Didius Falco series is a tale of scandal, piracy and deception. In the wealthy town of Ostia, our hero Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when his girlfriend, Helena, arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette - with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal - Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there...
'lnfamia', the pen name of the scribe who writes the gossip column for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing. His fellow scribes have employed Falco to find him and bring him back from his lazy, drunken truancy However, Falco suspects that there is more to his absence than might first appear.
Before long, Falco's enquiries lead him into the world of piracy and the discovery of criminal traditions long believed dead. Is this the right path towards finding 'lnfamia'? Why would pirates have taken him? And if they have, will he be found alive?

'Modern, exciting and plausible' Sunday Times
'As always, Davis weaves a plot full of humour, surprises and domestic irony' Times Literary Supplement

When Dot McCann, playing relievio with her pals, decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's almost empty dustbin, she overhears a conversation which could send one man to prison and the other to the gallows - and suddenly finds herself in possession of stolen goods. Dot lives with her aunt and uncle, the cuckoo in the nest, abandoned to these relatives when her parents die. She knows she is unwanted but this teaches her independence so, when she realises one of the thieves suspects her, has no hesitation in leaving her aunt's home to fend for herself. She tells no one her secret until she meets up with Corky, who has run away from a London orphan asylum. The two join forces and are befriended by Alby, who owns a canal boat. This is fortunate because Dot soon realises they are being followed...
Set in Liverpool in the 1920s/1930s The Cuckoo Child is vintage Katie Flynn.

Robert Harris's international bestseller has now been made into a major BBC film starring Daniel Craig.

Her father tore the family apart. She's desperate to break the bonds of fate...Lisa O'Donnell's has returned to a life of luxury in London. Living under a false name, she has taken a respectable job in the City with the help of Jason Carter. But, through him, she becomes drawn into the shady underworld of the East End - the world of her gangster father and his notorious enemies. When she starts up a stable of female door staff working the clubs, she is drawn in even deeper - the clubs are owned by the infamous Kesslers, the O'Donnell's deadliest enemies. The Kesslers have no idea who Lisa is but when their drug profits start disappearing, they begin to suspect that something is wrong and they turn on her. They discover she is an O'Donnell - could anything be worse? But then they realise that she might be innocent, and, right now, it is Jason Carter they have to stop. Later they'll be dealing with her...

Disgraced former Beijing Inspector Shan Tao Yun has been living in the remote mountains of Tibet since his unofficial release from a work camp. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, he's lived with the forbidden lamas for the past year. But now there's apparently been a murder in a ruined monastery and the very officials who exiled Shan are after his help. In a baffling case involving the FBI, Chinese Ministers, and British relief workers, Shan travels from Tibet to Beijing to the U.S. to find the links between murder, missing art, his former gulag, and his own long-unseen son.

The most compelling novel yet from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Skull Mantra.

Eliot Pattison's numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published on three continents. He is a world traveller and frequent visitor to China. The Skull Mantra, his first work of fiction, won the Edgar Award for best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Beautiful Ghosts is Pattison's fourth novel featuring former Beijing Investigator, Shan Tao Yun.