Liz Allen, bestselling author of Last to Know, draws on her first- hand knowledge of the Dublin underworld in a nail-biting thriller that pits a ruthless villain against a tough but vulnerable woman.

Number One disappears after a night out with her girlfriends.
Number Two disappears after working late at the office.
Number Three disappears after a business trip to New York.
Allthree were young, successful and beautiful.
The Dublin police are baffled, and call in Kate Waters, crime profiler, to give them a lead. Kate has a history with the chief detective on the case, Timmy Vaughan. As the investigation progresses, Kate and Vaughan realise they are dealing with some of Dublin's most vicious criminals - and that they seem to have an informer within their own ranks.

Liz Allen worked an several national newspapers in Dublin as their crime correspondent before she left journalism to become a full-time writer.

Detective Inspector Steve Madden doesn’t believe in clairvoyance. As far as he is concerned, the dead don’t speak to anyone.

Old childhood memories are stirred when jaded psychic Lavinia Roberts tells him that one of her clients is about to become a killer. But Steve Madden isn’t interested in crimes that haven’t been committed.
A few days later Lavinia Roberts is found brutally murdered. In front of her is a pack of tarot cards.
Did she foresee her own horrific demise?
Then the body of a child is found and everything points towards a ritual murder. Suddenly, Steve Madden’s Brighton is immersed in a hunt for a killer who has no boundaries in who, or how he slays.
How many innocents must die before someone is made to pay?

Glenn Chandler was born in Edinburgh and began writing for television with a commission from Scottish Television for a number of half hour dramas. He has also contributed to such memorable series as Angels and Crown Court, as well as writing two horror novels. He has ventured into true crime with Yorkshire TV's The Life and Crimes of William Palmer and A is for Acid, as well as writing for Granada's In Suspicious Circumstances. His full-length book, Burning Poison is the true account of an unsolved Liverpool murder case. He is best known, however, as the creator and writer of the award-winning and highly praised Taggart series for Scottish Television. He now lives in Hertfordshire.

John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a dozen chilling tales of the supernatural. In this macabre collection, echoing masters of the genre from M R James to Stephen King, Connolly delves into our darkest fears – lost lovers, missing children, subterranean creatures and predatory demons.

Framing the collection are two substantial novellas – The Cancer Cowboy Rides charts the fatal progress of a modern-day grim reaper, while The Reflecting Eye is a haunted house tale with a twist and marks the return of private detective Charlie Parker, the troubled hero of Connolly's crime novels. The perfect antidote to Christmas cheer, Nocturnes is a masterly volume to be read with the lights on - menace has never been so seductive . . .

John Connolly was born in Dublin in 1968 and is a regular contributor to the IRISH TIMES. His debut -Every Dead Thing - swiftly launched him right into the front rank of thriller writers. He is the first British writer to win the US Shamus award.

The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives.

A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. She is `blood' to the kilter Louis, the right-hand man of private detective Charlie Parker. As Louis vengeful search progresses, Parker realises that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. And men are not the only creatures that seek it ...

`Connolly creates those rarest of books - literate and beautifully written page-turners.' Mark Billingham Daily Mail

John Connolly's previous novels have been Sundav Times bestsellers. He lives in Dublin.

Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936. But with Prohibition over and the gang wars associated with it coming to an end, Schumann is finding less and less work. He is contracted for a hit. But this time, he's caught - and finds that he's been set up. He's taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given a choice: he can spend the rest of his life in jail, or he can help his country. He is to pose as a member of the 1936 Olympic team, travel to Berin, and kill a high-ranking Nazi close to Hitler. Schumann has bee picked because he's a second generation German-American and can speak the language fluently. Or at least that's what they lead him to believe...

Evan Delaney, the heroine with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper returns in the new thriller from Meg Gardiner.

Evan regrets accepting the invitation to her high school reunion before she has even walked through the door. But past miseries are nothing to the present horrors: a suspicious number of Evan's classmates have already died prematurely, and the morning after the reunion another is found, savagely butchered. There's a serial killer on the loose. One with a major axe to grind with China Lake High School graduates ...

`Great characters, dynamic plot, nail-biting action - Meg Gardiner gives us everything' Eliibeth George

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California, Meg Gardiner practised law in Los Angeles after graduating from Stanford Law School.

A new Lynley and Havers novel of psychological suspense from the bestselling author of A Place of Hiding.

When the Metropolitan Police fail to realize a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer's victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalized prejudice is claimed by the community's activists and tabloids alike. Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley is given the case, and his Scotland Yard task force is soon handling more killings and a looming tragedy.

`She writes extremely well, plots brilliantly and reaches an emotional level deeper than most' Author of the internationally bestselling Lynley mysteries, now adapted for television by the BBC, Elizabeth George divides her time between California and London.

When workers at a vast peat extraction site in the bleak and tortured landscape of the Irish midlands uncover a long-buried, badly damaged corpse, they call in pathologist Nora Gavin. The body has apparently been strangled, slashed and drowned – the ritual ‘triple death’ of Ireland’s blood-soaked pagan past.
But moments after Nora arrives a much more recent victim is discovered. Like the ancient body, this new corpse seems to have suffered the triple death . . .
Nora and her lover, archaeologist Cormac Maguire, must team up professionally once more. Soon they are enmeshed in a web of tangled desires and terrible secrets. The danger mounts, fuelled by rumours of ancient gold, illicit liaisons and long-delayed revenge.
Though they do not realise it, Nora and Cormac have come far too close to the truth – placing them in ever-greater danger of becoming a ruthless killer’s next victims.

