The dramatic true story of four climbers kidnapped by Islamic guerrillas in the mountains of Central Asia - and their daring escape. In August 2000, four young American climbers were shot at and held hostage by Islamic militants in the remote mountains of Kyrgyzstan; after six terrifying days, they made the difficult decision to kill their guard by pushing him off the mountain. When he fell from the cliff, they literally ran for their lives - eventually, after many dangerous encounters, they reached safety, exhausted and traumatised by their experiences. But it was not the end of the story; a year later the guerrilla they thought they had killed turned up alive... Greg Child, a leading mountaineering writer, has had full and exclusive access to the four climbers, three men and one woman, and much of their extraordinary story is told in their own words. The book looks set to become a classic of mountaineering adventure.

(A Wesley Peterson Murder Mystery)
Eighteenth century Chadleigh Hall in Devon (until recently used as a girls' boarding school) is being converted by Dominic Kilburn, its new owner, into a luxury hotel. But when his builders start work on a previously bricked-up room they make a grisly discovery - the skeleton of what looks to be a young woman tied to a chair. To DI Wesley Peterson and his boss Gerry Heffernan it looks as if some poor unfortunate soul has been walled up and left to die. Meanwhile Wesley's archaeologist friend Neil is investigating the ruins of a ship called the Celestina, wrecked in a nearby cove in 17772. The new owner of Chadleigh Hall, Dominic Kilburn, has legal rights to the wreck and is impatient to get his hands on her reputed cargo of gold. But then a woman's body is found floating in the sea by divers and Wesley has not one but two unexplained deaths on his hands...

In the village of Swifford Lea live the Webb sisters, two nonagenarians whose memories hold great value to the local University's Social History and Folklore department, and need to be tapped before it is too late. The best woman for the job is Dr Rhianna 'Anna' Summers but she is currently dealing with memories of her own. Having resigned from her post after the horrific death of her husband and child, Anna takes some persuading to take up another research post. However, the prospect of handing over the Webb sisters to an unscrupulous academic rival proves to be the spur Anna needs. The village is one of four Swiffords: Lea, Holt, Maisey and Fen, set on an isolated peninsula and largely untouched by tourism. Only Anna finds village life far from idyllic. On the very day she arrives a teenage girl in Swifford Maisey viciously attacks her family before turning her axe on herself. But this bloody act is merely the start of the trouble, as a spate of brutal - and seemingly random - murders strikes at the heart of village life, turning neighbour against neighbour and casting suspicion on incomer and local alike. For in this quiet English backwater evil lurks.

Shannon Flinders is a woman who has been to the edge and back. Discovering her father-in-law, a seemingly respectable pillar of the community, was actually a murdering paedophile, had driven her to take extreme measures in an effort to stop him. Though she's back working as a criminal lawyer, Shannon is still trying to put her bloody past behind her. She also wants to sort out her turbulent relationship with Finbar, the man she loves but can't trust. But things are never going to be that easy. New dangers threaten, like the vicious, shocking, apparently motiveless attack on a client. The villain with a sinister past and even more sinister present. And the victim who turns victimiser, with chilling results. Most of all, Shannon wants to forget what she had to do to save her life. But how can she? Especially as somebody thinks Shannon has got away with murder...and they're determined to reek revenge!

Phone calls that come in the middle of the night rarely herald good news as far as Charlie Fox is concerned. And this is no exception.
Summoned from her bed to deal with the latest incident on the Lavender Gardens Estate, she finds that a burglary attempt on one of her neighbours has gone horribly wrong...
Charlie's actions put her at odds with the ruthless private security force who have been called in to keep the peace. Matters are further complicated by the arrival of Sean Meyer, a spectre from her army past.

Praise for Killer Instinct:
'An exciting ... entertaining first novel' Sunday Telegraph
'one of the best crime debuts for years' Janice Young, Yorkshire Post