Carl Granville is a would-be novelist who is beginning to think his writing career is going nowhere fast, when in a clandestine meeting he is hired by the hottest editor in town to turn an old diary, articles and letters - in which all names and locations have been blanked out - into compelling fiction. For this task, and for his silence, he will be paid a quarter of a million dollars.
But as his work progresses, Carl realises that Gideon's book is more than just a potential bestseller. It is a revelation of chilling evil and a decades-long cover-up by someone with far-reaching power.
Then - suddenly, brutally - two people close to Carl are murdered, his apartment is ransacked, his computer stolen, and he himself is the chief suspect. With no alibi and no proof of his shadowy assignment, Carl becomes a man on the run. He has only one person to turn to, his ex-lover Amanda and they have only one option - to track down the author of the original diary, the place where the events related in it took place and the true identity of Gideon. He knows too much - but does he know enough to save himself ...

Here is the latest Amos Walker novel.

'The reigning king of the traditional tough-yet-tender style of crime novel. Estleman expertly manipulates a complex plot.' Publishers Weekly
'Sharp and energetic, tough and funny ... a joy from start to finish.' Chicago Tribune
'Amos Walker is dauntless, incorruptible, and underpaid ... just what a private eye should be.' Newsday
'At the top of the class ... Estleman's colourful characters, crackling dialogue, rich plot, authentic Detroit setting, and throwaway humour work very well.' Publishers Weekly

A Blackwater Bay Mystery

Laura Brandon didn't want to work for her uncle, so she recommended her friend Julie for the job of physiotherapist at the exclusive Mountview Clinic. A few months later Julie is brutally murdered in the woods that surround the clinic.
Laura, tinged with guilt, wants to find out why - so she offers to be Julie's replacement. It isn't long before she begins to regret her impulsive move. Confronted by tight-lipped nurses, inter-staff feuds, and strange tales about a shadowy evil that lurks in the woods, she realises that Mountview and the town of Blackwater may have something to hide. But playing detective is rather awkward when the clinic's owner is your uncle, and you have no idea where to begin.
As Laura and Sheriff Matt Gabriel struggle to find leads, ex-cop Tom Gilliam, a patient embittered, skilled and rude enough to put his nose where it shouldn't be, agrees to help.
Then there's another murder, eerily similar to the first.
Is there a psychotic killer on the loose? However terrifying, that would be a simple explanation. But Laura is sceptical. Why are the clinic's drug supplies being tampered with? What is the explanation for the disappearing trust fund? Is it possible that her own uncle has assisted in the sudden deaths of two apparently healthy and wealthy patients?

Fast-paced, entertaining and full of misdirections, Paula Gosling's latest tale from the Great Lakes brilliantly confirms her mastery of the art of the murder mystery.

'Gosling plots fiendishly and writes angelically' Sunday Times

Elmore Leonard
`Higgins is my favourite. No, he doesn't learn from me, I learn from him'
The Times
`Highly recommended for connoisseurs of the genre'
Sunday Telegraph `Higgins writes brilliantly, with an especially sharp ear for dialogue'

Set in Canterbury, Massachusetts, Ambrose Merrion and Dan Hilliard are both long-serving members of the FBI as well as life-long friends. Through his sharp, well-observed dialogue, Higgins details how they met, their subsequent lives and careers and the problem now facing them: a Grand Jury is going to indict Dan for fraud and wants Ambrose to dish the dirt on his buddy. Dan, the brighter of the two, is more sucessful and stands accused of getting Merrion a position he didn't deserve. He doesn't understand who has accused him, or why, but forms a list of suspects in which his ex-wife is a strong contender.

George V. Higgins was a Boston district attorney and a newspaper columnist before becoming a bestselling novelist and was a professor at Boston University for many years. He died in 1999.

Billy Straight was in Griffith Park when he saw the man and women drive into the car park. Too young to be a park alone at night, Billy then had the misfortune to witness a cruel and bloody murder.
The boy is a runaway. There is no one he can tell; no one he will ever confide in, if he wants to stay away from the trailer park called home.
The dead woman is Lisa Ramsey, the gorgeous ex-wife of Cart Ramsey, famous for playing a television sleuth. Detective Petra Conner and her partner, Stu Bishop are called in to investigate - with kid gloves. The top brass at LAPD are anxious not to court the insane media frenzy that followed the O J Simpson case.
Petra is not getting her usual support from Stu, nor have any further clues appeared to help her track down the murderer. Then Lisa's father, angry at the lack of progress, publicises a reward for finding Billy Straight. Only Petra realises the consequences of this rash promise. Billy is in mortal danger from any maniac wanting the reward - and, most of all, from Lisa's killer.
Billy is found by the caretaker of a Jewish synagogue. The man seems friendly and he offers him protection, but he is not convinced that he should give himself up to the police. The boy has only his instinct to trust, but without his vital evidence Petra cannot proceed much further. She must find young Billy Straight before he becomes the latest victim of a sadistic killer.

Jonathan Kellerman has created two powerful characters in Billy Straight and Petra Conner, whose thoughts and actions will engage the sympathy and interest of all his readers. This makes Billy Straight an unusually compelling psychological thriller of the first rank.

Slipping Into Shadow is Craig Thomas' most powerful novel yet.

In March 1999, Manchester GP Harold Shipman was charged with the murder of four of his patients and a total of fifteen in all. He pleaded Not Guilty. The trial in October is set to be the most sensational murder trial in this country since Rosemary West was prosecuted. The macabre exhumations of some of the bodies has devastated the suburban community of Hyde in Greater Manchester, and it is the authors' inside knowledge of the region that provides the context for their harrowingly revealing book.

Battered by her husband's infidelity, Nina Crowther's chance encounter with a stranger, Priscilla Blunt, seems to offer an escape from her problems.
Middle-aged and struggling to recover from the shock of her husband divorcing her to marry a younger (and pregnant) woman, Nina happily falls in with Priscilla's idea to house-sit for her while she and her husband visit South Africa. When the phone rings on her first night in the Blunts' Berkshire manor house she expects it to be one of her daughters, but when she lifts the receiver no one speaks. All Nina hears is a shuddering sigh. As the calls persist Nina fears she has attracted an unwelcome suitor - or is it the man who is brutally murdering women in a nearby village? Or could it be one and the same person?
Find Me A Villain is a compelling novel of psychological suspense.

'Fascinating in its meticulous analysis of human behaviour. Times Literary Supplement
'Miss Yorke has used the detective form to write a sensitive novel about a woman coming to terms with her own life. Literary Review