Sam Turner returns to his home town, after completing a case in Nottingham, to find storm clouds gathering and the police waiting for him. He discovers that two of his ex-wives have been killed and that he is a suspect. Sam is released on condition that he does not leave York, but he sees a pattern in the two murders and guesses that the next victim will be another of his exes, Julie. Sam rushes to Oslo, where Julie now lives, but his efforts are in vain. She too is killed. Her murder marks out Sam as a prime suspect. He goes on the run, dodging not only the police, but the real killer, and finds himself embroiled in a terrifying mystery where he is both the fugitive and the detective, trying to anticipate the moves of the murderer and save his own skin.

John Baker is the author of four Sam Turner novels, Poet in the Corner, Death Minus Zero and Walking With Ghosts. His latest novel is The Chinese Girl.

On a Balinese island, in a private home of incredible luxury, Marcus Brand entertains his six godchildren. By the end of the weekend, secrets will be revealed that will change everybody's life, a climax to the web of lies and betrayals spun over the course of thirty years. The Godchildren... Charlie Crieff - the aristocratic Old Etonian, who's fascinated and enthralled by Marcus's wealth and who devotes his life to securing an inheritance; Mary Merrett - the daughter of one of Marcus's business colleagues, her life is blighted by tragedy; Jamie Temple - feckless but utterly charming, he drifts from one job to another, crossing Marcus's path just once too often for comfort; Saffron Weaver - delicate and sensitive as well as stunningly beautiful, she is unaware of her power of men - and of Marcus's power over her; Abigail Schwartzman - insecure and gauche, she is ripe for unhealthy obsessions; Stuart Bolton - the working class son of Marcus's dead chauffeur, he is torn between admirat ion and hatred for his supremely successful, capitalist godfather. Throughout their lives, the godchildren are irrevocably linked to Marcus Brand, one of the world's most charismatic tycoons. As they grow older, their relationships with Marcus and with each other become increasingly more complicated, until each of them must confront what it is to be a godchild to Marcus Brand

A team of surveyors working in the Shara happen upon an object buried deep in the rock. The object turns out to be a flying saucer and it is older than the rock it is buried in - 140,000 years old at least. Rip, a student working with the team is keen to find out as much about the flying saucer as possible. But so are many other people, including the US Military, a team working for a billionaire American businessman and s group of Arabs. Rip foils their attempts to commandeer the craft with the help of a disillusioned female pilot called Charley. Together they steal the saucer and Charley takes them both into orbit. Rip's plan is to take the saucer to his uncle's Missouri farm - but first he has to avoid being tracked down by everyone else. .

Robert Crais is back - with a massive new thriller and a new heroine: Detective Carol Starkey of the LAPD. Taking a break from Elvis Cole the hero of his eight bestselling novels was a deliberate step by Crais to push himself even further but once he started writing Demolition Angel, he found himself falling in love with his feisty new heroine. Carol Starkey is a bomb squad technician in the LAPD Bomb Squad, which as Crais tells us: 'is about the most macho, male world you can imagine. There aren't many female bomb techs. Carol Starkey was a bomb tech until she and her partner - who was also her lover - were caught in an explosion which killed her partner, and left Carol emotionally and physically scarred. As the book opens, it's three years later, and Carol is holding herself together with gin, cigarettes and Tagamet. She's coming apart at the seams when the most dangerous case of her career falls into her lap, threatening to finish the job started three years ago'
A seemingly innocuous bomb call turns, in a fingerclick, into a charred murder scene. Starkey catches the case and discovers an intent behind a series of explosions that is far more disturbing than one-shot acts of anarchy. Carol Starkey is facing the most intense and personal fight of her life; a fight that reaches back three years into her past.
Demolition Angel matches razor-sharp characterisation with stunning narrative velocity. It is sure to make Robert Crais one of the new megastar of American thriller fiction.

Robert Crais is the author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels. A native of Louisiana, he grew up in a blue collar family of oil refinery workers and police officers, and was trained as a mechanical engineer before pursuing his dream of becoming a writer. After years of amateur film-making and writing short fiction, he journeyed to Hollywood in 1976, where he quickly found work writing scripts for such major network television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. He also scripted numerous series pilots and movies-of- the-week for all four major networks and received an Emmy nomination for his work on Hill Street Blues. However, he is most proud of his 4 hour NBC miniseries, Cross of Fire, which the New York Times declared: 'A searing and Powerful documentation of the Ku Klux Klan's rise to national prominence in the '20s'.
In the mid-eighties, feeling constrained by the rigid working requirements of Hollywood, Crais created Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in order to deal with themes he could not readily explore on television. His major literary influences were Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald and Robert B Parker, among others.
Robert Crais was awarded the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original Novel in 1987 for The Monkey's Raincoat, which was also awarded the Macavity Award, Mystery Readers International and nominated for the Edgar Award and the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. He was awarded the Shamus Award for best novel in. 1996 for Sunset Express and was nominated for the Shamus Award best novel in 1998 for Indigo Slam and in 1992 for Lullaby Town, which was also nominated as best novel for the Anthony Awards.
Currently Crais lives in the Santa Monica mountains with his family, two cats and many thousands of books. When not writing, Robert Crais is an active pilot, gourmet cook and backpacker.

A powerful psychological crime thriller from rising young star Sarah Diamond - 'Gripping and unsettling - a real page-turner' Company.

At twenty-six, Rachel's got a beautiful flat, an outstanding career, the man of her dreams - and life's only getting better. But even those closest to her don't know how much she's overcome to get where she is now. Something almost destroyed her life, something she has told no one. But Rachel can't forget the long, hot summer fifteen years ago that sent her into a spiral of self-destruction. A summer filled with secrets known to only one other person - her childhood best friend Sophie. When Sophie comes back into her life unexpectedly, everything starts to slip. And long-hidden events from the past threaten to destroy all Rachel's struggled to achieve...

Sarah Diamond was born in 1976 and grew up in Weymouth before studying English Literature at Reading University. She now works as an advertising copywriter and lives in Brixton. She has written one previous novel, The Beach Road.

A dark, powerful novel set in the Louisiana bayous, from the author of The Covenant.

Maxwell Carter - a fingerprint analyst at the criminal justice facility in Clarksburg, West Virginia - was supplementing his income by running a very simple scam whereby positive fingerprint matches in old crimes could be conveniently 'ignored' in return for a small retainer. But then he caught a shark in his net - one that did not take too kindly to blackmail. Maxwell's illicit career - and his life - were swiftly and brutally ended... When Johnny Harrison is called in to investigate Maxwell's grisly murder he quickly unearths a connection to an old child-murder in the bayous of Louisiana and the close-knit fishing community that work the Mississippi. Deciding to go undercover on one of the old trawlers, he digs into this alien world and starts to realise that he has stumbled on to something both sordid and enormously powerful, something that dates ba