Karen Perry - Mondori, "a lawyer you can love" (Nelson DeMille), finds herself embroiled in a shocking and intriguing case in this gripping new legal thriller.
Following the emotional intensity of defending her own nephew, first rate criminal defence attorney Karen Perry Mondori looks forward to what appears to be a more straightforward case. Herman "The Professor" Gaylord, an elderly homeless man is found with the dead body of a fellow tramp. The police jump to the worst conclusions - robbery and murder.
An apparently simple case takes a bizarre turn when an LA lawyer arrives claiming to be the victim's son, but offering to pay for Gaylord's defence. Two separate autopsies bring in conflicting results about his health prior to death. Curious, Karen investigates further and soon realises that the events she is dealing with are far from straight forward".

"A fast-paced, slickly told story, with a 1990s heroine who manages to stay a step ahead of the opposition inside and outside the court" Sunday Telegraph
"Attorney-turned-author Arnold clearly knows what elements are necessaryfor a good legal thriller" Publishers Weekly

Heralded as an author with great promise, John Connolly burst onto the international literary scene in 1999 with the publication of Every Dead Thing. In this country the book went straight onto the Sunday Times bestseller list in both hardcover and paperback. In Ireland the book was also a bestseller and the American's, who bought it for $I million, published to massive critical acclaim.
The question always asked is can an author produce a second novel to match the first?
John Connolly answers that question in the affirmative with Dark Hollow. Connolly has refined his already apparent skills, concentrated his plot line, developed his leading characters and created a villain whose menace is well equal to the awesome Travelling Man in Everydead Thing.
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'There are themes that run through Dark Hollow - the fear of dark things living in the forest, the lost son, the quest - which all come from a completely different, fairy-tale tradition. I wanted to give the whole book a very sinister feel, rather than just a gruesome one.
'There are also lots of images of predatory nature and the cycles of the seasons: I wanted all of those things to tie in together and reflect back on the main plots of the book.' John Connolly in The Bookseller

New York City is thrown into uproar by the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims by leaving obscure clues. Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics guru left a quadriplegic after an accident on the job, reluctantly postpones his dream of ending his life and digs deep into the only world he has left - his astonishing mind. Slowly he begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose - around Lincoln Rhyme.

The sixth Eddathorpe mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Robert Graham takes him to Nottingham: a city well known to his creator, a police officer with the Nottinghamshire Constabulary for many years.

Someone is blackmailing a local supermarket chain. And getting away with it, thank to a very clever payoff method involving hole-in-the-wall bank machines and a bit of glaring police incompetence. When the blackmailers descend on Eddathorpe Robert Graham is called in. He thinks it is an inside job - and sets out to prove it.
He doesn't know the case is going to escalate from fraud to murder. And that its unravelling could change his life...
Once again, sleepy, seedy Eddathorpe hides its secrets well - and once again, East Anglia's magnet for murder, Robert Graham, teases them out with his own unique combination of solid policework and brilliant intuition.

A near-future epic of global conflict from the author of Protect and Defend.

Prize winning novelist Elizabeth Ironside sets her latest novel in the French countryside around Bergerac in the last few weeks of World War 11. Theo de Cazalle has spent the war in Blitz darkened London. He arrives home unannounced at his farm of Bonnemort; eager for a reunion with his much loved wife Ariane and is shocked to find her a stranger to him with a shaven head. She has been denounced as a collaborator, the lover of an SS officer who has been found murdered - naked, and his throat cut - outside Cazalle's house.
Cazalle is compelled to uncover the truth about the death of the German, the humiliation of his wife, the devastation of his tiny rural community.

Elizabeth Ironside has won the John Creasey Prize and has been shortlisted for the Betty Trask Award and the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. She is married to a British diplomat, and has lived in New Delhi, Paris, Moscow and Tel Aviv. For the last fifteen years I have owned a house in south-westem France.

