'You must watch your back most carefully when someone you trust steps behind you...'
Hugh Freyl is a blind lawyer, scion of Illinois' most influential family. He recounts this story from the grave. David Marion is Freyl's protege and a young convicted killer whose release from prison Freyl has orchestrated.
He now stands accused of Hugh Freyl's murder.
None from Freyl's powerful inner circle will stand up for David's innocence. The perfect scapegoat for their misdoings, he alone bears the burden of proof.
Revealing the inner-workings of an untouchable elite with all their tricks, entitlements and intricate financial schemes, Brady shows us a place that could be any small American city - a place where innocence can backfire and where fear is the only effective weapon against a corrupt government.
An extraordinarily gripping and suspenseful novel set in the state capital of Illinois, Joan Brady's web of financial conspiracy and political corruption will rank her alongside Le Carre and Turow as the very best of contemporary thriller writers.

It's Only A Movie is as close to an autobiography by Alfred Hitchcock that you could ever have. Drawn from years of interviews with her subject, his friends and the actors who worked with him on such classics as THE BIRDS, PSYCHO and REAR VIEW WINDOW, Charlotte Chandler has created a rich, complex, affectionate and honest picture of the man and his milieu. This is Hitchcock in his own voice and through the eyes of those who knew him better than anyone could.

Mexico, 1517. Yaotl, the Aztec Chief Minister's slave, is looking for his son. Others are searching too. Lord Feathered-in-Black, Yaotl's all-powerful master, wants vengeance on the boy for duping him, and Yaotl is desperate to get to his son first. But it's soon apparent that other quests are caught up with Yaotl's. Kindly, the father of his former lover, has lost some valuable property which he wants Yaotl to help him recover. A master feather worker is searching for his missing daughter. Yaotl manages to evade his master's bloodthirsty warriors, only to stumble upon a dismembered, unrecognisable corpse. Finding out who the dead man was and how he died will provide the key to Yaotl's search for his son, and to Kindly's and the feather worker's searches too. For everything is linked to an affair of greed, jealousy and lust among the ancient, secretive society of the feather workers, the Aztec's foremost craftsmen. As he gets closer to solving the mystery, Yaotl will need his wits about him simply to stay alive - for Lord Feathered-in-Black and his henchmen are never far away.

1992: A seasoned captain in the Parachute Regiment and ex-SAS officer, 44-year-old Jeff Hawkins is summoned to Bosnia, where he is assigned to keep the UN aid convoys running at all costs. But Hawkins soon realises he's been pitched into a task far more complex and dangerous than he ever imagined. His new Company commander isn't up to the job; his colleague in Liaison is tied up with the British Secret Service and running his own agenda; the uneasy alliance of local Muslims and Croats against the Serbs is about to break down with the arrival of Islamic fundamentalist fighters from Afghanistan. Then there's the small matter of mercenaries for hire and the CIA stirring the pot for their own ends. Only the arrival of the winter snow in the rugged mountains of Bosnia brings a welcome lull to the mayhem. But it also brings another huge problem: it is vital that one massive convoy runs the gauntlet of the fighting along the icy mountain roads, breaking the siege of Sarajevo with vital provisions and medical supplies before Christmas. And that it makes the return trip, bringing orphans, the sick and elderly back to safety. Defying all odds, the twin-air horns of a hundred trucks blast defiantly as their giant wheels begin to roll on a journey to hell and back ...