For Davina Graham, the first female head of the SIS, a holiday in Venice is a rare chance to relax. But her happiness is short-lived. On the Grand Canal a top US diplomat is blown to pieces by a bomb – with no apparent motive. Then begins a chain of murders which seems to lead directly to Moscow . . . Yet Davina’s old adversary, KGB head Igor Borisov, is equally baffled.

Previous titles by Evelyn Anthony from Severn House include A Dubious Legacy, Sleeping with the Enemy, Codeword Janus, Betrayal and No Resistance.

Lady Rose Summer’s father calls in Captain Harry Cathcart to investigate his daughter’s fiancé. After a public and scandalous break-up, Rose attends a soirée for aristocratic women with dubious matrimonial prospects - where a guest is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Rose and Harry investigate, and find that danger is a lot easier to attract that an appropriate suitor.

Marion Chesney is a widely acclaimed author of historical romances and also writes the popular Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series under the name M. C. Beaton.

Traces of radiation are found on a half-dead Singapore pirate, plucked from the sea, causing Australian officials to call in Op-Center to carry out a top-secret investigation of nuclear disposal sites. They soon come to a terrifying conclusion: a multi-national corporation that has been hired to dispose of nuclear waste is selling it instead – to a most unlikely terrorist . . .

Previous titles in these series from Tom Clancy and Severn House include Ruthless.Com, Net Force, Shadow Watch, Hidden Agendas, Night Moves, Mission of Honor and State of War.

When Nick Hawkwood goes to Singapore to stay at the residence of James Wellnut, the new Defence Advisor, it isn’t long before he discovers the real reason behind his old friend’s invitation. Wellnut’s predecessor disappeared, and a body was never found. As Nick starts to investigate, he finds himself caught up in something more complex than they had anticipated. And then his former fiancée, Lara Scott, reappears . . .

Previous Severn House titles by this author include Forget the Glory and The Rice Dragon as well as her two RAF thrillers, Unsung Heroes and Flight to Anywhere.

An SIS operative is killed in a restaurant shootout in what police suspect is a gang robbery. But as British Council offices in Pakistan and then Russia are attacked by suicide bombers, it soon becomes apparent that there is a link between an apparently ordinary working lunch and world terrorism. Two money men are behind the terrorists, and Peter Ashton and his colleagues must find them and eliminate them.

Other Severn House titles by Clive Egleton include A Spy’s Ransom, Never Surrender and A Dying Fall.

It is 1945 and the end of war spells new problems for Otto Kruger and his fellow PoW officers at Grizedale Hall in the Lake District . Some, such as the V2 rocket scientist Eric Hoffmann have terrible secrets to conceal from the British or face the gallows. Mark Schiller, a partially blinded submarine pilot, has no desire to return home just yet, having learned about a pioneering eye surgeon in London.

James Follett’s books from Severn House include The Temple of the Winds trilogy and other Grizedale Hall books, A Cage of Eagles and A Forest of Eagles.

Rona Parish's last assignment, a series of articles on the town of Buckford , is almost complete, when a young woman approaches her with a request to help her trace her natural parents. Rona's curiosity is aroused – not least because she discovers that the woman's birth mother had been murdered in her bath twenty-five years earlier.

Other titles from Anthea Fraser from Severn House include Past Shadows, Fathers and Daughters, Brought to Book and, most recently, Jigsaw.

As bulldozers level uninhabitable terraced houses, making way for a new development in Brunton, a decaying arm appears among the debris, raised aloft to the heavens, as if beseeching justice. The arm had belonged to a squatter, and Inspector Peach tracks down her erstwhile companions, now a nun, a concert pianist and other, less savoury, characters. But he finds their memories are not easily stirred about that which they would rather forget.

Recent J. M. Gregson titles include Murder at the Lodge, Mortal Taste, The Wages of Sin and Just Desserts.

The author has also written best-selling series Brotherhood of War, Men at War, Badge of Honor and Honor Bound.

Recent titles by Duncan Harding from Severn House include Sink the Hood, Sink the Warspite, and Ramps Down, Troops Away!

Autumn 1942, and Churchill suggests to FDR that they send an all-American convoy to Russia to support the hard-pressed Soviet Union, instead of invading France. Despite having already been betrayed to the Germans, the plan goes ahead. Predictably, it all ends in disaster with only a handful of the fleet reaching Murmansk, and the US determined that they will run future military ops.

Detective Sally Bithron has been tipped off about a meeting in Cardiff , Wales , between two sets of drug pushers. But her stakeout goes wrong when violence and murder ensue. Three men are convicted, but a fourth, Frank Latimer, is freed because of Sally's evidence, or lack of it. Sally's superiors are convinced Frank was guilty. And so are the gang of South London criminals involved. Their code demands revenge, perhaps against Sally's informant, perhaps against Frank and Sally. And perhaps against all three . . .

Previous titles by Bill James from Severn House include Forget It, Double Jeopardy and Between Lives.

Life is hard, or so Alvarez judged before Maurice Rook set sail from Port Llueso in his luxury motor cruiser and disappeared – then it becomes very much harder. Noyes, working for an English firm of investigators, arrives on Majorca suspecting Rook did not die from accidental drowning, but has attempted to perpetrate an insurance fraud intended to recoup the money he lost in a proposed development in the south of the Peninsula .

