Mama, an African-American social worker from Otis, South Carolina--where her cooking entices visitors from near and far--and her lawyer daughter take on a case of greed, family betrayal, and murder.

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Why should a man want to destroy his brother's wife?

For John Smith, a man with a corrupted conscience, the motive is simple. Someone has stolen the only person he has ever loved or was ever capable of loving: his twin brother, Cannon. Without him, life has no meaning and Johnny will stop at nothing to be his brother's keeper. But Cannon does not want his brother any more. He's married now and his wife both loves and needs him. He and Johnny may once have been disfigured orphans in a Storm, but he's changed that too, with the help of a good dentist. Johnny is afraid of the dentist.
Cannon, sometime bombmaker and gifted artist, goes into hiding rather than risk Johnny's destructive brotherly love. Sarah Fortune, an unusual lawyer who has made helping the needy and eccentric into her own kind of art form, shields Cannon and more importantly, his wife, the real target, the one who deserves the worst kind of pain Johnny can inflict. But is Cannon really telling the truth about Johnny? Sarah cannot quite believe anyone is incapable of redemption. Failure to believe in evil could make her vulnerable.

Her last book, Blind Date, was enthusiastically received by some of the leading names in the business:
'There are crime writers whom we think of primarily as novelists. They provide not only the expected satisfactions of the genre - excitement, tension, mystery and horror - but the psychological subtlety, intelligence and excellent writing which are the hallmark of first-class fiction. There is no-one higher on list than Frances Fyfield.' P.D. James
'For many years Frances Fyfield has written some of the most absorbing crime novels around, subtle, intelligent and disturbing; but one has always felt and hoped that she was capable of raising her game even higher, of writing a truly memorable novel, worthy only of superlatives. With Blind Date she does so. Marcel Berlins The Times
'Fyfield's knowledge of the workings of the human mind - or more correctly the soul - is second to none. Ian Rankin Scotland on Sunday

Frances Fyfield is a criminal lawyer, happily unmarried, practising in London, the setting for many of her books. She also lives by the sea which, aside from the love of London, is her passion. Her previous novels include A Question of Guilt, nominated for an Edgar Award, Deep Sleep, winner of the Silver Dagger Award, A Clear Conscience, nominated for the Gold Dagger Award, and Shadow Play, winner of the Grand Prix de Literature Policiere in 1998. Her books are widely translated. She has also written three novels as Frances Hegarty, which is her given name. The name of Fyfield comes from her mother.

Matthew Hervey is a young cornet in the Sixth Light Dragoons during the final days of the Napoleonic Wars. Soldier and gentleman, though lacking independent means and influence, Hervey finds himself faced with questions, both military and romantic, which will carve out his destiny.

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A complex psychological mystery dealing with the themes of revenge and reconciliation.

Reviewing Gelnma O'Connor's last book in The Times, Marcel Berlins wondered whether she had created a new genre, the Anglo Irish crime novel. Although her new book, Time To Remember, is mainly set in contemporary Oxford and wartime France, Gemma's 'Irish take on things' is as usual never far from the surface. Perhaps it is this that enables her to portray murder, retribution and ultimately understanding with unusual honesty and perception.

During the Second World War, a boy watches, hidden, as the girl he loves is shot in cold blood by a young German soldier. The soldier's face is imprinted on his mind and many years later he discovers his identity. He begins his own war of attrition against his enemy, now a highly respected academic. A conference in Oxford provides the opportunity for a face to face confrontation. An attempted murder and a mysterious disappearance follow.
A young policewoman, Juliet Furbo, witnesses what looks like a minor accident on a zebra crossing. When she returns from calling to get help, the scene is deserted and her colleagues are skeptical about her claims. Her own behaviour has been worryingly unpredictable and there are doubts about her ability to handle her job.
But Juliet is convinced that she saw something deeply suspicious and continues to investigate independently. As she delves deeper into the mystery, she begins to unlock the memories of her own violent past which she has suppressed since childhood.

Before publishing her first novel in her fifties, Gemma O'Connor had a varied career. She has been an air hostess, a script reader, a book binder and restorer, a PRO for the Children's Music Theatre (now the National Youth Music Theatre) and a publicist for a group of Irish publishers. She organised the first Irish Book Fair at the Festival Hall in 1985.
Her first published book was an anthology of prose first lines entitled Hell! said the Ducchess, and she followed it with another anthology of last lines. She commissioned and edited a series of biographies published by Pandora Press and has written Back to Work, a guide for women returning to work after bringing up a family. Her dramatic anthology of Irish writing on women, Ferocious Chastity, has been performed in England and Ireland and her one-woman play Signora Joyce played as part of the Irish. Festival in London.
She appears frequently on radio programmes such as Quote, Unquote and Second Edition as well as on the World Service.

What if insect DNA was pre-programmed to self-destruct once every 33 million years? What would happen if it happened today...out of this strange, disturbing scenario comes this chillingly plausible and exciting thriller of an ecologically induced Armageddon...

