English detective who wants to question an expatriate living in Mallorca, a man whose wife was brutally murdered as part of a plan to steal millions. The investigation is making no progress until a peeping tom reveals that things may not be quite as they seem.

"Rejoice - Inspector En@que Alvarez is back!" Booklist

Leo Kessler is one of the most borrowed authors in UK lending libraries

A dazzling blend of fact and fiction from a master storyteller

Autumn 1944. Hitler is planning the Battle of the Bulge. To assist the surprise assault, the 250,000 German POWs in the UK will be ordered to break out on the same day as the attack commences. Though Lieutenant Washington Lee stumbles across the plan, no one will believe him, and he goes AWOL to uncover the ringleaders in the camps before the attack takes place.

International terrorism takes a small island by storm

When Guernsey tour bus driver Sophie Gallagher collects a group of Arab visitors from the airport, her suspicions are aroused by the strange behaviour of her guests. And when she uncovers the truth she can hardly believe it, for their plan is to hold the entire island to ransom.

A paeodophile is on the loose in Casterford and a group of vigilantes is on the rampage causing trouble for DI Nick Holroyd and his team. Then a teenage youth is killed and the police are plunged into a murder inquiry. Meanwhile, some letters by Thomas Hardy are discovered, which refer to an unknown novel by him. As the hunt for this manuscript threads through the story another death causes the police to think that the events may all be connected.

"A fiendishly tough mystery, vivid characters and evocative English atmosphere" Booklist on This Mortal Coil

Feisty Claudia is turning Ancient Rome inside out - and upside down

When her stepdaughter is abducted, Claudia can't just throw money at the problem. The cash simply isn't there. And the frustratingly delectable Orbilio can't help - he's been arrested after a skeleton was found walled up in his house. Now, with the Games of Apollo, a series of festivals and frolics, feasting and tomfoolery, due to start, Claudia has saddled herself with the job of playing hide-and-seek with the kidnapper.

London, 1594 It's the opening night of Romeo and Juliet and Mercutio is murdered in the middle of the play - but it's real blood that flows. Master of Defence Tom Musgrave is hired by the theatre owners to solve the case as quickly and quietly as possible. The theatres have only just reopened after two years of plague, and there are fortunes as well as lives at risk. But as Tom plunges into the mean streets of London in that threatening, thunderous Summer, he swiftly finds himself hunted as well as hunter - for he has jumped blindly into a cat's cradle of murderous intrigue that has already claimed Marlowe and Walsingham. As the shattered remnants of England's first Secret Service split into two lethally opposed camps, the blood begins to flow everywhere from the stinking stews of Southwark to the gilded halls of Westminster. And it will require all Musgrave's skill to cut his way to the dark heart of the truth and walk away again.

The fourth book in the acclaimed Hennessey and Yellich series

Yet again, floods have played havoc with the Yorkshire countryside and when one river changes its course, a corpse comes to light. When DCI George Hennessey and DC Yellich get to it they discover that its head has been severed from the body. Well, there could be a whole load of reasons for that. But as the case progresses, there doesn't seem to be an explanation for it at all.

More adventures of the English spy - this time in America

Shell-shocked by Robespierre's Terror, George Keene heads for Philadelphia, where he has relatives. He wants to avoid further involvement in the British espionage campaign against revolutionary France. But Keene can't escape so easily. The French ambassador is attempting to forge an alliance of 'free nations' against the reactionary monarchs of the old order, and Keene's wit and daring will be called upon once again.