As students, Ray and Simon had dreams about what they'd do when they grew up. In both their cases, it was "be rock stars". Fifteen years later, nervous new father Ray takes refuge in online games. For Simon it's serial murder and professional assassination.

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'Pages turn fast enough to make the perfect breeze for chilling beachside escapists.' Publishers Weekly
'Easily challenges Grisham or Turow.' Publishing News

Daniel Ames is a rising star in one of Portland's most prestigious law firms, however the lack of a silver spoon in his background makes him uncomfortable amongst his professional peers. He believes he has something to prove, so he is easily persuaded to take on the most tedious and least rewarding tasks. One of them is to swiftly evaluate a batch of documents a pharmaceutical company has to provide to prove they have properly tested a drug which is now being cited as the cause of babies being orn deformed. However when the documents are turned over to the lawyer acting for the parents of the deformed children, papers are discovered which seem to prove that the company's original research had thrown up some adverse results. Daniel is fired for missing these papers and it looks as though his legal career is at an end. But he knows those papers were not present when he was assessing the whole file, so who is rigging the evidence? Determined to see justice done to the damaged children as well as to his own future, Daniel delves deeper into the murky netherworld of malpractice suits and discovers there is no limit to the determined greed of the compensation vultures.

Daniel Ames is a rising star in one of Portland's most prestigious law firms, however the lack of a silver spoon in his background makes him uncomfortable amongst his professional peers and eager to impress. When he is unjustly fired for overlooking essential evidence, he decides to dig deeper.

When Holly Colshannon is made crime correspondent for her local paper, she begins shadowing a detective and writing a diary column about his working life. But Detective James Sabine is furious to be landed with accident-prone Holly.

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This omnibus edition contains two books on the Krays. "Calling Time on the Krays" is the true story of the woman who braved the might of London's most notorious criminal fraternity when she agreed to give the evidence that convicted Ronnie Kray for the murders of George Cornell at The Blind Beggar pub in East London on March 9th 1966. That woman was the barmaid and after 30 years as a gangland target, Mrs X relives the hopes and fears of her life in hiding, when she was forced to protect her true identity and move from safe house to safe house in an attempt to preserve herself and her three children from being silenced for good. In "Murder Without Conviction", John Dickson, a close and trusted friend of the Krays for many years, tells the inside story of their notorious gangland underworld. He describes the murder of George Cornell, Jack "the Hat" McVitie and "Mad Axeman" Frank Mitchell; the extortion, protection and gambling rackets; the Mafia connections; the increasingly erratic and senselessly violent behaviour of the Kray twins and their final dramatic arrest at a time when their reputation was so fearsome that they were convinced that they were invincible.

Jude Craig is having an affair; what had begun as just another gardening job has blossomed into the sort of emotions that had long been missing in her marriage to Dan. But when Jude leaves the young, handsome Lee Han asleep in bed, whispering `See you next week,' little does she know what is about to happen next.
Lee's flat is torched. His burns are so bad his body is unrecognisable.
When Detective John Bright arrives to question Jude, she realises with a shudder that she was the last person to see him alive. Whoever started the fire had been watching the house, and had been waiting for her to leave. If that isn't traumatic enough, John Bright's questions are forcing her into a corner - how can she remove herself from the list of prime suspects without revealing her affair with Lee? How can she tell the truth without Dan finding out? Or maybe the truth is that Dan already knows...
But as Bright continues his investigations, he realises that a crime of passion is only one possible motive in a myriad of possibilities. For Lee Han worked as a freelance journalist for a local newspaper, and his investigative reports have made him many enemies in the criminal underworld...

Superbly switching from London to Hong Kong and back again, Maureen O'Brien's latest novel is a brilliantly plotted tale of love, corruption, murder and revenge.

When a series of grisly murders occurs, it takes the persistence of cartographer William Huxley to unravel the puzzle. Stuck at home with his two-year-old daughter, Huxley draws on the help of a cub reporter and a valiant cleaning lady to find the killer.

Grandmother's Footsteps is my sixth novel, all of them psychological thrillers with a what would happen if? theme. When casting around for a brand new twist, I decided to turn the whole thing on its head with a first person narrative from the murderer's point of view and the victims selected apparently at random. Not even my publisher or agent guessed the identity of the murderer. I challenge you not to either.

In the first of three stories, Drinkwater is disguised as a lowly shipmaster of the Merchant Marine.
In the second, set in 1811, Napoleon's French Empire dominates Europe;
and in the third, Drinkwater succeeds Lord Dungarth as head of the Royal Navy's Secret Department.

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Twelve years after Louise Vaughan's disappearance, believed to be murder, the police re-examine the case - with appalling consequences for her already bereaved family. David Marsh, who worked on the original investigation, returns as Chief Superintendent, knowing there are secrets to reveal.

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