A scalpel-sharp thriller about the perils posed to humanity by rapidly mutating new viruses. A terrifyingly plausible account of the implications of a killer disease purging inner-city London, which chills to the bone ...
Beyond CJD.
Beyond Ebola.
Beyond nightmare...
The horror began with a vicious massacre in the disease-ridden forests of Central America. And it wouldn't end until tens of thousands had died in agony while one of the world's greatest cities blazed into ruin around them...
This plague acts fast, killing its victims within days of infection. They die racked by agony and shaking with fever, their blood pumping out of them to infect anyone nearby, as ruthless professional killers try desperately to cover the tracks of the organisation responsible for its escape.
Mike Davenport, Deputy Head of the London Centre for Infectious Diseases, is one of the best 'virus cowboys' in the business. But even he feels helpless when faced with the nature and sheer scale of the outbreak. Mike is going to have to push his resolve and resources - and those of his small, dedicated team - to the limit if he is to have any chance of stopping the spread of this nightmare.
And why does the British government seem intent on killing him in the process?

Legendary FBI profiling pioneer John Douglas's theory is that once you figure out the motivating force driving a perpetrator, you've got a good chance of cracking the case

In The Anatomy of Motive Douglas uses cases from his own career to illustrate his argument. He takes us further than ever before into the dark corners of the minds of arsonists, hijackers, serial and spree killers and mass murderers.
For the first time, Douglas identifies the common building blocks contributing to the violently antisocial personality. He profiles notorious assassins, examining that particular personality and how it applies to other types of crimes. Drawing on cases from today's headlines, he looks at the motivations of mass killers, how the crimes escalate, and the common elements that link them together. Through riveting profiles and a narrative that reads like the best mystery fiction, The Anatomy of Motive analyses such diverse killers as Lee Harvey Oswald, Theodore Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh, and helps us learn how to anticipate potential violent behaviour before it's too late.

Bernard Knight once more takes us back to the twelfth century when Sir John de Wolfe, Devon's first county coroner, travelled the county investigating murder and mayhem and attempting to bring order to the chaos and violence that surrounded him.

Following his adventures on the tourney field, Crowner John has been unable to carry out his duties due to a broken leg. But with the vigorous, if resentful, nursing of his wife Matilda, he is finally able to get back on his horse unaided. And just in time, because John is being stalked by a mysterious figure, who seems to be watching his every move. Intrigued and irritates by this presence, John's henchman Gwyn finally manages to catch up with the man and no one is more surprised than John at the identity of his stalker. ..
Gilbert de Rideford is a Knight of the Temple of Solomon, and an acquaintance from John and Gwyn's crusading days. He claims to have come into possession of an awful secret that could shake Christendom to its very foundations. He desperately needs John's help to escape from the secretive order of warrior monks - an order so powerful that they lend money to Kings and are answerable only to the Pope. Sceptical, but nevertheless intrigued, John agrees to help, but when three Knights Templar and an important Papal messenger arrive in Exeter, John begins to take Gilbert seriously.
Suddenly, John is swept into a world of religious intrigue and dangerous politics which takes him on a life-threatening mission to the Island of Lundy - inhabited solely by notorious pirates - and finally leads him to the revelation of Gilbert's secret, and a new found belief in the terrible wrath of God.

A breathtaking new thriller about a religious sect bent on global destruction, from the author of The Infiltrator

'In two weeks the Horror begins...
Were those the crazed words of a ranting millennial fundamentalist? Or a very real warning that the world governments have seen too late?
In the standard uniform of blue denim shirt and jeans, young journalist Kirstan Cooper succumbs to the charms of cult leader David Norton. Her shining face and blank adoring eyes tell watchers all they need to know about her adoption into the Fellowship. For nine years Norton and his sect have been dedicated to preparing the world for Christ's Second Coming. Yet to the authorities they pose no security risk whatsoever.
However, alerted by Kirstan's disappearance, researcher Jane Carlucci begins to piece together some disturbing facts about the Fellowship. And in her wilder moments she can't help interpreting some recent world disasters - outbreaks of botulism, lethally contaminated baby milk, random bomb attacks - as possible signs of the Eighth Scroll, a controversial document foretelling Christ's return, and seen by many as a fake.
Endangered by her own investigations, with the aid of journalist Sam Ferryman Jane goes into hiding - her only safe sanctuary the Fellowship itself. And now, in a move that threatens the safety of millions, the countdown to the moment Norton has been waiting for has begun...

The quiet tranquillity of the Welsh village of Felinbach is shattered when the baby of a local couple is stolen from her cot. No one can think of any reason for the crime as the couple are not wealthy and the baby, Anne-Marie, was born badly deformed. The police, in the absence of any other suspect or motive, suspect John Palmer of his daughter's murder and their suspicions are confirmed when the baby's body is discovered buried in his garden.
Local GP Tom Gordon cannot believe the Palmers had anything to do with the murder. But it is not until Tom is co-opted to investigate the disappearance of the body of a three-month-old cot-death victim from the nearby Caernarfon General's Pathology Department, that he begins to see a sinister connection between the hospital and an IVF clinic where the Palmers had been treated.
The Hospital is about to host a symposium on in vitro fertilisation, headed by world renowned specialist Professor Carwyn Thomas, who has more than a passing interest in the murder of little Anne-Marie Palmer. With John Palmer about to be tried for a murder Tom is sure he didn't commit things begin to look desperate and dangerous - for all of them.

"McClure's forte is to take an outside-chance medical possibility, decide on worst possible outcome ... and write a book" - The Scotsman

Ken McClure's Tangled Web evokes a sinister world where no life is sacred least of all a baby's and where the Hippocratic oath can be twisted and abused to fulfil the most desperate of motives.

A legion of outlandish worlds brimful of the unexpected ...