Someone is trying to kill property tycoon Ed Vincent: someone so ruthless and determined that he nearly succeeded. As Vincent hovers between life and death in a New York hospital, Detective Marco Camelio chases after the only clue he has, the whispered name "Zelda". And unexpectedly, finds himself the best of helpers.
Behind the whispered name lies Melba Eloise Merrydew, the prettiest truckdriver in America: an unconventional, beautiful, determined single mother and the only woman who has ever managed to sweep Vincent off his feet. Mel Merrydew met Ed Vincent the last time the assassin came after him - and despite his obsessive secrecy, she knows just enough to unmask the killer before his third, perhaps fatal attempt.
But the assassin has seen Mel - and is closer than she thinks. As Mel and Marco journey from New York to Tennessee and South Carolina in search of Ed Vincent's hidden past, the danger follows them, leading to near-tragedy in California and finally, an explosive confrontation in New York.
In a Heartbeat is Elizabeth Adler at her brilliant best: wonderfully described locations, both familiar and exotic; brilliantly original characters; an unforgettable story.

A baby is found abandoned in a vicarage porch. Hours later, intrepid explorer Con Bartram is fatally stabbed in the same Wiltshire village. Elizabeth Blair is hired to prove Bartram's son did not do away with his father, and finds herself facing a dangerous crisis.

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Detective Sergeant Kate Power is settling into her new life, and growing closer to her colleagues in the CID. But what seemed like a straightforward series of arson attacks results in the death of a vagrant and he murder is taking up Kate's professional time. Once the case is removed from Kate's capable hands, a quiet tennis lesson is interrupted by the discovery of a women's body in the tennis centre's showers. Her death appears to be from natural causes, but Kate suspects otherwise. Although it's not her case, and the DI in charge does not welcome her contribution, Kate soon finds that she isn't able to remain uninvolved.
As she was bonding with her squad in Birmingham's CID, Kate finds herself transferred to a new elite team much, however, against the will of the DI in charge. It's not long before she's suspended. And Kate finds herself fighting more than the obvious criminals.

Praise for Power Games:
"In the genre of female crime fighters, Cutler's Kate Power series is a tour de force." The Good Book Guide
"Another top page-turner with an ending that promises more to come in the life of the strong-willed but long-suffering Kate." Nuneaton Evening Telegraph

When a woman is found strangled on a torture rack in the basement of her fashionable Highgate home, DI Madeleine Fox's squad is called in to investigate the murder. On the face of it a bizarre but straightforward case.
Or is it?
Sometimes the truth has a dark underbelly, and Operation Dark Lady uncovers a host of twisted dreams. But Fox, the only woman on the squad, is haunted by dark visions of her own and the nightmares dog her tracks on Dark Lady.
The investigation charts a descent into London's S&M underworld, the murky politics of Freemasonry and heavyweight Westminster identities. By the time the file is closed, five people are dead, untold more lives irretrievably ruined, and Fox has learned more about the insidious certainty of evil than she ever wanted to know.

The Certainty of Doing Evil is a riveting tale exploring the dark and dangerous world of London's underbelly. Satisfyingly clever, it is a brilliant sociological thriller.

An observation balloon above the biggest football game of the season contains an enormous fragmentation bomb. The FBI and Mossad know that something is planned but not where or when, and time is running out.

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24 hours to live or die for a threatened family...
The cold mind and the perfect crime ...
So what could go wrong?

Hickey has been practicing kidnap for a number of years. So far he has got away with it - and no one has been hurt ... at least not physically. Of course, the mental scars remain with his victims and the threat of his return has kept them quiet. Hickey reckons that all this practice has made him perfect, and he and the team are ready to go for his ultimate target.

There is a flaw to this plan, however, and it is a very human one. Hickey simply had not reckoned on Will Jennings and his family fighting back. So when Huey takes little Abby and vanishes, and Hickey and his girl separate Will from his wife, the Jennings find themselves fighting to regain each other in more ways than one.

As with his most recent novel, The Quiet Game, Greg Iles draws his characters with a fine pen, and from the lumbering, simple Huey, the cold, heartless Hickey and the desperate but strong mother, Karen, he gives us people who conduct a twenty four hour battle of wills and intelligence that is riveting from the word go. How the small family cope each in their own way with the desperate situation, how their faith in each other keeps them hoping, and how fury and determination, coupled with recklessness means there is no giving in.

What do you do when you overhear a murder taking place? You call the police. But what happens if the police cannot find the body, and the murderer decides to silence you? Permanently.

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Three hot days in a row and Edinburgh is going a little crazy. Taking a short cut through a tough housing scheme, Detective Inspector Jim Meldrum finds himself caught up in an ambush of firemen set up by a mob of twelve-year-olds. As a result, he arrives at a murder scene with a lump gouged out of his skull and mild concussion.
Things aren't helped when the beautiful redheaded woman in evening dress, found stabbed to death in an upstairs bedroom, is identified as well-connected city businessman Brian Ashton. Even with a brooding headache and a bad case of double vision, Meldrum can see trouble ahead. And that's before he meets the victim's redheaded widow.
Helped by local academic and crime profiler Henry Stanley, Meldrum begins to unravel the bizarre secrets surrounding more than one sudden death. Gradually, as the hot summer days pass, he is moved inexorably to a solution that will alter his life.

In Death Knock, the fourth darkly compelling thriller to feature the Edinburgh detective, Jim Meldrum tackles his most disturbing case to date.

President Tyler Forrest was widely trusted and deeply believed in, but on the eve of his funeral, his personal quarters are robbed by a burglar who then blows himself up. When the last man to contact Tyler before his death is also killed, the First Lady must find out what is really going on.

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Jenny is the high-profile managing director of a London publishing company, a streetwise businesswoman wit a passion for alternative therapies and ill-advised affairs. Within hours of meeting the intriguing, French American Marc at a party, she's involved in an intoxicating sexual fling and, just a few days later, she impulsively accompanies him to his family home in France.
In a magnificent old house on the coast of Brittany, Jenny's blissful adventure begins to darken. She can tell that Marc is hiding something, and the mysterious meeting with a rude Frenchman and a terrifying sailing trip only deepen her suspicions. Then, on the way home from a perfect evening, Marc simply disappears.
Jenny returns to London alone, where she throws herself into her latest publishing coup - her grandmother's startling wartime memoirs. But her missing lover and memories of the spectacular sex continue to haunt her. Where is he and why did he abandon her? Why does she get the uncanny feeling that she's being watched? Is she just being paranoid or has someone broken into her apartment? Jenny's determination to uncover the answers leads her in a puzzling and increasingly dangerous trail from London to New York and back to Brittany, towards a horrifying revelation that threatens her life.