The third in Linda Fairstein's gripping and authentic series of crime novels featuring Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper. With aplomb, style and sharp compassion for her "clients" Coop again unravels the truth behind murder in partnership with Detective Mike Chapman. The Alexandra Cooper series has already attracted praise and admiration from critics and from her peers:

Journalist Phoebe Cutler had a name for championing the underdog - and for attacking the police whenever the opportunity arose. Now she's dead, and Inspector Bill Slider must demonstrate the impartiality of the law and find her killer. But Cutler had enemies in high and low places, and more than one secret in her past; and there seems to be someone who definitely doesn't want Slider to come up with the answer.

'Slider and his creator are real discoveries' Daily Mail

After her best-selling A Question of Integrity 'The work of a mesmerising storyteller' (Daily Telegraph) Susan Howatch continues her engrossing exploration of modern life with a compulsive thriller of character. She explores the chances for truth and happiness in the chaos of our post-modern times

Successful, beautiful Carter Graham thinks she has her life in perfect order. A partner in a global law firm based in the City, she is also married to the man of her dreams, Kim Betz. But even the best laid schemes can go awry, and Carter forgot, when drawing up her glamorous life plan, that some dreams turn into nightmares. Why is Kim's ex-wife stalking her? Why is the sinister Mrs Mayfield so hostile to her marriage? And what exactly is the hidden significance of Carter's sexy but mysterious temporary secretary, Eric Tucker? As her world disintegrates into a lethal web of lies, Carter comes to fear not just for her sanity, but for her life.
This metaphysical thriller, set in the heart of 1990s London, explores the evil embedded in a fragmented society, and focuses on the quest for healing and salvation in our chaotic post-modern world.

As an MP, Douglas Hurd would write a new short story every year during the summer Parliamentary recess. This collection comprises ten tales, including a moving account of a family in Bosnia (The Last Day of Summer), a caper about drug-running off Florida (A Suitcase Between Friends), and a grimly realistic Ulster vignette (Fog of Peace). Each of these stories reflects the intelligent concerns of a politician engaged in, and committed to, both the everyday world of domestic matters and those at the highest level.

Tommy Hart, whose B-25 was shot down over Germany, is burdened with guilt that he is the only surviving member of his crew. He is just another PoW at Stalag Luft 13 waiting for the war to end. The tedium of camp comes to a brutal end with the arrival of a new prisoner, Flight Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, a black pilot who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow prisoners. When a prisoner is brutally murdered, all the evidence points to Scott and Hart is 'volunteered' to defend him. While Scott steadfastly_ maintains his innocence, Hart senses that he has been chosen merely to make a show of defending the accused in what is presumed to be an open and shut case.
In a trail rife with racial tension and raw conflict, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, there are those with secret motives - and a burning passion for a rush to judgement no matter what cost.