Stella, Kate, and Victoria are childhood friends reunited after many years, but despite having lost touch, their lives have become intertwined in a way none of them could have imagined. Soon, a tale of two cities - London and Paris - begins to unwind and shatter the peace of the local community.

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“Egleton’s espionage thrillers are like single-malt whiskey: smooth, smoky and rich . . . delicious”. Publishers Weekly

A plot to assassinate Hitler fails on the same day that Major-General Paul Heinrich Gerhardt disappears from Germany and Colonel Hasso Jurgens put a gun to this head and pulls the trigger. By committing suicide, Jurgens inadvertently points an accusatory finger at Gerhardt and sets in motion a remarkable chain of events.

If there is one thing the young golfer Lee Ofsted doesn't have on her mind, it is the chances of being selected for the Stewart Cup Tournament - the competition that pits the greatest American golfers against their European counterparts. So it comes as a surprise when the captain of the American team asks her to play.

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When young archaeologist Maddy Crowe is drafted in to work as costume advisor on a major feature film about a Roman emperor, she soon finds herself in the bitchy, backbiting company of Hollywood actors - and a long way from her normal, comparatively safe world of academia. A London party for the movie's researchers is interrupted by an unknown writer who claims that the director stole his plot, and twenty minutes later a shot is fired through the restaurant window, wounding both the special effects man and the historian who scripted the film. The writer inevitably becomes the prime suspect, but his wife immediately implores Maddy to help. Maddy has her own doubts that the historian was even the intended target of the shooting, and so embarks on an investigation in an attempt to clear the writer's name. What she discovers is a tale of longheld grudges, bitter rivalry, massive egos, and dangerously ambitious people that could itself be the basis of a Hollywood movie.

Camellia Park Golf Club had completed its first ten years and its owner, Patrick Nayland, felt it was time to splash out. Determined to give his employees a good time, he booked the entirety of Soutters Restaurant. A riotous evening was had by all. In fact they were making so much noise, the screams from the lavatory could easily have gone unnoticed. Chief Superintendent Lambert usually finds that the more enemies a murder victim has, the harder it is to decide who has more motive than anyone else. This victim was at the opposite, even trickier, end of the spectrum: popular with absolutely everyone.

Right place, right time
Hallelujah Brown - named after her Jamaican grand- mother - grows up with the army, and develops an inti- mate understanding of its ways, as well as a thick skin. Crisis threatens a British military post in the African state of Maveria, and Hallelujah is forced to lead the defence. Faced not just with superior numbers, but also with the hurdles the army itself presents, can Hallelujah win through?

Previous novels by Gerald Hammond include Flamescape, Fine Tune, Running Jump, Into the Blue, Grail for Sale, Down the Garden Path and The Hitch.

“The amiable Rook is fun to follow”. Publishers Weekly on The Swimmer

A spate of unexplained fires spreads across Los Angeles, killing indiscriminately, tearing up the city, destroying people's faith. There seems no probable cause for the fires - arson and murder are not suspected - but surely they can't have been started by something as fanciful as spontaneous combustion. Can they?

Although now happily married and a doting father, Lennox Kemp is still unable to resist the lure of a mystery. Going through the affairs of the late Dr Ayres, his curiosity is aroused by a cache of letters and diaries referring to a twenty-year-old murder case which - because of the untimely death of the chief suspect - never came to trial. At the same time, and in apparently unconnected circumstances, Kemp is re-introduced at a dinner party to one Lettice Warrender; an old flame of sorts, and scion of a well-known local family. As Kemp pursues his independent inquiries into the horrible murder of little Rickie Fenwick, very much against the better judgement of his wife Mary, he is caught up matters far removed - and far more deadly - than the bread-and-butter of the average provincial solicitor...

Kate Carpenter, the front-of-house manager of Calgary's largest theatre company, has just returned from a well-earned vacation after the murder of a patron in her theatre's lobby and the mayhem of the ensuing investigation left her more than a little stressed. She had been looking forward to a return to normality - working at the theatre, adjusting to her new life with her boyfriend, Cam, and planning a surprise birthday party for her chief usher, Graham. Nothing more exciting than that. Instead, what she gets is a flooded concert hall that results in a huge piano competition being moved to her theatre. From there, the appearance of her old college boyfriend - along with his wife and daughter - followed by a surprise visit from her mother and a dead body hanging from the second balcony of her theatre can only mean more problems for Kate. Trying to juggle friends and family, past and present, Kate unwittingly embarks on another murder investigation, which leaves her with a clearer picture of her future - and of who is most important to her now.

When Dodie Fanshaw went to stay with her daughter, Elena, in Markenlea, she had been expecting a peaceful, sedate village on the banks of the River Thames. But then a mermaid clambers out of the river and into Elena's garden. Well, not a mermaid exactly - a mysterious, sopping-wet girl. Bizarre and intriguing though she is, it's only when Dodie and Elena call on Elena's neighbour, best-selling novelist Rick Wilbraham, that the real story unfolds. There they find Anna, Rick's girlfriend, hysterically clinging on to Rick's lifeless body. Soon Rick's pleasant riverside garden fills up with his neighbours, exlovers, his publisher and agent and Dodie can't help herself getting involved in this close-knit village. A cosy puzzle, but what genre is the motive? It could be Romance, might be Mystery. And the mermaid? Well, that's just pure Fantasy...

With the help of Paco Ruiz - a former policeman living in disgrace since the Spanish Civil War - Woodend embarks on an unofficial investigation which provides more questions than answers. The roots of the case stretch back 30 years and if he is ever to solve it, he must confront history itself.

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When the King of Histri invites Claudia to visit, she assumes it's connected to her role as a merchant of fine wines. How wrong can she be? And, before long, all manner of assumptions are proved false. Histria is a paradise of rolling vineyards, olive groves and golden beaches lapped by the velvety-warm Adriatic - but the more Claudia learns about Histrian society, the more deeply involved she becomes in the tragedy unfolding within it. Did genuine accidents befall the King's family? Or were their deaths caused, as she suspects, by something more sinister? Worse, why does no one believe her when she tells them she witnessed a murder?