When the body of a middle-aged woman is Found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard, the police immediately suspect foul play. But Pauline Brent was a pillar of the local community and well liked - she seems to have no real enemies. And yet someone murdered her. DCI Peterson is determined to catch the killer.

Kate Ellis' first novel, The Merchant's House was published to strong critical acclaim

Kate Ellis was born and brought up in Liverpool. She studied drama in Manchester and first enjoyed literary success as a winner of the North West Playwrights competition.
Her keen interest in medieval history and 'armchair' archaeology is reflected in the plots and backgrounds of her crime novels. An Unhallowed Grave is her third Wesley Peterson novel. The Merchant's House and The Armada Boy are also published by Piatkus. Kate Ellis lives in Cheshire.

Mind Games is Hilary Norman's eleventh novel. She is the author of ten internationally bestselling titles translated into seventeen languages, including Chateau Ella, Spellbound, The Pact and Too Close which was published by Piatkus Books in 1998.
She is currently working on her twelfth novel, another psychological suspense, and on a television drama set in Wales.

A serial killer is stalking the streets of LA - a violent deviant who murders and mutilates his victims in their own home, always striking at precisely eight o'clock. For world-weary detective Danny Talon this is the case that will surely end his career. He has three dead women, no suspects and a killer who has yet to leave a single clue.
Together with Dr Michael Rennick, a psychiatrist-lawyer on the faculty of UCLA, he tries to create a profile of the murderer. Michael meets Lisa Cleary, a woman haunted by waking nightmares of women being strangled, mutilated and murdered. Visions that are coming true.
Both Rennick and Talon are sceptical of Lisa's abilities but her visions describe the serial killer's crime scenes, the locations of the murder weapons - and details of a fourth murder yet to be committed. Now the detective, psychiatrist and reluctant visionary must join forces to find the killer. But Lisa's waking nightmares are growing more vivid, more precise, and much more frightening ...

Olivia's parents had been one of Hollywood's golden couples ... until the night the monster came. The monster who destroyed their beautiful home and took her mother away From her forever. The monster with her father's face...
Now a young woman, Olivia's memory of that night has faded. Her mother's grieving Family spared no effort to keep Olivia safe from the publicity, sending her to grow up in a secluded home in the natural splendour of a beautiful national forest. But, despite the terror and the years that have passed, a part of her still yearns to recall those horrifying events, to know the truth about her childhood.
With the help of a young writer named Noah Brady, she could have the chance. The son of the police officer who found Olivia cowering in her bedroom closet so many years ago, Noah wants to reconstruct that infamous night - and tell the story that has become a part of Hollywood history. But before Olivia can confront her past, she must safeguard her future. For in this Forest haven, this remote corner of the country, the monster walks again…

The difficulty lies in discovering who, among Guy's many enemies, hated him enough to want him dead - and who went on killing to conceal the truth. Could it be the vicar, secretly intrigued by the evil that men do? The best friend of Guy's wife Miranda? The crusty Wing Commander - or the too-good-to-be-true freelance computer whizz? There is certainly no shortage of suspects Even the ubiquitous Hetty Taplow, the village gossip, appears to know more than she'll admit...

Set amidst the muck and mayhem of contemporary farming life, A Dirty Death is an entertaining and authentic crime debut.

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A life-long devotee of vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to a heart attack. But his GP is convinced that this is the case.
Trainee undertaker Drew Slocombe isn't so sure. An ex-nurse, Drew is convinced that there is enough conflicting medical evidence to merit a coroner's inquest at least. And then there's Jim's personal life: in addition to a long-suffering wife, two sons and a grieving terrier, Jim appears to have left behind a series of scorned mistresses.
But it seems everyone else is happy enough to accept the doctor's verdict. After four months unemployment, Drew Slocombe knows he's lucky to have a job - he shouldn't rock the boat. But can he really turn his back on murder? He had left nursing after the death of a patient, a patient he had lost because he had followed procedure rather than acting on instinct. Jim Lapsford may already be dead but surely he deserves to have his killer caught? Even so, Drew may have plenty of suspects but he has no proof. And Jim's cremation is just days away...