This is the final volume in David Brierley's Velvet Revolution trilogy that comprises On Leaving A Prague Window and The Horizontal Woman. Set in Romania in the days of Ceaucescu, Liliana works as a maid at the Hotel Bucharest where a group of party grandees are enjoying a birthday party. Liliana is presented as the dessert, naked on a trolley, and then raped by the evil Mincu. Years later, after the fall of the "Big C" she encounters Mincu again at an arms fair where she is working as a translator. Later Royston Cox, an ageing British spy of the old school, is in Bucharest to investigate a plot to supply chemical weapons to the Serbs, organised by Mincu, now one of the unseen rulers of Romania. Cox is informed of someone with a grudge against Mincu, a girl called Liliana. This configuration of characters leads to betrayal, revenge and dark secrets, choreographed by a thriller writer of rare intelligence and subtlety.

In Romania in the days of Ceaucescu, Liliana is a maid at a hotel where a group of party grandees are enjoying a birthday party. Presented as dessert, she is raped by the evil Mincu. Years later, she sees him again and Cox, an ageing British spy, is informed of someone with a grudge against Mincu.

David Brierley is the creator of the Cody (a 28-year-old female agent) series of novels which have been optioned for the movies by Elizabeth Hurley. He is the author of several highly acclaimed and well-reviewed thrillers.

Amy is an ex-model and now has her own talk radio show with a popular phone-in slot. People talk about their fantasies mostly, all of which is cheerful stuff until, one night, a man says he fantasises about raping a woman. Meanwhile, two prostitutes are murdered in identical ways with no apparent motive. Then a drug pusher and a down-and-out. The police think someone is on a "clean-up" campaign. Amy begins to wonder if the man she loves and who lives in the flat beneath her might actually be the murderer as he has always been out on the appropriate nights. Then a hospice is burned down and eleven cancer patients die. It isn't a clean-up campaign but "mercy killings". And Amy has discovered she has breast cancer - and the murderer calls her phone-in programme to say she is next.

Shaun Hutson is a best-selling author of horror fiction and has written novels under eight different pseudonyms. He has also contributed stories to 'Kerrang' and 'Raw' and used to host Sky TV's 'Monsters of Rock' programme. He lives in Buckinghamshire.

The End of a Dream is about Kevin, Steve, Scott and Mark, four men who were stunningly good-looking, had razor-sharp minds and athletic bodies. They lived charmed lives in the Florida everglades with no lack of women who adored them. But few knew the reality behind the leafy screen surrounding Seven Cedars, Scott's woodland dream home. From this idyllic enclave, some of these trusted friends would become the quarry for a vigilant Seattle detective and an FBI special agent who unmasked clues to disturbing secrets that spawned murder, suicide, million-dollar bank robberies, drug-dealing and heart-breaking betrayal.

In this fifth volume of fascinating true cases, Ann Rule, the Queen of True Crime, chillingly explores how the bond between four talented and charismatic young men was shattered by lethal greed and twisted desire.

The Guardian 'Well shaped suspense and ironic finale.'
Observer 'A genuine slow burner running efficiently on greed, lust and desolation.' The
Stanley Reynolds 'A novel as plausible as it is readable, which is saying a lot'

On an otherwise unremarkable afternoon, two boys who had spent most of the day paddling about on the dark waters of the old gravel pit pulled in to the side to refresh themselves with Mars Bars and crisps. They made landfall at a slightly different spot from where they had put their canoe into the water that morning, which explained why they had missed it then. They saw the pale white hand of a dead man, partially screened by a bush that overhung the black water of the artificial lake, breaking the surface. Before then Terry Brett, a personable con-man, has 'befriended' Alice Armitage, an elderly and lonely widow, knowing he is on to a good thing. But when he joins forces with Alice's scheming neighbour, his greed takes him further than he had planned - and he finds himself accused of a murder he did not commit ...

Margaret Yorke, a past Chairman of the CWA, has become one of Britain's most respected mystery novelists. She uses the warp and weft of everyday life as her inspiration, creating credible and moving tales of suspense from the reactions of seemingly ordinary people to extraordinary events. She lives in a village near Aylesbury and loathes any comparison to Miss Marple.