The unforgettable characters, non-stop action, high-stakes suspense, and sheer entertainment of TO THE NINES define Janet Evanovich as unique among today’s writers.

When artist Dylan O'Connor pulls into a motel off the Arizona interstate highway, all he wants is to relax with his autistic brother Shepherd. But within the hour he is bound, gagged and injected with mysterious fluid by a lunatic "doctor" who claims Dylan will be the carrier for his life's work.

Courtroom drama

After a lawyer friend is killed, with his client, in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse, attorney Paul Madriani reluctantly takes on the surviving co-defendant's case. As he begins to investigate his friend's murder, both that and his new case take entirely unexpected turns.

Alex Cross is ready to leave the Washington Police Force, when Samson arrives and begs him to take one last case - his best friend has been accused of an horrific triple murder. His fingerprints and DNA have been found - but Samson's friend swears he has been framed and that Alex is his only hope.

James Patterson's previous international number one bestsellers include Cat And Mouse, When The Wind Blows, Pop Goes The Weasel, Cradle And All And Roses Are Red, 1st To Die, Violets Are Blue And Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas He lives in New York. Kiss The Girls was made into a number one hit movie, and the film version of Along Came A Spider is currently out in video.

A white knuckle ride through the back corridors of the elite counter-terrorist agencies as they attempt to disrupt and dismantle the financial networks that sustain terrorist organisations through out the world.

It's 44 AD, and as Vespasian and the Second Legion forge ahead in their campaign to seize the south-west, Macro and newly-appointed centurion Cato are ordered by Vespasian to provide Verica, aged ruler of the Atrebatans, with an army. They must train his tribal levies into a force that can protect him, enforce his rule and take on the increasingly ambitious raids that the enemy is launching. But despite the Atrebatans' official allegiance to Rome, open revolt is brewing, for many are wary of the legions and want to resist the Roman invaders. Macro and Cato must first win the loyalty of the disgruntled levies, before tackling the enemy without. But can they succeed whilst surviving a deadly plot to destroy both them and their comrades serving with the eagles? In the midst of this highly volatile situation, Macro and Cato face the greatest test of their army careers as only they stand between the destiny of Rome and bloody defeat...

Simon Scarrow teaches at a leading Sixth Form College. He has in the past run a Roman History programme taking parties of students to a number of ruins and museums across Britain. Having enjoyed the novels of Forester, Cornwell and O'Brian, and fired by the knowledge gleaned from his exploration of Roman sites, he decided to write what he wanted to read - a military page-turner set during the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD.