For Karen Friedman's family, bad luck is just the beginning. It starts with her husband Charlie's investments going wrong & the death of a family pet. Then one day Charlie takes the train to work - straight into a lethal terrorist blast.

Bodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan?s wish list. But somebody?s got to pay the bills at Brannigan & Co, and if the only earner on offer is playing nursemaid to a paranoid soap star, the fast-talking computer-loving white collar crime expert has to swallow her pride and slip into something more glam than her Thai boxing kit. Then offstage dramas threaten to overshadow the fictional storylines till the unscripted murder of...

'This is such a great book, funny and serious and daring and humane' Richard Curtis 'Mark Watson is one of my favourite writers and Contacts is by far his best book yet' Adam KayJames Chiltern boards the 23:50 sleeper train from London to Edinburgh with two pork pies, six beers and a packet of chocolate digestives. At 23:55 he sends a message to all 158 people in his contacts, telling them that he plans to end his life in the morning. He then switches...

In 1881 Chicago, the idea of a female detective is virtually unheard of. But when famed crime buster Allan Pinkerton opens his agency's doors to a handful of women, one intrepid actress with her own troubled past is driven to defy convention and take on a new and dangerous role. . . Since the age of eleven, when her mother was murdered, the life of the theater is all Lilly Long has known. Now twenty-two, she has blossomed into an accomplished Shakespearean...

Steph Williams is excited to get her hands stuck into her latest gardening project. This time, she's been commissioned by Lady Clara of Ashford Manor to restore the stately gardens to their former glory. But the estate is suddenly thrown into chaos when a dead body is discovered in one of the rooms. The police rule it as suicide, though Steph's convinced they're barking up the wrong tree. For she knows the deceased better than they do and it could...

Rebekah Murphy knows too much ... She knows she's alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail. She knows that to get home, she must live to understand why this is happening. She knows someone tried to kill her for a secret. What she doesn't know is what that secret is. Detective Frank Travis doesn't know enough ... He doesn't know where to find Louise Mason. He doesn't know how and why she vanished into thin air three months ago. He doesn't...

Newly-promoted detective inspector Angela Costello recognizes the dead man as the Croatian champion-turned-coach, Petar Belic. Double grand-slam winner, Petar was one of the best-known and best loved players of the modern era.

She's lost everything, except her life... Lieutenant Lorraine Page once had everything - a devoted husband, two beautiful daughters and an impressive career with the Homicide Squad. It's impossible to believe that she could be thrown out of the police force and end up on Skid Row. Without Lorraine, her colleagues struggle on, as the hunt for a nightmare serial killer spirals into an all-out search for a missing witness: a victim who escaped. But Lorraine...

The perfect gift for fans of Agatha Christie and classic crime this Christmas. THIS CHRISTMAS IS TO DIE FOR . . . LET THE GAME BEGIN Lily Armitage never intended to return to Endgame House - the grand family home where her mother died twenty-one Christmases ago. Until she receives a letter from her aunt, asking her to return to take part in an annual tradition: the Christmas Game. The challenge? Solve twelve clues, to find twelve keys. The prize?...

On a quiet summer morning, seventeen-year-old American exchange student Quinn Perkins stumbles out of the woods near the small French town of St. Roch. Barefoot, bloodied, and unable to say what has happened to her, Quinn?s appearance creates quite a stir, especially since the Blavettes-the French family with whom she?s been staying-have mysteriously disappeared. Now the media, and everyone in the idyllic village, are wondering if the American girl...