Final Frame is the fourth in her DI-Mike Croft series

'The body lay, naked, on a rough bed of fallen branches and fresh flowers. All around, on every low branch, stood tiny candles, their white stems gleaming in the flickering light.'

For over six months Detective Inspector Mike Croft's life has been dominated by one man, filmmaker and killer Jake Bowen, and the nationwide hunt for him codenamed 'Final Frame'. With three murders and a series of rapes to his name, and no consistent pattern to his deadly work, Bowen has quickly become the most feared man in Britain. Now his latest victim - art-student Julia Norman - has been found in a Dorset woodland, her body laid out in a macabre scene which chillingly recreates one of Julia's own self portraits...
Mike's only leads are those people once close to Jake- his friend Max Harriman, now himself in prison, and his father Alastair Bowen, whose relationship with his son surely holds the key to this nightmare. But just as Mike begins to focus on Jake's background, so Jake decides it's time to turn his attention towards Mike - and those closest to him...

'Takes the psychological suspense novel into new realms of mystery' Val McDermid

There was nothing in Foster's career as a playwright that would prepare him for covering a political trial in Eastern Europe. But when he is asked to report on the trial of Yordan Deitchev, leader of the People's Party now facing charges of treason, he cannot resist the challenge. After all, his inexperience will be his strength - allowing him to describe the proceedings with a fresh eye. But he has badly underestimated the world he is about to enter - and the peril that lies ahead...

'The maestro is back ... with all his sinister magic intact' New York Times

Nicholas Marlow travelled to Milan for work at a time when political consciousness was raw and uncompromising. He left much sooner than he had intended. Marlow was no politician, merely an engineer. But the firm he worked for produced shell cases, and the shells were the instruments of war. In the circumstances disengagement was an impossibility and Marlow rapidly found himself a pawn in a subtle, ferocious power struggle.

Cause for Alarm was written in 1938, as Britain teetered on the brink of war.

A powerful human tragedy, based on a real criminal cause célèbre

A chance meeting in a London street in the 1950s ... and fate is sealed for carefree cat burglar Hugo Chesterman and Daisy Bland, the beautiful country girl so eager to become his mistress. From that moment on, love banishes reality, leaving the couple totally unprepared for the troubles of the world that will surely befall them. When a police officer is brutally murdered in Brighton, neither is prepared for the suspicion which suddenly falls upon them or the cruel betrayal that will.so quickly destroy all the dreams they have ever shared ...

Charlotte Vickers is a retired police psychic living a lonely existence in Chicago. For years she used her special gift to help local detectives solve hopeless missing-person cases, but now feels burned out... mostly because her missing persons usually turn up dead. That's why she is so reluctant to assist a desperate young woman turning up on her doorstep.
But Natalie Fortunate finally persuades her to help trace her disappeared boyfriend, Paul Lattamore. But when Charlotte discovers Paul is happily married and living in Colorado, she begins to suspect the motives of Natalie, the daughter of a mafia don. Paul is set to testify against Natalie's father, and Charlotte realises his life in Colorado is in fact constructed to by a Witness Protection Program and he is in danger of his life.
In a terrifying and fast paced chase across the country, Charlotte manages to give Natalie and her goons the slip. Fitted against torture and murder, Charlotte uses her psychic powers to protect a young family from horrifying annihilation.

'Gives new meaning to the phrase "non-stop action' Chicago Tribune

Maureen Frew is ready to sell her story; reporter Max Chard's newspaper is about to pay big money for it. Only it's never that simple, is it ...?
For Maureen and her boyfriend Stan Defoe are in protective custody after Maureen's evidence at the Zeller Maine trial. Seven of the gang - who netted £5 million from the safe deposit robbery - are found guilty thanks to her, another three are shot dead, and two - Dave Stretch and Barry Frew - are assumed to be serving their time on the beaches of the Costa del Crime.
Max is dispatched, in great discomfort, to the couple's secret hideaway to get the exclusive. But once there he quickly realises there is more to this particular story than meets the eye...
And perhaps, while he's at it, Max could explain the role he's playing in the life of Cindy Reilly a buxom blonde who is suddenly appearing in the press with unerring regularity...

