Mankind's salvation lies in the hands of a burnt-out priest One snowy midnight in Chicago, a drunken ex- priest is accosted on the street by a well-dressed stranger - who turns out to be his former altar boy. The young lawyer wants Father Martin Delaney to perform a very special, ancient ritual - the spiritual cleansing of a mystery mansion way down south. Decades after a tragically bungled exorcism got him defrocked, Delaney is terrified by this request. Arriving blindfolded in the middle of a raging blizzard, he soon realises that the vast residence is indeed seriously haunted. But that is not its most alarming aspect... with only a book of rituals and his rickety faith to aid him, the disgraced priest must confront an age-old, overpowering evil - to avert what might become world-wide disaster.

Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back and, boy, is she on good form. Fellow bounty-hunter Ranger is on the run and the other man in her fife, vice cop Joe Morelli, is after him. But as if that wasn't enough - Grandma Mazur moves in, and then all hell really breaks loose. Hot Six is much, much more than a whodunnit, and is not to be missed.

.A man wakes up terrified, cold, aching and not knowing where he is or how he got there. He picks up a newspaper and finds it is 29 January 1958, and the US is about to launch Explorer - if the launch fails the Russians will dominate space for the foreseeable future.

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The final Inspector Ghote investigation
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CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award Winner

'There, in the heart of his place of safety, in a room he was calling as his den, a room where no one was admitted without first knocking, not even his wife, Ajmani sahib was killed…'

All Bombay is buzzing with the news of Ajmani's murder. Every Inspector in the branch is asking how he could have been stabbed to death in his heavily guarded mansion, racing to crack the crime first. Except Inspector Ganesh Ghote who has been set the less glorious task of tracking down the cat burglar, nicknamed, Yeshwant.
Aided – or perhaps hampered – by his old friend Axel Svensson seeking Indian warmth from the Swedish winter-cold, Inspector Ghote fights to uncover Yeshwant's true identity. In doing do he may unexpectedly solve the murder of Anil Ajmani after all

`Profoundly intriguing and deeply satisfying' Daily Telegraph
Minette Malters is on top form... quite simply, a tour de force' Observer

November 1978. The winter of discontent. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles hignin the streets – and in the West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. She was known as `Mad Annie' and was despised by her neighbours.
Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason - that she- was murdered.
But whatever the truth about Annie - whether she was as mad as her neighbours claimed, whether she lived in squalor as the police said, whether she mistreated the cats found starving in her house - something passed between her and Mrs Ranelagh in the moment of death which binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years.
But why is Mrs Ranelagh so convinced it was murder, -hen by- her own account Annie died without speaking? Why does the death make her husband so angry he refuses to talk about it? And why would any woman spend twenty- painstaking years uncovering the truth - unless her reasons are personal... ?