'A new Simon Brett novel is an event for mystery fans.' P.D.James

Very little disturbs the ordered calm in the retirement settlement of Fethering, which is exactly why Carole Seddon had chosen to live there since her divorce. Her intensely ordered life is challenged with the surprise arrival of a new neighbour with an obviously colourful past and only one name, 'Jude'.
Jude is not really Fethering ....but neither is the body Carole finds on the beach.
When the body goes missing before the Police investigate, Jude is the only person ready to believe Carole. The unlikely pair team-up together to solve the mystery, uncovering unsettling truths with each step.

Two stories weave into one in a chilling novel of suspense

The testimony of Dr Susan Shader, Chicago PD's forensic psychologist, has condemned to death the killer Calvin Wesley Train - for his plea of insanity is blown apart by her evidence that he is a very sane manipulator. And this is something that Train will never forget.
But Susan is soon onto an even more disturbing case - there has been a series of murders near Chicago's Loop by a killer nicknamed The Undertaker. The victims have been stabbed and are all found in body bags. But there is also one more remarkable clue - there is blood from someone other than the victim in their wounds. This blood did not come from a struggle with the killer, but was placed in the body intentionally.
And as Susan races to catch The Undertaker before he strikes again, a newly released prisoner called Calvin Wesley Train is plotting revenge ...

Thea Wyatt had only been back in Taviscombe a short while, yet already she has secured a job at the local law firm and has been asked for her hand in marriage by Michael Malory. Things are not going according to plan. Supposedly her future mother-in-law is delighted but when a senior partner at Thea's solicitors firm dies shortly after an altercation with her the fairy tale is over.
Although Gordon Masefield's death is a shock he has no shortage of enemies and when Michael and his mother hunt for the real killer it begins to look like anyone with both the will and the opportunity could have done it - but they must find out the truth before Thea is convicted.

'Even Dame Agatha would be proud of this one' Irish Times
'One to watch with tea and Dundee cake' Crime Time

'Good at conveying menace ... chillingly absorbing' The Times

Anna Miles arrived in peaceful Aubrete like a person without a past, and for months has hidden there from the world. Then, one storm-lashed night, someone arrives at her door - a girl she does not know, with the corpse of an old woman in her car. But the mysterious stranger refuses to speak.
As the police try to unravel the case, it seems there is an unknown link between these women. Chief Inspector Robert Wilde begins investigating the passenger's suspicious death, but how can he get the girl to talk? And is nearby Aubrete manor the sinister focus for it all?

Senior policewoman Charmian Daniels is assigned to protect the murderer Joan Dingham when she is released from prison. Even before Joan has left the gates there is a series of teenage murders whose deaths bear an eerie resemblance to Joan's victims years ago.
Daniels must calm the fears of the community and keep an eye on Joan's sister and friends who are preparing with anticipation for her return. She must also prevent the murderer from striking again - Dead Again is a clever tale where the present eerily inhabits the past.

'Melville combines the uncertain world of Ruth Rendell with the gruesome attention to detail of Prime Suspect' Crime Time

The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its world. Humans and mutants and bizarre races cluster in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled here over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand - and inadvertently, clumsily, something unthinkable is released.
As the city is gripped by an alien terror, the fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades on the run from lawmakers and crime-lords alike. The urban nightscape has become a hunting ground. Battles rage in the shadows of uncanny architecture, and a reckoning is due at the city's heart, under the vast, chaotic vaults of Perdido Street Station.

Two men and a woman embark on a hunt that will tear their safe African safari apart in a deadly civil war. For Sean Courtney, guerilla fighter, it is a time to fight and find love. For Claudia Montero it is the ultimate test of her values, and, for her father, a time to confront obsession.

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Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by fighting, and to retrieve a consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerillas and hostile tribes - and one of his own men.

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'Like John Steinbeck and James Ellroy if they summoned Satan from a Ouija board, shot him full of heroin, and loosed him in Southern California' Dallas Morning News

During Christmas week in 1995, a fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult. Bob Hightower, the girl's father, embarks on a desperate mission to find her but there are no clues to her whereabouts - only the mutilated corpses of her mother and stepfather remain. His final hope lies with Case Hardin, an ex-cult member and ex-junkie living in a halfway house in Hollywood. Bob has no reason - and every need - to trust her.

Boston Teran has written a dark, compelling thriller about retribution and survival, an indelible story of people who must discover what it means to surrender oneself completely and, when necessary, what it takes to come back.

Boston Teran was born and raised in the South Bronx. He now lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.