'The action leaps right off the page ... every sentence bites.' Ted Oliver, Daily Mirror
'Sensational ...the plot never slackens, the twists just keep on coming.' Daily Express

With an introduction by Jonathan Gash

Appearances can be deceptive, even in the farthest flung reaches of England's rural idyll. A conclusion rapidly attained by Gervase Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford, after just one night in the apparently peaceful village of Sanford Angelorum.
In flight from the ivory towers, Fen has arrived for the election as the prospective Independent candidate: to be confronted by chaos, disruption . . . and entirely unwarranted murder.

'Professor Fen is one of the most endearing fictional detectives' 20th-Century Crime & Mystery Writers

Now a major new BBC drama starring Francesca Annis.

'The best she has done yet... finished at three a.m. with the rain pouring outside and a little shiver in the spine' Frances Fyfleld Daily Telegraph

Harry Richmond - ambitious businessman and failed politician - is missing at sea, presumed dead. Ellen, his wife, emerges from her grief to discover that the Harry she knew and loved had many secrets - secrets which threaten to undermine everything that Ellen holds dear.
Was Harry's death a simple accident? The enigmatic Moreland enters Ellen's life and tries to uncover the truth. But it is a truth that at least one person would prefer left undisturbed. For in matters of deceit, some victims are more innocent than others...
Francesca Annis and Peter O'Brien star in Deceit on BBC One. It will be shown in two parts on Sunday 2 April and Sunday, 9 April at 9 pm. This is the first time that a work by Clare Francis has been adapted for television. Francis says: " What is terrific about this television drama is that it has the same feeling of increasing tension I aim for in my books. You do get involved. It is partly a whodunit, but it is more about one woman's journey through a sequence of traumatic events. When the story starts, the worst is not yet over for Ellen. It's a good old-fashioned page-turner, a classic psychological drama.

The Number One author of Deceit, Betrayal and A Dark Devotion stunning new crime thriller

'It a// happened very quickly. / don't remember much. just ... this figure coming from nowhere. Suddenly. Rushing at me. And - there was this silence. just before he come for me. This long silence. . .'
Catherine has become a victim in her own home. First a string of nuisance calls, then a vicious attack by a mystery intruder. Now, as she struggles to come to terms with her injuries, two very different men seem anxious to uncover the truth. There is Terry Devlin, entrepreneur and fixer, the local boy made good from Catherine's almost forgotten past. And Simon Jardine, her husband's business partner. Do either of them really want justice? The police charge a suspect. But how did he get himself such an expensive is back with her lawyer?
And now Catherine is being watched all over again ...

Clare Francis is the author of seven international bestsellers. She lives in London.

Lovejoy is not a great fan of London - in fact he avoids it at all costs. But as a favour to a friend he agrees to go to the capital to find out who has been passing off fake gemstones to his fellow dealers.
But when he pays a visit to his old friends Colette and Arthur Goldhorn he is in for a dreadful surprise - for their antiques shop has been taken over by German businessman Dieter Gluck. As a result Arthur has died and Colette is living on the streets.
Lovejoy vows to avenge Arthur's death and restore Colette to her rightful place as the leading antiques dealer in the King's Road. Unfortunately, getting on the wrong side of Herr Gluck is a very dangerous game indeed ...

It should have been as simple as dialling 999 ...
Cat Torrant had nothing to hide. The dog had run out in front of her car. And she only discovered the body by accident.
But the dead girl's family doesn't see it that way. They see Cat as a murderer. If she is responsible - they don't have to be.
The only way Cat can prove her innocence is by exposing someone else's guilt.
But will this be all that she brings to light ... ?

When New York art dealer Wil Sumner is lured to Florida to appraise the private collection of wealthy recluse Andrew Stevenson, he discovers that behind the facade of undisturbed affluence his new employer is party to a dangerous and menacing secret. Events take a violent turn when a vicious murder is committed on the Stevenson estate and Wil finds himself entangled in a battle between two powerful men, one of whom is desperate to reveal the truth, the other to bury his secrets for ever ...
Former high-stakes art dealer David Ramus has cast his unflinching eye on the exclusive old-money world of Palm Beach to create a haunting tale of unfathomable wealth, merciless greed and page-turning suspense.

A further link in the hugely successful chain of Courmey novels, Monsoon follows on from the Number One bestseller Birds of Prey. Set in the dawn of the eighteenth century, in England, East Africa and Arabia, it takes up the lives and fortunes of the three sons of Hal Courtney.

Like their father before them, Tom, Dorian and Guy are drawn inexorably to Africa. When fate decrees that they must all leave England for ever, they set sail for the dark and unexplored continent, seduced by the allure and mystery of this new, magnificent but savage land ...