'Allbeury keeps the suspense at fever pitch' Booklist on All Our Tomorrows

An unimportant US pilot for a senior KGB agent a strangely unequal exchange. Joe Shapiro is a British spy-catcher. When he persuades the Americans to hand over top Russian spy Rudolph Abel in return for the seemingly dispensable Francis Gary Powers, a young US pilot, it seems like an unlikely exchange. But only Shapiro knows something about Powers, something that neither government could possibly guess.

'Forsythe carves out retribution with a scalpel, his ironies supremely dramatic' Sunday Times on Cousin Removed

'Did you know there's a body under our patio, missis?'
For twenty-five years, the skeleton of a young man has been buried beneath a house in Great Yeldham. The subsequent investigation seems to have alerted a killer, and soon the body count is rising. Now there is only one living witness, Sandra Forman, and someone will stop at nothing to silence her.

Three years after the death of her husband, Verity Ryder is persuaded to leave her lonely Oxford home to start a new life with her in-laws, the notorious Greenwood family. But she has no idea of the danger she will have to face...
When Verity witnesses her difficult godson - TV personality Adam Greenwood arguing with a stranger at the premiere of his new show, she is unaccountably suspicious. And when that same man dies shortly afterwards, she feels that the two incidents are connected. But what did his last, whispered words - 'The Twelve Apostles - mean? Could the dying man have been referring to Adam's collection of valuable spoons depicting those same characters?
When Adam's flat is burgled, Chief Inspector Webb is called in to deal with the case - and with Adam's increasingly suspicious behaviour...

The Twelve Apostles is the latest in her series, following Eleven That Went Up To Heaven (the most recent from Severn House); Three, Three; The Rivals; The Gospel Makers; I'll Sing You Two-O and The Seven Stars. 'Builds to a tension-loaded finale. Suspense...real-life characters and a lively, straight-ahead writing style. A winner on all counts' Kirkus Reviews on The Gospel Makers. 'Filled with credible characters and sleekly written.' Publishers Weekly on Motive for Murder.

'I know what I'm asking you to do. But it is our chance, Rebecca. I want so very much to be normal.'

Hugo Hartman has lived an extraordinary life as a top agent for both the KGB and the CIA,. But when he wants out, to live a simple life with the woman he loves, neither organisation is prepared to let him go. His only chance is a wild and improbable scheme that, if it succeeds, might also bring him a long-dreamed-of revenge.

'Stylishly written and suspenseful' Booklist on Girt Gone Missing

Peach and Blake are on the trail of a killer in their latest case. When the dead body of the recently disgraced Fr. John Bickerstaffe is found, it appears that more people wanted him dead than befitted a man of the cloth. How far would a parent go to protect his or her child? What will a man with a history of violence do to protect the woman he loves? DI Peach and DS Blake prepare to open an unholy can of worms...

Nothing ever remains the same.

Amy and Tony have been best friends most of their lives. But as they grow up - and develop ambition their easy relationship becomes a thing of the past. Competitive gliding is fraught with dangers, and jealousy is the most secretive and destructive of emotions. Will Tony realise, before disaster strikes, that Amy is the same girl he fell in love with years ago? Albeit one with a few secrets of her own.

‘This novel fairly brims with Hill's unique wit and strong prose' Booklist on The Turning of the Tide

Three apparently unconnected incidents: the unexplained death of a diplomat in Baghdad, the mysterious disappearance of a Roman skeleton from an archaeological dig and the suicide of a British scientist in a California hotel. Yet the secret to all three lies in an abandoned station on Thirlsike Waste - a remote and windswept area of Cumbria where the natural and the supernatural meet.

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential Statehouse documents. But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders, while uncovering extortion, assassination and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of state government. With slick, hip dialogue and a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence, "A Drink Before the War" confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry and corruption are often the norm, and the true nature of 'racial incidents' is rarely clear. Dennis Lehan's remarkable debut is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.

'A fiendishly tough, mystery’ Booklist on This Mortal Coil

'Your sister is missing. . .'
... so this isn't the best time for DI Nick Holroyd to be considering a relationship with Rachel Morland. A bizarre cult called The Children of Light has moved to the area, coinciding with a spate of burglaries and the arrival of the Wessex Rapist. When the body of a dead woman is found, Nick needs all the help he can get to find his sister and prevent the next, seemingly inevitable attack.

A perilous rendezvous, an arrogant beauty and an explosive arms deal that could trigger World War III.

Gordon Gallagher, ex-RAF pilot and top-secret agent, is still trying to put the past behind him - but the past won't let him go and catches up with him in the form of Villiger, a South African agent. Sworn to protect a touchy, tough-takeing beauty and pursued by careless killers, Gallagher has to summon his skills to outwit the world most notorious arms merchant - at any cost.

'Tripp effectively evokes both the high and low ends of his London settings Booklist on The Suitcase Killings

Just when John Samson thought he had masterminded his last investigation...
The night before John Samson hands over control of his detective agency to his junior partner, Shandy, her sixteen-year-old daughter, Kimberley, is raped by a gang of youths. As the gang members flee, Kimberley catches sight of a young black man. Is he a rapist? Or an innocent bystander? At a time of racial unrest in London, Samson's involvement in a case has never been more crucial.