When a burglary goes wrong on the opening night of his new restaurant, Jack Ke[ter is left a widower and suffering from several bullet wounds. In emotional and physical turmoil he becomes a self-pitying recluse, until Kid Demeter, a young man Jack once regarded as a son and who is now a formidable physiotherapist, bullies him into better health. Then Kid is found dead, but Jack cannot accept the view that his death was either accidental or suicide. Knowing he owes Kid for getting his own life back on track, Jack starts to investigate Kid's personal life and discovers he was a serial womaniser. He begins to identify and locate these women, but every time he speaks to one of them they end up dead. Then, as he edges closer to the truth of Kid's death, he reatises that his wife's murder was the catalyst for at[ that followed.

'He shut his eyes again, tried to force the image out of his head, the image of Kid plummeting, tumbling in a free-fat[ through the air, down ... down ... And then it wasn't Kid who was falling, it was Jack.'

Alexandra Gaither is an attorney who finally has the power to get the justice she needs. Twenty-five years before, her mother had died a scandalous death. Alex believes one of three powerful men murdered her. Each is charming, each is a suspect, and each tries to shield her from her past. But not one of them can stop her passionate search for the truth. Like her mother before her, Alex sparks controversy and excitement in this remote Texas town. Now, as she investigates her mother's former lover, his best friend, and the father figure to them both, she will risk everything to uncover their best kept secrets.

When Judge Calvin Jeffries becomes the first sitting judge to be murdered while serving office, Charismatic criminal defense attorney Joseph Antonelli finds himself smack in the middle of a riveting case. As he works through the intricacies of a homicide audacious enough to strike at the heart of justice, the ensuing investigation and trial reveal a deadly trail of evil, shattered lives and revenge. While challenging traditional notions of crime and punishment, the novel also calls into question the very principles of America's judicial system and marks the breakthrough of a master storyteller.

While photographing birds at dawn, maverick risk-taker and onetime star professor Fritz Tullis sights a plane with his telephoto lens as it touches down on an airstrip across the bay. It is an open secret that this area, with its multitude of hidden waterways, is becoming a hub for illegal arms and drug trafficking. Three people emerge from the plane. As Fritz watches, two of them start arguing. Suddenly without warning, one shoots the other. The killer and his accomplice then throw the body into the plane and take off. Fritz learns that the airstrip belongs to a wealthy and elusive man with a long history of connections to the CIA. A few days later, he discovers that the victim, whose body turns up a hundred miles away, was a high-ranking foreign diplomat. Before he knows it, against his better judgement, Fritz is digging for the truth-and, complicating his life even further, becomes romantically entangled with an attractive Harvard ornithologist who has discovered his private sanctuary. Fritz is about to learn how dangerous "being involved" can be. For as his quiet life becomes more complex, people-including some who are near and dear-start to die. And as he adds these possible murders to the one he personally witnessed, Fritz senses that he himself is being scrutinised through a telescopic lens, and that someone, somewhere is plotting his death.

Pip Carlton, devoted husband and respected pharmacist, is distraught when his wife dies in her sleep. With the police content to shrug off the mystery, he tries to restart his life, but Helen West, Crown prosecutor is suspicious and refuses to believe Mrs Carlton simply slipped away.

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Helen West Onmibus

This omnibus contains the three Frances Fyfield novels - "Deep Sleep", "Shadow Play" and "A Clear Conscience" - which have been dramatized for the ITV network, starring Amanda Burton

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A former musical prodigy with everything going for him, now a deluded paranoiac living in a cave in Central Park, Romulus Lebetter gave the finger to society and society returned the compliment. When he discovers a frozen corpse on his doorstep, the police are sceptical of his explanation.

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Majestic Airlines is in chaos - the general manager in Boston has committed suicide and Alex Shanahan is parachuted in to sort out the mess. At first she thinks her predecessor hadn't been up to the job, but she soon discovers that there are veins of rottenness and corruption in the heart of the airline's operations.
As she tries to discover who is orchestrating the villainy, Alex realises she can trust no-one, but relying on her own resources means that she is in danger of being sucked into the violent conspiracy. With her career on the line and her own life under threat, Alex determines to unearth the truth, not reatising that someone is aware of her every move.