The change began silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. First came the sudden, horrific parasitic infestations. Then the insects started to die. And the birds. One natural event toppling into the next - a biological domino effect rippling across the globe. Maverick palaeobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect the truth: that these apparently random episodes are symptoms of an unstoppable, irreversible chain reaction - that Mother Nature has begun to take terrible and bloody revenge on humankind.
As the old world order collapses and reactionary fringes crawl out of the chaos to feed on fear and welcome Armageddon, Sinclair and a small group of dedicated, like-minded scientists confront the unthinkable and embark on the ultimate race against time. The very survival of our species depends on their finding an answer, and soon - for all else is dust.
Combining thrilling, edge-of-the-seat storytelling and cutting-edge research, Charles Pellegrino - whose dinosaur cloning theory provided the scientific basis for Jurassic Park - has written a devastating novel of an apocalyptic future that could be lying in wait for us all...

Charles Pellegrino is a scientist-adventurer-writer who has not only invented a practical interstellar space probe but also devised a method of genetically duplicating dinosaurs using tissue found in flesh-feeding insects preserved in amber. As an underwater archaeologist, he has been extensively involved in the Titanic expeditions. The author of a number of books on a diverse range of subjects (including the bestselling Her Name, Titanic), Dr Pellegrino lives in New York.

'A brilliant thriller that holds you in a vice grip from its first page to its last the strongest and most original suspense debut I've read in a while. " James Patterson

Seventeen years ago someone murdered Nicholas Neumann's father. As new evidence emerges implicating his father's employer, Zurich's venerable United Swiss Bank, he is willing to do whatever it takes to get to the truth.
To infiltrate his father's employer, Zurich's venerable United Swiss Bank, Nick must leave behind a star-making career on Wall Street and a beautiful fiancée. He is quickly plunged into a world where everything - gold, loyalty, power, even life and death - can be bought and sold for the right price. As he sinks deeper and deeper into this clandestine world where civility and discretion mask unbridled greed and treachery, and where the ultimate crime is the disloyalty to the bank, Nick learns that to catch a criminal who murdered his father he must become a criminal himself. As the bank comes under investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration Nick finds himself' protecting the one man who may hold the key to his father's murder.
As his search intensifies, as the danger increases, as Nick gets closer to the answers, he realises his own life could be the final sacrifice he has to make.

Taut, intricate, full of suspense, Numbered Account marks the debut of an extraordinary new talent. Christopher Reich convincingly captures the burning issues and dilemmas of our time - money laundering, the connection between drug barons and arms dealers, the morality behind mergers and take-overs of big financial institutions and the lack of accountability of large institutions that shape our lives.

Waiting Time:
'His latest two books put him at the forefront of the thriller genre, but characterisation, psychology and sheer force of descriptive narration put him in a class of his own. The Times Peter Millar

Killing Ground:
'Seymour is a more skilful and exciting writer than many of his flashier contemporaries. He knows what he wants to say and he does so with admirable pace, timing and action. That approach does not exclude subtlety. Indeed he can be as delicate and multi-layered as any in the trade. He is a true professional of a kind that, for all the proliferation of action thrillers, is fast declining. Sunday Times Marcel Berlins
'one of the best plotters in the business.' Time Out

A Line in the Sand is a powerful novel about public and private courage and the difficulties of uniting the two.
Frank Perry lives in obscurity in Suffolk, ten years after spying for the government on the Iranian chemical and biological weapons installations. But is past is about to catch up with him - Iran has despatched an assassin to take revenge.
But who are Perry's real enemies? The men he betrayed so long ago or those he served? Or could they even be those now closest to him?

Fact: The annual global turnover of the narcotics industry is $500 billion, equivalent to the gross domestic product of the eleventh largest national economy in the world.
Fact: Billions of dollars of profits made by the drug cartels have been successfully laundered to a wide range of legal assets. If the cartels were to liquidate their share of investment portfolios in New York, London and Tokyo, and their global real estate holdings, the resulting recession would be the worst in the history of the world
Fact: Six highly respected law firms based in London are currently under investigation by NCIS - National Crime intelligence Service. The companies are suspected of laundering money on behalf of the drug cartels.

Unholy Alliance is the hard-hitting fiction debut from internationally acclaimed
investigative writer and 'seeker of justice' David Yallop. Armed with in-depth knowledge of events in the recent past and an all-too-possible future, Yallop has written a timely and prophetic thriller. Unholy Alliance speaks directly of the modem American nightmare.
South America's drug barons want control of their biggest market, the USA. They are prepared to join forces and utilise all of their unparalleled resources to make it happen. Nothing will stand in their way.

Fact: Quotation from a recent United States State Department document:
'Such inordinate wealth gives the large trafficking organizations an almost unlimited capacity to corrupt. In many ways, they are a less obvious threat to democratic government than many insurgent movements. Guerrilla armies or terrorist organizations openly seek to topple and replace governments through overt violence. The drug syndicates only want to manipulate governments to their advantage and guarantee themselves a secure operating environment. They do so by co-opting key officials. A real fear of democratic leaders should be that tone day the drug trade might take de facto control of a country by putting a majority of elected officials, including the president, directly or indirectly on its payroll. Though it has yet to happen, there have been some disquieting near-misses. By keeping the focus on eliminating corruption, we can prevent the spectre of a government manipulated by drug lords from becoming reality.'

Or can we?
A quotation from a recent meeting of the board of directors of the Cartel of Cartels:
'...the aim of the Columbia Project is to ensure that the Board is not above the law, but that it becomes the law.
Gentlemen, ! propose that we buy the Unites States of America.