Ric Jerrom

When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail and a cast of

In the dark and slimy streets of Wapping a prostitute is beaten half to death. So begins this tale, set in 1798 in the port of London, as cruel villain Boylin and marine policeman Tom Pascoe go head-to-head to outwit each other.

Ex-SAS soldier Nick Stone is working in the USA when an old friend, Kevin, tips him off about the Canary Wharf bombing. Nick flies to see him, only to find that Kevin and his family have been brutally murdered. McNab also wrote Bravo Two Zero.

Freedman and pavement-maker Libertus feels nothing but dismay when he is asked by his patron to accompany him to Corinium to investigate the murder of a decurion, Quintus Ulpius.