Bill Wallis

Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now she is all alone with a greedy son who waits for the day she will die in order to get her fortune. But she has different ideas altogether.

When Marshal Guarnaccia is called upon to investigate the murder of a young woman, he wonders if the girls father, Paoletti, might have had something to do with her death.

The fifth novel in Ruth Dudley Edwards' series that pokes fun at the British establishment, The Anglo-Irish Murders tells of how a conference on solving the Irish problem turns to mayhem when a participant plummets to his death from a battlement.

Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases, as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent - and the not-so-innocent.

Project Skydancer is the pinnacle of Joyce's career, until documents turn up on Parliament Hill & MI5's prime suspect kills himself. He has the choice to write off the project or approve tests which could give Russia the power to wipe out the West.

In this collection of stories, Rumpole continues to juggle the vagaries of the law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart.