Tom Sullivan, about to graduate from Princeton, is haunted by the violent death of his father, an academic who devoted his life to one of the rarest, most complex books in the world. Coded in seven languages, the Hypnerotomachia Poliophili, an intricate mathematical mystery and a tale of love and arcane brutality, has baffled scholars since 1499. Tom's friend Paul is similarly obsessed and when a long-lost diary surfaces they finally seem to make a breakthrough. Only hours later, a fellow researcher is murdered and the two friends suddenly find themselves in great danger. Working desperately to expose the book's secret, they slowly uncover a Renaissance tale of passion and blood, a hidden crypt and a secret worth dying to protect...

It is the autumn of 330 BC, and three law cases are exciting Athens. Ergokles' case against the wealthy Orthoboulos for malicious wounding seems to come out well for the dignified man, but shortly afterwards he is found dead of poison, evidently hemlock. His second wife is accused of the crime, and her trial for poisoning sets Athens at odds, as sympathies divide. Her step- son is her greatest enemy, and seems sure that she has done the deed, but there are other candidates.
Meanwhile, the most beautiful woman in Athens, Phryne, is accused of impiety, a charge that can carry the death penalty. Stephanos, in treating himself to brother visits as she tries to recover not only from his wound but from having killed a man, gets close to danger, and his position as a witness could damage his prospects of marriage.
Misogyny, political wrath, and lack of judgment bring affairs to a boiling point, stimulating Aristotle to intervene lest the trial of the step-mother break Athens into fragments. He endeavours to solve the mystery with the help of Stephanos, and also with his assistant Theophrastos, who has made a special study of plants and thus of poisons...

Praise for Aristotle and Poetic Justice:
'ldyllic... violent... nostalgia for lovers of Greece... fun for classicists' Times Literary Supplement

The stained glass window in Penrose College is Augustus Penrose's legacy to the university he founded for the education of the daughters of the women who worked in his factory, the Rose Glass Works. Depicting his wife, Eugenie, as the Lady of Shalott, It's a mesmerising portrait that has come to embody the spirit of Ithe school itself.
But now, eighty years after it was created, the Lady Window is due for restoration. The task falls to former alumna Juno McKay, who's working alongside her friend, Christine Webb, an art historian who is researching the window for her thesis. Christine seems to have discovered some new evidence that points to Eugenie's sister, Clare, being the subject for the Lady in the Window. But this is controversial, and before Christine can expound on her idea to Juno, she's found dead in a boating accident that eerily echoes the fate of the Lady of Shalott. But did she drown, or was it something more sinister?
As Juno starts to make her own investigations into just how Christine died, she starts to learn more about Augustus Penrose and his family. The Lady Window was not the only thing the Penroses' bequeathed to the world. Madness and deception also form part of their legacy...

Fifteen years ago Susan Blacklock disappeared. Although Detective Inspector Frank Elder has taken early retirement, the case still plagues his mind. Prime suspects, Shane Donald and Alan McKeirnan, were convicted a year later of the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, and now that Shane has been granted parole, Elder feels compelled to revisit the past. Then Shane disappears and another young girl is murdered. Elder's involvement is now crucial. Taunted by postcards from the killer, an increasingly desperate Elder battles to keep his estranged family from being drawn into the very heart of the crime.

Newly married and disillusioned with his job in Bristol CID, DS Vic Hallam has been thinking of leaving it all behind for a quiet life fishing off the South Dorset coast. But lately, trouble has been brewing along the idyllic coastline, with drug abuse, gang fighting and street violence thriving. When the disembowelled body of a young woman is found in the race off Portland Bill, Sam Hallam, Vic's belligerent boss, has had enough. He dispatches Vic and his partner DC John Cromer on an undercover operation to infiltrate the seedy underbelly of Southern England's escalating drugs trade. A second brutal murder catapults the two headlong into one of the largest and most profitable drug runs in the South West. Pitted against the well-organised machine of greed, corruption and ruthlessness, Vic and John discover that the hunters can become the hunted - and soon their own lives are on the line...

The third novel in Pirie's critically acclaimed Conan Doyle cycle

An unputdownable debut in the bestselling tradition of Martina Cole and Catherine Cookson

Tempe Brennan has come to Montreal from Charlotte to testify as Ian expert witness at a trial. As Forensic Anthropologist for the province of Quebec, that's part of her job. Instead of going over her notes, however, she's freezing in the basement of a pizza parlour. Not fun. Not with all the rats. And the cold. And, now, the remains of three young women. When did they die? How did they get there?
Homicide detective Luc Claudel believes the bones are historic, and therefore, not his concern. Buttons from the nineteenth century have been found with the corpses, an indicator of the bones' probable age. But something doesn't make sense. Tempe will do Carbon 14 testing to establish approximate age. And she can analyse the tooth enamel to tell approximately where the women were born. If she's right, Claudel has three recent murders on his hands. Definitely his case.
Detective Andrew Ryan, meanwhile, is acting mysteriously. What are those private phone calls he takes, and why does he suddenly disappear just when Tempe is beginning to trust him and to hope he might be part of her life?
As Tempe searches for answers in both her personal and professional lives, she finds herself drawn deeper into a web of evil from which there may be no escape. Women have disappeared, never to return...Tempe may be next.

The greatest threat to the Western world comes not in the form of a bomb, nor a missile, but in the shape of a mega-Tsunami. There is one place where such a geophysical catastrophe could begin, the volcano Cumbre Vieja, situated on the southwest corner of La Palma in the Canary Islands. Surrounded deep underground by a marine cold-water lake, a nuclear bomb strategically aimed in the centre of Cumbre Vieja will set off a chain of events that will cause the entire mountain to explode into the sea, giving rise to the biggest tidal wave for 4000 years. Nine hours later the 150-foot wave will hit the United States Eastern Coast flooding it for twelve miles inland from Maine to Miami.
The single most dangerous weapon that the middle eastern terrorists possess is a nuclear submarine armed with the submerged launch nuclear missile Sdmitar, aimed to detonate bang in the middle of the volcano.
First the terrorists blow up Mt St Helens in Washington State, and then Monserrat, to prove they know what they're doing. The Pentagon refuse to buckle under a terrorist demand for the US military to evacuate the Middle East. The retired Admiral Arnold Morgan is swept to power, and is back in the White House. Under his leadership, the US Navy must either find the nuclear submarine in a million square miles of Atlantic water or begin the logistically nightmarish evacuation of the entire US East Coast.

Patrick Robinson was a journalist before becoming a full-time writer, His six previous novels have been bestsellers in Britain and America.

C was for cars which he’d nicked and crashed, R was for robbery, armed and fast, A was for arson, fire and theft, Z was for the cuts his switchblade left, E was for drugs, the Whizz and Horse, which just left murder, the hardest, of course.
She was found on the tracks: burned up, tongue cut out, a finger removed.
Who was she?
24 hours before Shazia Ahmed was leaving Manchester, but a chance meeting and a phone call and she found herself in the underworld where life is cheap and usually very short.
Jamie Farrell already knows this truth: that the drugs and crime will tip over into murder. His father’s in Strangeways and he’ll be joining him. But he can’t give up the deadly game that is the Craze.
Dru Round thought his big day had come: no more cheap drag acts and furtive sex in the backs of cars. A new dawn of TV fame beckoned. But he just needed that extra score to make things work for him...
Three lives - one crime - the Craze

Paul Southern was a founder member of the indie group Sexus and is now half of progressive bubblegum group Psychodelicates. he has lived in Ireland, London, Yorkshire and Manchester and is the world's only living expert on Tennyson's stage plays. This is his first novel.