Rowan Coffey, one of those hyper-smart young men who are generally too bright for their own good, is nineteen when one of his friends is murdered. Rowan, who had no alibi and was under suspicion, has been knocked off-balance by the experience and leaves university seeking the comfort and familiarity of home.
But Rowan’s valley is under threat. A New Age convoy has rolled in and brought police and the potential of violence, and a water company wants to damming the river to create a reservoir which will drown Rowan’s childhood. Then the promised violence erupts, and Rowan is drawn into battle by forces he never believed existed...

Chaz Brenchley is a patron of the Durham Literature Festival, serves on the panel of the Northern Arts and is an active member of the Crime Writers’ Association. He lives in Newcastle with two cats and indulges in good whisky, good cooking, and playing snooker badly.

The third case for psychic detective Elizabeth Chase. A young woman has disappeared into a religious cult, and Elizabeth is asked to find her when other investigators have failed. There's only one catch: the missing woman is her lover's ex-fiancee, and Elizabeth isn't sure she wants to save her.

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The squad room of the 87th Precinct is under more pressure than usual...There's the murdered woman whose outstanding physical characteristic is her breast implants. Which doesn't surprise anyone in the big bad city, until they discover she's a nun. There's the burglar known as The Cookie Boy, with his unusual use for chocolate-chip cookies, And Detective Steve Carella has his own little problem: the man who murdered his father is back in town and he's decided the best way to secure his freedom is to murder Carella too...

During the Whitsun half-term, Peter Maxwell agrees to act as historical adviser to a film company making a bodice-ripper on the south coast. Maxwell has a week to give the cast the vaguest resemblance to the troops ranged against Napoleon's planned invasion of 1804. Unfortunately, the director is shot dead during a skirmish on the beach. The gun that did the killing fired by one of Maxwell's ex-sixth formers earning a few bob as an extra, but it was Maxwell who gave the order to fire. 'Mad Max' must hone that razor mind of his to clear the name of his boy recruit and bring the real killer to book.

The fourth novel in crime series featuring schoolteacher Peter Maxwell. When a director is shot dead, Maxwell finds himself in the frame as never before. One of his ex-sixth formers fired the gun, and it was Maxwell who loaded and primed it. He sets out to clear his name and that of his old pupil.

M J Trow as educated at Warwick, London and Cambridge. He is now a teacher of history. Besides the Maxwell series, M J Trow is the author of sixteen Inspector Lestrade crime novels and the non-fiction bestseller on the murder of Derek Bentley, Let Him Have It, Chris.

Daily Telegraph ‘Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller’
Manchester Evening News Miss Silver has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot’

It’s nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been working for the government on a secret project for years. Finally he is ready to hand over the formula. But the next morning he is dead. It looks like suicide. Only Miss Silver knows it’s murder...

Michael Harsch's long years of work were nearly at an end. The following day he was looking forward to handing over his precious formula to the government. But the next morning he was in no fit state to hand over the formula - he was dead. It looked like suicide, but Miss Silver knew it was murder.

Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime.

Daily Mail ‘Miss Silver is marvellous’
Daily Telegraph ‘Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller’

When her fiance disappears in a shipwreck, Meade Underwood is left with nothing but a middle-aged aunt, bridge parties and war work to keep her mind off it. Then Giles is restored to Meade, but he has lost his memory, and their chance of happiness is threatened by the scheming Carola Roland, a figure from Giles’s forgotten past. So when Carola is viciously murdered, Giles is naturally the chief suspect, and Miss Silver the only one who can find out what really happened.

Patricia Wentworth was born in India and after writing several romances turned her hand to crime. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in the late Sixties, and was recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime..