Fanatical love, dangerous obsession and a terrible deadly secret...

Detective Chief Inspector Rose Piper's marriage has collapsed and she is unsure about her future with the police. She disappears to a remote island off the North Devon coast to rebuild her strength. There she meets Robin Davey, charismatic owner of the island: the spark of attraction is immediate, and mutual.
But then the case Rose is working on takes a sinister turn. She begins to question her judgement. Deep in an obsessive and passionate affair with Robin Davey, she has ignored the friends who warned of secrets in his past. But she will never find peace until she discovers the truth about her lover...

Fred Travis's, leader of the Repeal 98 movement, has one burning wish: to get the permissive society repealed. But when he is found with his throat cut, clutching Private Eye Dave Cunane's card between his fingers, things turn nasty for the Manchester detective.
Add a religious cult, an aspiring journalist, an iffy copper and academic skulduggery down at a Manchester university, and the result is trouble with a capital T.
But trouble is Dave Cunane's business...

'What the English thriller has needed for years. Sharp, hip-shooting prose with a refreshingly nasty twist' Arena

For Commissario Guide Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.
As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is then linked to a suspicious accidental death and his superiors need quick results. But now Brunetti's own career is under threat as his professional and personal lives clash - and the conspiracy which Paola had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink...

'In her detective novels with Commissario Brunetti, Donna Leon can paralyse the reader with a joyful suspense, lost in the environs of Venice and hopelessly in love with her central character and his wife' Mail on Sunday

She worked for one of the most powerful men in government. She trusted him completely. That was her mistake...
'She does not sense a thing until a nightmare has melded seamlessly into wakefulness. Before she can summon a scream from her diaphragm, thick duct tape is across her mouth. She screams, but the sturdy, unyielding tape silences her, and the scream is choked off; the acrid taste of adhesive is on her tongue.
Louisa's panic is animal... She is terrified and enraged and she knows she is going to die.
Louise Shidler is thirty seven. She is a US ambassador, a mother and a convicted traitor. Betrayed by a faithless husband, a government, and a former mentor, Louisa Shidler is abandoned by all except her daughter, Isabel. But when Isabel is taken from her, she learns that there is no limit to betrayal's reach - and no limit to what one woman must do to survive it.
As the action moves relentlessly from Washington to Geneva's old town, from Dubai to Paris, and back to the American badlands; it becomes evident that Shidler and her daughter are mere pawns in an international conspiracy of unprecedented proportions. But when the pawns refuse to fall, the bigger pieces begin to topple...

The intrigue churns at a high level, at ease in the heart of Frederick Forsyth territory... A gut-grabber of a thriller' Lorenzo Carcaterra
'The pace moves from fast to breakneck... Like John Grisham at his best, Willett delivers a tense, clever, tightly woven plot... Take The Betrayal to the beach. Start reading early in the day. You won't want to go to sleep before you finish' USA Today