When the multi-billion-pound takeover of Provident Bank is announced, star equities dealer Greg Schneider has reason to celebrate. He's just bought a million soaring Provident shares and others wonder how he does it. An LSE investigator begins his work. A leading research analyst speaks her mind to the media. A finance director celebrates with a visit to a discreet Docklands townhouse. A lucrative yet bizarre lifestyle is suddenly in jeopardy.
Six days later, a Detective Inspector finds a bloated body in the River Thames and, unaware of the ultimate consequences, explores a complex web of interconnected lives in his search for a ruthless killer.

When Robbie McLaughlan, a Flying Squad officer with London's Metropolitan Police, shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid, his private and professional lives begin to fall apart. The family of the dead man discovers McLaughlan's identity, and abducts his young son with the intention of luring McLaughlan to his death. But McLaughlan is a man with a secret and, long estranged from his own father, he ultimately has no option but to turn to the man he despises, for only he can possibly help him.

Peter May, on his annual trips to China has built up a formidable knowledge of all things Chinese - including their police force. Much of his insight comes from a good friend Wu He Ping, a former police commissioner famed for his penchant for tracking down smugglers of stolen artifacts. The Fourth Sacrifice is Peter's second novel about Li Yan, a Chinese policeman, and Margaret Campbell, a Chicago pathologist, who were first violently brought together in The Firemaker.
This time, Margaret's unique skills are required once more to investigate a series of ritual executions in Beijing. The first three victims were drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number - then expertly beheaded with a ceremonial bronze sword. The fourth victim was dispatched in just the same way, but unlike the others he was an American diplomat. This raises problems for both governments - and Margaret and Li. They are compelled to work together, trying to resist the overwhelming attraction that nearly destroyed them both when they first met. But now Margaret has another admirer - a brilliant, charismatic American TV archaeologist. And Li has a family tragedy that demands all his heart. Slowly they tease out the killer's secrets. But the closer they come to the truth behind the executions, the more dangerously close they come to a killer who is prepared to sacrifice anyone to conceal it.

"An intense and fascinating journey through the city streets and vagaries of the Chinese police system." The Good Book Guide

Cynthia Keating says she found her father, Andrew Hale, dead in his bed. Faint cord marks on his neck and Rohypnol in his blood say otherwise. And for a landmark 50th investigation, the men of the 87th - Carella, Meyer, Hawes, Brown, Parker and Kling (The Big Bad City, 1999 etc) joined by Fat Ollie Weeks, equal opportunity bigot of the 88th - fan through the streets of Isola, unearthing a vintage array of vies, perps, rats and innocent bystanders, tracking the case witness by witness. Stoolie Danny the Gimp knows a guy who was in a poker game with a knife-scarred Jamaican contract killer who took him home afterward for a night of sex and "roofies" But Danny gets aced by a couple of thugs who work for El Jefe, Hightown dealer of designer drugs. Meanwhile, an alert neighbour reports that Hale was visited by a big man who offered him, in his radio-announcer's voice, the opportunity to make millions - an opportunity Hale refused. And Fat Ollie, looking for whoever stabbed Althea Cleary - girl from the sticks by day, topless dancer by night - careens through the projects downtown, turning up a hot lead on a scarred Jamaican and a hot plateful of fried bananas for good measure.

'McBain is so good he ought to be arrested' Publishers Weekly

A mesmerising conspiracy thriller with a biotechnology theme set in Malaysia, from the author of .

Ambitious young lawyer Fei-Li Qwong has steered her major clients to the successful launch of their visionary sanatorium just outside Kuala Lumpur. Piers and Ginny Wyndham claim their Centre for Mental Health and Excellence will revolutionise Asia's healthcare practices. Fei is proud to be part of the team. But as Fei begins to uncover the dark reality behind the Wyndhams' public front, she finds herself drawn deep into a pall of intrigue and murder to a secret experiment that could enslave Asia under a terrifying new tyranny.