Adultery, theft, stalking, gossip, seduction...and dog-napping. Just another day in Tibbett, Ohio.
'Her destiny was a small black dog with desperate eyes, so she missed the significance at first'
Quinn McKenzie is bored with her life. She's going out with the nicest guy in the world, she has what is considered a good job as an art teacher in high school, but somehow it's not enough. When she finds a stray dog whose doey brown eyes she can't resist she goes against commonsense and adopts her. Little does she know that this small dog signals the beginning of a lot of changes in her life. Quinn discovers that when a woman tries to _change her life it can drive a whole town crazy - particularly when that town is Tibbett, Ohio.

It's 9.00 a.m. in an unnamed Midwest city. Bank Arbaugh and Mack Steiner have just come off the night shift. Sitting in a café waiting for breakfast, they get a call over the radio: a teenage girl is missing. With a glance, the two cops - friends since childhood, as close as brothers - know their lives have shifted off balance because, seven years before, Bank's own daughter disappeared and has not been found to this day. In a harrowing story of suspense, Craig Holden takes us on an unforgettable journey into the night, moving between these two nearly identical cases and exposing the lives of two men intertwined in loss, envy and love.

Inspector Ghote is not a happy man. His wife has just inherited a big house in Calcutta and she is determined that they both move from his beloved Bombay to live a life of luxurious retirement in Calcutta.
However, when the couple arrive to view the property they find it in a state of terrible disrepair and their lawyer advises them to sell immediately. But Ghote detects a whiff of corruption and is determined to get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately the corruption extends way up the political ladder - and soon the couple are in very great danger ...

On a warm September New Hampshire morning in 1985 Naomi Roth finds the body of a newborn baby girl floating in the Sabbathday River. For the small community of Goddard, there can only be one prime suspect - Heather Pratt, a young single mother, who is driven to confess to the crime when she is threatened with losing her daughter. But then a second baby is found - and Heather is on trial for double murder.
Naomi, herself an outcast in the introverted world of Goddard, engages the help of another newcomer, lawyer Judith Friedman, to defend Heather. But when the truth at the heart of the case finally comes to light, it is Naomi who must confront how little she has truly understood her town, her friend and herself...

Praise for A Jury of Her Peers:
'Masterly and intelligent' Washington Post

'The Sabbathday River is wonderful- wonderfully written, wonderfully plotted, compelling, with its vivid-characters and its intense sense of place...gripping and rewarding reading' Scott Turow

It is 1876, and as the corruption of the ruling classes seeping ever deeper into the lives of ordinary folk in the town of Rufford in Maine, Hannah Trevor, the town's midwife, is finally discovering some peace after years of turmoil.
For Hannah, already with child, is soon to marry her lover Daniel Josselyn and become mistress of Mapleton Grange. But there is trouble looming - Dr Samuel Clinch has petitioned the Magistrate's Court to bring charges against her over the death of a patient.
So imagine Hannah's horror when, out waking with Daniel, she comes upon Clinch's bloated and burnt body. And why does Daniel reel back at the sight of the corpse, muttering 'What have I done?'...
? Published to international critical acclaim, Hearts and Boner was shortlisted for four fiction awards: an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Crime Novel of 1996, a Macavity, an Anthony and an Agatha Award.
'Many dark paths are explored in this historical tale which mixes murder, mystery and romance' Northern Echo

In the black of a Roman night, a priest is pushed to his death from the dome of St Peter's... It is a murder that challenges the spiritual and physical resources of two men shaped and scarred by a stormy past. One is the charismatic new Pope, an unconventional Latin American with hidden enemies. The other is a former Miami homicide cop brought to the Vatican as unofficial papal investigator. Now as threats against each of them multiply, ghosts from their common past stalk the holy city's ancient streets and circle ever closer...
The violence of the streets of Miami penetrates the very heart of the Vatican City in Montalbano's final novel - a tale of conspiracy, murder, flawed heroes and heinous villains.

A terrifically entertaining trip into two different underworlds' Carl Hiansen
'Montalbano's stunning last work is a tale of Vatican intrigue, murder, sins of the past and, above all friendship ... a first-rate riveting thriller.' San Francisco Examiner
'Vatican whodunnit that shows off his insider's knowledge to terrific advantage' Las Angeles Times

At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something buried deep below the surface - something trapped inside a layer of ice 400 million years old. Something made of metal ... It's the scientific discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value. A discovery which nations would kill for.
Led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a crack team of United States Marines is rushed to the station to secure this discovery for their own country. But other interested parties are already on their way.
The Marines are a tight unit - tough, loyal and fearless. They would readily follow their leader into hell. Little do they know that they just did.

'For lots of lethal violence involving high-tech weaponry. For thrilling escapes from the jaws of death. For cliffhanging suspense on just about every page ... Ice Station delivers the action-thriller goods with all the explosive firepower of a machine pistol' West Australian

This is the story of the bayonet in twentieth-century warfare, a survivor from much earlier military periods. Still important today, its most infamous use was probably by the Japanese during the Second World War, in their terrifying banzai charges. Tim Ripley uses gripping first hand accounts of hand-to-hand conflict throughout the century to tell the intriguing story of this combat weapon. This thorough yet exciting examination of a little-known aspect of warfare in the twentieth century appeals to both military historians and the general reader alike.

Tim Ripley is a research associate at Lancaster University's Centre for Defence and International Security Studies. He has covered recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East for a number of international defence journals. He is the author of several books on military affairs, including Air War Bosnia.

When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of the small community where she lived are implicated in the murders. Her neighbour, shy, achingly lonely Asako Saito, has watched the comings and goings from her window as she looks out over the electrical field, the bleak landscape dominated by pylons and cables that surrounds her house, and she recounts, painstakingly, everything she has seen. Another neighbour, a young girl named Sachi, is desperate to uncover the truth and in her search for answers forms an unlikely friendship with the ageing spinster.
As the facts surrounding the case become known it transpires that Miss Saito, far from being the passive observer she initially appeared to be, is central to the crime. But in order to understand her connection to the murders she must first confront her past and the shadows it casts upon the present where race and history haunt the neighbourhood.

Kerri Sakamoto's widely praised first novel has been shortlisted for a number of prizes and won The Commonwealth Writers Prize: First Book Award 1999.