'Hard Landing goes down easy, and will keep you guessing - and flipping pages - till three a.m.' John Nance

Tommy Hart, whose B-25 was shot down over Germany, is burdened with guilt that he is the only surviving member of his crew. He is just another PoW at Stalag Luft 13 waiting for the war to end. The tedium of camp comes to a brutal end with the arrival of a new prisoner, Flight Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, a black pilot who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow prisoners. When a prisoner is brutally murdered, all the evidence points to Scott and Hart is 'volunteered' to defend him. While Scott steadfastly_ maintains his innocence, Hart senses that he has been chosen merely to make a show of defending the accused in what is presumed to be an open and shut case.
In a trail rife with racial tension and raw conflict, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, there are those with secret motives - and a burning passion for a rush to judgement no matter what cost.

People are voluntarily dying before their time in California. Some call it assisted suicide, others, murder. The man at the centre of the row, nicknamed Doctor Death, continues to work, but Detective Milo Sturgis comes to Delaware with the suspicion that some patients are not willing collaborators.

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A Nell Bray Mystery

'Suffragette sleuthess Nell Bray is a smashing creation' The Times
'Linscott writes like a rewarding angel' Sunday Times
'Ms Linscott has created a most likable and believable character in her protagonist, and the period detail, lovingly sketched in, adds an extra gloss to the series' Irish Times

In her family's eyes, Verona North was all a girl of nineteen should be - totally fearless, talented and attractive, with hair the colour of beech leaves in autumn. But only a few months after leaving the family home to study art in London, she is found hanging in the boathouse on their estate in Devon - apparently a suicide.
It would seem that this perfect daughter had plunged into left-wing politics, and from respectability to drugs and depravity. Her father, Commodore Benjamin North, has no doubt who is to be held responsible for this - his suffragette cousin, Nell Bray. Nell certainly does not feel she is to blame, and yet . . . In between work and the demands of being an enemy of the state, Nell starts to listen to the nagging questions in her head over the death of her young cousin. She discovers that Verona had even more secrets than expected, and some of them involved people who wouldn't let the girl's life - or Nell's either - stand in their way.

In the high-stakes game of global celebrity, spin doctors reign supreme - and pure deception is par for the course ...

Mark Watson doesn't take much notice of the news when the head of Berkeley Square Cosmetics is gruesomely attacked in London. Mark has just been wooed to LA to be groomed as the new singing partner to the rock star, Isis. Stitt not totally believing his good luck he allows himself to be'made over'- new wardrobe, new hairstyle, new name - until he's not too sure who he really is. Even when he learns that he and Isis have a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Berkeley Square, Mark doesn't make the connection between the violence in London and his new role. Then someone targets them in a bomb attack and Mark wakes up with a jolt ...

'When it comes to writing about the world of PR skulduggery, Michie is an insider trading on his strengths' The Times

A remarkable story of a woman's life at the sharp end of London's Gangland.

Marilyn Jane Wisbey has always had a good criminal pedigree. There's her father, Tommy Wisbey, one of the Great Train Robbers. Then there's her godfather, Freddie Foreman. He did ten years for helping clean up after jack'The Hat' McVitie was killed by Reggie Kray. He was acquitted of the Curtain Road Security Depot Robbery but he got nine for handling some of the money. Then there's'Mad' Frankie Fraser, the man with whom she shared ten years of her life, the man one Home Secretary called 'the most dangerous man in Britain'.

Gangster's Moll shows what it is like to be a woman in a male-dominated Underworld -the rules, the taboos, the inside secrets ...

'All my life I've been surrounded by criminals. I've done quite a bit too in my own quiet way - hoisting, fencing, minding, running an escort agency

Jerry and Peter have been successfully conning vulnerable householders until Jerry decides to go straight and gets a job in a chip shop. There he meets Imogen, pregnant and temporarily living with her step-grandmother, Charlotte Frost. He agrees to tackle Charlotte's neglected garden, but when his mother's car is stolen his decision to retire from a life of crime is doubted. Then a woman's body is found in the river. At first the police believe it to be accident or suicide, but one detective is sure it is murder, especially when the prime suspect cannot supply an alibi for the night the victim disappeared.
A novel of subtle suspense in which intolerance eventually leads to death, and kindness is rewarded with arrogance.

The mistress of the skilfully spun suspense novel' Sunday Times
'Margaret Yorke knows all about human weaknesses and follies, vanities and ambitions, as well as about that rarer phenomenon, real, unadulterated evil.' Susan Hill

Margaret Yorke was awarded the 1999 Cartier Diamond Dagger for her outstanding contribution to the crime fiction genre. She is a past chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and the author of over 50 novels.