Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London daily, is intrigues by the brutal death of a left wing priest, particularly when he discovers that an emissary from the Vatican had cleared his apartment of papers when his body was discovered but before the police were called. He turns this piece of information over to the investigating magistrate, the beautiful Elena Fiorini, who inadvertently reveals to him that she is under pressure from her superiors not to pry too deeply into the motives for the killing. Such pressure only increases both Elena's and Chapman's desire to find out precisely what happened and why. They find themselves against the might of the Catholic Church and a sinister network of neo-Fascist fanatics. They are drawn into a terrifying web of betrayal and violent death in which their own lives are put at risk.

'Fast and funny, with bonus marks for well-used ambience' Literary Review

Friendless and virtually an orphan, Tessa craves a husband and a baby: above all she wants to be loved. When her on-and-off lover, lan, leaves her for the last time, Tessa embarks on a whirlwind romance with Rob Nicholls, and at last her dreams seem set to come true.
Now married to the perfect man, and with a baby on the way, motherless Tessa looks forward to getting to know her new mother-in-law. But before that can happen, Linda Nicholls is murdered ...

The decomposed remains of a stowaway are discovered inside a cargo container at the Port of Richmond.
Dr Kay Scarpetta visits the scene to examine the corpse, nicknamed "The Container Man", but apart from a few foreign coins and a strange tattoo, there is nothing to help her identify the body nor find out the: cause of death.
Still mourning the loss of her lover, Renton Wesley, Kay is further distressed by the callous demotion of her loyal ally, Pete Marine from detective to captain, and worried by Lucy's disappearance after an undercover AFT operation in Miami to destroy a crime ring.
Then a call comes through from France, and an unfamiliar voice asks Dr Scarpetta to verify herself. Jay Talley, the ATF liaison at Interpol asks Kay and Pete Marine to fly out; to Lyons immediately as they need their help.
At Interpol headquarters, they learn about several sadistic murders in Paris by a man who signs himself "loup-Garou" or the werewolf - the same name written on the container in Richmond.
Talley believes the dead man is connected to a secretive international criminal cartel. Only Kay Scarpetta can visit her counterpart in the Paris morgue and extract secret evidence to help solve the case. However, on her return to Richmond this same evidence exposes Scarpetta to mortal danger.

'Imitators now abound, but - pathologically speaking nobody does it like Cornwell' Literary Review
'For all the gory detail Cornwell's novels are oddly comforting. Virtue will out' Frances Fyfield, The Independent
'The most interesting and singular bodies of work in popular fiction' Mark Lawson, Sunday Times

The fifth of Susanna Gregory's increasingly popular mysteries featuring the mediaeval physician, Matthew Bartholomew - a brilliantly serpentine whodunnit, with a meticulously researched and evoked period background.
Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be installed as priest.
When Unwin is murdered in the very church which was to have been his home. Bartholomew begins investigating a possible motive for his killing, and discovers that his is not the first: unnatural death in the village ... He is of too practical a mind to believe the superstitions, but is he wily enough to work out the real motive behind the murders and who will gain from them?

A Peter Diamond Mystery

The remains of a human hand are brought into Bath Police Station in a pizza box. It was found in a vault lying at the entrance to the Roman Baths.
The same vault was an underground cellar below the site of the house in the Abbey Churchyard where Mary Shelley wrote most of Frankenstein.
Superintendent Peter Diamond gets on the case, which becomes more complicated by a visiting American professor, Joe Dougan, obsessed by the under-publicised connection between Bath and the legendary horror story. Dougan attempts to track down the origins of a book of poetry by John Milton which he is sure belonged to Mary Shelley.
When the professor's wife goes missing, Diamond targets him as prime suspect. Then a woman's body is washed up in the Avon, which sets the indefatigable detective a further challenge. The corpse is Peg Redbird, a canny antique dealer, whose shop Dougan had visited earlier that day in search of Mary Shelley's writing box. A key had not been found to unlock the box, and the professor had left the shop reluctantly.
When a police colleague is found in a field after a vicious attack, Peter Diamond's dogged yet brilliantly intuitive investigative skills prove once again that he is the best in the business.

"One of the very best of the current generation of crime writers" Evening Standard

When the wife of a prominent QC is found dead at the bottom of a well, Inspector Thanet discounts accidental death. Virginia Mintar was no angel - her outrageous flirting knew no bounds and made her many enemies. On the night of her death she was surrounded by a group of people, many of whom had reason and opportunity to kill her. But which one took that final step? Who wanted her dead and gone?
Thanet and his partner Mike Lineham find their investigation hampered by a morass of family secrets. Who was Virginia's current lover? And what could her mother-in-law possibly have to hide? Add the Mintar's daughters to the equation - the elder has been missing for four years and the younger is engaged to a womanising tennis coach - and Thanet soon realises that the further he digs, the more complicated this case is going to become.

Distracted by anxiety over his own daughter's pregnancy, and with his Super on his back pushing for hard evidence, Thanet needs to pull out all the stops if he is to succeed in disentangling this complex web of infidelity, blackmail and a family's emotional tug-of-war.

Praise for previous Inspector Thanet mysteries:
'Simpson can disinter the past with the best of them, and her portrait of a small community is matchless... few writers can match Simpson's control' The Times

'Thrillers that are both well written and crisply plotted do not come along every day, so a Dorothy Simpson novel is a welcome and engrossing treat' The Lady
'Well-rounded characters, a satisfying mind teaser, the best of British' Observer
'First class ... there are very few practitioners of this sort as skilful as Dorothy Simpson' Birmingham Post

On the evening that Lydia Cunningham drives to the train station to meet her daughter Thelma, the pretty little coastal town of Milton St Gabriel is sleeping quietly. The town's utter normality is reflected in Lydia, a respectable widow of advanced years. But Thelma's arrival will shatter the peace of Milton St Gabriel forever. Thelma brings with her Edward, a young and not altogether appealing casual pick-up with a penchant for arson, and the two of them unleash events that reveal a sordid and long-hidden tale of illegitimacy and death. But this is only the groundwork for what lies ahead as Lydia, encountering her past, falls over the edge of sanity into a nightmarish world of revenge and murder.