Erin Hart has an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She and her husband, musician Paddy O’Brien, live in Minneapolis and frequently visit Ireland. Haunted Ground is her first novel.

From the best-selling author of Dead Sleep and Dark Matter comes a brilliant novel of shattering suspense and Southern- gothic drama.

Cat Ferry is a tough woman, but she's way out on the edge. Fighting a drink problem, haunted by the mysterious murder of her father, she's deep in a relationship with a married detective.
And now she's pregnant.

Deftly navigating the perilous waters between science and spirituality, Greg Iles has crafted an alarming, believable, and utterly consuming tale of good and evil, of destiny and choice. Greg Iles is the internationally best-selling author of eight highly acclaimed thrillers. He lives with his family in Natchez Mississippi, USA.

When half-Greek, half-Scots private investigator Alex Mavros is asked to trace a missing teenager, an immigrant of the former Soviet Union, he doesn't see any connection with the recent plague of violent killings afflicting Athens. As his search plunges him deep into the intricate network of underground crime, he is confronted by a wall of gang-inspired silence. One lead, however, takes him into a criminal organisation trading in illegal antiquites. As he follows the trail to the missing girl, he discovers that the present day killings have their roots in the brutal civil war. And that he has put himself in grave danger...

New York attorney Jennifer March is haunted by the mysterious and savage slaughter of her family on the same night that her father disappeared, never to be seen alive again. Two years on, his corpse is discovered frozen into a remote glacier in the Swiss Alps, the victim of a bizarre murder, and Jennifer sets out for Europe to find answers. It's a journey that's meant to unravel the frightening mystery of why her family was butchered, and to help uncover a dark secret at the heart of her father's past. But instead, Jennifer March finds herself running for her own life, as her investigation drews her into a ferrifying web of deceit, murder and betrayal, and a deadly conspiracy to hide an explosive secret.

One minute you're bending the rules. The next you're breaking the law.

Spin Patterson is the boss of Gulf-Tex Oil, self-made billionaire and legendary oilman. Max McLennon is his heir apparent and surrogate son. Max idolises him, but when Spin's problems develop Max has to choose between loyalty and justice. Could his idol have feet of clay - not to mention a deadly criminal streak?

`A master who truly knows how to thrill.' Tess Gerritsen

Stan Pottinger, who lives in the New York area, has had successful careers as a lawyer and an investment banker and has also written for a number of magazines, including The New York Times.

Atmospheric and suspenseful classic crime introducing a strong new protagonist to delight readers of Colin Dexter and Peter Robinson.

Vince's real name is Marty Hagen, a career criminal from New Jersey, given a new identity and a job working in a donut shop in a sleepy Northwest city by the Witness Protection Program. Since he testified against the hoods he used to run with, his rights have been restored - including his right to vote, something he's never done. For Vince--who has fallen in love with a beautiful and politically engaged customer in the shop --voting in the Presidential election becomes the most important thing in his life. America is at a point of change (who is this Ronald Regan?) and Vince begins to feel perhaps even a guy like him can change. Perhaps he can move beyond the credit-card scam he still operates, and start to contribute to society.
But while Vince is busy remaking himself, his past arrives in town in the form of a contract killer that he recognises from his old life. Has he come to kill Vince? Or was he hired by local gangsters, trying to muscle him out of his rackets?
With three days left until the election, Vince must duck crooks, cops (including a younger and fresher-looking Alan Dupree from Over Tumbled Graves) and an implacable killer, as he tries to figure out a way to save himself, and his dreams.
At once a suspenseful crime story, a moving love story and a superb evocation of time and place, Citizen Vince is a truly memorable novel from an acclaimed author.

Jess Walter is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Land Of The Blind and Over Tumbled Graves, which was a New York Times notable book for 2001. He is also the co-author on Christopher Darden's number one bestseller In Contempt and wrote the non-fiction book Every Knee Shall Bow. Walter lives in Spokane with his family.

Meet Charlie. An everyday bloke.
Good news is, he has a job.
Bad news is, it's in a photo kiosk.

He whiles away the hours with his rather eccentric colleague George. Customers come, customers go, and nothing much happens from one day to the next.
But appearances can be deceptive.
You see, there is one line of work where taking the world at face value can be very foolish indeed. Where trusting someone -- anyone -- is the most dangerous thing you can ever do.
The truth is, Charlie and George have not been very honest with each other.
The truth is, working in a photo kiosk isn't their number one career choice.
Their real jobs are a hell of a lot more dangerous.

When curiosity gets the better of both of them, it's time to come clean.
But the truth could very well kill them…

From the creator of [spooks] comes a thrilling tale of espionage, friendship and trust, where two unforgettable heroes stare down the barrel of the spy game -- and discover that it's not enough to expect the unexpected… you have to count on it.

David Wolstencroft was born in 1969. He grew up in Edinburgh but now lives in Los Angeles. He is the creator of SPOOKS, the BAFTA award-winning spy drama, produced by Kudos for BBC ONE. Good News, Bad News is his first novel.