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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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.

Featuring New Stories From:

Today, the Internet has revolutionised the way we think, speak, negotiate, communicate, work, skive, shop, and love. But just a few decades ago, the Internet or its myriad literary equivalents only existed in the rarefied domain of science fiction. A nebulous if fascinating concept that would link all of us in a curious net of possibilities, temptation, comes real and imagined and new, ever more likely situations. Naturally, writers have become absorbed with such an overwhelming new spectrum of potential stories both fictional, and real.

The New English Library Book of Internet Stories is a stunning new anthology bringing together diverse and disparate names from the past 30 years of science fiction writing. No two stories are alike, whether tackling the theme of shopping on- line, stalking, love and sex, business, human relationships, voyeurism, manipulation, ghosts and other bytes from our brand new millennium. The whole world is here, or rather the whole worldwide web, every nook and cranny unveiling curious and fascinating concepts and characters, as the authors let their imaginations click away with wild abandon.

Featuring New Stories From:

Today, the Internet has revolutionised the way we think, speak, negotiate, communicate, work, skive, shop, and love. But just a few decades ago, the Internet or its myriad literary equivalents only existed in the rarefied domain of science fiction. A nebulous if fascinating concept that would link all of us in a curious net of possibilities, temptation, comes real and imagined and new, ever more likely situations. Naturally, writers have become absorbed with such an overwhelming new spectrum of potential stories both fictional, and real.

The New English Library Book of Internet Stories is a stunning new anthology bringing together diverse and disparate names from the past 30 years of science fiction writing. No two stories are alike, whether tackling the theme of shopping on- line, stalking, love and sex, business, human relationships, voyeurism, manipulation, ghosts and other bytes from our brand new millennium. The whole world is here, or rather the whole worldwide web, every nook and cranny unveiling curious and fascinating concepts and characters, as the authors let their imaginations click away with wild abandon.

Double toil and double trouble in the independent city state of Edinburgh. It is 2026. Global warming has given Scotland its hottest summer since records began. Gangs of kids are on the rampage, disenchanted with the Council's regime. The City is no longer safe and the Guardians blame the influence of democrats from Glasgow. Someone has broken into the archives of the Old Scottish Parliament and stolen material from a genetic engineering file. Maverick, blues-loving private investigator Quint Dalrymple is given the case.
Genetic engineering has been banned from the city for over twenty years. The research in the file is described as 'ethically monstrous' and 'grossly immoral', but it gives no details.
When an auxiliary is found brutally murdered in the Botanic Gardens and the footprints at the murder scene match those found in the archives Quint realises they have big trouble on their hands. He discovers that the council has gone back on its ban on genetic research but that the measure hasn't been agreed by all members.
Three star pupils go missing from an Adolescent Care Facility and an auxiliary looking after them is found murdered. The trail leads to Glasgow a thriving modern state which harbours dozens of religious sects and cults. One of the most sinister is the Macbeth cult who believe Macbeth has returned to make Scotland a nation again. Over the past two months there has been a string of horrific murders in the city. Eight people gruesomely killed. The ninth has a Macbeth pamphlet in his pocket.
Quint's investigations lead him to the Rennie Institute, known as the Baby Factory. What is the link between Professor Rennie and the Macbeth cult? Why is the institute protected like a barracks?

The Blood Tree is a chilling and ingeniously imagined thriller by the prizewinning author Paul Johnston.

Everyone's heart lurches when the telephone rings in the middle of the night. To Dido's relief, its not to do with her father -the call is from her nanny, who has been locked in a closet with the phone by an odd trio of burglars who seem to be looking for something they cannot find.
Phyllis spends her days looking after Dido's baby, and, then goes back to her happy marriage to a harmless semi-retired invalid. Or is he? Frank is an accountant, and Phyllis knows he spent several years in prison for a whitecollar crime. But when Frank is found murdered, it becomes very clear that his past was much less white- collar than anyone realised.
And it's his past which is going to put Dido and her family in danger.