From the Author
Couples Who Kill profiles twenty six British and American murderers, many of them serial killers. Each profile explores the killer's background, the relationship with their co-killer, the homicides, and what has happened since the trial.
There are also fifteen case studies in themed chapters such as British Couples Who Kill Children and Bizarre Couples Who Kill, the latter including cases from Germany, Mexico and France.
Several of the couples were sadistic lovers, others were friends or close relatives. Yet even those who swore undying love had often turned on each other by the time they went to trial.
Because couples who kill are often lust murderers, the victims were mainly in their teens or early twenties. But there are exceptions - the oldest victim was seventy seven, the youngest only a few minutes old.
Though the cases are harrowing, there is occasionally hope: one teenage killer, hugely influenced by his much more damaged girlfriend, has studied psychology in prison for many years now, apparently understands his earlier pathology and genuinely seems to have turned his life around.
Once again I'm grateful to the authority figures I consulted, including a man who met serial killer Charles Ng and a woman who was abducted by Rose & Fred West. I also interviewed a crime writer who'd co-authored a book with a Home Office pathologist who autopsied one of the victims of a particularly vicious and largely forgotten British triple killer.
In the third of this series, which focuses on the psychology of murderers, Carol Anne Davis explores the formative influences of these killers and their deadly dynamics. Comprising of thirteen in-depth case studies and exclusive interviews with experts and one of the Wests' surviving victims, Couples Who Kill provides an unequalled study of this disturbing subject.

Since his retirement from the Navajo Tribal Police, Joe Leaphorn has occasionally been enticed to return to work by his former colleagues, who seek his help in solving a particularly puzzling crime. They ask because Leaphorn, aided by Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, always delivers.
But this time the problem is with an old case of Joe's - his `last case', which went unsolved and continues to haunt him. And with Chee and Bernie just back from their honeymoon, Leaphorn is pretty much on his own. The original case involved a priceless Navajo rug that went missing. Now, years later, Leaphorn is picking up the threads of a crime he'd thought impossible to solve.

New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman is on top form in this atmospheric and riveting novel, set amid the rugged beauty of his beloved Southwest.

Foreword by Dick Francis

A real coup! Includes the first short story Len Deighton has written in over 30 years

Also features a story by the HRF Keating himself (sneakily provided by Keating's wife, without his knowledge)

A must for any fan of mystery fiction, this exemplary collection will test the sharpest wits and keep you reading till dawn!

The Detection Club has always counted the creme de la creme of crime fiction within its ranks; previous Presidents have included Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and GK Chesterton. HRF Heating was a former president.

Sam Carew, an ex-cop-cum-brickie, is starting working in the family firm with his father. All is going well until his father is found dead on the building site, one of their employees caught red-handed at the scene. However, Sam is not so sure that the right man has been caught and decides to do some investigating of his own.

In the rundown northern town of Unsworth, the only thing the locals can celebrate is a victory by Unsworth Town FC. Sam Carew, an ex-cop-cum-brickie, is starting work in the family firm with his father, Ernest. All is going well until Sam’s father is found dead on the building site, one of their employees caught red-handed at the scene.

The police, under the critical eye of DI Bowman, are convinced that this is an open and shut case. Struggling to overcome the death of his father, Sam becomes increasingly sceptical that they have the right suspect and decides to do some private investigating of his own. But when his leads begin to evaporate and his private life collapses around him, Sam finds himself drawn inexorably deeper into a dangerous, seedy underworld he never realised existed...

The first in a series, Mad Carew is a gripping debut crime novel by acclaimed saga-writer Ken McCoy.

On the beach, west of Kings Lynn – a dog discovers the shallow graves of ‘eight bodies, all male, all young, all identifying papers removed’. All had suffocated to death and been hastily dragged through the mud to their temporary graves. An unfortunate fate for the asylum seekers identified by their clothing as being from the former Yugoslavia.
When Jules Carlisle of Paul Jenkins Solicitors takes on the case of Minko Dragunoviç, an illegal immigrant who arrives in great distress claiming his brother is one of the eight found dead, she is thrown into a case that leaves her feeling out of her depth.
Minko absconded on a Home Office scheme while being hired as cheap labour on a farm in Norfolk. Reluctant to give personal details due to his illegal citizen status – Minko has knowledge of the human traffic operation that was bringing his brother to the UK. Jules is torn between helping this man who defected for love, and following the correct procedure in keeping with MI5.

This work includes three novels: "One Lonely Night"; "The Big Kill"; and, "Kiss Me, Deadly".

This work includes three novels: "I, The Jury"; "My Gun Is Quick"; and, "Vengeance Is Mine".

The case of the Ainsworth abduction
The case of the Boulevard Assassin
The case of the Wimbledon tragedy
The case of the Ferrers documents
The case of the Vatican cameos
The case of the Camberwell deception
The case of the Barton Wood murder

'the best pastiches ever written' Birmingham Post
'The detection is properly detailed and convincing ... a thoroughly entertaining set of puzzles in their own right. G S Stewart, Sherlock Holmes Society of London
'...what student of the great man could resist them?' Jay Iliff, Sunday Times
'A loud cheer for June Thomson' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

June Thomson, a former teacher, has published 23 crime novels, 18 of which feature her series detective, Inspector Jack Pinch and his sergeant, Tom Boyce. She has also written 4 collections of pastiches of Holmes' short stories and a biography of Holmes and Watson. Her books have been published in the United States as well as appearing in translation in France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Russia and Japan. She was listed in H R F Keating's Crime and Mystery. The 100 Best Books.