The best-selling Inspector Alvarez series from Severn House includes Seeing is Deceiving, An Intriguing Murder and An Air of Murder.

They called themselves the Pact of Steel. They were Germany, Japan and Italy, and in 1941 they dreamed up an audacious plan to take over the world. They would drive from east to west to destroy the British Empire and then the United States. Finally, Soviet Russia would fall too, and the earth would belong to them. And it was all to start in Iraq . . .

Pretty young university students Rose and Poppy Matheson are keen golfers. One night Poppy is attacked on the footpath near the golf course and her sister, following behind, mistakenly kills the attacker while trying to rescue her twin. The girls cover up their crime by making it look like a car accident, but are overheard by another club member, Betty Russell, who wants to go to the police. As Inspector Govern and Sergeant Beck try to disprove the hit and run theory, first Betty, then her husband also disappear . . .

Previous titles by Claire Lorrimer from Severn House include Over My Dead Body and Deception.

Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have begun to disappear – including Acorna's lifemate, Aari. Searching for Aari, Acorna discovers the remains of the subterranean world of the Friends – an advanced society from before the time of the Ancestors. Where did the Friends go and why has so little remained of their society? To save Aari and the rest of the missing Linyaari Acorna must travel deep into space . . .

Acorna, Acorna's People, Acorna's World and Acorna's Quest, the first four titles in the Acorna series, are available from Severn House.

Trendy dance club The Underground is the hottest place in town. It's where, one night, uptight Paige Thorndyke meets a handsome stranger - and allows herself to be seduced. Twelve hours later she's dead - rushed to hospital displaying the classic symptoms of advanced scurvy. But why? The dead woman enjoyed a healthy lifestyle and diet, rich in vitamin C. When another young woman shows up dead, appearing to be suffering from an extreme case of beriberi, a disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin B, physician Terri Barnard determines to find out what's going on. As she's about to discover, the truth about the women's deaths is more bizarre, more shocking, more terrifying than she could ever have imagined ...

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The further Shirley Richards investigates the death of her grandfather in a plane crash in the Guyanese jungle during World War II, the more certain she becomes that he is still alive. Even though Tom O’Ryan agrees to accompany her there, he isn’t so certain, until the threats and the unexplained deaths start. And when they discover a cave behind the Kaieteur Falls , the gruesome discoveries really begin . . .

When the body of a Manchester drug dealer is found, it turns out that the dead man had been a CID informant for corrupt detectives. Then a high-profile trial of a Manchester gangster collapses in disarray, amid accusations of police misconduct, and DCI Henry Christie is thrust into a complex murder investigation which has far-reaching consequences for the police service . . .

Nick Oldham's previous novels for Severn House include Backlash, Substantial Threat and Dead Heat, also in the Henry Christie series.

Michael Pickup, a skilled but trouble-prone RAF pilot in the squadron which ferries agents and saboteurs in and out of Nazi-occupied Europe , finds himself despatched to neutral Sweden on an extraordinary political-warfare mission. He is to bring back two witnesses to the hideous crime that one day will be called the Holocaust, but in 1943 is little reported, and then seldom believed.

Philip Purser, TV critic of the - UK national Sunday Telegraph newspaper for twenty-six years, is the author of a number of novels.

After a near-fatal confrontation with a serial killer, irreverent reporter Alex Bernier is more than happy to cover a nice, dull story on the ongoing, hapless attempts to save a grand old theatre in Gabriel. But when the body of a long-vanished actress turns up in the wreckage and high-profile theatre supporters start dying off, Alex finds herself at odds with a strange troupe of suspects.

Other titles by this author include Distemper, The Fourth Wall, Bad Seed, Ecstasy and, from Severn House, Reliable Sources.

In Nazi-occupied France, the assassination of a new German commandant by Amalie de Gruchy sparks a crisis in both Nazi Germany and the British Secret Service. Supposedly killed in a raid a few months previously, Amalie is now being pursued by, amongst others, the head of the German secret police and the mysterious Joanna Jonnson, a spy with a murky past. But soon the Resistance finds itself with a much bigger problem as the Germans uncover British plans which, in the wrong hands, could change the course of the war . . .

Resistance and The Game of Treachery were the first two titles in this series.

In a terrible storm in the English Channel , Richard Mariner receives a Mayday signal. Plunging across the shipping lanes in his SuperCat, he saves most of the distressed crew from the deadly shoals of Wolf Rock, though the captain has already abandoned ship and is subsequently declared missing, presumed dead. But at the inquiry, Mariner – coincidentally a member of the wrecked ship’s board – is astonished to find himself charged with Corporate Killing.

Severn House has published Peter Tonkin’s Master of Destiny series and his Mariner series, which includes Thunder Bay and, most recently, Titan 10.

When Ronnie invites her friend and mentor Blackie Coogan to join her at the comeback concert of Match Margolis, the greatest tenor sax and jazz composer alive, she is not expecting a final performance. Much to the annoyance of Lieutenant Philly Post, Ronnie is retained by Sharon, Match’s flamboyant and younger second wife, and finds herself entwined with San Francisco ’s shady underworld as the mystery deepens.

Previous titles by Gloria White include Murder on the Run, Money to Burn, Charged with Guilt and Sunset and Santiago .