The body of Amy Parris, a computer genius, has been found on a Norfolk beach a year after she disappeared from a yacht. Her friend, Julia Kelleher, has also been found murdered. Both worked for a Cambridge IT company, owned by Hammond, a self-made millionaire who had been in love with Amy.

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Oliver Grant - once in Military Intelligence, now a hardened mercenary - selling his services to the highest bidder. The perfect choice to rescue the stepson of a millionaire Mafia boss from a Libyan prison fortress. But Grant doesn't want the job - when will he realize how much trouble he's in?

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What starts as an innocent encounter for Hagan soon turns into a desperate treasure hunt through the heart of Red China.

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Jack's funeral is the third in his family in a year. Anna, pregnant with his child, stubbornly refuses to accept that his death was suicide. Her determination to unearth the truth brings Anna dangerously close to the edge. What was so terrible that Jack couldn't tell her?

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Commander Dalgliesh investigates murder in the world of the law. When Venetia Aldridge QC defends young Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, this for her is just one more case, one more opportunity to triumph in a distinguished career as a criminal lawyer. But R. v. Ashe sets in motion a chain of events as terrifying as they are unpredictable And when, four weeks later, Miss Aldridge is found dead at her desk in her Middle Temple chambers, a blood-splashed wig on her head, Dalgliesh and his team are called in to a case which promises to be as sensitive as it is intriguing. And then, at a crucial point in the investigation, one of the small group of suspects is found with a severed throat in a welter of blood, and the case spins into fresh complexities of horror.

P. D. James once again demonstrates the truth of Orwell's saying that murder, the unique crime, should arise only from strong emotions. No one handles them with more authority and sensitivity.

A Certain Justice displays those qualities which aficionados of the classic detective novel have come to expect of P. D. James: a strong plot superbly handled, credible detection, excitement and suspense and characters who live on in the memory.

Moving backwards and forwards between the 1950s and the 1990s, and between Suffolk, London and the north Devon coast, a novel about a noted writer who, it is discovered when he dies, created an entirely new identity for himself when he was in his twenties. From the author of Asta's Book and The Brimstone Wedding.

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