'The most imaginative and dashingly plotted of yet Cutler's novels. The Times

Staying Power is the second in a sharp and gripping new crime series featuring the indomitable Detective Sergeant Kate Power. Judith Cutler's new series is an authentic and engrossing examination of the contemporary police force - and life for women within it.
Flying home from Florence, DS Kate Power of Birmingham CID engages in a pleasant but trivial conversation with the businessman seated next to her. Two days later he's found hanging from a canal bridge - with Kate's card in his pocket as the only means of identification.
It look like a clear-cut case of suicide - but Kate isn't so sure. And, as her subsequent investigations prove, the cause of Alan Grafton's death - and its consequences - are more serious than she and her colleagues could ever have imagined.
Still regarded as a newcomer in the Birmingham police force, still battling against prejudice and intimidation among the ranks, still fighting to prove that she's got what it takes, Kate is determined to stick to her guns until she finally uncovers the shocking truth
Staying Power is the most riveting and satisfying of contemporary thrillers. With its memorable characters, this suspenseful and atmospheric novel races along engaging the reader from outset to conclusion. A must read.

Harry Devlin is in trouble. The wife of his best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished and the police suspect foul play. Stirrup claims she's still alive, but Harry wonders if he has something to hide. When Stirrup's daughter and her boyfriend go missing, Harry finds himself hunting a brutal murderer.

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Harry Devlin remains infatuated with his wife, Liz, even though she left him. When Liz turns up at his flat, he is only too happy to offer shelter. But any hopes he has for reconciliation are dashed when she is found dead. Harry's search for the truth takes him into Liverpool's sinister underbelly.

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Alice tells herself that Stark Point is quaint and charming - just the place to revive her relationship with boyfriend Charles. Then she meets Joe, who decided to break his silence about the tragedy that wrecked his life. But is he telling the truth? And will anyone believe him if he is?

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Home invasion - the kind of call every homicide cop dreads. Cincinnati detective Sonora Blair is called to a small house at the end of a cul-de-sac, and finds the brutal decimation of an average American family deeply in dept. A high-profile search brings in two ex-convicts, both murdered in prison within twenty-four hours of their apprehension. Evidence points to a third man at the murder scene, a man called the Angel, a man who runs a collection agency that can turn a debt into your worst possible nightmare.

'Suspenseful and psychologically sound, with a fierce, frazzled quality to the writing which gives it edge and credibility. Astonishingly good' Philip Oakes in the Literary Review
'Taut psychological suspense ... sharp, shocking and shamelessly satisfying' Val McDermid

When she found the body of her beloved Uncle Jonathan, Georgina stooped to pick up the revolver, thus becoming the prime suspect. But there was also the missing fingerprint - the showpiece of Uncle Jonathan's collection, apparently acquired from a self-confessed murderer, who was still at large.

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Manchester Evening News 'Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot'
Daily Mail 'Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller'

Who was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him?
For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory, and no one expected him to ever find the answer. So when he took his work to Evesleys Ltd, why was his life so instantly in danger?
William makes the frightening discovery that there are people determined not to let his memory return. Will Miss Silver uncover their treachery before Mavis strikes again...? S

Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime.